The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Volume XXXV. ee +-No, 232 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, ROOTH’S THEATRE, 230 Bur VAN WINKLE. Matin baron Sth ana 6th avs.— NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tak DgaMa or THE Duke's Morro. Matinee at 2. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Brosdway, cor- nor Thirtieth at. —Performances every aiternoon and evening WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadw: ana 13th sireet.— Patre, OUR Cousin GERMAN. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Vaniery ENTERTAIN- MENT. GRAND OPERA HOUSK, corner ot Eighth avenue and 2ud ot --SivTALA—THE NATIONS, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bow a jory.—VA- mie1y ENTERTAINMENT. ‘oMi0 VOCALIB8MS, 40. Matinee. THEATRE COMIQUE, 54 Broadway.—Comto VooaL- 18M, NeGRO Acts, £0. Matinee at 25g. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between sath (ih ste,—THRODORE THOMAS ~ ‘OPULAB CONCERTS. TERRACE GARDEN, Fifty-eighth street and Third ave- nue.—GRAND VocAL AND [noTRUMENTAL CONCERT, LEEDS’ ART GALLERIES, 817 and 819 Broadway.— EXHisiTiON OF PAINTINGS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND ART. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — BOURNE AND ART. TRIPL “New York. Saturday, iebauk 20, 1m CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. PAGE. 4—Advertisements, ‘2—Advertisements, rts from ; Details of the Battles of Vionville and Gravelette; Heavy Losses of the Prus- sians; ‘fhe Fights of Tuesday and Wednesday; Marshal Bazatne’s Report of the Eng: ent on Wednesday; Pridce Frederick ‘les Repulsed Along the Line; Prince Albert of Prussia and Two Prussian Generals Said to Have Been Killed; The Crown Prince rted Wounded: “Napoleon to be Deposed’’ and the Orieans Princes Restored; The ie 2 Prus- sia to be “Emperor of Germany;’ Napoleon's Monomania on the Subject of in Active Defence and Provistoned. 4—Europe: War Cyn by Mail to August 6; Diniculties of Obtatning Correct News in the Field; Armed Force in the Fortress of Stras- bourg; Switzerland in Armed Neutrality; Brit- ish Agitation and Hope from Bonaparte—Polit- ical Intelligence. 5—Our Blue Jackets: How and Where they are En- Itstea, Clothed and Cared for—Mormonism: ‘The Debate on the Question of Polygamy—The Sing Sing Camp Meeting: Close of the Feast of the Tabernacle—The Steamboat Murder—Com- modore Vanderbilt's “iilness”—items from the Courts—Police a la Mode. G—Editorials: Leading Article on the Continued Prussian Successes, the Advance on Parts— Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Telegraphic News trom ail Parts of the World— News from Washington—The National Game— Yachting: The Cruise trom Newport to New Bedford—Business Notices, S—An Offal Nuisance: What Becomes of Dead Animals Found in the City—Brooklyn Cit, News. mfort for Debtors—A Lady Spiritaai- ist Exposed—Life at Long Branch : The Prest- dent bars Se Another Day of Quiet Rest—Per- 8 ntelligence—The Norwalk Disaster : Further Testimony in Regard to the Collision— ‘The Disposition of Street Refuse—The End of a Slave Catcher—The Fourteenth Street Homi- cile—Obituary—Destructive Fire m Wiiliams- burg—Music in the Centra: Park+The Nathan Murder Inquiry—An_ Earldom Going a Beg- ging—A Curious Habeas Corpus Case—New ‘ tity News—A Brute Sentenced. ‘ark’s Legal Sensation—How France Can Be Victorious—The Great Farmer of Illinois—Fi- cial and Commercial Reports—Real Estate rs—Automatic or ‘Fast’? Telegraphy— Drama tor Niblo’s—Aduiteration of Paper—Marriages and Deaths. 4O—The War (Continued trom Phird Page)—A Fes- tival for Fatherland: German Demonstration at Jones’ Wood—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- vertisements, Vi—From Bagdad to Aleppo: A Thousand Miles’ ‘Travel Through Asiatic Turkey ; The Plains of and Ur of the Ohaldees ; The Pains and ‘es of a Caravan Journey ; The Perils Wayside, 12—Secret Societies—Improved Method of Ascer- taining Casualties in War— Advertisements, Frenca Cruisers in THe West INpIEs.— The American brig Veto, which arrived at Baltimore on Thursday, reports having been overhauled off the Bahama Islands by the French man-of-war Leverte. Look out for them. Tuousanps OF Lasortne MEN are now ont of work. Why don’t the Board of Public Works, the Board of Public Parks, the Board of Public Docks give them employment? In- vestments of this kind in the summer time are calculated to prevent distress and crime during the coming winter. RiverstpE Parx.