The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1870, Page 6

: Bt 1 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, “PROPRIETOR. ~All business or news letter and telegraphio @espatches must be addressed New York HERA. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. ; Rejected communications will not be re- furned. + No, 222 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broad na 18th street Fritz, Our Coven Gaewane or . a THEATRE, Bowery.—Vanirty ENTERTAIN- GRAND OPER4 HOUSE, corner ot Fighth avenue and 28d st.—SitaLa—Tux Nations. WOOD'S MUSEOM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- mer Thirtieth at,—Performances every afternoon aud evening TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bovery.—Va- = BUBTY ENTEETAINMENT—COMIC VOCALISNS, £2. Matinee, THEATRE COMIQUB, 814 Broatway.~Coto Voosle isu, Nxexpo Acts, 8G. Matines at 2). 7h av., between 68th Ahid Porutar ConckErs. OENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Pelb ats,—THRQDORE THOMA: NEW YORK MOSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— MOLENGE AND ART. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMIOAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— (OB AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. Now Yerk, Wednesday, August 10, 1970. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'’S HERALD. Pace. = JeAdvertisemonta. Advertisements. 3—The War: Prussian Concentratton in Force Be- fore Metz; Napoleon and Marshal Bazaine in Council; Bost ions and ; be Closed Against Ejeet; Parliamentary Vote Against the Ollivier Cabinet. 4=—Etrone: War Despatches by Mail to July 28; Advance of the French and German Hosts to First Combat; The French Headquarters at Nancy and Strasbourg Speciaily Reported; Mac- Mahon’s Corps, Its Force and Commands; The Prussian Advance; Destruction of Powder Magazines, Bridges and Ratlroads; Napoleon pe is Mystery; Disraeli for War and British ction. S—Furopean News (continued from Fourth Page)— News from Cuba—The West India Gable—The Pullman Cars on the Centra! Pacific Railroad— Political Inteilizence—The Public Health— , Quarantine Affairs—Probab!e Mar in Thirty- second Street—The Jersey City Monumeut Dem- onstra'ton—The Jersey City Alleged Swindie— The National Game—Marriage Extraordinary— “Pet Halsted Assaul in Newark—An Old Burglary Cleared Up—Sivg Sing Camp Meet- ing—Watering-Place Notes—Infantile Fatality on Account of the Heat. G—Euitorials: Leading Article on The Crisis to Napoleon, the Republic His Only Safety—Per- sonal Intelligence—Amusement Announce- ments. A '¥—Telegraphic News from ail Parts of the W News from Washington—Another WH Term—Yellow Fever at Philadelphia—Yacht- ing Matters—Brooklyn City News—Business Notices. 8=—The Nathan Murder: Continuation of the In- quest Yesterday ; Washington Nathan on the Stand; His Relations with fis Murdered Father; Was There a Codicil to the Deceased's Witl? Testimony of the Housekeeper, Detec- tive Bennett and Others ; te Carpet of the Bedroom the Capture of the Mardere: Fire Uy Rumor of River Thieves m an Officer. : Proclamation by Colonel Wolseley ; adian Expedition on Mission of ne Gas Ne ‘An Accom- 1 Hotel Y ory in New- fark _Lanagi Blown Up—Rald by the Hoboken Police Jommercial Reports—Real —Marriages and Deaths. £0--The Latest News from the War in Europe— ‘Trotting at Buffalo Park—New York City News—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements. (3—Central and South America in Colombia ; The Elec Brazilian Pariiament ; T! Peru aud Bolivia Am Enire Rios Revolt—A C Virginia Legislature men's. 1Q—Advertisements, Tne NatHAN INVESTIGATION was continued vesterday. Washington Nathan gave his tes- jimony in a> straightforward manner end accounted satisfactorily for his whereabouts at the time at which the murder is supposed to have occurred. The testimony of other wit- nesses cleared away any doubts that thought- less sensationists have raised as to the inno- cence of the yoaug man, and the whole evi- ‘dence, so far, leaves the case as much a mystery asever. Nothing is proven clearly except the inefficiency of our detectives and the bungling awkwardneas of our police, Toe Dargnce or Pants—Ane We Yer mx tar Mippre AGes?