The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1870, Page 6

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The reason why has not been go clearly apparent, At the same timo our attentton has beon called to the fact that M. Thiers’ mission to the Court of St. Petersburg was a complete and unquall- fied failure. Meanwhile it has been apparent to all the world that the Russian press was in antagonism to the government policy, which, since this war cominenced, has been like that of Great Britain—a policy of masterly inac- tivity. Some days ago wo gave it as our opinion that Russia had her eyes once more fixed upon Constantinople; that the bitier memory of her Crimean dofoats was revived; that she saw her opportunity, and that if the national will was yielded to she was in a proper mood to undo the work of the treaty of Paris. It now appears from our latest tele- graphic despatches that Prince Gortschakoff has made a demand upon the great Powers to undo that portion of the treaty of Parls which shuts the war vessels of Russia out of the Black Sea. It appears further that the Mos- cow Gazette, which is supposed to be inspired by the government, has become loud and some- what alarming on the situation. It calls upon the Russian government to bo cautious but to be ready. With the fall of France ‘‘the Polish delusion is dispeiled forever. Have wo not also a German delusion, which also in the right moment shall be dispelled? The West secure, the South will follow the simple laws of fate.” This language is not enigmatical. It is simple, clear, intelligible. It moans—if it means anything—that the Russian people see their opportunity, and that, although not ab- solutely impatient of government inactivity, they are determined that the opportunity shall not be wholly lost. We can see no good rea- son at present why Russia should make a raid either upon Prussia or upon Austria. Neither from the one Powor nor from the other bas Russia anything to apprehend; and an attack upon either would by all the world be denounced as Vandalism of the wildest kind. But we do see—we do recognize a reason for a demand upon the Powers who signed the treaty of Paris, and for a march across the Pruth if that demand is not re- spectfully listened to. Among warlike and warring Powers the laws of war are not un- fair. There is one intelligible law of war—a Fall Meeting at Jerome Park; Fine Display of Fashion at the Oourse; Sketches, Scenes and Incidents; Four Interesting Raccs—Prospect Park Fair Grounds: First Annual Agricultural and Horticultural Exhibition; Special Trotting Premiums—Trotting at Springfield, Mass.— The Cleveland Assassination, $—The Capture of Rome: Tho Pope’s Remarks and How Ite Received the News of the Capitula- thon— Proceedings ia the New York and Brook- lyn Couris—A Colored Romance in Washing- ton—Financial and Commercial s tion, Public School No, 8—Amusement Announcements, 7—Tejezrapnic News from all Parts of the World: Propo othe Catholic Subjects of Other Powers v3 from Washington—Yachting— —Prohable Homictde in Williams- 1 ja—Amusements—Business Noticss, 8—The Court of Appeals—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements, 9—Advertisements, - 20—-Jchn to Jonathan: Specch of Mr. Hughes, M. P., on the Attitude of England During the American Rebellion—Prince Erie's Plebicite : of Erie Stockholders—Tie Fever ‘aval Intelligence—The Great Draw- piracy—Shiyping Intelligence—Ad- nts. Ur mw A Batroox.—A part of the Fronch government went recently from Paris and got safely to Tours, while the government at Tours 1s preparing for a removal to Bordeaux. No wonder Bismarck is bothered. Cuivatry is on the wane in the Old Dominion. A member of the Virginia Legis- Jature yesterday refused io accept a chalienge to fight a duel on the ground that the State constitution disfranchised duellisis. The gen- tleman’s prudence in declining to make his body a target for another man’s bullets is com- mendable, but his high moral ground is ques- tionable. Doubtless his hope of office in the future was greater than his regard for his own reputation or his objections to the code of honor. Mertz anp Panrts.—If Generai Trocha had half the pluck of Marshal Bazaine he would not fet a day pass without a sortie in force upon the Prussians, Is he preparing for a grand sortie or a capilulation? A few days now will probably tell, Mex1oan News.—Our Mexican correspond- ent furnishes us with the full particulars of the selebration in the city of Mexico, on the 16th ult., of the anniversary of Moxican independ- ence, but owing to the press upon our columns by other matters we are compelled to pass the torrespondence over with a passing allusion, On the day of the celebration President Juarez, fn his address to Congress on the opening of Ms regular cession, drew a very flattering and fose-colored picture of tho progress of the Mexican republic. Regarding Mexican pro- gress at a distance we cannot altogether agree grith his Excellency in the fair and finely fouched picture he has drawn ; but hoping for better things in the future we expect President Juarez will be able to realize his highest ex- pectations for the prosperity of Mexico, Tne Panis THEATRES sre not only shut