The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1870, Page 6

a NEW. YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ¥3, 1870.—TKIPLE SHEET. NEW Y ORK HERALD Revolutionary ULevelopments=Tho New Era ef the World. Tho Military Operations in France. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. quarter of the globe up to the present period, are now agitating the nations. Modern intel- ligence is investigating the past, analyzing the 6 present and peering into the future to ascer- tain what is the true basis of society and on what principle people are to be governed, or rather on what principle they are to govern themselves. The conflict of these moral forces | ™eat and no concentrated attack has yet been gLiNA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—BLax Ev'p | and ideas of the past and prosent is like the made or will probably bo mado for some days. pa toa i f marshalling of clouds from every part of the The besieging army is feeling its way and tap- CongEan, | TALL Fourteenth streot.—Guaxp NILSEN | boa ong when @ terrific thunder storm gathers | Ping on the wall of works to find the weakest puBLos GARDEN, Broadway.—Taz Nzw Douxstio overhead and shakes the earth. The moral | 8Pt. ‘ ae ee ee and political world is like the physical in this | Inside the city, as we learn by a special let- ner BOb'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor | respect, ‘The elements of both go throuzh | ter squeezed through the lines by the shrowd- violent perturbations till an equilibrium is es- | 2058 of # Henan correspondent, several dis- tablished. With regard to the moral and po- | 8Taceful demonstrations of violence were made litical world, it seems that the storm is rapidly | 0 Sunday and Saturday by the roughs, who culminating, and that there is reason to hope | Uttered revolutionary cries, broke into stores MEW, YORK STADT THEATRE, 48 Bowery.—GRAND | for a more serene and happier state of things | *24 vicket pipmsiye pr FBS rr “ge. ~ck y __ | at no distant day. To the religious mind the | 2¢W ‘error a large force of the Natio mer FE Sapam fa neve gh pe may bo | had been taken from tho fortifications and * pPFOURTEENTH STREET THEATKE (Theatre Francais) | the millennium; to the purely philosophical it | brought into the city to maintain order. 4 is the natural result of progress aad the ac-| South of Paris, along the line of the Orleans cumulated intelligence of ages. Railway, military movements are of the great- The astonishing events of the Inst few weeks | ¢st moment. Several points along the road and that are transpiring in rapid succession | bave been occupied by the invading force, and from day to day, would bewilder us if wo did | tt is even reported that Orleans is threatened. not know the links with which one is neces- | The people of Blois, which ts about thirty- sarily connected with the other and|fve miles south of Orleans, and a few their connection with others of the period im- | Miles nearer Tours, the temporary capi- mediately preceding this. The uprising of the | *l, are leaving their homes in dismay at the republicans throughout Europe is the natural | threatened approach of the Prussians, At result of the war between Prussia and France | Tours the French troops are hurriedly moving, and the fall of Napoleon. France slid into a | 8nd it is said that the government delegates republic by the force of circumstances. The | themselves will have to chango their capital very monarchs who entered into the war to | °uce more. This movement of the Prussians strengthen their own rule, and to give them | South is one of the many well considered ma- through that a firmer grip over the people, | 2®uvres which throughout the war have dis- are the instruments in the hands of Provi- | tinguished the generalship of Von Moltke. It dence to liberate the people and to spread the | 1 apparently the intention to strike the Army principles of republicanism and self-govern-|f the Loire while it is yet undis- ment. It may be said truly in this case that the | °iplined and in process of organization. evil deeds of men are turned against themselves | When we consider the forces which the Prus- and are made to work out the designs of God. | Sians have at Strasbourg, at Metz, at Toul France has become a republic without resort- | #24 at Paris, and the ease with which they can ing to the barricades and civil war among the detach heavy colums like this one to overwhelm ArAdvertisementa, French themselves, thanks to Napoleon and | *¥Y new movement, the mind wonders where S—The War? Special Report of the Situation im | King William of Prussia, And, if we mistake | they get the troops, whether any men not sol- Parte; The Sane eee amr nom not, this very war, through the painful lessons diers are left in Germany, and it wonders, too, ee aing: | Prussian ‘Imi erialiam it teaches, the sufferings it brings, and the | What has become of the men of France, and Se canmatar aie patriotism which it arouses, will do more to | Where ere the brilliant French armies to establish republican institutions in France | °ppose this almost omnipresent enemy. of Sceaux, which overlook the forts of Mont- Velame XXXV. ARUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 88d at, L— Ot Ee ‘St., Detween Sth ana 6tn avs. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rony or TuR Hitus— Jack Lona. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.--Maw awp Wire, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,— Rip Van WINKLE. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- BIRTY EMTERTALNMENT. 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Peace negotiations are still pending in Europe, as will be seen by our special cable telegrams to-day. The efforts appear to radi- ate from London, although we are informed that Thiers’ mission to the British Cabinet failed. Brussels seems to be a next centre of diplomatic concentration for renewed effort. General Burnside has, we are informed, left London, bearing de- cored Men in Council—Paying the Penalons— Chinese Superstitions—Army and Naval In- telligence—Marriages and Deaths. 9—Finanvial and Commercial Reports—Advertise- ments, 10—Cheap Chinese Labor: How New Jersey Ac- cepts the Coming Revolution—Political Intelll- gence—Sbip:ping Intelligence—Advertisements. 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Season. The celebrated German tragédienne, Marie Seebach, was very warmly received by a large audience, mostly comprised of her own coun- try people, at the Fourteenth street theatre last night. Considering that the character of Gretchen is not quite a leading part in Goethe's dramatic poem, which was conceived with the idea of Mephistopheles as the hero, Madame Seebach made a very splendid impression in the two great scenes in the last act, where the qualities of an actress of avery high order are demanded and can be best displayed. It was here, too, that the enthusiasm of the au- dience woke up and put the seal of approba- tion upon the débutante, Another evidence of how sterling worth is valued in this com- munity was the cordial recognition of See- bach’s tragic power as exhibited in the chapel scene and the final mad scene last night, than which nothing could have been finer. We have no doubt that in all the theatres where a high class of the drama is represented by re- spectable talent in the present season the patronage of the public will be liberally dis- pensed. As we have said before, the pro- mises of a really good theatrical season are hopeful, Commencing with a tragédienne like Seebach and an unrivalled singer like Nilsson, we have reason to expect from tho managers such material, both in plays and players, as can alone be acceptable to the public. Srux Ir Comes.—The flow of European Peace; Severe Fighting at Strasbourg; Indus- trial Combination and Artisan Pressure on the French Government; Neutral Opinion of the Final Result. than any barricade revolations could. But more than that, the establishment of the republic in France is acting powerfully upon every other country of Europe. The people everywhere Races—New Jersey Fairs—The New Steamship | ®"e moved to demand similar institutions, or a Po nsung! tassginee acces Gener more free or liberal government. In this re- Yesterday—A Serious Accusation Disposed | spect France is still the heart of Europe, “eset D autas onaation te saree though she lies prostrate for the time at the ‘The Book Trade Sale. conqueror’s feet. G—Eiitorials: Leading Article on Revolutionary Py bre ligntcctetr ar erode of the Worid— hb blr oe era three ; ae _ sl ago that such wonderful changes coul ave . Mi "ganic News from al Part of the Won: The Bea place in Europe eitita ee short a time? spatches for both parties, Prassisn and Lexionaries Expelled from Roms enn ltalye Italy responded promptly to the republican French. He hopes to get through the Pras- Garibaldi Held a Prisoner; Revolution in Ab sian investing line at Paris; but it is merely a geria; British Science on Ocean Yacnt Naviga- | Movement in France. Just as the Pope had ho AQ 2 hed oa tion—Washington: Excitement over Morton's | established his infallibility through the Ecu- | 7°P neers maesaenizer! tension nes Appointment to the Court of 8t. James; Mints- from Paris, having left as the