The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1870, Page 6

wail. ¥ edt Mit OO eae etd Ee er eT ee am oy ae ie eta ie LAR A mm pe NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AI business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly avaled. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. THE DAILY MERALD, published every aay in he pear. Four cents per copy, Annual subscription price $12. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo tring and Engraving, neutiy ang promptly exe cuted at he lowest rates- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN. Breadway.Tnx New Don Deawa or HEAxT's Ease, i) v7 ua WOOD'S MrsZUM AND MENAGERIE, Broad ner G¢th st,--Perforuiances every afternoon and evenly. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Bight avenue and Bid ohy-URIKLLA, DEMON OF TH” NIGHT. va BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery-—T10KhT-OF-LEAVE MAN— Tax UnvouruNass Doroama, FIFTH AVENUK THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Man ann Wire. 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New wie ees RAIS TER ppeal to the American Natlon from Paris; y tment and Gallant Defence of ‘Tue Fortress on the Point of Sur- Defeated Near Paris; rounded by the Pras- lack Fiends in Cus- k City News. 1 Mail Reports of the Battles of Sedan; Discipline, Energy and russians; Napoleon and Mac- il Belore Bonaparte’s Fall; The 2» Slaughter at Sedan; The Peace ty ement—Brooklyn City News—Personal In- jon In Con’ His Arrival and ; Complimentary dent—The City | ply to Mayor } 8 re betters to the Herald— sin Brooklyn and Newburg—The City of Ragusa—Suicide in Wesi- ‘ree Methodist Couference—Base Ball cl Notes—Financial and Commercial Reports— Naval intelligence—Pigeon Shooting, 6—Editorials: Leadimg Article on the End of Papal Sovereignty with the Fall of Napoleon Ogsar- ism —Amuse ment Announcements, Rome; the uristine Nilsson— oval Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union—Business Notices, ®—New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Nathan Murder: Close of the Inquest; A Verdict Ken- i Against Parties Unknown—lmportant 1 Siatement—Jourpalistic Notes—Adver- » Clerical Kiek-up ia ¥ Intelligence—Advertise- 11— Advertisements, 12—Advertisemne The Censusefieneral Walker and the Facts. It is reported by telegram from Washington that General Walker, Superintendent of the Census, has addressed a letter to the Mayor of this city vindicating the taking of the census | here by tho federal officials. Exaetly what | this means is not plain. If it means that Gen- eral Walker regards the federal officials as the proper persons to take the census he will find No one to dispute him; but if if means to vin- dicate the census as it has been taken, and to gieclare aud show that it is full, trustworthy fad such as if shonld be, then the facts are rather in t! To go no further than our own columns we have it upon the sufficient authority of citizens who give their names that forty-three separate residences have not been visited, One of these is a hotel. More- | over, the number of persons in families re- ported to us xs not enumerated foot up to seven hundred and twenty-three. Let it be remembered that these numbers represent only those among the neglected who have public spirit enough to care for the census and to take the trouble to wrile aboutit, Hundreds and thousauds world pass the matter over in silence and give it no thonght. But these num- bers are enough. There is no good reasva’ why a single hoase should be passed by, and the only way in which the Superintendent can profitably vindicate the census is to have all these reported houses visited and make it un- derstood that he is anxious and eager to hear from all whom his subordinates have over- looked and to compare the rosults of this re- vision with the data in hand. w Suz Has Come.—Nilsson, the nightingale, arrived in this city by the steamer Cuba yes- terday. haute $i Tue Eveotion iv Covorapo has gone re- publican by largely increased majorities. This is some comfort to the radicals after the slightly decreased majorities in Maine. Ove Creprr w Evrorg.—It is refreshing to read the article on “American Securities” which we copy into our money article from the London /nvestment Oireular. ‘John Bull is really beginning tothink we are ‘“‘somebody” after all, The point made in the present case is that the United States bas always provided for and paid off her obligations contracted after every war, and will do so with the debt inourted in the last war, ent ne emer ap ee net Seen tte «ae NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1970,--TRIPLE SHRET. Tho Kad of Papal Sovercignty with the | rajare of Peace Nogetiations—The Bieye ef | poace which has since proved so embarrassing | vanity, fs to be humbled. “ffranse contented, Fall of Napoleon Omsarian. One of the most remarkable events in the wonderful transformation that Europe is un- dergoing through the Prussian-French war is the extinguishment of Papal sovereignty. The superstructure of the temporal power of the Pope, which has existed over a thousand | yeare, and which has stood so long the shock of revolutions and falling dynasties, has been overturned finally by the events of the last few weeks, ‘rue, {ts