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KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — SOLMENCE AND And, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Aut, TRIPLE SHEE New York, Saturda. CONTENTS OF FO-DAY’S HERALD. Paar. 4—Atvertisoments, Adve’ ments. vance of th he Germans on Ly+ stachmeuts of f Numerous Points; Prasstan Repulse at Gisors and Retreat; d rising in th trom Al 1 The Heraid Special Report o} in the Cayit The Defences Str Ever; lation and a list Agitators ively at ‘al Review of the Situation in the ponence; edan as wustasin Burning Inekionts * urd Day of the Autumn Trotting Mecting—Tne Turf in England—Working Classes of Germany and France—News from St. Domingo—City Taxes--Marsh, the Mur- derer—Public Education in Jersey Cit: ve Jersey Items—A Wa@l Managed Plantatio: The Yellow Fever in New Orleans—Je:ome Park Shooting Allray—A Good Ground for Di- vores, G—Editoriala: Leading Article, The New German Contedcration—Amusement Announcements. ¥—Telegraphic News from ali Paris of tue World: Terrible Earthquake in the Southern Part of Italy; Many Lives Lost and Several Viil Englaha from W: ngton—Aimerican ness Noti fe in the Frozen and City I A Young ¥ ny Vou asfers—Death of chal and Commerciat f the yan Sut. Washed Shipping tnteliigence— Advertisements, VAC 12—Asiverti: Lazy Newspare | newspapers we know of about these days are the country press. Why don’t they wake wp to the im- portance of looking after the next Presidential election ? Tus FirtgeNtTH AMENDMENT has penetrated the intrenched camp of Masonry. The Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois has issued instruc- tions to all subordinate lodges to admit negroes and mulattoes. Bovrsakt Back AGary.—It reported that Bourbaki, from his late mysterious visit to England and the Empress Mugenie, has re- turned to and re-entered Metz. Has he im- portant information for Bazaine, who still ad- heres to the Emperor? Who can tell? is Tur Parat Zovaves have gone to fight for France. Here is another anomaly of the war. Napoleon refused to let the French troops remain in Rome to protect the Pope, and in the change of fortunes it is the Papal troops who go to France to protect the republic. Asp Sritt Anotuex fisbing schooner from Gloucester has been seized by the Canadians, It is almost heartrending to see how incan- tiously these people are running against But- nn ng NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1870. The New German Confoderhtion. The Franco-Prussian war, whatever be its merits and demerits, has accomplished one great work and made the work nearly perfect. Itis only a few years ago since Prussia was reckoned among the second or third rate Pow- ers. In the German Diet she was only one of many Powers who had a right to vote; her voting powers were on the highest platform; but, although she was equal to Austria in voting right and privilege, her position was, after all, seoondary. The Emperor of Austria was President of the Diet. The year 1866 revealed Prussia in a new character. In tho name of Germany she, along with Austria, drew a sharp distinction between Germans and Danes, or, ifthe broader term is preferred, Scandinavians. Poor Austria was blind to the Schleswig-Holstein mystery, and before the year 1866 was ended Austria was expelled from Germany, the Diet was destroyed, and Prussia leomed up as @ Power of the first mag- nitude. Sadowa marked the commencement of a new ora in the history of Europe. North Germany, willingly or unwillingly, became from that great day a unit, both in a political and military sense. South Germany entered into the unit not politically, but milita- rily. Prussia, after Sadowa, became, in point of fact, mistress of Germany. Sadowa fright- ened France; and, since the treaty of Prague, which Napoleon believed he helped to shape, France has been trembling, willing to fight, yet fearful of the consequences. The Luxem- bourg quesiion revealed French feeling, but it also revealed French timidity. Prussian was ready for war then, but France was ‘not. It has “been manifest to every thinking and reflecting man, since the Treaty of Prague was signed, that time only was necessary to bring France and Prussia into open collision. Since that date France has made demands upon Prassia; but every demand has been set aside. Napoleon first of all spoke of the Rhine provinces; but Bismarck would not fisten. He next spoke about Luxembourg ; but Bismarck, knowing his strength, was stubborn as before. Once again France had to yield. France, however, feeling and confessing her inability to meet Prussia in the field, begins to set her army in order. Mar- shal Niel did France good service; but the Marshal died, leaving the carrying