Prussian ter Washburne’s Course Approved by the Ad- | menical Council the revolutionary storm swept ministration; A Sanctimonious Smuggler— | over Itely, destroyed the temporal power of line of encirclement was about to be Long Branch: Movements of the President: leted, and bein, some four days Minister Morton Expected to Depart Speedily | the Papacy—the oldest monarchy in Europe— —— 3 y' for a Farragut Obsequies—Yacht- [on the way to Calais. Jules Favre's ing—The Workingwomen—Aquatic—Business | and has united the Italians under one. gov- Notices. efforts and propositions to the Prussians have 8—Ocean Suffering: Wreck and Abandonment of ernment. Victor Emanuel has been forced to " it a the British Bark Ondara—The Latest Boston | take Rome, and Rome will be the oapital of not, as it seems, just now, produced any de- Notion—The Rochester Raiders Come to Grief— sirable result. We have a plan of peace bases, Department of Docks—A Ballroom Distur- | Italy. But atthe bottom of this movement bance—Jallbirds on the Wing—Proceedings in . even. Then we have contradictions. The the New York Courte—Horribie Death from | 9° the ardent republicans, Their ambition | 6, i, paris remains isolated and King Wil- Hydrophobia—Newark’s Notorious Despera- {is to restore the Roman republic and ig its ancient glories, The King of Italy is but liam _obdurate. The spiked helmets of his the passive instrument to work out their troopers serve to dissever the bonds of friendly object, _However much they may respect the communion. The King ag treat in Paris, King, or however liberal he may be, the and, if he can, in Paris only. Roman or Italian republic looms up in the | pepat cf Marie Seebach—The Theatrical future. Germany, too, begins to move and act towards King William in the same way. — The democrats have unfurled their banner GreatsR THAN OLp Romz—The new Rome | even in Prussia and the government las re- which will rise up from the ruins of old Rome | sorted to repressive measures. The Germans as the capital of young Italy. In this glorious | win accept unity from the hands of the King position we expect that during the living gen- | ang will thank both him and Bismarck for that eration the Eternal City will be more than | ang for victory over the imperial régime of doubled in its population and will become one France; but they will demand a larger amount of the brightest and most beautiful cities of | o¢ Mberty—a nearer approach to republican Europe. me freedom. Indeed, Germany may be ripe, or Cusan Expeprtions.—We learn from our | nearly 90, for @ republic. Spain has correspondent in Key West that the Cuban | taken forward steps towards republican steamers Anna and Salvador have lately suc- | government since France threw off ceeded in making landings on the Cuban const | the nightmare of imperialism, in spite of Prim, with ammunition and arms for the insurgents. | Serrano and the other reactionists. The A despatch from Havana confirms this intelli- | masses of England are stirred up, too, against gence, and states that subsequently to the | their monarchical and aristocratical govern- landing of the cargo of the Salvador, the | ment, Everywhere the revolutionary fire {s vessel, being unseaworthy, was abandoned to | burning and threatening to consume the mon- the Spaniards. Cubans have evidently be- | archies and arlstocracies. The universal re- come firmer believers in the advantages of | public is no longer a mere possibility, but has secrecy than they were at the commencement | become probable. We may see yet the United of the revolution. States of Europe or several confederated republics based upon race and certain geo- i . graphical boundaries. capital to this country continues in a steady In looking back to the proximate causes of stream. The grand upheaval of all the trans- | t1i9 state of things we start from the war of atlantic empires which is likely to follow the ‘American independence. Of course, as we Franco-Prussian war and its unexpected ¢s-| 5214 before, the ideas which led to this and tablishment of a republic in France is start- later events had begun to develop previously. ling the wits of the rich men, whose treasures The establishment of tho great American would bein jeopardy in the grand convulsion republic has given, however, the impulse to which threatens the Old World. The young, progressive freedom since. ‘The first French vigorous republic of the New World presents revolutionists pointed to the American flag as Toe Last oF THE Sworp or St. PetEr.