The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1870, Page 3

par ent lteter tome PARIS. Peace Arrangement Between Bazaine and King William. Heavy Rifle Firing Heard Be- fore Paris. Roported Routing of a German lorps Near Reaugency. he Prussian Ferees Advanc- ing on Lyons. France Rejects the Prussian Terms of an Armistice. BAZAINE’S CAPITULATION TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Underetanding with King William—A Speody Term on of the Wer. LONDON, Oct. 23—Noon. Special telegram advices addressed for the use of the Heraip from Bouillon, under date of the 27th inst., report that the capitulation of Marshal Ba- vaine with bis army, and the surrender of the fort- ress of Metz, were accomplished tn conformity with ap anderstanding which had been previously ar- rived at with King William of Prussia, Bazaino’s action of surrender contemplates, tt 1s paid, @ speedy peace and the termination of the war. THE MILITARY OPERATIONS. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Meavy Firing Heard Near Paris—Reported German Defeat—Skirmixh on the Leire= Items from Betore Parle—The Advance on Lyous—Metz to be Occupled To-Day—Pris- Captared—Francs-Tireurs Active leg? of Meziers—Napoleon te go to Elba— Garibaldi and France—Several War Notes. LONDON, Oct. 28. 1870, Heavy rifte firing was heard to-aay near Parts, the sound coming from .he defences between La Villette and Montmartre, NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL—CAITURE OF A PRUSSIAN BALLOON. A correspondent at Boulogne sends a sammary of oners newe just received by a speflal carrier trom Paris, with dates to the 20th inst. Heavy an¢ continued rains, with strong winds Srom the west, have forced the government to gus- pend the acronantic posts, and no ballona have beep sent up since the isth, On the 19th a fixed balloon broke loore from its station above the Yrussian positions at Montvem and was blown to- ward Paris, il it came over the Seine at Billow- court, where 1t was perforated with fe bullets and Iq lo the earth. Tyg Men of tbe engineers were picked out of the wreck, one of them #0 badly hurt that he soon afier died, together with a dam- aged telescopic apparatus, and a valaable note- cook and set of newly executed chart. It appeared, however, that the observations made of the French works were out of perspective tpacnyate and mostly worthicss DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY THE BESIFGERS. The rains increase the diMculty which the Prus- pians experience in establishing thelr siege guns, and the typhus fever, already raging In the camps Vefore Paris, 1s assuming a matignant and epidemic character. The main body of the German forces to the south and east of Paris continues to be carefully masked behind the Gardenne de Sene, the Bois de Faupeo Reposes, the Bois de , Gonard and the woods around Versailles. A battery of eight guns, whicn the Germans had been trying to establish near Bas-Priemay, was dismantled on he 19th by the fire of the fortress of Mont Valerfen, ASSURANCES TO THE PARISIANS—A NEW MIDRAIL+ LEUSB, Within the walls of Paris all was going on quietly and well. There were no signs of diseontent nor of any pressure for the necessaries of life, General Trochu issued on the 19th a brief proclamation, assnring the inhabitants that all was goimg on well, and that there was no reason to tear that the Germans would be able to interrupt the preparations which France is everywhere making to defend ber soil, to avenge her slaughtered chil- aren and to reassert her place in Europe. A nez mitrailleuse had been submitted to the examination of the government, which discharges six thousand projectiles in five minutes. The buildings of the colleges of Lou s-le-Grand, of St. Louis and of the College of Ste. Baabs, have al! been appropriated as hospitals. A SUCCESSFUL ATTACK. While the Prussians engaged on the 19th iu butld- ing a bridge across the Seine, between Argeutenil and Bezons, for the purpose of facilitating their communications between the northern and western divisions of their forces, were suddenly and fiercely attacked by a column of Francs-tireurs, moving out from Cambeouge and Colombes, who -destroyed | their working parties and blew up their Works with a terrible shock, which was felt for a great distance around, REPORTED ROUT OF A GERMAN CORPS, It is rmmored that a German corps’ has been de- feated and routed between Beaugency'and Mon{he- tard, SKIRMISH ON THE YOTRE. ¢ There was a sharp skirmish between geconnoiter- ing parties on the left bank of ehe Loirgnesr Orleans yesterday. Both parties retired, MINMS FROM BEFORE PARR. ‘The correspondent of the London Tignes telegraphs the following from Versailles, tr date of the 25th: : ee Tt will be a few days yet before te Germans will Le ready to bombard Paris, In the action en the 21st inst. sixty-five battalions teok part, supported by tweive batteries Of artillery. There are over 2,000 sick and wounded French end German soldiers in and around Versailies. Forts Vanyves, Montrouge and’ Bicctre are now connected by strong eartuworks, Twenty citizens of Bougeuel nave been executed by the Prussians for aiding tae Vrene in their sorties from Paris, THE ADVANCE ON LYO: The Germans, who oecupied Versoul, in consider. abie‘force, have left tifat place for Gray-sur-Saéne, ‘This movement down tlie valley of the Sadne is be- lleved to be the firat step in an advance on Lyons, XHE OCCUPATION OF METZ—PRISONERS CAPTORED, othe capin jon of Meiz was not signed until Thursday ‘The city will be occupied by the Germans to-morrow. Tye whole number of prison- ets is now Tépresented tw be 175,000, including three ‘marebais and 6,000 offieers. One hundred guns Were fired tn Berlin yesterday in honor of the event, ACTIVITY OF THE FRANCS-TIREURS. » On Sunday a Pfussian provision train near Vouziers was attacked by the Frangg-tiveurs, who killed the escort and captured the stores, they Nave also killed thirty o1 the white cuirassiers near Obizy. THE SIGE OF MEZIERES. There is a force or tweaty-flve hundred PYnesians before Mézlitres, Active operations, however, have hot heen eomenced, as the slege guns haye not AITO NAVOLEON TO GO TO ELBA. espondence of Berlin says the health of Napoleon requires a mplder oumate. It ‘ree Cor she Wmpers NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER zy, I870.