The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1870, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE HERALD CORPS OF EUROPEAN WAR CORRESPONDEAT?. We have special correspondents moving With each division of the opposing forces of France and Prassia, and news agencies in the principal capitals--London, Paria, Berlin, Ma- drid, Vienna and Florence—so that nothing of an important news oharacter escapes our vigilant representatives. Our news agencies in the principal cities of Europe, and our system of travelling corre- spondents, have been long established, a fact the readers of the Hzracp have no doubt long since become familiar with, and as our letters from all parts of the Eastern Hemisphere for years past have fully proven. We do not pretend that our comments upon the war, or that our opinions upon the proba- ble success of eliher belligerent in contem- plated movements come by the cable. 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Mere Advertisements, 2—Advertisemenis. 3.—The War: Special Telegrams tothe New York Herald; Severe Fighting on Thursday Report- €a; MacMahon Said to be Approaching Battie; The Prussian March to Paris; ‘The; May “Reach the French Capital in Six ‘Days; Prussian Army Losses Reported in Prague; German Assault on a Mitraillense Battery; Many Prussian Noblemen and a Prince Kitiea; French Violation of Flags of ‘Truce; Prussian Protest to Washington; Kar- bartsm of Frencn Soldiers “in Africa, China and Mexioo;” A New French Army by Draft; Spanish Republican Mission to Paris; Eight Departments of France Held by the Prass:ans. @—Furope: Special War Despatches by Mail to Au- Paris in F of @ Prus-ian Stolen French War Debts aud Loans and Gity Baden, Bavaria and Wurtemburg Saturday, Angust 27, sn70. NTS OF TO-DAY'S UEaALD, #lrm for the North; Berlin Opinion of Napo- Jeon’s Fate; Prussian litary Organization and New Levi ort Enthusiasm and munation ield of Haguenau; at Fight. Fourth Page)—Post Pe: jal Tntelligence—Gov- ion Against Smuggiing —New vs—Jersey Bigots Backing Down—Burgiary 12 venty-cighth street. 6—Editorinis: Lead Ar Bismarck Swamps Napoleon, the French !mpire Gone, but What Then ’—Amusemen! Announcements. ‘7= Telegraphic News fiom ali Parts of the World— News irom Washingion— Movements of Prest- dent Gran'—ihe Ninth leziment the Fall & mouth Park Yachting—Tie ot Horrors—' Spirited Capture t P; uceane by De ‘ark Affra ers of th ives—The Irish : An Invention t Grant Returned to Plague the Inventors—The Colored Labor Convention: The Deliberations of Vur Colored Citizens—Police —T National : The Brooklyn Central oklyn City News— Financial and Commercial Reports e fers—An Faglishwoman nralized—Fierce Assault—Marriiges and Deaths, 10-‘The War (Continued trom ‘third Page;— of General Ryan—Annual Panguet of m- pire Association—Shipping Inteliigence—Ad- vertisements, At--Biexico: Review of Mex ‘Attempt at Suicide by hobia—Auburn Pris¢ tuba: The Dia: ing—Red River: cl Ty: The West India Cable—Sad Case of Demoral- \aation—A Veritable Ghost Story—Sad Affair In Otsego County—A Noble Old Ship—Arrest for Shooting an Onicer—Im ity in Butfaio. 12=Emoluments of Naval € Ws and Port Sur- veyors—The Census of Maine—A Champion Longevity—Adve: News—Desperate sane Man—iiydro- Our MextcaN CorresponpENcE, which will be found on another page, will enable the readers of the HeraLp to ascertain what is going on within the confines of Mexico. Con- trary to expectation, Juarez is again going to enter the lists for the Presidency. How many more will follow the example he sets it is impossible to say. Diaz may take the field, and_ashe is popular he might win the prize, such as it is. Some ONE, not a professional “interviewer,” the other day asked Horace Greeley if he would stand the fire if he should be nominated asthe republican candidate for Governor of this State. Horace replied, ‘I never back out.” If nominated, therefore, he may be expected to “stick.” The report of his being sent as Minister to England is probably only a feint of the enemy to divert his eye from the gubernatorial seat. Fienrixe Say or THE Fentans.