The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, mannan JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR. Serene XXXv. AMUSEMENTS ATS. TO-MORROW EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. THe PANTOMIME OF Wee Wink WINSIE. STRINWAY HALL, Fourteenth streot.—Grawp NILsgon Concent, BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.-OLp Resaw. MAN OF New York—FoorMarks 18 THE SNOW, vIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, | ‘Twenty-fourth Maw anny Wire. ROOTH’S THEATRE, Wd st,, belwoen Sth ana Gin ave, — Riv Van WovELE. HM STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— ACH Ad JANE Eyag, LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—MAson DE -LAW-SON-AM-BLE-ATL ondway and 13th ALLACK’S TREATRE, Two Ross. street. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth strect—Janavscuux as Deboxau. RDEN, Broadway.—LittLe N&LL AND THR GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 88d at.—Orzna Yourrz—Lu Pztir Faust. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 20h st,—Perform- ances every alternoon and evening. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Vanretr Enren- wAINMENT—LuoRETIA Borgia, M.D. MRS, FP. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya,— Lapy AupLgy's SECRET. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF NUSIC.—Lovrsa KELLOGG IN GRAND ConcEnr. TONY PASTOR'S WELT EN TRRTAINMEN'T. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comze Vooat- 1sM, NE@ZO AoTs, 26. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL. 685 Breadway.— Ne@uo MiNSTRELSY, FARORS, BUB'R6QUES, £0. RA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- KELLY & LEQN’S MINSTRELS, No, 805 Broadway.— Tax ONLY Lron—Swaerest OF WILLIAMS, kc. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Nrgxe Mrn- STRELSY, BURLEBQUES, £0. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE——Wrton, flocnEs & Watrr’s MineTs.s—Vinginra Pagtines, 4c. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin- on ts,—De. Couny’s GrRat DioRAMA OF IRELAND. NEW YORK GIRCUS, Fourteenth street.Scenzs 1 rae Cimcus, AcROBATS, £0. CAN INSTITUTE EXUIBITION.—Eurien d avenue und Sixty-third street, DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOLENCE AND Aut. “New hscad ‘Sanday, October 9, 1870. "CONTEXTS OF TO-DAY’S ‘HERALD. Pace. t—Advortizements. B—Adve ments. 3—Paris 8 Fire on the Prussian Outposts he Ports; The Bombardment of the City n Next Week; Sharp Engagement in $; German Attack on the Fortress of New Suisach; German Forces Pus sting into Normandy—Obituary—Murders tn Massachu- setts —Insan'ty of the ex-Saniiary Supertuten- dent of Brooklyn. 4—The American Jockey Club: Second Day of the Pall Meeting at Jerome Park; A Magnificent Display; Urilant Gathering of Spectators at the Cot ; Scenes at the Club. House, the Grand nad and the Quarterst Splendia kaces—Narrayanset Park of the Autiun Trotting Meeting—Pest the Bay—The Cassidy ‘Alleged Muarder—Fires for Lust Week. 5—Financial and Commercial Reports—Another Misplaced Switch—The Grand German Fair. G—Editorials: Leading rticle on Our Era and the Growth and Development of Nationalities— Washington: Important Action by the Cabinet; Proclamation by the President—Amusement Announcements. ¢ News from all Parts of the World: ; Cardinal Colien’s Denunciation of Victor Hmavuel and Louis Napoteon—Paris Last Demi-monde sensation— Academy of Music, Clara Louisa iy Fae Accident on the North River—A Charit aur in Washington—Diamond Robbery in iyn—Shipping Intelligence—Lusiness WoMges R—Adyvertisements. O—Advertisements. 10—State and City Politica: the Relative ation of the Contestants in the Field fre a New Stand point—Religious Intelligence—Marrlages and Deaths—Advercisements. {1—Advertisements, 12—Adverusements. MASSACHUSETTS NISHES dreadful record of horrors this morning. Mrs. Bick- ford and her son, the latter aged ten, were found dead in their beds at Haverhill yester- day morainz, and all the circumstances of the case lead to the conclusion that the woman killed her son and then inched in a fit of insanity. a Tue Frencu Laps’ Bazaar.—The French ladies resident in New York, together with a number of American ladies, have organized a plan for a ‘National Bazaar,” or fair, the pro- ceeds of which are to be devoted to the relief of the wounded and of other victims of the terrible war now raging in France. Charity knows no neutrality laws that can prevent the heartiest sympathy and most active co-operation for so noble a purpose. Doubtless a liberal response will be made by the community to the appeal of the French ladies and their American friends, Crry Ramroap Stems are variable in their termination. It appears that the Fourth Avenue Railroad Company compelied the drivers on that road to submit to their terms by employing other men from the conntry to take their places, while the “Delt” Railroad Company had to strike their colors to the strikers by consenting to the demand for a