out of his plans in other hands. The rest is known to every reader of the newspapers, The Span- ish throne was begging an occupant. Prim, in his despair, after doing his best to please the French people and the French Emperor, fell upon » German prince who was not un- willing to accept the Spanish throne. This German prince happened to be a Hohenzol- lern—a distant relative of the royal family of Prussia. This was too much for France to bear. A German prince, and he a Hohen- zollern, on the throne of Spain was making Prussia too strong, was a direct insult to France, and was not to be tolerated. We all know how Prussia yielded. We all know how the Hohenzollern was withdrawn. But we all know, too, that, in spite of Prussian courtesy, France declared war. The results of the war are before our readers, Prussia bas been gloriously triumphant. France has been most ignominiously defeated. The German armies to-tlay are besieging the Frencli capital, and South Germany seeks admission into the Confederation of the North. The result of the whole is that Germany has becorffe the largest and the most compacs nationality on the face of the globe. The new Confederation, which will im- mediately include no fewer than forty millions of souls, and which, when it gathers in, as it musi, all the outside Germans on her borders, will number a population of some sixty millions, gives us a striking and sug- gestive illustration of the new era which has dawned upon the world, The o!d-fushioned system of small nationalities and many gov- ernments is dead, or, if not dead, is dying fast. Up until the time of our American war it was not believed that large territory and large popntation could be held by one govern- ment. Oar war made an end of this doubt- ing. It was felt all over that, w we had nade acting in perfect progress. were a h the spirit moral of our Ww goveraments— istorical many, un- s made a bold and most successful stride in the right direction. In a few months, we caunot say years, Germany will be a unit which will imply a population of some sixty millions, The next great step will be the union of Scandinavia, taking in Den- mark, Sweden and Norway. The siep that wiil follow, if it is not first, will be the unifica- tion of the Latin races in Europ Great Britain is already talking of her difficulty and considering the propriety of a grand federal union which will embrace all her remote } Jencies—an arrangement which, if it can ed out, will secure to her her old posi- tion as mistress of the seas. The Germans, the Latins, tbe English-speaking peoples— these are to be the great Powers of the future. It is not our business to-day to say which will win, but, remembering the fuct that the whole of North America speaks the English tongue, we cannot help arriving at the conclusion that the time is approaching when there will be only one grand government and one common language, which is more likely to be English than any olaev. The world situation is so new that no one can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth. How Far Has Wrwi1am M. in his pipelaying expedition ont W not unlikely tat the tu é he will learn. RED GONE ? Lis the less A German PoLar Expepition.—Our Berlin correspondent furnishes a highly interesting narrative of the second German Polar expedi- tion which left Bremerhaven in two vessels— The War Situation. Our special correspondent inside Paris fur- nishes an interesting account of the effect of the siege on the volatile inhabitants. They are ennuied and wearied, but they show no sign of a wish to surrender. Breadstuffs are plenty but meats are scarce; the cafés and shops keep open and drive a flourishing busi- ness, and ammunition is abundant. The heavy guns of the Prussians are nearly all in position, and it is probable when the bombardment com- mences that it will be a persistent and simul- taneous rain of iron from all sides of the city. Outside the immediate neighborhood of the siege operations the usual desultory . ekir- mishing between the ublans and the National Guard is reported. There seems to have been some strong opposition presented in the neighborhood of Rouen, and the Prussian cavalry at Gisors were repulsed in their attempt to form the second cordon about the investing line at Paris. They are also said to have been compelled to evacuate Epernay, another of the links in the cordon, and to have been driven from the neighborhoood of Tours, falling back on Etampes, a town near Ver- sailles. These cheering successes are attri- buted to the National Guards and the Mobiles, who are said to be rising enthusiastically. The march on Lyons in the East is sorely harassed by the Franc-tireurs, who hold the mountain passes. These achievements