The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1870, Page 6

i Th a i eS Cardinal Mansing ea the Komav Question. Sunday last was a great day in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Westminster. On that occasion Cardinal Archbishop Manning advo- cated the cause of the Papacy with an in- tensity of purpose which, to some of the dis- = | tingnished persons present, must have re- 277 | called the memory of the great Catbolic arch- = bishop of Englund, the illustrious Cardinal Pole. We do not wonder that ihe cathedral was vaca dpc maine uae crowded on the occasion, and that prominent Rivas. in the crowd were several foreign ambassa- dors, some cabinet ministers and not a few who have wou distinction in the higher walks of literature and art, The preacher was at one time regarded as probubly the most gifted priest in the Anglican’ communion—:- certainly as its most eloquent and powerful pulpiteer. ‘fhousands were wont to hang upon his lips when he advocated another faith than that of Rome. Since his secession from the Church of England Dr. Manning has steadily grown in power and importance as a Roman ecclesiastic. His tendencies have NEW YORK HERAL N STREET. * BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXV......- AMUSENENTS THIS EVENING, LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway. Rover. WALLACK'S THEATRI OF Paunany Suxgipan's Ce NIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadw AN. WE TIOKRT-OF-LEAVE GRAND OPERA HODSE, corner of Eighth avenue and md at.-Oreka Rourrk-Lx Pent Faust WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAG E, roadway, cor- ‘Both et, Performances every afternvon and evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-Jaxcrise—Dick THe Nrwssoy. WIFTH AVENUE THEATER! anp Wire. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Bre Van Winkir ‘Tweuty-fourta st.~MAN Sd st, vetwoen Sth and Ato ave.— GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.--Vanceny Ewrrn- AINMENT—LRNANL c WAY'S THEATRE, Brookiyn. | been strongly ultramontane, and among wih bis the ultramontanists he has won the eee PASTOR'S QEEGA HOUSE, 201 Bowers. -V4- | first place, His influence with Pope Pius is well known, It is generally: believed that to him, more than to any other singlo indi- vidual, we are indebted for the Ecumenical Council and for what that Council has done, The readers of ‘‘Lothair” who have become neg St familiar with Cardinal Grandison havea fair c : idea of the character of Dr. Manning. It was WaROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE——Warou, Htoanys & | Dr. Manning's belief that the endorsement of : +. | the Syllabus and the proclamation of the per- T R I P L E Ss sei EE T sonal infallibility of the Pope by the Council Rg would be the means of eradicating the many New York, Tuesday, October 4, 1870. THEATRE pomaue, 514 Broadway.-Come Voeat- ism, NROKO ACTS, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, £% Brosiway. — Neeeo MINSTRELSY, Farons, BURLESQUIS, &c. RLS, No. 806 Broadway. — ‘tk ONLY LEON, KELLY & LEON'S MIN: Tue Basirs or THE PERIoD HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOU Brooklyn. —» AFRELSY, BURLESQCES, evils which are now so destructive to modern society and of effectually reconciling the Church and the world. Considering how com- iterate ss reat Lain soaps pletely the Council of the Vatican has to all iso sur ee ee SOA outward appearance failed we cannot be sur- SA ve a arses a4 prised that the return of the Cardinal to his S—Paris: ‘al Trochu’s Report of the Engage- * lent on riday:, Twelve. Hundred French | diocese and the announcement that he was to Killed and Wounded: Operations of the Prus- speak on the Council and on the great events slaus Around the Foris; Pecrec of the French ; % ss r which are taking place in Europe brought Government to Enforce Disciplin ermans on the Loire and ne Rivers: @ 4 y Conc ntraling to Advance on Lyons; together so illustrious an assembly. Beaurcgard Authorized to Raise a From the meagre outlines which have h Corps; Sad Coudition of the Ciiy of s reacied us by telegraph it seems fair to con- clude that ihe sermon was worthy of the man and worthy of the great occasion. It was ponrg: Diplomatic Intercourse — with Permitted by Bismarck; The Herald ai Report of the Situution Within the Jnes. The Daily Life of Na st Paris eon at Wil. heiimshohe; Russte Prepared u rt Herself | a trying occasion. Dr. Manning's ambitious Diplowaticaliy for Peace; The pation of S Rome and Disappearance of the Papal Power: | Schemes had been successful. Another grand Facts, Incidents. Anecdotes and Personals ot | Ecumenical Council had been held. The the War—aArrivai of the United States Frigate eh ek as - Guerriere—Ubsequies of Gotschaik—noinicide | Syllabus, which in its practical operation by a Nogro—Municipal Attair ms und HT Shoulder Str Seuecanion Ci Jour. | Would place ull men and all nations nali-tic Notes—Real Estate Matters, once more under the heel of the Church, 6—Proceecings mm the New York and Brooklyn a ite Couris—Criticisms of New Books—Snuicide and@ had been approved without much dif- Forgery tn Richmond, Va.