up, t all their government allowances have been abolished. The Grand Opera House is changed into s provision depot and the Grand Hotel into a hospital. There never pens before such « revolution as this in Paris, law which is just as forceful in civilized a3 in barbarous times—that he can take who has the power, and he can keep who can. It was the principle of this law which humbled Russia in 1856, It was the principle of this law which humbled Austria in 1859 and in 1866. It is the same principle which has humbled France in 1870. Might is now on the side of Russia, in so far as her Southern policy is concerned. Prussia has enough, and perhaps more than enough on hand. France is powerless for foreign effort. Austria is so busy with internal reforms that her neutrality could be easily secured, Italy and Spain are similarly occupied. Great Britain is the only Power that can be counted upon as likely to offer resistance to the conversion of the Black Sea into a Russian lake, and to the march ef the Russian hordes upon the city of Constantine. But it is a question whether, after all, Great Britain could not be induced to stand aloof from the contest in consideration of certain important privileges. Great Britain needs Egypt; the march of progress will be hin- dered until she obtains it, Why should not Great Britain and Russia agree? Russia in Constantinople would be no dangerous rival to Great Britain if the Viceroy of the land of the Pharaohs were a subject of Queen Victoria. But for France Egypt would have been a pro- vince of.the British empire long ago. Now France cannot hinder. if Russia marches quickly southward the: British government may find it convenient to take part with the great Northern Power in the reconstruction of Europe and the East. We are not, therefore, at all surprised at the growing activity of Russia, It is her destiny, as she believes, to re-establish the Eastern empire. It is her ambition and her hope to sit enthroned in Cons'‘antinople. The door is now open, why should she not enter in and take po ssession ? It is not to be denied, however, that the Great Western Powers dread nothing so much as to sce Russia a power in the Mediterranean, Spain, France, Italy and Austria would sink into the condition of third rate Powers. Great Britain does not desire it, much as she longs for Egypt. Of all the Powers Prussia would have the least to lose by Russian aggrandize- ment in the South; for Prussian statesmen see that the more Russian ambition and Russian strength are directed to the Mediterranean the greater is the opportunity for Prussia to make herself mistress of the regions around the Baltic. In the interests of all the nations of Europe, Prussia alone excepted, Russia should be kept out of the Black Sea, out of Constam tinople, out of the Mediterranean. If this war is prolonged Russia’s opportunity will last and Russian ambition will be dangerously provoked. If Great Britain is wise her statesmen will put forth their best efforts to bring this war to a close. It is simply absurd to say that the belligerents will not listen to reason, The voice requires but to be emphatic to make Prussia halt and to make France consent to terms. If there were a Pitt or a Castlereagh or a Palmerston in the British Cabinet to-day things would without delay suape themselves differently. Glad- stone, with ali his great qualities, is perhaps a little too much of the mere scholar and man of feeling. Granville has great qualities, too; but he is a great deal too indifferent. What Great Britain wants at the present moment is a great War Minister, a man who {could look through the clouds of war and connect the facts of the future with the claims and duties of the present—who could teach his country- men the propriety of making immediate risks for uliimate good, Such a man is now wanting in the councils of Queen Victoria. We say this much beceuse it is our conviction that this war has lasted long enough, and because it is also our conviction that the British govern- ment, in allowing it to continne, is pursuing a short-sighted policy. If some peace combina- tion is not immediately formed we shall look for movements which, if they do not set the Continent in a blaze, will permanently and seriously affect tre balance of vower in Enrope The Military Situation ia Franco—Tho Threats of Extermivation. The first battle for tho relief of Paris has beon fought, and the result of it bas proven the deplorable fact that we slated yesterday, that France noods a general. The conflict took place at Arienay, 9 small town near Orleans, and was evidently a movement of the French to break the centre of the Prussian Ine pro- tecting the rear of the line of investment about Paris. The battle lasted for three hours, at the endof which timo the Fronch fell back into a forest, where the battle was resumed, with what result isnot known. The Prussians, it is stated, were superior in numbers, yet no reinforcements were sent forward from Tours, where several thousand troops are collected. They probably will bo sent forward when it is too late, thus allowing the Prussians to whip them in detail—the most grievous fault that a military commander can be guilty of, and one that is most