The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1870, Page 6

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WarNews from Tours—Excitement and Consternation Over the Defeat of the French orted Battie Be ‘Thousand Pre Surrender—Con ay—Three us Ktiled—Offer ot Bazaine to ictory Reports of the Army of the Loire—li y vling in the Direc- tion of Shionvil! s Favre Said to be Nego- tating a Peace—Cession of Alsace and Lor- raine, 4—Mormonism: The Great Conference of the at Jourdan— —Proceedings in the New ¥ Conris—The Broo Whiskey from China—Cooliciam in the ‘The Newa arter Election— Attempied Murder—Staten Island News. 5—Financial and Commercial Reports—The Deaf Mute Murderer—Brooklyn Municipal Afairs— Brooklyn City News—Marrlages and veaths-— Advertisements. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, The Vandalism of the War, Where Lies the Kesponstbility— Personal Intelligence—The Twenty Dollar Counterfeivers—Auiusement Announcements, qY—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Nativist Menaces in China; rible and Fatal Explosion in Egypt—Rome: Vindication of the Civil Law Against the Cl ; Riot and Wounding of Priests in the Gulf: The City of Matanzas Near merged; Two Thousand Lives Lost; the Lower Part of Key West Covered with Water—An- other Account of the Late Accident at Mont Blanc—Convicted of Perjury—The Water Front—Kailroad Murder—Busmess Notices, S—Advertisements, 9—Acveriisements. : \ A0—News from Washington—The Political Caul- ? dron-—Amusements—uropean Markets—Ship- ping Intelligence— Advertisements, 41—Advertisements, 12—Adverusements. Tax Cnampion Buciens (Ned Kendall, of Boston, and Gambetti, of Italy, in 1842)—Like NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER. 18, 1870,—TRIPLE SHEET. The Vandativm of the War—Whore Lics the Responsibility ¢ The beautiful capital of the civilized world is about to be ruined, and the selfish and un- pitying governments of Eurepe will not raise a finger to provent this vandalism. Paris and its innumerable art treasures are to be sub- jected to a terrible storm of destructive mis- siles and fire, and no potent voice, no hand, is raised, to avert the catastrophe. What a blot this will be upon the boasted civilization of Europe! What a stain upon the histary of the great nations of Europe! The monarchs and princes who have been the honored guests of glorious Paris and of the French government and people stand with folded arms coolly looking on this disgraceful spectacle. The hundreds of thousands of ruling, leading and fashionable classes of European nations who revelled in the refinement and luxury of the great city are silent while destruction hangs over it. The world seems to forget what it owes to Paris for science, art, literature and progress in civilization, As little regard is paid to the doom of this proud capital of the world and its splendid monuments of art and science as the savage tribes of America have for the burning of a remote village in the far off prai- ries of this country. The war, on the part of Prassia, has become a war against Civilization as well as against republicanism, Well may Bismarck and the liberal-minded Crown Prince of Prussia hesi- tate about bombarding Paris, if the report that they doso be true. General Von Moltke, who looks ateverything in a strictly military point ef view, and the stubborn old King William, may be in favor of bombarding the city, as is reported, but it is reasonable to be- lieve a man of Bismarck’s far-seeing mind must fear the verdict of history and the en- lightened opinion of the world. It is natural, too, that a generous-minded man like the Crown Prince should shudder when he con- templates the destruction of the heart and centre of the civilized woud. If such an ‘act of vandalism would close the war, or were necessary to that end, there might be some excuse for it, though hardly justifiable even then; but the destruction or taking of Paris is no more likely to lead to that result than the taking of Sedan or any other place. The gov- eroment is not there, and if it were, the cap- ture of one government docs not prevent the formation of another, in the transition condi- tion France is in now. The capture of the Emperor and flight of the imperial regency did notend the war. A provisional govern- ment of defence, like the present one, could be formed anywhere, and the French nation would rally to it to the last. Although the object of tue Prussians may be to drive the French to accept the humiliating terms of peace they propose by relentless devastation, the destruction of Paris would arouse, pro- bably, the whole nation to more determined resistance. We cannot see what the Prussians would gain by bombarding Paris, while we do think they would lose much by prolonging and intensifying the war and by the revulsion of public sentiment throughout the world at such an act. Then look at the fearful destruction of property and lives in every direction; at the hundreds of thousands of men slain or muti- laied—the flower of both France and Ger- many; at the numberless houseless and home- less innocent peop!e who know not where to lay their heads or find a living; at the vine- yards and cultivation destroyed over a large area of the most productive region, and at all the other heartrending horrors of this terrible