—If the report from London be true, that the Emperor Napoleon has declined the services of eight thousand five hundred Ivish auxiliaries ten- dered him by James Stephens, it simply means that Napoleon has no particular iaterest just now in the Fenian programme of an Irish republic or in risking a possible difficulty with England which may make the opportu- of Stephens for Ireland. In short. as a Napoleon is a failure, ie iW YORK HERALD Bismarck Swamps Napoleon=Tho French Empire Gone, but What Then? The overwhelming descent of the armies of united Germany npon the soil of France, after the llttle frontier affair of Saarbruck (Fort Sumter) in which Napoleon commenced this war, has proved two things of the highest importance—First, that Napoleon. plunged into this war, as M. Thiers has asserted over and over again in the Corps Législatif, unprepared for it. His words are, “‘Krance was not ready.” Secondly, events have proved that Prussia, with all Germany at her back, armed and waiting the signal to march, was ready. But how was it that France was not ready for the war, when the declaration was received with such enthusiasm in Paris and with such a resounding chorus from the populace of ‘On to Berlin?” And how was it that Prussia was ready at all points, armed and equipped, when the challenge of war from Napoleon appeared no less a surprise to Berlin than to London or Copenhagen ? There is no diffoulty in the explanation required. Bismarck understood Napoleon much better than Napoleon understood Bis- marck, and this is why Prassia was ready for this war, and why France waa not r...77 wien called upon to faco avout and march for Ber- lin, Aiter the great triumph of Sadowa, which expanded Prussia into the North Ger- man Confederation, the next thing was a demand upon Prussia from Napoleon for some compensations to France in the extension of | her Rhine frontier. Napoleon, with Bismarck, had contrived this beautiful game for Prussia of Sadowa, and France was entitled to somo compensation. Bismarck, however, emphati- cally said, No; we can consent to no surrender of any of the soil of the German States on tho Rhine. Napoleon, like a shrewd gamester who had discovered that he was overreached, was astounded and indignant, and from that hour he resolved upon righting his wrongs; but Bismarck from that hour knew that a war between France and Prussia was coming, aud from that hour he began to prepare for it. Next came the quarrel raised by Napoleon over the fortress of Luxembourg. He would have made that affair a cause of war had not | England interposed and opened the way to the compromise of the demolition of that fortress; for Napoleon was apparently fully satisfied that without any extra preparations the French veterans of the Crimea, of Alge- ria, of Italy and of Mexico were competent to carve their way to Berlin as on a holiday ex- cursion. At last, upon the miserable pretext resuliing from the nomination by General Prim of Prince Leopold, of the Hohenzollern family, for the throne of Spain, Napoleon gains his point of a casus belli, and to the cheers of the senseless mob of Paris sets out to join his army and to humble Bismarck and Prussia at Berlin. But ‘France was not ready,” though in his ignorance of the real condition of things the poor Emperor believed she was ready, as he was ready, to revive again for the empire the ‘‘Gloire” and “* Victoire” which finally carried his uncle to St. Helena. Prussia, on the other hand, was ready; and the South German States, understanding that a French appropriation of German soil was the real Napoleonic idea of this war, were quite as ready as Prussia to meet in the common cause the common enemy. Napoleon, we now see, mado a fatal mistake in plunging into this war. We see that his prestige, his popularily, his empire and his dynasty are doomed; that he has been finally vanquished by Bismarck; that In this war he has done for Prussia what Bismarck with all his skill had failed to do—in accom- plishing the union of the South German States with the North German Confederation. So far, then, in his diplomacy with Napo- leon , Bismarck remains master of the situa- tion and bids fair to take the place of Napo- leon as arbiter of the Continent. But what will take the place of the French empire? Another French republic? A temporary peace may, perhaps, be patched up by Prussia in the restoration -of the Orleanist family; but this will not hold. A French republic, ia a short time, wiil be procltimed in Paris, and with the re-establishment of the republic in France will not Spain, Italy, Austria and Germany be next brought under the convul- sion of a general rising of the republican elements of the Continent? From this con- vulsion shall we have a German empire as its legitimate fruit, with King William as Empe- ror, or a German republican confederation with a President elected by the people? We cannot tell. We have reason, however, to believe that at the very point where Bismarck will be apt to think his work accomplished the work of revolution even in Germany will begin, and that it will not end ghort of a republican confederation. The armed German people now advancing on Paris may return to demand this, and if they demand it who is there to resist them? THe Rervsiioan Starz CoNVENtION—Fan- ron Angap.