The New York Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1870, Page 6

§ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. — Volume XXXV.. WALLACK'S THE, TRE, Bros Broad street Fairz, Our Cousin Guuwan’ nm soe aayaar THEATRE, Bowery. Bowery.—Vantery Ewrentain- GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Etghi 20d at, —S17aLa—THe Nations. pert ieee BOOTH’S THEATRE, 38d at., between Sth and 6th ave.— Bir Van WINKLE. aoe SARDER, Broadway.—Tux Drama or THE WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Brosdway, cor- ‘ner Thirtieth st.—Perfermances every afternoon aud evening MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — BUOKURY's SERENADERS AND BUGLESQUE OPERA. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- Bieiy ENTRETAINMENT—CoMI6 VOCALIGMS, 40. THRATRE gomrgon, 514 Broadway.—Couta Vooat- ism, NeGRo ACTS, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th as between 6%h and 60th ste,—THEODORE THOMAS’ PoruLA® ComoRETS. TERRACE GARDEN, pee strect and Third ave Bue.—GRAND VooaL AND [nBTROMENTAL CONCERT. SHEET. ‘Tacnday, aes TRIPLE New York, —— CONTENTS OF 70D Paar. I—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—The War: The Battle of Metz Reported by the French and Prussians; Napoleon and Ktn; Williom im Royal Olaim of Victory; Rout of the French Army on the Moselle; Dangerous Position of the French and Rapid Action of the Prussians; English Despatches from the Front; intervention for Peace Spoken Of; Olty ‘Tumuit and Fatal Riots in Paris; Naval Block- ade Rules and the Telegraph Service; Start ling Events at Kiel Expected. 4—Europe : War Despatches by Mali to August 5; sports from the Freach and Prussian apoleon’s Headquarters at Metz and ’s at Strasbourg: neb Linpetuosity Pat Pirst Misgivings; March of the German » Seven Rundrea Tuousand solid rere | Gladstone’s Reply to Disraeli ; Great a War Power or Mediator; Count Indictment of Napoteon; British ee Treaues for Belgium and Luxem- inued from Fourth Page)—Alaska : Ka Lerritory— *—Watering Place Bogus Check. 2 on the War, the 3 Advancing and the French Falling Yaris—News from Washington— nt Annonnoements. News from Ali Parts of the Wi Revolutionary Movements in ltaly a. fac KO} Ami Spain; Change of Ministry in ‘rurkey— Amusements—Yachting: Cruise of the New York Yacht Club; Race to Windward and Back at Newport—the Contest To-Day for Mr. Ash! ‘3 Cup—Local Intelligeace—Business co: The Maren of Martinez; the Feeling tn Favor of Negrete—Personal Inteiligenco— Eoidiers? and Sallors’ Protecttve Aseociation— ng of the Cotton Excbunge—Freak of -—Obituary—The Keported Treachery ao Leaders—Tae G Park Affray— han Murder in New Jersey—The Ice lonopoly: Statement of the Condition of the Ice Slarket and the Kennebec as the Base of Operatic aS Jersey Ratlroad Manage- York Courts—The € Sri Regatia of ito San Prune b—Return of Bishop Rappe to ad Finale to Ma) e ‘Troubles, Sews—Ugly A isclosares— cSuapping An ts of General Gr itary Inspection: esiceat Grant 3,000—Financial and Commercial Marriages and Deatas. © War (continued from ird page)—The fe of the Summer infeli- 2 of O'Baldwin, the ‘ounting the Heads—A Das- he Tai‘ors’ Plonic—Felonious on the Kall—Shtpping Intelli- ments. nes After tne Great Fire; Bodies, Where and How— ening’s Defenco—Canada: Finan- The Great Boat Kace; Release » “ers—Keal state Trausfers— Nor Mucn Bzrrer THan SasarpruoK—The repulse, as reported, by Napoleon of the Pras- sians in their attack upon the French army retreating across the “‘blue Moselle.” It left both armies still facing towards Paris. Wat Street Neeps a Fresit SENSATION, if we may judge from the quiet aspect it pre- rday, despite the latest war bul- speculative appetite desires some- thing supremely novel in this Franco-Prussian war, or a sensation from some entirely new source. The stock speculators are off to the races, and so few ‘‘flyers” were seldom taken by the “i “boys” 23 just now. A Hoxse Car Fient Tansey. —Over the river in Jersey there is war between a horse car company in Newark and the people of the country near, who complain that the horse cars on Sunday bring to their doors a destruc- tive aud plundering mob of city roughs. For this reason the country people have torn up the rails, It is a pity that the city people can- not have an easy escape fora day to the plea- sant fields, and also a pity that there are so many who will abuse the chance when they have it. Our SPECIAL War Duspatours by the Euro- pean mail at this port are dated to the 5th of August. Our writers at ‘“‘the frout” continue the Heratp narrative of the great struggle in the elaborate, accurate and stirring detail which appears in our columns to-day. They write from the Frefich and Prussian armies and do complete justice to both. A large amount of other matter collateral to and con- tingent on the history of the great event is also given. It is useless to analyze it here, as it will command universal attention as a whole, A Free Country wita A RuseRvATIoN.