—Terrible Record of Crvne—A Jersey Assemblyman in Court— oo ‘Outrage sonal Intelll- ference of opinion. The Vicar of Christ— a position to which he himself notoriously as- y on the’ T ty Depart- | : 4 a ‘ae 1. Festival ilaaserous pires—no longer wielded a doubtful authority. Celebration—Marriages and De: 7 ah G—Lulworium; Leading Article, Cardinal Manning | With very few dissentients the Council of the on the Roman Question—Ye Fever— } Vatican had accepted the dogma that the Pope Amusement Announcements, y—Telegrapbic News from All Parts of the World: | is infallible in all matters of faith and morals. Italian Unity Prociaimed by the ttallan i i ‘, People—The Floods in Virgusia: Addiuonal This great work had been secomplished in Particulars of the Devastatt $25,000.000 | large part by himself. What cause for pride! Worth of Property Destroyed tn th andoah Valley—Weaith and Piety~Yachting—Aimuse- ments—Bustness Notices, al Reports—Attempt ed Aurora Borealts and Sport in une West--Ad- But success had been clouded by terrible disasters, When the Council met Austria, France, Spain, Italy, Bavaria, were bound by concordats to the Holy See, and the presump- tion was that other nations would be induced S—Financtal and Comm: Suicide im Uls the Aurora Australis— vertisements, 9—Advertisements. ; 10—News from Washington—City Steam Ratway— Shipping Jnielligence—Arivertiscinents, to enter into the same holy bonds. How eens great the change! Now Austria had formally Fa tamara aa : thrown off her allegiance. So, too, had Amercan Ngurrarity.—lt is reported from } Bavaria. Spain had virtually done the same Berlin that Bismarck has demanded an explan- | thing. France, the great bulwark of the Pope- ation and an apology from Minister Bancroft | dom, was lying bleeding and prostrate beneath soncerning the shipment from New York to | the hecl of the great Protestant Power of the Brest of arms and munitions for tie French | North; the eldest son of the Church wasa people, If this is true it evidences more | prisoner ina heretie land; and the disciples weak staicsmanship on the part of Bismarck, of Voltaire, of Fourrier, of Robert Owen, RBA pcg: a ta were in possession of the reins of government. The Italians had marched almost unresisted into the Holy City; the Roman people had hailed them as deliverers, and, by a vote which deserves to be called unanimous, they had ex- Louis Napotkon has stated his ultimatnm to King William, He proposes an alliance between France and Germany, the war to be dosed hy France giving indemnity and dis- pabniting a oe pete . solely pressed their detestation of Papal rule. When oe eens et tere eee in the whole history of the Church did night so ‘eh chee protier tages) es Se dark and so disastrous close in upon a eee eee ee tense Om day so bright and full of promise? We can King William can treat with his bumbled prisoner on the question of peace with a Power that has disowned the Napoleonis dynasty. It seems strange that the imperial prisoner of Sedan, who was overthrown by one Power and disowned by the other, should now propose to act as peacemaker between 3ut it is one of the many strange well conceive that the Cardinal felt the diffi- cnity of his position and that he knew his task was hard. {[t does not appear that he attempted to explain what connection the Council had with these disasters. It is only manifest that he did not admit that the falling away of Austria and ihe other Catholic Powers, the humiliation of France, the com- plete and, to all appearance, irreversible over- throw of the temporal power, were in any sense logical and legitimate results of the action of the Conncil. We bismed England for hey indifference and praised freland for her steadfas! adherence to the faith. But with blandness characteristic of his order he refused to see and recognize the new necessi- ties and altered conditions of this ripe age of the world. The war against the temporal the two. anomalies of the war, and it is one of the shrewdest of the idées Napaléoi Wuy Cannor Over Porrrican Campaiens be conducted in a reasonably respectable way ? What is the use of selecting the vilest terms of vituperation with which to bespatter a foe? Why rake over the most repulsive dens for slang | a phrases and hideous conceits wherewith to portray the character of a politica! opponent ? But no matter how much the decent portion of the community may be disgusted with these | pewer was a war against the Church and outrageous displays, there will, we fear, | against Christianity. The Roman question always be found a sufficient number of pura- | was not yet ended: it was only begun, sites to worship, and groundlings to throw up In the course of his address Dr. Manning, their caps for, the politicians