The New York Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD /BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, yi PROPRIBTOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must. be addressed New York HERALD. _ —————— SSS ee Volume XXXV... steceesereseeeeN@, 251 ————————————————— TUE SERALD CORPS OF EUROPEAN WiR CORRESPONDEN}. We have special correspondents moving with each division of the opposing forces of France and Prassia, and news agencies in the principal capitals—London, Paris, Berlin, Ma- Grid, Vienna and Florence—so that nothing of animportant news character escapes our vigilant representatives. Our news agencies in the principal cities of Europe, and our system of travelling corre- spondents, have been long established, a fact the readers of the Hzratp 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. 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, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13:h street.— Fuzz, Ovn Cousin GERMAN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘Shd st.—UBIZLLA, THE DEMON OF THE Nigut. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Darina Dtox, Tae Dergotive—Bxorner Brit AND Buotare BEN. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Orrea Bourrs— Lrrrne Faust, BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d st., between Sth and 6th avs.— Bir Van WINKiz. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—SHAKSPEARR’S TRAG- EDY OF JuLIus CasaR. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broad: a ner 80th st.—Performances every afternoon and evening. 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Pace. 1— Advertisements, ‘2—Advertisements. B—The War: Rapid Advance of the German Armies on Paris; Safe Retreat of General Vinoy’s French Corps; Vigorous Measures for the De- fence of the Capttal; Jules Favre's Position; France Can Go Om Without the Parliament; The Duke de Grammont’s Views on the Siiua- Peace Plans of Great Britain to the se] a=second Day of the Autumnal ‘iver Meetin, at Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia—New Yor! vity News—Special Journey Along the German Side of the Rniné—The War Feeling in the City—The Brooklyn Murder—Terrific Blast trom Boreas—A Sensation in a Theatre—Con- essional Conventions in New Jersey. S—Tnexpended Appropriations—New England Miiitia in Jersey—Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation—Probabie Manslaughter in Newark— Educational Affairs—Bioody Riot in Jersey— Yachting—Cricket Match—Funeral of the Late Gui S. Bedford—Arrival of the Steamship ‘fayette—Attempted Highway Robbery at Trenton, N. J.—Proceedings in the New York Qourts—Base Ball Notes—A Smal) . Civil War. @—Editoriais:—Leading Article on the Impending Slege of Paris, Will the War be Pushéd to the Bitter End—Amusement Announcements. ‘7—~Telegraphic News—Proceedings of the Republi- can State beets Convention —Movements of the President—Shipping Intelligence—Busi- ness Notices, S8—Meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Public Parks—Mysterious Affair in Boston— News from Hayti—Mo} vs. Little Tele- graphy—News from ‘Personal Intelli- gence—Musical and Theatrical Notes—Sickness and Death Among St rs—Mormonism : Excitement in Salt Lake OCity—The American institute—The Scientists Disappointed—Mili- sary Ghi-chat—Renmion of Burnside's Solaiers at Niagara Falls—Marine Transfers—Marriages yA tat and erclal Ri kiyn n¢ia! anc e emt = ney ‘Rowe nweaoh ter int em peer a Advertisements. 10—The War ; (continmed from page three)—Adver- tisement 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Watt Srreet—Dovsr anv Duiness.—The Gold Room was comparatively dull yesterday and theprice of the precious metal was steady at 114 a 1148. The speculative feeling is in abeyance until it is possible to learn something of the probable destiny of Europe after the remarkable change in France. Hence in the doubt of the future Wallstreet falls into its old habit of doing nothing. ——$<$____ t Waat Dogs Ir Mean ?—Mr. Schuyler Col- fax has announced his purpose to retire from public life upon the expiration of his present term of office. This is all gammon, of course ; but what does it mean? What kind of gam- mon is it exactly? Andrew Johnson also an- nounced early in his term of office that he would retire to the obscurity of Tennessee when his time was out, and tried with all his might net to keep his word. He put that Uttle point to windward to provide against any disappointment in future aspirations. Is that what Colfax means? Lincoln also made the same announcement, apparently to have active opponents count without him in their opera- tions. Is this the point with Colfax? He certainly cannot stand for the Presidency for the next term. Grant leaves no opportunity ; and itmay be that Colfax believes that four years of retirement would give him a good strategic position when the Prosidency is die- cussed in 1876 ‘ NEW. YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPYEMBER 8, 1870—TRIPLE SHEKT. Tho Impending War be Pushéd to the Bitter End? The news from Europe which we publish this morning, though not indicating very clearly or definitely the course which events there are about to take, still contains elements The Prussian army is marching upon Paris, and nothing appears to be done, either through