— This is a free country, except for Qrangemen. People can come here and celebrate generally what occasions they like, from the birthday of St. Patrick to that of Garibaldi, but they only must not choose the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne for their day of delight, and they must not flaunt the colors of Orange even in this city which once bore on its banners the legend, “Orange Bovem.” This little fact is rather a prejudice to our universal personal liberty. THE Reraziati0Ns or War. —Bye for an eye, tooth for a tooth,” is still the law of that unchristian system called war, if we are to believe that the Prussians have caused twenty French citizens to be shot in retaliation for the cruelties “‘said to have been inflicted on wounded German prisoners,” and have com- mitted unjustifiable outrages on the persons and property of inhabitants of defenceless vil- lages. It is probable that these reports are altogether exaggerated, and it is to be hoped that modern civilization will mitigate even the inevitable horrors of war during the actual conflict between the French and the Prussian governments, ' ’ vereryae NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1810--TRIPLE SHEET, The War—The Germans Advancing and tho French Falling Back Upon Paris. We have some reports of an indecisive en- gagement between the French and Germans on the Moselle, at or near Metz, as the former were retreating over the Moselle, From the facts given it does not appear Lo have arrested the general advance of the Germans, nor to have changed the evident purpose of the French to fall back fighting upon Paris, as Lee fell back fighting, from point to point, till each time turned by his left flank, from the Wilderness to Richmond. We have at length before us, in broken fragments, sufficient de- tails of the recent battles between the Rhine and the Moselle to establish these important facts—that in generalship and in discipline, in strategy and tactics, as well as in numbers, in every collision the Germans have been su- perior to the French; that the available active German army in the field is larger than that of the French, and that the advantages achieved by King William from these battles with the French right wiug have been equiva- lent to the advantages of a great success from @ general engagement. This last important fact is established by the etreat of the French over the Moselle, with the loss since the beginning of the war not only of large numbers of men, killed, wounded and prisoners; of vast amounts of artillery, small arms, munilions and supplies; horses, wagons, railways and railway trains, and of all the country betw an the Rhine and Moselle, with its cities, towns and strong places, includ- ing the apparently inevitable loss of the forti- fied frontier city of Strasbourg, with its eighty- two thousand inhabitants; but with the loss, too, of that military prestige of the empire and the Emperor, and of that confidence, devotion and enthusiasm of the French army which are indispensable to its success. Hence we may safely assume that the original French pro- gramme of a forward movement to Berlin has been changed into a deliberate retrograde movement upon Paris, in view of the necessi- ties of reinforcements, reorganization and con- centration against the superior forces, organi- zation, order and generaiship of the Ger- mans, advancing under the inspiration of great successes. There is yet another reason why the French army should fall back upon Paris, It lies in the faois that Paris is in ao state of incipient revolution, threatening the proclamation of a republic, and that the presence of the Emperor is needed in Paris at the head of his army to suppress, by,a moral reaction, this revolutionary ferment. It would be folly on his part now to return to Paris without his army, and the danger to the empire increases with every day of his absence from the city In the absence of any great victory. His policy, then, is to make the defence of Paris the cause of the empire, and to suppress the agitation for a republic in the work of repelling the invader. Froma Heravp correspondent in Paris we leara that more than six hundred cannon are already mounted on the walls of those forts of the city likely to be first at- tacked; that the work of placing other pieces in positions goos on day and night; that the day before yesterday seven thousand five hundred workmen were engaged in cutting off the streets leading into Paris, and that thou- sands of laborers outside the walls are en- gaged on earthworks, mines, ditches, &c., which are to complete the network of the city’s defences; and, lastly, that an army of one hundred and thirty thousand men is already organized as the reserved force for the defence of the capital. All these preparations under the instruc- tions of the Emperor and his government indi- cate that his plan of operations in the field is that of a careful but expeditious retreat to Paris, in order to sappress