war. And for what? For monarchical am- bition. The war was commenced fer that by Napoleon and urged on by his creatures and flatterers. Now that he is out of the way and the object attained which Prussia took up arms for, a3 avowed by the Prussians them- selves, King William still continues the war. It is ne longer to defend Germany, but is aggressive and ambitious, The pretence that Germany is fighting for guarantees of future peace can deceive no sensible men. Germany has ample guarantees in the success of her arms and the wonderful power she has devel- oped. Besides, there has appeared no reason but her own interests ought to have prompted more generous conduct toward France in this crisis, The disturbance of the balance of power in Europe and the undue humiliation of France cannot end well for England. Nor will the persistent hostility of the monarchy and aristocracy to the French republic fail to make the people of England more dissatisfied with their government and more democratic in their aspirations. France may suffer more fearfully still through the selfish abstention of her former friends, and especially through that of England, but the nation cannot be destroyed. It will yet revive, and the day of retribution will come to those who have abandoned her and who ought to have mediated in her behalf. War, Trade and the Speculators. That the war in Europe should affect the prices of foreign goods in the American market is a reasonable conclusion, We cannot expect, for example, that the beautiful silks and velvets of Lyons, or the delicate kid gloves of Nancy or Metz, or many other French preductions, should preserve their ori- ginal price just at this time, or that the fine cotton hoslery and other fabrics of Germany sheuld not advance since the war began. Not only is industry to a certain extent paralyzed in the manufacturing districts of France and Germany, but the means of exportation were for a time cut off by the blockade of the French and German ports and the annoyances of cruisers at sea, which have detained vessels in their respective ports on both sides of the Atlantic, These facts would, of course, afford cause for an advance in price temporarily of certain articles of luxary. But while houses in trade in this city enjoying a respectable reputation have confined themselves to a moderate advance in price on forelgn fabrics commensurate with the necessities of present events In Europe, the speculators are endeavoring to make a harvest out of the dis- turbed condition of Europe by advancing the price of goods of foreign manufacture in an almost fraudulent degree. We should advise people, therefore, to re- member that, whilo a fair increase of ten or twelve per cent on European fabrics may be necessary, an increase of twenty-five and thirty per cent, which the speculators are put- ting on, is merely an attempt to create a little panic, from which to make money out of heavy stocks on hand. The general business in foreign goods will probably not be materially disturbed by the war. The present advance in prices is but a spasm after all. But we can afford to pay for anything in the way of luxu- ries that makes trade more prosperous by in- creasing the profits of the tradesmen; only the public do not like to be imposed upon, Lonis Napoleon in a New Character. It is said that among the manuscripts {ately found in the Tuileries is a novel in the hand- writing of the ex-Emperor. The hero of this romance is represented, after an absence of twenty years, as returning to France, and as being astonished at the suppression of pau- perism, the creation of an iron-clad navy, the embellishment of Paris, the liberation of politi- cal prisoners, the return of exiles and all the other marvels of the second empire. If this extraordinary literary announcement shall prove to be correct Louis Napoleon will stand forth in a new character. He has already justified his ambition to be catalogued among royal authors by his admirable ‘Life of Julius Cwsar.” In the preparation of that work he availed himself of all the aid that learned scholars could afford in order to make it com- plete and to entitle him to a high rank among philosophical historians, although he failed to demonstrate the applicability of Casarism to the nineteenth century. If Louis Napoleon has also chosen to use the novel as a popular vehicle for his peculiar ideas he has but emu- lated Disraeli, the clever British statesman, whose ‘‘Lothair”. everybody has read and journalists of all nations are quoting, or Sir Thomas More, whose ‘*Utopia” is full of glow- ing descriptions which the imperial novelist may have been tempted to parallel while dilating upon the glories of the second French empire. A novel by Louis Napoleon would to doubt that the French government would accept terms, short of a sweeping dismember- ment of the nation, for a treaty of permanent the present Gambetta, of France, the greatest blowers of their age. Urvevay, or at least the capital of that republic, is suffering from the disturbed ele- ments within it. The rebels in the interior of the country, too, are making headway against the government, having defeated and driven the national troops into a place called Retz. Tux Reessep Fentans.