The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1870, Page 6

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NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Drawa o¥ UNvEs mz Pain. Revolution in France. i One of the most remarkable developments of j Pope Pius the Ninth, the head of the Catholic Protestant States of the Continent, Consider- ing the dogma of Papal infullibility, the aban- donment of the Holy Father by Napoleon to the tender mercies of Victor Emanuel, the abro- gation of the Austrian concordat by that government, and the revolutionary heresies and heretical republican tendencies of Spain; con- sidering, in a word, the stubborn fact that the Pope is abandoned by the Catholic States to the chances of this war, we may truly say that the peace correspondence, just published, between the Pope and King William, is not only very remarkable but, politically or religiously con- sidered, very important and suggestive. The Pope writes to King William that “‘it may appear an upnsual thing to receive a let- ter from me,” but that ‘‘as the vicar on earth of God and peace I cannot do less than offer my mediation.” Then, after stating his desire for the cessation of the evil consequences of war, he says:—‘‘My mediation is that of a sove- reign whose small dominion excites no jeal- ousy, and who inspires confidence by the moral and religious influence he personifies. May God lend an ear to my wishes, and listen also to those I form for your Majesty, to whom I would be united in the bonds of | charity.” This is from the Pope as the head of his Church to King William. And what says the Protestant King of Prussia in reply? The “eldest son of the Church” has never spoken so kindly to his Holiness as speaks this Protestant King. He says:—‘I am not surprised, but profoundly moved, at the touch- ing words traced by your hand. They cause the voice of God and of peace to be heard. 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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 18 Brosdway.— SCIENCE AND Arr, DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSE) c = othe renal AL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. = 1870. New York, Sunday, August 21, ITS OF TO-DAWS HERALD. nis. Special Telegrams to the New Yore LD; Desperate Fight Before Metz Yester- day Morning; Marshal Bazaine Beaten Into the Fortress After Three Hours’ Fighting; Count Palaiko’s History of Four Days’ Ac- on: ed Eu ement Between the avon; King William's ; Prussian Victory and Complete Dis- organization of the Freneh; City Tumult and a Prussian Berroa Imminent; A Dictatorship Under Trochee in Favor: Napoleon to be De- 1 France ‘to Choose Her Govern- Royal English Letter to King Willlam: Russian Messages to France and the Prus- f and M ism: The Great Discussion on Poly- Dr. Newman and Orson Pratt the Cham- of Monogamy and of Polygamy; Open- pf the Discussion in the New Tabernacle i e City; Great Crowd of Male Saints, ints and Gentiles of Each Sex; Ar- penekte Theological, Rhetorical and Pro- ound, 5-Peligious In’ elltgence—Paris Fashions: Style as Wisin the Epoch of War; Evening Revivals and Sheiter for the Goddess—What Do Wo- men Want?—Aannexation of New Guinea to the United States—Organized Opposition to Joun C man in California, 6—Editorial Leading Article on the Pope and King jam on Peace, the Revolution im ¥rance—Another Collision in the Harbor—The Iniuilibe Army—Amusement Announcements, 7—Tet graphic Strom aul Parts of the World— iting and Aquatic— The President at shington—The Th nal Intelligence. Horrible Domestic ENG e Returns, ulurs of the Great Storm at Valparaisa Revolution in Urnguay; Capture of the Capital of Entre Rios by Lopez Jovdan—New York City News—Arrest of Diamond Brok for Artists—The Ninth Regimen: ‘bilt Hoax—Army and Naval jnt aneial and Com- mereial Reports and Deaths. Yo—The War (Continued from Third Page)—A Monster at Large—Fatal Rallroad Accident— The Massacre in China: Attack on the French Catholic Mission at Tientsin—Shipping Intell gence—Advertisements. 11—The Savans of 1870: Third Day's Mee Association for the Advancement of Sc Advertisements, 12—Adverusements. Lopez Jorpan, the rebel leader in the province of Entre Rios, is still able to elude the pursuit of the Argentine army. His latest achievement has been the capture of the capi- talof Entre Rios, which, after taking, he gave up to his soldiers. They sacked the city, plundered its inhabitants and committed all manner of outrages. Tue Buiter as A Frenp or THE La- BorER.—The National Labor Congress at Cin- cinnati is strangely exercised over the subject of Chinese labor, and one delegate yesterday _ said ‘if the ballot did not stop the evil the bullet must.” The Chinese at Tientsin took the game view of European labor, and, with the aid of the bullet, effectually blotted out ‘the evil” in that part of the Flowery Kingdom, Tax Great Di ON ON PoLYGAMy.