who can throw | by an allusion to the growth and prosperity of the most dirt in the smallest space of time. the Catholic Church in the United States, gave evidence that he was not far frem the right way-—so near, in fact, that one wonders he has not found it. Here we have long since settled the Roman question. Church and State alliances have no place among our free and noble institutions. Here every church is free and unfettered ; and without temporali- is more classical than an overcoat, yon know, | oe ata cor ae oe uadelaibelter’ adapiad. to) all ses ae oe the support and State eeutrol—the religious bodies year. It is, ai all events, ‘the right man in por Se un a . eibels yee the place;” for in Union square the great flourish and bring forth fruit. Where, in any Northern uprising for the Union in 1561 be- pete Se teen erey serene dope oe gan, and Lincoln was the head of the movement dedicated to the worship of the Itving God as ete work of the war:was done. in this city of New York? We have Jewish oe eR SR RY temples which would almost compare with Wnues rue Late Avrior of the unfinished | that of King Solomon; we have Christian tem- nd inexplicable ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood” | ples which rival St. Paul’s and which are not was last in the United States he remarked | put into the shade by St. Peter's; and New that he observed a great change in our cdun- } York, in this respect, is not far ahead of her try since his previous visit, some thirty years | sister cities throughout the Union, Where, in before. If he had visited us about election | any part of the world, are religious services fimes, and had taken the trouble to look into | conducted with more pomp and splendor or at Our system of carrying on a political cam- | greater cost than among the free and unen- ‘Paign, he might have been still more aston- | dowed churches of the United States, or where Ished. He would have seen how our politi- | are the priests and parsons and preachers fians love one another; how they can hobnob j better paid? Will not Cardinal Manning and at @ club under the same mahogany and the | his friends open their eyes to facts? Will ‘pext day take the stump of a quill, or the | they not, instead of vainly kicking against the ‘gtump and a guill, and lampoon each other in | pricks, yield to the spisit and march forward fhe choicest Billingsgate fashion, This would | to the music of the times? The Ecumenical Shave beon s fine field for the trenchant pen of | Council was a mistake, a blunder, as results the lamented “Boz.” But the world, fortu- | have proved. But it is aot too late to rectify in ‘nately, did poh comme to more when Dickens | part what has beon doge, or at least to gather Tne Lrxconn Srarve in Union square, they Bay, is not handsome in appearance; but the artist says his object was to make it handsome } in being true to history. On this plea those pants may do, and the plain, familiar face of *‘Honest Old Abe” may do ; but is that Roman toga true to history ? We don't know, but it "NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, temporal throne his spiritual throne remains. Bereft of the sword be will be the better able to wield the crook. Unencumbered by the UUTOBER 4, 1870.--TRIPLE The Disastrous Inuadations in Virgtuin. ‘The additional details which we publish this morning, in connection with our reports of the cares of a petty principality which never | last three days, of the late unparalleled inun- brought him or his predecessors anything but | dations of the beautiful valleys of the Virginia sorrow he willbe able to look ubread with calm eye and tranquil heart on his world- wide spiritual empire and give himself wholly to the duties of his spiritual mission, In the substantial tokens of affection which will pour in upon him from the faithful of all lands he will find ample compensation for the loss of bis so-called temporalities, If the Catholic hie- rarchy will only accept accomplished facts, and give themselves heartily to the duties of that higher mission which is now clearly set before them, the Church may yet put on her youthful attire and reappear ‘‘as a bride adorned for her husband,” and the last days of the Papacy may be more glorious than the first. Most certainly Dr. Manning's loud wailing and lamentation will not alter the facts of the past or affect the tendencies of the present. Situntion im France-The Pending Movement South. A strong movement against Lyons seems actually in operation. Hitherto we have had exciting rumors started by the frightened peasantry that the Prassians were coming towards Tours and towards Lyons, but io every instance it has turned out that ublans on a raid were the cause of the scare. Now, however, the movement appears to be one of infantry, and we may reasonably conclude, therefore, that something sterner than a mere reconnoissance is pending. A large Ger- man force has crossed the Rhine at