the republican faction with his presence and the presence of his army and the call to meet the common danger to France. After the defeats ho has suffered, with the resulting demoraliza- tion to his army he has, perhaps, wisely concluded not to risk a general engage- ment until within striking distance of Paris. Suppose that on the west bank of the Moselle, for instance, Napoleon has resolved upon the hazards of a general engagement, and that his army is again defeated, is it not morally cer- tain that the next things will be the over- throw of the empire, the proclamation of “the republic” in Paris, under a provisional committee of safety and a general call to arms in the name of “the republic?” And in this event will not the army in the field fra- ternize with the revolutionin the capital? It is, then, these overshadowing dangers in the rear, as much as the advancing Prussians in his front, that suggest to Napoleon the neces- sity of falling back with his army upon Paris. Moreover, the defensive positions from which his army has been driven, or which it has abandoned, are stronger than any defensive line in the open country between the Moselle and Paris, and it is evident that while the Germans havo been seeking a decisive general engagement the French have been carefully avoiding it, retreating at every point ap- proached, or only pausing for a reconnoissance or to check the enemy. To sum up, then, theso views of the situation at the seat of war, wo think that Napoleon, to meet the danger in his rear and the enemy in his front, has resolved upon falling back with his army upon Paris; that it is probable there will bo no general engagement on the yay, and that, with a hostile army in front of thepity, the army driven inand the army in reservaand the people are counted upon by the Emperor to support his cause as the com- mon cause of France. But will such be the results of a retreat of the French army in the field to the fortifications of their capital? We cannot tell, but.we think that the republic will still be apt tor core into the programme. In short, under his present ¢ embarrassments and dangers, we think that th quly way of safety to Napoleon is in his proclamation of ‘‘the republic.” He Wants To Be Countep In.—The news from Dublin of the attack on a Prussian ship by the mob is a refreshing indication of how difficult it is for the irrepressible Irishman to keep his fingers out of the fight between Prus- sia and France, Although France does’ not want any foreign officers, we have not heard that she refuses fellows ready to carry a mus- ket, and we do not believe that any strapping fellow would be sent away from a recruiting | bureau in Boulogne. Tho Impending Mevement in Italy. Our latest advices announce the imminence of a popular movement in the democratic sense throughout tho Italian peninsula, and add the significant expression that the procla- mation of a republic there is awaited from day to day. This news chimes in singularly with the more detailed intelligence just received from the same quarter by mail, The journals of Florence, Milan and Naples mention the revival of agitation both North and South. Io Lombardy the Mazzinians, led on by Monotti Garibaldi, are vigorously at work, and depots of arms and ammunition concealed by them have been discovered by the police in every district of the city of Milan. In Rome, so soon as the telegram announcing the with- drawal of the French garrison was made public, masses of Romans were seen shaking hands with each other and interchanging salu- tations in a suppressed voice, The Holy Father himself, in conversation with a foreign diplomat, is said to have remarked that only a second Mentana could recommend him to the forbear- ance of the Italian troops, and that was out of the question, since it would require a third French intervention—a thing clearly impossi- ble. Meanwhile, twenty thousand Italian regulars, under General La Marmora, have been thrown forward toward Viterbo, prelimi- nary to a friendly occupation of the Roman States, and the Papal government is concen- trating allits troops in the city and hastily re- pairing {ts fortifications, while every effort is made to supply the places of the many French and German officers who are withdrawing from the immediate service of his Holiness in order to take active part in the struggle at home. The convention between France and Italy for the evacuation of Rome, recently devised by the French Emperor on the one side and Generals Menabrea and Nigra on the other, and conveyed to Flcrence by Count Vimercati, explicitly contemplates an offensive and defen- sive alliance between the two Powers; the restoration of the convention of September 15, 1864, to all its force and bearing; the protec- tion of the Papal See against every species of insurrection and violence, and the granting of a loan by France to Italy. These specifications have, of course, awakened the ire of the Italian radicals, and their organs throughout