—The indications from the Western part of the State are that the Fenton wing will have a majority in the Republican State Con- vention, which assembles in Saratoga on the 7th of September. General Merritt, Fenton’s friend, who was displaced from the post of Naval Officer of this port in order to meet certain emergencies in certain combinations, has been elected a delegate to the Convention from St. Lawrence county. Senator Fenton himself has also been elected a delegate, and it is stated that he will enjoy the honor of presiding at the Convention. Fenton is, therefore, evidently ahead in the republican race in this State. What is Conkling about? Where is Murphy? Where is the redoubtable Major O’Haggerty and his Irish republican clubists? Have they thrown up the sponge? Conkling was never much more than a quarter nag, but Tom Murphy is known as a sturdy old draught horse of the Morgan stock, whose withers are never wrung. Where are they all? Tu Gorp PropLem.—If it be a problem to guess the destiny of the gold premium in our unswerving march along the road of peace and prosperity, then there is a foundation of more or less extent for the report that a ‘‘pool” has been organized for speculation in gold, But as the street is utterly mystified as to whether the alleged ‘‘pool” contemplates a ‘‘bull” or “bear” movement, the application of any solu- ] tion other than that of common aenao will be 4 the least wise one, Tho FPrusina Advance on Parts—Our Luteat Despatches. All the transatlantic telegrams, whether dated at London, Berlin or Paris, must be taken with many grains of allowance for the various motives which, directly or indirectly, give them shape and color. From London we are told that “the German Ublans are objects of prodigious terror at Paris; where their arrival is momentarily expected.” The Lon- don Times yesterday announced that King William, leaving a sufficient force before Metz, where the siege works rise like exhalations, had joined the Crown Prince, who was pushing on for Paris, It added that the movements of Marshal MacMahon begin now to be intel- ligible, “A fugitive from “Woerth, avoiding Metz, he passed through the Vosges to the Moselle, to Nancy and to Chalons, where he was reinforced by the Garde Mobile and the volunteers.” According to the Zimes his obvious aim has been to bar the passages and prevent the advance of the Crown Prince on Paris. Affecting to disregard him the Crown Prince moved on his flank past the camp at Chalons, offering MacMahvu battle, which the latter declined, retreating on Rheims, leaving the Chalons camp all to the Prussians, Rheims itself has since been abandoned. The obvious motive tiroughout, on the part of the French, hasbeento avoid a fight. “The Prussians are now within a short march of Paris, where perhaps some slight resistance ‘will be made.” The same journal publishesa despatch from Florence, stating that Prince Napoleon's demand for assistance was declined by Italy. From a private source a special Paris despatch has been received, which says:—‘‘There aro rumors of fighting, but nothing authentic. MacMahon will undoubtedly be in battle to-day (Friday), and there are fears that he will bo defeated. Official circles are very silent, more so than at any former time this week. The enemy marches slowly but surely on the city. This is undeniable.” The London Standard contains a special telegram from Virton (Belgian Luxembourg), giving news of asbarp engagement on Thursday night, at Stenay, near Montmedy. The Prussians were successful, Many of the French wounded are now at Montmedy. From Mindelheim, Bava- tia, it is reported that the bomdardment of Strasbourg by the Prussians has been inces- sant. The citadel had been badly damaged and the walls terribly battered, the Prussian advance post being within five hundred yards of the city walls, Several magazines have ex- ploded in the city and at the fort. Fires have broken out in different places, The Prussian losses have been trifling. To conclude our Lon- don budget of telegrams, it is said that ‘the success of the French loan has no doubt been exaggerated greatly. Paris is still apathetic.” From Berlin we are positively assured that the French stories of a check of the Prussians between Chalons and Verdun are fulse. _It is also stated that one corps of the first and second armies alill confronts Bazaine, while the remainder