The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1870, Page 6

Ae ~ NEW YORK HERALD Rie Wee “ta ore Situation—The . BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. “WALLACK’S THEATRE, Bi - Fritz, Oot Cover ery a BOWERY THEATRE, Bi a 2 ou ar jowery..- Vakirty ENTERTAIN: GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eizhth avenue and 28d. —SitaLa—TuR NATIONS. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d at., between Sth and 6th avs.— Rip Vay WINKLE. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur Drama oF TUE Dukx's Morro. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIR, Proadway, cor ner Thirtieth st.—Performances every afternoon and evening MRS: F. B. Bovaey's 5 WAY'S PARK THEATRK, Brooklyn. — NADERS AND BURLESQUE OPERA, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- Breiy ENTERTALNMENT—CoMI¢ VOCALISMS, &0. THEATRE COMIQUE, Broadway.—Comtc VOCAL eM, NXGRO ACTS, 40." CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., betwoen 68th and Sth sta.—Taxovone THOMAS’ PovULAR CONCERTS. NEW YORK M”SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BCIENCR AND Azz. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOLENCE AND An. LEEDS’ ART GALLERIES, 87 i EXuUigitios oF PAINTINGS. sutarnniced New York, Sunday, August 14, 1870. CONTEN $ OF TO-DAX'S HER! PAGE. 2—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. S=—The War : Sharp Fighting in Front of Metz; Re- ported Capitulation of Strasbourg to the Prussians: Sweeping March of the Crown Prince; The French Position on the Moseile; Another Proclamation by King William; The | Empress Eugenie and Prince {mperial—The | Norwalk Disaster; Further Particalars of the | Collision in the Bay—The Nattonal Game- 4—Europe : War Despatches by Mail to July 30; Speciat Review of the Great Armies of France ia; General Douay’s livision, Mac- | @ and Position, and the French Plans of Attack; Miltary Mobilization of the Prussian ve Corps of Prussia and Their C xhibit of the Whole British Nay, rd of the Kingdom, B—Asiatic Turkey: Two Representative Interior Cities, Diarbekir and Aleppo: Oriental Gov- ernment, Manners and Customs—News from rical Notes— Jockey Club 7 & Military Skip Step ta Place of the “Grecian Bend; War News and Toilet Neglige, G—E\iitorials : Leading Article on the War in En- rope, the Sttuation, the Chances—Amusement Aunozncements. %—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Dutch Recruitment for the Papal Army; Cholera on the Shores of the Black Sea—News from Washington—Yaching: Annuai Cruise of the New York Yacht Cinb; the Race from New London to Newport—The War of Races—Fatal Accident at East New York—The Hanser Pen- sion ase at Newark—Trial ‘Trip of the Steamer James Adger—Business Notices. S—Prime Donne: Queens of the Lyric their American Experience Bridge—Arrival of ‘Week—Supreme Court, Ci the People—The Grand Central Hotel—Mid- | summer ietreats: White Sulphur Springs— Watering Piace Notes. P=—New York Civ News—Sandwich Islands— United States Commissioners’ Court—Bureau ot Agriculture—The Custom House: H Things are Working Under the Régime of Collector Murphy—Brooklyn City. ws—Fi- nancial and Commercial’ Reports—Personal Tntelligence— Melancholy Acci tea away—A Contradiction—A Nu hobia—Mar: Births and £ ne. 10—The Saratoga : Second Day of tne Sum- mer Meeling—Secretary Boutweil: His Ad- dress Before the Boston Shoe and Leather Association—Blackinalling in Extens0—Ship- ing Intelugence—Advertisements. tah: The Election of Delegates to Congress; Practical Inqugufation of the Female Fran- chise—Religions —_Intellige: New Jersey State Prison—Advertisemen 12—Adverissements. it. A Warninc to Freyox Gvunroats.—A_, small trading vessel which persisted in enter- ing the Jahde, on the Oldenburg coast, in spite of warnings of danger, ran against one of the torpedoes placed there to defend the harbor and was blown up. History Repeative [tse.r.—The shouts of “ Berlin,” with which the populace of Paris cheered the French army bound for the Rhine frontier, were but the repetition of the shouts in Washington of ‘‘on to Richmond,” which cheered onx Union army bound for the first Bull Run. Sackine Down.—Election in North Caro- iina being over Governor Holden has no use for the Ku Klux humbug, and accord- ingly is willing to surrender to the civil authorities the prisoners held by his militia at Yanceyville. Holden’s war has proved a most ignominious failure. Honors To AN AMERICAN Soiprer.