The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. i. Velame XXXV. -Ne. 254 ‘THE BERALD CORPS OF SUROPEAN WAR CORRESPONDEN;. 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- drid, Vienna- and Florence—so that nothing of an important 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 fhe readers of the Hzraxp 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. un 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. fe SARA AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. “OLYMPIC THEATRE, Lirtix Facer. Broadway.—Orzza Bourre— , BOOTH’S THEATRE, 38d st., votween 5th and 6th avs.— Bir Van WINKLE. eg NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae Dyama or Heans’s Ease, “New Dowxst1o WOOD’s MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Oth st.—Performances every afternoon and evening. ND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and URIELLA, DAMON OF THE Ni@uT, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brootlyn.— wun PALM. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—A Bip mt Lianp Is Worra Two IN 78 Buss, &0. UspER DOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mou. Prroure—Dar- Tu Diok, THE DerEcTivE. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- J.bayY ENTERTAINMENT. ‘THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Com1o VocaL- JM, Nk@KO ACTS, &c. , SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL. 585 Broadway.— NzGRO MINSTRELSY, Fanos, BUBLESQUES, &0. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 808 Broadway.— ‘Tax Babies OF 118 PEBIuD—Tuz ONLY LEON. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Nzuzo MIN- jOTRELSY, BURLESQUES, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— BCIEKCE AND Apr. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— OE AND ART, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th ay., between 68th {1h sts,—Tnzopore Tuomas’ PoruLae COMOEETE. "* TERRACE GARDEN, Fifty-eighth street and Third aye- nue.—GRAND VOOAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, EMPIRE RINK, Third avenue and Sixty-third street.— Falk OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. BROOKLYN HALL, Myrtie avenue and Adams streot.— GRAND INSTRUMENTAL ConcERt. LEEDS’ ART GALLERIES, 817 dud 619 Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, September 11, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. ‘Pace. 1— Advertisements, 2— Advertisements. 3—The War: Steady March of the Prussian Armies on Paris; Reported Escape of Bazaine’s arm: from Metz; King William ignores the Frene! Revolution; The Situation in Paris; Fierce Defence of the French Vapital by the Repub- licans; Spain and Italy Recognize the Repub- lic; National Platform of the German People; Prussian Losses in the War—The War of the Fat Fellows—Brooklyn City News. 4—Map Soe the States of the Roman Church— State and City Politics: A Bird’s Eye View of the Coming Struggle—The First Ward Murder: Inquest on the Body of Christopher Higgins— Arrest of an Alleged Fugitive Murderer. 6—Paris Fashions: hat is Worn and What is Coming Out—Point Breeze Park: the Unfinished 2:40 Race of Friday—The Greene Street Trage- dy—Religious _Intelligence—The Newburg ‘Tragedy—The Park—Marriages and Deaths, 6—Editorials : Leading Articie on the War News, Duiticuities in the Way of Peace, What is to be the Result /—Amusement Announcements, ‘y—Editorials—Telegraphic News trom All Parts of the World—News from Washington—Personal Inteliigence—The National Game—Course of Empire—Movements of President Grant— aquatics—Funerai of Colonel James Monroe— ‘The Latest Jersey Elopement—Picnic at Jones’ Wood—The Parsee Merchant— Criminal Ink- aed in Newark—trhe Fine Arts—Business jotices. S—Financial and Commercial Reports—Marine Transiers—A Strange Suicide—Burglaries at Newburg—Sad Drowning Casualty—Advertise- ments. 9—Advertisements. 10—Yachting: The Phantom the Winner of the Race for the Newport Cup—Local Politics— Now York City News—An Outrageous As- sault—A Pleasure Party Shot—Newark’s Er- ratic Alderman—Taxation in Jersey City— Horatio Seymour at Chicago—Champion Pigeon Shooting Match—Shipping Intelll- nce—Advertisements, 11—Aavertisements, 12—Advertisements, “Many Hanrrs.”—It was reported in Paris that Prince Pierre Bonaparte wept when he saw the Emperor. He retorts that both his friends and his enemies know he: has more “manly habits.” Considering the present state of France it is unwise for him to keep reminding people that he shot Victor Noir. A Jupez in Ricumonp has just delivered an opinion regarding the stereotyped verdict of “Not Guilty,” given in all cases of killing for seduction, that is rather startling. ‘ In the case of Mr. Sayers, who killed Dr. Oliver for the alleged seduction of his daughter, and who was acquitted by the jury, he says that the verdict was quite natural, but it was not in accord either with the law or the evidence. But was Dr. Oliver, who was killed, or, in other words, condemned and executed, for the alleged seduction, found guilty according to the law and evidence? Bunt to Smx.