The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1870, Page 6

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Volume XXXV............cee eee eee eres eNO, 24D THE HERALD CORPS OF GUROPEAN WAR CORRESPONDENTS. ° We have special correspondents moving with each division of the opposing forces of France ead Prussia, and news agencies in the principal capitals—-London, Paris, Berlin, Ma- drid, Vienna and Florence—so that nothing of an important news character escapes our vigilant representatives. r 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 HraTbd 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 either belligerent in contem- plated movements come by the cable. 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A—Advertisements, 2—Advertisemenis. 3—The War: Special Telegrams to the New York Herald; A Battle in Progress on Monday; A Great Battle Imminent on the Belgian Frontier; MacMahon Not m Communicauon with Bazaine; The Prussian Line Extending and in Full Sweep Onward; Review of the German War Operations in France; A French War Vessel refuses to Leave the Thames; Reac- onary Conspiracy in Soutn Germany—City intelligence—A Westchester Dogberry—Serious Accident in Newark. $--Europe: Special Despatches by Mail to August 19; The First Battles of the War—Why Prussia Won and Why France 1 Critical Military Review of the Two Great Armies; How the News of Triumph was Received in Berlin; Napoleon’s Special Mission to Denmark; Prus- sian Superiority Over the French Army Sys em; Austrian Opinion ot the Vecisive Battle. Surope (Continued from Fourth Page)~Ghostly Phenomenon in Lawrence, Mass,—Criticisms of New Books—A Woman's Fatal Revenge— Polltical Intelligence—The Gallows : The Hang- ing of a Murderer in Texas, 6—Ediorials: Leading Article on the Overthrow of Napoleon, What Next?—Amusement An- nouncements, Y—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Another Mining Disaster in Pennsyl- vanla and Six Men Killed—News from Wash- ington—Return of the Ninth Regiment from Long Branch—Aquatics—Up for a Term—Long Island Longevity—Monmouth Park Races— General Ryan’s Cuban Mission—Suspected Ar- son in Jersey—Amusements—Personal 1ntel- ligencc—vorto Rico—Better than Vaterlana— Burglars and Incendiaries—Movemeuts of President Grant~Honor to Bishop Bayley— Business Notices, S—Mianight Murder : Sequel of the Twenty-seventh street Shooting Affray: Death of Casey—The Cold Spring Murder. Broomstick Homi- cide—After a Bohemian—The Dead Shot: In- quest Over the Body of the Sneak Thief Shot in Brooklyn—Raiiroad Collision near Trenton— New York City Courts—The Ridge Street Dis- covery—“Big Mag’s” Hatchet Practice—A Fenian Fuss—Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meet- ing : Description of a City by the Sea. 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—Frutt in Oswego—Mairiages and Deaths—Advertise- ments. 10—The Clutches of the Law: Arrest of the Sup- posed Murderer of Mr. Nathan—The National Game—City Politics—Brookiyn City News— Chess Matiers—Real Estute ‘Transfers—Uncle Sam’s Census: All but Ninety Election Dis- 7 f the City Enumerated—Shipping In- ce—Ad\ ertisements, 1#—Napoleon, in asking, Asking Too M at this crisis to France, a guarantee of his dynasty. The dynasty has become a second- ary question with the French people with the failure of the empire. Is Iv an Awrut Mistake ?—It seems that Governor Orr, of South Carolina, is likely to be repudiated by his old friends. The Ander- gon Intelligencer, the Keowee Courier, the Abbeville Press and Banner, the Greenville Enterprise, the Laurensville Herald, to say nothing of other journals more removed from the seat of Judge Orr’s supposed strength, all repudiate his recent letter and its extraor- @inary sentiments. The Columbia Phaniz gays :—‘‘The people that formerly stood by Judge Orr stand by him no longer. His po- litical influence in the up-country is gone.” Governor Orr appears to have made an awful is in this business, so far as his personal and friendships are concerned, but far it will affect his political interests re- be geen, ‘The Overthrow of Napoleon—What Next? Bismarck has again proved himself too much for Napoleon. He has achieved a triumph greater than that of 1866; for his success then only set aside every obstacle to Prussian am- bition except France, and as France was the greatest obstacle of all, the success that had no other effect upon her but to excite irritation and enmity was not complete. It is the glory of Bismarck’s latest achievement that it removes the last and greatest obstacle to Prussian policy. It sets aside France, the only remain- ing Power competént or likely to stand in Prussia’s way. Napoleon was inveigled into this war by the acts of the Prussian Premier just when Prussia was ready for it, and when the Emperor had lulled himself toa false secu- rity and faith in his power by the great politi- cal nostrum, the plediscite; when he had deceived himself by the device that in his stronger days he used only to deceive others; and the same acute politician who secured his inactivity in 1866, who by shrewd contrivance of appearances duped him to stand still when he should have done