—General Starr and others made speeches at Auburn last evening in'which they said they thduked no party nor administration for their release, but the people. We can’t see that the people had much to do with it. They certainly did not threaten a revolution on their account. Dz Ropas AND Stavery.—About the best ‘act that General de Rodas ever did during his Captain Generalship in Cuba was almost dis last act—that of liberating the two thou- gand negroes captured trom slavers in 1855, 1856 and 1857. Let us see how the new Cap- tain General, Cordova, will inaugurate his term. Reabaca A Tae Position or Bazatse.—One account has {t that Bazaine is making arrangements to surrender. Another has it that Bazaine is at Thionville organiziug a grand movement which will give a new complexion to the campaign. If Basaine be at Thionville the investment of Metz must be so lax that the wonder is he has not, with his two hundred thousand men, found his way tothe neighborhood of Paris. Of the two reports the former seems to be the more truthful. canhiischieahincnenatintteame Tur Latzst From Rome.—We publish to- day cable despatches and mail correspondence which show how new is the situation in Rome. The fight in the Holy City is not yet ended. Medisvalism fights with modernism. Pic- tures of the Virgin and pictures of the Italian King are sold in the streets of the Holy City. The priests, it is said, are very active and not at all disposed to bow to the inevitable. The Cohen story has been revived and has taken a very interesting shape. The presumption is that in spite of the Jeeuits modernism and Judaism will win. The mysteries of Rome grill be a fresh gubject for some future Eugtne Sue peace. It is prepared to accept sacrifices if the Prussians be not too exacting. But while thebelligerents appear unable to solve the difficulty themselves there is a way to do this through the interposition or media- tion of the rest of Europe.’ The great Powers— England, Russia, Austria and Italy—now could stop the war, And were France not a republic they would, probably, have. taken energetic measures to that end before this. Still we might suppose that the statesmen of these nations would see the futility of resisting the progressive ideas and intelligence of the age—would see the folly of fighting the repub- lican sentiment which is growing and spread- ing over the Continent. At least we might expect they would, in the interests of civiliza- tion and for the sake of humanity, make an effort to stop this dreadful and useless effusion ef blood. Of all the great Powers England is most to blame for not acting. She is more advanced in political liberty and approaches nearer a free government. The masses of the English people favor the French republic, and wish their government to interpose to stop the war. Had England recognized the French republic Prussia probably would have been arrested in her devastating career. Had she called upon the other Powers and protested energetically against a continuanceof this war for the sake of conquest it would have been closed. But, alas! the evil genius of the British monarchy and aristocracy has in- fluenced Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues. They have forgotten that friendship and entente cordiale which, happily for both countries and Europe, had existed for nearly twenty years. France, the warm and generous ally of Great Britain, is abandoned in the day of her dis- tress, The Emperor Napoleon, the maa whom the British lauded: to the skies and almost fawned upon as their great ally, is now assailed by their press in # scavenger-like style, They bark at him like curs, now he is fallen, The great and friendly French nation {s now mis- represented and vilified. But has not England made a mistake? Has she not made a similar mistake to that of insidiously stabbing the American republic in the time of its distress and struggle for national life? We never ex- pect much from the magnauimity of Hogland, make even a more decided sensation than the novel which it was recently but untruly rumored Jeff Davis was going to write, Tae War Situation ww France.—The actual bombardment of Paris is reported to have commenced. A despatch says that three shots were fired into the city. It is not proba- ple, however, that the bombardment can be opened from all points around the city for some time yet, until the siege guns are all in, place. The German army of investment is being reinforced every day. One of the most important victories of the last few days is that of Soissons, by which that city falls into the hands of the Prussians. Another line of rail- way is thus opened, by which the needed siege guns and provisions can be more rapidly transported. Beaugency is said to have been evacuated, but the movement is evidently one of slight importance. Rooserort AND THE REDS IN Paris,— During the latter years of the reign of Napoleon IIL, Henri Rochefort made himself offensively notorious by his inexcusable malignity against all the members of the imperial family. Neither sex nor age nor childhood itself was a protection from his venomousattacks. But once in power, instead of being in opposition, a great change—but not an unusual one in similar circumstances— seems to have been wrought in the temper and tactics of Rochefort. The latest instance of this transformation which, ever since his release from. prison and his becoming a mem- ber of the