The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1870, Page 6

5 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIRTOR, s = THE REZALD CORPS OF EUROPEAN W’R CORRESPONDENTS, We have special correspondents moving with each division of the opposing forces of France and Prussia, and news agencies in the ‘principal capitals—-London, Paris, Berlin, Ma- rid, Vienna and Florence—so that nothing qeieed ena ae Rews character escupes our ‘that the encumbrance be ren. 4st of October Ps Ygencies in the principal cities of ~guucope, and our system of travelling corre- spondents, have been long established, a fact the readers of the HzRarp have no doubt long @ince 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. Our only aim is to give to the public the fullest, the most reliable, and the most authentic record of facta as they occur in the grand operations of the contending armies. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Orsta Bourru— Faust, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 43d st., between Sih and 6th ave.— Rar Van WINKLE. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tak Drama or Tx0R an SreuL. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIL, Broadway, cor- nor Gch st.—Performances every afternoon and eventug. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broad a 18th street.— Furrs, Our Cousin Gzauans ” *” 2 GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 244 ot. —URIELLA, THE DEMON OF THK NiauT. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.-- Barant's Minereeis. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.-Va- BIDIY ENTERTAINMENT —ComIo VOORLISUS, £0. \ THEATRE COMIQUE, SI Broadway.—Comio Vooat tem, NeaRO Acre, &0. 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S—The War: MacMahon’s Position and Movements; Prince Frederick Charles and Mac: in Alternate Triumph; The Prussian » and Left Wing Said to be Totally De- “Enormous Losses’ of the Germans of; Paris Report of Three Days’ Fight- fag; Alleged Capture of Thirty Guns by the French; Counter Claims of Previous Victory; french Report of an Engagement at Longway; an Soldiers Driven intedarxembourg and “Te Of and Honor to Thelr 8 of Strasbourg Thanked he French Legislature; Special relegraph trom Paris; The Parisians Undisiayed, ent and Amused, val Preparations in Great Britain; Troa-Clads, Turret Ships, ‘Rams and Tr The North American ond West india Fleets; Papai Alarm in Rome; The Holy City In Active Preparation for Detence; The War Shock in Switzerland; Bismarck’s Policy tates at “Tell’s Peak,” Nationalism nnd racy in Ireland—Progreas of Operations ‘ate, S- Fall Shions: The Latest Styies—Emigration Affatra: Meeting of the Board of Commission- ‘rotting at Fleetwood Park—Movements Presiient Grant—Weary of the World—A Hopetul Son—News from Cuba—Daring Ex- ort of a Sneak Thief—Expensive Revenge— the Census—Newaik’s Sensation—The Na- tional Game. G—Eiitorials: Leading Article on the Defeat of MacMahon, the Government of Paris, the Fu- ture—Amusement Announcements, 7—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—Tele- raphic News from al! Parta of tue World: fhe Kate of Discount Redaced In England; Arrivai of Dominion Troops in Winnipeg; the Insurgents Taken by Surprise; Consternation Among tne North Carolina Ku _ Kluxes: Legal Responsibilities of the Members of the Order—News from Washington—Politi- cai Inteliigence—Personal Intelligence—Prize Fight at St. Lonis—The Sate Robbery of the Methodist Missional Mandamused—Business Notices. 8—Department of Docks: The Superinten‘tent’s Re- port—New York city News— Political Inielll- gence—Gathering of the Clans: The Fourteenth Annual Games of the New York Caledonia Club—Newburg’s Terrible Tragedy—Naval In- telligence—Calamity Fire in Wiiliamsburg— The Ladies Behind the Counter—Alleged Felo- nious Assault. City News—‘‘Jack"” Among the Land s—The Public Debt—Cowardly Finan- ig—Finding an Sxrtng Sister—Financial ommercial Reports—Domestic Markets— n Trade of the United States—Payment sions of Inmates of Natloual Asylums— ages aud Deaths, oclety—A Commission oO Marri 18—Yiie War (Continued from Third Page)—Meeting of the Geri nu Patriotic Ald Soctety—Shipping nents, nited States Bonds as iting Nulsance—Real Awt Was Quiet IN Paris—that is, as quiet a could be expected under the circum- stances; for still the Parisians were consoled with the promise of great things from Mac- Mahon. This cannot last much longer; and, fn the event of the routing of MacMahon, Paris will decree a new government for France. No Qvissiine.—The strong words of Prussia to England in indignant remonstrance against her kind of ‘‘neutrality” become o nation that feels the inspiration of its power. It is the pitiful spectacle of the age to see the persistent violation of every law of neutrality that the traders of England carry on, and to gee the lawyers of the goverament standing ready with texts and quibbles to cover every plege of villany. Tas Strvation 1x Panis.