The New York Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD sian March on Paris. On to the capital of France the victorious Prussians are pressing without halt or pauso. No armed opposition is made to their progress except so far as to blow up some bridges and offer feeble impediments of that kind. Their ssssseseceeeeseseeseN@, 252 | advance yesterday was but forty miles from Paris. There are, in fact, no French forces in JANES GORDON BENNETT, ‘worsrudoud THE BXRALD CORPS OF SUROPEAN WAR CORRESPONDEN Wo have special correspondents moving the fleld to oppose them. Bazaine’s army is still shut up in Metz, and its only prospect of getting out seems to be by capitulation and surrender, negotiations for which are said to with each division of the opposing forces of ; be in progress. The gallant MacMahon is France and Prussia, and news agencies in the principal capitals—-London, Paris, Berlin, Ma- Grid, Vienna and Florence—so that nothing of an important news character escapes our vigilant representatives, Our news agencies in the principal cities of Eaorope, and our system of travelling corre- spondents, have been long established, a fact the readers of the HzRap 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 dead and his brave army is on the way to Germany to graco the triumph of its conqueror, preceded there by him whose ambition has brought France to its present pitiable state. Vinoy’s corps, and what is designated the Army of Lyons, under the command of Count Palikao, are both within the walls of Paris and are not in a condition to bar the progress of the Prussians, It is, therefore, expected that the beleaguering of the doomed city will be undertaken in the early part of next week. Indeed, it is stated as a positive fact in our special telegraphic correspondence from Paris ‘bat the King of Prussia has ordered a chateau | In the nelghborhood to be prepared for his re- ception by Sunday next. On the other hand, the idea of seeking or consenting to a peace that might be regarded as humiliating to the prite of France does not aeem to be entertained either by the people or by the new republican government. Rumors aro eevalent of offers of mediation being made or record of facts as they occur in the grand operations of the contending armies. 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PURE —Neuzo Mix TERRACE GARDEN, Fifty-eighth stroet and Third aye- mue.—GRAND VOCAL AND [NGTRUMENTAL CONCERT. * XEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, ot TORR MUS ATOMY, ¢18 Broadway. intended, but no actual movement of the kind appears to have taken place. The prepara- tions for the defence of Paris are being made with great energy by General Trochu and tho Committee of Defence, which has declared itself in permanent session. No one in Paris breathes a whisper looking to submission, and yet, according to our special correspondent, the most deadly apprehension of the impend- ing siege provails among tho inhabit ants, and a desire for peace on any terms. An order for the expulsion of women and children was anticipated yesterday, and there f3 a general exodus of strangers from the city. | Where to escape is the pressing question with them, for communications are stopped. No gas any longer illumines at night the lately brilliant city, and many of the miseries of a state of siege are making themselves felt already. But the new government flinches not in its ideas of patriotism and duty. Gumbetta, the Minister of tho Interior, urges the Prefects \ of Departments throughout France to postpone every thought save that of the national defence, and Favre, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Ministry, who accepts with gratitude and profound emotion the act of the United States in so promptly recognizing tho establishment of the republic, declares that France cannot consent to yield a rood of terri- The Knife and Pistol. sinns on Paris, The sentiment of the whole community re- The grand combined march on Paris, which coils from the daily exhibit made by our the German armies are now rapidly bringing criminal records of murder by the knife and to its climax, is a masterpiece of military fore- pistol, The mania for this kind of crime ap- sight and precision, Our special correspond- | Pears to grow stronger in the city. Judging ent who described the great battle of Sedan, | ‘Fm the police reporta every morning wo which terminated in the surrender of the | 8°¢m to breathe the very air of murder. In Emperor and of MacMahon’s entire command, | the domestic circle, in dens of drunkenness took occasion to remark the mathematical | 924 vice, in the open streets murder runs riot. exactitude of every operation in the Prussian | If we were to enumerate the number of homi- servico on the field of conflict, and its method | ldes which have ocourred within even one and rapidity of reorganization when the | eek it would be appalling. They averaze at engagement was over. In an attack the | least two cases of a notorious and brutal second round invariably gave them the pre- character in every twenty-four hours. These olse range for their shot and shell, while the | °%88 of reckless or deliberate taking of human French continued to fire wildly for a long time | life present