--The Empress Regent and Prime Minister Ollivier make arrangements for the defence of Paris. Do they imagine that France is Paris? Time was when a miserable old castle would check the progress of an iuvading army; but that was before railroads were known and before the telegraph made news fly on the lightning’s wing. If the Prussians appear $n force within fwenly miles of Paris, Paris is gone, Not twenty Frenchmen could be hired to defend the city. But even if it were de- fended what would it signify? France would be not the less at the mercy of the conqueror. Paris might hold out for a day, or day or two; but Paris isolated—Paris, a city of shop- keepers, who live by bleeding Americans and Englishmen—France would be at the mercy of the invader. Depend upon it, before Prussia will have time to fling upon it shot and shell the shopkeepers and the sans en- oites would surrender. Eugénie, dear ; Olli- vier, my boy, don’t talk any more nonsense about Paris. The defence of France ought to have been on the border. Tae Apprzss OF THE REPUBLICAN Conanres- SIONAL COMMITTEE, published in our columns elsewhere, makes a fine exhibit so far as it refers to the work of retrenchment and economy done by General Grant’s administra- tion. The repudlican party in the coming elections may well claim success on this plat- form alone; but the address is very weak in its r'sumé of Congressional measures. There fs little to be noted in the proceedings of the Jast Congress on which the dominant party can demand a re-election, and there is much out of which the demo- cracy will make poliiical capital with damag- ing effect, The everlasting diatribe about slavery and slaveholding is unworthy of a great party of the present. It is a maintenance of old and dead issues, but only for a party in its dotage, and should be left only to the cop- perhead democracy. While the war record of the party is something to remember ever with pride, it should be no longer used for elec- tioneering purposes. Let it be Inid tenderly away, and let tho party stand on the present record of General Grant and his administra- tion NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUS1r.10, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET The Crisis to Napoleon—The Ropublic His Only Safety. The days of the Napoleonic empire and dynasty are numbered. The handwriting is on the wall, The peril to the imporial family is imminent and méiacing from Without and within. The symptoms of a revolutionary fer- mentin Paris areas ominous as the late defeats ofthe French armies. The plediscite was a delusion which has led Napoleon into a fatal blunder. He entered into this war with Prus- sia for the purpose and with tho expectation of adding so much of glory and power to his gov- ernment that {ts transmission to the Prince Imperial would be accepted with enthusiasm by the French people. Instead of “‘gloire” and ‘‘victoire,” however, he has brought defeat and humiliation upon France, and though France may retrieve her disaster, expel the bold invaders of her soil and exact an ample reparation for her losses, the disasters suffered by Napoleon and the empire cannot be repaired. The prestige and the glory of the empire are gone with these crowning misfor- | tunes to the third Napoleon, the whole of whose splendid and prosperous administration has barely sufficed to excuse with the French peo- ple the breach of faith through which he dis- placed the second republic and reinstated the empire. esr sn dsb yy « ‘This war hag already convinced the French people that the nephew has nothing of the military genius of his wucle} aud it bas convinced the world that the present Emperor commands nothing of that enthusiasm of the French army which made ‘‘the Little Corpo- ral” master of the Continent. This war has proved another thing—that the true policy of Louis Napoleon, and the policy to which he owes his Jong and successful reign, was the policy embodied in those expressive words, “the empire is peace ;” for the lime has gone by when the old enthusiasm of the French army can be revived with the presence of the Prince Imperial even of the house of the Bonapartes. The Emperor has told us that his veterans wept at the tranquillity displayed by his Prince Imperial in his baptism of fire. We rather incline to think that a feeling akin to shame must have been that of the French veterans in having it thus proclaimed to the world that tuey had no better cause in this war than the cause of that poor, innocent boy as their nexi Emperor; for this is the year of our Lord 1870. History telis tis, too, that when even Napoleon the First began to parade his Prince Imperial as his imperial successor he reopened the door to the Bourbons. What, now, is the situation of Napoleon the Third? These late significant successes of the Prussians manifestly reduce him to the choice of the Bourbons or the republic. With the enlargement of these successes of Prussia she may be enabled to dictate a peace to France embracing the restoration of the Bourbons, with the consent of England, Russia and Austria. For the present Napoleon has taken in this war the first steps on the road to another Holy Alliance. Where lies his way of escape and of safety from expulaion and an inglorious ending to bis glorious name? It lies in the bold alternative of a surrender of his personal imperial rights and bis family pretensions, in the return of his government to the French people from whom it was takea, aod in his proclama- tion of the republic