foundations were under- mined by the great French revolution at the close of the last century, and modern progress since has shaken it foarfully; but it has been propped up by the monarchies of Europe from time to time, and within the past few years it has been supported by the bayonets of the soi-disané modern Charlemagne-——Napoleon the Third. With the fall of this aspiring Emperor, this so-called eldest son of the Church, the last prop fs taken away. The temporal sovereignty of the Pope and its last supporter have fallen together. Whatever may be the results of the war in ; other respects, whatever government may be established fo France or transformation take place in other parts of Europe, Papal secular dominion is at anend, The French soldiers have left Rome, never to return to uphold the Papacy. The republicans of France, should they hold the government, certainly will not interfere with the Italians in their rapid pro- gress toward appropriating the Papal territory and uniting all Italy. If by any chance the Orleans dynasty should be restored that would not make war on Italy to replace the Pope in temporal power, No, not even the Bona- partes would attempt to undo the work of Ttalian unity and to restore the Pope should they by any extraordinary turn of the wheel of fortune regain power again in France. Under no circumstances can or will France assume again the defence or restoration of the fallen Papacy. Austria has cut loose from the Pope. Spain is too republican to think of interfering, and is powerless, Catholic Ger- many is too liberal, and would not raise a finger for the Pope. Of course none of the Protestant Powers will interfere. In fact, Pius the Ninth, as a temporal ruler, is without a friend—is more friendless, perhaps, than even Napoleon. Tho army of the King of Italy is mecting with little resistance in its march on Rome. The Pope has no force capable of resisting. But the Papal troops even are fraternizing with the advancing Italians. Behind allis a greater power still—the republicans of Lialy: Victor Emanuel is not unwilling in the least to seize the opportunity of making Rome the capital of his kingdom and of uniting all the Italians under one government, bat if he were he could not resist the popular impulse. The agitation and enthusiasm of the people compel him to move, His own safety lies in that, if anywhere. Italy is republican to the core, and it is only by gratifying the ambition of the Italians in taking Rome that he may be able to save fora time his own crown. He is liberal and progressive and the people are willing to accept him for the time asa leader in the na- tional movement. Jt is probable, however, that Victor Emanuel is but the pioneer of the Italian republic ; for not only are the masses of Ttaly republican, but the cultivated and intel- ligent classes hope to restore the former liber- ties and glory of their country. They remem- ber the ancient greainess of Italy and Romo under republican government, and their enthu- siasm is aroused to restore the past and to march in the way of modern progress. The occupa- tion of Rome and the destruction of the tem- poral power of the Pope are the first step in the realization of their ardent and patriotic aspira- tions. In a few days they will see this accom- plished. Long centuries of darkness and re- pression will yield to the enlightened spirit of the age and liberty. Whatachange! Whata magical political transformation within a few days! So wonderful are these events that we can hardly keep pace with or realize them, Tt is said the Italian goverament assures the Pope that his independence will not be mo- lested in any way. We can understand what this means, and no doubt his Holiness under- stands it, His personal independence will not be interfered with and he may be leftsome authority over certain disiricts In Rome, em- bracing the Vatican and St. Peter's—some- thing like that which a mayor has iu a city; but neither the King of Italy nor the Italian republicans will consent to his retention of sovereign territorial power over the city or Papal States, That is all this soothing lan- guage abont the independence of the Pope means. And why should his Holiness be troubled ? Why should he not be content ? Has he not lately got infallibility? Is he not the chief of all mortals, with immunity from error or wrong-doing? Who can equal him ? Who is 60 bleased? It seems providential that he should have received infallibility just be- fore this wonderful revolution and just when he most needed it. After all, neither Victor Emanuel nor the Italian republicans can deprive him of his spiritual supremacy, He should now put himself at the head of the people and the democratic movements of the age. He could thus become more powerful than he ever has been or than any of his predecessors, The logs of his teraporal power would be more than compensated by the moral influence he would exercises and the good he would do. No one can contemplate the ‘extraordinary events of the time without asking if there be not a Providence directing them. Listory affords no parallel to them. The ambitious plans and designs of the foremost man in Europe are shattered almost in an instant. The Cwsarism which Napoleon had been try- ing to erect upon the ruined liberties