The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE HERALD CORPS OF EUROPEAN WAR CORRESPONDENTS, We have special correspondents moving | single campaign. Thus in Holy Writ, in the with each division of the opposing forces of France and Prussia, and news agencies in the principal capitals—-London, Paris, Berlin, Ma- drid, Vienna and Florence—so that nothing of animportant news character escapes our vigilant representatives. | Our news agencies in the principal cities of Burope, and our system of travelling corre- fpondents, have been long established, a fact the readers of the HEratp 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- dle success of either belligerent in contem- ‘plated movements come by the cable. Our only aim is to give to the public the fullest, the most reliable, and the most authentic record of facts as they occur in the grand operations of the contending armies. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GRAND OPERA HOU 28d st.—URIELLA, THE D OLYMPIC THEATRE, Lirrie Favs, BOOTH’S THEATRE, %3: st., oetween Sin and 6th ave.— Riv Van Winkie. h avenue and ov THY Niawr. Broadway.—Orcra Boourrr—- NIBLO’S GARDEN, Breadw: 46 STEEL. WOOD’s MUSEUM AN Ber Sich st.Performancet ‘Tar DRAMA OF TRUE SERIE, Broadway, cor- ry afternoon and evening. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Fritz, Ove Cover G 4 MRS. FP. B. CONW Buyayt’s Minstee PARK 1 K, Brooklyn.—- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery. BEY EXTRETAINMENT—Comic VOCALISMS, 20. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vooa.- IsM, NRGRO ACTS, &C. SAN FRANCISCO M Va- TREL HALL, 585 Broniway.— NxGRO MINSTHELBY, URLESQUES, 40. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, Lr Prriy Favsi—Tur ONLY Le TERRACE GARDEN, Fifty-e1 Bue.—GRAND Vocal Nt LEEDS’ ART G. EXHWITION OF P, No. 806 Broadway.— ith street and Third aye- ENTAL CONORRT. BRIES, 817 and £19 Broadway. TONGS . NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Ant. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOmNCE AND aur. TRIPLE York, Thorsday be a wm a7 8 Between M. H nh trom Chalons Blow to be Struck sian Frontier; or Bazaine amors Ru ; iion; Napoleon Sick at Se: re isthe Prince Imperial? The F bide Remainus Firm to oge. Milltary Crue! , Against Fran of Democracy New York Judge. rth Page)—Mexico: tal Over Prus- b : Execution of a By souri—The (Quarantine @lm- broglio—Bri Continued Rejoicaugs Over the Hum: on of Paraguay—A Woman’s Wit Wins—Don Ju @ Surplice—Another Fatal Horrors—The Nathan Mur- ‘ticle on The Prospect of 1 System of an Over- wheiming F e and @ Single Campaign— Amusement Aunouacements. t=Telegraph’ rom All F re urn: Reception to Yachting—Society of City of Boston”? Libel sh the Holy Crovs— econd Day of the it Costs to Try Police- ing Bath Affray—New ments of Prestaent ++No, 24%) , could not the nephew do the same thing? | perfection of his plans for the march to Berlin, | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, The Prospect of Peace—The Prussiau Sys tem of an Overwhelming Force and @ Single Campaigu. In the examples of Prussia in her war of 1866 against Austria, and in her present war against France, modern warfare, in one re- spect at least, has returned to the system ‘which prevailed among the nations of Western Asia nearly three thousand years ago—that is, the arming and marching to the field of the able-bodied men of the nation en masse, and the settlement of ,the dispute involved in a first book of the Jewish Chronicles, in a cam- paign of that nation against the Syrians, when King David was informed of their movements “he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jor- dan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David bad put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shop- hach, the captain of the host. And when the | servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servaats.” As David, in that decisive campaign against the Syrians, ‘‘gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan,” so King William, in this cam- paign against France, has gathered all Ger- many and passed over the Rhine. Thus, with all our modern improvements, we find that modern warfare is returning to the system which prevailed some thirty centuries ago in Western Asia, when Europe, as far as known to the civilized world of that day, was known only a8 a wilderness of savages. But the modern revival of this ancient system of marching the able-bodied men of the nation en masse to battle does not belong to Prussia ; for in our late stupendous civil war it was found that, with the overthrow of the rebel Confederate States, the loyal States of the Union had eleven hundred thousand armed mea in the field. They were there because the national administration had at last adopted the wish of the loyal States to make the war short, sharp, overwhelming and decisive. Prussia followed this example in her short and decisive campaign against Austria, and in this war against France she has only, with a larger area to draw upon, followed the same plan of operations. With half a million of men on the soil of France she has dwarfed the grandest campaigns of Napoleon the First and overthrown all the calculations of Napoleon | the Third. He went into this war, no doubt, supposing that a French army of two or three hundred thousand men would be ample fof all the requirements