— the safest refuge ioe timid capital, and hence | 146 emblem of liberty, as the republicans of | General Cadorna, commander of the Italian we find the Canadian banks constantly trans- France to-day hail it with delight. But while | army, has dissolved the Papal military legion- ferring money to Wall sireet for the account of | 14, creat French Revolution shook the Old | ary body in Rome. Ho attended personally at their London correspondents. The investment World to its centre and made the monarchies | the surrender of the Pontifical forces. The is not abad one. It will make money for the totter—while it favored the propaganda of | native Italians were disarmed, but ordered to Mh ca rus 0, liberal idens—the reaction, especially under | hold themselves for garrison duty under the Tae Pers or tHE Rervp.ic.—We pub- | Napoleon the First, proved too powerful for | King at the different stations in the States lish to-day an article written by Senator Wil- | democracy. Still it left the seed behind, and | hitherto ruled by the Church. the foreigners son, of Massachusetts, It will be seen upon | through seventy years or more ithas been | who were brigaded in the Pope’s army were perusal that it furnishes a very curious insight | growing. The successive revolutions and coa- | not only dismissed, but expelled from united into some of the scenes that ocenrred in| vulsions in Europe have been but the growth | Italy. They will be forwarded to their re- important official stations immediately prior to | of the seed sown at the close of the last cen- | spective homes at the expense of King Victor and snbsequent to the Southern rebellion, As | tury. ‘The tree now begins to bear frait. Tho } Emanuel’s government. The sword of St. a matter of history Senstor Wilsou hus | now era that has commenced is the harvest, | Peter has been broken by the sword of the furnished an interesting and caustic article, | The press, the magnetic telegraph and steam State. Had the Popes been wise in their and 2s matter of personal gratification he | power will finish the work. The American | generation it would never have been drawn may rejoice in having presented so solid an republic is still the beacon light of liberty for | inanger. The Popss should have rather imi- argument in defence of the late Edwin M. | thenations and leads them toa glorious future, | tated the act of the Great High Priest Himself Stanton, President Linooln’s Secretary of War, | for here we have solved the problem of self- | when He healed the wound which was pro- whose remains, it seems, cannot be allowed to | government, of national unity and strength | duced on the ear of the serving man by the rest in peace. We commend the Senator's | and of the greatest opportunity for individual | hand of Peter in his temporary anger. It ariiele to the atiention of the American people, | development. Our hope is now that the people | was a beautiful lesson to humanity. The as showing what perils menaced tho republic | of Europe have entered upoa the last struggle | Church will, perhaps, now return to its first fa a most trying period for acquiring the blessings wo enjoy. teaching, The sicge of Paris progresses. actively. The oxiraordinary ‘ermentation of ideas and | The usual Aghting for position which pre- the conflict of moral forces at the prosent timo | ¢¢des the safer process of parallels and show that we are eateriag upon a now era in | ™ines has been taking place since Monday, the history of the world. Tho opinions of | With success altogether on the side of the mankind—political, religious, moral aad phi- | Prussians, An attack was made yesterday losophical—that had their birth thousands of | Py the French on the northern line despatches must be addressed New York | years ago, or which have been developing | % the beslegers, where it is sup- through all the phases of civilization in every | P#ed =to =be = weakest. but —they were repulsed with loss. The Prus- sian on the south side now occupy the heights rouge and Vauvres, and from which those forts may be subjected to a ‘galling bombard- ment. Otherwise the position remains as we reported it yesterday. No heavy bombard- weeks encourages us to believe that other forces are at work than those which we see. This sudden collapse of the French empire is not explained merely by saying that Prussia was better prepared for war than was France. A deeper cause must be sought for this sudden paralysis of the French nation, The right arm of France is weak. She nerveleasly grasps the sword because she yields to the influence of a power unseen—a power mightier far than Napoleon and, as may yet be found, mightier far than King William and all his German hosts, The fall of Napoleon has given Rome to the Italians and thus crowned the edifice