—In the construction of \men-of-war the naval architects have gone too far in the direction of making their structure a floating battery rather than a ship. They have left the sea and its dangers too much out of ‘thought and have too rigidly considered battle as the only test. This is the real cause of the disaster that England mourns to-day in the oss of five hundred men and the fron-clad ‘Captain. It was the cause of eome disasters ©n this side the water also, though our govern- sent kept its eyes tolerably well open to the great ity that the firon-clad, whatever else she fas, should at least be a ship and be sea- ‘worthy. In this point the Captain was clearly A most disastrous failure. NeW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1870.—IRIPLE SHEET. ‘The War News—Diticultices in the way | Too Much for King William at One Time. ef Peace—What ts to be the Result? The latest telegrams from London, Paris and Berlin shed little additional light on the situation. The Prussian army, intended for active operations in the slege of Paris, has had the various positions assigned to the respective corps, which are all ordered to be in the ocoupation of those positions on Wednesday next, It is said to consist of five corps, two of which have not yet been in the smoke of battle during the war. The defenders are represented to be in a condilion to make an obstinate and protracted defence. ‘The armed force within is constantly receiving accessions to its strength. Iron-clad gun- boats are to patrol the river Seine, in and near the city. The houses and trees within the range of the guns of the fortifications have been levelled. Barricades have been raised with the object of contesting the occu- pation of the city, street by street, if the Prussians should happen to force the walls. The moat around the enclosure has been filled with water, and all who cannot ald in the defence are invited to stand not upon the order of their going, but to go at once, Prudential measures have also been taken by the Bank of France in removing its treasures, the provisional government in removing the crown jewels, and the great watch and jewelry houses and others in sending away their valuables, lest the Prussians might go in for a general “‘loot.” Such is the condition of affairs in and around Paris. The curtain will rise and the terrible drama commence by Wednesday or Thursday next, Inregard to Mets there is an intimation— perhaps not entitled to any faith—that the progress of the Prussian march on Paris has been stopped or delayed by the necessities of the situation at Metz requiring a large force to he detached to the aid of Generai Steinmetz there. It is also reported at Paris that Mar- shal Bazaine has at last succeeded in cutting his way out of Metz and that he is now on his march to Paris. Good news for France, if it were only true, The progress of the Prussians seems also to have been somewhat interfered with by raiding parties of the Garde Mobile, capturing small squads, felling trees along the route, blowing up bridges and railroad tunnels and interposing other obstructions. But all these will not, we presume, hinder the various Prussian corps being in the several positions assigned to them in the siege operations by the time fixed. Strasbourg still holds out against the be- sieging army, and is now said to be in much better condition for defence than had been generally supposed. The fortress of Laon has been blown up. As to negotiations for peace, it is impos- sible to decide whether any practical move has been made in any quarter. Jules Favre, the chief of the provisional government, is said to have solicited Lord Lyons, the British Minister, to use the influence of his govern- ment to induce King William to offer terms of peace that might be acceptable; and Lord Lyons is said to have declined the proposition. Austria, Russia and Italy are represented as being inclined to interpose their mediation ; but England stands silent and unsympathetic, and is consequently not regarded with favor by the provisional government or the people of France, That disposes of the story which we had yesterday about the joint note of the Russian and English governments, and of that womanly and affectionate lettér of Queen Victoria to Queen Augusta. Nevertheless, the provisional government is represented