of the Prussians have marched on Paris. Our Paris telegrams of yesterday chronicle the inundation of the environs of Metz by order of the French authorities; the commu- nication of favorable news from both armies at the Council of Ministers on Thursday; the receipt of information by government that the Prussians are no longer at Chalons, and that the army of the Prince Royal had retrograded; orders given to the mounted gendarmes to resist the raids of the Uhlans; a sortie of the Garde Mobile at Toul on Thurs- day, defeating and killing the greater part of two Prussian regiments ; the decree of Gene- ral Trochu, Governor of Paris, expelling all individuals devoid of the means of subsistence, and whose presence endangers public order and the security of person or property, or whose acts tend to impede the measures of the authorities safety, decree, on Thursday evening. tion that on Thursday the bakeries of for defence and general and, in consequence of this more than twelve hundred arrests They also men- Paris were all visited by the authorities in order to investigate whether they had a sup- ply of flour to last forty days, according to the averaze daily sales. ducing the statement of the Opinion Nationale that a new army is forming behind the Loire, and by recording the fact that the man who attempted to assassinate MacMahon. was promptly tried and was shot yesterday. They conclude by repro- Contradictory and confused as are the latest despatches from Paris, Berlin and London, they all agree in representing the Prussians as marching on towards Paris. Mr. Gaillardet, in his admirable despatches to the Courrier des Htats Unis, substantially confirms this view of the situation. He says that the Prus- sians are advancing towards Paris, ‘‘but with hesitation.” We shall soon learn whether this Prussian advance on Paris is to be arrested by the French themselves or by the intervention of foreign Powers, The whole world is inte- sted in the preservation of the French capi- tal from pillage and destruction. Humors of the Political Campaign. The nomination in Maine of Philander J. Carlton as a democratic candidate for Con- gress has provoked the revival of an ancient Down East camp meeting hymn as a sort of electioneering dodge. The verses beginneth thus (twanging metre) :— Rise, Philander, let’s be marchin’, Ev'ry one his true love sarchin’, and soon, There are one hundred and nine verses in the hymn originally, and when they are sung with a good resonant chorus of twang- ing Yankee voices the effect is absolutely astounding. There is no time for stump speaking when that hymn is around, The campaign in Kentucky has also been initiated in a manner that betokens the infu- sion into it of an unusual amount of fun and drollery, as will be seen by a brief sketch given in another column. This reminds us of those good old times when the lines were drawn between whig and democrat, and when, in a Western electioneering campaign especi- ally, the possessor of the greatest amount of wit and repartee was sure to be the greatest favorite with the voters. We trust the spirit of the political campaign thus began so cheerily will continue until the victory is lost or won by either side. How much happier it is for us to be thus indulging in the humors of a pleasant political campaign ina republic than in the horrible campaigns ' of blood and carnage which now mark the § once fairest elds of monarghical Europe! ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Herald’s Facts and the Fiction of Ite Competitors. Tbo newspaper proper of our time is, or should be, an instantaneous intellectual pho- tograph, ao to speak, of the world’s activity during each and every day, if it be published in any great centre of human intelligence and have at its command the brains &nd the means to render the picture complete, It would be but a trite comparison, and a feeble one as well, to liken the editor's pen to the wand of Prospero and the subtle sprite of the electric wire to delicate Ariel, since the agencies which the press now so amply controls and directs with such unerring precision have @ power, @ comprehonsiveness and a ubiquity that far surpass even the imaginative wonders of the great poet's fancy. They see, feel, hear, analyze, compare, sift, condense, put together again and transmit to the reader all that occurs beneath the broad heavens, from the celestlal wonders of the sky itself to the minute events that hourly Interest us and our fellow creatures within that narrow circle of our individual lives which all men love to christen “home.” Such {s the