Mulhansen and is moving towards Toul, where, it is said, a corps of one hundred thousand Germans is forming to operate against Lyons. Other German forces are already at Neufchateau, and a largo number of the troops under Von Werder, in Strasbourg, are under orders for a southward march. These despatches must be taken with a grain of allowance, for the intention of the commending general is not usually confided to the correspondents for the purpose of giving them publicity, but in these instances tho actual movements of the troops indicate pretty cleariy their object. At Lyons the army of ‘the Rhone is forming and has become almost a formidable body. At Lyons, also, there is a disaffection towards the republic, which may be fanned into a rebellious flame on the approach of hos- tile troops. Lyons is, therefore, a point which it is desirable for the Prussians to threaten. It is directly south of the points at which these new forces appear, and nearly {wo hundred miles from Toul, being one of the best fortified cities in France. It is prepared to offer a stout resistance. The march toward it, however, is through a fresh country, where hostile German foot has not tread since the days ofthe barbarian; and there does not ap- pear to be much likelihood of any serious re- sistance before the outer works of the city are reached. About Paris the situation remains interest- ing. Inside the mo&t rigorous discipline is exercised, the death penalty being meted out even for thieving. Another decree urging the rest of France to hasten the organization of troops has been issued. The citizens inside attend to their usual avocations, but like the old Puritan church-goors of Massachusetts they keep their firearms close at hand ready for use. The forts have been keeping up a pretty brisk fire lately, and even the gan-boats at Billancourt have been firing into the Prus- sian works at Meudon. General Trochu ina despatch states that the fight of Friday resulted during a reconnoissance, in which the French discovered all they wished. ‘These sorties are the most effective means which the garrison inside can adopt at present to harass the besieging force. They may have received a good lesson in this line of tactics at Sebastopol, where the Russians, in the dead of many a December night, made sudden assaults from their own weak defences on the French lines with excellent effect. In the meantime, on the Prussian side, it is stated that the lines are closing tightly; that the Canal d’Ourcq has been drained, and that preparations aro ing at Gengul ers, St, Cloud and Villej to bombard the city. These redoubts,»where they are coubiless plac- ing heavy siege guns, are respectively on the northweg} and south of the city, so That with guns of immense range three portions of the city may be kept in a very lively state, We publish this morning an interesting letter from our special corréspondent at the German royal headquarters at Ferritres, tele- graphed by cable from London. A graphic account is given of the situation of affairs along the route of the German armies to Paris, and within their lines, From it we learn that public feeling against Napoleon is very bitter, ons old gentleman at Compigne, who, is evidently « believer in the Bourbons, going so far as to express a wish to see him hung. The stories of German violence is de- nied, and the condition of the country is repre- sented as being better than has been ro- ported. As a rule the Prussians pay the shopkeepers for all they take. Now -and then only do they pillage, their violence being directed principally upon deserted houses. Altogether the situation within the Prussian lines is not half as bad as it might have been. Strict discipline has doubtless done much tewards restraining the victorious soldiery, and for this the French must now be very thankful, although it has greatly con- tributed towards defeating their armies. An important item of news in our correspondent’s letter is the statement that the siege of Paris will not be pushed until after the fall of Metz. Should this be the determination of the Ger- man commanders it is doubtful if we shall have much fighting to record as happening before the beleaguered city, except when the defenders assume the offensive. ‘The Now taar tHe PowricaL Campay is fairly opened, the partisan press and profes- sional politicians are beginning to overhaul their vocabularies to find the most opprobrious epithets with which to assail their opponents. The vile terms of *‘liar,” ‘‘thief,” “‘embezzler,” “defaulter” come as regularly with the return of the electioneering scasen as wild ducks do in the fall, In both cases—the small politicians and the fat ducks—they are fit game for honest + wmevs of defeat, If the Rone hae lost his | sharewbootars om either aide, rivers, from the James to the Potomac and the Shenandoah, give us a distressing exhibit of the losses of life and property involved. The bulk of the wealth