military or The authorities of Paris are, on their part, prepar- ing to oppose a determined resistance to the General Trochu appears to be the leader on whom tho hopes of the country rest, and he has already had some difficulty with the newly constituied authorities, but for so far has been able to carry his point. General Vinoy’s corps of thirty thousand men is reported to have escaped the Prussians and reached Paris in safety. Strasbourg and Metz still hold out against the Prassians, but the usual predictions of their immediate surrender of a very important character. diplomatic means, to check the advance, enemy. sre indulged in. tion. still less to be said. sought an interview with the King of Prussia, aS was announced yesterday, we have not, what took place. We are informed, however, tions :— 1.—French territory to be held inviolate. war. 3.—A genera! disarmament of France. Lorraine. Prussia and his great councillor, Count Bis- marck. Onthecontrary, we are informed that Prussia repels the idea of intervention on tho part of outside Powers, and will be satisfied with nothing less than the annexation of tho provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. She pro- poses, evidently, to dictate her own terms after she has gained possession of the capital, and is not inclined to listen to any overtures of peace and reconciliation until Paris is in her hands, But if we are to place reliance in the judgment and skill of General Trochu that event is not so close at hand; for he asserts confidently that Paris is safe. Meantime the recognition of the provisional republican government of France by our own government is about to be made, President Grant having already, as wo are informed, issued an order to that effect, and having gone on to Washiugton last night to forward immediate official action on tho subject. These are all the important elements of tho news received up to a late hour last night, We pass over without comment the unfavorable opinion volunteered by the Duke de Grammont, now & refugee in London, as to the new pro- visional government of France, and the medley of statements telegraphed from Paris on the same subject, Enough to say that the repub- lic has been proclaimed in France, that that proclamation has been solemnly and seriously endorsed by the whole French people, and that a republican form of government there is now au accomplished fact. The great question of the hour is, will the King of Prussia accept propositions of peace on behalf of the French repub'ic, or will he persist in his resolution of marching upon and investing Paris and subjecting that splendid capital to all the horrors of a slege? We think that, for the sake of the peace of Europe, he ought to be satisfied with the wonderful suc- cess he has already obtained, and ought to accept the offer for disbanding the French army—which is the best guarantee of peace that can be given—and withdraw his victorious armies from the soil of France. History would accord to him and his people more glory for that generous and magnanimous policy than even for the marvellous military skill by which their campaign was conducted. But if the King of Prussia should refuse to listen to peace overtures and insist on dictat- ing terms from the Tuileries he may find that the war has only really begun, and that his own crown and dynasty, as well as those of all the potentates of Europe, are endangered by its continuance. The French people are not going to let their capital fall into the hands of the enemy without the most desperate efforts to save it. Paris is prepared to stand asiege. Her fortifications are strong enough to hold in check for an indefinite period all the armies that Prussia can hurl against them, The very name of republic has a talismanic influence, and the example of France may communicate itself to Germany, Italy, Spain and, perhaps, to Great Britain, until, the people rising everywhere and proclaiming their right to self-government, all thrones may share the fate of Napoleon's, The King of Prussia must recognize that thé original cause of war has disappeared with the fall of the Emperor and that the establishment of a republic in France has changed the whole aspect of the question, At first the sympathies of the people of the United States were, it must be admitted, strongly in favor of Germany and its unification. They saw that the war was undertaken by the French Emperor most causelessly, with the purpose of checking the progress of the German States towards a union in one government and of seizing portions of the German territory ; and therefore they hailed with delight the news of German victories. But now the posi- tion is changed. The French people, resuming control of their own destinies, disown the ambitious pretensions of their late ruler, and offer to disband their armies and to live henceforth in peace and good fellow- ship with their German neighbors. What more onght the Germans to demand, except it may be the dismantling of Strasbourg and some others of the fortified places on their frontier as a material guarantee that they shall not to subjected to another invasion from France? The sympathies of the people of the United States are now very decidedly with the French people, not only because the latter have been sufficiently punished and humbled for the fault of their late ruler, but because the American republic was aided in ite own early straggle by the government and people of France, and because the French people now place themselves upon the great principle Siege of . Pariy—Will the So much for the military side of the ques- As to the diplomatic side there is even If Jules Favre, the Presi- dent of the new provisional government, has at the present moment, any information as to in our London special despatches, that the English government, in conjunction with other neutral Powers, is about to make an earnest appeal to Prussia to conclude peace on the basis of the following proposi- 2.