The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1870, Page 6

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Advertisements, lew Adveritse ¢ 3—The War: Prossian atthe Fron by the s Heavy Losses of the "rench Explimation ¢f the Defes man Lire in Mots * of France in the # 4—Long Bran h Roces: Last Day of the Meeting at Monmouth Park—The Coming Races at Saya- boa usical and Dramatic Notes—Inialli- bility: Doginatic Decree of the menical Councit—A Woif in Sheep’s Clothing: Fantas- uc Ganbholing of a Venerable Clergvman Among the Fair Members of fis Flock—Jonn Real's Funera!— Late Jersey Murders— Humanttartan Pioneers’ Association—A Youth Tul Ine: ary--The Westehester Bouleyards— T e Comnunipaw stock Yards. 5—Europe: The War Exctiement in Great Britain: England's Preparations for a N: nal Emer- The Crisis in Amsterdam—English ‘The Uxbridge Seven Murder ‘frtal— ing News from the French and ; ‘the Entire A Powerful War ‘rraveliers’ Compilaints--More Improvidential ~_ Doings im Providence. 6—Euit M 's: Leading Article on the War News, igiting, the Situauon Critical Amuse- ment Announcements, “ar phic News--Washington News—Yacht- hen Mystery—movements of Pre- nt: His Return to Long Branch— Personal iptelligence—Business Notices, : What it is Like To-Day; The Tower ns Forty Miles in Length—Litera- of New Books—Paris Fashions: on by the War—Cuba—Rupture ut Alllances—Horripie Suicide at Avo N—Keligic arf Bathing—Railroad War in Kast vork—Interviewing Extrao'dinary— | ‘The Fast of Ab—First Cotton of 1870—Financial and Commercial Reports—Fires in July—Mar- vod Deaths ‘ar «Conuaned from Third Page)—Ac- k City News—The Willlams- sr—Deiaication by a Savings Bank Mpping Intelligence — Advertuse- ze Ww quat burg onicial ~ ments, Wi—Religious Inteliigence—Midsummer Retreats: The Green and Schooley’s Mouutains—Aadver- tisements. 12—Advertisewents, The North Carolina Election. ‘he Old North State appears to have been too much reconstructed to answer radical ends. Governor Holden made a bold stroke to save the State to bis party by rais- ing the Ku Klux phantom and declaring sev- eral strongly democratic counties in a state of insurrection; ut even these desperate mea- sures proved fatile, and North Carolina has gone den by ten thousand majority. Both bi of the L ure are largely % democratic, which secures the election of a demo to the United States Sen in the place of Abbott, whose term expires with the present Conzress. The radicals elect only two of the seven Congressmen. This crushing defeat of the republicans was most unexpected, as it was deemed certain before the election that they would carry at least c ressional districts, and no fears were entertained concerninggthe Logislature. Unlooked for as was the result by the North Carolina republicans, still it is but th ural on of alfa! n} four ‘on sequence of the mulad that State. Tho rey placed too litile | consideration upon the white population, and sought y the colored vote. At the man prover- bially vt is never | sure,” sion proves the North Ca no exception The white id for the d appear to bh to this rate vote was fully cast ticket, but. | L nocrat b and u the reput demo} od to poll their entire vote. Gov- ernor Holdon’s adminisiration is a decided Jail too mueh of the Siute ation was y i spartment affairs | ny change would tean party will it by the North edily cuts rrupt, fanati- to the verge dor the benefit of a particul the peopl had beco: r the be well to d ihe leer Darolina election. Un loose from the narrow-1 val leaders which have brought it of rain other radical States will ae 1 edly wheel into the democratic » muddled rv, party again be in the ascendancy. Conxuine in a Cincus.—Senator Conkling is a clever Mr. Merryman. H at Saratoga the other night. is good. He belted Ho: talked Prussian claptrap and made old M Gillett bringin; serves.” made a specch nator Conkling He nce Greeley. b Rock wate ie knee deep in Hi up what he calis his **Prussian pre Briguam Youne has a peculiar but cious manner of conducting a polit paign. General Maxwell was the didate for delegate to Congress. forthwith forbid any Mormon family harboring him, and the General was obliged to beat an ignominious retreat. Under such circum- stances the vote was almost unanimous for the Church candidate, Tux Evropean Mai. of the 23d of July The Church | publics have been | Since S j dissensions which mark the history of | disturbances which continually convalse the NEW Y The War News—More Fighting—The Situn- tion Critical. Our war news this morning is more lively than it has been sir se this