of united Italy; it has given freedom of action to the Iberian peninsula; it has completed the work of uni- fication in Germany; and although there are those who will not see it it has made possible a universal republic. The forces which have made this present revolution are still at work. In France, in Italy, in Spain, where effort has been concentrated, they have done noble work. In those regions the work will go on. But effort will next be concentrated upon the Bri- tish Isles, upon New Germany, upon the Scan- dinavian kingdom, and even upon Russia. The old spirit of the Commuiieros, of the Carbo- nari, of the Tugendbund, is again alive. Now, however, it is somewhat purified and elevated by experience and suffering. Divine Theodo- ras and mysterious captains are pray ing and working everywhere. Soclety—political, so- cial, religious--is, all over, feeling and yielding to the unseen power. Men see the rottenness of the past. They feel the forceful impulses of the present. The late demonstra- tion in London helps us to know what would be if it were not for the power of the sword. The International Workingmen’s Society would make Europe a unit to-morrow but for the ex- istence of standing armies. How soon the great change will come we know not. It may be sooner than we are willing to believe possi- ble. But, be it soon or be it late, no one intelligently looking abroad upon human society can refuse to admit that he sees falling empires and rising republics ; nor can he deny that the tendency is toward as vaster and vaster unity. . clety—The Secret Associations, his magnificent novel, ‘‘Lothair”—a novel which is a perfect photograph of the age, more perfect to-day than when it was first given to the world. With un insight and prescience that belong to his race Disraeli prepared us for the catastrophes of to-day. When “Lothair” was: published how many believed that the Ecumenical Council would dare to proclaim the Pope infallible? How few were willing to regard his Madre Natura, his Mary Ann and other secret societies as other than the mero inventions of an enthu- siast’s brain? But the Pope has since been declared tnfallible by the Ecumenical Council, what seemed the most powerful empire in Enrope has fallen—an empire which especially stood in the way of the secret socicties of the South of Europe; and Rome has become the capital of Italy. In spite of the infallibility of Pope’Pius the Ninth the secret societies have triumphed, and in spite also of the victories of the armies of Germany they have accomplished two of their prin- cipal purposes. Rome is now Italian for the first time {n many centuries, for the first time, in fact, since the first invasion of the barba- rians of the North; and the greatest enemy of the secret societies is reft of all power. If Napoleon had been trae to Madre Natura and Mary Ann in 1859 and 1866 ft is not improbable that he would still have been the powerful and honored ruler of the French empire and people. What has taken place within the last few It is all vanity to imagine that after peace shall have been established between Prussia and France the crisis will be over. The politi- cal, social and religious revolution must go on. All old things must pass away. All things must become new. We will not say that in this not perhaps far distant future—in this triumph of the secret and revolutionary forces of human society, the glories of the resur- rected Pantheon are to put into the shade the splendors of St. Peter's, or that ‘“starveling saints and winking madonnas are to restore their usurped altars to the god of the silver bow and the radiant daughter of the foaming sea;” but we will say that changes will take place of so violent and radical a character that ‘“‘Lothair” will no longer be a mystery. Wendell Phillips on Eurepean Affairs. We publish to-day a trenchant radical republican article from Wendell Phillips on “the eagerness and readiness” of the masses of the peoples of Europe for republican insti- tutions, ‘‘and the quick, anxious watch and dread of them on the part of kings.” He pre- sents us a very graphic picture of the present startling but promising aspects of the general conflict between popular rights and royal pre- tensions, though, as usual, he puts in so much of his dark pigments as to obscure the compo- sition and leave us in doubt as to the design, For instance, our great denunciator (as Phil- lips may be called with as much propriety as Edward Everett was called ‘‘the Great Lauda- tor”) says of Prussia, in prosecuting this war after the great victory of Sedan, that, ‘‘blood- thirsty and greedy, unscrupulous and over- bearing