through a convention to be elected by the free suffrages of the people. We believe the time has fully come when the French army and people would respond to this A Cup for the Magle. It is not clearly understood tbat the Magic, although she gallantly won the race for the America’s Cup in the splendid and unprece- dented raced on Monday, is not entitled to the possession of the Queen’s Cup won by the yacht America in 1851. The cup has been in the possession of the New York Yacht Club for the past nine- teen years, The victory won by the Magic simply leaves it there. The club is still the owher. Instead of being carried back to Eng. land by the Cambria, had she been fortunate enough to win the race on Monday, the prize remains with the New York Yacht Club. The owner of the Magic, therefore, has the honor of preserving in this country the cup which the America won from all the finest yachts in England in 1851. But is the owner of the Magic entitled to no substantial recognition for his gallant share in thisrace? Public opinion seems to gravitate towards thisidea. We have received the following timely communication, and hereby acknowledge the receipt of ils enclosure :— New York, August 9, 1870. To Tur EpiTor oF THB HERALD:— Observing with some surprise that no provision Was made for any prize or testimonial to the merl- torious winner of the race of yesterday, 1 beg to offer through your courtesy ‘the accompanying check for ility dollars towards repairing ‘this omission, The triumph of the beautiful little Magic was com- plete oF all Ponts, Smallest save one of all the ves- sels entered, and exceeding that one by only fifteen tons, and having only forty-three per cent of the ton- nage of ler transatlantte rival, she fairly carried off the prize Ih ail GVennAGEd CONLESE, enone allow. ances of any kind, First to get off, first at the Spit, first at the Lightship and first at the goal, with an increasing lead at every point, her victory was un- qualified, It is gratifying that the Dauntiess, vince she could not win, came in second and only a minute and a half behind the winner. Yours, &c., J, C, HOADLEY, 46 Cortlandt street. The suggestion conveyed in the above letter is an admirable one, aud we hope it will be taken up by the public. The yacht club, which owes the preservation of the Queen’s Cup to the Magic, should be magnanimous. The club represents thirly yachts. Suppose that each boat subscribed a hundred dollars. That would make three thousand dollars, the price of ahandsome testimonial to the owner of the winning boat. But it should not stop there. The public, like the writer of the above communication, would contribute largely to ase a cup greater in value than that the America won and the Magic has pre- yed—something that the owner of the latter acht can regard for future time as a noble and friendly memorial of the greatest event which has ever occurred in New York harbor. It is in keeping with Mr. Ashbury’s general good and generous feeling since he has plunged into our yachting business here to find that he enter- tains the idea with regard to the Magic expressed in this article. In the very interesting letter from Mr. Ashbury which we publish in another column he says :—‘I think the winner of so important a race should have some record or souvenir to show that he was the victor in a ‘Magical’ manner; especially so as he cannot take the cup so ably won.” Mr. Ash- bury suggests the plan which we have pro- posed above, that the yacht club should pre- sent the owner of the Magic with a suitable testimonial. We hope that the idea will be carried out. 2 The War News from Enrepe. The war news from Europe, by special cable telegram.aad from other sources, which reached us to an early hour this morning, is of quite an exciting character. The great struggle betweea France and Prussia is evidently approaching a decisive crisis rapidly. The Prussian troops were concen- course ofaction with a unanimity and enthusiasm which would make her a3 powerful against all hostile coalitions as she was under her first republic, though attacked simultaneously on every side by land and sea. Under the late plebiscite the French people made their elections as between order and chaos, and they voted for the Emperor and his empire as representing law, order and peace. Now, amid the disasters of a needless war, let the Emperor proclaim his abdication and the restoration of the republic, and he will gain by this coup d'état for France and the glory of his name far more than he has lost. He will initiate the successful adop- tion of the grandest of all Napoleonic ideas— that idea which was in the mind of the first Napoleon when at St. Helena he said that ‘‘in fifty years Europe will be republican or Cos- sack.” Modern scientific inventions and means of enlightenment have put the Cossack into the background; but they