aud blood of the people has vanished like a dream, The oldest sovereignty of Europe--that of the Pope--is rapidly passing away like a mist be- fore tho sun. ‘The Prussian monarchy, in de- fending itself, has caised a revolution that threatens its own exislence. The conqueror is embarrassed by his own success and knows not how. to allay or direct the storm he has evoked, The crowned heads and aristocracies are greatly alarmed and at their wils end. All Europe is ina ferment. The light of in- telligence is permeating through the masses of the people and they are clamoring for their rights and liberties, - Evidently we are at the dawn of a wonderful transformation in tho world, The people of this age may be able to say, with Simeon of old, we have seen the sal- vation. now let us devart in yoace. | will be, of course, refused. E Parls Inevituble. ‘The most striking and the saddest feature of the European sews this morning is that all the | efforts on the part of the Freach government \ to bring about an armistico and negotiations | for poace have utterly failed. The mission of M. Thiers to London in the hope of inducing the English government to mediate between Franco and Germany is announced by the London Zimes of yesterday to have been pro- ductive of no result; and that journal adds that the war must go on: It is understood that he offered an indemnity of one hundred million dollare, the surrender of half the fleet and the dismantlement of the fortresses of Metz and Strasbourg. Adespatch from Brussels repre- sents it as almost certain that Prussia will refuse to entertain propositions looking to an armis- tice, because an armistice would delay army operations, and, in case the negotiations should be unsuccessful, would render the situation of the Germin army much lesa favorable than it now is, One of our correspondents at Paris telegraphs the particulars of an interview which he bad with M. Ernest Picard, Minister of Finance. It is a most melancholy despairing confession of the military weakness of the French nation. It seems that the interview was specially accorded for the purpose of acquainting the American people, through the columns of the HeEraxo, of the situation of affairs as viewed by the Ministry itself, and of stimulating the sympathy and good offices of the people and government of the United States. M. Picard, atter deploring the horrible condition to which France is reduced, declares that the responsi- bility of provoking the war lay with the impe- rial government, and that the government of the republic would have most gladly retreated. from the position by agreeing to an honorable peace. France was at firat, he said, compelled to fight without cause, and now it was com- pelled to ‘fizht without hope. The Ministry had turned in every direction in search of a friendly and powerful mediator to aid in arranging terms of peace, but had been disap- pointed on all sides, It was to the American government alone that France owed gratitude for its friendly action. M. Picard, in the course of the interview, confessed the ina- bility of the republican government, hardly more than a week old, to contend against the vast military force arrayed against it, and declared that France had been left by the Emperor without an army, without arms and without money. On the whole this exhibit by M. Picard is one of the most saddening and discouraging circumstances that we have yet had to notice. We hope that he has exaggerated the des- perateness of the situation and that France is by no means In the hopeless condition which he describes. General Trochu, the commander of Paris, seems to take a more soldierly and confident view of affuirs. He does not despair of the republic and expects to make a success- ful defence of the capital. The Minister of Justice, too, M. Crémienx, who is entrusted with the government of those departments that have not yet been invaded by the Germans, appeals to the god of battles in a proclamation announcing the approach of the Prussians and calling upon all Frenchmen to rise against the invaders and drive them out, as their fathers did in 1792. We may assume that the German army is to-day in a position in front of the fortifica- tions of Paris, inasmuch as detachments of uhlans and engineers were yesterday signalled within a few miles distance. To-morrow, perhaps, the formal demand for the surrender of the forts and city will be made, and Then the real, earnest bloody work of the siega will com- mence. On the result will depend not only the national existence of France, but also the question whether Europe is to be governed under popular or under military institutions, whether the reign of law or of force is to be established, If Paris makes a successful resist- ance the republic of France will stand, and its example will be followed by the other nations of Europe. If Paris falls the republic falls, and with it the hopes of free institutions in Europe, for this generation, at least. Is it any wonder, therefore, that the sympathies of the American people are given to France in this terrible life-and-death struggle? Or is 16 a matter of surprise that the kingly Powers resist the appeals of the French government to come to its aid? he secret of our sym- pathy and of their antipathy lies in