The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1870, Page 6

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CONTONES OF TODAY'S MERALD, ns of b Rey Nape ported ud the eandun Mertinan— Colored Shoot A Man Assovial Leading Arit 6— on Our Appreacn- ctions, The Ce n of Cliques and 2 ‘i samuany--Amuse- arts of the World— of fen But. em—Bustiess 1 Commercta Ruors of Peace in Ecrope.—-A despatch received from unofficial but retiable sources at the State Department in Washington states that the report that peace had heen arranged between France and Prussia is much belicred there. “Tar Ne ¢ Way TO CHrrrexaNco.” The democrats in the New York Twent second Congressional district’ are maki capital against the republican nominee, Mr. Lansing, and in favor of their own, Mr. J. Shoeeraft, by reciting a little anecdote in which Lansing is made to figure as the author of the breathless inquiry, after the batde Buil Run—*‘My good woman, can you tell me the nearest way to Chittenango?” Th licans had about ten thousand inajority i district (Madison and Oswego counties, in 1868, and Shoecraft’'s friends will have to make the “fur fly” if they can prevent Lansing from asking after the 8th of November—‘‘My good democrat, can you tell we the nearest way to Washington ?” whe discal’: >I =U ORTENTOUSLY Prepasie that sa fot to hear the last of Fulton and Til- ton, the two worthies who have Boston by the ears on account of a glass of lager. Fulton is back again with his last word, io reply to Tilton’s denial of what Fulton stated in his sermon on Sunday last. Then to-day we shall probably have Fulton again. Verily Boston has a great deal to answer ~ for, besides her immense smuggling affairs and her erratic reformers. Atpresent, besides afflicting patient New York with this Fulton-Tilton scandal she glories in « first class lawsuit over a milliner’s bill. The memories of Bun- ker Hill, the inspiring presence of its monu- of mental shaft, the vast expansive beauties of | the common and the frogpond, and even the NEW YURK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER Our Approaching Electionx—The Confusion of Cliques and Factions—-A Clear Field fer Tammany. Some of the Tammany decemvirs the other evening, it is said, with their legs stretched un- der the mahogany of “‘the Grand Sachem,” were exalted to the seventh heaven of the Prophet with the assurances from “Big Six” that ‘‘it is all right ;” that ‘‘the late elections in Pennsyl- yania, Ohio and Indiana show that only about two-thirds of the full vote of those States was drawn out,” that ‘the same general apathy and republican disaffections will mark our November State election,” and that ‘‘accord- ingly the democracy, always successful on a short popular vote, will walk over the course in New York and carry everything, including the re-election of Hoffman, by at least seventy- five thousand majority, a majority in the State Assembly hardly less than that of last year, and a gain of eight or ten members of Congress,” and that ‘‘Marshal Sharpe and the Ledwith bolters will signify nothing in the general results, State or city.” After the last September election in Maine such calculations for New York would have appesred preposterous; but after the late October election in Pennsylvania they appear to us not at all extravagant, but really moderate. The only hope of the republicans in New York this year, even with all their expected aid in this city from the new election laws of Congress and the colored vote, was in drawing out their full strength in the rural districts ; but now we are satisfied that, from the same general causes which have resulted in a short popular vote in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana in October, there will be a very short November vote, as usual in such cases, in New York, and thal, o consequence, the democrats will walk over the course, city and State. The sinews of ary the organization, the ‘discipline, the prestige ‘and the machiger, are all on the side of Tammany, while the discords, the wrangling factions, the doubts and the weak brethren are all on the side of the republicans, In the matter of the spoila Tammany, under our new Charter, is monarch of all she surveys. Tn 1853 (he democracy throughout the State were split into two factions—hardshells and sof s--over the spoils of the Custom House; but those spoils are now a mere bava- telle, controls the annual collection and disburse- ment of some twenty-five millions of money, or about twice the whole annual expenses of ment of the United States under ‘y Adams. Tammany can, and probably will, from her savings put a million | into this election. She can buy up every man that is in the market, and as far as necessary she has bought or will buy them, Why not, when among politicians every man has his price? The followers of the Wigwam Inxu- riate