his utmost in moving, finally lured him into the blunder of moving when he should have stood still—fooled him into declaring a war whose least doubtful result must be his own downfall. His last appear- ance on the throne of France is scarcely in a more dignified character than that of a puppet worked by the Prussian Premier. He was tempted in 1866 by the alluring bait of the Rhine frontier. It seems to be a monomania with the French nation that it will never be happy till the commonplace Rhine is its eastern limit. Because that was once the limit of France, and France lost it, the nation’s pride is bent on ifs recovery; and Napoleon saw the prestige it would give to his reiga and reflect on the dynasty if he could restore that glory. With the hope of the chance to seize it, or the promise that he should have it, he stood still ; and the war ended and the promise and the opportunity slipped away for ever. But in 1870 he saw slipping away not only the chance for a Rhine frontier but the glory of keeping intact the dignity and bonor of France, He saw the nation humiliated in his reign, and the nation, skillfully irritated by the arch enemy, saw things the same way, and thus he was thrust and duped into war. Napoleon’s vanities and peculiar position uncovered him to the arts of Bismarck. His intellectual furniture is made up in great part of the splendid rubbish left by the resolute soldier of fortune, his uncle. Napoleon knew how to utter on occasion things that seethe with the spirit of democracy. He never suffered himself, however, tobe controlled by them. The nephew treasures these utterances as a dynastic gospel, and does not distinguish between what the first Emperor believed in and what he said to humbug others. He is thus involved in continued inconsistencies, and it is because of the practical application of one of these pretty Napoleonic theories that he is now in such imminent peril. It is be- cause there is a united Germany that France finds herself in the hands of an overwhelm- ingly powerful foe; yet Louis Napoleon tried to excuse to France his inactivity in 1866 by taking a position for the Bonapartes on a political formula that assumed to reconstruct Europe by the aggregation of peoples accord- ing to nationality. This would do many things in Europe that France might contemplate without displeasure. It would give all Italy to the Italians, and so prove a fair stroke for the Latin nations. It would rend Austria piecemeal. It would put the British empire in liquidation. It would disturb Russia, It would take from Prussia her half digested cut of Poland. All this would be satisfactory in a Napoleonic view, perhaps. But there is one other thing it would do, that in its danger to France would infinitely overbear all self-complaceat views of the disasters of others: it would give her a great German nation for her next door neighbor—a nation of people hostile by tradition, opposed in char- acter and sentiment, and having century-long scores of humiliations to revenge. It would at one step forfeit that supremacy through the division of others that the political policy of every French dynasty has built up. Commit- ting himself to this philanthropic blunder, Napoleon made it easier for Bismarck to ‘assimilate all the North German States, and to approach the States of South Germany with the conditional alliance that now puts Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemberg side by side with Prussia in arms. And who doubts that the Emperor has at last helped the Prussian over his most difficult ground by furnishing the war whose fire shall fuse these ali into one nation? Yet what are all these events but so many lessons teaching the people their power ? Bismarck and the Prussian monarchy move in a whirl of success and supremacy just now because their purposes coincide with the national development and tendencies of the great German people. They assist and give the opportunity to this development, and in so doing they encourage, beyond all calculation, its further progress. What is naturally the ultimate aim of this progress? Not to satiate the ambition of a few Prussian pritices, but to emancipate a‘ great people from all tyranny and enable them to work out their destinies, subject only to such a rational control by government as they may then in their own intelligence and freedom choose to submit to. In other words, the tendency in Central Europe to-day is toward a grand German republic. In setting free the forces that have enabled them to conquer France and overthrow Napoleon, the men who now direct the Prussian policy have set free the forces that will drive them out—that will tumble the Prussian throne, with other thrones, and by which the people can conquer their right of self-government. In the brain of universal Germany this idea has come by such imper- ceptible steps that it may be called a growth— first to be, next to be free; first to be assured of existence, next to qualify the modes of that existence. Germany is now essentially one. The people of all her States have fought side by side for a common German purpose, ex- cepting only the people of the Austrian States, who