— We publish this morning a report of the open- ing of the great at Salt Lake, be- tween Rev. Dr. Nev of Washington, and Elder Orson Pratt, of the Mormon Church, on “the important question, “Does the Bible Sanc- tion Polygamy?” The arguments of both these champions were quite forcible, and will be read with special ‘interest. It is worthy of record that although the ariicles of agreement forbid it, Dr. Newman was several times applauded, and this, too, in the great taber- ‘macle of the Mormons, by an audicace nine- teoths of which were professed polygamists. I nor my people desired to provoke war.” Then, after telling the Pope that ‘‘we take up the sword to defend the independence and honor of our country,” and that “‘we are ready to lay it down the moment these treasures are secure,” this heroic and pious old King says :— “Tf your Holiness could offer me from him who 80 unexpectedly declared war, assurances of sincerely pacific dispositions and guarantees against a similar attempt upon the peace and tranquillity of Europe, it certainly will not be I who will refuse to receive them from your venerable hands, united as I am with you in bonds of Christian charity and sincere friend- ship.” Are not these. among those ‘words fitly spoken,” which, ‘‘are like apples of gold in | pictures of silver?” Do they not preseut us ; the Protestant King of Prussia as the champion of the Pope in his distress, and the Pope as the fast friend of this Protestant King? Will they not operate to knit still more closely than they are bound now together in the German cause the Protestants and Catholics of Ger- ‘The Democratic Tt fs stated that the delay in calling to- this sanguinary European war lies in the cor- | gether the Democratic State Committee arises dial relations of friendship established between | from the doubt whether it would not be best to convoke the Legislature in extra session Church, and King William; the head of the | and pass an act separatinz the State elections from the Congressional elections. This point is under consideration by leading democrats, with whom Mr, Samuel J. Tilden is now in council at Saratoga. If the Legislature should meet and postpone the State election till De- cember there would be no necessity for a State convention to nominate till October, and therefore it is assumed the State Committee will not be called to meet till this point is determined, At tho list session of Congress, it will be remembered, several important laws were enacted which affect the election probabilities of nearly all the States, but espegially of Now York. The law for the enforcement of the fif- teenth amendment probably adds several thousand votes to the republican party in New York alone, and the law for a uniformity of naturalization throughout the Union makes the frauds that have so generally been practised previous to elections in this city al- most impossible. These enactments the Dem- ocratic State Committee cannot combat, and the effect of them redounds inevitably for the good of the republican party, especially in this city. But one provision of the law, to enforce the fifteenth amendment, was intended to se- cure honest elections, and this is the point which the Democratic State Committee wish to surmount—that is, if there is any truth what- ever in the statement. Although the provision of course looks only to Congressional elec- tions, still it would affect in some degree the State elections held at the same time and place, by force of example if not otherwise. This is what the Democratic State Committee would prevent. They do not want an honest election. They prefer to carry things in their own way as they have been doing heretofore. As they cannot do away entirely with Con- gressional enactments they will take care that they affect democratic interests as little as possible. But the whole thing is almost ridi- culous. The convertion of the State Legisla- ture in extra session and the passage of sach an act would require time and expense, for which the result, even in a democratic point of view, would be no compensation. The Naturalization law and the main propositions contained in the fifteenth amendment law are knotty points, which the democratic party cannot get over, and they need not-trouble themselves to get the better of so trivial a point as the one suggested, for the game will not pay for the candle. The Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes. The rumor that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes are to be desiroyed has been confirmed. ‘I'he people protested, many and to bring Catholics and Protestan‘s the wide world over nearer to each oth the bonds of Christian charity? Returning to | the main question, will not this correspor- | dence turn the scale between Prussia and | France in favor of peace? We are strongly drawn to the conclusion that peace, involving the reconstruction of France on the platform of a republic, the union of the German States | as an empire on republican principles, and the | security of the Pope as the head of his Church, under the joint protection of the great Powers, is near at band. Why not peace? The French armies in | the outset have never before been so rapidly and terribly cut upasinthis campaign. At the same time France has actually undergone a revolution. The empire and the reign of Napoleon are evidently at anend. The Empe- | ror is practicably superseded in Paris by General Trochu and by the Corps Législatif, | assuming the functions of an independent body and acting as if the Emperor were dead. England, Russia and Austria are doubtless ready to agree in behalf | ; of peace