the very fact that the contest hetween republicanism and monarchy is to be fought out before the walls of Paris. There has been no confirmation of the fall of Metz and the surrender of Bazaine’s army, of which rumors were in circulation in London on Tuesday that were believedin the Prussian Embassy there. Nor is there any news of a definite character from that point. The latest from Strasbourg is contained in a despatch from General Ulrich to the government at Paris, dated on the 9th inst., in which he de- scribes affairs in the beleaguered city as in a deplorable condition and growing worse; says to King William, and which may lead, evestu- ally, to the perfection of the bond of liberty, equality and fraternity in Europe, éhe peoples grasping hands on the sites of the humbled thrones. Our writerin Rome notes the first evidences which were given in the Holy City of the coming effacemont of the temporal power of the Pope. We have also the premonitory whispering of the call for a general European congress, which wilt disband the armies and place the Christian civilization of the day in complete accord with the wishes and wants of the universal democracy, The Pesition of Englund The position of England in reference to fntervention in behalf of peace between Prus- sia and France may be simply defined as a position of hostility to the French republic, M, Thiers, as the reprosentative of the republic, undertook the delicate mission the other day of sounding her Britannic Majesty's govern- ment on this question of peace. Although he came fully qualified by tho mew de facto gov- ernment of France he could not be officially received in Downing street, as England will not, at it stands, recognize the French repub- lic, Earl Granville, however, called on M. Thiers, and, in a sort of semi-official eapacity, conferred with him on the important business of his mission. The Earl, at this strange meeting, we are told, exhibited all his well known courtesy and suavity, and said:—“‘If my earnest wishes could be of any avail peace would soon restore France to her former pros- perity.” M. Thiers assured hfs lordshtp that ‘France is quite able and willing to defend herself against all foes; but she earnestly desires peace, and it is for that reason that, by me, she now asks England, upon whose action all the Powers of Europe are now waiting, to join in securing France such terms of peace as she can honorably ao- cept.” Earl Granville replied, ‘I do not see how England can interfere; but I think I may say that, while preserving a strict neutrality (in furnishing France with arms and Prussia with horses, all in the way of trade), England will present to Prussia any propositions offered by France, and act the part of a sincere friend. But England can make no threat to Prossia, nor can she posi- tively promise to urge upon Prussia the acceptance of any offer which France may be disposed to make to her.” M. Thiers said upon this, that ‘the saw, then, nothing to be looked for from England in the matter, and the negotiations undertaken by some of the Conti- nental Powers (Russia, Austria and Italy) must probably be suffered to fall through.” Such is the substance of the report of a special Heratp correspondent in London of this momentous conference, and we have every reason to accept this report as substan- tially correct. This, then, is the position of England, As she cannot recognize the French republie Bhe cannot undertake to act as mediator in its behalf with the King of Prussia, But why cannot England officially recognize the French republic, at least as a de facto government? She was quick enough in recog- nizing Jeff Davis asa belligerent Power, on the same footing aa the government of the United States, and why, then, docs she hesi- tate in accepting the French republic? It ip the government of France, and there Is no other. The government of England is a con- stitutional monarchy, under the control of a hereditary aristocracy, and to this aristocracy France, as a republic, will he a very inconvenient and troublesome ueigh- bor. ‘his is why Earl Granville cannot recog- nize the French republic. His policy is pre- cisely the ‘policy of Earl Russell with Jeff Davis—the policy of suppressing republican governments {nstead of giving them a helping hand in their times of trial and danger. From 1789 thie has been the policy throughout of England towards the French republic. England, in short, through her governing aris- tocracy, is the champion of “the divine rights of kings” against the dangerously antagonlisti- cal idea of the divine and sovereign rights of the peoples, Hence, while there is a chance for the displacement of the republic by some royal form of government for France, England will not recognize the republic, We sre consirained, likewise, to accept the conclusion of M, Thiers, that inasmuch as England, the recognized head of the European neutral Powers, declines to speak the word which will secure peace, because it will estab- lish the French republic, the hope of any forther efforts for peace for the present from the other neutral States, separately or con- jointly, must be abandoned. But still, from certain significant popular manifestations in London and in other great centres of public opinion in England, it is possible that even the British Cabinet may shortly be persuaded to move for peace on the Continent in order to avoid the dangers of « republican agitation at home. Europe—1815 and 1570. The European siiuation to-day forcibly recalls the memories of 1815, In that par- ticular year the European nations felt that a The Yackth.