provisional government he has exhi- bited, is the sensible and patriotic letter addressed by him to Gustave Flourens exhort- ing that monomaniac to be moderate and to lay aside personal political aspirations until the war shall be ended. Rochefort is entitled to the honor of having set the example which he wisely recommends Flourens to follow. Tae German STEAMER FRranxrurt has arrived at Hamburg from New York without any interruption from French gunboats. We may reasonably conclude that no reprisals will be made at sea, and that the immense com- merce of Germany will not be interfered with by the French cruisers—a state of affairs in- dicating a great improvement on the mode which the English followed during our givil war, A Disastrous West Indian Herricanc— Storms and Floods All Round the Glebe. We submit to our readers this morning some details of the terrible visitation to the island of Cuba, on Friday last, of a destructive tropical hurricane, involving the loss of two thousand men, women and children at Ma- tanzas—swept away to death in the sudden and overwhelming inundations, The pressure of the hurricane was against the northern coast of the island, driving upon it a heavy swell of the sea, which of itself caused an unusual in- undation in all the exposed bays and inlets of that coast, and especially in the broad-mouthed bay of Matanzas. This great swell rolling in from the sea, it appears, was met at Matanzas by the floods from the interior descending upon the city by the two rivers which meet near that point, and thus, with the retiring swell from the sea, the combined forces of the rush- ing flood swept everything before them. Hence the fearful loss of lives involved in the disaster. There was no time and there were no means of escape to the population engulfed in this resistless wave ef rushing waters. We fear, too, that in the full extent of the de- structive effects of thia dreadful visitation the loss of human life will appear larger, though we hope it may prove to be smaller, than the aggregate of these first reports. The sad losses of life and the heavy damages to property from the recent unprecedented storms and floods in Virginia, from the James river to the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, are hardly summed up when the news of this ter- rific tropical hurricane comes to us from the ever-blooming but unhappy island of Cuba. At the same » by the swift-winged mes- sengers of ¢ ctric telegraph, we are in- formed of ru’ oods in Australia and New Zealand, an thin the short limits of a month we have had r@ports of deluging rains in England and over theattle fields of Eastern France; of ruinous eart! kes in Sicily, in India and in Mexico—the ne in brief, of a remarkable succession of paleo and convulsions in the watery elements above and in the fiery elements under théfearth. All these strange phenomena, brought within our immediate observation from the fofft quarters of the globe and the isles of the “6 are full of matter for and suggestive of much valuable instruction to scientific inquirers into the causes of these mysterious things. Is it not a suggestive ceincidence that on the very night of this fearful hurricane in Cuba (Friday night last) we had over half tho area of the United States one of the most beautiful exhibitions of the northern lights that are vouchsafed to us in the temperate zone? Is it not also somewhat remarkable that for three nights in succession here we had a bril- liant display of these northern lights, only to be immediately followed by thoso terrible storms in Virginia thence extending north- ward, in a subdued form, to the British pos- sessions, and westward to the Rocky Moun- tains? Is there not some intimate connection between the electricity which flashes in the northern lights in these latitudes and some heavy tempest near or remote? Have we not thus a hint from these northern lights, in re- ference to existing or approaching storms, which scientific research may turn to a prac- tical account? After this late extraordinary drought, extending over the northern temper- ate zone round the globe, a reaction in the elements, in excessive storms and floods, it may be said, might have been expected. But we think that through the telegraph, by land and sea, we have now the book of all these mysteries opened, and that science may read and interpret it for the general benefit of mankind. It is in this view that we anticipate, from men of science devoted to the study, great and valuable results {6 seamen and lands- men from the system of electric storm signals just established by the government. Surely there can be no more inviting field for scien- tific inquiry than the broad and beautiful field we have suggested covering the law of storms. Our Nevrratity Laws.—In our Washing- ton correspondence will be found the outlines of an interesting correspondence which has taken place between Baron Gerolt and Mr. Secretary Fish. The result of the correspon- dence is that Secretary Fish and Earl Gran- ville, the United States and Great Britain, stand on precisely the same footing. The laws of Great Britain and America forbid private expeditions, but the laws of neither country hinder private enterprise. Lord Granville has told Count Bernstorff that private citizens may sell arms to any purchaser, but must also run the consequent risks. Secretary Fish has given Baron Gerolt a similar answer. Is Prussia prepared to fight France, Great Britain and the United States all at once? Bismarck, we fear, must pull in his horns. We are glad to find our Foreign Secretary so clear, so firm and so decided. The distinc- tion which he makes is sharp and intelligible. Tue New ATTiTrupE oF THR NEUTRAL Powers.