in the fleshpots of Egypt, and when they “wax fat and kick” she can still afford to pacify them orlet them go. In fact, the head Sachem of Tammany is greater than was Baron Haussmann in all his glory, and has an army better disciplined and better supplied for an active campaign than was the army of Lonis Napoleon when he set out for Berlin. Now look at the republicans. They say that Senator Fenton waa deliberately snubbed in the appointment of honest Tom Murphy to the Custom Ifouse; that General Grant, not satisfied with this snubbing of Fenton, fol- lowed him up to the Saratoga Convention and headed him off there, through Murphy, and headed off Fenton's righthand man, Greeley ; setup Woodford as the republican candidate for Governor, only to be knocked down by Fenton and Greeley. They say that there is a gang of republicans here in the pay of Tam- | many Hall, and that where these Tammany strikers as delegates can’t manage the radical primaries they raise a row and call in the police and put out the lights and break up the meeting. Then there are the ‘‘revenue re- formers,” or free-trade republicans, who are working like beavers in the rural dis- tricts to break up the party on its Congressional candidates. Worst of all, the rank and = file throughout the State don’t seem to care a button about the election, whether it goes up or down, and even General Grant don’t seem to care a but- ton. Perhaps he thinks that in cutting down the republican majority in Congress to a mere vote or two it will be brought to its senses and within the control of the administration. We think so, ut all events. Hence we have no re- grets at the general outlook of this New York campaign. We rather like it, although the dissensions and squabbles and conflicting cliques of soreheads in the republican camp are “gloomy and peculiar.” They have fish in Brazil that climb trees. Professor Agassiz saw them in his explora- tions of the Amazon, But we have republi- cans here that can face both ways at the same time. What chance, then, has Woodford against Hoffman? Between the Tammany ring and ‘the Erie ring—between Punch and Judy and the opéra bouffe—he will be ground into powder, Ona full, square poll through- out the State the colored vote might save Woodford; but there will not be a full poll nor a square poll so long as these Tam- many republicans get their wages. Moreover, who cau expect mento work for nothing, in carrying an empty bucket, when they can get good pay for carrying water on both shoul- ders? We must look at these things in a practical light. Beefsteaks cost money, and men must eat, This is the philoso- phy of haman life, from the parson to the politician. Brother Beecher preaches the Gospel according to St. Paul, and Rufus Andrews preaches politics according to St. Rufus, but they both preach for their beef- steaks; and where the supply is there will be the purchasers, In the next place, a single glance at ‘‘Boss Tweed” is a relief to a hungry politician, for is he not the embodiment of beefsteakqand a bounteous supply? In this view, the true view of party politics, the Big Indian on Tammany Hall looms up over our new Charter higher than the cross of St, Peter's. ‘ Behold, then, the melancholy condition of the Young Democracy on the back track to the desert, where even the camel dies from exhaustion. What can these youngsters doon this excursion on their short rations? They will fall by the way, or return like the Prodigal Son, yet vibrating grandiloquence of the Jubilee protest against the small vanities to which Gepub in en make a clean breast of it, and sit down toa supper of veal cutlets and shortcake. They are too weak to helo the republicans, and the Tammaay in our city and county affairs | republicans are too weak to holp them, The Tammany republicans spoil the coalition, and the colored gemmen are diszusted, The German republicans are indiguant over their lager beer, and the Irish republicans, we fear, have joined the democracy in the cause of the French republic. Marshal Sharpe is doing his best to provide against repeaters in registra- tion and in voting, but the task is perplexing from the overwhelming numbers of the unter- rified crowding upon his bands. His census and his inspectors may weed out scores and hundreds of frauds, and yet it is possible that no material reduction will be made of the average democratic majority in the city of the last five years, Tammany, to all appearances, has a clear field in the cily and the State, and the New York republicans are in a fair way to make Hoffman, from his success in this coming election, the democratic candidate for the next Presidency by general consent, and the Em- pire State permanently democratic until the party shall have again recovered possession of the White House. Such, after the October elections, is the prospect in New