~ Season, No season in tho bistorX of the Now Yc Yacht Club can. compare 1. the brilliancy, variety and sustained interest X its various, | events with this summer of 1870, ,At no timal for many years past bave our | ycohtmem entered more thoroughly into the true sptrit of the noble pastime ; never have they sisown! more earnestness or dotermination to aoguit themselves with honor and win fame, not oaly for their respective erafte, but also for the organization atlarge. Their efforta have heem spontaneous, whole-souled and unrestrained. National in a sonse, the call to our amateur sailors was responded to with an unmistakable beartiness, and in s week or loss there left the ways at different ports a score of yachts whish, for elegance, beauty and speed, were, perhaps, —-" by any other pleasure flect;in the worl The June regatta opened the season with a fine race, handsomely won by the Idler, end which came in good time to put the boats in trim for the more important trial that was to follow. Coming among us with the good omen of victory, and presenting his fine yacht, the Cambria, ag a winner in « remarkably close race across the ocean, Mr. Ashbury. boat; no time in erranging the preliminaries of that race for the America’s cup, which will’ long be remembered as the greatest glory of the year to yachtmen, and as a tei- umph second only to that in which the oup was first won. Our visitor has himself described that race in terms which fully indi- cate his appreciation of its spirit and its splendor, In simple truth, we cannot believe, that anything finer, at once as a marino fes~ tival and asa race, has been seen, not even excepting those gorgeous processions on the Adriatic, with which Venice glorified herself in her palmy days. Nor must we omit am observation of the significance of the result. It seems to declare indisputably, first, the superiority of the American model ; next, that the art of shipbuilding among us has not stood still, as has been alleged, since 1851, but hag kept such pace that, while England has admlt~ tedly made great progress, we are as far ahead of what she can do to-day aa we were ahead of what she could do then. What are the facts? The yacht with which we won in’ 1851 beats the Cambria in 1870, but does no& itself win the race. She is beaten by three yachts. England, with all her progress, is still behind the America, but we are far ahead of her, and when that historical little craft shall be beaten by a boat frem the other side England will still have to.Mpntend with our best boats. Nine yachts be: e Cambria. in this race—na little squadron of victors. Indeed, this nearly reverses the order at Cowes. There the America beat everything; here it might almost be said that everything beat the visitor. It is scarcely a fortnight since the races from Newport harbor were first spoken of, but, it being then understood that the yachts were to be brought, if possible, to a first class test, not an hour was lost in the work of pre- paration, and vessels which had previously been fitted up for pleasure cruising appeared, on short notice, in full racing trim. The result of even those hasty improvements is already known. During the recent contests at New- port American yachts came off with flying colors, and, favored by the elements, mada better time over the course than was ever known before. First came a race for a cup presented by the Vice Commodore. The course was a triangular one—the very best that could be selected, The entries, including the British yacht Cambria, were quite numerous. For a stretch of nearly thirty miles there was a splendid beat to windward, and a most exciting contest ensued. Just when victory seemed within her grasp the Sappho unluckily carried away her maintopmast and peak halyards, and the prize fell to the Palmer, the Cambria coming in second, On the following day twa match races, twenty miles to windward and back, were sailed against the Cambria by the Phantom and Madeleine respectively. The British yacht was defeated by both, the Phantom winning by nearly half an hour, and the Made~ leine by some nine minutes, on allowance of time. Then came the race fora cup presented by the citizens of Newport, a gift thoroughly appre- ciated by the club. This was, perhaps, the most interesting contest of the three, nothing being wanting to render it all. that any yacht- man could desire. characterized by such favorable circumstances, none by such excellent sailing, and it turned out in all respects to be a good test of the qualities of the several contestants, As im most of the other races, the course was tweltty miles to windward and back. Shortly after rounding the buoy the wind suddenly chopped from southwest to the northwest and subse~ quently to north, and the yachts were obliged to beat home on the return. The Phantom was again victorious, the Palmer taking the second prize and the Dauntless coming in third, a few minutes behind. The last mentioned. vessel, asin the case of the Sappho, met with an accident, having carried away her foretop- mast when off Point Judith. The fourth vessel in was the Cambria, which was beaten the world is at rest," is an old saying, Will France be contented after the treaties of 1870? If ashe cannot help it she may svem tobo, It fs no longer to be denied, however, that the year 1870 is a fur grander year than the year 1815, 1815 was a compromise. 