have brought republi- can principles and popular rights so conspiou- ously into the foreground that we may reason- ably hope to see every State of Europe a republic and the Continent a confederation of republics during the present generation. German unity is but a repetition of Italian uniiy and Austrian unity, and all these unions of different detachments in each case of the same people are but the initial movements to governments “for the people, by the people, and of the people,” as our honest and patriotic republican Lincoln once expressed it. The republic, then, is the winning card for Napoleon. Let him reinstate the republic in Fraace, and “according tothe Americah idea of popular rights, and the enemies of France will be at once dis- armed. The Germans’ will rise for a united republic; the Italians will adopt the idea, Spain will adopt it, and Austria—which has advanced so far in this direction since Sadowa as to be a wonder to all her ncighbors—-Austria wiil follow in the same glorious and decisive revolution. Thus the liberal aspirations of the first French republic, under which the first Napoleon carved his way to the empire, will be fully realized as the work of the third Napoleon, and thus the end of his great career will be its crowning glory. On the other hand, in adhering to his empire and his Prince Imperial, he will be fighting for a ‘lost cause,” and bis end will make him in history appear rather as a successful usurper than as @ great raler by the will of the French people; for their will is not the empire, Tue YELLow Fever has appeared in Phila- delphia with considerable violence, and that quiet and cleanly city is greatly alarmed in consequence, The present heated term makes the matter very serious, especially in New York, where we are unprepared for anything like a pestilence. Our sireets are too filthy, and some of our lower purlieus are so dirty as actually to invite disease. In this present emergency it becomes us to cleanse the streets and disinfect some of the festeriag tenement { houses that disfigure the unfashionable byways. trated before Metz, and a German advance was being made on Strasbourg by Mulhausen, Napoleon was in council with Marshal Bazaine. The French armies, as announced in England, were still in force and in good position. Indeed, it is intimated even that the troops of the Emperor may attempt to wedge in the Prussian corps of advance when it comes between Metz and Paris and then assail them with great impetuosity, Victory is absolutely essential to the prolon- gation of Napoleon’s rule. Paris remains in a criti¢al condition, The people are excited. Free speech onthe subject of the war is de- nied them. It was alleged that the Empress Eugénie had fled from the capital, and many other wild and bewildering ramors were afloat, An adverse action of the French Parliament produced a Cabinet crisis for Ollivier. The Premier asked time to consider his course. The French democracy was wheeling into line for the Emperor—a movement which may produce much good or great evil to the imperial cause. General Changarnier joined the French headquarters at Metz. He en- joyed an ovation. Italy and Austria will, it is said, come to the aid of Bonaparte. Prussia has closed the river Elbe almost completely, The English despatches intimate that Napoleon is in great danger, but at the same time they seem to anticipate that he may yet retrieve his position. We may receive most startling news at any moment. Our Political State Conventions, The first of the series of political State con- ventions to be held prior to the fall elections will be that of the republicans in Ohio, which takes place to-day. This will be followed by conventions in other States, and we shall soon have the whole political machinery again in active motion. Notwithstanding the extreme heat of the weather politicians have kept themselves cool enough to prepare their usual wirepulling traps, in view of the complexion of the next Congress. Ohio will start off with some subterranean operations looking to the displacement of Senator Sherman, whose term, however, does not expire until 1873; but his opponents think it is not too early to begin laying pipe for the purpose of event- ually, if possible, ousting him from his seat. In Massachusetts it is reported that a pro- gramme is being propared in which General Butler will play the first overture for a seat in the United States Senate. In New Jersey the election of a successor to Senator Cattell is already agitating political circles. In the interior of this State the republicans are en» deavoring to heal their brerches and making preparations to present a solid front to the enemy, with, perhaps, some one from this city as their candidate for Governor, But itis as yet too early to speculate in regard to the schemes of politicians. After the State cof- ventions