give a refreshing indication that there is life left yet in the French people, but how they can help retrieve the disaster pending at Paris is not 80 easily seen. Skirmishing will not assist besteged Paris, Idle manceavring in small bodies will not retrieve the fortunes of France. Nothing will do it but aa overwhelming mass of Frenchmen, an army of the people, moving on in solid column like a resistless flood, not to be stayed or turned aside by a few uhlans, which shall roll itself like a huge wave against the wall of Germans surrounding the city and sweep it away. Bree ‘ —_- French Amperial Intrigues in England. Tt is said that the friends and adherents of Napoleon are very busy tu England looking after his interests, and that M. Rouher and others are in almost daily communication with the Empress Eugénie at her retired home in Chiselhurst, This looks, of course, to a still lingering hope cf the restoration of the Napo- leon dynasty out of the present mixed condi- tion of things in France. Those who still hope for such a possibility are willing to intrigue upon the slightest basis to bring about that result, as the finale of the ill-con- sidered war, the disaster of Woerth and the capifulation at Sedan. While there may not be the remotest chance of such a solution to the vexed question of how the war is to bo brought to an end, what is to become of France and how Germany is to dispose of herself in the muster roll of nations when the war is over, it must be consoling to the man who smokes his cigarettes and takes his constitutional walks and looks quite at ease at Wilhelms- hohe to know that he is not altogether forgot- ten in his regal prison house. We are dis- posed to doubt, however, that any serious plottings are on foot in England for the restoration of the imperial dynasty, and we are certain thatthe Bonapartists are only wasting labor if they are engaged in such intrigues, Our Docks and Piers, A standing reproach to this great maritime city have always been our docks and piers. Instead of being a public convenience they are a public nuisance. Instead of affording accommodation to our shipping they are powerful auxiliaries of filth and pestilence. There is hardly a pier on the two water fronts on which business can be conducted with any degree of safety or which offers proper facili- ties for landing cargoes. For years past they have been tumbling to pieces, rotting away like dead trees. They have been patched up, it is true, now and then, for temporary pur- poses, but without any permanent advantage While such is the condition of the piers the docks which lie between them, we know, are the receptacles of the city seworage and the concomitant odors and extracts that flow in that delightful and not very limpid stream. In brief, our docks and piers are a disgrace to the metropolis of Av and they have been so for twenty years. The last Legisla- ture gave ample power to the Commissioners of Docks to put all these matters to rights, They appear to have gone to work ia earnest as far as receiving plans and specifications goes. They have now before them—presented at a late meeting—plaus bold enough and large enough to give us a complete system of dock- age all round the city. No doubt they will have, and probably have under consideration, many other excellent plans, but it seems that the one recently suggested embraces a good deal of the elements for an admirable system. The Dock Commissioners should remember that no patchwork, no tinkering of a pier here and there will suffice. The work shonld be done completely, from the Battery to Harlem river, and from Spuyten Duyvil down to pier No. 1 on the North river. The work will be costly. It may take some time to accomplish it; but it is better to do it well at once and be done with it. There is certainly no public work in the city so much needed. Our Forrien Corresross published in another part of the Herarp this morning, furnishes our readers with many interesting incidents of the war now progressing be- tween two of the most powerful nations of Europe. From one of the Prussian advanced outposts a2 Hkraip special correspondent details the progress of the siege of Montmedy. We have also a description of the inn at which the ex-Emperor of France stayed for repose and refreshment the second day after his captivity. Strange enough, the hostelry is Jer, He will get a full head of steam on pre- sently, and then beware! Canada. Lite Beroicm deserves credit. She has kept her soil sacred during this dreadful war between her right and left hand neighbors, and she has kept out of mischief a good many of the soldiers on both sides, whom she disarmed. She is now preparing to protect her berders from the Prussians, who