a variety of phases. Vengeance, after they began. In tho captured towns the jealousy, ungoverned momentary passion are energy and regularity of the Germans reduced | ‘2¢ direct causes, but the indirect causes can all confusion to perfect order and tranquillity be traced, in nine cases out of ten, to drunk- in afew hours. This cool, determined, long- enness, produced by the use of certain terrible headed calculation has conjoined with poisons, vended under numerous seductive fect solence in rendering the German inva- | 22™¢#- That more murderous and drunken sion and subsequent crowning successes affrays occur between Saturday midnight and irresistible, While the French generals have | Monday morning is proof positive that they been radiating from a centre—the heart of have their origin in the ginshop ; and yet these the Prus- _ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1870.—-1RIPLE SHEET, Greeley Beaten by = Youngeter. Briendly Advice to the Selligerents—The It {3 not so much the republic as party that Pesition of the United States. : is ungrateful, Behold the grand example af It is sald that the first act of Jules Favre, this In tho fate of Greeley, slaughtered in the | the new Minister of Foreign Affairs of the home of his friends—thrust aside for a candi- | French republic, was to prepare a despatch to date whose name had not been heard up to the | the United States government informing if date of Greeley’s greatest achievements on | that France had proclaimed a republic, and behalf of his party. Without Greeley what | asking this country to extend the moral sup- would the republican party have been? It | port of its sympathy and good will to tho France—and scattering their forces in half a dozen directions, thereby insuring division and defeat in dotail, the Germans have been steadily converging from different points on their Rhine frontier towards one grand ulti- mate objective centre—the vi'y of Paris. We have repeatedly indicated the fun-like move- meat of the three armies first sent across the French frontier under the Crown Prince, Prince Frederick Charles and General Stein- metz, The divergent lines of these three hosts swept like a broom over an arc of a circle ex- tending from Strasbourg to Thionville; but as they began to approach the banks of the Meuse they commenced to reconverge towards Metz, around which they contracted into an ellipse that closed at last to an apex around Sedan and in so doing crushed the life out of MacMa- hon’s army, Bazaine, meanwhile, being com- pletely smothered within its interior radif. The great work at the north accomplished, we see this contracted ellipse at once expand again and branch out over all the roads from Sedan to St. Quentin and Rheims, thence to recon- vergo by way of Soiscons and Senlis on Paris, But this is not all, Behind the armies thus advancing others are rapidly marching up to | support the movement. A heavy column, moving northwestward along the Belgian fron- tier, has already been signalled at Valen- places are supposed to bo shut up during that interval. The police are expected to see that these dens are kept closed. How far they per- form their duty in this respect the sergeant’s book at the different station houses on Monday morning can best testify. We do not blame the police, Perhaps they do their best to en- force the law; but the fact is that certain classes of the community are so utterly de- moralized that the open defiance of all law has become the rule with them. The City Judge spoke wisely in his charge to the Grand Jury on Wednesday, when he directed their especial attention to the fre- quency of crimes by the knife and pistol, and to the desperate condition of reckless disre- gard for law into which large classes of society have fatlen. Judge Bedford urged that the time had come when the authorities should make the desperadoes feel that retribution was surely awaiting their crimes. While calling upon the Grand Jury to present indictments in all cases where a charge of ‘murder has been made clear to them, he promised for the Dis- trict Attorney and the courts that every aid should be given to stem the torrent of crime. We trast that it will turn out so, for the city has become of late the very hotbed of murder. The Balance of Power in Europe. Among the many questions to which the ciennes, in the Department du Nord. This would indicate an alm at the seacoast on the Straits of Dover, and the control of the lines of communication in that quarter with the French wonderful success of Prussian arms has given birth not the least important is that which re- lates to the balance of power. If Prussia maintains her position, and we know no good capital. Moreover, it is a powerful menace to | reagon to doubt that she will, the old equili- overawe the Belzian government as well, with | brium which the diplomatists of the past deemed a view to some future design. Another com- ofso much importance will be seriously dis- plete army is making its way from the vicinity | turbed. A united Germany inspired and made of Mulhausen, in ‘he Department of the Haut active by Prussian ambition will be far more Rhin, by way of C:.umont and Troyes, directly | than a match for France. No single Power on could never