struggle commenced, The forces of the two Powers have come into closer contact. The Wissembourg position has been, according to our latest news, taken and retaken, In whose hands it now is it is difficult to tell. The one certain fact is that yesterday was, all through, from sunrise to sun- set, a day of severe fighting. Late in the after- noon it was supposed that victory was on the side of France. Later still, as will be seon from our telegraphic war news, the tide was in favor of Prussia, The despatch, which is dated “Near Worth, 4:30 P. M.,” seems to imply that late on Saturday the Crown Prince of Prussia had got the better of MacMahon. The words of the Crown Priuce from the battle field—‘‘ A victorious battle has been tought near Worth ; MacMahon was totally beaten”— leave us no room to doubt that late lust night Prussia had the best of the fight. The situation is thus more interesting than ever. With bated breath we hang upon the announcements of the cable, Any moment may inform us that the French are on their way to Berlin, or that the Prussians are on their way to Paris, Paris is said to be dreadfully excited and full of impatience at what seems dangerous delay, France, in fact, believes that the Em- peror ougbt to win, and France is impatient because the Emperor has not said *‘Prassia is annihilated and we are in Berlin.” In other words, the French people tremble, lest, before they know where they are, the Prussian ad- vanced guard should appear in sight of Paris. Late last night the rejoicing was great in Ber- lin. Late last night the impatience was great in Paris. The French Cabinet issued a pro- clamation tending to soothe the citizens. The document hopes, in other words, for better news next time. One great fact stands prominently out. What is it? It is that the fighting, which has really begun, bas been confined to the frontier. The living wall, or, if the reader will, the wall of fire, has been as fearful and as full of resistance on the one side as on the other. The needle gun seems quite as good as the Chassepot, if not better. We have not heard much of the Prussian revolving cannon or of anything which atall resembles the French mitrailleurs; but we are not left at liberty to doubt that Prussia has weapons of warfare which satisfactorily serve her purpose. Regarding the outside Powers we have not much that is new to communicate. If there be anything new it is this, that Austria and Italy have come to some common understand- ing. What the understanding is we are not told. We are only told that the understand- ing is in favor of France. Denmark is no longer doubtful. She has at last openly and honestly, and wisely, too, gone in for neutral- ORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEE1. The Rbine Frontier, Ste so'len Ihn nicht haben, Den freien Deutschen Rhein, sings the lusty-voiced youth of Fatherland each time that France grows uneasy in her restricted limits and begins to extend her arms yearningly toward the ancient river, Bat the French, on thoir side, long for what seoms to be a natural boundary, rounding off their domain in full, handsome and convenient proportions, With this defiance on the one side and this longing on the other thousands sympathize, according to their personal likings for either nationality, without a thought of the historical justice of the caso. This justice it is our proposal here to briofly illustrate with- out bias on either side, and so leave the reader | to judze dispassionately for himself. To aid | in the illustration of this great feature of the | dispute between France aad Germany we elsewhere publish a map which gives the frontier of the Rhine from above Strasburg to a point below Cologne, thus including the greater part of Rhenish Prussia, About a century before the Saviour’s birth the Romans designated all that vast region filled with wild tribes of Herculean form and | terrible aspect which includes the Germany of our time—the whole of Scandinavia, Livonia and Fialand—by the name of Germania. The | Teutons and the Cimbri, who were the most formidable of these tribes, after having swept down from Denmark like a torrent over all the intervening region, invaded northern and western Italy, where their destructive course was at last stayed by the masculine energy of Marius, These incursions provoked a fierce return, and at length the genius of Cwsar, penetrating northward, drove out from Gaul the conquering German chieftain, Ariovistus, who had established himself there, and hurled him beyond the Rhine, confirming that river, for the time