are moving to besiege Méivres, and she is also engaged in quell- ing mutinies among the French prisoners in her hands. Altogether she is entitled to pre- sent a heavy bill of damages to the successful pelligerso the Hansa aud the Germania—in the summer of 1869. The Germania returned on the 11th of September last, the Hansa having been crushed in an ice drift. The sufferings and experiences of the crew of the Hansa, who encamped on an ice field seven miles in circum- ference, where they spont two hundred and thirty-seven days, read like a repetition of the Kane and Hayes expeditions. The Captain eulogizes the condact of his men, who never gave him the least reason for complaint. The results of the expedition are of great scientific importance, and are set out, in datail in the correapopdence. kept by a man bearing the same name as | that of the Prime Minister of the Em- peror’s Cabinet. A description of a visit to Sedan, an account of the troops who escaped. from Metz, as well as a few more particulars regarding tho burning of the village of Bazailles by the Prussian troops, form a portion of the most attractive features of our Huropean cor- respondence. Coming nearer bome, we have a letter from St. Domingo, showing some of the workings of affairs in the Dominican re- public, as well as explaining matters which to some extent will indicate the channel in which the current of Europeag as well as other oppesition runs. in Opera~The Stockhelders. An evening contemporary, the Muil, says Miss Nilsson truly that in this community ‘‘there is a grow- | great reviews—the quarterly reviews partiou- ing dostre to hear Miss Nilsson in opera,” that | jarly—have been in modern times, and since ‘the glimpses which we get of her remarkable histrionic powers are just sufficient to excite an impatient curiosity to see her with all the | Britain and America, raised up @ galaxy of | | advantages of costume and stage surround- ings.” It further appears, from the same authority, that ‘‘Mr. Strakosch says he would engage the Academy of Music, but for the fact that the stockholders insist on their old prtvi- lege of the best seats, and the Haran calls the stockholders by naughty names because they will not magnanimously give up their legal rights.” But, continues our aforesaid contem- porary, ‘“‘so far as they are concerned, we should say that they had better pay for their seats than to let the season elapse without operatic performances in their splendid audito- rium ;” and to “the Heratp and other critics of the stockholders we would say that if there are two hundred and fifty other gentlemen in New York who will contribute as liberally towards the expense of the Italian opera in this city as the much-abused stockholders have done, there will be no further trouble about a Nilsson season.” This does not meet the case. Those two hundred and fifty of the best seats reserved by the stockholders for themselves are tho diffi- culty. Here, too, lits the main secret of the many failures of the opera at this Academy. The public do not like the idea of being invited to the second table at first table prices. They do not like to be distributed around in the back seats, with the positive refusal of certain front seats on any terms because they are re- served to the stockholders. The public, in fact, do not like the notion of supporting an establishment for the exhibition in its best seats of its two hundred and fifty stockholders Ream Rig ISHS. Ana Frain Sapenn £0 aeenOn. The reservation of these host seats, or of any seats, to the stockholders, as their exclusive property, in a purely business view was a blunder from the beginning. Nor can the Academy be turned to any profit in Italian opera while this blunder is persisted in. Let the stockholders, on the other hand, invite Mr. Strakosch to a contract for a Nilsson operatic season, embracing the absolute surrender of those reserved seats, and the experiment, we are sure, will not only be a great success, but the beginning of a series of successes under the same system. Let the public know that there is no exclusive set in the Academy which they must recognize, but that the public and the stockholders meet there on the American platform of equality, and the hitherto unfortu- nate Academy of Music will cease to be a losing concern to the stockholders and tho house of ruin to operatic managers. The Mormon Reformers. On the eve of the assembling of the fortieth semi-annual conference of the orthodox Mor- mon Church we have the announcement that the saints who have seceded from the original organization have laid the foundation of a new church edifice in the city of Salt Lake. Just about a year ago this new organization sprang into life. Its