as still making every effort to secure the inter- vention of the foreign Powers in order to obtain an armistice preparatory to agreeing upon a treaty of peace; and it is even announced from Paris that Austria, supported: by Russia, has actually opened such negotia- tions. It isnot safe, however, to pin much faith to any of these announcements; and the last mentioned story is rather weakened by another statement that at Vienna diplomatic action is regarded as-impracticable. And now comes in the great difficulty in the situation. Not only does King William warn off all outside parties, but he has also an- nounced his determination to ignore altogether the existence of the republican government of France, and to regard Napoleon Bonaparte as the only executive authority of the nation with which any treaty can be made. He is represented as taking the ground that the re- publican government has riot even the shadow of authority, and as declaring that, in the event of his troops occupying Paris, he will treat for present peace and the future re- lations of the two countries with none but the recognized Emperor of the French, Na- poleon III. It will be at once perceived how such a posi- tion, entirely antagonistio as it is to King William's declaration in the opening of hos- tilities, that he warred not against France but against Napoleonism, interposes insuperable difficulties in the way of peace. There can be no arrangement between the republican gov- ernment and Napoleon, for the Committee of National Defence has stigmatized him as having commenced with crime and ended with desertion. If, therefore, the French government and people were ready to make all the concessions that may be | demanded of them they cannot do so except through the agency of the deposed Emperor, and by the entire blotting out of the republican government, which has been endorsed through- out France and officially recognized by the United States, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. It may be the crafty policy of King William and Bismarck to create this impassable barrier to the conclusion. of a treaty of peace, in orderto give Prussia the excuse for continuing the military occupation of France. If this be so it will leave France no other alter- native but to banish all idea of submission and arm every man in the country, throw away the scabbard, and enter on an exterminating strag- gle for national existence. If the great Powers of Europe do not desire to see France driven to this extremity, and the war become a con- tinental one, they should at once demand and enferce a cessation of hostilities on the part of Germany. There is a dangerous agitation among the masses of the people in Europe, and a further continuance of this war may lead to the disruption of monarchical and aristocratic institutions all over the Con- tinens. If our latest despatches from the seat of war be atrictly correct, William, King of Prussia and President (note the title!) of the German Confederation, defender of unity and liberty, and bearer of the German confederate tricolor standard, is, we fear, assuming @ burden too heavy even for the sturdy muscles and brave hearts which, within two brief months, have rolled up the power of the proudest military State in Europe like scroll. If we be rightly informed his Majesty, now knocking at the gates of Paris, refuses to recognize the new French republic, and by his demeanor inti- mates that he still recognizes Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as the sovereign of France. We incline to the belief that these announcements are totally erroneous; but should they, unfor- tunately, prove to be true, we can but regret that a monarch who has, in so many things, shown evidence of moderation and wisdom, should make so fatal a mistake before the world. When the war began King William proclaimed to France that his quarrel was with him who had brought war upon two peaceable nations living in the centre of Europe, and that he had no cause against the French people. When Napoleon III. left Paris for the Rhine frontier he transferred all authority to the Empress Eugénie, to have and to hold during the term.of his absence. Sub- sequently, by battle after battle lost, the mili- tary power of the empire was utterly over- thrown, and Napoleon himself was made a prisoner. The representatives of the people in the Corps Législatif at Paris demanded a committee of defence, and special authority was deposited in the hands of General Trochu. After the terrible catastrophe at Sedan the members of the Right in the Corps Législatif withdrew, and abandoned all action to tho members of the Centre and the Left, who at once proceeded to