being, as the Gallic boundary. But there he paused, and the flying expeditions he occasionally sent across the Rhine were only intended to over- awe the occupants of the right bank and keep them from attempting a fresh invasion. When, subsequently, in the reign of Tiberius, that limit was transgressed by Roman pride, the great Germanic leader, Hermann, utterly crushed the lezions of Varus among Rhenish marshes, and the venture was not repeated. Then came, in the succession of ages, the establishment of the Gallic and afterward of the Frankish power within these limits, as Roman preponderance died out. At length Clovis, at the head of the Frankish monarchy, embraced the religion of Christ, and ‘‘the good news” of the Gospel, which had been her- bingered at the North by the preaching and pilgrimages of the Hibernian missionaries, spread from England and from Gaul through- out all Germany, until the latter, in the eighth century, became part and parcel of the grand empire of Frankish Charlemagne, and the Rhine frontier was obliterated. The subse- quent invasions of the terrible Normans, and the final dying out of Carlovingian authority, in the ninth century, left both Gaul and Ger- many a prey to an almost interminable succes- ity. We bave no fear that Austria or Italy will act rashly. Italy is oceupied, and occupied sufficiently, with Rome and the Pope. Austria knows that she dare not move—Russia has her hand upon her. Tho first movement of Aus- tria in favor of France—and she cannot move in favor of Prassia—would bo her ruin. Great Britain looks anxiously on and keeps her eye on Belgium, Her army is being put ona war footing, and her magnificent fleet is almost impatient for action, It is more than possible, however, that although France has nineicen warships in the Baltic, and although | she is otherwise atlempting the rile of queen of the seas, the British nation will keep out of this fray. Russia says she will not spoil the fizht unless provoked. It is reasonable, we think, will simply look on. The result of this war is so uncertain that it is realiy unsafe to speculate. A trinmphant Germany would imply a complete rearrange ment of Europe; and unless Napoleon went in for republican institutions the presumptioa is that it would be the ruin of the Bonaparte dynasty. A triumphant France would check cation for many Whichever Power should win, lone let us Lope for the pe nd for liberty. J St. Donrin Vv The war ery has again been raised, and Hayti and Si. Domingo are anxious to emu- late the example of France and Prussia. For months past the relations between the two re- anything but friendly. et has been elected President of Hayti he has been in continual hot The admirers of Salnave did not become e: tinct with their chief, and they are noy ent eleet of Hayti all the trov But if the Salnavisis e: ead in the minds of St. Domi i also. Cabral is doing Baez, the Domia g they possibly can. cise a const present rulers in H without its trouble: utmost to embar the not his a a President, It is claimed now that Presi- dent Saget will aid Cabral again Baez, because the Iatter favors _ tt success of the Salnave party againat Sage This is precisely the situation of affa in Dominica, A little reflection will convince | any one that the only way to end these bioody this island would be by the annexation of either | one or both of these republics to this country. We had an opportunity to acquire St. Do- mingo on what appeared to be not only fair terms, but on conditions more reasonable than | we could expect; yet the opportunity was lost, With St. Domingo once under the flag of the Uniied States these dissensions and peopies of both Huayti and St. Domingo wouid be finaily ended, a rich and fruitful tract of land would be added to the United States, and uot only the Haytiens and Dominicans would be benefited, but the whole civilized world would rejvice at the change. Cursrixe News rrom tux INpians.-~In | addition to the good offices of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, since their return home, ia sapplied our special correspondence from the Old World, with the newspaper mail details which appear in our columns to-day. The ad- vices are quite important, detailing, as they do, the progress of the war excitement in England and the military preparations of Russia, with other matters tending to show how a general European complication may en- wue from the present struggle between France wad Prussia behalf of peace among the Sioux, it appears that Big Horse and Big Jake are working successfully for peace on the part of the Chey- ennes. We commend their enlightened ex ple to all the fighting Big Horses, Big Jakes and ‘Big Sixes” acrosa the ‘‘big water.” Red men, to the front! Srrict Nevrrauiry.