—General Sheridan has been received with marked official attention at Berlin, whence, as last reported, he had departed for the headquarters of King William. As a visiting representative of the army of the United States his achievements had gone belore him. Tue LovistaNaA ReruBLicans have just passed through the ordeal of a four days’ Con- vention. Among the resolutions passed was one declaring that ‘‘we adhere to the prin- ciple of equal rights to all mankind, whether at the ballot box, in the public schools or in the pursuit of business, without distinction of easte, race or nationality.” This. of course, includes Jofin Chinaman, and, consequently, disposes of the story that the Louisiana darkies opposed . the introduction of coolies into the State as a blow at the free labor interests of the South. Are the Louisiana republicans already bidding for the prospective Chinese vote? SgoreTary Bovtwet. yesterday addressed the Boston Shoe and Leather Association on the subject of the decline of American com- merce and the reduction and funding of the public debt. On this occasion the Secretary very properly kept away from the dirty pool of politics and abstained from giving his remarks @ party tendency. Mr. Boutwell thinks the first step to be taken in regard to the public debt is to bring the public credit up to par, ard this can be done either by reducing the debt by continuing the re- demption of bonds, or by reducing the rate of interest. He is confident that a great reduc- tion in the interest account can be made with- out reference to the war in Europe, but does not say that any offers have been made in this count#y or elsewhere for the low interest bonds authorized at the late session of Con- gress. The address is a fair, candid state- ment of his own theory for a reduction of tax- ation and funding of the public debt, and is wholly divested of political bias. | their hands, with the Vosges fully guarded in | than that Prussia hasa fair chance, if not of | and although we have not yet had a Sadowa Our latest news is of that doubtful charac- ter which makes decision impossible. Franco concentrates and multiplies her forces. Prussia multiplies her forces, makes good her position and slowly, but surely, advances on the foe. The telegraphic despatches this morning are numerous. They remove many doubis and explain many difficulties. But we are still allowed to infer that Prussia, in spite of all French enthusiasm, is mistress of the situation. The Prussians, on French soil, seem tc be on the point of making Strasbourg their own, and the whole range of the Vosges a bulwark of defence. When this war began it was the universal conviction that France would make the enemy’s country the battle field, Con- trary to very general expectation the battle field is to be on the soil of France. In this war the mistake which was made in 1866 has been repeated in 1870. In 1866 Austria, when war was declared, was found unpre- pared, and in consequence was felled to the ground, In this present year of our Lord France has had the honor to declare war; but Prussia has had the advantage of being fully prepared and of winning the first victories. If it be true that Stras- bourg has fallen under the shot and shell of Prussia; if it be trae that Prussia has made herself mistress of the whole line from Strasbourg to Metz, there can be no manner of doubt that all. the odds are now, or ought to be, against France. In considering this war it ought not to be forgotten that Prussia is pledged to do her utmost to keep the war out of the South German States, which in this emergency have come out so grandly in favor of Fatherland. It is the determined purpose of Prussia to make the decisive fight, if at all possible, in the enemy's country. Judging from all present appearances Prussia is likely to make her purpose good. It is a big thing for Prussia to be able to say, ‘The passages of the Vosges are ours.” With Strasbourg in their rear, and with the whole line from Stras- bourg to Metz more or less dominated, it is impossible to come to any other conclusion driving the French back upon Paris, at least of making defeat impossible. We are not ignorant of the peculiar uncer- tainties of the situation. It was a bold thing for Prussia to invade France; but, bold as it was, it was not more bold than it was for Prussia to invade Austria, Austria had en- joyed the reputation for many years of being the best armed Power in Europe, and although France and Italy had humbled her within a recent period, it was not reasonable to con- clude that Austria was not a match for her more northern neighbor. Prussia, however, was not afraid then, and her daring was rewarded with victory. In 1870 Prussia has given no signs that she is afraid of France, in this fight, a Sadowa does not seem either impossible or improbable. There are some who think that French iron-clads in the Baltic will’so divert the attention and the sympathy Tho Disaster in the Bay. What might have proved to be a most serious calamity occurred in the bay on Friday evening last, eaused by the