beyond the Bourbons and Hapsburgs, the Philips and Charleses of bygone days, she is not a nation—only an overgrown army, a horde of brigands too strong for their civilized neighbors ;” that ‘‘our barbarous South, flaunting Libby Prison and Andersonville in the face of Christendom, may justly call across the ocean to the black eazle, ‘Art thou, too, become as one with us?’” These are terrible words, but ‘‘cui bono?” what good is there in them? However, as the pioneer of black regublicanism and red republicanism | Tho Dangerous Elements tu European So- If the Right Honorable Benjamin Disraell is nota prophet or a prophet's son there are many sensible people who think that he ought to be the one or the other or both. It is only a few days since he congratulated the British people on their being able, amid peace, secu- rity and prosperity, to look abroad and enjoy the spectacle of “falling empires and rising republics.” ‘‘Falling empires and rising republics,” it was universally felt, presented a picture of the age which was too true not to be recognized at once. The phrase has already passed into the common parlance of man- kind—porhaps the best possible test of its merit. It is only a few short months since the same gifted author gave to the reading public and comatenism, nothing that ia done and nothing that ts being done for the liberation and elevation of mankind anywhere, by State, cal enough, or fast enough for Phillips, Still there fg much that is intercsting, becsase there fe much that is trae, in this caustic expo- it to our readers, The Prussian Line of Communication. Now that King William has set down with his army to invest Paris it becomes a matter of interest to inquire how his long communi- cations are tobe kept open. The siege may be a long one, for the French army inside is fighting in its last ditch and hope everything from time ; and the fortifications of the city, even in the weakest point, are formidable enough to suggest the slower mode of re~ ducing them by mines and parallels ap- proaches rather than the more precarious and’ bloody mode of storm and bombardment.- King William's army, therefore, if the siege: is protracted, will require food, ammunition, clothing, medicines and the other necessities of an army, and he must look.to his commu- nications for the means of supplying them. The main line of communication open at present ts the great Strasbourg Railroad, which runs from the Prussian camp at Paris to Strasbourg, through Chalons, Bar-le-Duc, Nancy and Luneville to the Rhine,.and which is held by the Prussians almost throughout its entire route. At Nancy, however, it connects with another railroad running northeast, through Mets and Saarbruck, into Prussia, and by connections to Coblentz and Mayence. At Mets the Prussians have been busy building @ branch road running round the fortress, 50 that there need be no breaking of bulk from the heart of Germany to the bestleging army at Paris. This is the route over which King William transports the supplies for his army, adistance of about two hundred and seventy miles, in the enemy’s country. So far we have heard of no determined efforts to.cut off his supplies by breaking up this line, Prussian troops in strong detach- ments from the besieging armies at Toul and Metz hold the important positions on the east- ern end of the line, and other detachments, probably from the main army before Paris, preserve the westerly portion intact. These are doubtless able to beat off any cavalry attack that may be made upon them, and are supplied liberally with material to repair the road where it is damaged by their enemy. The French infantry cannot damage it materially, for it cannot be spared from the more import- ant work of raising the siege in a force strong enough to hold the line for any length of time, and, as @ stronger reason yet for its security, King William would certainly make up any deficiency thus created in his supplies by levying only the more heavily upon the comparatively fresh country in which he is now operating. The long line of railroad communication which General Sherman kept open from Atlanta to Nashville, and, in fact, to Louisville, was much more difficult to maintain than the present one maintained by King William. Sherman's line was longer; the country was infested with guerillas, of whom the rear of the -Prussian army seems to be singularly free; he was illy provided with material for repairing the road ; the country in which he operated had already been impoverished by the long war which it had undergone, and his army was dependent daily, almost hourly, on the supplies which came over this one