fewer number of hours work in the day. If the green hands on the Fi h Avenne line do not damage more horses and smash more cars than the reduction in wages is worth the com- pany will be Moth ees OLINES, a8 we have it reported, the offer of Bazaine to use his army for the restoration of Napoleon, if pernfitted to march out of Metz with the honors of war. The Prussian Premier may not doubt Bazaine, but is not so sure of the imperial loyalty of his army. Bourbaki’s mission from Metz to the Empress in England, and back ogain to Metz, will therefore probably go for nothing, and Bazaine will probably be compelled to surren- der his army as prisoners of war. Bismarck evidently wants to have nothing to do with such French complication as that suggested in connection with Bourbaki, the Empire and Bazaine. From Present Appearances, if the Ger- mans do not soon begin the attack upon Paris, Paris will make a general attack upon the Ger- mans. Von Moltke’s plans have worked won- derfully for the Germans so far; but the win- tor is approaching, and the rains and mud of France may prove more than a match for Von Moltke. Even he, perhaps, from the difiicul- ties and dangers of a winter campaign around Paris, is beginning t: of the advantages of the strategy of pe At all events, in the prosecution of the war, he is now, with every day’s delay, strengthening the arms of Praoce and weakening tha army of Germany. j Var Era and the Growth and Devolep- ment of Nationalities. We live in an age which, in many respects, is peculiar, No such age has ever existed before. It is the age of the telegraph, the newspaper, the railroad, the steam engine and the thousand and many things of which the steam engine is the parent. It isthe age of quick life, of broad views, of public opinion, ofcommon sense, In this age we make little of time, little of distance, lilile of language, litte of race, little of religion. We have.con- qnered time, for we live years in minutes. We have conquered distance, for mountains and oceans are no longer barriers to thought and the interchange of ideas, We have con- quered race, for the love of race is yielding to the love of humanity. We have conquered language, for the railroad and the telegraph have made a common language partly a fact and mainly a necessity. We have conquered religion, for on the battle fields of the present Christian soldiers keep watch and ward to give their Jewish comrades, if possible, a religious holiday... All old things are rapidly dying away. It is our happy privilege to stand upon the confines of a great and glorious past and of a greater and still more glorious future. Within the memory of men still living what wondrous changes have taken place! Men still young, scarcely out of their teens, remem- ber when Italy and Germany were very much, geographically, like a respectable Brussels carpet—every square foot representing a'sepa- rate kingdom or a separate duchy. To-day the duchies and kingdoms of Italy and Ger- many have disappeared, and Italy has become a mighty kingdom and Germany has declared herself the most mighty of all existing con- federations. Living yet under the shadow of the Ecumenical Council wnd alongside of the fact of Papal infallibility, we see the last throes of the temporal power of the Pope- dom—a temporal power which goes back to the days of the Great Charles, the restorer of the Western Empire. The sudden and forceful uprise of Ger- many, foliowing so rapidly on the unification of Italy, or rather occurring simultancously | with it, suggests some thoughts which are not wholly without importance. No man who properly belongs to this generation and who has at all been attentive to the current of events and the tone of public sentiment, can have had any difficulty in foresecing that Italy and Germany were bound to become units so soon as the sinful barriers which restrained them were removed. Thinking men could not hinder themselves from being carrigd back in memory to the times that immediately fol- lowed the downfall of the empire of Charle- magne. The Goths and Huns and Vandals ruined the western section ef the empire of the Romans. But the Goths and the Huns and the Vandals could not build up—they could only destroy. It required the genius of the great Frankish monarch to gather up the fragments of the defunct empire and once more to give them unity. The Western Em- pire, however, which Charlemagne called into life depended too much on the genius of one Man. When Charlemagne died the second Western Empire fell. Europe became chaos once more. The Popedom alone gave apparent unity to the Western World. The German empire struggled to maintain the memory of the great King. France fought for a separate and independent existence. Spain awoke and found her beautiful country largely in the hands of the Mussulmans, and con- tended for her soil, her religion, her liberty. Italy, under the shadow of the Papal See and by meaus of her commerce and her happy