have claimed the exclusive pos- session of all the virtues, all the love for free- dom, all the regard for the rights of men and all the political morality. This claim on its behalf was always made by Greeley, and this sublime piece of impudence no doubt did it great service. It could not honestly claim to be the party of ‘‘protection ;" Greeley's asso- clation with it gave it that advantage. It would never have been more than half as ridi- culous in its history as it has been but for the astounding vagaries and antics done in its name by the great philosopher. And now, as reward for all his services, he is whistled down the wind, and the place that was his has been given to a man whose name, fame and position in bis party are of such rapid growth as to suggest that there isin them something of the mushroom order. The Eastern Question—Turkey and Eqypt— Russia and Austria. The opportunity which, during our late Southern rebellion, was offered Napoleon the Third, and which he seized, for intervention in the affairs of Mexico, was hardly moro tempting than the opportunity which now in- vites the Czar to a settlement of his outstand- ing accounts with ‘‘the sick man of Turkey.” ff the Czar, like Louis Napoleon in the pleni- tude of his power, held the position of an ad- venturer who had his fortune still to make and his dynasty still to establish, we should cre this have had a Russian army moving down to the Danube and a supporting revolution in Egypt against the Sultan. But the Russian Emperor, more firmly established on his throne and in his dynasty than any other crowned head in Europe, can afford patiently to watch and await the issue of the war and the course of the republic in France and the republican agitations in Spain and Italy. England, Italy, Russia and the smaller Northern European States, it appears, have agreed to move and ant together in any movement among them in behalf of peace between Germany and France. But Austria is reported as standing aloof from this engagement, and, if so, why stands she aloof? Her interests now and hereafter, like those of Russia, lie east- ward, and not westward. The German pro- vinces of Austria proper lean now rather to the great family confederation whose centre is Berlin than to the mixed nationalities repre- sented at Vienna. Austria, therefore, stands aloof bacause of the fraternal sympathies ot French republic. Such sympathy and good will is already extended by the citizens of the United States, from one end of the country to the other, and, no doubt, will soon be ex- pressed by the government in response to the greeting and appeal of France. Not only do “the glorious memories of the past,” as M. Jules Favre says, inspire this, buat the kind feeling of Americans for the French and the hope of seeing republican institutions perma- nently established by that brave and great people warm the hearts of our citizens for France in her present efforts to cstablish a free government, Whatever feeling may have been manifested here for the Germans did aot spring from unfriendliness to the French people, but because the Emperor had forced @ war upon Germany without cause and for purely ambitious ends. The great American republic cordially wishes well to the French republic and people, and therefore hopes peace may soon be restored, so as to enable France to recover from the devastation and losses of the war and to perpetuate republican government. Germany, too, has our good wishes in her efforts to maintain the independence of the Fatherland and to become united. How could it be otherwise? There are millions of Ger- mans and their immediate descendants in the United States. There is nota State or towa where these industrious and excellont citizens _ are not found. There is no section of Ger- many but is represented here by them. They are j true democratic republicans at heart, Bo- tween these millions of German citizens in the United States and their relatives and friends in all parts of Germany there is constant correspondence. The people of Germany, | then, notless than those of France, look for the sympathy of this country, and they have it in thefr efforts for independence, unity and free- dom. Wewish to see united Gormany a republic as well as France. However much | we may admire the personal character of the | King of Prussia or that of those able princes and men who have done so much to unite and strengthea Germany, our sympathies are with the people, and not with monarchy and the hactetoariays Though the Germans, in their enthusiastic admiration of King William, may make him Emperor of Germany, or the Prus- sians continue his dynasty in Prussia, there is good reason to hope more liberal and demo- cratic institutions will be claimed and con- ceded in the Fatberland, If thero be not a German republic immediately there must be an tory. We have already commented upon the re- markable change of sentiment that has taken place in the United States on the question of the war since the full of the imperial govern- ment and the substitution of that of the repub- lic. President Grant himself was one of the foremost to realize the altered phase which those events gave to the war, and he imme- diately directed the Secretary of State to in- DR. KAHN'S ANATOXIC, SOIENOE AND Aur. AL MUSEUM, 75 Broudway.