—That is the proper course for the government of the United States about the war in Europe. to conclude that the outside Powers | | water, | | rality thrown a sion of petty dynasties and exhausiing wars. At length, after having been a dozen times remodelled, we flad France, about tne middle of the seventeenth century, receiving by the treaty of Miinsler a perpetual and irrevocable title to the three bishoprics of Metz, Toul and Verdun, and, besides that, to the city of Brisach, the Landgravate of upper and lower Alsace, the Sundgau and the bailiwick of ten imperial united cities of Alsace. At length came the splendid conquests of the first Napoleon, who, at the battles of Marengo and Hohenlinden, in 1801, secured the famous trea'y of Luneville, which gave him the whole left bank of the Rhine, from | Basle (now in Switzerland) to Nimeguen (now in the Netherlands). And this was and is { ‘the Rhine frontier” that France clamors for to-day. But in 1814, after the overthrow of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbons, France was cnt down to her old Jimils as she had stood in 1792, and out of the Conzress of Vienna, beld in 1815, arose the Germanic Confederation and the partition of the territory thus taken away, among several petty States. Were the Rhine frontier carried out to its ulti- mate sequence it would of course sweep in all Rhenish Bavaria and Rbenish Prussia on the left bank of the river, Luxemburg, Belgium Were the and one-fourth ¢ ast of Holland. Luxemburg, Belgian and Datch 1 spected, it is difficult to see what ve! tant ‘rectification of the frontier" from so smalla gain as the comps ratively nar- row patch belonging to Bavaria and Pri The boundary line would still be jagged, uncomfortable and incom- plete, and other territorial wars would soon follow. In fine, the old Napoleonic fron- | tier is what France really wants and fights for. That would give her a new river boun- dary of two hundred miles, an increase of territory oa the east as large as Denmark, and an additional population of four million souls. Who can for a moment believe that unless also were consolidated into one grand te, ever warlike, ambitious and restless France, so quick in quarrel and so fond y glory, thus swollen and strengthened, could be restrained by so slen- der ver thread as the uarrow and winding Rhin Her present ruler might, undoubtedly, act in good faith, but the France of twenty-five years hence, with sixty million souls, including her prospective growth of home population and her colonies and dependence’ would, a thousand to one, laugh at so glittering a gene- ross her path of empire. next step would pitch hey tents, with their canvas opening eastward, on the banks of the Dannbe, until, following onward the in- evitable march, she would at last plant her banners at the gates of Istambout, Germa: united of advance’! Papal. INFALLIBILITY. —The complete result of the une! set forth in our columns to-day. It comes in the shape of the dogmatic decree of Papal infullibility set forth by Pope Pius the Ninth to the Christian world. The text of this im- portant document reaches u3 in advance sheets of the Catholic World magazine of this city, and is consequently gorrectly reudered. There has been so much written of the Vatican Council pro and con, and from its opening, that the public will be, no doubt, rojoiced to know its fruits, and thus be enabled to judge of ils claims to Pontifical primacy and perpetuity, The Homeward Flight of Our Summer Birds in Europe. The sudden and startling shock of war resulted in a general stampede among the sum- mer birds of passage up the Rhine and to the travellers among the mountains and watering places of Germany, and even to those among the Alps and on the plains and vales of Italy. Hundreds of Americans were among these flying hosts, seeking the sbortest routes and the speediest means of reaching the seaboard and a return home, Many Americans and English, too slow in their movements, were intercepted and delayed or driven from their course and dispersed, with some losses of baggage, by falling in the way of the hurrying columns of the Prussian army, horse, foot and artillery. One of the consequences of this European war, therefore, isthe diversion back to the United States ofa great number of our summer travellers in Europe; and another result will be the suspension this season to a great extent of