of the State, agricultural and manufacturing, is in the flats or bottem lands of those river valleys which, between the mountains or hills on each side, vary from a half mile to four or five miles in width, These bottom lands of the main Shenandoah river and Its branches, for example, are some eight or ten feet above the ordinary summer level of the stream, and almost every spring and autumn the banks are filled to overflow- ing. But when, as in this late terrible equi- noctial, the drainage of the mountains over an area of twenty or thirty thousand square miles, from a rainfall of two days, equal to one-fourth the average rainfall of a whole year, is poured down into these rivers, the only wonder is that so many people of those narrow valleys escaped from the very jaws of destruction, and that so few, with the des- perate chances in their favor, were drowned. The heaviest losses of property from this unprecedented Ootober flood (and a flood early in October is, annually looked for from Mary- land to the Carolinas) have been in the valley of the James river, between Lynchburg and Richmond, in the sweeping away of or damages to flour mills and factories with their contents, bridges, canal embankments, crops, fences, houses, live stock, and so forth. In the Shenanhoah valley, however, where they have had an unexampled wheat crop in quan- tity ‘and quality, and a heavy hay crop, the losses of the farmers and millers have been immense; for: their wheat was mainly in the mills which have been swept away, together with their hay stacks in the river bottoms. Sheridan's terrible raid up that valley during the war, in which two thousand barns and scores of wills, with their contents, were burned, and all the live stock within his reach was taken away, was hardly more destructive than this disastrous inundation to the beauti- ful but unfortunate Shenandoah valley. The embarrassments and suffering thus resulting to the State would, however, be com- paratively easy to bear, if limited to the val- leys of the James and the Shenandoah. But the disaster has extended to all the rivers of Virginia, more or less, and it may be that a misfortune so general and so heavy will require some relief from other quarters. If so, we are sure that the rich and generous clty of New York will, as usual, in all cases where a suffering community calls for aid, be the first to extend her liberal helping hand. The people of Virginia, in their heroic efforts to recover from their prostration by the war, have commanded the general admiration of the North. Yet it has so happened in the mys- terious dispensations of Providence that at the very time when those self-reliant people were congratulating themselves that they were fairly on thoir feet again this heavy disaster has come upon them. But let them not be discouraged, and if the destitution calling for immediate relief resulting from these ruinous floods is more than they can meet, let the facts be knowa and relief will be given from New York and the North to our brethren re- stored again to the family altar of the Union. The Law Courts. The summer solstice invariably brings to the judges of our courts much needed rest and an allotted time for recuperation. In the past ‘“‘vacation time” was eagerly taken advantage of; but not unfrequently, through pressure of ‘back work,” judges were con- strained to make arrangemenis among them- selves by which for one season at least some member of a particular bench was compelled to sacrifice himself for the public good and to be in attendance in hampers throughout the whole summér. - Under the judiciary amend- ment to the rejected constitution the members of the bench of the Court of Common Pleas and the Marine Court were increased, and in the case of the latter court extended jurisdiction was provided for by the Legislature, which gave relative relief to all the higher courts, To the Court of Common Pleas were elecied in May last, in addition to the old incumbents, Mossrs. Van Buren, Lairamoré hid J. F. Daly, talented and capablo lawyers. To the Marine Court were elected Judges J. P. Joachimsen, W. H. Tracy and George Shea, highly re- spected in the legal profession before their election, and possessing in an enviable degree the esteem and confidence of the bar and of the citizens Bonerglly. ‘The term now opened will give’ work enough for all, the calendars in each court being unusually heavy. The ‘‘dredy- ing” criminal court of the city and county, however—the Court of General Sessions—- with but a very brief interval, has been in session unremittingly throughout the summer, and Judge Bedford, presiding, has done the State good service in weeding out some of the worst criminals in the community. The several judges are now at their respec- tive posts, and will enter on their duties with all neeessary despatch. Judge McCunn, of the Superior Court, after his littlé brush with his anti-Fenian friends over the water, puts io an appearance on this side, hearty and muscu- lar, as if his assailants came out of the little fray only second best, and he, like another Antwus, had gained strength by a temporary discomfiture. ‘The composition and morale of the judiciary of our city and county courts is now such that the community may rest per- fectly satisfied that with efficient police regu- lations crime and outrages of every descrip- tion shall be suppressed with a strong -hand, and the amplest enjoyment of life and pro- perty secured to all. Tue YELLow Fever.