—One of our latest rumors, and not the least suggestive, is to the effect that Russia and Austria are strongly disposed to take the initiative in bringing about a peace. Austria has already done her best, according to her own showing; but although she has hitherto failed she is not unwilling to repeat the effort if a fair chance presents itself. Russia, it is again said, will demand equiva- lent guarantees if Prussia makes herself mis- tress of the fortresses on the Rhine frontier. This demand of Russia, it is added, has been endorsed by an informal note of the Austro- Hungarian Chancery. That there is some truth in this report we are not unwilling to believe, but we cannot say we are disposed to regard it as serious. These various floating rumors only go to show that it is time this war were ended. Tae Curvess sill indulge in the exhibition of the most rancorous nativist propensities, The foreigners in Pekin, official and in the pursuit of commerce, continue alarmed, and the situation is at once unpleasant and danger- ous. Persons of very high distinction and eminent public services have already fled from Pekin. Some of the imperial ministers appear to endeavor to do their duty, but the pepulace at large remains prejudiced and stiffnecked to a degree. This state of affairs must terminate, and China be really made “open” to civiliaa- tion. The very latest advices report, indeed, that outrages had already been perpetrated on the foreigners, and that the missionaries were everywhere threatened with violeace and death, Au Admirable Untes. The French and German branches of the International Association of Workingmen bave just united in an address to the working- men of Europe in favor of the liberty of the people in France and Germany, and urging them to seek by all means the restoration of peace. The right spirit was evinced in this union of the two nationalities, and might serve as a rebuke to those who would keep up jeal- ousies and asperities between citizens of the two races. The war in Europe now is no longer what it was when the objective point on the part of Prussia was the destruction of Bonapartism, which King William avowed as the immediate purpose of the war. Circum- stances have changed all the features of the conflict. It is now the people of Germany who are waging war—not of their tree will, but at the diotates of a monarch—against the people of France, fighting in self-defence for the very life of ther new republic. In this aspect there can exist no hostility between the two peoples. It would be unnatural to suppose that the Germans, looking, as they must do, into a future—not far distant—of republican unity for them- solves, could fight this dreadful fight with any heart against a people who have just estab- lished a republic of ‘“‘liberté, égalité ot Sfraternité.” Prussia went {nto the war upon tho faith of the King, solemnly pledged to all the world, that it was not France nor the French people against whom he ealled his subjects into the field, but to destroy Napoleon, whom he de- scribed in one of his proclamations as the curse of the Frenoh people. Nothing, then, could be more ia keeping with the present condition of affairs than the union of the French and German people here and every- where in cordial sympathy with the misfortunes to which both races are subjected by a con- tinuance of this unjustifiable and brutal war. Tho Inspectors of Election. The process of appointing challengers and inspectors ef election pursuant to the late law of Congress has beon in progress for the past two days. Judge Woodruff, of the United States Court, is the appointing judge. Some grumbling, it appears, has arisen becauso of the secret manner in which he was performing his duty. It may be necessary in so important @ matter as the appointment of men who are to be clothed by the authority of the federal government with power to challenge the vote of every citizen in a State election for the Judge to be as reticent and circumspect as possible. We must remember that a good deal will depend upon the character of the men appoiated to this office whether the election of the 8th of November will go off as pleasantly as every sensible man anticipates it will, Any rumors that Judge Woodruff was disposed to misuse his power by appointing among the democratic half of the inspectors— which the party is entitled to—mere bogus democrats, and thus really throw the majority into republican hands, are, of course, without foundation. Such @ course would not only be unworthy of the high reputation which Judge Woodruff en- joys, but it would be casting a stain upon the United States Court. Therefore, in this deli- cate preliminary business of carrying out the law of Congress ‘for the firat time, fair play may be expected. Tho Judge certainly is not ignorant of his responsibility. As to any in- terference with the inspectors on election day which might lead to violence, we do not