our outward ‘bound trans- atlantic pleasure seekers. Immense sums of money are and will thus be saved or diverted to our own summer watering places, which otherwise would be distributed over the European Continent. The British islands, from the same causes, will, before the expira- tion of this season, be more extensively patron- ized by fashionable natives and strangers this summer and autumn than in any year since the general continental disturbances of 1848-9, The old proverb, then, that ‘‘it is an ill wind which blows nobody any good,” will apply even to this scandalous war be- tween France and Prussia—scandalous, as we may pronounce, it from the shallow pretences upon which it is justified, There is a fine opening through which even yet we may reap the greatest commercial advantages, with a little assistance from Congress. Our impor- tant agricultural and manufacturing interests will certainly prosper from the destruction of the material wealth and resources and the sus- pension of the productions of France and Ger- many, although there is no satisfying equiva- lent in this reflection for the horrors of this gigantic war. Taking things, however, as we find them, the losses to France and Ger- many will contribute vastly to our gains— agricultural, manufacturing, commercial, financial—and likewise in the summer squan- derings of the gay world of fashion. In addi- tion to the return and detention on this side of our own people, we may expect before the end of the autumn, should this war go on, an increased number of visitors from Europe, though the American wealth and strength producing stream of German immigrationis arrested. Particularly in regard to our summer resorts, we think that from this European war a new epoch of fashion and prosperity may be dated, from the great lakes to the Gulf, and from the cooling surf of Long Branch to the shining breakers of the Pacific. The Cost of War. Money must supply the sinews of war. The French government has already received $114,280,000 and has been permitted to issue The | ical Council of the Vatican is | $70,000,000 of additional Treasury bonds, in order to carry on the war which has just begun. The floating debt ef France, which already amounts to $150,000,009, will doubt- less be swollen ere long to at least $250,000,000. One hundred and three million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars have Leen demanded by Germany, including Prussia and Bavaria, But these large sums are but the initial expenses of a war which may yet cost an incalculable amount of treasure as well as an irrevocable loss of life. If other European nations are drawn into the macistrom of war— aresult which is by no means improbable— the aggregate of the expenses of the war will be increased almost beyond tho limits of ecal- culation, The prodigious expenses of the Crimean war, not only on the part of France, Great Britain and Russia, but also on the part of their respective allies, afford but a faint idea of the probable expenses of the impending war in Europe. To this expense musi be added the loss by the depreciation of shares and stocks and the interruption, if not the stoppage, of the ordiaary course of com- merce. Arthur Helps, the accomplished pri- vate secretary of Quoen Victoria, has given a vivid idea of the cost of war by estimating ihe cost of merely the cart wheels ‘‘expended” ina single campaign. Bat who can estimate the total destruction of values threatened by the war between France and Prussia? If Great Britain shall be involved in this war ils national debt will be swollen beyond compu- tation. Bankruptey and repudiation seem to be the inevitable results of the general Enro- pean war which now darkly looms on the horizon. Might not some miraculous inter- ference of Providence be devoutly prayed for to cause the diversion of the vast sums about to be wasted for the parposes of destruction into channels that would lead to all the inesti- mable advantages of universal peace ? Our Defective Detective System. It was a detective officer of Bosion, by the name of Jones, we think, who once had an important New York matter in charge. The resalt:—He not only caught his man, but was conveying him to New York, under lock and key, when the manacled culprit jumped from one of the Long Island Sound steamers into the water, abreast of Governor's Island, This might have been a very good point for the prisoner if he intended to drown himself. But officer Jones thought otherwise. The culprit jumped—it was just at Diamond shoals—and Jones jumped after him. The culprit could not