York for November. The Military Siiuation—Movements About Parks and Orleans, There is nothing new to report from the vicinity of Paris, The fire from the forts con- tinues so effective that the Prussians find it difficult to erect batteries any nearer the city. The work at night is prevented by the power- ful electric light used by the French, which enables them to detect any movement in that direction as well as by daylight. The scientific attainments for which Paris has justly been famous are thus turned to good account even in the prosecution of such dismal labors as those of war. An armistice was rec ently dewanded by the Prussians in brded to > bury their dead, slain in the recent sorties, which, it is “apparent, “were. “Orr niore consequence than the Prussians have hereto- fore been willing to admit. The army of in- vesiment seems to be making itself comfortable so far as practicable, It is said that the men billet in the numerous beautiful villas that sur- round the city, stable their horses in the libraries and use the polished cornices in the parlors and the orenge trees in the conserva- tories for fuel. The provisions seized in Normandy and the adjacent provinces are about exhausted, and the immense army is again dependent on its railroad communication with the Rhine, which at present is unob- structed. The necessity of winter quarters is looked upon with something of horror by the commanders, however, in view of the frail tenure they hold upon their base of supplies, and equally with horror, no doubt, by the civilized world that reads of the vandalism in daily practice. The movement on Tours seems, to have made little progress, Orleans is ocenpied by about ninety thousand men, Chateaudun is captured and held by about eight thousand more, and a heavy encampment is reported at Bellair, a few miles west of Orleans, These forces comprise a formidable line sweeping towards Blois and Tours. To oppose them are the new levies from Tours now confronting them on the Loire, near Orleans—levies which although new have had some experience in the previous battles in that neighborhood. The report is that these forces are quietly with- drawing before the Prussians in order to tempt 20, 1870. The Tammany Nominations. Tammany last evening made the following city and county nominations :— Muyor, \» Oakey Hall, sher(f. -Matthew . Brennan, County Charles K, Leow, Coroners... Gerson N. Herrmaun. The names for Coroners present a new and strong deal—Young representing the working- men, Herrmann the German population and Keenan (the present Coroner) that immense element which has already received many tokens of the esteem in which Tammany holds it—the Irish population. These men are not altogether new in politics, nor are they, with the exception of Young, altogether new in office holding. Mayor Hall we all know, and there is no need to speak of the ability which he bas brought to his present position. Mr. Brennan has been so long in public life within the city that it can be calculated very safely them from their base, but the latter do not seem to take the bait very greedily. The fresh material of the new armies of France should not be wasted either in demoralizing retreats or detached engage- ments, The whole of the immense force at Tours should be precipitated at once upon the foe at Orleans, in such weight of numbers as to crush him, and then it should be pressed on without delay against the investing lines at Paris, The French army now outoumbers the army of Prussia. There are probably eight hundred thousand men in France under arms, and Prussia, probably, cannot muster six hnn- dred thousand for duty. It is time that these French troops were organized and in the field; and the timid pottering which the Tours goy- ernment is guilty of recalls the criminal cow- ardice of the Washington government when it hampered McClellan’s movements on Rich- mond, in dread that he might thereby uncover Washington. The Lecture Season, The lecture season has fairly opened. Tne learned Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg has unfolded before the Liberal Club the startling discoveries which have led him to believe, after twenty-five years’ study of Mexican and Central American manuscripts and monuments, that the cradle of the human race is to be sought for beneath the waters of the Atlantic and in Central America. In Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening, Father Hecker lectured at the Academy of Music on the ‘‘Religious Con- dition of the Country;” Professer Goldwin Smith, at the hall. of the Adelphi Academy, on “A Tour in England,” and Mr. Du Chaillu, the distinguished traveller in Africa, before the Long Island Historical Society. On Tuesday afternoon, in this city, Miss Elizabeth Peabody delivered a lecture on the ‘‘Kindergarten; or the Education of Children.” Josh Billings