leaders aynouneed that celestial beings, clothed in all the spotless splendor of the” eternal world, appeared io them and commissioned them to proclaim, by authority of the ‘controlling powers,” a kind of democratic universalian system of religion which would attract all mankind within its influence by the potent power of love and thus evangelize the world. Thongh the gods dic- tated this divine decree they provided that if anything which they revealed did not meet with the approval of the people the gods would have to stand aside and permit the judgment of the people to have sway. Vox populi, vox Dei is the idea which these Mormon reformers say the heavens have announced to them; and it isa very sensible idea. The new-fangled faith is a species of rationalism which has no sympa- thy with cither ancient or modern superstitions, It believes in the Bible only so far as human reason can commend it, denies the doctrine of the Atonement as that doctrine is generally understood by orthodox Christians, views the character and mission of Jesus very mach as they are portrayed by Renan, believes in spirit- ual manifestations in their highest sense, anni- hilates the Devil, quenches fire and brimstone, and holds out to all mankind the comforting assurance of universal salvation, endless pro- gression and finally eternal exaltation. This, however, can ouly be attained by a life of per- fect purity. Sd far as we have seen the principles of ! these Mormon reformers are in the main quite in accordance with the growing tendency to- ward free thought among our people. Above all they are opposed to Brigham Young and the selfish system of theocratic rule by which he has governed the saints in Mormondom. The new church which they essay to raise be- fore the eyes of Brigham Young and _ his apostles is called the “Church of Zion.” The preaching of these new apostles has already made a breach in: the walls of super- stition which have so long kept the saints secluded from the outside world and the in- fluence of advancing civilization. The Metho- dist and the Episcopalian missions, combined with the efforts of these ‘reconstructed Mor- mons,” and the increasing contact with the Gentiles, who are now being attracted to Utah by the opening of the mines, are all having their proper and legitimate effect ; and Brigham Young and his polygamic elders, with their superstitious and swindled “wives,” will soon have to stop their perni- cious practices or seek another asylum of fancied security—perhaps in wilder regions of the Rocky Monntains. Aroner HINEs, a negro, was hanged at Prince Edward Court House, Va., yester- day. The performance went off very smoothly throughout, Suppose Heyxpricks, o¥ InpiaNa, should be the demooratic nominee for the Presidency in 1872, as he is, from present appearances, likely to be, would he enforce our claims against Great Britain? No clearer demand was ever made by one governmeut upon another than the claims the American people have upon the government of England. Hendricks as President, from the State of Indiana, and Morton, from the same State, as Ambassador from Washington to the Court of St, James, would make a powerful team in the canal of toe Gugeh drmaatae -TRIPLE SHEET. Academy | Quauonce of the Great Reviews in Create ooo i, SE .. putty Séatherm Agricultural Congress. In tho official monthly report of the Depart- ment of Agriculture we find the announce- ment that a ciroular issued by a joint commit- tee of the Cotton States Mechanics’ and Agricultural Fair Association and the Augasta Board of Trade proposes to Southern agriculturists the formation of a central organization or ‘‘agricultural congress” for the advancement of their interests, including the improvement of the Iabor system, the encouragement of foreign immigration and the diversification of the agricultural products of the South, The initiatory meeting of this general association is appointed at Augysta, Ga., Oct. 26, 1870, during the fair of the Cotton States Mechanics’ and Agricultural Fair Association. State and county agricul- tural societies are invited to sond delezates. This is a movement in the right direction. We hope to see it successfully carried out. In no better manner can the South secure the position she is fast regaining as one of the most prosperous portions of the country. With the untold resources at her command the South is entitled to that position, and what- ing Linrature, It is a fact worthy of special notice that the they first appeared, the chief creators and pro- moters of literature, They have, both in Great fine writers in works of imagination, poetry, history, politics and philosophy. This trath may not be seen so readily, perhaps, by peo- ple generally