make much resistance, and Jones, not half drowned, dragged his prisoner on hoard the steamer, and finally bad the satisfaction of seeing him sent to Siog Sing for a term of years. There are many men, no doubt, bred up to the hardships of a public officer's life, who will appreciate this deference to the performance of a duty of an officer under uapleasant cir- cumstances. But it is not always courage ihat constitutes the ingredient of a thorough police officer. He must also have sagacity, patience, wit, penetration, indomitable perse- verance ania faculty to weave facts that may hereafter be used as events may determine. Is Superintendent Jourdan a man of this stamp? We hope so. But it will scarcely require a reference to the police records of France or England to find his superior where investiga- tions about mysterious events like the atro- cious Nathan murder have been forced upon the public attenticn, Italy, Rome and the Pope. It is understood that in the absence of the French troops. the King of Italy is to take care of Rome. The Holy Father will doubt- less consider this the admission of the wolf into the fold ; for the Italian State within the last five years has appropriated, sequestrated, taken and absorbed in monasteries, convenis, &c., millions of the property of the Church, and inarecent supplemental act of the Italian Parliament, called by the indignant clergy the “Ecclesiastical Spoliation bill,” pretty much all that was left of their Church property and incomes has been swept away. The law makes a great reduction in the nwnber of ec- clesiastics of all degrees in all parts of the kingdom, and reduces the pay of the reserved force to the smallest possible allowance. In this business, the revolution in Italy has been more sweeping even than that under Juarez in Mexico, and it has been carried out professedly in obedience to the injunction of the New Testament, “Lay not up for your- selves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust do corrupt and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in the kinglom of heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal.” Hard as it may be, however, for the Holy Father to accept the protection of Victor Emanuel as a State necessity with France in the shape of a concession to Italy, we fear that the good Pio Nono will have to submit. His only alterna- tive will be to protest and thus become a Protestant and leave the Holy City to the spoiler, It has been intimated, too, from Rome that the persecuted Pope contemplates this course, and a temporary refuge under the protection of Protestant England in the island of Malta. This, too, may possibly come te pass; for if turned over by Napoleon to the tender care of Garibaldi, the Holy Father, in leaving Rome, will hardly fly to the soil of France; nor, after the abrogation by Austria of her Con- cordat, will he seek for protection in that quarter; while Spain, which, under the late Queen Isabella and her Bourbon predecessors, was the model of loyal:y and pious devotion to the head of the Church, has hardly now a corner in which he could rest in contentment. In truth, should Pio Nono resolve to fly from he protection of Italy, as the lamb flies from the protection of the wolf, such is the condition y+ things in the Catholic States around him that he may go to the protection of Protestant England at Malta, or to Protestant Prussia as an exile; or, peradventure he come to the free land of America, where there will be none to molest him or make him afraid. We rather incline to the opinion, however, that, reduced to the choice of the protection of Italy or a flight from Rome, the Holy Father, fortified with his infallibility, and strong in the faith of St. Peter, will stick to the Vatican and bide his time. We rather think that he will do this from considerations of policy and of duty, and patiently as possible await the issues of this Franco-Prassian war. In sore distress he is doubtless now meditating upon the alarming aspect of Enropean affairs and over the sorrowful difference in the power of the Holy See when Ferdinand and Isabella L. of Spain epprised the Pope of the discovery of a new world and asked the temporal jurisdiction over it from the temporal king of kings, and compared with this epoch of unbelief when Isabella Il, and the most devoted datighter of the Church is an exile in foreiga lands. There remains still, however, this great and precious consolation to the faithfal Pope ia the Church of Christ, that he is the successor and repre- sentative of St. Peter; that St. Peter is the