shall have been held, candidates nominated and platforms presented, we shall be better able to judge of what is likely to happen and who is likely to turn up in the grand whirlizig of politics, Napoleou’s, Unlucky Delays. In the beginning of our own civil war we had a great many theories, Generals who knew just how to quell the rebellion in three weeks or ninety days, and would need only seventy-five thousand men and a few dozen cannon for the purpose, were as plentiful as blackberries, All these theories were dis- cnssed and digested, and consequently caused delay, and in war delay is ruin. We had another class of persons who dreaded that every weak point our army had was known to the enemy, that our exact force was a matter of certain knowledge in the opposing camp, and that every movement we might contem- plate was faithfully noted on the enemy’s chart. It was not until General Grant made his first brilliant successes that we compre- hended that wo might be as strong as the enemy. When he moved immediately on the enemy's works at Fort Donelson and captured an army of prisoners there was a general feel- ing that he had made a blindly reckless dash and by the mercy of Providence had suc- ceeded. When he struck into the enemy's country behind Vicksburg many good people thought he was as good as swallowed up by the fierce hordes of Southrons that would fall upon him. But when he took Vicksburg and took another army with it then people compre- hended that General Grant was a general who meant business, that he knew his own strength and found out as nearly as possible his enemy's, and that he did not terrify himself with the belief that the enemy knew more or was able todo more’ than he. He was never guilty of vacillation or delay. He struck as soon as he was ready, and he got ready as soon as he could. Napoleon’s great mistake in the present campaign lay in his vacillation and delay. It was his purpose to invade Prussia, and at the firstenthusiastic uprising of the French army “On to Berlin” was the demand. There was no necessity for delay. The Fronch army was, at least, much readier for the battle than the Prussians; but the demon of vaciilation seized Napoleon. It may have been that he feared the war would be over too soon for political effect if he crushed out the Prussians at once, just as some of our ninety day prophets pre- dicted in our civil war. Or it may be that he dreaded his own weak points, and believed, as some of our earlier generals believed, that the enemy knew all about them. So he delayed and waited to strengthen his army when he should have been striking with it across South Germany for Berlin with the speed and energy of the first Napoleon sixty- four years ago. Such a rapid move- ment might have served to divide to some extent the sentiment of the South Germans, and it would certainly have had the advantage of taking the Prussian army, still unready, on its own soil. But there came vacillation and delay on his part and steady concentration on the part of Prussia. The result is that where Napoleon should have invaded Prussia United Germany invades France; where he should have siruck an almost unorganized army of Prussia he falls upon a solid wall of united German bayonets ; where he and Louis should have been long ago in Berlin “our Fritz” and old King Wilhelm and the whole German family seem determined to summer in Paris. Our French and German Residents. The wise advice which the Courrier des Etats Unis gives its compatriots in New York, to maintain, especially in places of public resort, “the utmost coolness and moderation,” might well be given to the Germans in our midst, who largely outnumber the French. ‘‘All intemperance of language is a lack of self- rospect or a lack of generosity, according as it is occasioned by adversity or by prosperity.” It is earnestly to be hoped that our French and German residents will not repeat the painful personal conflicts which have already taken place. Why should they quarrel? At this distance from the actual seat of war they might both coolly'look at the situation ond repress even the strongest natural sympathies with one side or the other, rather than come to blows at the dinner table, in the club or in the barroom. The Germans at .home are fighting not for Prussia so much as for Deutschland, not for absolutism, in the persons of Frederick- William and his able Minister, Bismarck, as for the unity of Germany, and, it is not too soon to add, for a republic as a possible ultimate resalt of the war. They are thus really fighting for France as well as for Germany. On the other hand, should Napoleon either abdicate or proclaim a univer- sal republic, there would no longer exist a bar to the enthusiasm with which the French people would rise en masse to the defence of their native soil against foreign invasion. The prestige of the famous