—The outbreak of this terrible epidemic on Governor's Island is donbtless directly due to the stealthy evasion of quarantine laws by avaricious owners and officers of vessels from infected ports. The public cannot be too grateful to Dr. Carnochan and his energetic assistants, in the first place, for their vigilance in protecting our great me- tropolis against yellow fever, and, in the second, for their devoted efforts to stay its ravages. Timely warning was given, and now that the dread foe has actually appeared admirable and effectual arrangements for re- sistance are found to be ready in the new ospital a auaranjine, Happily. also. the NS | hi SHEET, =: epeedy approach of cold weather promises. that New York will escape the dire conse- quences which would have been inevitable bud Yellow Jack arrived here when the thermome- ter was in the nineties. h Opentug of the Political Canvass—Tho Usual Compliments of tho Season. The political canvass for the fall election is | now fairly opened, The skirmishing parties | are thrown out on both sides, and brisk out- post firing has commenced. We are sorry that 3 better spirit does not prevail among the leaders and the party organs.” We should like to see a little more courtesy and decorum exhibited in the method of conducting the campaign than the course adopted, which is so offensive to public taste, of ussalling the {| character of the candidates with the most op- probrious terms of abuse. Why cannot an: election be conducted upon the merits of the political issues at stake, without spattering mud upon the private lives of the candidates? No such tactics are prac- tised in other countries. Men meet upon the “hustings” in opposition on public questions, but they meet and part like gentlemen. In this respect we have not improved since the time when Dickens caricatured our political leaders, our election scenes and our news- papers twenty-five years ago. The first bugle note of an election seems sufficient, now as then, to banish all sense of decency from the party press, and substitute therefor per- sonal rancor of the bitterest kind, expressed in language of which any newspaper pretend- ing to respectability should be ashamed. Cannot the politicians fight with measures, and leave the private character of the men who represent them out of the argument? What, for instance, is the propriety of attack- ing General Woodford because he happens to be the candidate of a party for Governor? We opine—though we know nothing about bim— that a man could not attain the various posi- tions he has occupied unless he were entitled to some regard in the community. ‘To be- spatter him or any other candidate with con- tinual abuse is one of the vulgar evils which the’ excitement of an election gives rise to; but it is an evil practice to which the growing dignity and respectability of the country should oppose a barrier. Half a century ago political canvasses were conducted in the spirit of that age; a semi-barbarous spirit it may have been; but there was some chivalry about it for all that. When a man made a personal attack upon a political opponent he assumed a personal responsibility. We cannot see that our present method is an improvement upon that of the early days of the,republic. On the contrary, our political leaders do things in a meaner spirit now. Surely it is not essential to party success that candidates should go to the polis bespattered with the vilest abuse, as with filth from the gutter. In this regard the present campaign in the city and State has opened disgracefully. It is not surprising, perhaps, to see some of the party journals, in their eagerness to show a newly awakened devotion to the principles of the party, exhibit all the blind zeal which is peculiar to converts; for there are none so conspicuous for bigotry nor so violent in de- nunciation as those who have suddenly changed their faith. It is not so reconcilable to good sense and good taste, however, to see a respectable journal lapsing into a course so widely at variance with ihe spirit of its founder. We hope to see some improvement, as the canvass proceeds, in the tone of the party papers and stump speakers. Let them stick to the issues—such as they are, and they are ‘not much either to discuss or scold about—and let personal abuse, disgraceful slang and the language of the slums stand aside in this cam- paign. It will be more to the