that the French people shall establish government of their own choosing. What more can they expect to gain by the further prosecution of the war? Napoleon, ff the latest reports concerning him are in any degree true, is powerless to do anything. If still nominally at the head of his army in the field he is so chapfallen that he can hardly undertake, ia the name of France, to answer the Pope’s letter. The Queen of England bas written to King William, urging upon him that it is highly desirable to accept peace proposals from France, Would it not be | better for her Majesty to urge—as delicately as possible, but still to urge—upon Napoleon his abdication in favor of such government as the French people may elect, as the first essential step to peace negotiations? | In any event, the friendly correspondence | between the Pope and King Wiljam prevents. this war from becoming a wak betweéi Catho- | lic Europe and Protestant Europe; and so much has been gained in favor of peace. It | reduces ihe war to a political struggle between France and Germany, and in disclosing the liberal inclinations of King William for peace it leaves France without a rational excuse for prolonging the war short of an armistice and | atrial for peace. Without a responsible gov- ernment, however, in Paris there can be no armistice, aud there can be no responsible | government in Paris, from present appear- a ances, short of the abdication or formal removal of Napoleon, A few days more and this diffic may be settled. Tue Storm Near VaLraratso.——The storm in the neighborhood of Valparaiso, a fall ac- count of which will be found on another page, was one of the most disastrous occurrences. which has visiied Chile in some time. Tho loss of life, we fear, has been far greater than is reported, and the destruction of property will assume greater proportions than what it is now set down at, 2ESIDENT GRANT Carries ont his pledges of retrenchment to the letter. The official state- ment of receipts and disbursements of the gov- ernment shows the total receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870, to be $5¢ 082. The total expenditures were $418,713,560, of which amount $126 508 was for the pur- | chase of bonds for the sinking fund. flattering exhibit ; the spot after | less he has been in a certain sense, A most | this of the ability and4 but the destruction of both these favorite ; resorts was declared to bea military neces- pes sily. So extreme a precaution is ominous of the very great peril to which the capital of France has been exposed by the failure of the French armies to repel the Prussian invader. Nor is it reassuring to remember that ‘‘the primitive trees which covered the sandy soil of the Bois de Boulogno in the days of the first French revolution were all cut down when the allied armies bivouacked on Waterloo.” Nothing but the dread anticipation of a second Waterloo could have prompted the destruction of the fine slumps of wood, with ail the accessories of modern landscape gardening, the fruit of the pains and money lavished on the two thousand acres of this exquisite pleasure ground since 1852 by Louis Napoleon, Its promenades and roadways offered forty miles’ | circuit to the finest mounts and equipages and to a mullitade of pedestrians. Its arti- ficial lakes and cascades, its ss chalets and Chinese pavilions, its facili for walk- ing, riding, driving, skating, dining and dancing, for picnics and word, its innumerable duels—in a attractions had made for | it the daily rendezvous of the rank, fashion and wealth, not ooly of the gay metropolis, but of the entire world. The Bois de Vin- | cennes, at the other end of Paris, had also been embellished by the Emperor, chiefly for tbe benefit of the shopkeepers and their families in the Faubourg St. Antoine. The improvements which had been planned were, however, discontinued a few years ago, and the open spaces between the noble trees of this ext sive park have since been devoted to military and manceuvres. In view of the threatening contingency of some- thing infinitely more serious than drill, review or sham fight, the Bois de Vincennes, exercises | like the Bois de Boulogne, is to be levelled. If the siege guns of the Crown Prince of Prussia gre sogn to be heard from the outer fortifications of Paristhe destruction of these charming pleasure grounds of the Parisians | will prove to have been really an act of stern military necessity. War Berween coe Tioket SPECULATORS AND THE MANAGERS.—The war between the ticket speculators—who are an unmitigated nuisance—and the theatre managers continues torage. But the public must suffer no less than the unscrupulous ticket speculators if the managers can legally repndiate their own tickets, no matter to whom sold. It is said, indeed, that they are acting under legal advice in the premises. It is 16 be hoped, however, that they will ere long hit upon some better plan for discomfiting the enemy. At all events the public will rejoice if the ticket speculation nuisance shall be successfully and perma- nently abated. RS. Was He Betravep?