single-track railroad. Yet it will be remembered how completely he kept this line intact. The trains which brought him provisions and supplies were not detained twenty-four hours on _ the route at any time, and his army never once felt any greater need for clothing or food or ammunition than was occasioned all through our civil war, even in recruiting camps, by the negligence or incapacity of our Quartermaster, Commissary or Ordnance De- partments. Judging from this standpoint, and from the facts in the.case as set forth above, King William may rest easy as to commu- nication with his base. He will not be starved out. He has nothing to fear on that score— nothing on any score, but the vigilance and determination of his enemy within the walis of Paris, the rapid movement and skilful man- agement of his enemies outside the walls of Paris and the impatient mutterings of revolu- tion that begin to be heard in the heart of his own Germany. Tue Spmir or THE DemMooracy.—Not since the days of Silas Wright has such a degree of. enthusiasm been awakened in the democratic ranks of the State of New York as that which saluted the renomination of Governor Hoff- man at Rochester on Wednesday last. Not only were a hundred guns fired in the place of his nativity—New York city—but all over the State the thunder of artillery and the sparkle and glow of fireworks proclaimed the endorse- ment of the people. Governor Hoffman has, therefore, a splendid ‘‘send-off.” It is some- what different with the republican candidate for Governor, General Woodford, who heads a ticket that is received with icicle coolness by even its own supporters in the interior of the State. Hoffman hos the inside track, and we have no reason as yet to changa the opinion we expressed some time ago—namely,. that he will be re-elected by seventy thousand majority. Toe Army oF Franoz.—What has be- come of that glorious army of which Europe for years has been afraid? Where is the French army to-day? In Strasbourg, or Metz, or Paris, or dead? Why has it failed 0? Because it was no more nor less than a police force. It existed for two pur- poses—to make a show and to keep order. These two purposes it well served. It was the enemy of the Frevch people, not their pro- tector. So long as it was employed for its legitimate purpose it was a grand institation. But the moment it had to do what it never ex- peoted to do its knees shook, it trembled and fell. Grand as a police force, it is weak as an army. Powerful against the French peaple, it is powerless against tho invading foe. Since the days of the First Napoleon it does scem as if France had been thinking oviy of herself. This {s not the age for celestial smpires, THE MQUINCOTIAL RECORD of disasters at soa comes in earlier than usual and gives unhappy promise of an vazusual, fulness. Tho passengers of the British bark Ondara, tn nt a att ee or Church, or party, {8 good enough, gr raii- | we | ee wrocked at sea, were brou,,ht to this port yes~” | terday. They tell a aad tale‘of suffering and ‘aq bright tale of heroism and “indness. Tho vessel was thrown upon her bea.® ends by a | heavy sea on the 18th inat., and .“our of the ten persons who comprised the ci ew were washed overboard and lost. The vessel then sition of European affairs by this restless and | righted, and the surviving six men, after implacable radical agitator, and so we submit | forty-eight hours of saffering, were resou: Wt by the bark M. E. Gorning, Captain Roach, w bo, with unusual kindness, turned back on 4% voyage to bring the untortunate men to New York. The Great Repsblic tu the Eurepénn Cone teat, After oar humiliating experience in the little revolution pending in Cuba, whore the rights of American citizons were treated’ with as little respect as a football, it is refcesthing to see the respect which the great Powers \of Europe now engaged in deadly contest pay the name of the Great Republic. In the one instance it is the reckless malice of s despotic Powers against a great free one; im the other it is the hearty respect which two’ noble belligerents entertain for an equally noble neutral. While Minister Washburne is caressed and lauded by the Parisian people, Minister Bancroft is honored and féted by the Berlin populace. The American flag is cheered: in Paris and it is cheered in Berlin. in Ver- sailles it protects those who live under it aw their: own from forced contributions, from conseriptions, from unwelcome billets,.from insult, and even from cannon balla These demonstrations may be attributed in some instances to regard for the etiquette of nations; but one little incident shows that there isa hearty regard