collision of a heavily laden schooner with the + Coney Island steamboat Norwalk, a craft which is proverbially unfortunate, whether be- cause she is what people call unlucky, or because of the recklessness of her officers and crew. At all events, she has had a series of misfortunes, and there is evidence apparently in this last occurrence to show that the pilot was not free from blame, nor in a con- dition to take care of the lives of some five or six hundred people entrusted to him. The sacrifice of life was at first reported to be six or eight persons drowned and a good many others missing; but, fortunately, it appears that that was exaggerated, and that few lives, if any, have actually been lost. In the dim twilight it was impossible to tell how many might not have gone overboard when the fearful crash came, which drove the bowsprit of the schooner, with terrific force, into the wheelhouse of the steamer, transfixing her at once. The wonder is that the frailer vessel did not go down in mid-channel, instead of at the dock, It was a merciful Providence which kept her afloat long enough to land the terror-stricken passengers in Brooklyn. These Coney Island boats have long been an object of fear to all cautious people, yet they carry crowds every day, comprised a good deal of a rough and reckless class. They are usually crowded beyond their capacity for safety, especially at the hour when this calamity occurred. They are not provided with the proper means of eseape in case of danger. Witness the fact that the life pre- servers were all locked up and inaccessible to the passengers; and we are compelled to add, from the nature of the accident to the Nor- walk, that they are not under the control of men with whom people can trust their lives. Without waiting for any tedious controversy as to who is in fault the officers of the steamboat should at once be placed under arrest and held to answer for their conduct. The captain of the schooner should, of course, be also held, and submitted to aclose investigation. From the facts dis- closed by those on board the Norwalk the disaster can hardly be noted down as an un- usual a@vident. There was gross carelessness somewhere, and we want to discover on which side it was. We hope the investigation will be full, fair and searching. Too much commendation cannot be given to Captain Leonard Kipp, of the tugboat How- ard, who gallantly came to the rescue and towed the sinking steamboat, with her trem- bling passengers,.safe to shore, and then, re- turning, brought in the disabled schooner, which had also a hundred or more passengers on board. This humane conduct of Captain Kipp stands in magnificent relicf to the heart- less action of the pilot of the Hamilton ave- nue ferryboat, who, it is alleged, passed within sight and sound of this terrible distress, and paid no heed either to the cries or signals of the affrighted passengers of the Norwalk. The ferryboat was running to earn her pennies, and she had no time to alleviate human as well as the fears of the German people that France cannot fail to come out of the conflict victorious. Those who so reason forget that this is more a German than a Prussian war; that Hanover is as much anti-French as is Prussia, and that the Souih German States have revealed almost a larger amount of enthusiasm than any other portion of Father- land. Itis not our opinion that France can do much harm to Prussia in the north. The harm can only be done by ships. Ships have to encounter strong, though not, perhaps, im- pregnable fortresses; but before the ships have made the fortresses yield the Prussian victories by land may be such that France will have no choice but accept Prussian terms and make peace. Land fighting, not sea fighting ; battalions, not ships, must determine the issue of this contest. Meanwhile the situation is full of promise for a great fight—a fight which has had no parallel in Europe since the battle of Waterloo. What are the chances? Prussia may win; France may win. We speak only of the forth- coming fight. It is not possible now that France can overrun Germany. If inthe forth- coming fight, which, we think, must be gen- eral along the whole line and terrific in its re- sults beyond anything on record, France should win, other battles must follow; and peace must become a necessity to France be- fore it can become a necessity to Prussia. Prossia may fight again and again and again before she leaves French soil. But one grand battle, such as that we have said is now in- evitable, if Prussia wins, will prostrate France. The demoralization will be general and com- plete; and France, throughout all her borders, will begin to cry out against the man who made the war. Thecry will be such as was heard in 1814, when the First Napoleon was sent to Elba, and such as was heard again in 1815, when the first empire finally felly Pre- monitory of this cry we have to-day the points of another proclamation issued by King Wil- liam'of Prussia, It is directed against Napo- leon personally. The King, indeed, expresses pity for the French people—a people ‘‘cursed,” he says, ‘‘by a Bonaparte.” It is a royal ex- communication, and by ‘‘divine right.” The crisis of Bonapartism is at hand. ‘TELEGRAPHIC BLoNDERS.