muni- cipal institutions waxed wealthy, developed art and science, and blazed with literary and artistic glory. The Tassos, the Medicis, the Michael Angelos, the Machbiavellis ‘and the rest make us look ‘back with pride to the renaissant period of Italian history. Eng- land meanwhile had fought down her heptar- chy and become one of the great and growing States of Europe. It was not, however, until the sixteenth century that Europe really awoke from the sleep of the Middle Ages. Intelligence had grown and spread, The art of printing had made more or less common the knowledge of the great and glorious, but long buried past. Literature burst forth in Spain, in Italy, in France, in England. As yet there was no newspaper, and as yet the pulpit was ignorant, But the theatre had once more become the means of giving instruction to the masses. Spain, under Charles the Fifth, France, under Louis the Thirteenth and his great Minister Richelieu, England, under Eliza~ beth, reverted the tendencies of the times. The growth of power in England, in Spain, in France is traceable more or less directly to the growth of intelligence among the people. The thirty years’ war was a fight between the dying past and the uprising forceful present. The youthful forces won and Europe took a new shape and entered upon a newlife. Spain had become a great kingdom and could make the proud boast that the sun never set upon her territory. France had so developed under Richelieu and Mazarin that she was recog- nized as the great pivotal Power of Europe. England in her insular position had gradually grown to be a Power of the first magnitude ; and after the defeat of the Armada began to put Spain aside as the first naval Power. Great Britain had become a unit, Spain had become a unit. France had become a unit, But Germany, spite of the so-called German empire, and Italy spite of all her genius, remained disunited and weak. The wars of the First Napoleon give us a new point of departure in Europe. He saw what Italy wanted, and he gave Italy unity, He saw what Germany wanted, and he next attempted to give Germany unity. In. the South, however, he was more successful than he was inthe North. For a time Italy was one; but Italy was a dependency of the French empire. Germany would not have the unity which Napoleon was willing to give her. Napoleon and his grand but flimsy fabric fell, and the fall was great; but Ger- many was not yet a unit and Italy became once more a prey to division. Since 1815 we have had to wait for a united Italy and for the unification of Germany. The waiting has been long and weary. It was not possible that the great Italian people, who had preserved for Europe all the light of all the past, and who had given Europe the full benefit of a fresh point of departure, or that the great German people who for ages had been gaibering ua NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, UUTUBER 9, 1870,—TRIPLE thought and giving it forth in Important forms, through her Goethes end Sobillers, and Kor- ners and Kotzebues, and Kants and Sohillings— it was not possible that either of those great nationalities could be kept divided. We have seen the unification of both. But the unifica- tion of Italy and the unification of Germanys looked at in tho light of our era, polat toa }grander union, which will know no differenco in race, in language or in religion. American Noutrality=An Important Pro- clamation. At an extraordinary session of the Cabinet at, Washington yesterday the Secretary of State submitted the draft of a proclamation, which was approved and immediately issued by the President for the information of all concerned, touching the obligations, at this important crisis in European affairs, of American neutrality, The proclamation pro- hibits the use of the bays, waters and harbers of the United States for purposes of war by belligerents (France and Prussia, for ex- amples), and declares that ships of war of eithér belligerent shall not leave any port of the United States within twenty-four hours aftet the departure of a merchantman of either belligerent; that war vessels of either bellige- rent shall not remain longer than twenty-four hours in any port of the United States unless for needed repairs and supplies; and that no vessel of war of either belligerent, after having entered one of our ports and left it, shall re-enter such port or another of the United States until after having visited a European port ora port of ils own government. The making of our ports depots for supplying materials of war to belligerents is also pro- hibited, and the proper officers are instructed to carry out this proclamation. This is substantially the law of noutrality proclaimed, but not impartially enforced, by England as her law of neutrality between the United States and the ‘‘so-called Confederate States” in our late civil war. That branch of it forbidding a war vessel of the United States from leaving a British port’ within twenty-four hours after the departure of a Confederate cruiser we considered at the time an out- rageously one-sided neutrality in favor of Jeft Davis, The difficulty, however, was not in this, law of neutrality, but in the recognition of our Confederate insurgent States on the same foot- ing of belligerency as the United States. The concession of belligerent rights, in short, to our Southern insurgent ‘States was the great offence of England, for the consequences of which she will yet be called upon to settle those Alabama claims. This twenty-four hour law in reference to the departure from this harbor, for instance, of a French vessel of war in chase of a departing German merchantman, asrecent events have indicated, is necessary to prevent a practical blockado of the harbor by French ganboats against German merchant- men, Upon this point, and in reference to the coming into and going out from our ports of the war vessels of France or Prussia, this proclamation simply declares the neutral rights and obligations of the United States. So, too, in regard to the ‘making our ports depots for supplying materials of war to belli- gerents,” the proclamation is only an evforce- ment of the neutrality law of Congress of 1818, This law does not prohibit the exportation of arms_to belligerents by private individuals; but how far this latest proclamation of the President on the subject will apply in tho matter of ‘‘making our ports depots” of materials of war it remains to be disclosed. It may be contended that in publicly using a ship as ‘a depot” in this port we are using the port itself as a depot, and this may be the President’s meaning. In any event, his pro- ciamation will put an end to the blockade of German merchant steamers in this port by French gunboats—a presumption that has become offensive to American ideas of our neutral rights. First Appearance ot Janauschek in Eng lish Tragedy. With all the other attractions of the stage and concert room just now we are to lave the famous Fanny Janauschek in English tragedy. To-morrow night she will make her first appearance as an actress in English, xt the Academy of Music, in Debora. Hitherto she has performed only in German, thongh that is not her native language. She attained the highest position as a German actress, The public of New York and of the other Ameri- can cities where she performed sometwo years ago remember herifpuperb acting. Indeed, no one who saw her is likely to forget the classic beauty of the action and splendid eloquence of this queen of tragedy. Every attitude might have served os a study for a Canova. Ambitious of attaining the same high position, or higher, in English, she has been studying our language for a year or more, with the view to act in English tragedy. And to-morrow night she makes the experi- ment. The result has to be seen, though expectation has been raised high and the pub- lic has been promised a great treat. Her suc- cess would give. to the stage of America and England a brighter star, probably, than has appeared since Mrs. Siddons. Some of the yery best performers in the United States have been engaged to act with Janauschek, such as Miss Fanny Morant, Mr. Mark Smith, Mr. A, H. Davenport, Mr. Walter Montgomery and other well known to the public, Itis evident the manager has full confidence in obtaining the greatest success. Nowhere is real merit more appreciated or betier rewarded than in this country. ‘ Toe Most LaMENTABLE Arran that we have recorded for some time is the murder of Miss Berston, a school teacher in Canton, Mass., by four boys of her school, they having stoned her to death. They have been arrested for murder, but, being minors, they cannot be hanged. And yet hanging. or © most unmerci- ful thrashing, is what the brutal little villains deserve. Brapuey’s Reapy Ra.ier.—City Chamber- lain Bradley has done a good thing for the poor clerks in the public offices by refusing to permit any ‘‘docking” of salaries for election assess- ments to take place in his office. The bills . will be paid at tho Treasurer's desk aa pre- sented. If any assessments are made the de- partment making them must be responsible. Bradley will not father the job. This deter- mination may bring some ready relief just at this moment to uumeroug Dublic servanta, The Progress of the War—The Upristiag. 