—France to pay to Germany the expenses of the 4.—The destruction of ail the forts in Alsace and Our correspondent intimates that these terms are acceptable to the French republic; but no such opinion can ba predicated of the King of of popular government on which our own | Recognition of tho Greatness has been built up. Goneral.Grant. And we may say, in this connection, that President Grant oould not perform an act that would be more agreeable to the whole Ameri- can people or more opportune than the issuing of the order to which we have referred, instructing Minister Washburne to recognize officially the provisional republican govern- ment of France, That is due to the past and to the present. The fact is that King William and Count Bismarck have done more for republicanism than all the ranting fanatics like Kossuth, Garibaldi, Mazzini and Victor Hugo could ever achieve. They have relieved the French people from the incubus of the Bonaparte dynasty, which might otherwise have weighed them down and stifled their aspirations for republican institutions indefinitely, The Prussians have, therofore, in that sense been the benefactors of France, as well as of tho other nations which, following the example, may overthrow royal dynasties and substitute for them the great principle of popular govern- meat. Better far for the King of Prussia and all other advocates of the divine right of kings if the old and feeble Emperor of the French had been allowed to continuo his rule over France and to die in the imperial purple ; for, after all, Napoleon was the friend of peace and order, and his famous declaration after the coup d'état of December 2, 1851, that tho empire was peace—‘'l’ 2mpire c'est la paix” — was meant to be sincere. The same desire to prevent a needless sacrifice of life governed him in determining on the surrender at Sedan. But thus it is that Providence, in the accom- plishment of great results, often makes use of means apparently the most opposite and impro- bable; and if the issue of the prosent war isto be the establishment of the French republic, to be followed in time by the creation of the United States of Europe, the world will be in- debted for the blessing to the two greatest enemies of republicanism—the Emperor of the French and the King of Prussia. Branch to the State Department in Washing- ton yesterday to recognize the new French re- public. That the order might be promptly carried out he proceeded to Washington bim- self in the evening. We may expect that our Minister in Paris will, therefore, be instructed to recognize at once the republic which the will of the French people has raised upon the ruins of the Bonaparte dynasty. This action of General Grant will be popular with all classes, and only confirms the idea that he has been watching tho progress of events in Europe with calmness and deliberation. The recognition of the republican government in France may give a new complexion to the war if it should be continued. In the present state of Europe the French republic is more than all else to Americans. Our people gave their cheers to the Germans in so far as they were right—in so far as they were atriking against a tyranny. They ex- tended an overflowing sympathy to the Ger- mans here in their rejoicings over the vic- tories of the armies of the Fatherland, because all folt that these victories of an honest, earnest, liberty-loving people tended to cast down a throne that was founded in oppression; to destroy a government that had repreased the liberty of Europe, retarded the progress of all the peoples within the sphere ofits influence and utterly demoralized Franco. To throw down such a throne was to propa- gate American ideas. Moreover, our people had a special quarrel with this last ruler of France, and saw his trouble with a satisfaction that remembered his Mexican enterprise—bis impudent attempt to take advantage of what he supposed to be our rain. For all these reasons the vast majority of Americans bur- rahed with our German citizens over all the victories of the German princes. But Americans also have their natural ten- derness for France, and they distinguish between France and the empire very clearly. For the empire they had no good will; for France herself, above all for a French republic, they can have no sentiment but that of generous enthusiasm. This French republic is before us. So far as the war against Louis Napoleon went American sentiment and Ger- man were one. Beyond that they part com- pany. We can have no sympathy with a Ger- man monarchy warring against a French republic. Our German fellow citizens, if they were trufy in heart and soul citizens of