—Telegraphic com- munication is still in its infancy. It does not yet fully appear what a mighty agency it is destined to become in human affairs. What it is already capable of accomplishing is wonder- ful. And if we take into consideration the inexperience, and, in some glaring instances, the gross ignorance of not a few operators, the telegraphic blunders which are made are surprisingly few. One of these blunders, how- ever, has proved—or is said to have proved— so disastrous that we are constrained to insiat upon the imperative necessity of the utmost caution on the part of telegraphic operators. The defeat and the retreat of MacMahon are reported to have been caused by the mis- spelling of a single name. Failly, whom it was intended to order to move on to Limbach, is said to have found ‘‘Kassbach” instead of ‘‘Limbach” in the telegram which he received. Even if this statement may be an afterthought, and designed to lessen the weight of the blow inflicted upon the French by fabricating a pre- text for it, the lesson taught by the alleged telegraphic blunder and ita fatal results is none misery just then. In palliation of the conduct of the pilot it ought to be remembered that he is an employé of the Union Ferry Company, a corporation which never did yet realize the value of human life when compared with the value of dividends, as many a bereaved family knows whose relatives have been drowned in the very docks, while the ferry- boats pursued their way coolly, without ex- tending the least assistance to the struggling wretches who had fallen in an attempt to reach the boat. We trust that a handsome testi- monial will be got up for Captain Kipp in recognition of his humanity. Tho Ice Extortion. It appears that the dread monopoly known as the Knickerbocker Ice Company, which is master of all it surveys in the Arctic luxury, has issued an edict declaring that from to- morrow forth the price of ice to private con- sumers is to be advanced from one and a half cents to two cents a pound, and that the drivers of ice carts are not to deliver anything less than twenty-five cents’ worth to anybody. This portion of the ukase will cut off the use of ice from thousands of poor families who have been accustomed to purchase it in small quantities, and is in itself a cruel injustice. Is there no remedy for the extortions of this abominable monopoly? Hardly. But some- thing may be done by families in economizing the use of ice to the lowest point of consump- tion absolutely necessary in the household, and something also by the authorities in opening pumps for the supply of cold spring water, as has been done to some extent in Brooklyn. The weather, too, is not far off when ice will cease to be a necessity. The public will rejoice doubly if it should arrive in time to leave a large surplus stock in the monopolists’ ice houses. There is a remedy ahead, also, for this extortion, and that is to get up indepen- dent ice companies before next winter, and thus keen down the price to a fair and honest value. Monopolies do not live forever. We Know Att Axnovut It.—According to French reports the French armies in the late battles were defeated by overwhelming num- bers, in the proportion of eight or ten thousand French against fifty or sixty thousand Ger- mans. We know what this means. From the first Bull Run to the second the defeats of our Union armies were generally charged to the overwhelming forces of the enemy, but there was never much consolation or truth in the ex- cuse. It is good generalship that brings an overwhelming force to bear upon some par- ticular point which will decide the battle. It is the Napoleonic idea upon which ‘The Little Corporal” overran the Continent, and if the nephew is not equal to this idea he will have to retire. A Reposiio Ineviranre.