idea + that gave birth to the Nuw York Hegarty and has Inspired its growth through the lifetime of a toilful and anxious generation, and such are the genil that we summon to our aid. During the long period of intense effort and unremitting vigilance which have made the HERALp the one great cosmopolitan journal of the nineteenth cen- tury—a title which we have laboriously earned, and which has been accorded to us all the world over, even by the ablest and most successful of our contemporaries—empires have risen and fallen; ancient systems, hoary with time, have passed away; races of men havo emerged from servitude or sank into decline, and science, with her wondrous applications of steam, electricity and photography, has created almost literally ‘‘new heavens anda newearth.” Our grand success has pioneered and cleared the way, set the example, sus- tained the ambition and encouraged the pro- gress of a host of competitors in all parts of the globe. We have written exact history while instructing the millions, and have done this so faithfully and completely that were some stupendous natural or political convul- sion to overwhelm the civilization of this epoch, and were nothing of it all to survive but the complete files of our paper, the his- torian of future ages, when the light began to dawn again, would find little difficulty in drawing a faithful, lite-like, vivid picture of the manners, customs, personages and every day occurrences of the nineteenth century, wlth its grandeur and its gloom, ite pathos and its humor, from the exhaustless annals that he would thus find ready to his hand, But the celerity with which this astonishing record is made challenges attention as strik- ingly as its completeness. In a few hours facts are transmitted to our editorial table literally from the uttermost ends of the earth ; and it is a scientific tact that they actually out- speed the flight of time itself as the sluggish hand of the clock marks its progress on the dial. Despatches from the far East dated in the afternoon of any given day at the place of starting may be imparted by us to the public in full print in the morning of that same day, and this is a feat so often performed that it has ceased to excite any special mention, al- though the news is read in New York appa- rently before it left the antipodes. Another feature which is among the most gratifying of all is that these great results are chiefly the feuit of private enterprise. One remarkable instance among many it may not be unfair to recall. The special correspondents of the New York Herarp telegraphed the full details of the great victory of the British expeditionary foxge at Magdala, in Abyssinia, directly to our office before one word of the news was known in London, and the first inti- mation that the most powerful government on’ earth received of it was by our immediate de- spatch to the Queen, a fact that was duly ackgowledged by the crown in the account that by our aid was published next morning in the London Zimes simultaneously with our own, Since that conspicuous instance we have repeatedly illustrated similar enterprise, and we are doing so now on a grander scale than ever, in the accounts we daily furnish of the present great war in Europe. Some of our contemporaries are exulting rightfully over heavy despatches received from France and elsewhere of battles fought and won, and we can afford to wish them joy; for, while they na- turally take pride in a little effort, here and there, we are regularly and constantly plac- ing ten times as much before the public. Since the Franco-German conflict began, four weeks ago, the New York HzRatp has paid in drafis through J. S. Morgan & Co., bankers at London, more than thirty-five thousand dol- lars for the outfit of correspondents and the receipt of despatches from every interest- ing point involved. From London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Switzerland, Florence, Rome and the various scenes of military collision we have given the most diversified, exact, complete and com- prehensive letters aud details, obtained with- out regard to risk or expense, and yet have found no cause to make any particular pother on the subject. The rales of the Associated Press require us to place all telegraphic news received at the disposal of the other papers, which, nevertheless, seem willing to claim the entire credit. What we have done, are doing, and intend to do, is in our ordinary everyday habit of newspaper life, and there is no limit to our exertion or to the efficiency of the means we employ, utterly without regard