—All accounts agree in representing the people of Paris as having recovered from the alarm and panic upon the expected appearance’ of the Germans’ before the fortifications. The Parisians are even beginning to ridicule the {don oftheir being called upon to stand a siege ‘etal, Nevertheless, the authorities do not felax in their labor of preparing for the Ger- Vast quantitics of provisions continue Cocca ts the city, and Count de Palikao bas asked for quarters for one hundred thou- gand Gardes Mobile, now on their way from the interior. It is now conceded that Paris is - Ja avere respect ready to receive sn cnomy, tt NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Defeat of MacMahon—The Govern- mont of Parls—Tho Future. We still wait for details of the Nght of Tues- day and Wednesday between MacMahon and | that there was any fighting of importance No additional. details of the telegraphic details indicate that MacMahon | battle of Wednesday are given, and despatches has escaped from his hardy pursucr and is | from Paris state that no news of such a battle An encounter is sald to have ocourred at Longwy, a town near the Luxembourg frontier, in which the Prus- sians were worsted, being compelled even to where they the case troops very rapidly, and the troops he encountered the Crown Prince at Beaumont. The latest striking at the other Royal Prince, who debars his way to reliove Bazaine; but until we have fuller details we must not allow ourselves to speak with too much confidence, It is undeniable that the forces of Napoleon, having failed hitherto to check the onward march of the German hosts, have made it their object to hinder as much as pos- sible the attack on Paris. As if the only hope of salvation lay in Paris, MacMahon and Bazaino have each been doing all that could be done to give Paris time to prepare for an attack, if not to make an attack {mpossible. For the last three weeks MacMahon and Bazaine have boen endeavor- ing to unite their forces. Duriog this samo period of time the brain which has controlled the movements of the German forces has been doing its utmost to make such union impossible. Considering the line of march of the Prussians, considering that the occupation of Paris has been and still is their object, considering at the same time that France has been putting forth all her strength to defeat these purposes, it has not unnaturally been concluded that out of this double purpose would emerge the oon- filet which would prove decisive and final, In other words, it has generally been admitted that if MacMahon and Bazaine cannot effect a junction the game is up so far as France is concerned. On the other hand, it has been just as generally admitted that if Prussia was not able to render this junction impossible the tide of battle might be turned, and the too confident armies of Prussia sent homewards demoralized. Whatever be the actual facts regarding this battle of Beaumont it is not tobe denied that Prussia cannot be easily driven from the posi- tion which she has so nobly won, There are those who think that France is yet strong enough to repel the invader. We do not say that she is not. But we do say that for her own interest, not to say glory, she has been too slow to reveal her strength. It was said by the first Napoleon that he never knew the meaning of resistance until he crossed tho Rhine. In Italy conquest was easy. The bright skies and the soft climate of the south made men shrink from the bayonet. Directly, however, the victorious legions of the republic crossed the Rhine it was felt that the bayonet was no longer an object of terror. On the | northern side of that river men were encount- ered who with stronger arms could wield the deadly weapon, and with broader breasts could receive the attack. The Germans have not deteriorated, but improved since the days of the first Napoleon, Physically they are what they ever have been—fur more than a match for their southern rivels; but to physi- cal snperiority they have added the results of superior intellect, the mighty appliances of modern science. Since the days when the Gotha, the Vandals and the Huns came pouring destructively down on the civill- zation of the south, no such revela tion of northern energy has been given to the world. Oa this continent we know the value of the Northern races. All! that is good and great in these United-Siates is. traceable fo a Northern origin. The surplus energies which were wont to let themselves loose upon the happier regions of Southern Europe have been finding for many years pasta more agree- able outlet in the New World across the seas. We mention this circumstance to show the su- periority of the Germans, physically consid- ered, as compared with the French. {n our judgment, whatever be the result of this fight, the centre of Enropean civilization will not in the future be sought in France, but in Ger- many. This war has already done much. It has made Germany a unit. It has been the great aim of all the leading French statesmen of modern times to prevent this union. To make this union impossible M. Thiers and M. Guizot have exerted themselves quite as much as has done Louis Napoleon. To prevent this union the present Emperor of the French has persist- ently, but not wisely, labored during the last eighteen years. To prevent this union Napo- leon commenced the present war. But the means have defeated themselves. The war which was meant to destroy German unity has actually built it up. Hanoverians and Saxons, Wiirtembergers and Bavarians are all Prussians in this contest. Result the fighting as it may, the unity already accomplished and