this republic, would to-day feel themselves nearer The War Situation—The Advance on Paris. The despatches this morning announce the continued advance of the victorious Prussians on Paris and the hurried preparations for de- fence within the fortifications of the city. The Germans advance by forced marches, evi- dently intent on attacking while the new gov- ernment is in the confusion of organization. Inside the city, however, the new government appears to have more method and more hearty support than the old. While there may have been a suspicion of lukewarmness on | to that republic in Paris than to the semi-des- the part of the French people in | potic Power that is in the field against it, and the war for the perpetuation of | to escape from which Power many of them the Napoleonic dynasty, there is no | first came to this country. doubt of their strong earnestness in tho war for the defence of the republic. Three heavy columns of Germans comprise the advance—one on the Oise, one on the Marne and the other on the Aube. The centre is at Epernay, the right centre at Soissons, the tight at some point on the Oise south of St. Quentin, and the left is at some point on the Aube. These columns when deployed in front of the city will probably extend from the Seine on the north to the Marne on the south- east, where they will confront the heavy works of Aubervilliers, De Noissy, De Rosny and De Nogent, immense detached fortresses which they will have to take before they can come within range of the inner works. With the French enthusiasm excited by the declaration of a republic, a resolute and deter- mined defence will be made in these fortresses and in the inner lines, and Von Moltke and the Crown Princo will find more difficult work than they encountered at Sedan. The defence of Strasbourg, a city almost foreign to France, may serve as a fair criterion of what the de- fence of the capital will be. But it is to be hoped yet, the Napoleonic dynasty being overthrown, that the Prussian king will recog- nize the fact that the enemy that he came to fight exists no longer, and that sweet peace will hover over the whole face of France before the disastrous siege commences, The American people will certainly approve the action of the President. The American republic should have been the first to extend a hand of friendly recognition to a sister re- public just claiming its rights and awaiting the sympathy of all nations friendly to liberty and popular government. The Republican State Convention—Nomina- tion of General Woodford for Governor, The assembling of this body at Saratoga yesterday was an event which created a good deal of excitement. A vast crowd of out- siders, from all parts of the State, somewhat embarrassed the delegates In obtaining seats. The proceedings were organized, however, very peacefully, by the election of George W. Curtiss, of Richmond county, as temporary chairman. Curtiss being a good talker and bookmaker, of course made a neatly prepared speech, claiming for the republican party all the virtues which adorn humanity, and refer- ring to the democrats as a party guilty of ‘the blackest crimes,” and so forth. The organiza- tion of the Convention was completed by the election of General Van Wyck as permanent chairman, Here the Fenton and Conkling influence came into play very prettily and very grace- fully. Van Wyck isa Fentonian, but Roscoe Conkling was the man to propose him for per- manent Chairman of the Convention. His election would have been first blood for Fenton, only that the sanguinary elements of the conflict were neatly expunged by the pacific motion of Conkling in favor of the enemy's friend, At a late hour the nomina- tions were made, the candidates being Horace Greeley, proposed by James W. Husted, of Westchester, and seconded by General Merritt; General Stewart L. Woodford, of Kings county, and George W. Curtiss, of Richmond county. On the second formal vote General Woodford received 258 votes and Horace Greeley 105. Woodford therefore received the nomination, thus overlooking the services of the tried politician, Greeley, for that of the soldier, Woodford. The claims of Mr. Greeley upon his party are undoubted. They have proved them- selves ungrateful that they did not terder him gome return for his long services, even though it be but the empty honor of a nomination for fn important office which by or ever fil by the ‘vote of the people. Séill It must be soothing to the feelings and the vanity of the philosopher (for some philosophers are weak enough to be vain) to find that his friends in the party recognize, even by a handsome vote though minority one, the value of his long years of toil, and that they were willing to overlook his little peccadilloes, his wanderings after strange gods now and then, his occasional vagaries and phantasies, which were all in- nocent in their way and did no harm to anybody. But, in truth, there is no better representative of the republican party in the State to-day than Horace Greeley; there has been no more earnest worker in the cause for a quarter of a century. Who has so per- sistently stood by the party from its birth, and, indeed, who, we might say, ante-dated its birth in agitating the ideas upon which the republican party was formed—who so labori- ously as Mr. Greeley? The Republican State Convention, then, could have done no act so just as the nomination of Horace Greeley for Gov- ernor. But it appears they failed to see it, If he was defeated at the polls, as he was sure to be, it would be some consolation to him to know that he was beaten by the most popular man in the State, John T. Hoffman, and by a majority of about seventy thousand of his fellow citizens, That honor now, however, is reserved, by the act of the Convention, for a man who bas deag little service to the party. Prussta’s Dirrioutty.