— EMPIRE RINK, Third avenue and Sixty-third — VAs OF TEE AUFRIOAN INSTITUTE. eR CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th {8th sls,—ToEODORE Tuomas’ Vordt New York, Friday, ie » Septem! towards Paris, and tie reserves are pushing | the Continent will be able to measure swords on by regular aud easy day’s marches over the | with her, Even Great Britain must be con- beaten track in the centre by way of Nancy, | tented to take an inferior place. Say what Bar-le-Duc and Vitry. If the reader will now | men may to the contrary, Germany has become glance at a good map of France he will see | the mightiest military Power in Europe, that the final movement resolves itself into an mightier than any one Power has been since immense reinforced double semi-circle, extend- | tho days of the first Napoleon. The only ing all the way round from Valenciennes, | potent rival which she will have will be Rus- not far from the North Sea, to Mul- | gia for the present, it is not to be denied, hausen, near Baden .and Switzerland, the people of her German provinces with the | gyproach to that. As @ result of the war, great German family, and because of the un-/ therefore, the people of France and Germany certainty of her relations with the Czar touch- | ghould, and we think will, come nearer to {ng the Danubian territories. Russia and | each other. The wars springing trom dynas- Austria are thus watching each other, for the | tic ambition being over, or greatly checked, mission of each lies in the same direction ; and | and the people of these two great nations hav- with or without the consent of Russia we may ing a common causo in establishing freedom find before long the German section of Austria | ang peace, we may hope that the present war annexed to the German Confederation, and | will soon cease. the Danubian Priucipalities, as an equivalent, If the voice of America were to be heeded CONTENTS OF "O-DAWS HERALD, rick. ae a OOOO I= Advertisements, ‘2— Advertisements. 3—The War: The P. Miles of Paris; sstan Advance’Within Forty Sangumary Boertle at Stras- bourg; Rep d Deieat of tie Prussians with Heavy Loss: ¢ Peace Question; Prussia De- mands Alsace and Part of Lorraine; ‘The Situ- auon in Paris; Joy Over the Recognition of the Republic by the Uni 5) struct Mr. Washburne, our Minister at Paris, to recognize the new order of things the mo- ment that a de facto government was in exist- ence, last in the most friondly manner, offering the States to France, have been, the manner in which it was per- This Mr. Washburae did on Wednesday | and it neutralizes ments of France, congratulations and sympathies of the United | wealthiest, most populous and most active of Formal though the act may | the nation, It closes in with fatal precision about fifteen depart- including some of the The patience, the care and the minuteness of Prussia is much more thana match for Russia. By embracing a circuit of several hundred | Henoeforth nothing but an armed coalition can miles. upon devoted Paris on three sides at once, prevent Prussia from doing as she will with each of the nations in detail. Under the former arrangement the checks and balances were such that no one Power had a dominat- ing position. It remains to be seen how the different governments of Europe will act in the circumstances. Prussia has now humbled, annexed to the Austrian empire. This, wo understand, is the programme of Von Beust, and this, we believe, is why Ausiria lesitates to enter with Russia into eny engagement even in behalf of peace. Progress in France. The way France has been swindled in regard to her armies will naturally remind the by the belligerents—and we have reason to believe they are not indifferent to it—the con- queror will be liberal and moderate in his de- mands and the conquered will yield something rather than continue a bloody and almost hopeless struggle. The German people, ia the flush of success and for the moment, might clamor for territorial compensation, for the cession of Alsace and Lorraine, but would it not Measures to Repel the Pr s—The Frenc! Baitic Fleet Onder the Flag o/ the Republic, % 4—Europe: Parts Seething to the Revolution: OM- = baa eh — Gt an Losses; General rochu and the Executive Power—Ob! Notices of Marshal Mac " fon James Monroe—Terribie Foods Over Louis River w ‘arty of Sun- day School Excursionists—Pugilistic Pioneers. 5--Polttical Intelitgence: Procee lings of the New York State Republican Convention; Political Movements in the Metropolis—Buccancers of the Hudson: Startling es of Organ- wed Crime—The River 4 ” Realm—Point } Ttrd Day | ting Meeting; Capital A resting Coniests—Ai Gramma” School formed carried with it an assurance of sincerity | inquiry required to prepare the data and plan which could not fail to be appreciated at this | the moves for a game of military chess so momentous crisis in the affairs of France. It | colossal as this; the tremendous resources, justified the reapect recently shown by the | activity, valor and generalship in the field populace in Paris to the American flag and the | required to carry it out, render the campaign eloquent allusion to it in Victor Hugo's speech | thus sketched on the