1; The altuation about Paris remains without material change. The forts keep up 9 vigor- Prussians keep steadily to the work of getting their slogo guns in-place. It i stated that the bombardment will commence early in the week, and will be prefaced by a demand for the surrender ef the city. The sloge of New Gisors and Soissons are threatened, more serlous fighting at Metz is reported and the army in the East continues its march towards Lyons. Thus stands the credit balance of the Prussians. On the-French side the people have situation, and have come to it, not with the de-. spair of women, but with calm determina- tion worthy of ancient Sparta. The volun- teers are coming forward and swelling the ranks of the defenders. The reorganization of the armies is progressing rapidly. The people no longer fly before the ublans. They fight them. At New Breisach a stubborn de- fence is made, At Soissons and at Lyons all the energy of the people is being put forth to repel the threatened assaults. At Pithiviers the Prussians have been defeated and the French have taken possession of the town. In the Vosges. a severe engagement has taken place, and, although no certain victory has been gained, the French held their position against a superior force, when night put an end to the combat. These are the important credit balances for France, the proofs that there is yet organized vitality in the armies of the republic, that there are yet hope-and resolution struggling manfully against the crushing disasters of the past six weeks. But there are other indica- tions. The Franc-tireurs are at work, Every pass in the Vosges Mountains contains a bush- whacker. The rails of the Strasbourg Rail- road, over which the enemy receives its sup- plies, have been torn up in places by the cut. The peasants of Normandy, expecting an invasion, have removed their grain and cattlefurther south, and are putting every bstacle in the way of the enemy. These are the indications which show the spirit of the people. The calm resolve to do earnest work has sobered down the mercurial element in Frenchmen, and the careless, good, easy peasants in the provinces, and the gay, light- hearted cavaliers in Paris have become Crom- wellian soldiers in defence of the republic. King William may possibly find that he is pushing successtoo far. Paris, three hundred years ago, sustained a siege against Henry IV. under circumstances to which the present are but trifles lightas air. Two armies of nearly three hundred thousand men are forming in his rear. The policy of Moscow, which defeated the First Napoleon, is finding adyocates among his desperate enemies. Germany her- self is not all loyal; and his own troops, the victors of Gravelotte and Sedan and Stras- bourg, are being manceuvred with an apparent irresolution and lack of any defined plan that suggests seriously the idea that Von Moltke is indeed dead. May it not be well for him yet to stay his hand? Movements in the Religious World. While the masses of our people are com- plaining of the heavy burden of taxation for the support of the government and the gradual liquidation of the public debt, it is astonishing to see with what avidity religious communi- ties furnish the ‘almighty dollar” for the fur- therance of their peculiar tenets. According to good authority the Methodist centenary effort of 1866, which was expected to realize but two millions of dollars, actually rolled up in cash eight millions and a half; and now the Methodists talk no longer of a five million sub- scription, but, as it is stated in the columns of a well informed religious contemporary, they quietly pray and labor for a ten million budget. The Universalist churches have voted to cele- brate this their centenary year by a thank- offering of one million dollars, and already more than two-tZirds of the amount have been subscribed. The United Presbyterians have solemnly recorded and publicly announced their resolve to give unto God @ thank- offering of five millions of dollars, and there» is no doubt the amount will be more than subscribed and paid in by the first of May next. Taking in connection with these Protestant dona- tions the vast sums weekly given by the Roman Catholics to promulgate the Christian religion, and we have no doubt the aggregate will reach at least twenty-five or thirty millions of dollars, which the American people annually donate for the purpose of spreading the traths of the Gospel and the consequent enlightenment of mankind. With this vast amount of money invested in Christian works it may well be asked, how is it that crime flourishes so luxuriantly in our midst? Then other questions naturally follow. Is the money thus subscribed properly dis- posed of? Is not too much of it squandered in erecting gaudy palaces as places of worship, in feeing fashionable preachers, in missionary efforts among the heathen, which rarely meet a proper return, and which deprive our local heathen and street Arabs from the benefits which should flow from an overflowing reli- gious financial exchequer?” This subject might affords fruitful theme for discussion in our pulpits to-day, and we hope some of our elo- quent divines will take the matter earnestly in hand. Tue Disastrous Froops in Virginia are fol- lowed by the news of heavy floods in Aus- tralia again, with reports of avery destruc- tive earthquake in the old shaky Italian dis- trict of Calabria, and of the breaking out again of along extinct volcano in Southern California. The frequent recurrences in these last five or six years of floods, tornadoes, tidal waves, earthquakes and