the country are in fall ery against the royal government. The comic papers, which are widely circulated and wield in- fluence in Italy, represent the latter ia the form of a beautiful female asleep, while the hands of Napoleon III. and Victor Emmanuel are seen joining in the distance. A man of the people calls on her to awake. This ap- peal to popular passion, sustained, as it is, by the entire radical press, has not passed un- heeded, and violent demonstrations are in pro- gress against any movement on the part of Italy to interfere in the German-French war. Nevertheless, the Turin papers state that orders have been issued to all the railway authorilies of Northern Italy to hasten their arrangements for the transportation of the new contingents of men just called out for army service, and in all the chief cities of the realm bids are requested for heavy military supplies, These preparations, in view of the peculiar financial and social condition of Italy, are not made without an eye to business. The hour is, undoubtedly, close at hand when the gentle- man King will be forced along with the popu- lar tide to make Rome the civic capital of Italy, or to suppress, if he can, the uprising of the radicals with the red right hand. In either case, should Napoleon fall, the splrit of the old S. P. Q. R.—the Senate and people of Rome combined in a republican common- wealth—will be hovering near. Whether Pon- | tifical exorcism will be directed, or even be re- quired against it, is a question not difficult to answer in republican America. The Fall Season of Amusements. Soon as the tropic fierceness of the heated term abates and melting mortals have a chance to think of something else besides ice- water and fans, the theatrical managers enter the field with the usual flourish of trumpets and display of poster banners to announce the opening of the fall season. Last night two of the larger theatres flung open their doors to the public, and others will follow in quick succession. The prospects for the com- ing season are very flattering, and a healthier and more artistic tone is perceptible in amuse- ments, More pains than usual seem to have been taken by the managers to present their various specialties in the musical and dramatic line in as perfect a manner as possible. There is even a classical tinge in Ethiopian drama and a nearer approach to respectability in burlesque. Musio will have a bright representative in the person of the Swedish nightingale, Christine Nilsson, and the highest walks of the drama will be illumined by the German tragédienne, Marie Seebach. Within two or three weeks over a score of the metropolitan theatres will be in full operation, and opera, concert, tragedy, comedy, burlesque and minstrelsy will set forth their mani- fold attractions to thousands of aduwirers, Opéra bouffe will laugh, jest, sing and cancan once more at the Grand Opera House and at the Olympic; the little dijou Fifth Avenue theatre will glow with one of its sparkling dramas; a London sensation will replace “Fritz” at Wallack’s; the sleepy Dutchman of the Catskills and the chivalrous Lagadere will probably hold the boards at Booth’s and Niblo’s until the time of the sere and yellow leaf; Mrs. Scott-Siddons will make her bow at Wood’s; and the Comique, Bryant's, San Francisco Minstrels, Bowery and Tony Pas- tor’s have portentous bills for their patrons. We aré'to have three new theatres on Broad- way—the'New York, Lina Edwin’s and Kelly & Leon's—and others are in contemplation. Another event of the season will be the début of the distinguished tragédienne Fanny Janauschek in English drama, for which she has been long preparing. Our Brooklyn neighbors will be plentifully supplied with dramatic fare at Mrs. Conway's Park theatre pnd Hooley’s Opera House. If we add to this list.the Philharmonic and other concerts, and perhaps season of oratorio, our readers will feel satisfied at the quantity and quality of amusements which will be afforded them this season, Verpow—The place from which Napoleon sends his latest, lies on the Maas river, some fifteen or twenty mileson the road to Paris from Mets, and Napoleon heads the goneral ~ movement of his army, ply on tho Mosello—Napoleon’s fa competency. The event on the Moselle, at or near Metz, in regard to which both sides claim a triumph, was simply a disaster to the French, and one more illustration of the monstrous incapacity with which the forces of France are com- manded. The King of Prussia wrote to Berlin Sunday night as follows :— A victorious combat occurred near Land to-day, the troops of the First and Seventh pating. I hasten to the scene of the co) ot Of the same collision the Emperor Napoleon wrote thus :— The al commenced to cross to the left bank of Ee ak en crossed over the Prussians suda afioked fa great forea, ater 8 Sabha of four hours they were repulsed, with great It is no new fact In the history of war for each side to claim the victory in the same fight; for, in fact, this