—This contemplated park will become one of the finest ornaments of the west side of the city, when completed. Assignments for contracts have been made, but the work does not progress. Why is this? Have the Park Commissioners too much work already on hand, or are they waiting for a movement of citizens on the west side to impel them forward? N's Coristian AS3001A TION ave taken such strong measures for the suppression of gambling that one firm ady closed its establishment, and the or of another has agreed to send in ail his implements of trade to the association ou Monday. This is an instance of the power of moral snasion second only to the famous, iustance of Captain Scott and the coon, Tue Youre Mz at Saratoga Yor Eicara Avenve Grapx.-—Contracts bave been given out Jor this much needed ent, but the work seems to lag. Highth avenue, with its extension, is the backbone of Manhattan Island. It extends from Hudson street to Macomb’s Dam, and the Board of Public Works would obtain great popularity by giving the Eighth avenue grade a push in the right direction. Wry AvstRIA ABROGATED THE CoNncor- pAt.—Baron Von Beust urged the abrogation on the ground that it was impossible to main- tain relations with a Power (the Pope) whose pretensions are suddenly found to be illimi- table. So much for the dogma of Papal infal- libility. France has withdrawn her troops from Rome, Italy is going to take possession, Austria abolishes her Concordat with the Holy Father, and unless the great Protestant Powers come to bis relief we cannot tell what will become of him, unless he be accepted ag a peacemaker. A Great Pusiic Inrrovement.—The Legislature at its last session passed an act for the removal of the Ninety-third and One Hundred and Twelfth The object is to turn the flow of the Croton underground through the Tenth ave- nit id make os far as possible a level and pay » roadway between the points desig- nated, What has the Board of “Public Works ‘ying ont the intentions of slamre? This isa city improvement urgently demanded, aqueduct between streets. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1870,—TKIPLE SHEET, HERALD THE HERALD CORPS OF EUROPEAN WAR CORRESPONDENTS. We have special correspondents moving with each division of the opposing forces of France and Prussia, and news agencies in the principal capitals—-London, Paris, Berlin, Ma- drid and Vienna—so that nothing of an im- portant news character escapes our vigilant representatives. We do not pretend that our comments upon the war, or that our opinions upon the praba- ble success of either belligerent in contem- plated movements come by the cable. Our only aim is to give to the public the fullest, the most reliable, and the most authentic record of facts as they occur in the grand operations of the contending armies. Continued Prussian Successes—The Advance en Paris. Bazaine fights desperately, and is not easy tocrush. Such combats as those of Monday and Tuesday seem to assure us that the French army has not lost heart, and wherever there isan army of nearly two hundred thousand men, of good morale, handled intelligently, it is not safe to reason on conquest as one might in their absence. As to the immediate seizure of Paris, therefore, that is counted upon in Berlin, there may still be doubts, and the situation is by no means without a possi- bility that would be damaging to the glory of the Prussian Princes. If for a moment we compare the present disastrous position of the French with the position of the Prussians in the Jena campaign, we see what may convince us that bad as the French situation is it could be infinitely worse if the Prussians had not confronted a stubbornly fighting army at every encounter, By the First Napoleon the Prussians were beaten in one great battle, and their capital fell into his hands, while some minor combats gave him possession of the whole country in an astonishingly short time. But in the present war the Prussians beat the French at Wissembourg, at Forbach, at Frosch- weiler and Woerth, and have been compelled to beat them again at Metz and Mars la Tour, while the seizure of Paris is a fact still, per- haps, beyond other battles. ‘ i. The battle at Mars la Tour, fought on Tues- day, the 16th, was a continuation of the fight of Monday. It will be remembered that the Prussians fought the French on Sunday to the south of Metz, near Pagny. The Prussian advance reached that point with the purpose of crossing the. Moselle, to cut the French line of retreat west of the river, and encountered there a French force, posted, perhaps, to cover the crossing. They walked into this force at once, but Bazaine, perceiving that this Prussian corps had much outmarched what was behind, attempted to destroy it with overwhelming force, and thus brought on a general action, the other German corps being rushed forward at sound of the firing. From this fight the French troops were withdrawn into the works at Metz, and the Prussians, following up to the works, lost heavily by the fire of the fortress, That night Bazaine hurried his troops across the river, but the Prussian army had also