—M. Thiers is credited with the opinion that the empire is ended and a republic inevitable, And why not a republic? Was not our war for the Union, in the estimation of Na- poleon himself, the decisive struggle of republican institutions? It was. And have not the French people since 1793 learned enough to establish a republic that will stand? We think they have. Atall events we agree with M, Thiers that ‘a republic is inevitakle.” Special War Despatches frem Europe—Tho Economies of the Nations and Enterprise of the Press. Our special writers at the seat of war in Europe, as well as those who date at some of the great neutral centres of the Old World, supply the valuable narrative which appears in our columns to-day in detail of the grand movements of the armies of France and Prus- sia, The letters are dated at Belfort, at the headquarters of the French Army of the Rhine, at Berlin and London. They show forth the vast preparations which were made on both sides for the struggle, and point out the mea- sures which had been taken to prevent, while such result was possible, its bloody execution, or to assuage its horrors if carried into effect. The vast naval force of Great Britain is exhibited in most accurate and exhaustive analyses of the muster rolls of her ficets, which show her power at sea, from the proudest ensign of ber most honored admirals, as they float on her formidable iron-clads, down to the humblest of her Jack tare, of her marines and her powder boys. This roll of the force of the great insular European neutral will enable our readers to understand what a really important part England may yet play in the war, and how materially sho may assist by her diplomacy in its sudden final adjustment. The question of the supply of coal comes in incidentally in this connection. It is only casually mentioned by one of the writers, but is really of a very first consequence in the consideration of the subject of the European war. It has been calculated that the home supply of coal in England will be completely exhausted within twenty-five years, owing to the increasing de- mands of her manufacturing interests and of her navy for purposes of motive power. Should this calculation prove correct the great heart of the commercial giant of Europe would cease to pulsate, its arms fall paralyzed to its side. There would be nothing left to Britain as a means of recuperation or cure but a resort to the inexhaustible water power of Ireland. Exact in her economies toa degree, and almost prescient in her forecasts of the materialistic future, England may have become convinced of the accuracy of this calculation, and hence her anxiety for the preservation of the independence of Belgium. She has rarely, if ever, except in the case of modern Greece, assisted at the birth of a na- tionality; and scarcely, if ever, interfered to save one either from topographical alteration or governmental extinction. Belgium, how- ever, contains coal within her bosom, and coal is to-day the very pabulum of British na- tional life—her inspiriting power from Man- chester to Hindostan, from Birmingham to Pekin, and from Cork and Galway to the antipodes. The subject of the sup- ply of coal in England constitutes thus a really prominent feature for and in a compre- hensive consideration of tae European war crisis. Of our special correspondence from the seat of war womay with great justice claim the privilege of another remark. The dismissal of the French envoy Benedetti by King William of Prussia, at Ems, was, perhaps, the most sudden precursor of a deadly struggle between two great nations which was ever before given to the outside world. Napoleon’s insult to Austria, in the person of Baron Hubner, at the Tuileries on the New Year's day ot 1859, and which heralded the Franco-Austrian war of that year, was not more so. Our special enterprise in reporting the present event has been fully equal to the emergency, however, and from the first day of difficulty in Madrid, to the latest moment of the consequences; from Prim to Benedetti, from Napoleon to King William, and from Moltke to MacMahon, and the Crown Prince and the battles, our his- tory of the movement has been ample, accu- rate and of the greatest value to the public, Why the Expected Great Battle is Delayed. The ‘Germans, after their late important victories of Wissembourg, Woerth, Haguenau, Forbach, Saarbruck, &c., have been gather- ing up the killed and wounded on both sides and the prisoners and materials of war left behind by the defeated and retreating French; and they have been also providing to hold the places captured. and the railway lines, and for the capture of the important city of Strasbourg in their rear; and they have been bringing up their reserves and ammuni- tion, and have been repairing the damages suffered by their columns in the late battles, so as to advance with a well compacted front upon @ concentrated enemy. The French, on their right wing, beaten at every point, doubled up and thrown back in confusion across the Vosges Mountains, have been working like beavers to reorganize their broken and scattered forces, and to strengthen their new line on the Moselle against an expected attack. Although the battles fought in dislodging and dispersing their right wing have resulted in the dislodgement and retreat of the whole French army there has been no general engagement, and it is only after a decisive general engagement that the victori- ous army can push immediately forward, helter skelter, as in the pursuit from Waterloo, Tue CHOLERA ON THE BLACK SEA AND THE Yettow Fevek oN THE DELAWARE.