credit of all parties and will certainly impart more dignity to the results of the election. We suppose it may be conceded now that the power of Tam- many will prevail throughout the State gene- rally. There is less need, therefore, that the advocates of that party should descend to vituperation in dealing with their opponents. We hope to discover no more of this style of conducting a political canvass. {tis no credii to any of the parties concerned. We ought to have learned better after nearly «a century's ‘@xperience and the example of other countries than to reduce our civilization to so low a level. ere We call now upon the leaders of the recon- atructed democracy, Peter B, Sweeny and Samuel J. Tilden, io draw off the dogs and to see that, on their side at least, the campaign ig conducted ina dignified manner, or aS FRIES I8, BERR om, Fifty thotidand to fifty Ts the réported voté of the people of St. Peter's patrimony on the question, Is it desirable that Rome and the Papal States shall be transferred to the tem- poral government of the kingdom of Italy? Fifty thousand to fifty the Pope’s people vote yes. This means that they have had enough ofChurch and State under one head, and that they joyfully seize the first opportunity to relieve the Holy Father of the great trouble he has had in managing their temporal affairs. It*means that the dogma of papal infallibility is accepted by the people of the States of the Church as signifying nothing, atleast in tem- poral affairs ; and it means that the peopie of Rome have an idea that their temporal and spiritual prosperity will be greatly promoted by the change in their temporal government ; that Rome, they think, as the capital of Italy, will soon become a flourishing and populouas city, and that all classes of the city and the States concerned will share in this prosperity. These are doubtless the opinions which have ope- rated to bring out this vote of fifty thousand to fifty for Rome as the Italian capital; for they are opinions universally entertained, and we have no doubt they will prove well founded. We congratulate the people of Rome on their transfer to young Italy, the people of Italy on their great acquisition, and the Holy Father on his release from his expensive and troublesome temporalities. Ovr Merxoro.oaica Pumosoruers will find an interesting subject for study in the con- nection hetween the wonderful display of the Northern Lights on the nights of the 24th, 25th and 26th of September and the extraor- dinary storms which have followed from North Carolina t¢ the British Possessions, ee tne aaa ee Rensin and the Treaty of Paris, The Eastern question looms up anew in an important telegram from St. Petersburg an- nouncing that the newspapers of. that city are unanimous in urging a settlement of the ques- tion which led to the Crimean war and the abrogation of the treaty of Paris which ree sulted from it, The same telegram ‘adds that, according to the diplomatists, Goriechakoff is bent upon speedily upsetting that treaty, and that this solution has probably been peaceably determined upon by him and Bismarck, What- ever way be the intention of the Russian gov~ ernment the Russians themselves are mani- festly disposed to seize the splendid oppor- tunity which the Franco-Prussian war now otfers for recovering the strip of territory in Bessarabia and the naval preponderance on the Black Sea which Russia lost by the terms of the treaty of 1856. But Great Britain, as one of the signers ofthat treaty—the fruit of a two years’ war that cost, at a rough estimate, eighteen hundred million dollars, and that was undertaken in 18564 by France, England, Sardinix and Turkey, on the ground that the existence of the latter empire and the equili- brium of Europe were endangered by Russia— Great Britain cannot fail to protest sgainst a revival of the Eastern question and a solution which might ultimately involve the loss.ofher remote possessions in the East. Thus the military movements and the political intrigues. now actively in progress in Russia may yet stimulate the British Ministry to change their attitude of neutrality, and may hasten the con- clusion of the terrible war which is being, waged between Prussia and France. The German Rachel. Miss Marie Seebach gave the finest per- formance last night at the Fourteenth Street theatre with which she has yet surprised and gratified our New York public. Her en- tire engagement, so far as it has run, has been an unbroken series of histrionic triumphs, but it was only on last evening that she could boast of an audience of number approaching the just claims of her distinguished merit, The house was handsomely filled, we are glad to say, with the flower of our literary, social and professional coteries, and beauty every- where deigned to illuminate the scene, The great ardiste was in her happiest mood, and ail the members of her company vied with her in efforts worthy not our halting pen, but the commendatory criticism of a Schlegel or a Jules Janin. 