—Why has Prussia won? Because all Germany in this struggle is a unit. Will this unity continue? It willbe well if itdoes. It ought not to be forgotten, however, that the German peoples have many things to do and not a few things to settle before the Father- land, away from pressure, is an absolute unit. Do the German peoples see the ques- tion properly? How do the kings and the grand dukes feel? If, as the result of this war, Bavaria and Wurtemburg and Baden and Hesse do not join the Northern Confedera- tion and emphatically endorse the empire, France, backed by the whole force of the South, may take terrible revenge. Germany has done well, because Germany has acted as a unit. It will be well for Germany, and, as we think, well for the world, if the German people fully comprehend the secret of their success. There is great need for hurrying up. Bismarck and You, Moltke éatitot live forever. A word to the wise. Tag Brawiers aNp Misonigr MAKers.— Garibaldi, Mazzini and all that crew who for twenty years past have been trying to establish a republic in France, a republic in Italy, a republic in Spain, a republio everywhere that their noisy agitation could reach, or their assassination plots could supply a bombshell, must be utterly confounded by the events of the last few weeks. The King of Prussta has done more for republicanism in a month than these spouters have done in twenty years, Their game for the establishment of a red republic, democratique ot sociale, is not likely to win, The French people incline to a moderate form of the republican article, which they will accept soberly, There will be no “goddess of reason,” no “‘reign of terror” this time, if we can judge from the indications in Paris, Tux Mormon Ovrrages.—We have re- ferred before to the reported outrages which the Mormons have recently been guilty of towards Gentiles and apostate Mormons, The details are published this morning in another columa, and fully confirm the story as it first came by telegraph. A conflict seems threat- ening between the United States and the Mor- mon authorities, and if it actually comes there is no question as to the way io which it will result, The leadors in the Church seem to have lost all idea of policy as well as of equity. A war is what their enemies in Congress most wish and what they can least afford, French Tyepublic by President Grant sent an order from Long | The Empress Eugeuie—Tho Empire and the Republic. The Empress Eugénie, but yesterday the most brilliant, the most powerful, the most envied and apparently the happiest woman in all Christendom—‘“‘the glass of fashion and the mould of form”—the Empress of modern soclety and the chosen goddess of the gay world in both hemispheres, is to-day crownless and houseless—a fugitive and an exile ina foreign land. Her departure from the Tuile- ries and from France was a flight as from tho wild popular vengeance of another Reign of Terror, and doubtless in crossing the Belgian frontier she thought less of her imperial splen- dors swept away than of her personal safety secured. She was in no danger; she might have retired with deliberation and dignity ; but in the midst of that fearful commotion in Paris how was she to know it? Twonty-two years before King Louis Philippe fled as pre- cipitately in his pea jacket from the ominous tumult of a French revolution, because he knew not that the horrible ferocitles of the first French revolutionary convulsion had passed away—that the masses of the French people, through that hideous carnival of crime, had risen from the revenges of barbarism to the responsibilities of civilization, Yet is hard to believe that Eugénte was not {nm some degres prepared for this sudden col- lapse of the Napoleonic empire and dynasty. She has been too active and too ambitious a3 8 politician in the affairs of the empire, and too familiar with the reasons of Napoleon for every scheme of his, in his internal policy and in diplomacy or war, not to know the dangers that encompassed him. Yet she was, doubt- less, deceived by the delusions of the ple- biscite, and satisfled that, from the glory of this war with Prussia, the empire would bo secured for her son, as its absolute despotism had been secured for her husband, by the will of the French people. How could she believe that the French people, in ratifying the empire over and over again, had spoken under the pressure of an imperial army, and that with this army removed they would speak for them- selves without the warning of a sinzle day? It is all over now, and, in the light of the restored republic, it is only a matter of amaze- ment that the shadowy empire of Louis Na- poleon survived so long. For eighteen years, with the skill of a conjurer in his domestic and foreign policy, he had managed to