—A telegram from London announced yesterday that the cholera has broken out on the shores of the Black Sea, and that vessels thence are quarantined in at Liverpool. This alarming news, together with the reports fof the con- tinued ravages of the yellow fever on the banks of the Delaware, should certainly settle any doubts as to the indispensableness of the most strict enforcement of quarantine regula- tions at this port. New York is placed, as it were, between two fires, and nothing but ex- tremo vigilance on the part of our health authorities, and the ready co-operation of our citizens in all measures for the protection of the metropolis, can save it from cholera on the one hand and yellow fever on the other. The general physical prostration induced by greater than tropical heats renders us peculiarly liable to the poisonous influence of any epidemic which may visit us. Extraordinary means should be immediately adopted to guard our city against both cholera and yellow fever. A Wosprrro. Weapon oF War—The mitrailleuse, the effects of which are so mirac- ulous that, according to a Z'’ribune war cor- respondent, soldiers with both legs shot off by it “‘gtill move on.” } { Dress Fashions in Earope—Will There be a Revolution in Paris? We still look to Paris as the centre, both for conception and propagandism, of the newest styles of costume—the material, its make up and adornment, .The world has been accus- tomed, during such a number of years past, to accept the dpse dixit of the French modistes in all matters appertaining to the toilet as final that fashionable people can scarcely vest them- selves with any great amount of confidence in the harmony of their robing without having first heard from the French capital. Outside peoples have been used to dress their hair in the sheen of the guillotine and lace themselves according to the order of the day of the bas- tions or the fickle mood of the boulevards. Paris thus obtained a monopoly of a world- wide, omnipresent interest. Of this Paris made money, founded a name and a reputation. Like all great monopolists Paris has of late become tyrannical as to the promulgation of the mode and whimsical in its notions of its elaboration and trimmings. Paris has thus involved a great many persons of all countries in heavy expense, given rise to a host of imi- tators of her fashions at a distance, and thus really demoralized the public taste in matters of dress to a very considerable extent. Instead of being natural and taking the fig leaf of the first lady in Eden as a standard for simple elaboration towards a complete and becoming vesture, the female world bas to a very great degree become Parisian on the sub- ject of dress and almost abandoned its own originality of invention of style for an incom- plete imitation of what was really had and worn before, War is a grand revolutionizer, however. Great national interests have been frequently lost during the campaigns of armies, and new ideas have been often brought forth and matured into facts during the booming of the guns of battle. England took advantage of the American civil war to almost sweep the commercial flag of the United States from the ocean and to attract the shipbuilding interests of the world to her own rivers, We lost; our rival gained. As it has been with the canvas of the American ocean marine, so it may be, perhaps, with the dress rig interests of Paris during the presgut strugzle with Prussia. They may pass from the French city. They may be transferred to New York. Americans have never been jealous or envious as a people of other nations. With the French they have been always friendly. But if the French wiil continue to affright Fashion from her Paris sanctum by the roar of artillery, we do not see why New York—victorious in war, rich in greenbacks and specie, refined in taste, and with a most magnificent park for the display of every description of dress—should not tender the goddess asanctum. We are ready to afford shelter to the Pope, who wiil, no doubt, if he should come among us, comfort us as to the hereafter. Why not, also, build up a native temple to Fashion, who will both adorn us in the present and enable us to im- pose pantaloons and petticoats on the Old World, In the meantime we publish to-day a special report of the latest utterances of Paris on the subject of dress—of robes, of laces, of hats, of shoes, of trimmings and of diamonds. “Bismarcks,” it