—The Emperor Napo- leon, it is reported, cries out with maniacal iteration that he has been betrayed. Doubt- He was evidently led into the belief that be had an efficient army ready to move, and flattered himself that he had @ greater force at his command than the Prussians had. Upon these two points turn all the disasters that have overwhelmed his empire. He should have moved into Germany fifteen days earlier than the Germans entered France, but at the frontier it was found that there was no com- missariat, In the time taken to organize one willingness of the United States to extinguish its public debt, the opportunity for victory passed away from him, and by that error all was lost. Tereible, Fighting in France—How Leog Can They Stand Itt Incessant battle has now raged for five or six days between the German armies of the right and centre and the French under Ba- zaine, and still the result, though apparently accepted in Berlin as decisive, seems immi- nent rather than determined. Although the King of Prussia claims that, as the issue of Thursday's battle, he had ‘totally routed the French forces,” we must remember that he has made the same claim for every day of the fighting, beginning with Sunday last. It was asserted by the King in his despatches that the French were routed on Sunday in the battle to the east and south of Metz, and also in each of the successive batiles of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to the west of Metz; but as matter of fact we have seen that the French on the day after each of theso so- called routs have delivered desperate battles. ew Great reliance, therefore, cannot be placed upon his Prussian Majesty's hasty and san- guine despatches, and it may be that, notwith- standing this last ‘‘total destruction” of Thurs- day, there is still another fight in the French, Indeed, it is reported as we write that there was another battle on Friday, His Majesty's several remarks also on cutting Bazaine’s communication and on driving him into Metz are open to a similar criticism. Bazaine has been ‘‘driven into Motz” every day, and at one hour we were assured he must capitulate; yet on Thursday it seems he was near Rezonville, with troops enough to fight the armies of Steinmetz and Frederick Charles for ten hours, and his com- munications have not been so badly cut but he bas been heard from every day. In fact, for the battles of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, both sides claimed the vic- tory, and doubtless the French will match the German claim for Thursday also. De- pendence canuot be placed upon the story of either side. It is only by comparison of the two stories that we can get some glimpse of the real state of the facts. One of our despatches gives a statement of some significance for those who would con- template the issue of all these days of game and murderous fighting near Metz—these days that repeat the slaughters of the Wilderness and the tenacious fighting of the seven days before Richmond. It is reported as from a British source that ‘‘but little remains of the splendid army of Prince Frederick Charles.” In all the battles the Prussians have had the offensive. In the fight in front of Metz the French had the cover of permanent works, and from these their artillery inflicted a very severe punishment on the Prussians, while their own losses were comparatively light, Doubtless in each of the subsequent days the French had the cover of extemporized field works, for we know that for the past few years, since our own war had shown the great utility of this sort of defence, a regular part of their field exercise has been in the con- struction of such works. With the splendidly served French artillery playing on the advanc- ing lines of German infantry, and the French infantry, meantime, in great degree if not completely covered by the field works, it could not but happen that there should be great dis- parity between the losses of the two armies; and thus while we know that the French loss has been very heavy, it seems tolerably safe to assume that the Prussian loss has been double, if it has not even been stil! greater, No history that satisfies the mind has yet been written of the comparative losses of Grant and Lee in the great campaign of the Wilderness ; but Grant’s losses as against Lee's could not have been far short of five to one. As between the French and Prussians it is not so bad as this; for the works with which the French have coyered their lines, since Sunday at least, have not afforded the troops such protection as the carefully prepared works in Virginia afforded the men under Le. But the cases are in a great degree analogous, and no doubt they resemble, especially in the great disparity of losses for the respective sides. In case, then, this battle of Thursday shall prove no more decisive than were the battles of Wednesday, or of Tuesday or Monday; in case the news of Friday’s battle proves true, thera remains this possibility for the French—that the waste of German force may moderate the impetuosity of the German advance; that this German military avalanche, in fact, having ex- hausted its impulse, may be stayed even by the inconsiderable resistance that Bazaine can atill oppose toit. This, we say, is only a pos- sibility. It isa fact, however, that the Ger- mans have not destroyed the force in their front with the suddenness and completeness that their precipitate rush forward seemed to require. They