will lecture to-night on ‘‘Milk” at Steinway Hall, and anether humorous philosopher announces a lecture on “Bile.” The first annual course of popular lectures before the Young Men's Universalist Society will begin on Tuesday, November 1, embracing the following subjects :—‘‘Our Na- tional Folly, the Civil Service,” by George Wil- liam Curtis; “‘The Adirondacks,” by Rev. W. H. H. Murray ; “The Dynamics of Life,” by Pro- fessor E. L. Youmans; ‘The Franco-Prussian War,” by Justin McCarthy, and “Charles Dickens,” by Kate Field. Tom Hughes, mem- ber of Parliament, and author of ‘‘Tem Brown at Rugby” and ‘‘Tom Brown at Oxford,” will lecture Friday evening at the Cooper Institute, before the Mercantile Library Association, on ‘Work and Wealth.” George Vandenhoff will give another of his admirable ‘“‘readings” to- night at the Hall of the Young Men’s Chris- tian Association, Miss Glyn will doubtless goen favor New Yorkers with the “readings” which have so much delighted the Bostonians. And Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, how well he is fitted to perform the duties of Sheriff, and County Clerk Loew is deservedly popular and has always transacted the duties of his position faithfully and creditably. These are the men who will win the positions of Mayor, Sheriff, County Clerk and Coroner at the election in this city on the second Tuesday in November. There is, of course,*no reasonable doubt that Tammany will win, The republican State Committee met last night and resolved to make no nominations, but to support the candidates of the Young Democracy. . This fusion might be a power against Tammany if the composition of the Young Democ ‘acy were more respectable than it is, But no dicta of State or general committees can turn the great bulk or even the larger half of the republican vote of this city to the aid of such disorganizers and rough riders as compose the brains and bone and sinew of the rough democracy —s faction rather ¢ re A rary, and Gis, od, that is rats enmity with Tammany only because it cannot rule it, Registration—The Mayor's Proclamation. The proclamation issued by the Mayor on the evening of the 18th instant seemed at first blush calculated to excite alarm. A calm review of the circumstauces that demanded it will demonstrate that an unusual state of feel- ing should not have been created by this unex- pected production from the City Hall. Some blame the Mayor for sending it forth at all, especially in the crude state in which it ap- peared and was circulated, in handbill form, late in the evening about the city. However that may be, it is clear that Mayor Hall was actuated by conscientious and patriotic mo- tives in issuing this proclamation, which ought to be regarded as a convenient method of com- municating serious advice to the citizens of New York. Now, what are the facts in the case? Let us see: The law authorizing a second successive day of registry at the first meeting says:— “This second day depends upon there being more than four hundred votes cast at the last election in the district.” Since this law was passed another was enacted authorizing the Mayor to redistrict the city and making it obligatory upon him that he should not have more than four hun- dred votes in a district, The Mayor might have guessed over four hundred or he might have guessed under. Hence he might have placed a large proportion of the voting popula- tion of the city in a position from which it would have been difficult to extricate them- selves, if it did not result in absolute dis- franchisement. We are informed that committees of the republican party had issued to what is not in- aptly termedthe “new sapervisors of the federal government” a secret circular asking them to take the names of all p rsons who regis- terel on the second day (Wednesday) and peremptorily challenge them therefor when they attempted to deposit their ballots on elec- tion day. The Mayor hereupon conceived that if the federal authorities proposed to construe literally the law in the premises and to forci- bly execute it there was likely to be a dis- turbance, and for the sake of the preservation of public order he deemed it advisable and his duty to i The Yellow Fever Controversy. The answer of the Board of Health to Gen- eral McDowell’s recent letter regarding their action in the matter of the yellow fever pesti- leuce at Governor's Island, as appeared in the Herarp of yesterday, must command atten- tion. It is a complete refutation of all the charges and insinuations so censoriously in- dulged in by that officer, The answer shows that had General McDowell consulted the reports of the Surgeon General of the United States Army in reference to the appearance of yellow fever among a body of troops he would have found that it is not such an extraerdi- nary measure to remove them from the in- fected