armies of the first French republic would be recovered. French republicans and German republicans would shake hands instead of crossing swords. AQ era of peace and conoiliation would be inaugurated which nothing but the restoration of {mperial and ‘monarchical despotism could interrupt. The Germans at homé are fighting for German unity. The Frenchmen at home are fighting against foreign invasion. Most of the Germans and of the French in New York are republicans and need not quarrel here. If they are ‘“‘spoiling for a fight” let them go home to France or to Germany and volunteer for the defence either of Paris or Berlin. Communication Between Antwerp and New York. It is very possible that Antwerp is not a potent factor of European politics, and its opinion that the Franco-Prussian war will be over in a week, according to a somewhat silly telegram received yesterday by the ocean cable, may not decide the fate of empires. But Antwerp is nevertheless a town which has, within a few years, revived to an extraordi- nary degree from the decline into which it had previously fallen. It may yet recover the splendid position which it held in the height of its prosperity, between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was the com- mercial centre of Europe, and was frequented by ships of all nations, boasting of twenty-five hundred vessels in port at one time, and of a population of two hundred thousand. Ifa letter from Brussels to London may be credited Antwerp has already made an additional stride towards its ancient position by the establishment of a weekly postal service Postal between itself and New York for fifteen years, The German steamer which Congress recently lost the opportunity of purchasing may be secured, it is surmised, for this service, which is additionally important in view of the uncer- tainties of communication between this port and the Port of Bremen, Hamburg and Havre, on account of the European war. Immigra- tion from Germany and France to the United States must be temporarily checked by the war; but facilities of postal communication with the Continent of Europe are in greater demand than ever, and, so long as Belgium maintains its neutrality, will doubtless be fully enjoyed, Our Central and South American Corre- spondence. _On another page of the Hzraxp this morn- ing will he found an interesting budget of news from our correspondents in some of the Central and South American republics and the empire of Brazil. From Colombia we learn that Spain has already taken steps to turn the feeling of the Colombian government against the Cubans, or at least to stay the promised support to aid the revolutionists. So far the Spanish commissioner at Bogota has not been successful, and it is extremely doubtful that the Colombians, who have expressed them- selves so distinctly in favor of struggling Cuba, will now back down from the stand they originally took. 3 The religious question, in one phase, at least, h pgaln attracted the attention of the Brazili legislators, It will be remembered that some time since we called attention to the probable religious changes that possibly might take place in Brazil. Now we have a verifica- tion of what was then only dimly hinted. The monastic orders in the future will not be able to accumulate that amount of wealth which for centuries they have been hoarding up. They will also be compelled to sell their slaves, Regarding the subject of slavery in Brazil little or no progress has been’ made towards emancipation. But as there isa strong and continually increasing liberal party within the empire, who have determined to keep this question alive and fight it out on the line they have chosen, the question will not be allowed to rest. The troubles which for some time threatened to disturb the peaceful relations between Peru and Bolivia have been finally settled, and the dark war cloud which was gathering on the hori- zon has passed away, leaving both republics to pursue a peaceful and prosperous future. The Peruvians are somewhat excited over immi- grationschemes. A healthy immigration into any of the South American republics from European countries would conduce greatly to the advantage of the South Americans. The Germans who have gone to Peru have done well, and that there {s plenty of room and many opportunities for others to acquire fortunes there is very little room to doubt. The national education project entertained by liberal and progressive Chileans for the promulgation of knowledge throughout the republic is not meeting with such success as we could desire, The scheme meets with a deal of secret, if not open, opposition from the clergy, who are anxious to have the matter in their own hands. _Stilk.there is every reason to believe that the undertaking will be ultimately successful. The accounts from Paraguay speak in gloomy terms of the wretched