flerce volcanic erup- tions, in both hemispheres and on both sides of the Equator, have given rise to serious ap- prehensions as to the stability of this little planet of ours; but when it is remembered that during the last five or six years the ex- tension of the electric telegraph has brought the ends of the earth into almost daily com- munication with each other timid people may console themselves with the conclusion that afier all these destructive perturbations above the earth and under the earth ara vrobably no Financial ous eannonade on the Prussian lines, and the | = Breisach, on the northeast, has commenced, | been aroused to 4 full sense of thelr desperate, peasants, and the telegraph wires have been | ‘"The Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin has written a letter upon the affairs of Rome and the present position of the Pope, of which we give the substance as received by telegraph, The opinion. of Archbishop Cullen might be of some public importance if his views com- manded any respect among the intelligent classes'in Ireland; but as he is regarded by the people there with not more favor than any other extremist of the ultramontane school, his words’ are not likely to be regarded in ‘Europe as of much value. The Cardinal goes a little farther than the Pope in his denuncia- tlon of Victor Emanuel, whom he denounces, in pretty strong language, as ‘“‘a hypocrite and something worse thana hypocrite.” The Pope once excommunicated the King of Italy, but he good naturedly and in that broad spirit of ‘charity which is the especial privilege of the Church, removed the dread sentence of ex- communication whenVictor Emanuel was on the point of death. Cardinal Cullen threatens the King with Divine vengeance because he has taken possession of Rome, and, as the Cardi- nal asserts, ordered his troops to bombard the Vatican and commit other atrocities in the Eternal City. We have not heard of any such order being issued. Neither have we heard of any outrage committed by the Italian soldiery. Probably Cardinal Cullen is better informed, but we very much doubt it. Louis Napoleon comes in for a share of the Archbishop's invective. He says that the finger of retributive justice has followed the dethroned Emperor ever since he began to play false with the Holy Father. He charges that Napoleon prevented Austria and Spain from assisting the Pope by'a threat of mak- ing war upon those governments. Upon the whole this manifesto of the Cardinal Arch- bishop of Dublin is a very curious document ; but it loses much of its interest from the fact that it will have no more weight than that available fiction, the Pope’s bull against the comet, A Good Opportunity For Reviving Opera Here. We have mentioned the desire here to see the charming Nilsson in opera; and hope the public may be gratified. But that would only be for a short season. What we want and ought to have is opera of the highest order established in New York—to be an institution with us. And why should it not? Our great, rich and intellectual metropolis should not be without this most delightful and refining of all amusements. Nor is there any doubt of it being sustained if we had first rate artists. There is wealth, taste and liberality enough among our citizens to do this. - See, for ex- ample, how Nilsson and other great artists succeed even inconcert. But for opera one great star is not sufficient. There must be a good company, with all the accessories, such as they have in Paris or London, to make ita permanent success. The mistake impresarii and managers have made is in supposing opera could be sustained by one great star and that the American public with this would submit to a poor company. The people of New York appreciate the best music and per- formance as well as Europeans do. All the artists must be good to make opera perma- nently successful here. The pesent time is most favorable for establishing opera. The country is at peace, and like!y to be for a long period ; it is rich and very prosperous; we are rapidly advanc- ing in luxury and art, and New York is second to no other metropolis in extravagance and liberality. Europe is in the throes of a terrible war; Paris, where the first. artists congregated and found employment, is en- closed by hostile armies and about to be ruined. All Europe, in fact, is in’a dreadful state of fear and anxicty ; the war may spread and operatic artists may find it very difficult to get engagements, and there must be now a great many unemployed. Why do they not come here? Why do not enterprising mana- gers bring them across the Atlantic? The splendid company Muzio engaged in Italy for Italian opera in Paris and the superb company of tho opera comique of that city cannot per- form: there now, and may not for a long time. New York is the place for them. America is the country they should come to. The Atlan- tic is crossed like a great ferry nowadays. It takes buta few days to cross this