to cost, so that we shall but keep the Heratp where it has ever been, at the head of the world’s journalism in our day and generation, In doing this we feol that we discharge a lofty duty to the profession as well as to the public and to the age and country in which our lot is cast. Good old Bishop Horne has written that ‘‘the follies, vices and consequent miseries of multitudes displayed in a newspaper are so many admo- nitions and warnings, 80 many beacons con- tinually burning to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.” With this view, and for the good of the whole com- munity, as well as for our own high satisfac- tion, we continue to make the New York Heratp the only thorough, all-comprehensive and absolutely reliable index of the age—the only complete trangeript of the life of men and nations existing in this wonderful era when each hour is worth to progress years of the sluggish times gone by. General Walbridgo ow Our National aad State Polltics—His Ticket Graut and Greeley—Our Ticket Greeley fer Kng- land, By way of varlety, and in view of the public interest in our approaching fall elections, wo publish to-day the views of that old and expe- rienced campaigner, General Walbridge, on the politice! situation, looking to the succession at Washington and at Albany, First, with regard to our next President, General Walbridge contends that, considering these important facts—that General Grant in his management of our national affairs has carried out the wishes of the ‘people; that he has given us an eminently sound admilaistra- tion, and pure and free from suspicion of cor- ruption or debauchery; that he has done well in establishing peace at home and in avoiding all complications with foreign Powers—the renomination and the re-election of Grant may be pronounced 4 political and national necessity. So far as the republican party is concerned, we are sure there will be no dissenting voice to these views, and so, as the renomination of General Grant in 1872 may accordingly be considered a settled ques- tion, we need not follow any farther the argu- nient of General Walbridge touching his can- didate for the next Presidency. But, in the next place, he says the repabli- can party must make a national fight in the State of New York; that “‘the battle must open here on the boldest and squarest issue.” He says, indeed, that “there are two issues in this New York canvass upon which the people will be called to pass. The first is tho fnan- cial results of General Grant’s administration. The second is whether under our present State government there is any hope of a free and fair election.” These are the issues upon which, he says, this fight must be fought in the Empire State—‘‘all other issues must be postponed.” The issues of protection and free trade are outside issues, and temperance and the liquor questions are disturbing ele- ments. They canbe postponed, ‘Financial integrity and the purity of the franchise,” an honest administration of the public treasury and honest elections, are the true republican platform. And here, too, we think General Walbridge speaks like a wise and sagacious politician, Thirdly, Horace Greeley, on this platform, is his candidate for Governor; and as a national candidate, as a candidate who would strengthen and not weaken the party, as ‘‘a candidate who. will not only be respected by Americans but trusted as well by our foreign voters,” as a candidate who is the champion of liberty, not only at home, but for ‘Ireland, Hungary and Germany.” In summing up his argument for this candidate General Walbridge says :—‘‘With Mr. Greeley at the head of the canvass and the platform of financial integrity and the purity of the ballot box the republi- cans can catry New York by a decisive majority and preserve the preseat republican delegation in Congress.” Looking, however, at the results of our last regular State elec- tion, and at the complete identification of the republican party with the cause of Germany in this European war, we think that General Sigel, a German Union soldier, would bea more available candidate of the party this time for Governor than Mr. Greeley. Moreover, it is reported from Washington that ‘‘the President will, in o short time, ten- der the mission to England to Hon. Horace Greeley ;” that the proposed nomination “‘has +been informally discussed by the President and Cabinet officers, and that they all, particu- larly Secretary Fish and Secretary Robeson, consider that the selection of Mr. Greeley would be eminently wise and proper, in con- sideration of his great ability and