as by tho literary man or the stu- dent of literary history. The influence of the daily journals is more generally perceived and acknowledged. But, though the reviews have a limited circulation comparatively to that of the newspapers, or even to some of the maga- zines, they are read by scholars and carefully studied by writers. The effect they first pro- duce is in the closet and on the minds of great thinkers. Then it extends through this medium to the mass of the people and through all the chanvels of thought. We refor particularly to the British and American reviews ; for, while the French, Ger- man and other European nations have imitated these in a moagure, they still hold the peculiar and high character claimed for them. In originality, analytical power, critical acumen and classical taste, they have stood and yet stand pre-eminent. The Hdinburgh Review may properly be called the progenitor of them all, The first number appeared October 10, 1802, Francis Jeffrey, a Scotch judge and famous critic and essayist, was the founder. It was at the social gatherings of Jeffrey and several other prominent goung whigs, among whom were Brougham, Sydney Smith Horner, that this review was suggested and planned. The remarkable ability with which it was conducted was soon perceived, and its power felt. It stirred up a host of able writers and ntazonists, It fearlessly dig- sected the literary pretensions of the authors of that day, and it s2emed to revel almost ma- liciously in the agony of its victims. Ifit were aigt always just it did very much to promote literature and the finest writing by its search- ing, bold and scathing criticism. The attack on the **Odes and Epistles” of Moore led toa duel between that poet and Jeffrey. From the assault on Byron sprang his bitier response, “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.” A like war was waged for some time against Werdsworth, Southey and Coleridge. It was the afility and criticism thus displayed that sharpened ‘the intellects and improved the writings of even those authors who were assailed, Had it not been for the Hdinburgh Review these famous poets probably would never have become so great. Indeed, it was the creator chiefly of the literature of that day and long afterward. The same remarks will apply to the North American Review and the literature of this country. This appeared fifteen years later thanthe Hdinburgh Review. Boston, where the | North American was published, became the seat of American literature from that time, fact, this review had such an influence upon the New England mind that nearly all our American literature comes from that section of the country. In Mr. Tudor, its first editor, was, like Jeffrey, an original thinker, a keen critic and an able writer. Onr school of poets, historians and other anthors sprang from and was cultivated by this American review, just as that of Great Britain, referred to, arose from the estab- lishment of Jeffrey’s quarterly. Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Bryant, Lowell, Emerson, Pres- cott, Baucroft, Channing and others were the natural product of the classic ability, criticism nd superior style of writing of the orth American, More recently—that is, about ten years ago—another American quarterly review was started. It followed the course of empire and population and found its proper sphere iu New York. A young Irishman, a fine classic scholar and graduate of Trinity College, Dub- lin, though long a citizen of the United States and fally imbued with American ideas, is the presiding genius over this Nu onal Quarterly Review. This gentleman is Mr. Edward I. Sears. He commenced his career with the daily public press, aad has now found, undoubtedly, the vocation for which he is well suited. His review shows that he has talents of the first order for the work. His mind is stored with the Greek and Roman classics, from which nearly ali modern litera- ture sprang, and which gives the most finished style. Looking at the character of the Va- tional Quarterly Review, and at the progress and circumstances of the times, Mr. Sears may be mainly instrumental in developing in the North and South a new school of writers, critics. The war we have just passed through, the wonderful events of the time, and the quickening power of the modern agents of civilization, caunot but develop in this country great mental activity and intellectual culture, We see already the dawn of this state of things. In journalism, as in magazine litera- ture, and in various ways, particularly among the young men, we perceive a growth that may probably place America in the first rank of literary nations. Mr. Sears is in a position to do much in bringing this