canvas by far the most the other day. complete of modern times. Should the cap- It is not merely with the people in tho mass | ture of Paris crown the work between this nor with the President and high officials of the | day and the Ist of October the genius of the United States that that change of sentiment in | great Napoleon and the prowess of his soldiery favor of France is manifested, but even the | will henceforth be assigned to the second place almost ruined, Austria. She has just now dealt a heavy blow to France—a blow from which it will take France a long time to re- cover. Prussia’s greatest rival now is Russia, and it will not be wonderful if the two great Northern Powers have a trial of skill and strength on an early day. Meanwhile the old balance of power which was created in 1815, which was disturbed in 1859, which was shaken in 1866, is dead in 1870. nee and inte. Dpentng of New s4—Army and Navy in- The Death of a Hero. telligence—Erm g¢ E Pluribus Bragh— | republican party, which hag hitherto been in history, after the profound skill of Von @-eattoria judinoy peelidia Cartas Doomeq | Courting the German element in this country, | Moltke and the efficiency of the sons of} Marshal MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, was poo natn sh Feoecemeren sraren on | has felt the influence of the altered state of Fatherland. io mortally wounded at his final defeat near itinned from Sixth Page)—tele- | things. Remarkable evidence of this is fur- Sedan, as commander of the Third army corps ws from are os ine World : nished by the platform adopted on Weduesday | American Recognition of the French Re-| in the present war. He was a descendant of sh Unity ‘Telegraph Oxten- cralasia. ingtou: Return of the President; The French Republic Recog- nized; Minister Washburae’s In ing Inielilee: ew York City Cou Kuile and Pistol; J arge to the Grand Jury—] : AGala Way for the Little Ones at Jamesburg, N, J.— Romunj e Byranjee Colah; A Lunatic Fire- Worshipper ou His ‘Travels—New York City News—Hrooklyn Cliy News—Base N Cric:et—Personal Intelligence— i) Deatu—Rallroad Facilities in Jersey—New Jersey News ltems—The Funerai of Christo- last in the Republican State Convention held at Saratoga, one of the resolutions hailing “with uamingled joy the new republic of slap to King William by recommending Ger- many to adopt the like free institutions, We are aware, therefore, that we reflect the predominant sentiment of the country in ex- public. The prompt and decisive manner in which an old princely Celtic family, which, after risk- ing and losing all in the cause of the Stuarts, General Grant, as President of the United | brought from Ireland to France their historic France,” and another giving a back-handed | States, has instructed our Minister at Paria to | name and ancestral qualities, and intermarrled” duly recognize the new provisional government | with the ancient nobility of their adopted of France is an additional claim to the appro- bation of the American people. country. A French Marshal’s baton was never Moreover, it | heatowed upon a braver or a more skilful is but a proper acknowledgment of the en- | soldier, All are familiar with the deeds of his thusiastic feeling with which our flag has been | heroic life, which has now been crowned by as hailed by the people of Paris in the moment | heroic a death. Struggling against fearful of their great transition, and the promptitude | odds, sustaining the courage of his decimated of Jules Favre to inform our Exccutive of the } troops, he fell, terribly wounded, with his face great event. At the same time it is a just re- | to the foe. If fora brief time the currents of buke to the petty renegades who, nurtured and | pis life blood continued to flow, it was not fed under republican forms and by republican | only that he might display against lingering toleration, lose’ no opportunity to sneer at | torments the same undaunted courage which similar institutions when established by any | had distinguished him in the shock of battle, other people. "| but also that in lucid intervals he might enjoy “That banner of stars,” said the venerable | the proud satisfaction of feeling that his orater and writer Victor Hugo at the ovation | would be the death of a hero, There has offered him in the French capital on Wednes- | been no more momorable illustration than day last—‘‘that banner of stars,” he said, | this of the noble old Roman adage—Dulce ot pointing to the American flag, ‘‘speaks to-day | ggcorum est pro patria mori, to Paris and to France, procjaiming the mira- PTET HET cles of power which are easy to a great people contending for a great princlple—the liberty of every race, the fraternity of all.” And, let us add, France needs now but a fair chance A Lrrritz SicN.