been hurried over, and at daylight they were on the flank of the French, as the latter were on the march from Metz to Verdun. With the enemy on his flank Bazaine was com- pelled to face about and fight, and thus oc- curred the battle of Monday near Gravelotte. Marshal L’Admirault had that day the extreme right of the French and drove the Prussians that were in front of him, holding at night the ground the Prussians had held in the morning ; but at the other extremity of the line the French fortunes were not so happy, for a Prussian force seems to have wedged itself between the French left and Metz, thus cutting off whatever troops had not already crossed the river, and apparently shulting them up in the fortress. Some despatches from London tell us that the focce thus shut up in Metz is the ‘‘main body” of the French army, but if this is true the “detachment” that is cut off is a very effective one. The French soldiers bivouacked at Grave- lotte on Monday night and resumed their march towards Verdun oa Tuesday, sending their wounded before them into Etain, not far from Verdun, They had gone as far as Mara la Tour, about one-third the way from Metz to Verdun, and as far from Gravelotte as Gravelotie is from Metz, when they were again obliged to form the line of battle and face their enemy. It would appear that they were thus overtaken by the Prussian cavalry which was engaged by the French cavalry, and a bril- liant collision of this arm figures in the despatches. By tue report from Bazaine the line of battle was engagéfl at four P. M., and the fight was continued with desperate tenacity while daylight lasted. It resulted in turning the French right completely and thus pushing Bazaine from his line of retreat. Indeed, he must have been driven some miles from his Luxembourg. But it appears that between this force and the force in Metz, Steinmetz and Frederick Charles have their hands full, and we cannot yet believe that there is any whisper of capitulation in the lines of any of these French corps. The Prussians themselves, perhaps, have felt the effect of all this fighting. They win still, but they do not put the same over- whelming forces at the polots of contact that we noted earlier in the campaign. They have withdrawn from in front of Strasbourg and Phalsbourg to cover thelr communications; for though the Prussian soldiers can and do live on the country the needle gun also must be fed, and simple powder and ball will not feed it, Its cooked food must come from the Prussian depots, and must come on a long line through a hostile country, We ought to hear pretty soon that the Prussians are short of ammunition if the French are as vigilant for all the possibilities as they should be. If helped by such @ contingency Bazaine still entertaius Steinmetz and Prince Charles, MacMahon and Trochu, with the reserves, may be equal to the Crown Prince. Naturally the many successes of the Prus- sians make peace possible, and we even hear of terms proposed. Peace may be made, and doubtless the person just now most ready to make it is the Emperor Napoleon. But it would bo a humiliating peace, and France would repudiate it and its maker. The Em- peror might make a peace to save his throne, but France would regard it as the sacrifice of her honor. With the issue thus fairly made between his throne and her honor it is not doubtful what France would do. Expulsion of Germans frem France. A London telegram of yesterday says that the collective note of Austria and England dissuading France from expelling German residents has been ineffectual, Now the right of a government in time of war to expel from its territory the subjects of a for- eign and hostile government is unquestionable. When those subjects are so numerous and s0 influential as to be dangerous to the govern- ment the hospitality of which they have en- joyed their expulsion may be a necessity. The protection of the German residents in France devolves during the war upon the diplo- matic agents of the United States. But these agents cannot now interfere more authorita- tively to prevent the expulsion of the Germans than could the Prussian diplomatic agents in time of peace. When, however, it is remem- bered that the number of German subjects in France is estimated at two millions, of whom two hundred thousand reside in Paris alone, and, moreover, that the majority of this large German colony consists of skilled. workmen and active merchants, who have added incalculably to the wealth of their adopted country, our diplomatic agents in France might well repre- sent to the imperial government that their ex- pulsion may prove not only a hardship to its victims, but also almost as serious an evil to France as the expulsion of the Huguenots by the edict of Nantes. The right of the French government to expelthe