have, however, given their active sympa- thies and open encouragement. Thus the first great stage is secured, and the second is not far away, for we live in a time of rapid transition. The next study of the Prussian King and his Minister may be not how to further develop and wield the power of the German veovle, but how to control and aun- HERALD, TUESDAY, press it. The Austrian monarchy and the French monarchy are two foes the German nation has crushed, The Prussian monarchy must be the next victim, Our State Politics— The Republican Face tions. The fight between the Fenton and Conkling factions does not seem to be at all ended. No matter how peaceful the surface of things may be, the rumblings of a smothered volcano aro discernible to any one who will lend a patient ear to the subject. Moreover an actual breaking out occasionally occurs which throws the red hot lava all around the camps of the factions. This was the case in a recent republican caucus in Utica, the home of Conkling, the chief and champion of one of the factions, where Fenton delegates were chosen to a county convention, despite the earnest efforts of the Conklingese. Of the effects of this defeat the Utica Odserver (democratic) says :— ‘The defeat of Conkling tn Utica last night by the Fenton forces must make the Federal oftice-holders shake in their boots. The United States Senator who 18 unable to carry the ward caucuses in his own city cannot long retain the confidence of the Presl- dent. Look out for the Feutonian scalping-knife | How sweet and pleasant it must be to serve one’s country, in places where the prospect of holding on is so uncertain as it happens to be about this time as regards federal offices in this city! But we are inclined to think that it is not altogether the spoils in the New York Custom House that just now embitter the leading republicans in this State against each other, although the disposition thereof may have had no little influence in serving as the entering wedge. to open the split. With ordi- nary sagacity these leaders might take a look beyond the Custom House and examine a new element of strength that is every day growing more and more powerful as an auxiliary—a sort of political mitrailleuse—in the ranks of a the republican party, We mean the great German element of the country, which has very adroitly been swung into republican inte- rests by the party managers. This element will not only be effective to the republicans in the coming State and Congressional elec- tions, but will also prove of great advantage in the Presidential contest in 1872. And it is not only inthe Western States this German strength will exhibit itself. In this city and State it has been wielded on behalf of the de- mocratic party, because that party opposed the Excise law and was in every way more liberal, according to Teutonic‘ideas, than the republican party. It was their love for lager and a rational enjoyment of the Sabbath holi- day that induced many republicans to fall in line with the democracy and march with them to the polls, But a few short months has wrought a very great change in all this. The German finds that his love for his Fatherland preponderates over that of his love for his favorite beverage. Hence, when he dis- covers that the democratic leaders decline to sympathize with his countrymen in the tre- mendous conflict now going on in Europe, and, on the contrary, throw the weight of their influence to array the party as a party in support of the enemies of his Fatherland, he very naturally arranges himself on the side of his brothers’ friends, and sinks the lager in @ flood of patriotism. The republican leaders, therefore, are no doubt calculating how they can use these newly found allies to their own advantage. Conkling broke ground and ‘“‘struck ile” when he came out for the Prussians some time ago in Saratoga. He made himself famous among all ‘‘mein Herrs” for the bold position he assumed at that time, and he is now regarded by the Germans as the head and front of the republican party inthe State. All-this, it will be observed, is to secure the co-operation of. the Germans in such future movements, both State and nationally, as Senator Conkling, who is comparatively a young man, may think it advisable for him to inaugurate for the benefit and the glory of Senator Conkling. A few days, however, will demonstrate the extent and bitterness of this factional fight among the republicans in this State. The State Convention meets in Saratoga on the 7th of September, and then the “cat will ba let out of the bag.” Where Is tse Empire? There is some appearance that the empire is playing dead, but has still vitality enoagh to come out if the sun should shine, It has kept astonishingly out of sight, and has not invited any blows upon its head by coming before the public. Napoleon put Trochif in command at Paris, and seemed to sink his sovereignty in that act; and now we hear of Trochu and the Committee of Public Defence, which is in great part the Ministry. No other government has been heard from save once, when the Empress Regent has been reported as in collision with Trochu. But now there is a discussion on foot as to what the government shall do in case of the siege of Paris, and the general opinion is that it should remove itself from the scene of conflict—to Lyons or some other distant point. Suppose it should do this—what then? Will this not open the door for the revolution wider than ever? With the empire thus quitting the national capital, and the Prussians not entering, what stands in the way of a declaration of the republic that would meet the views of all France? For the government—which is the Regent—to abandon Paris will be to abdicate, See ET ee » Rum aNp GunrpowpEr.