1870 ls a settler. The Latin races are pusbed into a corner and Papal sovereignty is finally and for- ever destroyed. For good or for evil the year 1870 marks the commencement of a new era. We do not forget the great Reformation of the sixteenth century when we say that no such revolution has taken place in Europe since the Roman empire embraced Christianity. In the future annals of mankind the year of our Lord 1870, unless we greatly mistake, will have a bigh and honorable place. The Close of the Nathan Mystery. The Coroner's jury charged with investigat- ing the Nathan murder were called together yesterday and formally rendered a verdict of death from wounds inflicted by an {instrument known as a “dog” in the hands of some person or persons to them unknown, The jury also recommended among other things that the re- ward for the arrest of the murderer be modified 80 a8 to include immunity from prosecution for &n accomplice or accessory, if there should be such, provided he gives all the knowledge relative to the crime in his possession, This recommendation is a very sensible one, and it is not creditable to the shrewdness or zeal of our authorities that such action has not been taken long ago. The terrible strugglo that must have ensued at the murder of Mr. Nathan, the blood splashed high up on the wall, the broken fingers of the murdered man, the disordered condition of the room, and the fact that Mr. Nathan himself was a strong old man determimed to sell his life dearly, all indicate that more than one person was engaged in the terrible strife. One man coulda not have battered tho old man’s head and body so cruelly while that old man’s fingers were at his throat and come off scot free. The immense reward that has been so long unclaimed will certainly not induce the murderer, if there was only one, to give him- self up—to Iny down his life, fn fact, for the money—nor will it induce an accomplice, if there were more than one, to surrender up himself with his comrade, unless there is full immunity guaranteed for himself. The two are bound together now by, the closest ties of mutual interest, Their lives depend on their secrecy and they are faithful to one another. But.the proposed compromise with the least guilty will demoralize both of them. They will each dread and doubt the other. If there was but the one murderer the proffered immu- nity will not make him keep his secret more closely than he keeps it now. If there were two the assured safety from punishment, the terrible dread of his companion’s treachery, the pangs of conscience and the forty-seven thousand dollars reward, will drive the less guilty one, sooner or later, to a confession. As it stands now, the inquest ended, the Nathan case remains an example of the atter inoffi- ciency of our detective police. Like the Bur- dell and Rogers murders it will always loom up as a black horror, the mystery of which nothing but the terrors of a deathbed may un- ravel, Disraeli» Parable of British Democracy. Ex-Premier Disraeli has delivered an extra parlimentary oration, He made an address yesterday to the members of the Buckingham- shire Agricultural Association—a solid, sub- stantial, astiff-necked conservative set of Englishmen, who love roast beef and plum pudding and good prices in the Smithfield cattle market much more heartily than they do French democracy, brown bread and sour wine, and a popular embargo on the bullion in the bank at Paris. Disraeli touched a very delicate subject before this assemblage, He proclaimed that the world had arrived at the epoch and day of ‘“‘vanishing empires and rising republics.” This is the doctrine as of old—a first hint to the money changers, The ex-Chancellor did not, however, carry his exposition to any very decided point. He fell back on the conservatism of “render unto Cwsar the things which are Ceesar’s,” and told the agriculturists that Bri- tain can look on unmoved by the great events which surround her. Great Britain will look at anything and remain unmoved just after dinner. Away down in Buckinghamshire let John Bull have on his ‘top boots” and ‘knee breeches,” and with his hands firmly thrust down in the pockets of the latter, and he will ask ‘‘who's afraid” even if an army of hungry democrats were at Shooter's Hill. John’s city half brothers in Liverpool, in St. Giles, in Bir- mingham, in Manchester, in Bradfield, in Hud- dersfield, in Notiingham and Leeds and other places—the men who have neither breeches, nor boots, nor shirts, nor plum pudding— don’t see things in exactly the same light as the suburban gentleman, and it is to the city men, after all, that Disraeli speaks when he talks of ‘‘vanishing empires and rising repub- lics.” ‘‘And he spake unto them in parabl es,” Our Cotton Crop for £870. No previous race had bee. that the bombardment is incessant and fright- ful, but declares his intention