sanctified by so much precious blood can never be undone. This, however, is not the only result. The Bonaparte dynasty is doomed, and, through the Bonaparte dynasty, the whole fanciful. fabric of Latin unity has crumbled to pieces. For at least another generation the Bonapartes must retire into private life, nor are we likely for many years to come to hear much of the unity of the Latin races. The return of the Orleans princes to power is no longer a mere possibility. Their return 1s one of the necessities of the situation. Orleanist contentment, not Bonapartist am- bition, is what France henceforward will imperatively need. In some future age, but not now, Gallic acquisitiveness may take a new poiot of departure. Would it be wonder- ful if, while another Bonaparte goes into involuntary exile, and while the dome of St. Peter’s fades away from the eyes of the last of the Roman Pontiffs, the dream of M. Guizot should become a reality and the de- cendants of Louis Philippe should reign at once in Paris and Madrid. The whirligig of time works wondrous changes. Mork GeerMaN ARMIgs IN FRANOE.—A London despatch reports that the arinies of the | thousand strong advancing upon Epernay or | What force this is and who com- | mands it is not stated, but from the fact that the Prussians have retired from the vicinity of Rheims and retreated from Chalons | it would apppear that a French movement | Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and of General Von Falkenstein are in France, that of the former being with the main army in the Ardennes, and that of the latter being at Bouzonville, not far from Metz, Shovld this news be true it is certain that MacMahon will have to fight more enemies than he calou- lated on. The War Situation—MaecMabon Facing Prince Charles. The Battle of Beaumont. The King of Pruasla says, of the battle of Our despatches this morning do not indicate {| Beaumont, ‘‘MacMahon was beaten and driven yesterday. has been received there. take refuge in Luxembourg, were disarmed. If such is MacMahon must have pushed his must have been the advance forces of Prince Froderick Charles, a3 the Crown Prince is yet on the line of the Meuse, probably crossing that river to continue his pursult of Mac- Mahon. The reported battle is probably a mere skirmish, as nothing more than the extreme vanguard of MacMahon could have Prince Frederick Charles’ army is much nearer Me!z, The advance of MacMuhon has proba- bly struck the vidottes of Prince Charles, but such skirmishes are the preliminaries of all great battles, and an important engagemont between the two armies may occur to-day. Io the meantime Bazaine, in his cage at Metz, Is making desperate efforts to get free. He co-operates with MacMahon by keeping General Steinmetz in play, while the army of relicf is winning ita daring way through the lines of the Prussian Princes. Everything depends upon the rapidity with which the Crown Prince moves. Ho has not heretofore proven a laggard, and in the very midst of the coming battle he may swoop like an ava- lanche upon the rear of MacMahon and crush him. If he delays, MacMahon may rout Prince Charles, and then Steinmetz would be but a single mouthful. American Newspaper Euterprise—Our Des- patches from the Seat of War in Europe. The superior enterprise of American news- papers was never more signally exemplified than yesterday. We then published seventeen special cable despatches from the seat of war in Europe, one of which gave an account of the great battle of Wednesday and probable defeat of Marshal MacMahon, simultaneous witb, if not in advance of, all the European papers. It is singular to note that since this war began the English and Continental jour- nals have been beaten daily in matters of news. It was the same way during the cam- paiga in Abyssinia, and it will continue to be the same way throuzhout the present conflict. American journalism has penetrated Europe, and the result is to be seen in the fact that the papers here publish twice as much intelli- gence from the contending armies as all the English journals combined. The HERALD, we need not say, will leave nothing undone to furnish its readers with the latest news from the seat of war To publish important facts, divested of all speculations, is the true aim of American journalistic enterprise, and a strict adherence to this {dea explains the secret of the great success which has attended us in the collection of news. It is undoubtedly the case that many diffi- culties confront the correspondents in the gathering and transmission of news. Tho silly policy of the French authorities has made it dangerous for a newspaper writer to rid of the every exclusiveness does multitudinous spies part of the Frenea lines, and, conse- quently, it fails in its object. We do not believe that the people countenance or ap- not get who infest prise which subordinate officials have seen fit to impose. No discreet correspondent would publish any information likely {o jeopardize the French plan of campaign, Certainly thus far the Prussian movements have not been retarded or embarrassed in the slightest degree by the press, although the German command- ers have, since the opening of the campaign, acted in a comparatively liberal spirit towards the newspapers. But even if every facility was afforded