divert the public mind of France from the outrages of bis usurpation to the glories and prosperity of his government at home and abroad. But all this time, as we can now see, the French people have only submitted to the empire as a choice of evila, and that they have been im- patiently awaiting their opportunity to replace the republic which he (Napoleon) betrayed and set aside, but which he had failed to ex- tinguish, It may be that in the glitter and splendors of her imperial court, and with emperors, kings and queens dancing attendance upon her, Eugénie really believed the republic dead, the Bourbons a mere tradition, and the empire needing only the glory of the rectifica- tion of the Rhine frontier to make its trans- mission to her son a scene of popular acclama- tion. But “how are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished!” We can hardly realize the stupendous events of the last six weeks, or that, among them, the Emperor Napoleon is a prisoner, bis Prince Imperial a wandering exile and his Empress a fugitive from a back door of the Tuileries, with only a single attendant, and anxious only to escape with her life from the surging revolution around her. We can hardly believe that this trembling fugitive is that magnificent Empress who but the other day was welcomed at Constantinople by the Sultan with a reception excelling in its Orlental splendors the royal Asiatic welcome of King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba. Can it be true that this weeping exile on the Belgian frontier, plead- ing for information of her unhappy husband and her poor sick boy, is the same person as that glorious Empress who in the grand East- ern spectacle of the opening of the Suez Canal eclipsed in her radiant beauty the charms of the gorgeous Cleopatra in all her giory! Yes; the glorious Empress whose presence in her imperial travels inspired the admiration and wonder of Europe, Asia and Africa, and the melancholy wanderer in search of the sick boy and his father, are one and the sanie person. It is only a change in the character she is called.to play; and such are the ups and downs of crowns and dynasties ; and go it has been from the beginning, and will be to the D , Bat the ferocious barbarism which paraded the beautiful Queen Zenobia in chains through the streets of Rome, which brought the head of the beauteous Queen of Scots to the block, and the fair, accomplished and courageous Marie Antoinette to the guillotine, we may hope has ceased to be, or will no more be permitted in popular or royal revenges upon defeated kings and queens, The exiled Em- press Eugénie and her husband and son have atill before them a fair prospect of the uiet, philosophical | Fetirement of Louis hilippe and his sensible family. Or Bugénio may perchance now find some melancholy consolation in sympathetic communion with Queen Isabella, or in telling the story of her sorrows to the still more unfortunate Empress, “poor Carlotta.” Nay, the Queen of England, untroubled by fears of revolution, is un- happier, perhaps, even to-day over the un- timely loss of her husband than ts the gay, brilliant and ambitious Eugénie over the loss of the French empire. The imperial family, no doubt, as soon as permitted to make their own arrangements, will settle in England; for where, on the Continent, save in Switzerland, can they hope now to rest in peace? They, too, have proved the uncertainty of the highest earthly glories. ‘‘Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.” Ovation TO THE Reps.—Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc, Ledru Rollin and Cerruschi, the Italian banker, havo returned to Paris. A popular ovation was offered to Victor Hugo ; but it is said both he and the other returned radicals have intimated that for the present they will abstain from active participation in the movement inaugurated by the establish- ment of the new republic. This is certainly a wise and commendable resolution, for per sonal, ambitions and partisan ideas should now be silenced in view of the paramowat duty of all Frenchmen to defend their native ‘soil against the invading Prussian hosta, Why Does the Government Hesitate? This was a question which people asked yesterday concerning the recognition of the French republic. General Grant has an- swered it by recognizing the provisional gov- eroment of France officially and promptly las! evening. There never was any serious diMculty in the way of our government at Washington recognizing tho Fronch re- Public, or the provisional government which Just now represents the republic, When Queen Isabella was driven’ from Spain, a short time ago, and a provisional government was formed in Madrid, our authorities at Washington hastoned to recognize the new Spanish government. The right of Prim and Serrano to constitute a new form of govern- ment was not disputed. If anybody had said that this action on our part was premature at that moment he would have been considered rash, But our govorn- ment admitted the change of power at ouce from the Queen te the people, So also in 1848, when the French republic of Lamartine, Ledru Rollin, Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc and O'DUlon Barrot and the others who formed the first provisional government, was proclaimed, the United States eagerly