Germans cannot be contested. Their expulsion may even seem to be a painful necessity. But it nevertheless does not look like good policy. We are, there- fore, glad to learn that official assurances have been received at Washington contradict- ing the rumor of an imperial order indiscrimi- nately expelling the Germans domiciled at Pari§. The angry demand of Pau! de Cas- sagaac that so cruel a measure should be adopted found no echo. It is true, however, that about one hundred and fifty Prussians have been invited to leave Paris on account of having made hostile demonstrations against France. The strict orders of the landwehr had already recalled fifteen hundred of the eight thousand Prussians residing in Paris. Two thousand of these are said to have ap- plied at once for naturalization papers, as well as for the (permis de séjour) permits to re- main, which an order of the Prefect of Police, dated August 4, had required the natives of Prassia, of the countries of the Confederation of the North, of Bavaria, of Wurtemburg, of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and of the Grand Duchy of Baden, to obtain within three days, After that delay they were to be liable to arrest and expulsion. Improvement Our National Securities Abroad. 1 In spite of the strain upon financial af- fairs in Europe, in consequence of the war, United States securities rise in European markets, The truth is, both capitalists and the people who have any money to invest, begin to see that we not only pay a higher in- teresi than any great Power on the national debt, but that really there are no securities safer, if as safe, as ours. While other nations can scarcely make both ends meet, while they have little or no prospect of paying their debts, and while every extraordinary strain upon their finances adds to their indebtedness, this country is paying off its debt at the rate of a hundred millions and upward a year. In fact, first line of battle; for his wounded from this fight were sent into Briay, which is off his line of retreat and nearer to Melz than Mars la Tour is. Moreover, there is a discrepancy in the reports of the scene of this day’s battle which can only be reconciled by the supposi- tion that the battle began at one of the places reported and ended at the other. Bazaine himself reports this fighting as between Spincourt and Thionville. Thionville is directly north of Meiz, about twenty miles away, and Spincourt is about equally far north with Thionville and thirty miles to the west of it. Parallel with the road from Metz to Verdun and to the north of it there is a little stream, an affluent of the Moselle, and it is likely that when sorely pressed during Tues- day the Marshal reformed his line on the fur- ther side of this little stream, though he must have been pushed even far from that to get between Spincourt and Thionville. Prussian artillery is reported as intrenching itself near Briay, so that wherever Bazaine is exactly he is fighting and has taught his foe not to despise his efforts. With the force under Bazaine thus nearly shut up in a little corner of France, with neu- tral territory behind it, things are not pros- perous; in fact, they are only not hopeless. Behind Spincourt, however, there is a possible line of retreat, covered by the range of hills that form the valley of the Meuse for a great | part of ifs course, but here turn sharply to the northeast and rua into the Grand Duchy of our debt, large as the figures are, is compara- tively 2 bagatelle when compared with the vast resources and wonderful growth of the coun- try. It is not surprising, then, that our bonds rise in the European markets. It is more sur- prising, indeed, that they have not risen much higher than the present quotations. Whatever may happen in the Old World, or even here, the wealth and magnificent future of this repub- lic are such that it will be no difficulty to meet our liabilities and to pay off within a few years the principal of the debt. A Goop Ipgza.—American tourists on the European Continent will be relieved of one of the embarrassments to which the war, inter- rupting the usual course of financial ex- changes, has exposed them. Drexel, Harjes & Company, of Paris, have deposited a large amount of gold at Basle, the financial head- quarters of travel in Switzerland, in order to accommodate travellers in that country, noti- fying all their Swiss correspondents to draw on Basle for gold. They have also made such arrangements that their circular letters of credit will be available to the holders under all contingencies in every other part of Europe, authorizing them to draw bills either on London or Paris. This is a good idea, and other bankers in Paris might well profit by it. Tur Preasures of caravan travelling are graphically depicted by our