of a victorions march to Berlin. The uncle had overrun the Conti- nent with an active force in his imme- diate command seldom excseding a hundred thousand men, and why, with French soldiers armed with their superior modera weapons, Had he not seen, from their achievements in | Algeria, in the Crimea, in Italy and in Mexico, that the soldiers of France were as invincible | under the second as under the first empire. | While we see, however, that in these estimates | Napoleon was wide of the mark, we kaow that | Prussia had expected this thing, that from the | day of her treaty of peace with Austria she { had been preparing for a war with France, | and was ready, at a moment's warning, with an overwhelming force, to ‘‘carry the war into | Africa.” . So sure, meantime, was Napoleou of the j that when MacMahon, with his splendid army column of fifty thousand men, moved out of Strasbourg, the Emperor awaited at Metz the expected news of the crossing of that column over the Rhine by pontoons at some favorable point between Strasbourg and Woerth. But from the disastrous rout of that column at Woerth the overwhelming German army doubled up the whole French line and changed at once its forward march from Berlia back- ward to Paris. From that day the whole French army has been pusbed back until the original left and centre uader Bazaine are shut up in the fortress of Metz, and the origi- nal right under MacMahon is pushed norih- ward against the Belgian frontier, where the Emperor is prepared for even the worst ex- tremity, with a convenient line of retreat to neutral territory. ‘The war, in our judgment, from the unex- ampled forces of the invading army, must be ashort war. Five hundred thousand hostile soldiers are like a cloud of iocusts in their ‘Getiing Out of the World— ja scape from Death— and Commercial Ri ts—The Min- { Pottsville—Real Estate Matters— Marriages and Deaths—Ad- inned from Third Page)—The Death of Mr. Seaverns— e—Adverlisements. Apsurp Reports AND Rumors IN Paris are abundant, but the absurdest of these absurdi- ies is the report circulated in Paris yesterday that a number of privateers, destined to prey upon French commerce, have been fitted out by Germans in several of the ports of the United States. Why not make it a fleet of iron-clads? It would serve as well for a Pari- sian sensation. INFORMATION WaNnTED-—-From the families, if march over even the most fruitful regions. The country may be a garden and a magazine of provisions before them; but it is a waste attended by famine and pestilence beuind them. Destruction is the business of war, and the German armies in France leave behind them the traces of Sherman’s march to the sea. How long can France sustain these ravages of her fairest departments? A hostile army of five hundred thousand men consumes or destroys more of the fruits of the earth than would suffice for an invasion of millions of a peaceful migration. The great Frederick is credited with the proverb that ‘an army is like ‘a saake—it moves upon its belly.” The enormous demands of this great German in- vading army have already amply verified this maxim in the enormous drain upon the coun- try traversed by the Germans and in the drain any, not visited by the census takers of any of | upon their own depots of supplies. the elections districts of this city reported completed in the census enumeration, last Monday's Hrratp.) We want to know, on behalf of this community, whether our census takers have or have not been negligent | for the intervening country to the river is in their duty, and if negligent, we desire some specifications that will bring these men to | also be fed. judgment. CANANIAN IATION.—The oppressive measures which the New Dominion govern- ment has taken to revenge itself on the United | locked up in Meta, he will be able to scour the States for the repeal of the Reciprocity treaty have assumed such a shape that it is probable Secretary Fish will institute negotiations to have them abrogated altogether. It appears siete ‘ scammeubiaye that, besides forbidding Americans from fishing whether ending in a decisive Fronch or Ger- man victory, the next result, we think, must will in Canadian waters, they also forbid American vessels engaged in the fishing business from entering the Canadian ports in the fishing grounds, Lik li Canadian attempts at retalia , this one redounds on the Bluenoses almost as the Yankees. Business dward Island is ianguishing in ¢ uence. and the \ people are loudly complai ! (See | MacMahon, with his new army, the Prussian In the event, then, of a decisive defeat from generals will have no alternative but a rapid retreat over the Rhine to secure subsistence ; exhausted, and their army in reserve must In the event of a decisive defeat to MacMahon there must be peace, because there will be no longer any hope of effective resistance to the invader. Holding Bazaine country in every direction for supplies while moving a quarter of a million of men upon Paris, In the’ immediate impending struggle between the Prussians and MacMahon, then, eud be a movement for , whieh the war. P Anrcrpisaop MeULosxry was re Rome. and at St, Patrick's Cathedral, wher Our Wur Doespatches—Another Great Vic- tory fer the Prussians. The decisive battle which the French have been ‘hoping and preparing for has been fought, The Crown Prince met MacMahon's forces