recognized the new democratic creation among the list of nations. With these precedents before us why should the government of the United States hesitate to acknowledge the existence of the republic in France to-day, which the Corps Légialatif has proclaimed in Paris, with the consent of the people, and which has been accepted in all the leading cities throughout France with per- fect accord, which is a substantial ratification of the revolution ? Surely our goverament might be satisfied with the result of a popular revolution, calmly and seriously accomplished, without shedding a drop of blood—without the necessity of a political arrest—almost without the aid of a policeman—under circumstances, too, of ex- asperation with the Bonaparte dynasty and the defeat of their arms, which might natu- rally inflame the excitable passions of a pecu- liarly effervescent people. In this light General Grant has regarded the question, and he has acted promptly and properly. Spain and Italy—The Opportunity of Republicans. The complete collapse of the French empire, contrary to all expectations, has opened up an opportunity to the wandering republicans of Europe, who, strange to say, are all or almost all southerners. Wo are not ignorant of the fact that there are republicans in Germany ; but we do the republicans of the North no injustice when we say that the republicaniam of Europe is by very general consent asso- ciated with regions south of the Rhine. We do not despair of the North. Germany must begin to feel that royal figureheads are unnecessary. A grand German confederation ona republican basis is already more than a dream, And why should a German republio not embrace Denmark and Sweden and Norway? < At the same time it is not to be denied that the republican question in Europe is more southern than northero, Italy and Spain more than Germany caught the contagion at the commencement of this century, But for the first Bonaparte Italy and Spain as well as France would have been and might have remained republics. We all know how on every occasion that France has given signs of republican life the neizhboring peninsulas have more or less heartily responded. The strenge thing is, that while both Italy and Spain have ever caught from France the re- publican contagion, France has always killed her own offspring. The year 1848 bade fair to give us republics in Spain, in Italy, in Portugal, in Germany. The advent of Louis Napoleon to power did more than all other causes combined to make the republican effort ot 1848 a failure. Bonapartism is, for the present, dead. France, for the present, is republican, If France can make peace with King Willlam we know no reason why the French republic should not bea success. If the French repub- lic makes at all a fair show, why should not Spain make an end of Prim and all his miser- able temporizing? And why should not Magzint, and Garibaldi carry out their purpose in Italy? A French republic, a Spanish republic, a Por- tuguese republic, an Italian republic, do not any longer seem impossibilities, A universal republic, a genuine European family, does not seem to us to be an imme- diate possibility, but we cannot deny that the events of the hour sre encouraging. It is our confident belief that this war will open the eyes of all peoples, and that a mighty step has been made towards ‘‘the parllament of man, the federation of the world.” We look for a republic in Italy. We look for a repub- lio io Spain. A good. beginning, and the result is sure, A the Looxina Arrzr SmauL Tutnas,—The reported arrest of the Princess Mathilde and the detention of her luggage are on a par with the changing of the names of certain streets in Paris—aa; for instance, the conversion of the Avenue de I'Impératrice to the Avenue Viotor Noir, and the throwing out of the portraits of the Emperor and the Empress from the win- dows of the Hotel de Ville, All this sort of thing seems very mean. It is looking after the emallest matters when the Germans are, as it were, at the very gates of Paris, and when tho public mind should be engrossed by infinitely more important considerations. PAL Ara AR IE Tue Fat of the Napoleonic dynasty seems likely to knock over a whole row of monarch- ies, just as schoolboys tumble over rows of bricks, the first one knocking down all the rest, What a splendid working republican old King William fs! . —_——_—————— ARMY INTELLIGENCE, tenant R. G. Whitman, of the Third cav- Pita, en ordered to Carlisle Barracks, Pennsyl- vania, to Socomibany reoruits for his regiment. ‘Bedioe's island, New York harbor, is discontinued as a depot or rendezvous for recruits, and will bo rrisoned under orders of the General commandin; 4 Department of the Kast. The Superintendent the general recruiting service at New York oity will ve directions concerning tne proper distribution gf Leo gg ita and recruitimg property now on that island. ‘The telegraphic order retieving Mayer Brants, ayinannn, from dut in the Department of jor, fuses dnd orderitg him to Baltimore, Md., to re- port by lotter to the War Ofice and await orders, is confirmed, oe WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Paymaster J. 0, Eldridge, of the navy, is ordered to special duty at New ‘The order ascscaing Gunner James M. Hogg from the Pensacola Navy Yard has been revoked,