reconstitute the govern- ment in the popular gense, No protest or re- sistance came from the regent, Eugenie, who retired precipitately and without ménace or coercion from France; no protest or resistance came. from Count Pali- kao and his ministry, who withdrew and disappeared without a sound; no protest or resistance came from Napoleon’s partisans on his behalf. The people, by apparently unanimous impulse, called for a republic, and it was proclaimed enthusiastically all over France and received without one dissenting voice. Not one act of violence was committed, not one life was lost in this transition, and this choice of the people has been ratified by the recognition of both Europe and America. The Prussian King having been referred to Paris by Napoleon himself, goes thither to find no other government than the republic, and by his own showing, as well as by the force of events, it is with the republic that he must treat. None regret more bitterly than we'do that the first words of the new administration were not shaped into overtnres of peace, involving, not submission, but rational guarantees; yet the idea that any king, potentate or power on earth may, in these days, ignore the popular will cannot be admitted for one moment, To assume such a position is for Germany to stul- tify herself and to become exactly what she has reproached France so long with having been, to wit, the superserviceable vassal of the most arrogant despotism. But we can hardly believe that so enlightened a monarch as King William and so far-sighted a states- man as Count Bismarck can possibly spurn the very lesson that their own successes in this conflict present. No! they will be admonished by the downfall of their great military foe, and not tempt fate by an overweening reliance on the force of arms alone. The people are up from the Baltic tothe Adriatic; the tricolor waves even inthe German camps ; the cry of republican liberty awakens a responsive shout in every part of Christendom, and the bayonets of Fatherland, which began to think as early as 1848, when they long fraternized with the masses in Berlin, Dresden, Leipsic, Frankfort and Baden, are thinking now. In America the voice is one, and it is strong. It rises from lips that still tremble with praise of the defence that Germany has made and the chastisement she has inflicted on the em- pire. That voice acclaims the young republic of France and cries halt! to the excessive pretensions of any and of every monarchy on earth. QuaxkeERs, TO THE REsOUE.—We publish an address from the committees of the London and American Peace Societies to the friends of peace. These amiable broadbrims turn up whenever there is a clash of arms among na- tions, including our own Indian tribes. Gen- eral Grant sent out a number of these peace- ful philosophers to treat with these savages, and it was only because they were baldheaded that they saved their own scalps. Seriously, it is pleasant to witness these efforts of a gen- tle portion of our people to condemn the crime and assuage the ravages of unjustifiable war. We hope this peaceful address will be freely circulated among the contending armies, as well as among those who do not ‘‘bare the red arm of war,” and feel assured that if it be properly pondered it will eventually prove of beneficial use. Tue SrampepE From Paris.—Our de- spatches to-day are much concerned with the movements of the ‘‘skedaddlers”—the great throng of fugitives eager at the last moment to escape from the threatened if not beleaguered capital. The Havre station in Paris is a centre of great excitement, and the Havre trains cannot run on time on account of their unusual burdens. Horses are held at a high premium for those who desire to take to the road in vehicles of any sort, and we wonder that the military authorities will permit the departure of any horses, seeing how useful they may be in many emergencies, and especially in the last extremity, if better meat should runout. All the jewellers are reported as hiding or removing their stocks of goods, Altogether, times seem to be very lively in the gay city, which, however, is not so gay as it has been, Peso ae nen Ween Tue AMERICAN RELIGiovs PRESS ON THE War.