ocean. In- deed, there is no reason why Mapleson, of the Opera House, London, or some other operatic manager, should not have his company en- gaged for New York as well as London, and change from one place to the other according to the season. Now is the time to begin such an arrangement, and, if properly carried out, opera of the highest order would become a permanent institution with us. Tae British War Steamers continue to seize Gloucester fishing schooners as if there were no hereafter, no reckoning day to come. They find apparently as rich a mine among the Yankee fishermen as their Alabamas formerly found among Yankee merchantmen. As long as there is a fish in the sea to be caught Yankee fishermen will cruise for it, and as long as there is a quibble of law to warrant it, or a farthing to bo made by it, English cruisers will seize these fishermen. We shall have no peace with Canada until weannex her, She is mad at us because we are better off than she is, and sho will always be snarling, backbiting and making mouths at us unless we invite her home with us and give her the best room in the house. Our Paris Fasuions Lerrer this week has been forwarded from a yacht off the French coast. Amid all her trials and tribulations, Fashion, sirange to say, has not altogether for- saken the boulevards and promenades upon which she has for so long a period loved to exhibit herself. Not all the blandishments and wooings and enticements of more favored capitals, over which the terrors and the trials of war do not dominate, can win from Paris, a city now surrounded by a hostile soldiery, the changeful goddess of Fashion. True, there is reticence in the present modes which cor- responds to some extent with the martial sur- roundings and the warlike preparations now being made for the gallant struggle in defence 1 of the most beautiful citw of the nniveraa, WASHINGTON. Important Action by the Cabinet—Prer serving American Neutrality—Proclay mation by the President—Bellige rent Crulsers Not to Blockade American Ports—The Presi dent as Mediator Be- tween the European * Contestants. WasuinaTon, Oct. 8, 1870, Important Action of the Cabinct—Proclama- tion by the President Regulating the Use of American Ports by Beiligerent Cruisers. An extraordinary session of the Cabinet sae called at noon to-day and continued in session about three-quarters of an hour. All the members were’ present except the Attorney General, the Postmaster General and the Secretary of the Interlor—tne latver named belng represented by Judge Otto., Secretary Fisn presented the following proclama-' tion, which was approved and soon aiter issued by. the President, prohibiting the use of our harbors by armed vessels of belligerents as points or observa- tion or menace toward vessels in or about to depart from American ports :— BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION: — Whereas, on the 22d day of August, 1870, my proc-' lamation was issued enjoining neutrality in tie present war between France and the North German’ Confederation and its allies, and declaring, so far as then seemed to be necessary, the respective rights and obligations of the belligerent partics and of the citizens of the United States; and, whereas, subsequent information gives reason to apprehend. that armed cruisers of the belligerents may be tempted to abuse the hospitality awarded to them in the ports, harbors, roadsteads and other waters of the United States by making such waters subser- vient to the purposes of war. Now, therefore, I, Ulysses 8. Grant, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that any frequenting and use of the waters within the jurisdiction of the United States by the armed vessels of either bellige- rent, whether public ships or privateers, for the purpose of preparing for hostile operations or as ports of observation upon the ships of war, or pri- vateers, or merchants’ vessels of the other bellige- rent lying within or being about to enter the juris- diction of the United States, must be regarded as unfriendly and offensive, and in violation of thas neutrality which it is the determination of this gov- ernment to observe. And to the end that the Nazard and inconventence of such apprehended Practices may be avoided, I further proclaim and declare that from and after the 12th day of October inst., and during the continuance of the present hostilities between France and the North German Confederation and its allies, no ship of war or pri- vatéer of either belligerent shall be permitted to make use of any port, harbor or roadstead or otner waters within the jurisdiction of the United States as a station or place of resort for any warlike: purpose, or for the purpose of obtaining any facili- ties of warlike equipment. And no ship of war or privateer of elther belligerent shall be permitted to sail out of or leave any port, harbor, roadstead or waters subject’ to the jurisdiction of the Untied States trom wnich.a vessei of the other