correspondent in Aleppo, io his letter published elsewhere in our columns this morning, under the title of “From Bagdad to Aleppo.” The Pope as Arbiter of Peace. The Truce of God, so styled In the ancient chronicles under the Latin term of T’reuga Dei, and identifying the first of these words with the German expression treue, meaning fidelity, was an early attempt of the Church to mitigate and control the animosities of almost barbarous ages. It was first proclaimed by the bishops of Aquitaine (now part of France) just after the terrible famines which had scourged the land for nearly five years, until the close of 1030, It prohibited all overt acts in any pri- vate quarrels throughout the season of Ad- vent, Lent, and the great holidays of the year, embracing, also, the lapse of time from every Thursday until every Sunday evening. Dur- ing the specified period no act of violence was tolerated, under penalty of the severest chas- tisement. The good prelates had originally proclaimed universal peace, but found it utterly impossible to maintain it in those rude days, and hence were compelled to set apart certain subdivisions of time. About the middle of the eleventh century they extended the period of truce from Wednesday sunset until Monday sunrise. However, it was nearly one hundred years later when the noble idea of a general pacification was formalized by the Pope Calixtus II., who, at the Council of Rheims, 1186, denounced war in the most solemn lan- guage, and consigned all violators of the gene- ral peace throughout Christendom to the excommunication of the Church, with total deprivation of Christian burial. Gradually this law became a settled regulation in all countries over which the Papal authority in religion extended, and it continued to be almost the only refuge from the reign of uni- versal violence until the civil administration of Europe grew strong enough to restrain the passions of the multitude, Seven centuries and more have rolled away since the great edict of Calixtus, and civil authority has its immense machinery estab- lished in every part of what is called the civilized world; yet at this moment we behold France, ‘‘the eldest daughter of the Church,” and Germany, the land of Martin Luther— both claiming the highest pre-eminence in their respective views of orthodoxy and the faith of Christ—holding together a revel of blood, a saturnalia of human slaughter the like of which has not been witnessed by horrified humanity since the days of the savage Huns and Visigoths, The devastated fields of Eastern France reek with human putrescence, and fora dozen dégrees of latitude and longi- tude in the very heart of Christendom the tramp of fierce armies, the clangor of their martial music, the huzzas of their charging battalions and the roar of their ordnance scarcely drown the wail of the affrighted and ber@aved people whose substance they are de- stroying and whose homes they are laying waste. Bs there no hand venerable enough in years, powerful enough in authority, sacred enough in its traditional character, to stay this deluge of blood and tears? Some of the latest advices direct from Europe suggest a reply to this most important question. They hint that Pius IX. has offered his mediation to King William for peace between Prussia and France, and that the German monarch grace- fully and cordially expresses his utmost will- ingness to avail himself of this genial offer, upon such conditions as shall secure future tranquillity to his country. If this announce- meat be true it discloses an act worthy the head of a great Christian Church which claims the devotion of a hundred millions of our race, and worthy a mighty Christian monarch upon whose helm victory has for years been eagerly twining her laurel wreaths. King William has now thirteen millions, and in a year or two more may have twenty millions, of Catholic subjects, to whom, as to France, the mandate or entreaty on behalf of justice of an infallible Pontiff will be inviolable law. Why, then, should not the world rejoice in so great an event, so sublimely illustrating the sincerity of alléwho follow, by whatever paths, the stan- dard of Him whose holiest title next to Divin- ity was ‘Prince of Peace?” We can conceive of no brain so dull, no heart so cold, that it would not grow bright and warm toward so grand a proffer of general conciliation of which the very first effect would be the rescue of seventy-five millions of our fellow creatures from the horrors of war. Let us behold this effort, which in its simple grandeur would far surpass any triumph of the merely diplomatic council or the embattled field, Let Pius IX. and King William crown the glories of their reign and time by a new proclamation of the Tae Mission to EnGianp having been finally declined by Mr. Frelinghuysen, and