eminent public services.” And why not? In his plain republican costume (and we must insist upon that faithful old white coat) Horace Greeley, the philosopher, would make an impression as profound upon the gaudy royal court of Bng- land as that in his simple suit of linsey- woolsey made by the philosopher Franklin upon the gaudy royal court of Louis XVI, including the ladies thereof. Again, though something of a warrior for Germany in this European conflict, we know that Philosopher Greeley isa peace man and so opposed to the killing of men on philosophical principles that he opposes the hanging of murderers as a barbaric punishment. He, therefore, in Eng- land, as the representative of the United States, could be relied upon in behalf of peace. We believe, too, that he holds the general Ameri- can view of those Alabama claims. Weare sure that he could not-be bamboozled, as the luxa- rious Reverdy Johnson was, by gorgeous din- ners of English roast beef and plum pudding ; for we know that in Greeley’s estimation a loaf of bran bread and a mutton chop, topping off with a bowl of mush and milk, is a dinner for a king. Sixthly and lastly, considering what he knows about farming—though his tur- nips, they say, do cost him two dollars apiece in the raising—Mr. Greeley is the man to represent in England the great agricultural interest of the United States. Seriously, however, we think that while Horace Greeley would creditably maintain the interests, honor and dignity of the United States as our representative at the important Court of St. James, we fear that our miserable politicians have so mixed him up with the squabbling cliques and factions of the republi- can party of this State that as the candidate of this party for Governor this fall he would signally fail. The mission to England, there- fore, asa stroke of home policy in behalf of peace, as well as in view of General Grant's foreign peace policy, is in our opinion the proper appointment for our philanthropic con- temporary. Tae Srorm Kine, who rang the electric bells so merrily for an hour or two in the Hzratp Building on Thursday night last to announce his approach, and soon after- ward made the marble fronts of Broadway for miles and miles brighter than the blaze of noonday with the flash of his artillery, has been playing tho mischief up among the Catakills and off in staid Connecticut. On the same evening when he bombarded us in New York with infinitely heavier ordnance and vaster illumination than those that nigbtly light up the bastions, domes and spirva of Strasbourg, his batterles were crashing among the rocks and foresta that line the I Hudson river from the Palisades to far ho- yond Kingston, At the latter mountain towa five persons were instantly killed by a single stroke of lightning, and the news recelved at Montrose announces fearful fires and casualties from the fury of the tempest else- where, At Mianus, in Connecticut, a fine new stone church was shattered, and a large brush factory near Port Chester was totally, destroyed. In the metropolis we have seer no such battle of the elements since the awful thunderstorm that fitly made the granite edifices around us quiver like aspen leaves om the night of that no less appalling crime—the Nathan murder, rei Special War Despatches by Mixile We publish an instalment of our special cov- respondence from the European continental centres and other. points more exactly near te the seat of war to-day. The letters are dated in Paris, Oarlsrahe, Berlin, on the field of Haguensu, ia Frankfort-on-the-Main, im the Meld at the headquarters of the army division of Baden, and in Bruschal, Baden. We have advices from Hesse Darmstadt and Russia besides. Our correspondents narrate the his- tory of events to the 18th of August. From the Helds of battle we have again proof of the resolute determination of the Germans atid of the gallantry and esprit of the French. The bloody field of Haguenau, as {t was surveyed by our writer after the battle, afforded « frightful attestation of both. The combat raged flercely over a space of ground two miles in length. This area was covered fo its full extent with the dying and the dead of the two armies. The dead bodies were Isid ta every posaitle gs which can be induced by the convulsions re dread mortal agony fn men who are cut off suidenly and, in the pride of thelr strength. Horses andogiders were mangled in shattered masses, reno and German soldiers were stretched side by side, peacefully at length, and ‘in death they were not divided.” I+ was the “‘one red burial, blent,” like as at Waterloo, but