belligerent, whether the same shall be a ship of war, a privateer or @ merchant ship, shall have previously departed, until after the expiration of at least twenty-fours hours trom the departure of such last mentioned vessel beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. Uf any ship of war or privateer of eithor bellige- rent shall, after the time this notitication takes effect, enter any port, harbor, roadstead or waters of the United States, such vessel shall be required to’ de- part and to put to sea within twenty-four hours after her entrance into such port, harbor, road- stead or waters, except in case of stress of weather. or of her requiring provisions or things necessary for the subsistence of her crew, or for repairs, uz either of which cases the authorities of the port, or ef the nearest port, as the case may be, shall re- quire her to put to sea a3 soon as possible after the expiration of such period of twenty-four hours, ‘without permitung her to take in supplies beyond what may be necessary for her immediate use; and no such vessel which may have been permitted to remain within the waters of the United States for the purpose of repair shall continue withm such port, harbor, roadstead or waters for a longer Period than twenty-four hours after her necessary repairs shall have been completed, unless within such twenty-four honrs a vessel, whether ship-of- ‘war, privateer or merchant ship, of the other belliger- ent shall have departed theretrom, in which case the time limited for the departure of such ship- of-war or privateer shall be extended so far ag may be necessary to secure an interval of not less than twenty-four hours between-such de- parture and that of any ship-of-war, privateer or merchant ship of the other belligerent. which may have previous!y quit the same port, harbor, road- stead or other waters. No ship-of-war or privateer of either belligerent shall be detained im any port, harbor, roadstead or other waters of the United States more than twenty-four hours by reason of the successive departures frem such port, harbor, road- stead or other waters of more than one vessel of the other belligerent; but if there be several vessels of each or either of the two belligerents in the same port, harbor, roadstead or waters, the order oftheir departure shall be so arranged as to afford the op- portunity of leaving alternately to the vessels of the respective belligerents, and to cause the least deten- tion consistent with the objects of this proclamation. No ship-of-war or privateer of either belligerent shalt be permitted, while in any port, harbor, roadstead r waters within the jurisdiction of the United States, to take in any supplies except provisions and such other things as may be requisite for the subsistence of her crew, and except so much coal only as may be sufilcient to carry such vessel, if without sal! power, to the nearest European port of her own country; or, in case the vessel is rigged to go under sail, and may also be propelled by steam power, then with haif the quantity of coal which she would be entitled to receive if dependent upon steam,alene; and no coal shall be again supplied to any such ship-of-war or pfivrteer, in the sama or any other port, harbor, roadstead or waters of the United States, without special permission, until after the expiration of three months from the time when such coal may bave been last supplied to her within the waters of the United States, unless such ship-of-war or priva- teer shall since last thus supplied have entered a European port of the government to which she be- longs. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the city of Washington this eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord ofhe thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of the indepen} dence of the United States of America the ninety- fifth, By the President: HAMILTON FisH, Secretary of State. The President’s [Interest in the Europcan War. Persons who have conversed with the President about the war say that he is anxious, if possible, to ‘use his good ofices to bring about peace between the two countries, believing our government would thereby be made stronger in the eyes of all the European nations. The Fenian Coavicts. The pardon of General O'Neil and other Fenians is delayed in consequence of copies of the tndict- ments under which they were indicted not having yet reached the Executive. Heaith of the Attorney General. Attorney General Akerman, who left here somo two weeks ago In a very precarious condition of health, has almost entirely recovere. Accompa- nied by his confidential secretary, Mr. Pedrick, he went to Niagara Fails and Buffalo, and tie change of air and sce orked wonders in @ short tme. In Buffalo he ped with Mr. Spalding, a lawyer of eminence in that city. His complaint was what 1s called here “Southern bilious fever.’ Te will re- turn here next Mynday aud regame the dues of Wat alive U. S. GRANT.