on Tuesday night at Boaumont and a fierce battle ensued, which lasted ap to last evening. Both sides were reinforced by immense numbers during the fight, which was determined and bloody in the extromo. MacMahon made a desperate resistance, but was driven steadily from one posi- tion to another, until he found himself defeated beyond all hope of retrieval, and broke in full retreat, with his shattered army, for Sedan. The slaughter on both sides was immense, and the victory for the Prussians was complete. From all accounts the fight, as to numbers, fierceness and results, is the decisive battle that has _ settled the question of the war. The Prus- sians, with their marvellous endurance and steady resolution, | will press the purauit so closely that MacMahon must surrender. {It is the history of Appomattox repeating itself. It is the disordered and hopeless flight of Lee's army re-enacted on French soil. The questions of Napoleon's escape or capture, of the future of France, of the establishment of republic or of the restoration of the Bourbons are all on the very verge of settlement. The grand armies that went forth so vauntingly to shape the German Confederation in accordance with the Napoleonic idea of what the map Europe should be are. completely scattered, and Napoleon himself is probably fleeing through Belgium. We may, therefore, predict the immediate close of the short but bloody war that has en- chained the attention of Christendom for the last six weeks—n war that has, in point of grand strategy, rapid movement and decisive fighting, exceeded the most brilliant cam- paiga of the First Napoleon. ot The Quarantine Maddie. The decision of the Secretary of the Trea- sury in the case of the bark Wavelet, that our quarantine authorities may have the right to detain in quarantine vessels and goods arriving from infected ports, but not to seize and detain goods which have passed quarantine in another State, may be constitutionally and legally cor- rect enough; bat it places the health of New York city at the will and beck of the quaran- tine authorities of the new and ambitious port of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Dr. Carnochan | in his communication to Collector Murphy, which we publish in another column, places the matter in a clear light. This ambitious young port in New Jersey not being infected, vessels from Rio Janeiro or any other infected port can come into quar- antine there and thence sail directly to the pier in New York, with no more disin- | fection or fumigation than the ambitions port of Perth Amboy, elated with its new honors | and sanguine of eclipsing New York itself at an early day, may choose to enforce. The fact that vessels cau evade our quarantine in this way is all that gives Perth Amboy any im- portance or its quarantine authorities any show of work. New York’s difficulty is Perth Amboy’s opportunity, and she is taking advantage of it with a zest that tells well for Jersey hopefulness and badly for Jersey equity. Herein lies the evil that will come of the Secretary’s decision, if he does not reverse it on reading Dr. Carnochan’s clear exposition. It will back up the ambi- tious Jersey port in her selfish war on the health of New York, and it will probably induce a few unscrupulous merchants of our { own city to evade quarantine, even at the riak of their own and the city’s health, Our quarantine laws may be onerous, but they are necessary ; and some means should be em- ployed at once to arrange all differences be- tween the federal and the State authorities on the subject. The best way would be to abolish ihe port of Perth Amboy. There is no neces- sity for the place, {If it were to disappear to- | morrow there would not be a ripple of excite- ment over it, except in the place itself, where really there is nobody living but a few quaran- tine officials and a dozen or so of swamp owners, who depend upon this illicit quaran- tine business to make themselves millionaires. {t must be borne in mind that ships do not load or unload there. They simply touch there in order to smuggle themselves into New York as from a domestic port. The busi- ness, therefore, will never make a metropolis of the port nor millionnaires of these sanguine Jerseymen, and it would be a righteous thing to disabuse the latter of their visionary ideas, and let them go at once to honest clam digging fora living. Let the port be abol- ished, and the great metropolis will be relieved ofa y uncorfortable pest. The Code of Honor the Code of Misery. We have given particulars of a fatal duel that recently occurred on the Mississippi, on the borders of Tennessee. The principals were two young men of irreproachable private reputation and high personal character, be- longing to Memphis, the victim, if we mistake not, being a relative of a late member of the United States Senate from an Eastern State. We also give to-day a brief account of another tragical affair between two gentlemen of Savannah, ia which the curtain fell upon the corpse of one of the combatants. It is strange that in this age of civilization the deliberate taking of human life according to the duelling code should be at all tolerated. In nearly every State in the Union, and, in- deed, in all Christian communities, the practice is condemned as criminal, and laws are passed for the punishment of offenders. Then why is it that