is almost needless to say, are “gone out” in France, and the fall styles were “coming out” at court and in the opera house. Asiatic Turkey—The American Mission. Amid the din which is produced by the publication of the conflicting reperts which reach us every moment relative to the progress of the war in Europe comes, in very agreeable shape, our special correspondence from Asiatic Turkey. It is dated at Diarbeker, at the northern extremity of the Plain of Shinar, the unchanged and unchangeable scene of some of the first facts in the history of the human race. The contents of the communication are conse- quently calculated to carry the mind away back to the beginning, and to force it, as it were, to think of the greatend. Our special writer places the two interior cities, Diarbeker and Aleppo, in contrast. He tells the reader of the Oriental system of governmeat, and of Oriental manners and customs as they prevail and are experienced there to-day. He is hope- ful of the future of the East, and believes, as will be seen, in the fruition of an era of civilization and progress at the fountain- head of enlightenment. Turkey proper receives hope; she wili share largely in the benefits of the modern evangelism. It is unnecessary to analyze here a correspondence which is certain to be read in its entirety. As in his previous communications® from the East, our correspondent pays attention to the subject of the Christian missions—their mode of conduct and efficiency. In Asiatic Turkey, as elsewhere, the missionaries have departed widely from both the text and discipline inculcated by the Sermon on the Mount. They don’t ‘‘love one another.” They quarrel, They endeavor to limit the knowledge of Christianity and to save souls according toa fixed standard and exactrule. The American mission in this part of Turkey was in sad trouble, as will be seen. Its members had almost forgotten the example of the first great Preacher, and, this being so, had of course departed widely from the rule of guidance adopted by St. Paul, and which was followed out with such glorious results by St. Francis Xavier, St. Augustine and the other successors @f the Apostles in different parts of the world. The American missionaries must return to first principles if they hope either for success on earth or for the crown which endures forever. Summer Sports on Lanp anp WATER.— While the young amateur sailors of the squadron of the New York Yacht Club are enjoying tue health and strength-giving pas- times of their annual cruise ‘Down East” the sons of the turf and the fanciers of fast horses, not satisfied with their rounds of races at Long Branch, Buffalo and elsewhere, are having another season at Saratoga. Mean- time, the ‘national game” of base ball appears to have lost none of its popularity among the young men of the country, while the brutal amusement of fistiouffs appears to be dying out. It is thus gratifying to see the enlargement of those manly sports and pastimes which carry with them some valuable lessons and results in physical health and national development, while the baser amusements of a barbaric age are passing away. The Religiods Press on the War. If the subject were not #0 tragical the opin fons of a few of our religious contemporaries touching the European struggle would be Amusing. We furnish a few of them In ovr religious columns to-day. It will be noticed that the religious press view only throug! thelr peculiar optics the situation of affairs. ‘The lenses of their field glasses are graduated to see so far and no further, They mass armies, form combinations, arrange attacks, prepare defences and culminate victories, as if they were actually upon the field of action and fighting the grand fights of Trusty old warriors. Above all, the momentous results of the tre- mendous shock of arms are predicted and gos- sipped about as if the disputants were mero barroom or excited lager beer saloon politi- clans, and not conservators of the poople’s religious peace of mind. For example, it will be observed that our lively weekly coadjutor of the good old Scotch Presbyterian school—the Zvangelist—yells out in effect, after reporis of a French defeat, “Another Waterloo! Thank God! The Na- poleonic Dynasty Gone Up! Popery Gone by the Board! Protestant Prussia Spurns tho Papist Bribe! Rome is Once More Free! Ha! Ha!” and grows facetious upon the pre- sumption that not the ghost of a Napoleonic Papist will live to tell the talo of the way ip which he went to purgatory or glory. The Independent, which is a sort of con- ventional Congregationalist organ in the Beecher interest, with characteristic modesty grasps the entire situation and congratu lates the Protestant world that Napoleon, the pillar of Roman Catholicism, has