—The homicide at the bathing establishment is one more illus- tration of the consequences of the conjunc- tion of two such dangerous agencies as fire- arms and firewater. Our hot-blooded citi- zens of Irish nativity will of course quarrel and fight, and all the more of a Saturday night, when whiskey is accessible; and this would pass off with some headaches or cracked crowns if they could restrict them- selves to the national shillelah. But here comes the difficulty with their little rows as they appear in our city. Here it is the re- volver that figures, not the shillelah, and the revolver or musket is more dangerous than the blackthorn. Tue Turn or THe Tipk,—The tide of sum- mer travel is beginning to turn from the country to the city, and with the incoming of September the stampede from the seaside, the springs, the mountains and -the lakes hack to town and to business will be general, The season of summer pleasures is passing away aud the aeasoa of the fall busingss is at band. a's uGust Our Special History of the War—The Bat- tles, the Crowns and the Peoples. Our special writers at the seat of war in Europe and at other points near to the scene of conflict, but not actually within range of the guns, enable us to continue our history of the progress of the great struggle between France and Prussia in the written compila- tion which appears in our columns to-day. Dating at Carlaruhe, one of our correspondents reviews the entire military system, both of France and Prussia, as it has just been presented in the field. He furnishes an able, exhaustive, analytical and very interesting exhibit of the condition, organiza- tion, drill, discipline and general morale of the contending hosts. His keen and practised eye foresaw that Prussia would gain from the beginning. Her armies were prepared and found to the smallest minutie requisite for the insurance of efficent service in the fleld. From the needle gun and cannon to a needle and thread and button the War Office economies of Berlin were perfect. Bismarck and Moltke had organized and found everything. The work was accomplished silently and quietly. Its consequences have astonished the world and noised the reputation of Prussia to the very extremest confine of civilization, French im- petuosity, vim, valor and individual courage and recklessness of life counted for nothing against this provident solidarity. Napoleon was not even the ‘nephew of his uncle,” so far as regarded the details of the War Office. He imagined that everything was ready because he was told so by others. He had forgotten the maxim ‘‘The hope which can within be sought, scorn from without to bor- row.” The army of the first Napoleon, when about to march to Russia, would have shamed the late army of the Rhine by the complete- ness of its preparation, notwithstanding the vast progress which has since been made by scientific appliances for military uses. The French troops when on the route showed that they were demoralized by assoclaiion “with the Algerian Turcos and Zouaves, Africa proved itself the “beast” of the army. Our writer noticed this immediately. He came to the conclusion, which is expressed in his letter, that Mac- Mahon was beaten from the very beginning, and also that the Marshal would not retrieve his position, To-day his inference is sus- tained by the facts. From Berlin we have special reports of the effect which was produced in the Prussian capital by the news of triumph from Wissembourg and Woerth. The Crown Prince and Steinmetz were acknowledged as the heroes of the hour, due honor being paid to the energy, courage and wisdom of good old King William. The fatal error made by MacMahon, at the very outset, in the field, was acknowledged without reserve by the Prussians. The populace of Berlin was not com- pletely satisfied notwithstanding all this. The people demanded revenge for Saarbruck, an ungoldierlike and unchristian sentiment, but one which was tolerated, if not encouraged, amid the tears of the widows, orphans and personal friends of the slaughtered Germans. Peace even was spoken of in Berlin. It must be stringent in its terms, reclamatory in its territorial readjustment against France, solid in its guarantees of se- curity from future insult from Paris, and unre- servedly condemnatory or damnatory of the Bonaparte dynasty among the sovereigns, Neutral mediation was likely to be entirely in- effectual with the Prussians unless the neutrals squared their diplomacy in accordance with this feeling and such resolves. On the shores of the Baltic there were alarm, hope, fear and anxiety. One of