Minister Motley having been reduced to a mere cipher while awaiting his successor, this important post at this important crisis in European affairs we may say remains vacant. It is to be hoped that the President will lose no time in filling this position with some man of broad statesmanship, who will not lose sight of the interests of the United States in the event of any peace arrangements in Europe affecting the general law of nations upon such questions as the rights of neutrals and bellige- rent rights, Indeed, we think that the time has come when the Minister of this country at London ought to be able to command the attention of the great European Powers as an advocate of peace. At all events this is not the time for the United States mission to Eng- land to be continued a vacancy. Tug Siok MAN or Franogz.—Napoleon is reported to be mentally as well as physically disabled. It is given out that for some days past he has been strangely repeating such suggestive expressions as ‘Iam cut off,” “I have been betrayed ;” but we do not think that such expressions indicate, by any means, a want of perception of his actual situation. The only question is, will he be equal to the crisis with its heavy and unexpected misfor- tunes. Peace is his policy of safety, and by promptly resolving upon this alternative he may still get out of his difficulties without any very serious sacrifices, Otherwise the empire and his dynasty may be swept away. Tur German Empirg, the practical union of all the German States, for generations the dream and hope of the German people, it may be said, is to be the grand result of ‘this Franco-Prussian war, and for this great con- summation the German people may thank the folly of Napoleon the Third, Defence of tho North German Coasts and Harbors. As length we begin to hear of something practical being done by the heavy cruising and blockading, fleets of France sent northward from Cherbourg against German maritime com- merce and the German porta The French iron-clads, under Admiral Bouet-Guillaumez, have been seen off Cuxhaven and the ob- structed entrances of the Elbe and the Weser, and there has been a preliminary brush with a Prussian squadron near the Island of Rigen, in the Baltic. Meanwhile the Ministry of Marino Affairs at Paris announces that eleven German prizes have been taken, and predicts great triumphs for the future, Prussian naval officers who, by some odd management, have been all through the French arsenals at Brest, Cherbourg and Toulon, report to the Kreua Zeitung, at Berlin, that the French had pro- posed not merely to demonstrate with a force along the coasts and at the various seaports of the Confederation, but to land bodies of troops at the mouths of the Ems, the Weser and the Elbe rivers, and other points on the north coast, so as to hold important bodies of the Prussian forces in check. Emden and Liibeck are the intended extremities of a segment of a semi-circle that was to embrace all these ope- rations, with an eye to the severance of Schleswig-Holstein from Prussian military control, In order to meet this comprehensive, and, if it could be carried out, effective plan, Prussia has set apart no less than three special armies, for which her tremendous accumulated strength now enables her amply to provide. We briefly give their arrangement as wo glean the facts from official quarters at Berlin. The first army is under the command of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, and consists of two corps of the line and five divisions of land- wehr, comprising in all one hundred and eight thousand men. Thisis the Army of the Lower Oder, and will cover Berlin, The second army is under General Vogel Von Falcken- stein, and consists of one corps of the line and three divisions of landwehr, or fifty-eight thousand men in all. This is called the Army of the Lower Elbe, The third is commanded by General Herwarth Von Bittenteld, and also consists of one corps of the line and three landwehr divisions, in all fifty-eight thousand men. It is cailed the Army of the Upper Ems. It will thus be seen that while Prussia hurls more than half @ million of men beyond the frontiers of France, with one hundred and fifty thousand landwehr advancing to cover their rear, she can, at the very same moment, dis- pose of two hundred and twenty-four thou- sand men to protect her northern coasts from invasion. Of course the idea that France, in her present situation, can land a force large enough to cope with even the smallest of the armies above designated is out ofthe question. The empire has need of every soldier, nay, of every marine, that she can muster for the de- fence of communications with her own capital, and, in fact, a large body of her naval gunners has been withdrawn from her fleets to man the heavy