strongly condemned by Jomini and the other accepted authorities on the science of war. MacMahon or Uhrich would never haye been gullty of such criminal’ neglect, and the old Napoleon would have had the commandant guilty of such folly shot at once, The relief of Paris may bo indefinitely postponed by the disaster; but beyond this the spirit of the people must be greatly depressed and the enthusiasm that was so rapidly filling the ranks of the de- fenders must have received a severo check. Metz holds out still, and has another enemy to contend against in the form of sickness in the town. A report comes that Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia is dead, but it is probablo that he is only another of the fortunate heroes of this war who have had their obituaries written without paying the usual penalty therefor. Bismarck is quoted as saying to Lord Lyons that Prussia is willing to make peace anywhere, and at any time, but that it will have no truce, The war is rapidly assuming all the woful aspects of a war of extermination. The Franc- tireurs carry the black flag and are shot wherever captured by the Prussians; the people of Mulbouse were fired upon by thé Prussian forces on evacuating their town ; shocking atrocities are alleged to have been commitied by the Prussians in places where they attempted to fill requisitions on peasants already impoverished ; the ublan prisoners at Tours were barely saved from the exasperated crowds that saw them being conveyed through the streets, and a Prussian threat to shoot the municipal authorities at Ablis, where the tireurs surprised a detachment of them, has been answered by a retaliatory threat on the part of the French authorities at Tours to kill a prisoner for every man of them executed. When the war fully assumes such a terrible aspect as this the Prussians will find deadlier enemies than the raw Gardes to conquer. Their army of invasion will find almost insuperable ebstacles if it wars against a uniled or an exasperated people, The Prussians must practice courtesy and kindness to the peasantry, contyive to allay the popular anger against themseives, or they will inaugurate such a national war as that which the people of Spain, backed by the allied armies and led by their priests and monks, waged against the firat Napoleon during the Peninsular campaigns—a war which produced the dreadful spectacle of women and children killing isolated soldiers, and counted Saragossa among its heroic defences. The Indiana Election and tho British Mission. The election in Indiana yesterday settles several questions of more than ordinary im- portance. If the returns show that the repub- licans have secured the Legislature Senator Morton will accept the mission to England; otherwise he will not. For this reason he has not tendered his resignation to Governer Baker, who, in such an event, can only ap- point a successor to fill the vacancy until the new Legislature, elected yesterday, convenes, which will be on the first Wednesday in January next. Should the Legislature be democratic a senatorial vacancy would be filled on the first day of its meeting and ex-Senator Hendricks would undoubtedly be elected. Senator Mor- ton’s term expires with that of President Grant, on the 4th of March, 1873. It is not the purpose of the Senator to surrender so im- portant an office to the democracy for so long atime. If the returns, when all in, therefore, make it clear that a republican Logislature is elected Senator Morton will resign his seat in the Senate and his successor will be appointed by the Governor to serve temporarily uatil the Legislature in January elects a member of that party to serve out the unexpired teri. This nice question has entered iato the recent canvass, and was the cause of one of the sharpest conflicts ever made in Indiana. Upon the supposition that Senator Morton had really accepted the mission to England the demo- crats in Indiana have exerted their utmost strength to secure the Legislature, in order, in the Senate would not holp him. He has already @illod and honored the station. No man ever stepped from the Senate of the United Siates into the White House, Clay, Caihoun, Webster, Cass, Benton and Douglas all tried (o do it, and each and all failed. Tho footing up of the returns for the Legialaturo of Indiana, not fully received at tho present writing, will therefore have much to do with the fature of Senator Morton and ex-Senator Hendricks, as well as with the general wel- fare at home and abroad. An Inside View of Parls=A Gloomy Pic- taremA Crisis at Hand. By balioon express a special correspondent inside of Paris furnished us the very interest- ing report given yesterday to our readers of the condition of things in the city under the siege, day by day, from the 19th ef September to the 5th inst., inclusive. From this diary it appears that on the 19th of September a de- tachment of Gardes Mobiles and Zouaves, after a three hours’ fight, had been defeated outside the walls, and that these ‘‘soldiers, flying into Paris, spread great consternation among the people, who filled the streets ;” that “the reds have prepared to avail themselves of the first serious defeat to seizo-the government ;” that “the telegraph wires to Brest and New York have been cut, and Paris is now completely iso- lated from the rest of the world,” and that “many foreigners have been arrested, a num- ber of them charged with being spies.” A gloomy exhibit, this, of demoralization, divi- sions, conspiracy and distrust. On the 20th of September numerons parties, under various devices, ettempted to get away from the city, but inevery case they failed. The German investment round a circuit of thirty miles was found complete and tight as a drum. “Many of the shops were shut and jewelry has entirely disappeared from the show windows and bazaars.” Abadsign. Sepiem- ber 21, the anniversary of the republic of 1792, a proclamation is issued in honor of the event. “Rumors of an armistice sent the funds up, and immense relief is evident in the public mind.” No wonder, for ‘‘marauders have broken loose and are robbing in every direc- tion,” and “Paris is encumbered with people utterly destitute of all means, in consequence of the stoppage of all work.” Nearly half a million of armed men in the city of all sorts. On the 22d we find provisions getting doar, milk, butter and vegetables getiing scarce, and the cost of fuelenormous. All the newspapers published on half shects. No news from the outside world sinca Sunday last. A sugges- tive picture of “‘the mysteries and miseries of Paris” under siege. . On September 23 heavy cannonading out- side all day creates great excitement inside. News of Jules Favre's failure with Bismarck had a prodigious offect. The “reds” were headed off in the general ery for war to “‘the last ditch.” Very little gas used, and at mid- night Paris. is as stillas a graveyard. ‘Can such things be” in Paris, where the fan ought to be in full blast at midnight? The saloons of the Grand Hotel onthe 24th are turned over to an ambulance corps, and the “‘statue of Napoleon the Virst has been pulled down at Gourbevoie and thrown into the river.” The Parisians have had enough of the Bonapartes. Provisions are getting so high that riots and plunder are feared. The new opera house is opened for the distribution of food to the poor, and (October 1) ‘the smallpox is rapidly increasing, thereby adding one more to the horrors of the siege.” On the 8d Gambetta says to Picard, “The proper place for us is Tours. We must make up our minds to venture out in a balloon. It is our only means of getting out.” We know what followed. Gambetta did get off in a balloon, but it was a narrow escape. He reports Paris as tranquil and resolute, that her provisions still hold out, that half a million of armed men are within the walls for her defence and that the women are making a million of cartridges a day. Now, to reduce all these details toa few hard facts, whatis the condition of Paris under this siege? There are two millions of men, women and children within the walls on a limited supply of provisions. From day to day this supply is se far diminished as to les- sen the amounis distributed and to increase the price of everything eatable nearer and nearer to the point of starvation to thousands. What, then, does it signify that there are three thousand cannon mounted and five hundred thousand armed men within the walls for) the city’s defence, if the cily is so reduced in its supplies that within a month it must capitulate or make « desperate sortie, in order to pro- cure food or suffer the terrible extremities of starvation ? A note from the Prussian government on this subject says that if the city resolves to hold out till starved into submission there are two millions of people to whom the Prussian army would be unable to supply food for a single day; that there is nothing eatable left also, to secure the Senator, Hendricks, the favorite son of the democracy ef that State and one of the ablest representa- tive men of the party in the West, will be re- elected if that party have triumphed, provid- ing Morton should go to England, But it has been definitely settled that if the Legisla- ture elected yesterday is democratic Morton will notify the President that he will remain in the Senate. Now, while this action on the part of Sena- tor Morton will prevent Mr. Hendricks from going ino the Senate again, at least for the present, it is, after all, a personal triumph for the latter, which the republicans did not in- tend he should achieve. Senator Morton fore saw the importance of defeating the demo- cracy, not only to prevent Hendricks from going into the Senate, but because he knew that the triumph of that party in the State would be attributed to the personal popularity of Hendricks, and that it would make hima formidable candidate for the Presidency in the National Democratic Convention in 1872. Senator Morton, to prevent such a victory to the democracy, came to this city a few weeks since and succeeded in securing fifteen thou- sand dollars, the greater part of which was raised in the Custom House, to be invested in the recent canvass, Mr. Hendricks was just as prominently in the canvass now ended as though he had been on the ticket for Governor, If the democracy is de‘eated it is his personal defeat. If it is victorious it is hia versonal victory, A geat within several days’ march of Paris, and that consequently in the extremity suggested hun- dreds of thousands of those people must starve. One of two things, therefore, may be very shortly looked for—a desperate sortie from those five hundred thousand armed men in Paris upon the German line of investment, or acapitulation, and we may, perhaps, have both. We lok first, however, for a desperate sortie and a bloody engagement, _ Twenty Years of time and repairs, it is said, will hardly restore the surroundings of Paris for twenty miles to their beautiful con- dition of one short month ago. Such are the glories of war ‘‘with all the modern improve- ments.” Tne State Exrorions YEstERDAY.