locality ; but that, on tle contrary, the prompt removal of such command to a healthy site is made the imperative duty of the com- manding officer. Besides the several instances of this character quoted by the Board of Health, their report goes on to show that upon more than. one occasion the removal of troops from.a garrison infected with yellow fever, to a distance of less than half a mile, has com- pletely checked the spread of the disease. With these facts before them, and with which they should have been familiar, it is strange that the medical advisers of General McDowell did not follow the course so plainly laid down by their distinguished chief and insist upon carrying out the manifestly proper suggestion of the Board of Health in refer- ence to the evacuation of Governor's Island by the troops, so that the dread disease then raging among them might be suppressed. It bas been ascertained that since the begin- ning of the present month, when this import- ant step was recommended, between forty and fifty cases of yellow fever have been sent to the West Bank Hospital, while a number of others, including one of the medical officers, several of the officers’ relatives, and servants, have been retained for treatment on the island. When it is remembered that of these nearly one-third have died, a heavy responsi- bility was certainly incurred in needlessly exposing the officers and men on the island to the ravages of the pestilence. And how much better weuld it have been had Rev. Dr. Chapin, E. P, Whipple and other old stereotyped names are conspicuous on the pro- grammes of lectures to be delivered in towns and villages throughout New Englard avd the Middle Siates. the commander of the Department of the East occupied his time in removing the garrison to a healthy locality, instead of watching the death by frosts of the “worms on the tomato —TRIPLE SHEKT, vines” in his garden and sending censorious letters to the Board of Health, finding fault with its members for visiting Governor's Island in their efforts to check the spread of yellow fever and alleviate the condition of the sick, It is also rather strange that while com- plaining of a few hours’ delay in the erection of stoves in the West Bank HHospital—a hospi- tal intended and designed for the accommoda- tion of victims smitten with infectious diseases | raging during the summef months—the patients then under treatment at Governor's Istand were allowed to remain for days in open tents ex- posed to the inclemency of the weather, and were in consequence, in many cases, removed to the Quarantine Hospital in a moribund con- dition. In a word, the inconvenience and expense of a temporary transfer of the troops at Governor's Island, at the time the Board of Health recommended such action, to David's or Bedloe’s island, where ample accommodations could have been provided for them, was of no account whatever when weighed against the lives of the unfortunate men who have fallen victims to the indecision or indifference of their commanding officer. Our Special Telegrams trom the Sent of War—The Siege of Paris and a Pros. pect of Peace. Our special correspondents near the seat of war in Europe supply the two telegram letters which we publish in the Heraxp this morn- ing. These communications were forwarded from the Continent to London and thence transmitted by deep sea cable to New York yesterday. The result of our enterprise is to be found in the complete, extensive and valua- ble exhibit which we print. This constitutes at once a chronological his- tory of the progress of the siege of Paris dur- ing many Says just past, aud a sad, sad testi- mOoNY Of the desolating ravages of the Franco- Prussian struggle. Our writers supply x tracts from the latest Paris journals Sent a by balloon express. They speak again words of resolution, of hope, of military ardor, and even of mirth, Paris remained firm aid courageous. Jt would appear indeed, so far as inferences from newspapers published under such circumstances may be accepted, as if the Parisian defence presented a rather favorable aspect. The Prussian fire had slackencd at many points of the sieging encirclement. The French artillery response was continuous and effective at others. The Paris garrison had indeed advanced at one place beyond the first outer line of defence, and gone, as it were, towards the Prussians—gone to attack (hem. They had pushed forward temporary works formed of wood with earth on top, and thus made bombproof, as a sheltering cover. On these they mounted some guns taken from the original fortifications. Their fire damaged a portion of the Prussian earthworks, and at that particular place delayed the German ope- rations for a time. The latter had been renewed, however. The progress both of attack and defence appeared to have been more than usually slow at the moment. Inside