ordnance on the ramparts of Paris, Could the meditated blow have been struck at the German ports and a formidable force have been landed to march against Berlin in the beginning a grand diversion might have been effected. But now it is too late, and the French squadrons have need of the very utmost vigilance lest, at some moment of false security, they should be assailed at sudden disadvantage by the Kinig Wilhelm, that most terrible of all iron-clads afloat excepting our old ‘Dunderberg” (now the Rochambean). The vessel named has half a dozen consorts nearly as formidable. as herself, and along with their own engineers and seamen the Prussians have the services of other men of ancient seafaring races and of matchless skill upon the water. The French commanders, fearless, enterprising and accomplished as they are, may, therefore, while angling for naval victories in the Baltic catch one of Victor Hugo's devil fish quite unawares, The New Trouble in Caba. The law of emancipation, as voted by the Spanish Cortes, will not, from present indica- tions, prove very effective in Cuba, The slavery question will be the cause of con- siderable trouble before it is settled. Dis- content is fast making itself evident among those who before this new trouble were the warmest adherents of Spanish rule in the island. Now the case is altered. So long as Spain recognized slavery the slaveholders in Cuba were warm in their attachment to the mother country; but now that there is a dis- position to adopt a progressive policy towards the colonies fast friends are suddenly trans- formed into biiter opponents. Under these circumstances, then, the situation in Cuba is becoming more and more complicated. The volunteers side with the slaveholders, and the power they exert all over the island is very great. They desire the perpetuation of slavery, while the Spanish government decrees that the system shall be eradicated. Here, then, on this subject alone aclash appears almost inevitable. Can Spain back down from the stand she has taken on this question? And if she will not do so what course will the slaveholders pursue ? Will the Spanish government be able to enforce its laws in the island if those who to a great extent control the volunteers determine other- wise? Judging from the progress in the sub- jugation of the Cubans it is not at all probable that it would, and the attempt, should it result in failure, would only help to hasten Cuban independence. Tux Empress aNp THE WouNDED Sor- pIERs.—Generous sympathy has always been a characteristic trait of the Empress Eugénie. We are therefore not surprised to learn by a London telegram that her Majesty takes part in the movement in behalf of the wounded, She has ordered her apartments at Compitgne to be prepared for their use. She has also de- cided upon trying the system, inaugurated in America during our recent civil war, of caring for the wounded in tents, where plenty of fresh air can be obtained. Morwinc Sipe Park.—Among the acts passed by the last Legislature was one au- thorizing the Corporation to construct a park on the east side of the city, between One Hun- dred and Tenth and One Hundred and Forty- fifth streets, to be called the ‘‘Morning Side Park.” The Park Commissioners should lay out the plans and the work upon this new | lung of the city be commenced immediately, ~ Oar Special War Despatches by Mail. To-day, again, our special correspondents at the seat of war in Europe and at points outside the range of actual conflict come in excellent and accurate narrative of the history of events incident to the deadly struggle be- tween France and Prussia. Our special writers date at Strasbourg, MacMahon's head- quarters at the time; at Lobau with the Prus- sian army; at Romanshorn, among the Swiss; in London and in Dublin, Ireland. It will be seen that the powers which control the great armies of France and Germany were at the very outset jealous, if not afraid, of the public Press. They wished to live and to rulo by the sword and by the sword alone. ‘There was, Consequently, the greatest difficulty in obtaining reliable information in the camps—a fact which will serve to enlighten our readers still further as to the exact value of a great bulk of the matter which has been already published on this side of the Atlantic outside the pages of the Hzraup. Our writera explain to-day the facilities which were afforded to them in most instances by the ‘army officers on both sides, so that it Is made again evidept that they speak intelligently and truthfully in the premises, MacMahon’s march to the front from Strasbourg was a gloomy affair from the first, being conducted during a severe rain storm and frequently in the gloom of the night. The Germans were equally as strict as the French with respect to. newspaper “‘spe- cials.” One of our writers rode ina military train from Gorletz to Lobau, notwithstanding, arriving subsequently in Prague. From the “proud” city he speaks of the feeling of the Bohemians in the quarrel and of the universality of the German national sentiment. At Romans- horn, Lake Constance, the Heratp writer found the Swiss full of patriotism, as usual, anxious for their neutrality but armed for defence against invasion from any quarter. Switzerland has in former years accomplished much for Napoleon personally, and remembers him with kindness—nothing more. England was still deeply agitated and Ireland in open and plain-spoken sympathy with France, British democracy was looming up hopefully in the crisis. Premier Gladstone found his health considerably impaired by the sudden additions which were made to his Cabinet work in consequence of the war. He was very likely to ‘break down” physically. A London special writer draws attention to the facts that in such an event Mr. Disraeli will most likely have the political lead to power in his own hands, that he may accept the respon- sibility and eventually lead the democracy of the United Kingdom in the safe and ‘‘narrow way” to complete enfrunchisement. The War—Decrease of Immigration to the United States. The immediate effect of the Franco- Prussian war has been a marked decrease of immigration to the United States. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Emi- gration on Thursday a report was handed in showing that the number of alien passengers who arrived at the port of New York this year upto August 18 is 157,080—nearly twenty thou- sand less than the number which arrived dur- ing a corresponding period last year. The proximate causes of this decrease will neces- sarily be mulMMiied the longer the war shall continue. Moreover, the fact that most of the applicants at the Department of State in Washington for passports are Germans who propose returning to Prussia to enter the army attest the double loss inflicted on us by the war. We are losing not a few of our best German citizens, whose ‘‘love of father- land” carries them back, and we are losing the vast numbers of German immigrants who might be expected to arrive if peace still reigned. Let us hope that the war may speedily be terminated. The restoration of -peace will doubtless be followed by an unpre- cedented increase of immigration to the United States. Hundreds of thousands from every European country will then hasten to our aid in developing the resources of Ameri- can wealth, prosperity and power, Jostau TuRNER, Jr., of North Carolina, who dared Governor Holden to arrest him, and who was arrested, has finally been released on a writ of habeas corpus, and is going home to a grand reception that awaits him, and will probably be run for Governor at the next election. Turner wrote a note to the Gover- nor before his arrest so strongly insulting and abusive that a similar one written by any gen- tleman in New York State to the Governor would have caused his arrest on the spot and a long incarceration besides, and he would never have been run for Governor either. Tue Presents Vaoation.—The Presi- dent, with his family, continues to enjoy ina quiet way the summer pleasures of Long Branch, Next week he goes on a social visit to Glenclyffe, opposite West Point, on the Hudson, the summer retreat of Secretary Fish. The President is, however, engaged to “assist” in the closing fashionable hop at West Point on the 29th inst. From Glenclyffe, as we are at present advised, he will return te Long Branch, whence, before the close of the season, he may take a run to Newport and the White Mountains. All this is much better than the summer travels of 1870 of Louis Na- poleon, and preferable even to the King of Prussia’s difficult undertaking of a summer excursion to Paris without an invitation from the Tuileries. gph Tne Vireria Sprivas are crowded with distinguished ex-Confederate officers, so much so that some of them, intent on pleasure, are compelled to camp Tae MurpER or ‘tHE YOUNG CLERK at Binghamton by burglars recently has been more speedily expiated by two of the murder- ers than could possibly have resulted from any regular course of law. The two were injured in the fight, and in attempting to swim the Che- nango river in their flight were drowned. It was a clear case of natural lynching. The third murderer is supposed to be still alive and at large. Tne Census Returns received at the Super- intendent’s office in Washington show that the increase of population in Brooklyn, Jersey City and other cities about New York is pro- portionately much greater than in New York city itself, This is, of course, in great mea- sure attributable to the difficulties of uptown travel and to the easy access to the suburbs afforded by the ferries,