have taken none of the strong places in their rear, They have passed them all. Nothing in the history of war ever made such conduct safe but immediate and crushing victory over the force in the field. If an army by a single blow destroys the force that could keep the field against it, its communications may take care of themsolves, for it is supreme ; put in any other eveut it will be found that the universal principles o } war apply to these Ger- man armies of to-day as they have applied to all other armies. That the Crown Prince may yet have to reinforce the other Ger- man armies is a contingency not so remote as the hurrah over the King of Prussia’s despatches might make it seem, And then where is MacMahon? MacMahon, with an army of inferior force held the Crown Prince for twenty hours, and the Crown Prince, the Prussians report, had two hundred and fifty thousand men. Such a soldier command- ing the French forces that have not yet en- countered the enemy will not be second to Bazaine in the force and tenacity of his battles, and may yet save what, indeed, Paris itself seems to have given up as lost. But Paris, as we have seen before this, gives up before the armies surrender, Tue Waruxke Ninro Rxeemenr paraded Broadway in gallant style yesterday on its way to Camp Jay Gould, near the West End Hotel at Long Branch. The regiment, includ- ing the band and drum corps, was full six hundred strong. All seemed in the finest pos- sible spirits, although they had been warned by their bellicose Colonel, Fisk—who might have been mistaken either for a jolly French marshal of the Bazaine type or for an equally fat and jolly Prassian general—that they were marching forth, not on a holiday spree, but to Lp camp of instruction, Tt has come to pa ss just as we anticipated, The European war has demoralized public tastein the Old World—that is, the taste of Paris in matters of dress, Tho taste of Paris in everything relating to the toilet is an es- sential of Parisian life. This essential has been completely revolutionized. France is about to return to first principles in the matter of civil government, and Paris awaits the result in the matter of costum» with the greatest anxiety. Tbe French modistes may have to alter the sweep of their cutting shears and fashion the public garments, and that at a very early moment too, according to the style of the ancient régime-—-aristocratic, roomy, comfortable and rich in outside solid ornamentation, These artistic industrials may thus really complete the entente cordiale with England by bringing out 9 new court suit, made in almost complete accordance with that which is worn at Backingham Palace and Windsor—breeches, bagwig and sword—and which is put on so. easily by everybody per- taining to the hereditary aristocracy or of “blue blood,” but which has proved so embar- rassing to Mr. Reverdy Johnson and Mr. Disraeli, men of the people, representatives of the masses, both in their present greataess and their past glories. Military affairs continued to absorb the pub- lic attention in France. Paris was compelled to be dressed, however, in some shape or other. Napoleon, who is shrewdly suspected by the clerics of not having ‘served his God with half the zeal with which ho served” the empire and the dynasty, may be left ‘‘naked to his enemies;” but Paris cannot afford to imitate him in this respect; so his quondam subjects in the city huddle on their garments ‘‘any way” and rush round, the ladies, ‘‘perfect frights,” as they assure each daily, to readsthe war bulletins and tend to thesick. This occurs among the people. Distinguished French ladies still battle ear- nestly for the goddess and for style. The Walewskis, Canroberts, Bourbakis and Sestos, with other recognized leaders of the ton, arethere. They appear in black grenadine, with white lace ; in fawn-colored cérpe de chéne over blue; in écrw lawn, trimmed with Valen- ciennes, and in transparent muslins and silk paniers. Thus attired they walk ‘‘the hos- pitals,” go round the ambulance beds, tend the ambulance carts and care for the wants of the wounded, It is still a battle, however, beauty fighting with the pallida mors, Venus and Mars in opposition. Black velvet is being worked with white wool. A new bodice, which is described, has been brought out. Gold and yellow braidings are in use in large quantities for opera cloaks, and a military braid, termed Hercules, is put on white silk and white Cashmere cloaks. Our special fashions writer in Paris enume- rates all this, with many things appertaining to the boudoir situation besides, in the letter which appears in our columns to-day. The Working Women’s Movement. The movement which was inaugurated some time back by the young women employed in the retail stores throughout the city, having for its object the shortening of the working hours, stands in great danger of being seri- ously interfered with by injudicious counsel- lors, Long hours of toil, it will readily be ad- mitted, are injurious, and the working girls, in endeavoring to mitigate the evils which are thus inflicted, have the Godspeed of a very large portion of the community with them in their undertaking. To secure the results, however, which they are aimiag for, it is ne- cessary for them to act in such a