condition of that once gallant little republic. The revolt in Entre Rios, of which General Jordan is the head, is not yet ended, and although he has suffered many reverses of late he still defies the Argentine government and the forces which it sends against him. The European War and the Geld Market. The development of the war in Europe has found a very curious reflex in the speculative tendencies of the operators who frequent the Gold Room. At first the simple idea of war abroad sent gold up, for the reason that the foreign bankers were apprehensive that in the necessity of procuring money at any cost the holders of our bonds in Europe would be forced to send them home for realization, No respect was had as to which Power would be victorious in the struggle, the mere fact of war being the stimulus to a higher premium, Latterly, however, the speculative movement has shaped itself in a new direction. The victory of Prussia seems to be and so far has been the occasion of a decline in gold, the price of which fell to 1174 yesterday on the report that Napoleon was dead, At a casual glance this might oppear a curious reason for the lower ruling of the precious metal, but reflection will show that it is very logical. Germany has been largely interested in American national securities, The bankers of Frankfort and Berlin have constantly dealt in our five-twenties and ten- forties ever since the close of the war, The people’of Germany have also largely invested inthem. The Germans and Americans have been intimately connected through private correspondencé with each other. On the other hand, the French people have had comparatively little to do with us financially or socially. Germany and England hold large amounts, of our bonds. France has very few, Jt is very natural, therefore, that the general buoyancy of German finances following the success of the Prussian arms should extend to American securities. While a French victory would not help us, a Prussfan reverse would depress our bonds, in common with all securities in the German market. Hence it is that in the immediate present of our local gold market the triumph of Prussia produces a decline in the premium, despite the fact oftwar. Ovr War CoRRESsPONDENCE FROM EUROPE.— Our special correspondence from the seat of war in Europe, dated to the 29th of July, em- braces letters from writers at Strasbourg and Nancy, detailing the immense force which was then marshalled for the work of decisive com- bat on thé part of France with Prussia, We have, indeed, a special report of the Prussian reply to the first French demonstrations by the destruction of the German powder maga- zine on the banks of the Rhine, the tearing up of railroads and the explosion of a viadwet in the face of the would-beinvaders, From Paris comes a very graphic special account of the scenes which were witnessed in the French capital as the imperial forces marched through the city for the front, Our special writer in London notes England’s alarm aad Cabinet I difficulty “fe gonsequence of the crisis. Mr, Disraeli’s rill adelyered in the House of Commons, in which the ex-Premler urges Great Britain to assume a Wr attitude, con- stitutes a most remarkable featn."? In our Old World news compilation. ay Me, Tho Magical Change of che War Sceno en the Rhine. _ Only ten days ago we were recording from lespatch after despatch that came careering over the wires with almost exulting speed the wonderful warlike preparations of France ; the boundless enthusiasm of her metropolis ; the determination of her Emperor; ‘the impos- ing array of her armies and her generals, and the towering confidence that all classes and all regions of the most renowned and martial empire in the world exhibited in the. enterprise of invading and overruoning the territory of a neighboring people, the idew of whose effective resistance they scouted at as the emptiest presumption. Curiously enough, glowing descriptions in full of these dramatic scenes were given in the columns of yester- day’s Heraup. While reading them the fancy is taken captive by the vivacity, the glow, the color of genuine French lite imparted to them by the skilful pen; and, to use the correspondent’s own language, it seems as though the very stones in France rose up against thefoee. The proud Emperor and his fair boy hurrying to the war amid the ringing of bells, the roll of drums, the salvoes of cannon and the frantic applause of myriads; the beautiful Empress overcome with emotion in the presence of magnificent fleets steaming forth with all the terrible appliances of modern nava! warfare to sweep the Northern seas and batter the ancient strongholds that for ages have controlled the shores of the German Ocean and the Baltic; the nobles and marshals of France assembling on the Rbine frontier the proud- est armies in equipment and discipline that