men well educated and of fine social position, who would hesitate to offend the law by taking a pin’s worth of another's property, uld step forward and, in defiance of its esty and in the presence of respectable wantonly take the life of a human while sending uaprepared, perhaps, upon iis sho: his own 1¢ question may Ye aaswered in this way:— SEPTEMBER 1, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET. That men of keen sensibilities, brave as lions upon the battle field, and exhibiting the traits of physical stamina in almost everything else, have not the nerve and moral courage to brave a distempered public opinion—an opinion, in nine times out of ten, fostered and encouraged by cowards, who are such both by nature and instinct, and who are constitutionally of that type of poltroons who would urge others on’ to their death, while they take precious care of their own worthless carcasses. When the time arrives for the community to point the finger of scorn to those who engage in this murderous personal warfare, instead of the same community making heroes of them, then wo may possibly hear of some reform, and the code duello, or, more properly, the code of mis- ery, be classed where it belongs—among the relics of a barbaric age. Tho Streng Financial Position of the United States. While the governments of the great European nations can hardly make both ends meet, even in time of peace, this country has an over- flowing treasury, and is paying the national debt off at the rate of over a hundred millions of dollars a year. The stupendous gum raised and expended during the four years of our war was unparalleled in the history of the world, and all without a foreign loan or aid from foreign capitalists. There never was a war that cost as much within the same time; for not only were the forces raised enormous, but the pay and equipment of the men and tho cost of everything used were much greater than they are in any other country. The cost of the Prussian and French armies in pay, clothing, provisions, arms and everything else for war purposes is less than a third, probably, of what the same number of men and amount of materials was here. Then look at the enormous bounties paid— from five hundred to a thousand dollars a man—an amount that would equip and sup- port a French or German soldier for several years. Besides, the general extravagance and plunder of the Treasury were frightful, and would have bankrupted any other nation. No country in the world could raise such sums as we did. Yet five years afier the war not only has all the vast floating debt been dis- charged but we have paid off several hundred millions of the organized debt. At the pre- sent rate of liquidation we could extinguish the whole, which is a little more than two thousand millions, within fifteen years. It is not surprising, therefore, that our credit remains good during the terrible con- flict of arms that is convulsing Europe. At first, of course, United States securities felt the shock, as all others did, from that natural sympathy whieh the finances of one great civilized country have with those of other countries. But afterwards, when people and capitalists began to reason more clearly the resources of the United States and the superior value and security of our bonds, they clung to them as the best investment they could have. Hence there have been few of our bonds sent home from Europe. Nor is is likely there would be any serious depreciation if even the war should spread over Europe. Our superior and well paying securities would be held and be sought for by the people no matter what strain there might be upon the governments and capitalists for money. There is no reason, indeed, why our bonds should not gradually rise to their true value under any events that may occur in Europe. If we have been able to accomplish so much in raising money for a gigantic war and in rapidly paying off the debt in the past what can we not doin the near future when our population will be doubled and the wealth of the country quadrupled ? Oar Sonth American Correspondence. We publish on another page of the HzRALD to-day an interesting letter from our cor- respondent in Rio Janeiro. He describes the grand peace rejoicing which was gotten up in Rio on the 10th of July, and for which one hundred thousand dollars were expended to render it a magnificent spectacle; but the whole affair, instead of proving a great suc- cess, turned out a miserable failure. We think it is about time that the Brazilians ceased these glorifications over the victories of the allied armies in Paraguay. That unfortunate country to-day is steeped so low in humiliation, poverty and distress, that a magnanimous enemy ought to refrain from adding still furiher to the humiliating position in which that brave, indomitable, yet con- quered people are placed. Besides, Brazil had better look to iis own household more par- ticularly than what the government has been doing of late. There are elements at work at the present time that may shake the empire to its very centre. The slavery question will prove an excellent weapon in the hands of the liberal party, and that they will use it we have abundant proofs. Free labor in Brazil, ere long, will supply the place of slave labor, and the public men and statesmen of the empire should consider the matter in a deeper sense than what