always occurs where the victory is not so decisive that the beaten army is destroyed. Over Blenheim and Water- loo there was no such difference, and the fact that the claim is made on both sides only indi- cates that the battle was not of the decisive order, but was like the great majority of our American battles in the late unpleasantness, in regard to which salutes of- rejoicing were always fired on both sides of the lines, while the two sections of a divided people, with most embarrassing devotion, simultancously thanked ‘the God of Battles” for one more victory. Napoleon’s*note perhaps did not deceive even the people of Paris, loath as they natu- rally are to hear of the defeat of the splendid soldiery of France; for this note is simply a clumsy, self-accusing acknowledgment of stupidity, casting a mean blame on some sub- ordinate officer. ‘‘The army commenced to cross to tho left bank of the Moselle this morning.” It was therefore in retreat; and the statement that an army is in retreat is not one with which the announcement of victory begins. ‘Our advance guard had no know- ledge of the presence of any force of the ene- my.” This ‘advance guard” probably means the force nearest the enemy—the force that was the advance guard when the faces of the French were the other way, but which now would be more appropriately called the rear guard. Any other supposition would require us to believe that the Prussians had crossed the Moselle at Pont-’-Mousson in such force and with such oclerity that they had been able to move down the left side of the Moselle and anticipate the French in their crossing at Metz. This seems incredible. ‘When half our army had crossed over the Prussians suddenly attacked in great force.” This reaches the height of military absurdity. Outposts know nothing of the presence of the enemy, but they ‘“‘suddenly attack in great force.” Are tho Prussians, then, all clothed with the invisible overcoats of the fairy story to such effect that the French cannot see them till the moment they are ready to hur! their stal- wart cabbage-fed persons against the French at the critical moment when they are pass- ing a great river, with half the army on one side and half on the other? The stupidity of this accusing excuse is only paralleled by the stupidity that made it necessary. Fancy a great commander crossing a river with his army, after the recent loss of a hard fight, without taking precautions that the enemy shall not get a crack at him when his corps are helplessly astride the stream! Fancy the same great commander contenting himself with an advanced guard so astonishingly organized and commanded that it had no knowledge of the presence of the enemy at the very moment when he was within striking distance on French soil. How they used to clean out such “great commanders” in the vigorous days of the first revolution! Is the guillotine too bad, after all, for that crime of self-sufficiency that assumes positions in which incapacity leads only to the vain butchery of ten thousand men and precipitates the destiny of a nation? But on the German side the operations are conducted with an accuracy and a strategic precision in movement that is altogether admirable, So far there has been no true fight of the soldiers fairly matched in force side against side, and we cannot judge what may happen when this comes, if it ever comes, for up to this time it is strategy pure and sim- ple, work done altogether in the closet of the military student; that has driven the French behind the Moselle. When they were on the two sides of the salient angle of French terri- tory their immediate communication was severed by the destruction of the viaduct at Bitche. The sound of that explosion was the knell of MacMahon’s army; but on the French side it was not understood, and MacMahon was neither reinforced nor withdrawn. He was left out in isolation that the enemy might crush him at leisure with overwhelming force, This was not his fault, but the fault of Napo- leon. Again, with Napoleon at Meta and MacMahon at Nancy, the finger of Prussian strategy touches the little point of Pont-a- Mousson, between them, and, rendering unity of action impossible, makes these points unten- able, and once more French resistance melts away ina retreat toward Paris. At this rate the great fight will be perilously near to the capital. GmNERAL Gaus has had a sheriff's warrant served upon him in St. Louis, damages laid at three thousand dollars, because a horse belong- ing to him kicked and broke the leg of another horse that was in the same pasture with his. Wonder what would have been thought if a similar warrant had been served upon Queen Victoria for dam- age done by one of her stud? But it is different in countries where ‘‘divinity doth hedge a king”—or queen—and in ours, where it don’t make much difference what sort of a hedge or what sort of a pasture is in question | so long as one citizen’s horse lames that of another. Here all are equal under the