sup- pose that leaders of either parly mean to en- courage any such thing, Taxes {a Virginia—Why Wou’t tho Nogroes “Pony Up??? Tho Norfolk (Virginia) Jowrnal publishes what it terms ‘‘A Sad Exhibit,” showing that in Prince Edward county twelve hundred ne- groes have been returned by the Sheriff as de- linquents forthe payment of their taxes; in other words, two-thirds of the African race contribute nothing to the support of the ex- penses of the State and county in which they live. Itis inferred from this that the same is the fact in most of the other counties in Vir- ginia, if not in all. The Jowrna!, from which we quote, remarks :— Few of the negroes own land or any property as- sessed for taxation, the only taxes which they are required to pay beng the poll tax, and we see that they cannot pay this, or will not, In 1868 the ne- aay paid but forty thousand dollars into the State ‘easury, Or about ten cents a head, aud we very much doubt if they pay a larger average now, if so great a sum. The question now arises, Are the enfran- chised negroes in Virginia required to pay a higher tax under the State laws than the whites? and especially is a poll tax demanded of them which is not exacted from the white population? Under the Fifteenth constitu- tional amendment it is provided that no State has a right to tax any class of citizens beyond that of another on account of *‘sect, color or previous condition of servitude. the blacks of Virginia have been taxed no heavier for the purpose of securing to them the elective franchise under the State laws than the whites have been, and the blacks refuse to pay that tax, they are clearly out- side of the line of the law and the constitution, and are no more entitled to a vote than pau- pers ‘‘without visible means of support,” or State prison convicts who escape from durance vile without fulfilment of sentence er execu tive pardon. Tae SUPERINTENDENCY oF Poxtor.—The vacancy in the office of Superintendent of Po- lice, caused by the death of Captain Jourdan, was filled yesterday by the appointment of Chief Detective Kelso, Captain Kelso has been connected with the police force in this city since 1861, serving most-of the time in the detective branch of the service, of which he had charge for nearly a year. He has ac- quired an excellent reputation for ability and efficiency, and we may consequently expect to find in him a worthy successor to Captain Jourdan. Officer James Irving, of the detec- tive force, is to succeed Mr. Kelso in the posi- tion from which the latter has just been pro- moted, Axorner Srzamnoat Race is progressing The Lee some time ago beat the Natchez, from New Orleans to Cairo, by a few minutes, and now the Natchez is try- ing to wipe out those few minutes and lap over a little, and to do it she is risking exple- on the Mississippi, sion, burning and sinking, and her officers, orew and many passengers are taking part in the risk, Therefore, if Troubles in Orab. The situation of affairs in Utah is portene tous. The spirit of opposition is active among all classes. The Mormons are divided among themselves, and so are the Gentiles. The or- thodox organization represented by Brigham Young and his apostles is employing al) the machinery of the Church in opposing the growing power of tho emancipated liberal- minded Mormons.. Then the federal judges, by sound decisions, are curtailing the exten- sive jurisdiction which has been vested in the Mormon courts by unconstitutional Territorial laws. The Governor has taken the command of the militia away from the sanguinary saint who is one of Brigham Young's associates in the presidency of the Church, and has ordered the men to deliver up their arms. This action of the civil officers representing the govern- ment of the United States has aroused the indignation of the “persecuted” saints, who retaliate with slander and with threats of de- vastation by fire and sword. We are well assured, however, that this exhibition of bel- ligerency by the Mormons is only a war of words, and that they will ultimately see the wisdom of submitting, reluctantly though it may be, to all the just requirements of the United States. Brigham Yonng, ‘féarful of legal suits for the recovery of misapprepriated funds, has resigned his office of trustee-in-trust of the Mormon Church. Altogether there is a lively time among the saints. The last decision of the federal Chief Jus- tlee, which we print this morning, prohibita aliens who uphold polygamy from becoming citizens of the United States. A Swede and an Englishman, both champions of polygamy, applied for naturalization papers, and the Judge refused them on the ground that poly- gamy is opposed to existing laws. In his dee cision Judge McKean very aptly says that while in this country a man may adopt any religion that he pleases, or reject all religion if he wishes, “‘no man must violate our laws and plead religion as an excuse, and po alien should be made a citizen who will not promise to obey the laws.” We heartily approve the position he has taken and repeat his conclud- ing sentiment—‘‘Let nations and aliens dis- tinctly understand that in this country license is not liberty and crime is not religion.” Nevrrars ArMinc BgLiickrEeNts—Tas Question in Enatanp.