the city the Parisians were exceed- ingly watchful and very economical of their arms and munitions of war. Trochu remained in command. There existed some slight political bickerings, but the expression did not disturb the general national patriotic feeling. Parisian wit was sparkling amid rai Kiag William is spoken of as ‘‘ihe vericst Tariuffe” and asked why he has not fulfilled his promise of being in Paris long since. Many other “eity incidents” in Paris are presented by our letter. Another of our special writers speaks by telegram from the more original seat of the war—from Sedan, from Bruxelles, and other places. He journeyed in the champagne coun- try. He witnessed the glowing assertion of nature in all her beauty and mojesty, and the desolations produced by man’s inhumanity to ; man. This portion of the communication will be read with a really mournful interest. As a Christian, encouraging finale, we may | observe that a telegraph writer speaks spe- cially from Berlin of an approaching armistice, which may leadio peace. ‘This armistice will, if completed, include the period of the French elections, and our report from Prussia repeats the declaration that King William will treat for peace if France resolves on a stable gov- ernment. Sobeit. The confirmation of such news would consiitute a glorious finale to our special enterprise, The Activicy of the Prench Flect- Our cable despatches indicate thot the French fleet seems ly to make ee eh effort to blockade the Elbe and Weser and thus cut off the immense ocean commerce between Hamburg and Bremen and the neutral ports. This is a good deal better than block- | ading New York city ft is one of the most | remarkable ciremnstances of the war that the French navy has played so uaimporiant a part in the great drama. I: had no enemy capable of resisting it, and there was an immense commerce which, under the accepted rule of nations, would have been its lawful prize. There are cities.on the coasts of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea which might have been bombarded. Hamburg especially could bave been easily approached by the heaviest French gunboats and battered to pieces with heavy French guns.. Bremen might possibly have been reached by vessels heavy enough to com- mand the city. The presence of torpedoes ought not to deter any gallant or careful com- mander. It is a statistical fact that only one gunboat, during our entire civil war, was destroyed by a torpedo. We are quite sure that Admiral Farragut’s fleet would not have been deterred by the presence of a river full of them. The French navy at the beginning of the war should have acted the part in German waters that the Prussian army so soon assumed. and acted on French territory. ‘The reverses of Marshal McMahon should have been coun- terbalanced by-the victories of Admiral de la Graviére, and the bombardment of Strasbourg and siege of Paris should have been paralleled by the bombardment of Hamburg and the naval investment of Bremen. ‘The horrors of war are never fully comprehended by people fighting victoriously on an enemy's soil. They require to be brought home to them, to fall with ghastly shadows on their own hearths, to blacken like a pall their own fair lands. eeementennrncie ener coast lands of Germany as now sheds its lurid flaines over all the fair land of France. Ben Butler Renominated. Benjamin F, Butler was renominated yes- terday for Congress for the Fifth district of Massachusetts, His nomination was unani- mous, His return to the floor of Congress is, of course, certain, Upon being presented to the Convention General Butler made a speech. He had a great many good things to say for the radical party—its past and its future—and a good deal about the services he rendered his district in Congress; but the keynote of his address was the fishery question. He went elaborately into the history of the laws upon which the present system was formed, in the enactments and treaties of 1812 and 1818. He denounced the reciprocity treaty, declar- ing that he would never vote for its renewal. If Canada wanted any privilegea/let her join the republic. He was not in favor of granting marriage privileges until after the marriage rites were performed. General Butler, warming up upon this cold fish question, pitched into England without merey for her course during the war. This invective was but a prelude to the proposition that the Massachusetts people should take the remedy into thelr own bands, although the President had promised him that the fishing iuterests should be protected. ‘‘A single-shot fired,” he says, ‘‘in answer to the British gun calling our vessels to heave to, will bring the matter to a crisis.” Bringing a British cutter into an Awerican port and trying her orew for piracy he thinks would make the diplomats “fly a little faster.” It is evident