— We give a few extracts from the col- umas of our religious contemporaries in regard to the pending war in Europe, as furnishing some insight into the opinions of our religious brethren regarding the frightful havoc now going on in the Old World. These extracts will no doubt be read with interest, I a SS RE eR i RE SE SE Se ee a a Are King William and Napoleon Allies t— Does Prussian Fight for the Empire, and Not Against 1k? It is reported on satisfactory authority that the King of Prussia has directed that his prisoner at Wilhelmshohe shall be treated in all respects as the sovereign of France, and it is given out that he will make peace only with that personage, and will recognize no other authority. It is nataral enough that the King, having picked up in the baggage of a beaten army what seemed a great treasure, should dislike to see his treasure turn out worthless trash, Having begun a war with one government it is, perhaps, embarrassing to see it dwindle away under his very eyes, and to find himself suddenly without the good moral cause he had at the outset. All that is not what he would choose; but does he take the right remedy? Is his present position tenable before Germany? If he wants to make peace with Napoleon why does he go to Paris? Napoleon is at Cassel. Why not go there? Ab, Napoleon left all to the regency. Well, the Regent {s, perhaps, in England. William, in fact, recognizes in his fighting that there is a de facto power in Paris, and he will have to make the same recognition in his negotiations. Otherwise it will come simply to this:—He is fighting to restore Napoleon ‘to his throne, in order that he may have the power to make peace. He is using the might of Germany to restore to power in France the man that Germany regards as her greatest foe. How will Ger- many like this? The Proclamation for a Constitutional Assembly. 4 Tho provisional government of the French republic at Paris has issued a call for the elec- tion, at the usual polling places, on the 16th of October next, of a Constitutional National Assembly of seven hundred and fifty members, the election to be held in conformity with the law'of thé republic of the 15th of March, 1849, The provisional authorities, as their reasons for this call upon the French people, say ‘* Europe wants to be enlightened; it is neces- sary that she should learn by unexceptional evidence that the entire country is with us. The invader must meet in his path not only an immense city, resolved to perish rather than surrender, but a people on their feet and organized, and a representative assembly be- sides which can carry everywhere, in spite of all disasters, the living soul of the country.” This has the look of a deliberate act of pre- paration fora long war. We presume, how- ever, that Europe is now satisfled that the late plebiscite, by which the.French people voted for the empire and the Napoleonic dynasty, five millions against two millions, was a farce which signified nothing, and we hope that the election appointed for the 16th of October will be preceded by a treaty of peace with “the invader.” This proclamation, nevertheless, in exhibiting the perfect confidence of the provi- sional government issuing it in the suffrages of the French people, must have a good effect in satisfying the neutral Powers that the repub- lic is fairly established in France, and that, as now organized, it may be treated with, as re- presenting the will of the French people and the manifest destiny of Frence. The Mnine Election on Monday. The annual State election in Maine occurs to-morrow. The interest in the canvass has been principally directed toward the election of represenfatives to the Legislature, for the reason that a United States Senator is to be chosen in place of Lot M. Morrill, the present incumbent, in case there should be a change. Whether or not a bargain has been made between the democrats and anti-Morrillites, to secure the elevation of Governor Chamberlain to the Senate, is not precisely clear, but the chances are that there has been. Hence the result of the election to-morrow will be regarded with anxiety by those who take an interest in the future complexion of Congress. The candidates for Governor are Signey Perham, republican, and Charles W. Roberts, democrat. The candidates for Congress are as follows:— Dist, Republicans, Democrats. 1—John Lynch. William P. Haines. 2—William P. Frye. Alyah Black, 3—James G, Blaine. 4—John A. Peters. Marcellus Emery. 6—Eugene Hale, Philander J. Cariton. ‘The republican majority in Maine last year was nearly twelve thousand. Grant carried the State in 1869 by twenty-eight thousand. KE. Wilder Farley. Waat Witt tHe Porz Do?