our special writers experienced the bad effect of the existence of such a con- dition of the public mind. He was arrested at Pillau and thrown into prisen at Kénige- berg. He remained in durance during a space of eight days. He suffered in Gistinguished company, experienced kindness on account of the Heratp and was again made free to admire the blessings of peace and unity and fraternity. Napoleon's special mission to Denmark failed most completely. “Denmark cannot afford to revive the Schleswig- Holstein question just now. Our writer refers to the pleasing incident of how General Moltke, the famous Prussian commander, was educated in a Danish military college and held his first commission in the Danish army, So much for our special reports from the field. The cui bono of the grand convul- sion is considered by our writers also, It appears in the shape of the elec- trified, joyous, trembling democracies. The peoples were agitated; they were ready to move. The inspiration of a coming complete enfranchisement was felt and cherished in Rome. From the Holy City the light was radi- ated to Vienna, to Milan and to Madrid. The peoples awaited the result of a great battle (a decisive stroke) by the crowned heads; be- tween imperialism by the coup d'état and the plebescitum and royalty by divine right and priestly unction, The result of the ‘battle will, the democracy assert, change the map of Europe in a day. Toil and industry will come to be the war making power, the thrones be obliterated for the future, the fraternity of the races be accom- plished, and hand clasped in hand in friend- ship from the Tiber to the Pruth, from the Dnieper and Vistula to the Douro to the Seine and the Thames, The European de- mocracies, as it appears to us from our let- ters, expect such results from the present war, The aspiration is hopeful. We trust they will not be disappointed in its fruition. Rattroap SLAUGHTERING has recommenced with vigor for the fall season. A tipsy switch tender and the lack of proper switch lights were the cause of the Cincinnati express train running off the track yesterday morning and smashing cars at Greenbush, near Albany. Two persons killed outright and several badly injured were the penalty of this wicked negli- gence, and the Coroner's jury have had deci- sion enough to censure both the company and the employé. The punishment should not and, we are assured, will not stop there, No person addicted to intoxicating drinks should be employed in any responsible position where human life is dependent upon his vigilance, If every tipsy subordigate were made to cost railroad and steamboat companies the price of a charter, they would employ only sober, steady and reliable men, Yesterday also brought enother quite similar accident near Trapton, Passenger express allowed to collide man Pel NSA York was train, mashing one wounding seven other our railroad lines is becoming enormous at this early beginning of an unusually active train for New with » freight into a jelly and . Travel on all season, and, if the switches on the tracks cannot be kept in better order than these use- less casualties would indicate them to be, they ought to be laid in another shape, over the shoulders of the managers and directors who neglect their duty—for every switch, a rod of iron, Oar War Despatches. The tidings from the seat of war have been comparatively meagre since Sunday last. There are, indeed, floods of contradictory details in reference to the movements of the various French and German armies, but the main points are not decisively rendered. What can be clearly extracted from the whole collection of data is no more than that Bazaine is surrounded in Metz, where sickness and lack of food are sorely pressing the besieged. Vitry-le-frangois has surrendered to the Ger- mans; but Strasbourg and several other for- tresses between the present headquarters of the Prussian King and the Rhenish frontier still hold out, although the former place is said to have been terribly battered. The main line of march of the original German armies moving on Paris has been changed, and now trends more to the northward, so as flank MacMahon, whose headquarters are reported to be at Stenay, on the Belgian frontier. The Emperor is-—with what truth we know not—declared positively to be very near his favorite Marshal, and de- termined to participate with him in the de- cisive battle hourly expected, and on which the fate of his dynasty depends. Meanwhile, the despatches announcing a great engagement and the defeat of MacMahon, between Verdun and Stenay, are not confirmed ; but it seems undoubtedly true that the bulk of the German forces are pushing steadily for Paris, followed up by heavy reinforcement’ from the rear. Some telegraphic correspondents report a _re- organization of the German hosts into five armies, of which the last two are just moving by leisurely marches into Eastern France. The total numbers of the combined array amount to seven hundred and twenty thousand men. The movements of MacMahon, Bazaine’s outlying detachments who escaped from Metz in the first retreat, and the troops that have been sent out to Paris to aid