they have been doing of late. Displays which mean nothing but glitter, and which add taxation to a people already heavily burdened, will not last long. Peoples think nowadays, changes take place rapidly, and thrones are much more easily upset than they were a century ago. The Brazilian gov- ernment has much food for reflection. Will it reflect ? rR Trouble in Mormondom. In Salt Lake City recently, on the pretext that Paul Elgebrecht, a Gentile liquor dealer, had appealed from the decision of the Police Court imposing fines to the District Court, a squad of Mormon city police, armed with authority by the city, gutted his store and destroyed his entire stock, valued at twenty thousand dollars. The United States Marshal, Pollock, immediately arrested the City Marshal, Chief of Police and all the deputies engaged in the destruction of the property, and itis now stated that there is great excitement among the Mormons and serious disturbances are apprehended. There may be a disastrous riot precipitated at any moment by sach hot- headed action on the part of the Mormons. They are not in good odor at their very best with the rest of the United States, We advise them to be more moderate, Brought directly in contact, as they have just been, with such great civilizers as the railroads and telegraphs and free pulpit discussion, and suffering inwardly from deadly schisms and outwardly from the Cullom bill, they should be especially ‘on their good behavior. enough without attempting to make it worse, At the rate they are going now they will pre- cipitate a conflict which the Cullom bill in its most oppressive clauses did not anticipate, and one, too, which the United States itself will be powerless to quell, for it may result in a series of murderous feuds and | vendettas, wherein neighbors and relatives are arrayed against one another, The Next Congressional Electione—Expected Disasters to the Republican Party. Calculations have been made, apparently resting on pretty sound argument, that the next fall elections all over the country will be disastrous to the republicans, and that in the popular branch of the Forty-second Congress the democrats will be once -more in the ma- jority. We do not place very much confidence in these political predictions, but at the same time we recognize the fact that a very general feeling of dissatisfaction with the doings of Congress pervades the popular mind, and that the manifestation of that feeling at the polls may have a vory considerable effect on the elections and on the consequent composition of the next House of Representatives. Whether the new element of German adhesion to the republican party, growing out of its announced sympathy with the Prassian arms in the Eu- ropean war, may or may not prove a counter- poise to the defection in its own ranks is a question which has to be taken into considera- tion in calculating the chances. The German voters in this country had hitherto sided very generally with the republican party, except, perhaps, in New York and some other places where an attempt to interfere with their Sun- day enjoyment of lager and pretzels drove them to the democracy. But as they are a unit on the question of Fatherland the party which gains their good will on that point will have their almost unanimous suffrage at the polls. This element may therefore be very effi- cacious in warding off or lightening the blow which threatens to fall upon the republican party in the coming elections. But why is it that that party has lost its strength among the masses of the country and has begun to exhibit symptoms of decay? Itis not on account of any dissatisfaction with the administration of President Grant. On the con- trary, that has, by its honest collection of the taxes, its economy and its reduction of the public debt, commended itself to favor at home and abroad. But it is on account of greatand pervading dissatisfaction with the doings of Congress. That body might make public con- fession of its manifold sins and tranggressions by adopting the language of the Episcopal liturgy, and crying out, ‘‘We have done those things that we ought not to have done, and we have not done those things that we ought to have done, and there is no health in us.” In the former category would be included the numerous railroad land grants by which the public domain has been plundered for the ben- efit of scheming corporators. And yet but little was accomplished in that respect in pro- portion to what was contemplated. The Sen- ate, far more reckless than the House in all matters pertaining to the Treasury, initiated and passed at last session more than thirty land grant bills on which no action was taken by the House. These bills will be on the Speaker's table when the next session opens, and it isto be hoped that the House will be very cautious as to the disposition to be made of them. The wisest thing would be to reject the whole batch. In political, financial and fiscal measures of | legislation the action of Congress at its last | session was a complete nullity. On the very eve of adjournment a patchwork measure for the admission of Georgia to representation was concocted and passed, but contrived so cun- ningly or so clumsily that the leading members of the Reconstruction Committee, from which it was reported, have been since giving dia- metrically opposite opinions as to its