rock upon whici the Church is built; that ‘the gates of hel! suall not prevail against it,” and that from the blessed Peter his living suc- cessor in office holds on earth the keys of the kingdom of heaven, which pojthor Victor Emanuel, nor Garibalai or Mazzini, nor Fean- cis Joseph, Prim, Bismarck nor Napoleon can take away. Lastly, let the Holy Father forget not that as the bead of the Church he is infal-. lible, and therefore has nothing to fear, whether as ruler or guest in Rome or as an exile in Malta, the United States or the Mr. Bergi*s Proclamation. Vhe annual report of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animuls—-a society of which Mr. Bergh may properly be regarded as the inspiri il—affords gratifying evi- dence that the claims cf the brute creation to righis that ‘“‘must be respected” by man are gradually winning ample recognition. Since the last report of the treasurer of this sociely three legacies have beea bequeathed to it, amounting in the aggregate to seven thousand dollars, and since May 18, 1870, the sum of eight thousaud doilurs has been received toward the purch of a buildiag for the society. During the double ‘heated terms” of this summer the diminu of the sufferings of horses has been so re. wble-—thauks to the efforts of Mr. Bergh at the disposition to ridicule some of the excesses of his zeal has entirely ceased. The utility of the truck re- cently constructed by the society bas proved to be admirably adapted to the purpose of re- moving crippled and disabled animals. No less than fitty-two horses, not permanently disabled, were removed to places of shelter and security and saved from death from July 29, 1869, to May 1, 1870, During the past year 405 persons were arrested by the officers of the society, 269 of whom were convicted and punished. The cause of which Mr. Bergh has been the persistent advoeate in New York has awakened general sympathy throughout the United States. As one proof of this fact we inay refer to the excellent little journal en- titled Our Dumb Animals, published at Bos- ton by the Massachusetts Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, of which Mr, Frank B, Fay is the secretary. PourrioaL Craprrap.—Real swung off, aceordiag to the published record, upon a political anathema, nota rope. The political wretches who polluted the threshold of the grave and of purgatory by grounding from poor Real the polilical sponge that he is repurted to have thrown at Governor Hoffman simply made devils’ imps of themselves. How will Sheriff O'Brien take the dosumeat? Was he the author of it? How will the Hon. Jobo Fox take the document? Was he the author of it? How will all the young democracy take the document? Were any or all of them the authors of it? $$$ The Race for the Amecrica’s Cup—Clear the Course, Probably the most brilliant scene ever wit- nessed in New York harbor will be that pre- sented to-morrow at the start from the New York Yacht Club House, on Staten Island, of the twenty-five gallant boats all entered and ready to compete for the America’s Cup. It is under- stood, of course, that the race could not be run for the ownership of the America’s Cap unless an English yacht was entered to try her mettle in the race. The Cambria is here to make the requirements complete and to claim supremacy for the English yacht clubs, Hav~ ing run an ocean race in the mean- time with success she beldly enters into the contest. Twenty-four of the boats entered are American, The Cambria alone represents foreign yachts. It will be a grand sight to sve nearly the whole force of the New York Yacht Club, large boats and small boats—running, of course, on the usual allowance of time— putting forth their strength, each one striving to the utmost of its capacity to retain the America’s Cup in this country. It must be observed that the number of yachts entered for this race is unprocedented. The comparatively narrow space in which they have to make the start renders it necessary that they should have all the room possible. We would urge, therefore, upon captains of steam and pleasure boats and all other navi- gators, to give the racing boats a clear berth over the course, They can afford their passengers a fair sight of the race without crowding upon the yachts. Steamboat cup- ~ tains do not know, perhaps, how much they may affect the sailing of a yacht ata criticul moment by running even a considerable dis- tance to windward of her. We trust, then, that pleasure parties will keep clear of tho course and give all the contesting boats fair play. The excitement about