correspondents by the military an- thorities it would still be difficult to transmit news. Hostile armies moving rapidly and fighting continually make a porfect desert of the country through which they move. Thera would have been scarcely more trouble to for- ward intelligence from Gaul to Italy during the campaigns of Julius Ciesar than at the present time, Thus the greater credit is due Ameri- can journalistic enterprise for the rapidity with which it obtains and transmits reliable infor- mation of the events which are transpiring. It is a triumph of the nineteenth century, because it proves that the human skill is not subordi- nate to the railroad and telegraph, which are its own creations. By utilizing all the re- sources which tend to effect the desired object American journalists have taught English and other European newspapers a lesson in the art of journalism. So far as the Herat is speclally concerned we need only remind the reader of our special despatches during the rebellion. Then we spent half a million of dollars in the transmis- sion of news, without counting the expense of a large corps of correspondents. If necessary we are ready to expend a sum twice as great in procuring news from the present seat of war in Europe. We have correspondents with every division of both armies, and besides have writers stationed at every available point | on the Belgian frontier and in close proximity \ to the contending armies. writers at our disposal we expect to furnish the readers of the Hrraup every day in the ture, as in the past, with the fullest and latest information from the seat of war. AnorHER French ArMy.—Our despatches | refer vaguely to a French army one hundred Chalons. on their flank and rear has commenced, Tae Frenon CaBze is about to be repaired. reached that point, and the main body of accompany any division of their army. This | prove these restraints upon journalistic enter- | With this force of | The cable steamship Robert Lowe, which More Worx Yer to Bre Dong.—When | arrived at Halifax on Tuesday, sailed on old King William prays ‘‘God help us further,” | Wednesday for that purpose. The French he means to convey to the Queen the hint that | cable has been out of repair and unused for he has only had preliminary fight with Mac- | some Peay Se atl press prs oa d that the real struggle fs to | spatches from Europe bas been more than the aie ms ; “ Boglish oablos could well bear, from Beaumont across the Meuse to Mouzon.” Across the Meuse was exactly where Mac- Mahon wanted to go in pursuing his plan of striking the forces that held Bazaine; there- fore the mere hurrying his passage is a dis- aster only in so far as he may have suffered a loss not necessary to the accomplishment of his purpose. His Prussian Majesty reports the capture from the French of twelve guns and several thousand prisoners. The small loss of artillery indicates that the French were not in such a hurry to get away as they have been on some occasions lately ; the more especially as MacMahon is reported to be rich in artil- lery and to have not less than gix hundred cannon, MacMahon was at Chalons, it will be remem- bered, when the Crown Prince of Prussia had his army between Bar-le-Dic and Troyes. MacMahon retired upon Rheims, as if pretend- ing only a wish to cover Paris, thas hoping to tempt the Crown Prince to push his march thither. He was in some degres successful in that mancuvre, since it resulted in leaving MacMahon two marches nearer to the armies about Metz than the Crown Prince was. He had then the opportu- nity, apparently, to throw himself upon the Prussians who held Bazalme—and by thus turning the scale of power and numbers against them crushing them before the Crown Prince could come to the rescue. This was bis pur- pose, and to accomplish it he had to cross the Meuse near Sedan. It is reported he did this successfully on Tussday, and the King’s report seems to bo of an event coincident with or re- lated to that passage. It was, therefore, very likely, an affair of the Prussian corps named in the King’s despatch, with MacMahon’s rear guard, or with a corps posted further up the river purposely to cover the crossing. The fact that this force retired across the river be- fore the Prussians is in some degree an indi- cation that the main force was then already safely over. The affair on the heights be- tweon Vouzlers and Attigny was evidently with MacMahon’s rear guard. 1t is evident, therefore, that MacManon has succeeded in so far as getting over the river is success. He is now, therefore, or at tho date of the fighting at Beaumont, was, on the same side of the Meuse with Frederick Charles and Bazaine and the army of Steinmetz, while the Crown Prince was on the other side. Bazaine and MacMahon together Must outnumber Steinmetz and Frederick Charles, and might outfight and whip them if they are able to move with suf- ficient celerity to strike before Frederick William can cross the Meus. But the Meuse is, perhaps, not great obstacle to these armies, and therefore its division of tho Ger- man force is rather nominal than rea! All the way from Verdun to Dun the Germans must have both banks, and they cannot be | without a pontoon traip Yet there is just a possibility, though no more, that the may be able to strike the Germans east Meuse