true intent and meaning. As tothe other recon- structed States every one knows that their pretended representation in Congress is the merest sham and delusion—a libel upon repre- sentative institutions, In those States, at least, the democracy may look for a large accession of strength in the next House, and to the shameful disregard of all principles of fair play in the political management of those States may be ascribed much of the unpopu- larity into which the republican party has fallen all over the country. The time spent at the last session in discuss- ing and attemptiag to mature measures con- nected with currency and finance was most unprofitably wasted, and although a funding bili was eventually passed and became a law it has since remained, and is likely to con- tinue, a dead letter on the statute book, not having the remotest chance of ever coming into practical operation. And as to the Tariff and Tax bills the changes in the law that were made at the last session only go to relieve the people in one direction and to oppress them in another, the difference being that the taxes from which they are relieved had gone to enrich the Treasury, while those additional ones to which they are subjected will go to fill the pockets of a small body of monopolists. But in no respect was Congress more dere- lict in duty at its last session than in its course with reference to the navy and to the mercan- tile marine. To its want of ability rightly to appreciate the situation is due the humiliating fact that, while Europe is in the throes of a mighty struggle in which our interests may at any moment become involved, we have neither a war navy to guard our national rights and honor nor a mercantile marine to reap the rich rewards of commerce and to restore our flag to its former pre-eminence on the seas. These are some of the considerations which are operating on the public mind to the disad- vantage of the republican party. Their influ- ence is undoubtedly very great, and may go far towards verifying the predictions in favor of the democracy at the next elections. In many Congressional districts they may operate in causing the defeat of the republican candi- dates. President Grant, we are happy to say, does not share and does not deserve to share in the odium into which, for the reasons as- signed, the republican party has fallen. On the contrary, he is entitled to great praise for the successful manner in which he has con- ducted his administration, and for the efforts which he made to induce Congress to perform its duty, particularly in regard to the restora- tion of American commerce. The blame of failure lies not at his door, but at that of Con- Their case is bad ; gresa. Our European Despatches by Mail—Wary Diplomacy and Political Demeralization.. Our special correspondence from ,Buropey Published elsewhere to-day, continues our mail’ history of the war to the 20th of August. Our writers call attention also to the already evident consequences of the sad conflict, to the number and condition of the wounded, the municipal demoralization, the diplomatic dis- trust and the royal cabinet arrangements which were had and produced by it. From the fleld we have @ report of the situation be- fore Strasbourg as it then existed, with the Prussian sieging army ‘operating on the north of the stronghold. Within Mets there was want, suffering, heroism, but yet a very considerable amount of Frenck patriotism notwithstanding. The Prugsian commander had made a demand for its sum render; but it was then, as it is now, refused, Quite a number of popular assertions relative to the want of discipline and order and honesty in the French camp, which have been circulated from one sdurce or other, are refuted by one of our writers, As many as thirty thousand wounded Germans had reached the hospitals of Prussia from the battle fields, The men are said to have suffered most severe priva- tions, notwithstanding the great care and foresight of the medical and commissariat departments in Berlin. The general health of the German army was excellent. As to the every day morale of the Prussian forces, it remained very good, the only trouble in the way of a non-observance of discipline being experienced in the Polish contingent hailing from Silesia, Paris was excited and alarmed. The gay hours of the French metropolis had passed away. Its municipal brilliancy was tarnished, its domestic joy clouded. The Prussians were sweeping to the fortifica- tions. The condition which existed inside the walls is portrayed in a very animated style by our special writer. The city was still Paris, but not likely to be “‘living” Paris more. As many as nine- teen Germans had been executed as Prussian spies in the French metropolis. The men of Frankfort were fierce in their determination against Napoleon, against France and against her Turcos, Zouaves and system of finance. Austria had had her avengement of Napoleon for Kéniggritz. The Empress Eugénie had applied by letter to the Cabinet in Vienna for army aid to France. She appealed in touch- ing terms. Premier Von Beust replied, ‘it is too late for military, and too early for diplo- matic intervention.” In such terms did he neutralize Napoleon's words in 1866 when Austria made application to Paris after Kéniggriitz, and was answered thus :—‘‘What do yon wish that I should do for Austria?” The great balance is now adjusted. Ireland still sympathized with France. From the North of that island we have a report of the outrage which was recently committed on one of our New York jiia@ges by a party of Orangemen. Political demoralization extend- ing, intensifying and becoming still more dis- tracting. The ‘horrid war” and its most dreaded consequences. phe Uaeruse Tue New Gop Baxxs.