the race is intense In all quarters. The people wil visit our glo- rious bay by thousands to-morrow, and never such a spectacle has been witnessed in its waters before. Dress Fashions in Paris. Our special fashious correspondent ia Paris writes again, even amid tho din and clamor of the actualities of war. He has faith in the re- fining influences of civilization, trusts in the eternity of social progress and believes that its onward murch canuot be impeded, much less rolled back by the dynastic quarrels of the monarchs, or controlled from the Tuileries, or Ems, or Berlin, or Madrid. The situation was no doubt painful to the mind of such a devotee ; but the light still ‘‘shone in the dark- ness,” and the robes of beauty, ‘floating wild as mountain breezes,” were likely in the end to overshadow, if not entangle and enfold ihe grim and stiff-laced uniform of the soldiers, the elegant wearers standing forth as an irre- sistible mediatory power destined to accom- plish the ultimate union of the peoples—a power which will eventually join the hands of the warriors in peace and atiract them from the camps of the ‘homicidal, carnage-crim- soned Mars” to the quiet of the domesti hearth, each beneath his ‘‘vine and fiz tree.” Present demoralizations abounded, however, on all sides in the French capitai, There were oaths of the camp, rude jokes of the bivouac, pleasantries of doubtful mea from Alzeria, snatches of extemporized battle songs, civic excitement, ‘the mounting in hot haste,” the “rushing squadron and the elat- tering car.” Nature alone remained the same. The grass in the fields and the leaves in the woods and groves were green and hopeful as were the grass and leaves on that other dread morn when the foliage of Ardennes glistoned in the sun, ‘‘dewy with nature’s tear drop:,” 1 as the heroes of Hagland and France rushed past ty Waterloo, whirled on to that bloody field which brought victory, glory aud peace to the one, defeat, humiliation and St. Helena to the other, Thus itis that nature, animate or inanimate, ever asserts herse As the fields of France and Belgiom are aguin clothed in verdure, despite the fury of the first Boua~ parte and Wellington and Blucher, so there | are to-day fair ladies in Paris who dischars the duties of the toilet and attend to the uni- ties and elegancies of dress, noiwithstandiug the slipshod sequences of Napoleou’s gout, the brusque and rather careless style’ of the | good King William, the economic calculations of Bismarck, andthe confused and dimmed splendor of the robes aud jewels of the ex- Queen Isabella. Our spécial writer pays al- tention to the efforts of these ladies and the results, The letier is consequently of a very cheering. character. It teils of new dress material—chiniz particularly —of hi: bons nets, petticoats, silks, salins and bovis; how they are ‘‘made up” and how they are put on. A toilet which was worn by a French lady at Windsor Palace, Eagland, is bed. The Prince of Wales was ‘‘greatly taken” with it—a good siga, perhaps, for Napoleon, asit may have the effect of perfecting his entente cordiale with Great Britain in this the most dangerous crisis of his executive history, and thus prove to the world that great nations are held in the bonds of peace by somethiag more substantial than the traditional “ropes of sand” which are supposed to be the only bonds which ‘‘tie together commons, lords and kings.” We hope so sincerely, Jf new dresses can reconcile the peace of Europe peoples will ery out, ‘Long live” the modistes, and become convinced that ‘man's a phe~ nomenon,” and ‘wonderful beyond all wou- drous measure.” Mormonism iN Conneoticut.—The goodly town of Bridgeport is ina biaze of excitement over the peccadilloes of a Rev. Mr. Richards, pastor of the North Congregational chu of that city, This faithless shepherd was too fond of the sisters of his flock, and upon his trial acknowledged having taken undue familiarities with fifteea different members of his church. Singular as it may appear to the world’s people, in the face of this i confession, a committee, including the Pr dent of Yale College, agreed to accept Richards’ resignation and to furnish him a cer- tificate of commendation to other churches. No greater evil can befall any church than such an attempt to cover up the crimes of its leading members; and if the Bridgeport Con- gregationalists wish to inflict an almost fatal blow upon Christianity they will carry out the proposition of their committee to send forth this reverend gentleman with Mormon procli- vities to prey upon other congregations.