been whipped out of his boots and left his uucle’s spurs on the field of disaster. So much the betier for Protestantism and the subscription list of the Independent, The Observer, Old School Presbyterian, shows that—while one of its principal writers has been abroad for a long time and ought to know something of European matters—it can- not at present conscientiously talk about tho | war; and the publisher, putting his thumb to his nose and twirling his fingers—as it is reported Jim Fisk recently did to the Presi- dent of the United States at Long Branch— intimates to his readers, ‘‘you can’t catch us. Wait till we see which way the cat jumps.” The staid old Methodist waddles along like an old gray goose, and while sympathizing with Prussia has its most sincere regrets to bestow upon the horrors of war, and at the same time expressing its hopes for an early peace. The second postponement of the General Confer- ence of the Evangelical Alliance in this city may have affected the Methodist’s hopetulnesa in the issue of the present war crisis. On the other hand the Tablet, the Mree- man’s Journal, the Boston Pilot, all of the Catholic school, side with Napoleon, and seem to regard him as the de- fender of the Holy Church and protector of its infallible head. Hence they uphold France, oppose Prussia, disbelieve Prussian telegrams sifted through English channels, and altogether help to make the war excitement in the re- ligions world at once interesting and exciting. Now, what will all this newspaper fighting among the religious journals—the Protestant against the Catholic, Prussia or Germany against France—amount to? Probably this— that the controversy may continue until our next Presidential election, and the issue be fought in this country at the ballot box in 1872—German republican Protestants against Trish democratic Catholics—with the mass of the American people as bottle holders, and hoping that the ‘‘most votes may win.” Workingmen’s Political Movements. As the political campaign approaches activity among politicians is beginning to make itself evident. Already the time for the assembling democratic and republican conven- tions has been designated. The workingmen of the State, or at least those purporting to represent them, are alsobusy. A call has just been issued by the ‘‘State Organizer for the State Nominating Convention of the Labor Reform Party,” requesting all legal voters throughout the State, irrespective of party, to send delegates to a State*convention which will be held in Syracuse on September 13, The object of this convention is for the purpose of forming an independent political party to be known as the labor reform party of this State. This movement is by no means a new one. The idea of trying to get workingmen to form a political party of their own has been tried more than once before, and in every case failure has been the result. If trades organizations are to be made politi- cal machines their subsequent existence will be brief indeed. Many of those associations have large funds, which are devoted in part to the alleviation of the sufferings of the members composing them, in case of sickness or acci- dent, and the disposition of the accumulated funds for other than these legitimate purpnses is a matter for the serious consideration of !),4 working classes. The truth of the mat- ter is, the working men of this State, judging from past experience, are not so eager to embark in an | under- taking of this kind as some of their leaders lead the public to believe. Besides, there is no necessity for the establishment of such a party. Workingmen in the last Lagis- lature were well represented; they also had many democratic and republican friends to assist them in securing measures deemed im- portant to the labor interest. Such being the case what is the necessity for the present movement? We think none, and if we mis- take not it will meet with the fate of other similar undertakings. Bie lakes Tur Emprror, THE EMpriss AND THE Prince Impertac—WueErEe Are Tory ?—We cannot tell. The Emperor was reported at Chalons, under the care of his physicians, Nélaton and Ricord; but the latest report locates him at Metz, the headquarters of his army, which we think is true, because his only safety, ill or well, is with hisarmy. In leav- ing it he might lose it, and so lose all. The Prince Imperial, it was reported, was sent back from his “baptism of fire” to his mother at Paris for his personal safety. It is reported that both mother and boy have mysteriously “turned up” at St. John’s Wood, near London, Doubtless, however, Eugénie is still with the Prince in Paris, and we think she will there remain, facing all hazards, even the perils of the republic, from a sense of duty, dignity and patriotism.