—A cable tele- gram from London, dated yesterday, says that the King of Italy has taken such precautions towards Rome and that his measures of frontier guard are so perfect the Pope cannot “escape from the city.” This is very curious. We have always thought that the policy of Italy ever since the time of Cavour was to permit the good old Pontiff to “‘slide” from the Eternal City just as quietly as may be, or, if he did not appear to avail him- self of the opportunity to ‘‘stir him up” gently with a “sharp stick” or something sharper, perhaps. Now it ap- pears his Holiness is to be held to his post nolens volens, and forced to ‘‘toe the mark” at St. Peters. He may well exclaim of the in- consistencies of the lay sovereigns. The Pope indeed may adopt the words of the Irish drummer who, when engaged in flogging an army culprit, was appealed to by the man to “gtrike higher” and then again to “‘strike lower.” The drummer after a time said :— “Ah, faith, an’ strike you where I will an’ I can’t plase you.” Has the King heard the murmer of the revolution? Does he wish to be near a centre of order ? ponsbacteisinesieiaisemew ees Tne Post Orrick Buitpine To Go On.— The Secretary of the Treasury has just ap- proved of all the contracts for granite work on the new Post Office building. He has eXtended the contracts to the entire structure as the most favorable way for the government. There is nothing now to prevent the work going on, as long as the appropriation holds out. We hope, therefore, that the supervising architect will go ahead at once, and let us see the top of the present structure above the fence as soon as possible. It must be remembered that win- ter will soon be upon us, when the inclement weather must retard all outdoor labor, There has been too much time lost already. The supervising architect, Mr. Mullett, and the supervisor of the work, Mr. Hurlbut, are both men of energy, and we trust to them to push forward this important vublic work. Victor Hugo as a Blower, Victor Hugo as a blower may defy his rivals and his imitators. He beats them all. He has issued 9 manifesto to the Germans—a regular Chinese flaming-dragon manifesto— in which he warns them off from Paris. He tells them, ‘‘You may take the fortress, you will find the rampart; you may take the rampart, you will find the barricade; you may take the barricade, and then you will: find the sewers mines of powder, ready to blow whole streets into the air;” that, in short, the Germans will find, if they try it, that the “‘olty which yesterday was Sybaris, to-morrow may be Saragossa.” This is the stuff which Victor Hugo, .as a defender of the new French republic, is wisely permitted to publish to the German columns advancing upon Paris from their crushing Operations at Sedan. Could Hugo, for a moment, suppose that those German columns, after marching over cuirassiera, cannon, mi- trailleusea, trenches, ramparts and mines of powder, were to be frightened by a Chinese paper dragon, with glaring eyeballs of terror and destruction, lighted by fish oil? Where was that famous devil-fish, which has the appearance ofa dozen muscular and knotty sea serpents branching out from a flabby head and a pair of devilish eyes, and which has in those muscular arms a set of suckers that would drain the life blood out of a rhinoceros in five minutes? That was the chap for Hugo to trot out against Von Moltke. — We have no idea, however, that Victor Hugo supposes that he will scaro away the ap- proaching German armies by his silly mani- festo, Nor was it intended to frighten them. Hugo sees that for the time being blowing is the fashion in Paris, and this suits him exactly, for he is the crown prince, nay, the king, of blowers. We think, too, that this blowing is ® good thing for Paris. It carries off the gas of self-concelt which has poisoned too long the moral pir of the city, and will make room forthe wholesomé Ox: ged of common sense. Paris will not become another Saragossa, be- ‘cause if Paris, with its million and a half of People, can be cut off from its supplies of pro- visions, Paris will come to terms. Cut off Victor Hugo for two days from his poached eggs and mutton chops and he will pronounce Saragossa a humbug that can’t be repeated in Paris against flre and bombshells. More Murder. Of the many deliberate homicides which have occurred in the city of late none presents such evidences of deliberation as the shooting of the girl Honstedt, in Greene street, by her soldier lover, Marsh. The act does not seem to have been done in momentary frenzy, although love, jealousy and liquor all com- bined to create the cause of the dreadful deed. The perpetrator, indeed, coolly admits that he was determined to murder the unfortunate woman and then to take.his own life. He has probably succeeded in the former intention ; but as for himself, he remains in the hands of justice to answer for the crime. An unsteady hand proved treacherous in its mission, so that the murderer is almost unhurt. As there were several witnesses to this dreadful crime we presume that the authorities will lose no time in trying the case. We have been promised by the City Judge remarkable vigor on the part of the courts and prosecuting officials for the suppression of murder in this community. We need all the energy that can be exercised for that purpose. Murder, in many hjdeous shapes, has become go rank in our midst that the very air we breathe smells of blood. GREELEY For ENGLANp.