about. He is, as was said, well qualified. The National Quar- terly Review may become to this section of the country what the North American was to New England and what the Zdinburgh Re- ctiew was to the literature of Great Britain, GENERAL C . the Feniaa hero, who, being unable to die at the head of his army, was captured by a United States marshal, is to be pardoned by the President. This is too hard on O'Neill. Ife ought at least be al- lowed the privilege of remaining where he is until his acts in Canada are forgotten by the Irish people who furnished him with funds, Srxry Miniions or Dornars is the aggre- gate amount of assessments to carry the next (1872) Presidential campaign for the demo- crats, That amount, if not already subscribed, will be laid down .on the counter by the time the nomination is made. DreapFuL EARTHQUAKE IN Lraty.—<A tele- graphic despatch from London yesterday announces that a terrible calamity has visited the Calabrians. The southern portion of the Italian peninsula has suffered from an earth- quake by which many lives werg lost agd sev- companion an descending love fills the New Yestaiént, ‘There are TMCS WH CHTISLIANS 164H OH the bosom of Christ, but those are rare hours. Our life 1s usually like a dungeon with @ slit in the wall, and a iwilight is ail we get of the sun that fills glory. stimulated by I miled with noble ambition by his teacher's ten- street than to live among the Arabs, sented a report bicluding a resolution asking aut frou the genera’ government. of poets, fistorians, novelists, essayists and: ever tends to develop her wealth should be encouraged by every possible means. rey eae BEECHER IN THE LECTURE ROOM. Sinners CGike Dark Lanterns-Wall Street Bulle and Bears Worse Than Arabs. Plymouth church lecture room was crowded ta overfowing fast night, there being, in Addition to the pees Aadiencé, a large number of mssionaries, with cir patrons, who took the opportunity to spy out the treasure of the Beecher domain. The famous pastor was Inspired by the large congregation or by the missionary meetings he had attended during the week to unusual brilliancy, and filus- trated the subject of loye in ova pictorial way. He sald that the disciples associated =with Christ as with a genial friend, that Christ's familiar con- the heavens with It is the pariee of Christ's disciples to be is love and patience, as a boy watehfal care. A lantern without a light in it is worthless, but put imiside a tal jow candle only and it is fooded with light, and your path is clear before you. A nan without the radiance of love ts like that lan- tern before it is illuminated. People become haud- somer after they are converted. There ts one recije that cores all Our sickness. Love is the universal want of the world, Love enough ana you can over- come all, Love ts the golden key that unlocks inan's complicated destiny. have an easier life than clergymen and peopie who remain in their own lands—they have the advan- He thought that missionaries tage. {tis harder for a man to do business in Wall We who are at home necd missionaries to pray torus. ‘The cares of life beguile--they lower our tone—and if we were shut out irom these things we could live more easily a Christian life, SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONVENTION. A Vast System of Internal Improvements Mapped Out—Water Communication Be- tween the Mississippi and the Atluntic— National Character of the Association. GINCINNATI, Oct. 7, 1870. ‘The Southern Commercial Convention met at half. past nine o'clock A, M. But few members were on the floor. a resolution providing for @ committee to report ut the next Convention whether the raliroads will not pass students to the colleges at half fare was tabled, After prayer by the Rev, Dr. M. T. Briggs, Mr. Bowman, of Kentucky, offerod a resolution, which was adopted, providing forthe appointinent ofacomnuttee on educatiou to report at the next meeting. General BANKS presented a resolution providing for the appointment of a commiitee to present to Congress the procee itt regard to the Souther Pacific Railroad, 8 of the Convention with Adoptel Mr. Bryson, ot Missouri, chatrman of tae Comm tee on Perminent Levees on the Mississippi, Mr. REGAN Opposed the resolution. He said the Convention was flied with wishes for the atd of States and municipalities, but could do nothing for themselves. What was the use of talking about State rights. When Uncle sam sends a brigadier wo reconstruct the people they object; but when he sends an br sigsed with au appropriation beni him the people will receive lum with open arms. The report was adopted, Mr. BURWELL, of Louisiana, offered a resolu! declaring New Orieans entitied to the same or lar