—Our special cable telegram from London, published elsewhere to-day, incidentally presents the subject of British neutrality in the war between France and Prussia in a curiously questionable light, and with a feature pretty nearly alike to that which was ultimately seen in the Alabama case, It is stated, on very good authority, that a couple of French agents ventured over to Birming- ham, England, with the intention of picking up a few stray muskets if possible, On their arrival, however, they found, as is alleged, that Prussian agents had already contracted for the entire supply in the place at 60 much per gun. This is certainly not an equitable measure of neutrality. England’s policy or profit may well claim the attention both o/ Count Bernstoff and M. Jules Favre, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge J. W. Cummings, of Toledo, Ohio, who is on his bridal tour, arrived in this city yesterday and is occupying the rooms set apart specially for such occasions at the St. Nicholas Aotel. General J. Hayden, of the United States Army, and I. W. Park, a largely interested party of the Vermont railroads, are also at tie St. Nicholas. J. H. Flagg, Clerk of the United States Senate, Who has been on a visit to Vermont, leaves the Grand Central Hotel to-day en rowe for Wash- ington. General 8. E. Marvin, State Military Inspector, of New York, wili be at the Brevoort House for afew days. Rev..George Mason, of Honolulu, and Messrs, J. L, Suhlynge, W. H. Howell, W. J. Cooper and Mr. Graham, all English residents of New Zealand, ar Tived yesterday in this city and secured rooms at the Metropolitan, where they rematn for a short time previous to their departure for England, Gen- eral S, G. Cabell, of Alabama, is also a guest at the same house. Colonel Gourley, member of the British Parlita- ment, who arrived in this country about three weeks ago, and has been making a tour of tne States, ar- rived here yesterday from Washington and took quarters at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. Hamilton Har- ris, of Albany; J. A. Griswold, of Troy; I. H. Ram- Say, of Albany, and Judge Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, are at the same establishment, Geoage W. Bently, of New Haven, General Manager of the Southern New Jersey Railroad, 1s at the Albemarle Hotel. £x-Governor F. H. Pierrepont, of Western Virgi- nia, 13 as the Astor House, George W. Rowe, of Toronto, General News Agent on the Grand Trunk Railway, is at the St. Charics Hotel. Mr. W. A. Wilkins, a humorous lecturer, who styles himself “Hiram Green, Esq., lait Gustice of tne Peace, Skeensboro, nye onto Vermount,” has started about the country on a lecture tour, telling everybody who listen to him all he knows about “Bile.” THE TWENTY DOLLAR COUNTERFEIT. An Important Secret Service Seizure—Great Haul of Counterfeit Presses, Paper and Inks by Colonel Whitley’s Detectives. The readers of the HERALD will remember the ac- count, published exclusively in this journal, cf the arrest of two Spaniards on board the Clara Woodhouse, in the bay, on the 6th instant, and which was effected by Detective Beattep and an assistant, both mem- bers of Colonel Whitley’s staff of the United States Secret Service Bureau. Yesterday the same indomitable oMcer succeeded in capturing a most valuable prize in the shape of counterfeiters’ imple- ments and materials, For some ten days past a fue brown stone man- sion in an aristocratic portion of the city has been watched by two argus-eyed officers of Colonel Whit- ley’s secret service division, and though 1t presented. to the outside world the aj rance of a fashion- able residence, it was, in fact, occupied by # single individual, and was surrounded by obscurely suspicious circumstances; but nothing was learn ed concerning it of suficlent importance to reward tho watcher. ies and gentlemen entered and left its doorways. Carriages often walted for half an hour before its entrance, and it always presented the ap- pearance of the residence of a well-to-do, if not ‘wealthy, manufacturer or merchant. Stiil the sleep- less eyes of the detectives rested upon {it from early dawn to the time when the street lemapa ‘were lighted, and from the twilight till dawn again, At last the painful vigil was concluded, and Detective Beatty was rewarded by the appearance ofan expressman at the door. A trunk was brought out and placed in the wi . “The expressman drove hither and thither, and at last tothe foot of Cortlandt street, and finally the trunk was deposited on a train of the Jersey Central Railroad. At a small way station it was taken from the bag- page car and—seized by the detective who had fol- lowed it continually. On opening it its cenfents were found to be three plates for print dollar national bank notes, on the Onelda Utica, the Shoe and Leather Bank, ef New York, and the Market Bank, of New Se td paper sufficient for producing $600, in counterfeit currency. In the bottom snugly stowed away was a fine hand’press ana a quantity of ink of various colors. So after ten days’ watch the detective was successful, and the trunk and contents were transported to the efiice of Colonel Whitley, in this city, where it now awaits a claimant. ‘The Importance of this selaure cannot be overestimated, when the enormous amount of coun- terfeits on the and Leather Bank which have been placed jn circulation Is taken into consideran twenty of