—From the returns received at the hour of going to press there seems to be no doubt that the re- publicans have swept the States of Pennsylva- niz, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and possibly Ne- braska by increased majorities, They have, so far as heard from, lost not a single member of Congress, but, on the contrary, have gained a number, including Sam Shellabarger, in the Obio Seventh district. The republicans ought to be satisfied with yesterday's work. It was a rainy day for the demecracy, _ A SmaLL Bexe Marrer Enpzp rw A Lipen Suit—The tilt between Tilton and Fulton, both Christian exemplars, or supposed to be. It is simply a gin and milk gontroversy redivivus, National Intellectual Development—Reviows and Thelr Influence. In the growth or revival.of literary excel- lence and intellectual power among nations in modern times tho reviews perform an impor- tant part. They are, indeed, a peculiar phase of our modern olvilization and progress, Thoy contain in themselves @ particular kind of pe- riodical literature, highly critical, artistic, clasaio and philosophical. More than that: thoy reflect the intellectual activity of the times in political movements, in philosophical and scientific research, in works of imagina- tion, in art, in social improvement and in lite- rary achievements. Although thoy have been in existence less than three-quarters of a cen- tury their influence in the intellectual devel- opment of the world has been very great—yes, much greater than mankind at large perceive. From the first and all through they have ag- gregated the intelligence, culture, classic scholarship and erudition of the first minds. In fact, through their superior ability, origi- nality and power they have been at the same time both the correctors of literary taste and the creators of literature in the several countries where they have been established. The daily newspaper—the press, as that term is generally understood nowadays—is the mirror of ourrent events and ideas. The weekly journals and other periodicals sum- marize the matter of the dailies, chiefly for country readers. But the reviews dissect, analyze and speculate upon events and all in- tellectual movements in a comprehensive man- ner. In acertain sense they constitute the primary school of thinkers, and mature ideas for writers on every subject. By way of illustration we may notice the contemporary growth of literature in Great Britain and the United States with the reviews, and especially with the great quarterlies. The quarterly reviews may be compared to the heavy effective slege guns or heavy artillery of an army, and the smaller reviews and other periodical literature to the musketry. The father ofall in Eaglish-speaking countries is the Zdinburg Review. This kind of literature is, indeed, the special property of the English- speaking race, It has been imitated or fol- lowed to some extent ia other civilized coun- tries, but it remains still a specialty of Great Britain and America. The Mdinburg Review sprang into existence at a time of great mental activity in Europe and when England was leading the nations of that Continent. The great French revolution at the close of the last century had upbeaved the whole framework of political society and social life. That and tho wars which followed were but a terrible strug- gle between old ideas and systems and the new ones. The liberal and progressive men re- ceived nothing as ev cathedra, but reduced everything to the test of philosophy. This was so not only with regard to political ques- tions, but to literary pretensions and matters of taste as well. It was peculiarly an eclectic and searching age. Nothing had been seen like it before, The Zdinburg Revicw, for example, which was started by a few active and powerful political writers, soon became a trenchant literary censor. Although there had been in Great Britain and France, and even in some other countries of Europe, periodicals of a character similar to this, the Ddinburg Review was the starting point of the highest order of serial literature, of which it at once raised the standard by the style and critical ability of its articles. In the year 1802 Francis Joffrey and a few. young associates of marked ability, all of whom were whigs, formed the plan for start- ing the Hdinburg Review. Prominent among these were Sydney Smith, Brougham (after- wards Lord Brougham) and Horner. This able serial was hailed by the liberal party as the dawn of a brighter day, and by thought- ful men, indifferent to party, as an organ of