before those west of it cau get over. that case they onght to whip them, \ f of the Fo York. In another column we give a con re- view of the war sentiment of the journals printed in this city in foreign .ongues. These papers, of which there ara several, are chiefly represented by the Courrier and Messager (French), the Staats Zeitung and Journal (German), the co d'Italia (Italian), and the Skandinavske Post (Scandinavian) The Ger- man cause is decidedly in the majority, but the French papers make up in fiery zeal what | they lack in numerical strength. Yesterday they published very elaborate and lengthy articles in reply to the HgRALp's notice of them on Wednesday, and disclaimed any intent to judge harshly of American opinion in reference | to the Franco-German war. The Courrier persists in identifying the cause of the em- | pire with that of France, while the Messager, ! in set words, cut loose from the former, but vehomently defends the tricolor. The German papers are exultant, of course, ! but moderate in their expressions. Oae thing they consfder certain, viz.: that Paris will be made to foot the bill of the Germans recently expelled from her precincts. They breathe a spirit of settled confidence, and are parti- cularly diligent and discriminating in their selections from their European exchanges. The letters thus reproduced are especially vivid and interesting. They give the most | ample details and data from the seat of war, interspersed with graphic and life-like nar- rative. The Italian and Seandinavian papers are also very creditable in their treatment of the foreign news, and the excited interest they reveal is scarcely less than that displayed by the Germans and French, ‘The tone of one and all of these sheets Indicates that the grand struggle now going onis regarded by every nationality in Europe as of the most vital im- port to the cause of the people everywhere. Moreover, the tone of all excepting the Cour- rier is decidedly republican for the Old World, although the Vew Yorker Journal fears that the republicans of France have lost their op- portunity. Thus from the editorial watch tower we are enabled to form a correct idea of the ebb and flow of public opinion in the minds of all the diverse nationalities grouped upon our soil, under the common gis of the American system of free thought and free speech. au Perss ta New War Opin is danse Tne Postic Dest StareMent for Septem- ber shows that the reduction during the last ! month amounted to $15,818,836. Does the | administration need any more convincing | campaign documents than such monthly bulletins? They indicate honesty ; for paying | debts, according to the accepted maxim, is the most trying test of honesty. They indi- cate economy and retrenchment; for without these, with the heavy load of expenditures that the government is compelled to make every day, strict economy and searching retrench- ment would alone admit of the payment of a dollar of the debt. They indicate the enforce- | ment of the laws; for the revenue laws are the ones moat difficult to enforce, and on the collection of the revenue depends our only chance of paying our current expenses or our debts, There, then, we have honesty, econ- omy and the enforcement of the laws for the platform of General Grant's administration Anid dowa in letters of livjag light, ; wishes that tho seat of Christianity should The Progress of the Wan Anything like a decisive battle in the opera- tions on the Meuse may make a short war, if the decisive battle should come now; but every day of delay—every hour given to the great preparations now In progress for arming the French nation, must defer the end. Some- thing of the consequences of delay through indecisive operations in the field we saw in our own recent struggle, McClellan went to the Peninsula with over one hundred thousand effective men when there were less than ten thousand to defend Richmond, but he was de- layed until over a hundred thousand soldiers had been raked from all the Southern States. Thenin May he sat down to think before the elty that he could have walked into in April. While he was yet thinking, the force that had been brought together subsequent to his land- {ng at Newport Newscame out and doubled him up. All that was done in three months, France is arming now with great vigor, and if the German armies are delayed yet awhile longer they will encounter presently not other armies but an armed people, inspired only with the patriotic thought of crushing the in- vader. Every indecisive battle helps to this ond, and any crushingly destructive one for either slde will avert suoh a prolongation of the contest. Oar Special Letters from Earope—Roligion and Democracy as Being Viudicated by War. We continue the publication of our special correspondence from Europe, received by the mail of the 20th of August, in our columna to-day. Our writers datein London, in Rome, in Berlin, in Switzerland and in Ireland. They indite their lotters at the centre of Christian apostolicity, at the Prussian cenire of the war moving power of Germany, near to the centre of refuge and shelter for the European democ- racy at ‘‘Tell’s Poak,” and fa Ireland not far from the paternal homestead of the forefathers of Marshal MacMahon. The correspondence conveys, consequently, very curious