subventions ior postal steai service to fore! ports as Have been extended to Atlantic ports. lerred to @ committee, ‘fhe Committee on Continuous Water Line Com- munication between the Mississippi and Atlantic Seaboard presented a report in fayor of tie un- taxed water communication from the Ohio river to the seaboard, and requested the committee to memorialize Congress ln regard to the compiction of ihe Jawes river and Kanawha canal survey, with a view of furnishing a canal 100 feet wide and eigut feet deep, carrying boats of 500 tons, Adopted, Mr. CoLu, of Tennessee, oiered a report from tie Special Committee on Railroads, recommending uul- formity of gauge and the removal of all obatruc- tions to free passage over ail roads; asking of the general government most liberal legisiation; ¢ pressing the sympathy oi the Convention with t Northera facilic Raiivoa declaring tie expediency and justice alike of the di nd for tli me atd to the Southern Pacific Ratlroad as has been accorded to the Northern; urging ou Congress the rouew of grants to railroads in the south that have lay by the late war, and declaring 1m favor of p img unnecessary obstruciious to rallroads rivers. Adopted. as A communication from President Grant “declining an invitation to be present Was read, The special order was taken up, which was a re- to change the name of the Convention to tional Commercial Convention.”? PERS, Of Georgia, explained his previous in regard to the matier, by saying thar ie acied with a view to ovtain an interchange of (deas. He had been pleased to hear such manly utterances as had already been heard on thisiloor, {t gave him pleasure to see here evidences of true national uuity, and he tuvored the change of name. Mr. Macone, of Arkansas, thought it proper that the suggestion should come from the South. It was etamently proper that, having assumed a national character, the sectional and objectionabic name should be dropped. Mr. BRIEN, of Tennessee, stated the history of the Convention from its origin at Gristol to the present, und deciared the eminent propriety of a change of name. A vote was taken by the members rising, and ananimous m favor of a change of name. nouncement was received with applause. Mr. Forescuy, of ‘Texas, reported tn favor -iatitudinal roads from Buffalo to Charies jnaw via Cincinnau, to Savannah, Cnli oulsville, to Mopile, Marquette and to New ( leans. He said the demands of coinmerce are not along the latitudes, but across them from oue cluinate to another. Report adopted. My. Cook, of Ohio, from the committee to the time and place for the next copvention, repor in Javor of Baltimore, and on the third Monday in Sep- vember, 1871. Resolutions of \thanks to President Garrett and Vice President Banks were passed unanimously. General BANKS replied, saying he was greatly im- preased with the importance of the action of this Convention and would speak everywhere in its honor. He suggested that the late war originated outside of parties, aud the removal of its conse- quences and the adoption ot principles that would render separation hereaster linpossible, must also originate outside of partizan organizations. ‘The report asking Congress to charter a road from St. Lous via Louisville and Kuoxville to Norfolk was reconsidered, and, afier debate, adopted. Resolutions asking emigration societies and others to extend ald to the thousands of German artizans thrown out of employment by the war ig Brance, with a view of introducing them and theirMdustrics. into this country, were adopted. President Garrett returned thanks to the Convei tion for the courtesy extended to him, and sa rarely tad so much good been done in so Httle tine. ‘The influence must be tor good. Not one word of bitterness had fallen from the lips ofany one. ‘This is because the sentiments of the people have been uttered free from the influence of party. The peopie manst recognize this as a genuine expression of the true feeling of the whole country. He olosea by weicomtng the next convention to the city of Balti more, The Convention then adjourned, to meet next year 1m Baltimore. ‘The banquet will take place to-night at Pike’s Hall. Ms Ri ‘The Board of Pole met yesterday, when the fol- lowing transfers of sergeants were made:—Rov- bins, Eighth to Tenth precinet; Westervelt, Tenth to Eighth preeinct; Delamater, Seventeenth to Twenty tuird precinct; Buckley, Twenty-inird to Seven- teenth precinct; Nicholson, Third to Eightoenth precingt, and Brown, Eighteenth to Third precinct. Commissioner Brennan announced that ho ten- dered his resignation to Mayor Hail yesterday, an after three o’clock bis convection with the Poll Department would cease. Major Wm. H, Corsa MACARUOK A WO COMA OMG Wad KemRQede