—General Wal- bridge having failed to secure the nomination of his righthand man, Greeley, for Governor of New York, is there any reason why the dis- appointed philosopher should not be sent to England as a messenger of peace? Where can General Grant find a man more devoted or more faithful to the great cause of peace than the philosopher and-the philanthropist, Horace Greeley? Is he not sound, too, as a cham- pion of the French républic against Louis Na- poleon Bonaparte, and all the family of the Bonapartes, including even the American Bonapartes, as aspirants for the empire? Furthermore, is not our radical contemporary of the Tribune believed to possess the confi- dence of the Parisian reds, while esteemed as a great philosopher by the British reformers of the school of John Bright? ‘Why may not General Grant, then, try the bold experimerft of this universally recognized radical republi- can and peacemaker, Greeley, as our Minister to England, in view not only of peace in Europe, but peace in New York? We throw out these hints to our practical republican President in behalf of peace. ‘‘Let us have peace.” Tue Inquest in the First ward murder, wherein a private watchman named Valentine Rickel shot and killed a young man who, waltzing with a girl on the sidewalk, chanced to brush against the gate of the factory which Rickel was employed to watch, was concluded yesterday with a verdict charging Rickel with the murder. The prisoner at the inquest appeared to be a stolid and simple-minded sort of person, and most likely will plead insanity in his coming trial with more truth and probably as good effect as in cases of more noted criminals, But private watchmen should be men of discretion and intelligence. They should not be entrusted with the care of property and its protection against fire and burglars, or be clothed with the half official authority of a private policeman, having arms and the right to use them at their own discretion, if they are insane or if they are ill-tempered or unthink- ing. The employers who gave an insane man the authority to use firearms on peaceful citizens should have been censured in the verdict, Watt Srrget—Tue Corton Cror.—The past week has beena very dull one in financial circles, and yesterday closed on stagnant markets at the Stock Exchange and Gold Room. The commercial and financial com- munity will be interested in the statistics of the cotton crop, which we give in our money article, The crop for the cotton year just closed was 3,164,946 bales, the largest for any year since the end of the war, and almost up to the average in the decade of 1850-1860. No wonder the gold ‘‘bulls” wondor what the matter ia, mee aca eg per es a apelin See ‘white muslin for Dress Fashions in Parle—Taglioni’s Niece on the Battle Field. Onr special fashions letter from Paris smells strongly of gunpowder. With the Prussians outside of the fortifications of the city, and the public sewers said to be mined and made ready for an explosion against the enemy when they come in, we neod not wonder that the Parisians had lost sight of the beauti- ful unities of the toilet, No use, almost, in dressing under such circumstances, There was “nobody” to be seen but soldiers, and “nothing to wear” but a few “old things” which had been made up a couple of weeks before and were, necessarily, not in thelatest style. The ladies went ‘‘scarce anywhere” but to the hospitals and the churches. The social routs and revels and receptions and the horse racing in the Bois had sub- sided, and there .was nothing heard of but routs in the field, the roveille of the regi- mental buglers, the reception of wounded soldiers, and cavalry horse racing in the face of “our Fritz;” the French horsemen being well in advance, or a “little ahead,” as was that bear away out on our American north- western territory when the dog was in full pursuit. Life-in Paris was disturbed sadly. The social relations were marred by war. Fashion struggled bravely for perpetuity and life. As if in anticipation’ of the approach of peace the goddess had endorsed the use of evening dresses, and there were some few tollet novelties besides. Our special writer recalls the scene of splendor which prevailed in Paris at the moment when bluff King William and Bis- marck visited Napoleon at the Tuileries, the year of the Universal Exposition, and rode through the city with him in one of his state carriages, the