and attractive matter. It compela one to think of what is still coming, to remember what has been. Great Britain continues, as will be geen, to put forth her huge naval power. She is organizing her sea force. Her Admiralty care in this direction extends all over—from the most huge iron- clad and the most effective gun to the most destructive torpedo, ita safe immersion and method of submarine explosion. England looks to her flag in the transatlantic waters. Her fleet ordered for service on the North Ameri- can and West India stations has been made : really formidable—a fact which may give rise, very reasonably, on this side of the ocean to the questions of:—‘‘What is it all about?” “Have the little old woman and I fallen out?” War ond the alarms of war kept the Holy City in a state of unhealthy, irreligious excite- ment. His Holiness the Pope vibrated in feeling between his faith in the efficacy of the keys and his desire for the seourity of the sword of Peter. Te believes that his system is founded on a rock, and thus inde- structible; but yat, notwithstanding, he be well guarded, just as the English assert that the rock of Gibraltar Is impregnable, but still continue to despatch troops and muni- tions of war and troop ships to and off the fortress, Napoleon’s recent policy towards the Catholic Church in Rome was really dis- quieting to Pio Nino, so much so that his Holi- nega appeara to be very doubtful as to the result of the situation in so faras his human fallibility is concerned. From Berlin we have a revised muster roll of the commands of the first great Prussian armies which were marched to the field for contest with France. The war shock reverberated in the mountain glens of Switzerland. Bismarck’s system of policy was felt ai ‘‘Tell’s Peak.” Society was confused and divided in opinion on the subject of the great conflict. Napoleon has disturbed his once peaceful home; the Emperor has alarmed his fellow citizens of the republic. Swiss neutrality was to be maintained, how- ever, at all hazards. Ireland maintained her attitude of sympathy | for France. The Green Isle was becoming more healthily national. Some of her most distinguished sons had united in a new leaguo for the attainment of the right of self-govern- ment, and thus just a3 democracy is about to be vindicated on the Continent comes forth a powerful Irish party which holds out the sun- burst and shamrock of Erin and tender them for fraternal union with the tricolor of France, the olive of Spain and the white cross of Italy and Savoy. Tuz Siraz or Srrassourc.—Our latest despatches represent the city of Strasbourg as holding out, despite the fearful bombardment to which it has been and still is subjected. The commander of the fortress and the citizeus are said to be determined never to surrender, but to burn the place rather than permit the Prussians to occupy it. Divested of the ‘‘die in the last ditch” heroics, it is evident that the French ore defonding Strasbourg with great heroism. It was charged in the Corps Légis- latif that the Prussians shelled the dwelling part of the fortress, and refused to allow the women and children to leave, for the purpose of compelling a speedy capitulation. They had failed, however, in their desiga, as the people remained resolute and deflant. Bazaing’s MOVEMENTS.—The mystery which has shrouded the army of Marshal Bazaine since the battle of Gravelotte is not yet re- moved, Several despatches from Paris and London report his having gained a decided victory at Courcelles ; but as there are several places of that name in the same disirict of country it is difficult to say where he is. There is a village called Courcelles situated near Metz, on the railroad to Saarbruok, and if the battle took place there it is evident that Bazaine is on one of the Prussian lines of com- munication. It is impossible, however, to offer any opinion as to his whereabouts, so we merely chronicle the fact of his reported battle and victory. Gotp anv THR Evropgan War.—Latterly the gold speculation follows the course of the The German Wer Loan, The German war loan of seventy-five millions of dollars has not been taken up with the alacrity which distinguishes the Fronch ig thelr war loans, While the French people, however, under the teachings of the empire, make very few investments of thelr money outside of France, the Germans are ready for 4 venture in the uttermost parts of the earth, upon & good interest, with good security for the principal. Thus, for instance, the Ger- mans hold nearly a thousand millions of United States bonds. They took them because they had faith in our government and were satisfied that six per cout interest In gold was @ good thing for the bondholder. The French, on the other hand, have fnvested very little ia our government securities, because, as a people, they are not in the habit of patting their money Into any securities outside of France. When their own government, there fore, calls upon them for @ loan, the French people rush with their savings to take it up. They havo been keeping their little stores of money—the accumulations, often, of years of industry and economy—for this very purpose, as a aafo place of deposit. Hence, while the late French war loan was subscribed for on the spot, and twice beyond the amount rée- quired, the