them, indicate either sheer military insanity or cover some deep-laid plan outside and inside of France with which neither telegraph nor correspondents have acquainted the world. We are as- sured by the French Ministry that the Prussians are to be annihilated, and that, should they send a million of men into France, not one of them will ever see Paris but asa prisoner. How this is to be done we are not told; but we find every official, every newspaper and every individual in sympathy with France in this war holding the same mys- terious doctrine. One of the French papers suggests picrate of potash ; another hints at dark doings by way of Belgium, anda third whispers that Napoleon is about to proclaim the univer- sal republic in Europe. Meanwhile, however, there is a strange, and, we think, improbable story, that Napoleon is soliciting the neutral Powers to save his dynasty. The new levies and organized veterans of former categories are pouring into Paris; the fortifications are fully mounted with heavy artillery, and the Bois de Boulogne and other open districts of field and woodland close to the capital are fall of cattle for the subsistence of that city in case of real siege. The outspoken resolve of the people is to defend it as best they may; but the government seems inclines, for quiet’s sake, to get away to Tours or to Lyons. So far as the Emperor is con- cerned, his close proximity to the Belgian frontier, which may not be unintentional by any means, will prove very convenient in case of defeat in the impending final battle, To show the amusing absurdity of some tele- graphic reports received here by sundry papers, and purporting to be genuine, we may mention that one of them yesterday gave the not very novel intelligence that the Germans are moving on ‘‘Pretzels,” and had taken pos- session of “‘Snipes”—a circumstance well cal- culated to make other people than Parisians quail. Some of this nonsense was even bul- letined. Seriously, the French empire approaches its supreme moment, and Christendom looks on with breathless interest. Nothing is plainer than that the heroism of the people and the soldiery of France are still worthy of their old renown, but their leaders, thus far, have proven incapable. Could the voice of another Carnot be heard for an hour throughout France, cheering and organizing, and the sword of a second Demouriez or of a Moreau be seen flashing through the defiles of the Argonnes, with victory in every stroke, the case might still be reversed; and even as it is, while we write these closing lines, in the very depth and extremity of her gloom we can de- tect the first shimmer of the star that, in a day, may blaze forth to the deliverance of a land so often prostrated by her princes and so often lifted to the pinnacle of glory by the sons of her people. AnotuER Frientro. Minine Disaster is reported from Girardville, Pa. Six men killed and one fatally wounded—all leaving large families, Such is the brief narrative of an- guish. Three of the poor fellows were broth- ers; a whole circle of stalwart workerg for kindred homes swept away like flies! We lack organization and care everywhere in this great country of ours. Too much is left to prejudice, ignorance and chance, and human life is the cheapest commodity in the market, The fixtures and arrangements about many of our mines are the merest mantraps. Govern- ment inspection and rigid investigation are what we want in reference to all establish- ments of every description where the limbs and lives of human beings are at stake, Watt Srreet.—The average attendance at the Stock Exchange yesterday was about ten brokers, Yet the board comprises about three thousand members. In the Gold Room the average attendance after Clearing House time was about twenty-five, out of a total member- ship of twenty-five hundred, Call ye this a market, oh! bulls and bears? The figures above will show the exact measure of the dul- Begs in “ the atroots” ‘ ‘The Paris Committee of Defonce—M. Thiers * Coming to the Freat. M. Thiers has accepted the position to whiclr! ® special decree had just elevated him as & member of the Paris Committee of Defence, Although seventy-two years of age, the bril- Mant historian is one of the youngest old mem in France. The historical studies to which he has mainly devoted himself since his retire- ment, thirty years ago, trom the post of Presi- dent of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Louis Philippe, King of the French, as well as the unflagging interest which he has always taken in contemporary events, have been for him fountaing of perpet- ual youth, We are therefore not surprised to learn that on his accession to power he mani- fests all the vigor and vivacity which used to distinguish him as an orator and statesman. His advice is eagerly sought by the generaig in command at Paris. He daily visits the fom: tifications, which he may be said to have cre~ ated, inasmuch as it was during his ministry that he secured a credit of one hundred million francs for their construction, profiting by the universal exaltation of patriotic sentiment throughout France in 1840, when a dread of foreign coalition freshly