—The decision of the Treasury Department that the notes of tho new gold banks will not be receivable in pay- ment of customs has dampened the ardor of some of the national bank monopolists who were not content with their present privileges. The new banks will do a great deal of kite- flying, and hence the government is right in pt their notes for gold pay~ nitod States, AL iw ‘The New York Democratic State Convention to Meet at Rochester, September 21. The Democratic State Central Committee met at Albany yesterday, and appointed the 2ist of Sep- tember as the time for holding the democratic con- vention at Rochester. The Albany Argus says that Hoftiman, Beach and Nichols, and nearly ali the pre- bt mcumbents will be re-nominated at the con- vention. ‘The Dutchess county First Assembly district delc- gates to the Republican State Convention are a, W. Palmer, Lewis Thompson, Thomas Hammond, Jr., and James A. Seward. The delegates from th Second district are, Wililam H. Johnson, P. J. Ack- art, H. G. Eastman and Aaron Jarvis, The Richmond County Republican Convention or- ganized at Clifton, Staten Island, yesterday, by making C. C. Norvell chairman and Messrs. Wilde and F, G. Jones, secretaries. The Convention electea George William Curtis and E. B. Seaman delecates to the Saratoga Convention, and Major C. G. Smitix and Gilbert C, Dean alternates. The Campaign in Michigan—Congressional Nominations—Democratic Piatform. DeErRoiT, August 31, 1850. The Sixth Congressional District Democratic Qua- vention to-day nominated J, F. Briggs on the thirty eighth ballot. The republicans renominated Hou. Thomas W. Ferry in the Fourth district to-day. The Democratic State Convention was held to-day. Nearly every county in the State was represented. The following resolutions were uuanimously adopi- ed:— First—That we recognize the right of the people to decide all questions relacing to the distributtoa and exercise of their political power, and we render to their decision, when constitutionally and legally expressed, a cheerful obedience, ‘Second—That we denounce the dominant political party for its corrupt use of the power and money of the people; for its unnecessary multiplication of office; for its unprecedented extravagance; tor its prostitution of the public trust to subserve private private ends; for the utter failure to administer the government in accordance with the spirit of our ta- stitutions. Third—That the destruction of our commerce, prostitution of our agricultural and increasing strin- gency of financial affairs bear common Wituess to the incompetency of our rulers. Fourth—That the tariff for protection {sa systent of plunder, whereby labor is compelled to pay tribuie to capital, and that tariff for revenue only 18 all thas 1s warranted by justice or the federal constitution. Fifti—That the public domain is @ great public trust, which should be administered in the interest of the peopte, and public policy a8 well as common Interest requires that the trust should be held for pur- poses of settlement and cultivation, and its dis. posal to the landless and homeless soldiers aud sailors of the United States and those made widows, aud orphans by the wars of the Unton should be preferred to speculators and monopolisis. Sicth.—That to maintain the honor and good fatti: of the nation it is necessary that the public debt pod be steadily decreased in accordance with ita erms, Seventh—That {the present system of s0-called national banks is @ monopoly whereby favored States and persons are unduly benefited; but if the system is to be continued, we demand, im behalt of Michigan and the West, that itshould beso modified as to make its privileges free to all. Eighth.—That specie or its equivalent is the only sound currency; but we should return to specia payments no sooner than it can be done consist- ently with the laws of trade and the interests of the great debtor class. Nunth.—That the best financial policy for the times is honesty and frugality; honesty in the ap- propriation of the public mouey for the proper pur- poses and a rigid frugality in its expenditure. Tenth—That interest on all deposits of State funda belong to the State and should be put into the State ‘Treasury to be used with other State moneys for the payment of appropriations and the reduction of the State debt. Eleventh.—The taxation of the citizens without their consent foc private purposes 1s a violauon of the fundamental principles of justice. ‘The following ticket was nominated:— For Jovernor—C. C, Comstock, of Kalamazoo. Lieutenant Governor—A. T, Wendell, of Mackina, Secretary of State—Isaac M. Crane, of Baton. State Treasurer—R. J. Lorange, of Monroe. — Auditor—General Charles W, Builer, of Lansing. Attorney General—General John Atkinson, of Pork Aluron, ¢ Comintsstoner of the Land Opice—John G. Hie biager, of East Saginaw. a a Superintendent of Public Instructfon—DUane Doty, of Detroit, " 4 Member of the State Board of Education—M. 4s. <b Beunett, of Jacksua