manner as will command the respect of their employers, Let them show, which no doubt they can, that it will not entail pecuniary losses on those who employ them if the stores which now keep open until near midnight be closed at an earlier hour ; let them point out the advantages to be derived from the early hour system ; let them prove that by a limitation of hours they can render more effective service to their business during the time they are’ employed. By the adoption of such a course they will at once place themselvesin a position which will claim a direct hearing from those to whom they render service. This is the most practical way of dealing with the subject. The dry goods clerks secured the advantages they now enjoy by resorting to « similar course. Employers will, it is reasonable to expect, grant the re- quests of the girls if it can be proved they will not be losers by so doing; and we think the young women who are now working to secure the short hour system can make a satisfactory exhibit on this score. But while the prospects are fair that the movement will be successful it would be well for the workers in the cause to bear in mind that success rests in their own hands. All the preaching, theorizing and haranguing of a class of individuals who live on cheap fame and are to be found ‘‘ringing in” in every popular movement can avail them very little. They will retard rather than ad- vance the cause. This the working girls | should fully understand. The matter rests between the girls and their employers ; they alone should settle the question, The move- ment is a meritorious one, deserving of en- couragement, and, if managed properly, will succeed, A Great Political Blunder. The laboring classes have finally resolved to enter the political field, and are called upon to enroll themselves in the ranks of the ‘‘Na- tional Labor Reform Party.” The claptrap which is to be the stock in trade of the new party is evinced in its high-sounding title, The attempt to establish a workingman’s party has been tried many times, and as often failed ignominiously. Such must he the fate of the movement started by the Cincinnati Labor Congress, and the sooner the workingmen can be made to appreciate this fact the better. It is impossible for any party to make great | headway without a platform of principles | which embraces all classes of citizens, and has broad, national, not local interests, which truths do not appear to have been considered by the Cincinnati delegates. Another fatal ob- stacle to the success of this scheme is the pro- found ignorance of the commonest principles of finance, international right and justice evinced by the fathers of the new party. If the movement is to be engineered by such demagogues the bantling may be considered dead already; it cannot live under the charge of such nurses. The affair is a great political blunder, and will undo most of the good already effected by the Labor Congress. x MacMakeows Lessce—Our :Yerasbourg The French column of General Ma'eMahony as reported by himself, in the battle of Woertl numbered thirty-five thousand men, \When if left Strasbourg it probably was not leas*.than fifty thousand strong. A HERALD corresjsond« ent, writing from that city on the departuve of MacMabon’s corps, says:—‘‘This force marched out yesterday (August 3). What a sight if was! Eight batteries of ten guns each, all twelve pounders ; and four batteries of mitrail- leuses, ten of those fearful weapons in each battery.” The Marshal, then, marched out of Strasbourg with fifty thousand men, eighty, pieces of artillery and forty mitrailleuses, battalion of those terrible Algerian Turcos and a heavy supporting squadron of cavalry, front, flanks and rear. Where is that imposing column now, the flower of the French army, with all its fearfully destructive equipments? Attacked, enveloped, repulsed and routed from point to point, by the more terrible German column under the Crown Prince of Prussia, it has melted away and disappeared from the field of conflict., Less than fifteon thousand of MacMahon’s corps are reported as having made good their retreat to Chalons, two-thirds of the backward march from Strasbourg to Paris. The dead horsemen and their horses of this late splendid corps, its terrible Turcos, cannon, Chassepots and milrailleuses, were mostly left behind on half a dozen bloody battle fields, and thousands of wounded and unwounded of its officers and men have been marched involuntarily ‘‘on to Berlin.” Our Strasbourg correspondent farther says (August 4):—‘‘During the fortnight I have been here I have seen three hundred thousand men (French soldiers) leave Strasbourg, one way’ and another.” Strasbourg, then, now practically in possession of the Prussians, wag the actual base of operations of Napoleon against Prussia. We are further informed, in the same letter from our correspondent, that a French staff officer ‘‘tells me that I ought not to go to Haguenau, for that quelque chose is going to take place there. I know what he means, His quelque chose is the passing of the Rhine by a bridge of boats now being pre- pared; of that there can hardly be a doubt.” The appointed duty of MacMahon’s corps, then, projecting to the river on the extreme right of the French line, was to lead the way over the Rhine, ‘‘d Berlin.” But Haguenau, Woerth, Wissembourg and Froschweiler told a dif- ferent story, and brought Paris in the terrors of a single night of panic to the verge of chaos and revolution. Such are the chances of war, and such were the consequences rashly challenged by Napoleon and his fussy dittle man Benedetti at Berlin. Fat, OpENiINna AMONG THE THEATRES.