Europe ever saw; MacMahon, whose soldier life has been one long romance of success, surrounded by the flower of that chivalry which, in Africa, in the Crimea and in Italy, had made their very names a terror to the enemy—the invincible Zouaves and Turcos and Chasseurs d’Afrique—such are some of the brilliant episodes in the letters from France given under no later date than July 23. But turn from those pictured paragraphs to the short, sharp sentences repeated from the electric wires on the reverse pages, and how instantly the splendorvf the preparatory scene has fled! How, as it were, with a wave of the hand, with a breath, has that magnificent pageant faded away! The paladins of France routed and flying before their long derided foe ; their Emperor prostrate in mind and body; their Empress uttering desperate appeals for rescue; the tocsin ringing out over all Lor- raine the terror of the advancing and victorious enemy; Paris frenzied with rage and grief that border on despair; the whole nation sum- moned hastily to arms, with the cry, ‘Our country is in danger!”—and that danger immi- nent, pressing, deadly! What a fearful re- versal this of the haughty vauntings and the high-hearted hopes of yesterday ! In this age of scepticism and mock philoe sophy it isa great and salutary lesson to be spread before rulers and peoples alike that all the strength and pride of mortal genius and courage may be shattered in a day by the very instrumentalities which they evoke, Moreover, it is well that we are thus taught that power, no matter how carefully accumu- lated and skilfully combined, no matter how surrounded by all exterior show and interior witchery, that can touch and win the hearts of men and lead them on year-after year even unto death, must crumble at last when it departs from the eternal rule of justice and defies at once the laws of God and the opinions of mankind. France is a great and glorious nation, but her imperial pomp, her matchless prowess, her vast array of warriors, her wondrous variety of means, her fire, her valor and her devotion, which were ever resplendent and triumphant when led against the infidel and the oppressor, have dashed in vain against the bucklers of truth and of right, which are the champions and defenders of the liberty and independence of every land and people. @ERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Jefferson Davis arrived in this city yesterday fore- noon, and engaged rooms at the New York Hotel, He is booked to leave to-day, per steamer City of Wasnington, for England. Lieutenant Commander F, E. Chadwick, of the United States Navy, and A. J. Parker, of Alpany, are at the Brevoort House. Dr. L, M. Lyons and E. P, Jones, of the United States Army; D. M. White, of Baltimore; Rey. Dr. Angus and Rev. Mr. Avaling, of London, and J, Mul- ton Mackie, of Great Barrington, are at the Everett House, General 0. B. Stewart, of New York; Colonel B. Buffum, of Rhode Island; H. A. Pope, of San Fran- cisco; Colonel Logan, of California, and M. Fos:er, of Montreal, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. w. J. Slidell, of Newport, and D. G. Ambior, of Jacksonville, Fla., are at the Albemarle Hotel. General Cadwallader, of Philadelphia; A. R. P Weich and Oharies K. Shepherd, of Boston, are at the Hoffman House, Judge E. BH. Durell and E. E. Norton, of. New Or- leans; George Innis, of Poughkeepsie: E. B. Morgan, of Aurora; W. Kellogg, of the United States Army; Captain Hart, of Washington; General J. Demick, of the United States Army, and Alfred Gaither, of Obio, are at the Astor House. F. P, Steel, of Philadelphia; L. 8. Marcinez, of Eso- pus, and G, E. Rice, of Connecticut, are_at the West- minster Hotel. Colonel Thomas T. Hutchins, of Baltimore; L, Brown, of New Orleans; Charles Broadhead, of Penn- sylvanta, and W. D. ©, Cleveland, of Texas, are at the New York Hotel, J. Y. Little, of Chicago; L. A. Bulger, of San Fran- cisco, and B. Holcomb, of Indiana, are at the St. Charles Hotel. i H. G, Holmes, of St. Louis; J. G. Hoffman, of Mem- phis; Mr, Tiffin, of Montreal, and J. S. Hall of Wash- ington, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Personal Notes. Governor Seward will leave Auburn to-day for China and Japan. He willbe accompanied by two or three friends. Richard Hardenbergh, father of Senator Jacob Herdenbergh, died at Guilford, Ulster county, on Sunday evening, August 7, at the ripe age of eighty years, Jervis Langdon, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Elmira, N. ¥., and widely known and esteemed for many acts of true benevo- lence and charity, died on the 6th inst., after a lin- gering and painful iliness, Samuel L. Clemens (‘Mark Twain”) married his only daughter. ‘The Baltimore American thinks that young Jerome Patterson Bonaparte is the “coming man” in France. He ia expected to get there before the Prussians