from Butler’s speech that the seizure of our fishing boats by the Canadian authorities is to besa importaat issue in the election fered telah Hs & ~ aero ne Hoffman’s Modesty. Governor Hoffman madg a speech after reviewing the troops of the Second Division in Brooklya on Tuesday, in which he said that it had always been his lot to be called to public posttions, in the duties of which he had no previous experience. Considering the manner in which the Governor has performed the duties of all the stations he has filled he must be arapid tearner, He says that when he was elected Recorder he had never read a page of criminal law in his life. This is a remarkable tact, considering that few, if any, better criminal jadges ever sat upon the bench of this city than Recorder Hoffman. The Governor further told the soldiers that when he was elected their Commander-in-Chief he did not know the right of the line from the left. This is a matter of very little consequence, because with such men on his staff as General Townsend, General McQuade and Colonel Townsend Connolly, who know all about the discipline of troops, he never can be at a loss about reviewing a division in line, although he may not be able to do an adjutant’s duty in forming a regiment. We have evidence, how- ever, that whatever Governor Hoffman’s mili- tary capacity may be in distinguishing the right of acolumn from the left he knows the ditference between the right and the wrong in the exercise of his executive duties, and that he has always been found on the side of right. We suppose he can be pardoned for his greenness as a soldier in consideration of his excellent qualities as the chief executive of the Siate. The Prisow Ketorm Congress at Ciucinnatic lt is not very creditable to our boasted rapidity of advance from barbarism to civiliza- tion that, almost a hundred years after Beccaria, on the Continent, and John Howard, in Great Britain, exposed the defects and the atroci- ties of prison di line as it existed in their day, such a Prison Reform Congress as closed its sessions at Cincinnati on Tuesday last, of which we give an account else- where, should still have been needed.. The papers which were that day read at the con- gress on prisons intermediate between the State prison and county jail, on humanity in prison treatment, on indemnity for unjust imprisonment, on the proposed Adult Reforma- tory at Warsaw, New York State, that shall aim to save rather than to punish; on the professional training of prison officers, and on an international penitentiary and reformatory congress, show how rauch yet remains to be done in modifying aud improving the present htful prison practices and punishments, se and other papers presented to the con- gress indicate, however, a resolute and praise- worthy purpose on the part of philanthropists to persevere until the reforms requisite for public security and for the welfare of prisoners shall have been accomplished. War: in WALL Srrext.—The “bulls” and “bears” are anything but a happy family just now, owing to a more than usually wide differ- | ence of opinion as to the course of the markets in the immediate future. Both sides have joined issue in the Stock Exchange and Gold Room, and under their alternate victories the markets have been see-sawing up and down ia the most violent manner the past week. Wall street is a perfect chameleon, For one-spell, when the ‘‘bears” bave the upper hand, every= thing in the shape of stocks threatens to tumble out of sight. The street is blue. The brokers are cross and the market out of sorts. Next comes a fair spell. The “‘bulls” are in the ascendant. The skies brighten. The street is cheerful and happy. ‘the brokera overflow with “orders.” Jn the main the market has one: general course for halt a year,, oreven a year at a time, The old, shrewd operators know this, and the changes above referred to are only devices of the speculators to double their profits by a process which bears the expressive designation of ‘‘milking the street.” It looks as if Wall street wera just now in the milking mood. The incautious should beware. Looxisa Ovr ror Squarrs.—-One hundred United States marines now stationed at Phila~ delphia are under orders to proceed to this city, ‘In time of peace prepare for war.” THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE “‘BATTLE OF THB Nations.”—It was generally predicted that the anniversary of the allied victory erer the first Napoleon at the battle of Leipsiq would be commemorated on its recurrence (October This in a measure might have been brought about by the French navy. Now it cannot, with all its forces combined, in years of cangopading gast such desolation oyer the 17) by the bombardment of Paris, “The reason why it was not may poasibly be ascribed to the fact that a cauuon ball, seldom strikes twice in the game piace,