arose, and the popu- lace sang the ‘‘Marseillaise,” and King Louis Philippe himself exclaimed, “If need be, E will put on the bonnet rouge/” The immense experience of M. Thiers, his vast erudition, his great common sense, his extraordinary aptitude for the management of public affairs and his thoroughly French na- ture and spirit’ admirably qualify him to be at the head of the Paris Committee of Defence. Moreover, this committee is liable at any mo- ment to be transformed into a provisional gov- ernment. M, Thiers, with his bright, keen intellect and his eminent qualities as a man of action, would be far more competent to be at the head of a provisional government—or if the swiftly rushing tide of events should sweep away both the empire and the hopes of the Orleanists—to be the President of a new French republic, than Lamartine or Victor Hugo, with their poetical dreams, fine phrases and sublime self-concelt, ever could have been. No wonder, then, that the French nation ap- plauds M. Thiers as he again comes to the front. Central American Disorders. For some months past disorders of one kind or other have been going on close by the boundary line of Mexico on the Guatema- lian side. At one time these troubles were nothing more than the raids of desperadoes on unprotected families. These lawless proceed- ings resulted in plunder, sometimes accompa- nied by murder; on other occasions more for- midable movements were contemplated, one of these being nothing short of the invasion of the Southern States of Mexico, with the view of forming a new republic, to be composed of Mexican and Guatemalian States. The idea of -1ch @ movement proving successful seems yeeposterous at first sight, but when we reflect on the condition of both Mexico and Guate- mala the undertaking does not appear so difficult. Both these republics, torn as they are with internal dissensions, dis- tracted by internecine quarrels, weakened by the treachery of unprincipled leaders, dis- trustful of the soldiers composing their armies, at all times stand easy prey of ambitious and unpriocipled men. And as if domestic troubles were not enough, these States have courted troubles from outside. Mexico at the present time shows no friendly disposition to this country. -The tone of the Mexican press is loud in its hostility to the United States. In Guatemala a similar state of things exists. The relations between Guatemala and Costa Rica are, to say the least, decidedly unfriendly. This state of feeling has been brought about by the conduct of Guatemala. The treaties of peace, friendship and commerce which existed between the two republics since 1848 no longer continue. It is éxtremely painful to be com- pelled month after month to chronicle, nothing better for these countries than revulation, rob- bery, murder and all the attendant evils resulting from disordered society in ill-gov- erned States. No improvement may be hoped for at present in many of the Central American republics, Revolution follows revolution so rapidly that we almost begin to think that the inhabitants of these countries could not live without the excitement resulting from murder, revolution and robbery. Toe NaTHan MorpeR does not rest so quietly in the dust of jumbled testimony after all, The detectives are ‘‘tumbling” to the man they think, to use their peculiar vocabu- lary. Bloody shirts have more than once turned out to be the banner of crime, and one of these on the back of a professional burglar has been the means of bringing him into the Harlem Police Court under suspicion of the awful crime that so recently curdled the pulses of every human being in the metropolis not interested in obtaining the reward. The capture and execution of the criminal in that case is necessary for the credit of American civilization. “Ikg Rosrysoy.”—Some rogues, who have a nice little term in State Prison before them, have written, it appears, a letter to one of their friends outside, sketching o plan for evading the law. This letter is interest~ ing as showing the plan of operations used in cheating the jail, The friend is to send a certain Ike Robinson to the District Attor- ney’s office with fifty dollars to get the papers pigeonholed until other friends succeed im crippling the prosecution by the removal of witnesses, ‘Ike Robinson” is said to be an Alderman. And such is the complexion of office and justice in this happy city. Tue AMERIOANS AT Paris, from their prompt and generous assistance to the French wounded, appear to be in high favor with the citizens and authorities of that capital ; while at Berlin they are decidedly in high favor, and the presence of General Sheridan with King William at the front makes the very name of American popular with the Prussian army, Americans, in short, whether they happen to be in Germany or in France, appear to know how to adapt themselves to the situation, with- out violating American neutrality. Marine Disasters. Lonpon, August, 29, 1870. The ship Cambria, for Liverpool, was.seon August 22, in lon, 61 lat. 10, waterlogged. ‘The ship Teesdale, from Padang for Boston, was spoken June 7, in lat, 33 lon. 2% With rudder and, sarcipast spray oy a