law, although it must be confessed that some of the President's staff occasionally ride a very “high horse,” much to the inconvenience of some of the President's personal friends, Ir HAVING been whispered that Secretary Fish will soon retire from the Cabinet Presi- dent Grant is daily receiving hints in regard to a proper successor to the Premiership. Among the latest names mentioned for the position is General Hiram Walbridge, of this State, “The Ex-Empress Carlota. The royal widow of Maximilian, whilom Emperor of Mexico by the grace of Napoleon ILL and a foreign coalition, has long and bit- terly indeed expiated her innocent participa- tion in the attempt to throttle and stifle an American republic. The sorrows of this beau- tiful and gifted lady in her bereavement have interested the chivalry and awakened the sym- pathy of the civilized world. Coming forth from her European home full of youth, beauty and hope, her presence in ‘‘the halls of the Monteaumas” was the redeeming featare of one of the saddest and most insane episodes of this generation's history. The terrible overthrow of her brief vision of power and renown, the cruel fate of her noble husband, and (some have said) the subtle poison of the Vaudoo gave her back to the home of her childhood an object of heartfelt commiseration, bereft of all things, even of reason. A year or more ago her case was deemed utterly hopeless, and her dearest friends, with a sigh, closed the book that contained the story of “poor Carlota!” But we are told by our latest telegraphic advices that the thunders of war which are crazing half of Europe have restored this lady to herself and that she eagerly hearkens to the news from France. The ways of Providence are full of mystery. Does this poor Queen recognize familiar sounds in the crash of a falling empire? And does. she detect in the rising murmurs of the people everywhere the voice of retribution which summons to its floal account the system that led her husband to a throne only to desert and betray him? Mad- dened by the wrong, has she been made whole in order that she may be a witness to its pun- ishment? More Murders. The mysterious Nathan murder seems to have been followed by an extraordinary out- break of the murder mania, OnSaturday and Sunday this mania raged to such a degree that no less than eight murderous assaults were committed in New York and its vicinity. On Saturday a fratricide headed the dreadful record. Thomas McCormick stabbed, it is believed fatally, his brother Martin. In the afternoon of the same day policeman Fitzsim- mons was shot by Adam S. Vail, who was firing a revolver promiscuously in the streets. On Saturday night a young man named Bimble was stabbed, probably fatally, by one or more .of a drunken party, in New York. On Sun- day morning a man was brought from a tene- ment house at the corner of Bridge street and the Battery frightfully mangled by blows from a hatchet or club, said to have been inflicted on him by a woman called ‘‘Big Maggie,” who found him asleep in her bed. Another man was discovered about the same time on West, street in a helpless condition, who alleges that he was assaulted with a club and left for dead by a fish dealer in Washington Market. Sun- day evening one woman stabbed another during a quarrel in Mott street. On the same evening the Cecilia Singing Society, composed of Germans, was murderously attacked on their return from an excursion by a crowd of rowdies in Williamsburg. Men, women and children were seriously, if not fatally, wounded. Is it not high time for the police, seconded by the efforts of all good citizens, to stay this bloody tide of murder ? REVOLUTIONARY FERMENT IN THE Pro- VINOES OF FrANOE.—One of yesterday's tele- grams from Paris says that late advices from Lyons, Marseilles and Toulouse show that there was nothing serious in the late popular disturbances in those cities. But these very disturbances are unmistakable indications that not only in Paris, the ancient centre and hot- bed of revolution, but also in the provincial cities of France, the popular mind awaits but the proclamation of the republic to burst forth into the flames that formerly swept over France and more than half of the rest of Europe. At present no doubt the prevailing idea of Frenchmen through- out the empire is to resist foreign in- vasion. This idea is rapidly becoming, if it has not already become, independent of attach- ment to any dynastic or family interest, whether represented by Napoleon or either branch of the Bourbons. Lyons, Marseilles, Toulouse and all the other provincial cities of France would soon wheel into line with Paris if it were once decided that the present con- test is not to perpetuate a dynasty, but to save from humiliation a great and glorious nation, EvipEntLy politicians believe that figures cannot lie, and in the approaching canvass in- tend to overwhelm their‘opponents with terri- ble arrays of statistics. Vice President Col- fax asks the clerks of