to hold out to the last. There have been popular risings against the French government at Nice and Mentone, at which places the French authorities have been displaced and reannexation to Italy proclaimed. heavy burden had been removed. For the first time in fifteen years there was a chance to breathe, an opportunity to speak. More than that, the whole of Europe found itself engaged in crashing a common foe. We can- not say that to-day the situation is precisely Sufficient data has been received upon which to base a calculation of the amount of our cot- ton crop for 1869-70, The whole number of bales, it is estimated, will reach over three million two hundred thousand—being an increase of over eight handred thousand bales about three-quarters of an hour. This ended the series of races at Newport; but the season is by no means over. The summer calms will soon be substituted by lively autumnal breezes, and within a week. or so some of the best races of the year will take place outside the Sandy Hook lightship. From all this it is but too evident that the position of France is desperate in the extreme, Let us hope, however, that the yood fortune which has so often attended French valor and patriotism will come back again in this hour of direst need and redeen the sufferings and bumill- the same; but it is so like that the comparison is irresistible. 1815 sawa French Emperor, and he « Bonaparte, driven. into exile. Ino 1815 the French nation was made to bow the knee, and the French capital was oceupied by the invader. In 1815 treaties were made upon the crop of 1868-69--or, in cash, about eighty million dollars, This is the best kind of reconstruction. It knocks the pins from under the Congressional ultra radicals in the most effective manner. It shows that the recuperative powers of the Soush cannot ba Among others will be the contest between the Cambria and the Magic, and the match races between the former and the Idler, America, and others. The cups presented by Mr, Ash- bary will also be sailed for in that direction, so that a good treat is still in store for tha painfully humiliating to France, but strong enough to give Europe peace for almost fifty years, In other words, and not to go too much {nto details, the year 1815 marked in Europe the commencement of a new era, Have we nat good reason for saying that the year 1870 iy to mark the commencement of another new era. The treaties of 1815 are all played out, The events of 1830, 1883, 1848, 1859, 1866 make them of small account. The events of this present year of our Lord have killed them en- tirely. We are now, so far as Europe fs con- cerned, to have a new point of departure. We ere to have a new congress of all the great Powers, a new arrangement of the map of Europe, fresh treaties, fresh humiliations and fresh triumphs. And once again poor France, 80 proud, 60 vain. so full of weakness and ations through which the nation is passing, Our Specint Letters trom Europe. The Heean special writers in Europe sup- ply, by the foreign mail of the 3d of Septem- ber, the important and highly interesting exhibit of the then existing condition of affairs in the Old World which is published ia our columns to-day. Our special correspondents speak to the American public from the battle fields of Mouzon and Sedan. ‘hey tell of the terrible carnage, how the conflicts were fought and won which brought about the fall and exile of Napoleon and induced already conse quences of more alarming and serious import than those which ensued from the final rout of the Old Guard of France at Waterloo, From Berlin we have despatch which reports the initiation of that grand German movement for | too highly estimated, and that when the evergies of her people are rightly directed they are certain to achieve signal success, The cotton crop of 1868-69 put the Southern- ers on their feet ; that of 1869-70 will set them fairly in motion on the high road of their former prosperity. Furthermore, itis gratifying to know that the Southerners the present year have rafsed an unusual amount of corn and wheat and other substantial products, and hence will not have to purchase so heavily as ‘ heretofore from the West and North. They will thus be enabled to hoard their surplus, so that in a few years, if Providence con- tinues to smile upon their luxuriant soil, they will have the satisfaction of knowing that they possess in abundance all that man can expect. To Southern energy, then, rightly directed, wo gay God speed}. lovers of sport. It will be seen that an extraordinary impetus has been given to the sport this year. Never before was such great interest displayed in regard to yachting, and probably for every yacht built last year half a dozen will leave the shipyards next spring ready for competition, But while credit is due our yachtmen for their enterprise and liberality it must not be forgot- ten that the advent of the Cambria to this country has done muck to promote that spirit of emulation so fruitful and satisfactory in its resflts, If the Cambria has not proved alto- gether successful in her competition with American vessels---if she has failed to exhibit that great swiftness which many supposed she possessed—the pluck, manliness and thorough aportamanlike characturiatioa of hor owner hava