—-At Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, a large meeting was hold on Wedues- day night, todeclare sympathy with France in her struggle against Prussia, It gives a glimpse of the conditions of the English social thoughtful reader of the way things are done a5) z in this metropolis; and as we are naturally | be unwise to humiliate France so much? supposed to be at the head of the progressive | Might not that arouse all France and continua spirit of the age It is something for France the war to the last extremity? Overwhelming to be up to us. It very frequently happened and splendidly handled as the German armies in our old Street Department that there was a | °° the French republic, remembering the striking discrepancy between the men of which wonderful success and glories of their republi- one foreman had charge in the street and the | C2” armies at the first revolution, might be- men with which he was accredited on the pay | C™@ furious and do desperate things. Bo- rolls, The rolls would say, perhaps, that he aides, it is not likely that a peace made upon bad fifty men, and on pay day the such a basis, if that be possible, could cone of; tinue. France would smart under the humili- ation, and as soon as she would recover fully money would issue for the payment fifty men; but in fact ihe foreman would only have twenty, though no one over heard that the superfluous pay for thirty men was returned, By this excellent system the streets were kept in tolerable order and some amiable men got rich. It now appears that the same happiiy conceived system hag flourished in France and has not strengthened the imperial army. Pay there was issued for nearly five hundred thousand men, and the country de- voutly believed it had that many soldiers, but pay was drawn for a hundred thousand men more than were in the army. Somebody got rich, no doubt, but France has fallen, Tux Women Vorers os Wromina.—The female suffrage advocates, who have been remarkably quiet of late, wiil fiud new cause for congratulation, and, we fear, for agitation, iu the fact that the women of Wyoming, who have been working pioneers ia tae movement, voted yesterday, and with such exccllent effect, too, that they elected their man as dele- gate to Congress, changing the complexion of at least one talking member of that body from democratio to republican. We take it for granted, of course, that the voting women all voted the republican ticket ;. for, notwithstand- ing some of the diatribes which Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton now and then hurl against the republican party, the women and the women’s righiers flock to the party of moral ideas and fanciful quips and from the present struggle would make an effort, probably, to reconquer her lost posses- sion The professed object of Prussia in this war—namely, to obtain guarantees of peace for the future—would be defeated, perhaps, by such a dismembermeat of France. Nor should Prussia be too exacting in a money compensa~ tion for the cost of the war; for France has a stupendous debt, and a heavy demand of that sort just now would tend to paralyzo both the action of the new republican government and the industry of the country. Nothing would tend so much to bury the memories of the war, to cement peace and to make the two nations friends as magnanimity on the part of Prassia— ag an effort on her part to ratse France from its prostrate condition rather than to be ex- acting. It has been intimated that Prassia would insist upon holding, at least for a time, some of the most important French fortresses along the Rhine border as a guarantee of peace. This would seem a reasonable and moderate demand for the conquerer to make, Franco could hardly resist that, It. would certainly be better to concede so much rather than continue the war. But the proposition sald to have been suggested or made by Jules Favre for a general disarmament would be the best security for peace and would save an endr- mous sum of money to the people and govern ments, All the talk in France about fighting ft out fabric, that the other day the English aris- tocracy were In sympathy with the empire more than with Prussia because there was loss freedom in it, and now the people sympathize more with the republic than with Germany | fanatical quirks as. naturally as a babe takes to | to the last ditch or of not making peace while its mother’s milk, This being the case, and the | q Prussian soldier is on French soil is folly. women of Wyoming having done.such yeoman | It does very well to gratify the vanity and service for the party at the offset, we demand | goothe the wounded pride of the French for- i better treatment of thom hereafter by the | a time, but stern necessity and that solid wall pressing the ardent dosire that France may er Higgins. oo Lae be spared from further sacrifice and bumilia- rs Commisstoners—The City of the Sea: Boct- | tion, Its armies under tho Emperor were tons Peres: Paatig PenMON TS ae ae fighting for territorial extensioa apd for the tiou’s Crippies—The Ofal Contrect—A Newark | permanence of the Bonaparte dynasty. Under Financiat neat omnereial pes the republic the shattered remnant of those ae was (coorinued trom Thien a vant armies and the whole people are but defend- ing: The Race for the Vice Commodore's Cup | ing the national existence. We had naught MR ina the Second Prige-‘The Pearls oF "ths but condemation for the ono; we can have Sea: Arrival of the sailboat, City of Ragusa (two | naught but sympathy and best wishos for the i aeteeente ee ee One. Te any mediation on the part of foreign 1-—-Advertisemonts. governments can avail to save Franco from an further suffering let it be understood that