German war loan gets on miére slowly, because the savings of that people have already been invested in United Statea bonds, and the holders do not care to depre- ciate their value in a general rush to sell. “Slow and sure” is the German motto in turn- ing their money from one investment to another, New York Politica-Greeley fer Governor. The Democratio State Central Committee have called a State Convention to be held in the city of Rochester on the 2lat of Septem- ber. This Oonvention will have very little to do. It will nominate Governor Hoffman for re- election, and he will bo re-elected, probably, by seventy thousand majority. The other mat- ters connected with the proceedings of the Convention will be of small moment. But the fact of the Convention being called at all at the date named is an assurance that the endeavor of the Tilden ring of the democracy for an extra session of the Legislature is abortive. The republicans meet in Saratoga on the 7th of this month. Their proceedings will be unu- sually interesting and probably very harmo- nious. Philosopher Greeley will be nomi- nated as their candidate for Governor; and why should be not be? Greeley is the man for the republicans. He is the man for their times, He is far in advance of the dunces who have been endeavoring to run the government for the past ten years. Massa Greeley may he- come Governor Greeley, if the good sense of the Saratoga Convention shall select him as the republican candidate for Governor of the State. Let the Republican Convention nominate Greeley for Governor and the contest will be quite interesting. The Taeue of the Foreign Press Abroad on the War. By our latest foreign mails we have a mass of exchanges, arriving almost simultaneously from every part of Europe and from Central and South America, The great struggle between Germany and France is everywhere the absorbing topic. Almost everything else seems to be forgotten, and the columns of the press ara completely filled with editorial articles discussing the question at issue, the strength of the belligerents, the localities likely to be the scene of battle, the probable results, &c., along with maps, diagrams and descrip- tive letters ‘‘from the front.” In Mexico the news of the first encounter had just been received; and the Iberia, pub- lished at the capital, and 2! Progreso at Vera Cruz, comment with surprise upon the strength and rapidity of the Prussians, for whose cause they manifest a decided prefo~ rence, At Havana, that well edited but bit- terly anti-Cuban paper, the Diario de la Marina, 1s well posted up to the latest mail dates, and gives very full editorials setting forth all the points of information—historical, political and geographical—concerning the war. It concludes a two-column leader, in ita igsue of the 20th ult., with these words :—“‘In our opinion the political situation of France ts Dore compromised than even the military, and the former has exercised and Is still exercising a powerful {ufluence upon the second. [If it be the fact that Na- poleon precipitated the war with political objects in view he will have comprehended that he erred in his calculations, and therein has committed suicide.”, This utterance of the leading loyal Havana journal is something of an earnest of the tone perceptible in the Spanish press at home. In Madrid the news of the German victories has been received with jubilation by the republican papers, one andall, who hail in them the certain down- fall of Napoleon III. and the revival of the French republic. The populace all over the country were so intensely ox- cited by the tidings that the same papers had to publish manifesto on behalf of the Republican Directory coun- selling moderation and patience. Seftor Castelar, in this appeal says, *‘One false step might compromise not only the fate of the party, but also that of the country.” The ministerial and ultramontane journals all lean toward France, but they speak with bated breath. What we thus say of the Spanish will apply to the Portuguese press. All the liberal papers recognize the position of Prussia asthe just one, and all. the friends of the dic- tatorship come out falteringly for the French. The German press, even in Austria, is unanimous, and in one of the leading papers of Vienna aletter is published, said to be from a Hungarian notable of high rank and distinc- tion, combating the idea of his countrymen preferring French to German sympathy. He decides in favor of the latter, and conjures all Hungarians to adopt his view of the case, even on religious grounds. The future of Hungary, | he says, depends upon the union of the Ger- man people. The Neue Freie Presseof Vienna, relates an anecdote to prove Napoleon's pre~ vious desire for the war. He said to a cortaln, London money market rather than the reports from the war in France. Yesterday the Gold Room was treated to a French victory, but gold declined because our bonds in London rose to 884, which is only a few per cent below the figures at which they atood when the war broke out, ambassador (the Austrian?) just before tha campaign, ‘There is nothing that I so greatly fear as a retreat on Prussia’s part ;” and when warned that he was incurring a tremendous risk, he pointed to the enthusiasm of the masses in Paria. remarking that he should Po