2 With the passing week Miss Seebach ven- tures into ‘fresh fields and pastures new” of histrionic effort. When we style them “new” we should add ‘“‘before American audienees,” but not in the record of her dazzlitig artistic career, for we have before us a long array of extracts from the leading journals of Europe narrating her invariable success in all the high and difficult parts that her remark- able collection includes, ‘Jano Eyre” on Wednesday and ‘Deborai” on Thursday night—are not these golden promises for the week? Never has the favor of our educated classes been more wotthily bestowed, and never have they enjoyed a loftier pleasure than the performances of Marie Seebach now offer them, Manager Grau deserves all the encouragement that that American appreciation can give. His | stage is, at this hour, alive with « revival oftrue art in the person of one of the love- liest, most gilted and noblest women whe have ever trod the boards to win, instruct aad elevate the public heart, TAKE THE Worp or A DEMoonat about these electioncering days, and one would think that Woodford, the republican candidate for Gov- ernor, is a fitter candidate for the State Prison than for the State gubernatorial chair; and take the word of a republican and one would think if Governor Hoffman be not personally as bad as need be for a politician he has friends who are fully up to high water mark in all that is corrupt and abominable. Between the two strangers must think we have had a delectable set of rulers, and that the race hag not yet died out. But there is a certain in- dividual in a certain place who is said to ba not half so black as he {is painted. Twenty Years Aco this fall the women’s rights movement was commenced in a women’s rights convention at Worces- ter, Mass., without distinction of sex or color, and this twentieth anniversary of the agitation i soon to be celebrated in this city. Let the os minded” labor with a will and pull al! together, and they may do more new for the cause in one day than they have doug in twenty years. Tae Prestpent is again in Washington, and an importapt Cabinet meeting is to be held to- doy. r te : 5 ey, “... MELLOW FEVER. The rreautte Authorities Battling with the PestilenceMoyg More Deaths ut the Qua- rautine Hospital=Brooklyn on the Deten- sive. ‘ ‘The health authorities are making the most ample preparations and taking every precaution to prevent any further spread of yellow fever, and there is good reason to assume that the dread contagion will be confined to the cases now under treatment. Gover- uor’s Island has been thoroughly disinfected and every case removed to Quarantine. The Board of Health held another secret session yesterday morning, and although the Commissioners Were unwilling to say anything concerning the sut- ject of their deliberations, it 18 understood that there was a careful discussion about the best method of confining the yellow fever within its present limits. Dr. Sternberger, United States , in charge of the patients from Governor’s Island at the West Bank hospital, reports to Dr. Carnochan thut the following patients have died since tast report:— John Futler, aged forty-five, Company A, James H. Green, aged thirty, band. ane Laucheaugh, aged thirty-eight, Com- pany B. Lucretia Alben, aged sixty, laundress. From present appearances it is feared that a num- ber of other patients, who were in a very low coniti- tion at the time of their transfer, will suceumd to the disease, No new cases were received yester- day, Yesterday morning Dr. George Cochran, Health OMicer of Brooklyn, promulgated an order forbidding any further commauication between Governor's Is- iaud and Brooklyn during the prevalance of the yeliow fever. The sanitary police stationed along thé river front were Instructed to enforce the order and not allow any boats to land from the infected island. About four o'clock two boats pnt off from the quar- antined post in question and headed for the toot of Degraw street, Here they were challenged by the police, and put back to Governor's is land, where they touched and _ aubsequeni- ly rowed over to New York. They lantoa at the latter place and came over to Brooklyn by the ferry. Upon learntng of this infringement upon tie order Dr. Carnochan last night, in company with oMcer Van Lawn of the sanitary squad, rowed over to the island. They were conducted to the head- quarters of Generai Netl, and the Doctor explained the nature of his viatt is being to request the co-op- eration of the General to enable him to prevent com- munication between the island and Brooklyn. The commandant aggured him that he would do all im his power to further the wishes of the Health Officer, of Brooklyn, and would prevent any further arrivais from or departures for the shores of the latter city. | ‘Thus assured Dr, Carnochan returae. gatiafled with, she requit of Bia MUNRIOD.