the Tor Lite Sar Raavsa, which is only a | government and people of the United States fittle over two tons burden, has just reached | unite most sincerely in the objects of that Boston from Queenstown after an eighty days’ | mediation, King William could perform no royage. While we highly commend the ocean | more graceful, and perhaps no wiser, act than yacht races which have recently distinguished | to extend such offers of peace as the French the annals of yachting as healthy and en- | republic can ba ie by besa But - we cannot but seriously depre- | fear that peaceful counsels will not prevail, psig and foolhardy pues hf and that the world is about to witness, in the | to shape her own destiny, without interference prompts such dangerous enterprises as this siege and the probable bombardment and sack | by reactionary intrigues, at home or abroad, jhat has just been achieved by the crew of | of Paris, the most tremendous tragedy that | in order to show the rag sg rt —o puch a little cockleshell. ever Mee eee a ar ae te a err . = SrraspourG Hotps ON.—Through the time | Her provisional government has been com- Tne Yaout Races at Nuwrort.—There was @ fine contest yesterday around the | that so many crushing blows have been given Brenton’s Reef lightsbip course, off Newport, | to French armies in the field; while Bazaine forthe Vice Commodore’s Cup. It was won | has been 80 crippled that he is not heard in excellent time by the Palmer, the Cambria | from and MacMabén annihilated; and while toming in second and winning the second | the empire has gone down and the republic prize, a subscription cup. The Sappho was arisen, gallant General Ulrich has kept the well ahead at the decisive hour of the race, | Prussians out of Strasbourg, and that strong ut unfortonately carried away her maintop- | city of the frontier is not only still ungubdued, ymast and tore her mainsail, else she would but fs still able to severcly punish her foe. All ertainly have won the first cup. One feature this, alas! will only compel the Prussians to f the race was the lack of any allowance for remember her more especially in the settle- and the excellences of the new arrange- | ment, and her very strength, as thus exhib- ent are seen partially in the close contest. | ited, will make them the more resolute. It ‘ader the old rule of allowanco for tonnage | will be one of tho painful paradoxes of history Cam! havo be judged the | it Strasbourg shall hold out while the war ll laata and hava ta wo over at tha and ot it, bined without one single act of. violence, | because there is more freedom in it, and {ts preliminary acts, so far as internal Wit Paris Be BomBaRpED?—The proba- management is concerned, are marked with | bilities are in favor of peace with the advance moderation and wisdom. . Even the yelping | of the Prussians to the fortifications of the curs of monarchical conspiracy are abashed | city, if not before. As after its great victory and silent at Paris, aud the chief of the Pro- | of Sadowa the Prussian army, heading for visional Ministry there receives ‘“‘with pro- | Vienna, was arrested and turned back by a found gratitude and emotion” the intelligence | treaty of peace, so it is expected that the that the great republic of the West holds fortn | present unopposed advance of the Prussians her hand cordially and unreservedly to her | upon Paris after Sedan will be checked by young sister in the East. This promptitude is | negotiations and a treaty of peace in time to ‘ene of the best American characteristics of a | save the city from the horrors ofa siege. As most timely and worthy American act. The mutual memories of 1776 are thereby fully | within tho revived and warmed to fraternal heat again. | every day’s May they never more crow caldt sirengthens the cause of naace press and Congressmen of the radical stripe. i eeetemeiinn Tag LigutNina CaLouLator of all the world and the- democracy has come to life again, and has recommenced his magnificent ciphering in the exhibit, by the double rule of three, of great democratic geins in Vermont. He has shown that on the ratio of these gains iu 1870, if they keop it up, the democracy will have Yormont by the year 1900. Bring out the, big gun and let the world rej Tre GALE OF missing, of Prussian bayonets—of three or four hundred, thousand men, composing, perhaps, the most magnificent and best disciplined army that ever existed—must soon change this defiant tone, France is not ina position to continue the ar, She requires peace. The new republican, ‘governmaent needs poace to keop down the; dangerous elements of society and to cstabliai: | both its power and the liborties of the people. This peace should come at once, before the Prussians besiege Paris, before any further DAY appears ‘o Save had | humiliation and excitement occur. It is to be the enemy approaches the friends of peace | disastrous eect all along tue Nova Scotian | hoped, therefore, that the republican gover: walls increase in numbers, and | coast, Many vessels are known,Ao have been | ment of France will meet King Willlam befora march of the German armiea | lost, and there are yet. many’more reported | he renches tho walls of Paris with terms of peace auch aa he can accept, And we hong