—~ We publish to-day, in another part of the HERALD, a completo summary of the musical and dramatic features for the coming sea- son. It will be seen that the prospects of a brilliant and successful season are very pro< mising, and that the advent of the queen of song, Nilsson, and of the sovereign of the dramatic stage, Seebach, will be marked by a general revival of all the branches of amuse- ments, There is more attention paid to the personnel of each musical and dramatic com- pany, and thereby many of the pernicious features of the star system are removed. The managers in every case endeavor to give their establishments a little more freshness an& brilliancy, and have, with unwonted liberality, called in the services of the painter and uphol- sterer. The stagnant condition of the stage in Europe at present, on account of the war,' will likely induce many leading artists of alll kinds to visit America this winter. If so, with the numerous attractions already in the field, we may look out for an Augustan age in musio and the drama here, and a large increase in the number of theatres. ANOTHER COLLISION IN THE HARBOR. A Schooner Instantly Sunk by a Steamship~ Loss of Lite—Reckless Navigation and its Legitimate Consequences. At precisely twenty minutes past nine o’clock last evening the schooner Samuel G. Miles, laden with brick, from Croton Point to Williamsburg, while off pler No, 9 East river, was run down by an inward bound steamship carrying a blue light at her fore- mast head and a red light on her bow. ‘The steamer made no signal and did not even blow a whistle. At the time of the collision the captain of the schooner, Henry Lancaster, was at the whecl and had barely time to jump overboard when she went down. The steamship struck her well forward and cut her clean in two, so that she sunk in aboug haif, a minute. Besides the captain there were on board: two men anda boy. ‘They wereall saved with the! exception of the latter, who was drowned. The lad was employed on board as cook; he was fifteen years’ of age and his parents reside at Hudson City, N. J. His iirst name was Charles, other name unknown. ‘The schooner was owned at Croton Point py Messrs. N. Mareschomt & Brothers and was not insured. After the collision the steamsiiip drifted off towards the Buttermilk Channel and did not lower any boat or make any effort to save the unfortunate men straggling in the water. One of the men named McKay was badly’ iojured, having his arm broken and being hurt in~ Rd dal He was sent to Bellevue Hospital, At the time the collision occurred Captain Taylor, ofthe schooner John W. Dodge, lying at the foot of jer No. 12, Kast river, was standing on the deck of. 18 vessel in conversation With his brother-in-1aw, @ Mr. Simmons, The latter, herring the crash, sprang} to the side and lowered @ boat, in which witir’ Captain Taylor and two others from a ship lying alongside, he pulled hastily to the scene the disaster. They saw the men jump overboard but did not see the rescue, which was eflected by another boat which put out from pler No. 8 They cruised) about im the vicinity for nearly an hour and them returned to the Dodge, From the accounts given by all parties the con- duct of those on board the steamship was very strange, to say the least, and such as might have been expected from the skeleton crew of & veritable Piying Dutchman, This is the second -disaster of the kind in the harbor within a week, and one may imagine from the facts that reckless sailing has become an epidemic in the waters adja- cent to the city, in the same manner that shooting and stabbing atfrays have reached a fever pot th the streety on shore. ‘ALLIELE ARMY. French Canagian Recruits for the Forces of His Holiness. * On Friday there arrived in this city on the one P. M. train, by the Harlem Railroad, a company of young French Canadians—forty in number—en route.to join the Papal Zouaves in Rome. They marched at once from the depot to the steamship St. Laurent, where they passed the night on board, and they sailed yesterday. They pay their own ex- penses to Rome; and the stipulatad of privates: in the Zouaves 18 only two and one-haif cents per day, In addition to their rations, Thetr parents, Wid are in prosperous circumstances, are to provide them with a pecuniary contingent of $109 per year during their service in the ternal City. aoe were accompanied by Father viene, a young Frenclk priest, of some fifteen miles from Montreal, and the chairman of the committee, Five hundred more are to follow by the next French steamer. They have all served in volunteer regiments, aud several have participated in the attempted Fenian war THE COMMUNIPAW STOCK YARDS. During the past week 202 cars arrived at the Com- munipaw stock yards, containing 1,673 cattle, 6,110 hogs and 9,931 sheep, There were slaughtered dure lng the Week 597 cattle, 6,093 hows and 7.082 sLeeD.