the highest order for the fearless discussion of every matter worthy of investigation. It was particularly characterized by merciless attacks on the literary pretensions of writers of that day, and was not unfrequently too severe and unjust, It had the effect, consequently, of killing off mere literary pretenders, of improv- ing and elevating the style of others through its searching criticism, and of creating a new school of writers and authors, Savage as were the attacks on Moore, Byron, Words- worth, Southey, Coleridge and others, these writera were really indebted to the~ assaults for much of the literary excellence they attained afterwards. More than that: the Edinburg Review gave rise to rivale—the Quarterly Review, a tory organ, which had for. its’*contributors Walter Scott, Lockhart, Gifford, Coleridge, Croker and Southey; the Westminster Review, at a later day, for which Bowring and Mill wrote; the Eclectic Review, a religious and peliticel organ combined, among the writers of which were Adam Clarke and Robert Hall. Other reviews and magazines of a like char- acter followed, which aggregated a great deal of the learning and ability of the country. We claim, therefore, for the Zdinburg Review the high character of creator, in a great measure, of the literature of the British Isles since the commencement of the present century, The pocts, essayists, critics, bisto- rians and novelists we have named sprang from or were matured by this agency. The same may be said, indeed, of later British writers— of Shelley, Dickens, Bulwer, Macaulay, Thackeray, Disraeli, Tennyson, Swinburne, Carlyle, Reade and a host of others. Coming now to America, we find that the North American Review has occupied much such a position and exercised a similar influ- ence here, A number of smaller works of this kind, mostly in the form of mazazines, however, had been started previously, but this New England quarterly overshadowed them all and gave birth to a galaxy of American writers in every branch of literature, as the Ldinburg Review had in Great Britain previously. Mr. Tudor was the founder of the Worth American. In classic learning, force of writing, critical knowledge and comprehensiveness he was something like Francis Jeffrey. This Ameri- can review was successively edited after Tudor by E. T. Channing, R. H. Dana, Edward Everett, Sparks, A. H. Everett, Bowen and Peabody; and it has always maintained its high character, There is no doubt that our own Longfellow, Emerson, Prescott, Ban- croft, Lowell, Poo, Whittier, Bryant, Chan- ning, Mrs, Harriet Beecher Stowe and other American writers, chiefly from New England, wore develonod hy thig central literary power in Boston, the North American Review. Up to a recent period we have had little literature out of New Fagland.. There has been nothing until lately like the great quarieriles to which we have referred to create, stimulate and direct it in other sections of the republic, But New England cannot always maintain that enviable ascendancy. Literary ability and achievements must develop in otber sections with the progress of the country and the age. New York is destined to be, no doubt, the centre of literary growth for the North, as Boston has been for the Hast. Already we see a tendency to this, and a starting point in the Wationat Quarterly Review, published in this city, Mr, Edward I, Sears established this a few years Qgo, and is now the editor. He has shown remarkable ability, and has made his review a worthy rival of the older quarterlies in New England and Great Britain. There is ample talent in this metropolis for a work of this kind of the very highest order. Look, for instance, at our daily and weekly journals, Though tha writing in them generally is not of sucb a comprehensive or exhaustive character it ia marked by great vigor and a good deal of originality. Our late war developed among the correspondents a class of writers that ere coming up for the future. Then there is the South, a section of the country which has always had a number of original thinkers, terse and forcible writers and fine scholars. Until within a recent period that part of the repubiic furnished most of our great statesmen. It cannot be supposed that this intellectual power is dead. It is only dormant, and will surely revive with the new order of things and as’ the South recovers from her late pros- trate condition, There is every reason to be- lieve the menial activity of that fine Anglo- American people who live in the sunny South will goon produce results in literature and art as it formerly did in statesmanship. Thd abolition of slavery and the terrible ordea! the Southerners have passed through must help te bring about such a state of things, We hava entered upon a new era in the life of tho na- tion, as well as in the history of the world, and, if we mistake not, the North, South and even the West wiii soon rise through the quickening influence of the civilizing agents of this day to rival or overshadow New England in literary and other intellectual achievements, as well as in material progress, Tue OotosER ELECTIONS are over, but the more important November elections, including New York, have yet to come off. October has