the Treasury Depart- ment for a statement of the receipts and ex- penditures of *the last eighteen months of Andy Johnson’s reign and the first eighteen months of Grant’s administration. Senator Conkling wants to go over more ground than any other politician, and therefore asks for the statistics for the last ten years, Anthony, Morton and other republicans are clamorous for the “figures,” while the democratic Sena- tors are turning over the accounts at a fear- ful rate, hoping to unearth some extrava- gances which will tell against the administra- tion, A clerkship in the Treasury Depart- ment is no sinecure about election times. Happily for the United States there is never a dearth of men willing under all cir- cumstances to serve their country in any posi- tion where either money or fame is to be se- cured. Great 1s So1mnok, and wonderful is the genius of the Frenchman. Combined, they pierce beyond the confines of the tomb and drag forth its occupants to protect living, breathing humanity. Mr. Beauvier, of this city, has invented a ‘“‘self-protector,” a terrible combination of ghosts, goblins, kaives, pistols, skulls, fire and fiends, warranted to startle the bravest hearted and strike the midnight assassin dead with fear. Last night he tried his ‘protector” while riding in an up-town stage, and two dandies, whose raven locks were in a moment of more than mortal agony blanched to a snow white hue, this morning testify to the value of the “protector.” Mr. Beauvier will sail for France in a few days to lay his inven- tion before his Emperor, confident that with a single regiment clad with the thousand grim terrors he produces *‘Our Fritz” will instanter turn his face toward the fatherland, and ina fortnight no liviag Dutchman will be found on French soil. WASHINGTON. Politictans Preparing for the Campaign- Warrant Issned for the Arrest of Com Sressman RB, B. Buatler—Organi- zation of New National Banks— Collection of Taxes on Ship- bullders? Sales Suspended. — WAsumaron, August 15, 1810. A Big Job for the Treasury Clerks. The political teaders of both sides are making Great use just now of the ‘The democrats ransack the Treasury to figure out some- thing against the existing administration, and the republicans manage to keep the clerks adding, sub- tracting and multiplying with an object quite the opposite. That great importance is attached to tnia style of campaigning may be noticed from the ohar- acter and standing of the politicians who engage in it. For instance, a day or two ago Vice Presidents Colfax addressed a letter to Acting Secretary Richardson, requesting the latter to have pyo pared for him at the end of the present month a statement showing the receipts and ex- penses for the first eighteen months of Grant's ad- ministration and also a statement giving the receipts and expenses of the last eighteen months of Jolin- son’s reign, the object of which 1s, of course, to show what an immense reduction has already been made in the expenditures of the government since the inauguration of the present administration. These abstracts, perhaps, are not always fair, but as campaign measures they are power- ful, making o very great impression upou people in general. The immense cutting down and lopping oif of all the unnecessary branches of expense under Grants a point which 1s being mado great use of, and which the opposition party find tt extremely bothering to contest. Nevertheless some of the democratic leaders have written here for statistics and figures, with the hope of finding flaws somewhere through which they can destroy the economical edifice constructed by te republicans under Grant. Senator Conkling, of New York, 1s after figures as well as Colfax. Conk- ling has written here for a tabular statement of tha receipts and expenses of the government for the last ten yeans, and evidently intends in his campaigning efforts to cover much more ground than the other speakers, Anthony, of Rhode Island; Wilson, of Massachusetts, and Morton, of Indiana, are also in the field, and between the whole of them the Trea sury clerks are likely to be kept busy durtug the aog days. Organization of National Banks on a Gold Basis. ‘The Comptroller of the Currency will, in a duy or two, issue a circular in relation to the organization of national banks for the issue of gold notes, which will incorporate the different sections of the act pro- viding for the redemption of the three per cent cer- tificates and for the increase of national bank notes, approved July 12, 1870, having reference to the sub: ject, besides other general instructions with refer- ence thereto, The circular states that national banks for the issue of gold notes can be established, and would probably be successful and profitable at any point where direct trade with foreign countriea 1s carried on to an extent sufficient to furnish em- ployment to the capital and means of the bank, and In those cittes and States where business Is trans- acted chiefly ona