then smiling and happy and confiding Eugénie following in a calécha, with her swan-like neck bent forward in the enjoy- ment of pleasant converse with Fritz of Hohenzollern, How vastly changed is the fceng} How painfully verified the inevitable flat of the end of the sontence ‘‘of the vanity. of vanities!” stil dt aaah OO Our writer narrates an affecting incident consequent on the Franco-Prussian war, one which will enlist the national sympathies of American readers for a mother, a distin- guished woman, in moments of her suspense and joy. General Ulrich, who commanded in Strasbourg for the French, is the husband of a@ Taglioni, a niece of the great Taglioni and herself a most distinguished artiste. The son of the danseuse served in the French army at the battle of Woerth. When the news of the slaughter of that terrible field reached Paris his mother heard that he was killed— that Albert was among the slain. She did not believe it. She set out from Paris, journeyed to Woerth, found a few survivors of the Twelfth chasseurs, his regiment, quartered in a miserable village near by. At night she found her son, Albert was laid in a stable beside his horse. He was fast asleep. Tag- lioni (Madame Ulrich) kissed him as he slépt and retired, saying to the sentinel as she passed, ‘Tell Albert that I came and kissed him.” It was a grand occasion, one of those moments when humanity is elevated above itself—raised frqm its gloomy surroundings of earth and brouglit nearer to heaven. Pray oz Pay.—Paris property will not escape the burden of the defence of the city. All the rich men who leave will find when they return thgt there is a heavy account scored against their estates for the support of the defenders. No one named Rothschild will take his place { the trenches; but the price he will pay for the support of his substitute will likely seem to him a dear rate, even for his own precioun life. State and City Politics. In another column is presented to our read~ ers a graphic and interesting epitome of the opening events in the first scene of the stormy political drama that is to be enacted in this State and city during the campaign in- augurated on the part of the republicans, at Saratoga on Wednesday last. The curtain closed on a different scene on that occasion than was expected at the first opening of the performances. It appeared that the election of delegates to the Convention was controlled in the interests of two rival factions—the Fentonites and Conklingites. Fenton, at the start, had the control of the State Committee, alarge majority of his friends comprising it, with his factotum, Hamilton Harris, as chair- man. Atthe opening of the Convention Fen- ton had a majority of the delegates pledged to him, and he thought that there was nothing but plain sailing in reaching the control of the Cen- tral State Committee, But as the “best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft a-gley,” so it was with Fenton’s anticipations. He had over- looked the fact that abird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and ina moment of false security the Custom House patronage of this city, with federal patronage in prospective, was unmasked, and his adherents fell off in the night from hin— Deserted, at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed. Fenton, on rising on the eventful morning of the 7th September, found himself and the few of his followers, ‘faithful among the faithless found,” placed in a decided minority. Conk- ling, the agent of the administration, und Murphy, the present dispenser of Custom House largess, had seduced the bulk of hia followers, and he found himself in the humili- ating position of having to play second fiddle to Conkling in a réle he had ‘‘scored” for his own leadership. How all this was brought about, and the ends subverted on the one hand and the objects to be accomplished on the other, will be found fully set forth under our political article previously referred to. The result, however, of all this scheming and counter scheming was the nomination for Governor of Brevet Brigadier General Jittle- bat Titmouse Woodford, who has as much chance of occupying the Executive chair as the ill-treated and discarded candidate, Horace Greeley, who has been once again shelved to make room for one not fit to loose the latchet of his old shoes or to attempt to smooth the nap of his battered white hat. But of such ia the gratitude of republicans, and Greeley, being one, and ® leading one at that, must only grin‘and bear it, He is used to it, too, and “practice makes easy.” The democratic bade “ca is also laid down, and the divisions Of the party, or rather the suicidal efforts of a faction to qreate a