renderod. atill more ghastly by the effects of the mitralllease,’ the Chassepot and the needle gun. In this correspondence we have an inlima- tion of the probable consequences of the war, of the work of the peo- ples behind the backs of the Empe- ror, tbe kings and the generals, Paris had initiated the great French political crisis 5 Paris was about to speak for the people againsé the dynasties. Paris was determined to “‘con~ quer or die” in a grand French effort for the rout of the Prussians; but Paris was equally determined to be free, one, national and inde- pendent, after France had struck the decisive blow. War loans, debts, pensions and deco~ rations, and crosses and glory were spoken of onevery side in Paris; but tumult came, above all, in face of the solid, hard fact that the Prussians were at the door of Paris, and that the Prussians appeared to be determined to come into the city nolens volens, almost after the fashion and order of Marshal Pellissier before the Malakoff at Sebastopol, when he said to the French storming party, “If we can't goin at the door we must get in by the window.” Baden, Bavaria and Wurtemberg remained intensely national for the North, Napoleon was regarded by the South German ladies as a sort of resuscitated ogre, so that his Majesty is unfortunate in every way; repulsed at the Rhine and frowned on by the “darkly, deeply, beautifully blue” eyes of the South. Berlin said that Bonaparte deserved it all; deserved everything that is oruel and | severe, from defeat in the field to expulsion from Paris, exclusion from the society of the fair and a general personal retrocession from the Tuileries towards Ham or “any other. place.” Frankfort endorsed Berlin with men, with money, with arms, food, wine, lager and the ‘God speed.” In such manner our special writers enable the American public to comprehend the vast European complication, and so do we prepare the American people for the acceptance of the consequences of its ulti- mate solution, Cuban News. Our late correspondence from Cuba plainly indicates that the revolutionary army ia the field is still actively engaged in harassing the Spaniards. Almost all tho movements of the Cubans show that they are watchful, ready to take every advantage of the enemy and seldom letting slip a chance, Together with the successes which we are in- clined to believe have of late fallen to their share, there is another element to which we have more than once before referred, which will yet prove, and even now to some extent is proving, a good ally for the revolutionary cause, This is the slavery question, The planters do not like tive prospects before them. They see in the distance the abolition of the institution which has enriched them, Either asa Spanish colony or as a Cuban republic slavery is doomed on the island, The slave- holders, however, feel bitter against Spain be- cause that country has resolved on the aboli- tion of the system. It is plain that with slavery protected and cherished by the mother country the slaveholders would almost to a man have stood by Spain in this fight as against the establishment of a republic that would de- prive them of the unwilling labor of slavery. The case is different now, and in the luke-~ warmness of the slaveholders the Cxbang find an ally worthy of consideration, pPadelneeietae rr" 95°% Ir 1s THe Porutar InpREssion that prices in Wall street are regulated by the great gene~ ral laws of finance, but to those who are ime bued with this theory it must be difficult to ac. count for the dulness of that region in the midst of the exciting news from Europe. The truth is, Wall street fluctuations are entirely artidoial. Just at present the operators, aud. cliques who adjust prices are junketing it over the country or rusiicating at the fashionable watering places. ‘The machine needa,ita engin neers. Hence the inactivity, SUDDEN DEATH OF AN OLD NEWARK GITIZEN. At the advanced age of seventy Mr. John Britt, ex-Alderman of the Twelfth ward and ex-Chosen Freeholder of Essex county, breatned his last, quite suddenly, at his home in Newark early yesterday) morning. Shortly before ono’ o'clock he requeste® his wife %o get hima drink of wat; he did not feet well. She did, and, at tho same time, sent for Fred Boweykamper, a neighbor. When the latter arrived, | la a few minutes, the old gentleman was no more, He leaves a handsome property, estamated to ba worth over $100,000, and for nearly hal€a coulury has lived in Newark, whore he waa rogarded as oue of the best of German-American citinons He wae Widely kyown 44 & Carper Mortst, :