turned out some disappointed politicians, and November will increase the list, Meantime, for a week or two the October unfortunates will find .employment in explaining and wrangling over the results in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, PZRSONAL INTELLIGENCE. : The distinguished cantatrice, Obristina Nilsson, yesterday left her superb suit of rooms at the Cla- rendon to fulfl an engagement in Philadelphia, From there she goes to the Monumental City, return- ing to New York by the 24th inst., when she wilt again give us the pleasure of hearing her wonderful voice ina series of three concerts, The genial Lieutenant Governor, Allen ©. Beach, of Watertown, has arrived in this city, and will be found during the coming campaign at the headquar- ters of the Democratic General Committee, parior No, 11, St. Nicholas Hotel. ; Jules Ravel and brothers, sons of Antoine Ravel, one of the celeprated pantomimists who were wont to delight old and young New York, arrived by the City of London yesterday. They report the vencrabie Jerome, Antoine and Francois as residing in Tou- Jouse and in the enjoyment of good health. David Melver, of the British and North American Royal Mall Steamship Company, arrived from Liver- pool yesterday, and is at the Hoffman House. Mr. Bowles, of the firm of Bowles, Brothers & Co., of Paria, arrived in this city yesterday by steamer City of London, and left for Boston. Judge Henry Sherman, of Washington, 19 at the Astor House. He returns home to-day. SUPERINTE IDENT JOURDANS GBSEQUIES. His Funeral tc Teke Place at St. Patricks Catiedral. A meeting of the Inspectors and Uaptains of the New York Police was held yesterday afternoon at the Central Police Office, fn order to give expression to their feelings upon the demise of their esteemed Superintendent. inspector G. W. Walling occupied the chair, while Captain I. Garland,-of the First precinct, acted as secretary, Among those present were Inspectors Waliing, Jameson and Diiks; Captatas. Helm, McDonald, McCleary, Waste burne, Clinchy, Barden, Bennett, Harlow, Mo- Dermot, Milis, Williamson, Petty, Thorne, Toda, Allwise, Mount, Cameron, De Camp, Gunner and Heddon; also detective Fariey and Tilly. Some com! limentary resolutions were adopted, and it was Qetermined that the officials should attend the fune- ral at St, Patrick’s cathedral to-morrow in a body and wear the ordinary badge of mourning. The Central Police office was yesterday elaborately dressed in mourning; also the private office of Cap- tain Kelzo and the office of Mr. G. H. Hopcraft wore appropriately dressed in token of respect to tae memory of their late chief. A meeting of the Blossom Club, of which Super- intendent Jordan was & member, was held last evening, under the presidency of Mr. Owen Brennan, and resolutions of eulogy and condolence were read and adopted. The order of the faneral procession has been ar- ranged as follows:—Grafulla's Band, Board of Polive from the Police Department; i ingle of Poiice, Surgeons of Police, Ag dees Kelso and detective squad, Chief Clerk ana Deputy Clerks, ex-Commis- sioners, ex-Superintendents and Chiefs of Police from various cities of the Union; Police Department, in three battalions of eight companies each, under the command of Inspector Dilks; pall bearers, hearse, pall bearers, relatives and intimate friends; Common Council, members of the press, citizens. The route to be through Mulberry street to Bleecker street, and along the Bowery to Fourteenth street, along Fifth avenue to ‘Twentythird street and to Kast river, DEPARTURE OF THE CIMBRIA. The Hamburg steamer, Cimbria, sailed yesterday afternoon according to announcement at 2 o'clock. Sne had on board a full cargo, consisting of tobacco, cigars, dried apples, cotton, rosin, cement, hospital and saniiarystores. She also carries about 120 passen gers, who are for the most part @-rman mechanics who have been ordered to return to thelt own country for military service, No notice whatever was taken of her as she passed down the bay ana closo along- side the only French gunboat off the Battery—the Latouche Troville, It was stated in the city yester- day that the French crulsers had received insrac- tions to quit these waters, in consequence of tia giringent prohibitions in the government prociama- tion. The Postmaster General refused to allow the German mails to be put on board of the Uimbrs, on the ground that no guarantee had _been furnished that they woud not be seized by the French cruiscrd on the other side of the Atlantic. —$—$————————— WINTH CLASS ASSOCI\TION, PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 3. ‘The Ninth Class Association, old Public School No. 3, held a regular quarterly meeting and reunton last evening at Delmonico’s, Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue. Mr. B, D, L. Southerland presided, and mr. E. A. Houston acted as secretary. The attend. ance was good and the Senate as usual, ea resses were ma mat en Several, appropeiatnisoences called up and long after midnight. The agsocia- tien ney to. members, some of whom belonged to sses of over thirty years ago. The reunion last evening was one orthe oo agairs of the sort qhe Ninth Viass has yet had; ee See cities ener