coin basis, But in the small interior towns of the Atlantic or Western States it 18 not at all probable that such institutions would be profit- able or satisfactory vo the stockholders, Banks for the Issue of gold notes are to be organized as pro- vided in the original law on the subject. First, the parties subscribing the capital stock, not less in number than five, should execute articles of assocta- tion, after which organization certificates should bo prepared, forms for both of which are included in the circular. <A certified copy of the articles of association and the original of the organization certl- ficate should be filed with the Comptroller of tna Currency. The cash pald must not be less than fifty per cent of the entire capital subsoribed. The amount of bonds to be deposited must never be lesa than $39,000, nor less than one-third of the pald up capital of the bank. When fifty per cent of tha capital is paid in acertificate of the officers and directors of the bank in the form provided by the circular is to be filed. Before taking any decided steps for the organization of banks parties are re- quested to correspond with the Comptroller of the Currency. Application may be made by letter, and should state the locality where the bank 1s required, naming the city or town, the population, a general estimate of the kind and amount of business, the names Of the principal parties who prepose to organ- ize the bank, with information as to thelr character and pecuniary abilities. The minimum capital with which a bank can be organized under the general provisions of the act 13 $100,000. Collection of Taxes on Shipbuilders’ Sales Suspended. ‘The recent tnstructions from the Internal Revenue OfMice suspending the collection of taxes on ship- builders’ sales at Norwich, Conn., are intended to apply generally to all shipbuliding districts. The question of the liability of shipbuliders to taxation under the act of March 31, 1868, is now under con- sideration at the Internal Revenue Ofice, though claims for the refunding of taxes already pald on Shipbuilders’ sales, founded on the non-liabliity of sluipbuilders to taxation, will not for the prescat be entertained. Another Candidato for a Pince iv the Cabinet. Some prominent republicaus are discussing the appointment of Hiram Walbriage for Secretary of State, 1a the event of Mr. Fish’s retirement. Tie Counterfeit Fractional Currency. An erroneous statement has been published con. cerning counterfeits of the fractional currency. Treasurer Spinner says the counterfeit is not on the new issue of fifty cents note, as reported, but on the old issue, having the vignette of Lincola, and which old issue the Treasurer 1s now calling in. The new issue bears the likeness of Stanton. The Treasurer says he will give five dollars for the first counterfeit note of this class. The paper on which the new notes of all denominations are printed, is manfactured under the snperviston of the governs ment officers near Philadelphia, The paper con- tains colored stik fibre, and Congress had declared its manufacture by any other parties a felony. Warrant Issued for a Tennessee Congress man’s Arrest. The Acting Judge of the Police Court to-day, om the oath of Frederick M. Clark, of the special ser- vice of pension ofices, directed a warrant to be issued for the arrest of Representative R. R. Butier on a charge of lorgery. Appropriation for the Lighthouse Board. The Chairman of the Lighthouse Board, finding the Civil Appropriation bill made provision for con- tinuiug a number of lighthouses, using in the bill the words, “an addition to former appropriations,’? asked the Secretary of the Treasury if these words did not carry the balhnces from former appropria- tions with the new appropriations, ‘The Secretary referred the letter to the Commissioner of Customs, who insiructed Rear Admiral Shubrick in the affir- mative, thus saving the balance of former appro- ptiations and securing @ continuance of the buildiug and the early finishing of a number of lighthouses of great importance to commerce- Indian AffairseThe Chippewas on tho War Path. The Indian Bureau has received a letter from the agent at the Chippewa Agency, Red Lake, Minn., dated July, which says a war party of thirty Indians, comprising the best warriors of the tribe, were about to leave on an expedition to find some Sioux, Bad Boy, one of the warriors, prom{ses not to trouble peaceable Sioux, but ifthey encounter hostile Stoux they shali fight. The Superintendent says they must be discouraged from their bunt, especially during the existing troubles in the Southwest. ‘The Superintendent at Boise Clty, Idaho, says the Indians on the Nez Perees reservatton are in & flourishing condition, having made excellent crops, He regrets the report that there 1s considerable dis- inclination on the part of the treaty members to give up their old plots of ground outside of the re- servation and moving to the new lands which have been provided for them, \