for America and the government of America felt among those of’ both armies who know nothing of interna~ tional formulas. An Awerican lady who left Paris in anopen caléche passed the lines re- cently with the American flag displayed and was cheered and applauded by the dense masses- of devoted Parisians who remained behind to- endure the siege, and cheered and applauded alike by the long, glittering lines of Prussians who moved stolidly forward with swinging stride to complete the investment. American ships in the harbors of France ani in the harbors of Germany, American generals with the armies of Prussia and American citizens - in the beleaguéred cities of France are all the honored objects of that attention which the name of the Great Republic com- mands from the hostile Powers. The mon- archy and the young republic vie with each other in their efforts to do her honor. Is not this the position which this great nation of ours, this home of the oppressed of all nations, should always occupy—that of an honored mediator, whose word is eagerly listened to by the weaker Power and cordially respected by the stronger? It is not through dread of us that these powerful belligerents show us this honor. Tiey know, as we do, that we are slow to anger and err oftenest in the interests of peace. It is the innate respect which kings and peoples must have for the free, liberal government under which we live—for the vital power of the giant within us, which we never use ‘‘tyrannically, like a giant’—for the dignity-and peace which we maintain amid ‘“‘falling empires,” and for the cordial sustaining sympathy which we A Waste oF Timgz AND Monty—The time and money expended by ‘the Youog Demo- cracy” in their late trip to Rochester. It reminds us of the last leap of Sam Patch at the. same place, from which he never rose again, Orgntna Day.—What treasures it disclosca tothe eager feminine eye, what excited be- wilderment it causes in the joyous feminine brain and what elation and hope it raises in the happy feminine heart! What dejection and grumbling it produces among gruff old fathers,. what anxious warnings it elicits from economi- cal young husbands and what suave demeanor it engenders among the sharp, shrewd milli-. ners! Yesterday was the opening day of the fall fashions, and it could have easily been known as such by the gorgeously dressed. array of ladies on Broadway, Fifth avenue and those modest side streets where the exclu- sive upper ten of millinerdom do business ; by: the crush of elegant dress material at the doors of the fashionable modistes, and by the uniform air of resignation to be seen on the countenances of those of the masculine gender who are known at a glance by that something inexpressible which stamps them. men of family. Oaxey Hatt Nor -ror Comprroiisr.—. The report that Mayor Hall had been nomi~ nated for State Comptroller by the Democratic. State Convention on Wednesday was a “‘weak. invention of the enemy.” Mayor Hall cannot be well spared from his present position. as. Chief Magistrate of the metropolis. He now. holds a post of honor, and it is no “‘private- station,” but one full of anxieties and. requir-. ing the practice of the utmost diligence, intelli-- gence and intrepidity to carry out suocessfully~ {ts requirements. Besides, Mayor Hall is. not. likely to be ambitious of running for an. office for which his amiable friend Horace Greeley: was a candidate, and in the race for which the: philosopher made such a lamentable failure. Mayor Hall is better in tie office he now oecu-. pies. Let him stick to it. Some or Our Posiio OFFIotAts.are. dere lict occasionally, or careless, as the case. may” be, in furnishing the people in proper time and through the proper channels, of they columns of leading newspapers, with ot tant documenta which have to pass thron; their hands in the discharge of their official duties, There are many papers—importaw , bills, for instance, waich are matters of publ .o record—that the people would like to kay yw something about and which are often witht gig from the leading papers, where: the publix’ can only conveniently. reach them, These @ rring officials, perhaps, forget that they ows. their positions to the public and that there ¥5 some cette tae et te wore / PENNSYLVANIA.—-At a meeting of ’the Union League of America in this city! the othor evening Governor Geary reported tho Pennsylvania campaign as progr essing satis- factorily for the republicans, Aand promising, under the banner of Graut, a good Usioa majority, Very likely, a% everything ix American politics except Grant's adminisira- tion appears to be as dead ag Dean Revie mond,