—ERKIVLE SHEKT. dm possible that early next month he may change Withelmshine for Elba, WHY GARIBALDI SYMPATHIZED WITH FRANCE. A letter from Garibaldi is published, in which the General says he at first sympathtaed with Germany, when she sought the overthrow of Napoleon, and he how sympathizes with France because she has made herself a republic. PRUSSIAN LOSRES AT SOISSONS. A corresponden! at Ostend sonds word that he bas had an interview at Brussels with a colonel of the army of Mecklenburg, sent to Belgium on @ mission in regard to the wounded, who informed him that in the three daya of the fhting at Soissons the Germans lost no fewer than 600 men, From all sides ana trom soldiers themselves the ex- pression of horror and disgust at the prosecution of the war and at the awful Dioodshed and misery It entails grows dally louder and deeper. AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS FOR FRANCE. A correspondent at Boulogne sends word that a few of the American volunteers who arrived at Brest ou the steamer Ville de Paris enlisted in the MNinety-fourth regiment stationed in that city, but the majority joined the Franc-tireurs, and were ordered at once to Tours. They were received coolly by the oMleials at Brest, but most enthusias- tically along the road and at Tours. CAPTURE OF A GERMAN VESSEI. A recent arrival from the West Coast of Africa an- nounces that the Freneb frigate Villepente had cap. tured the German vessel Hero near the Banana Islands on the 17th of September, The prize had seven hundred barrels of gunpowder aboard, FRENCH HONOR VINDICATED, ‘The court of inquiry which has been investigat- ing the blowing up of the citadel of Laon, acquits the French commandant of all responsibility for the outrage. SEVERAL WAR NOTTS. Marsha! Bazaine was recently informed that ne could only nave the terms which were accorded MacMahon at Sedan, Le Pays estimates the expenses of the war, begin- ning with the cost of armaments since 1868, at £460,000, 000, At Orleans the Prussian bauds play every evening, but the inhabitants remain closely honsed. The shops are ail cloxed and the women appear in mournin, Despatches from Tonrs report that General Michel has been appointed to succeed Cambriel in the com- mand of the Eastern Department. ‘The people of Amiens display intense ardor in the defence of the city. The French government has by decree ordere a trial by jury in all cases. The Capituiation of Schlestadt—Great Battles Im wt Near Le Mans and Orleans—Suace censfal Sortics trem Paris—News from Besancea. Tours, Oct. 28, 1870, ‘The oMeial report of the capitulation of Schies- tadt has been received by the Minister of the Ine terior. GREAT BATTLES IMMINENT NvAr ORLEANS. ‘The government continues to withhold news of operations on the Loire. Allthat is known is that vast bodies of troops have been manauvering for some days, and that great batties are imiminent near Le Mans and Orleans, SUCCESSFUL SORTIES FROM PARIS, Nothing oMctal has been received from Paris to-day, but tt is privately reported that several suce cesaful sorties have recently been made. RESISTANCE TO THE INVADERS IN THE EAST. Advices from Besangon show that a successful resistance has been offered to the German invaders of the eastern provinces. THE PEACE QUESTION. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. M. Taters En Route tor Paris—France Reie the German Terms of Armistice -Lord Ly ons Frépariug to Loave touts. © “~~~ LONDON, Uct. 28, 1870, Ateloxten from Tours saya that M. Thiers started Tor Paris to-day. LB MANS AND THE BASIS OF TUE PROPOSED ARMISTICE. The news of the surrender of Metz wiih tha army of Marshal Bazaine, numbering 83,000 combatants cf all arms, nnd between 15,000 and 20,000 disabled troops, is confirmed in this city today. It ts received with indlg- nation by the republicaes here, but in govern- ment circles and among tic imperialists it is regarded as favorable to the negotiations now going on at Versailles for an armistice. These negotiations, in them original basis, involve po reference whatever to Meiz, the army of Marshal Bazaine having been considered by both partics as out of the practical question so far as regards the grounds of France for clalming, or the reasons of Prussia for admitting, tie advantages acceed to France in the sald origiual basi Ihave its pointe, on the vest authority, as fol- to ret—That the principle of the statu quo ante is to govern all arrangements looking to the pusnibie resumption of arms after the armistice. Second—Thet both belligerents are to be allowed to hold undisturbed their actual positions at tle time of the signing of the stipulation. Third—That the city of Paris 1s to be allowed to receive daily one day’s suppiy of provisions. Fourth—Ali latitude is to be given threugnout the country to proceed with the election of members to the Constituent Assemb)y, RUSSIA AND ENGLAND INSIST ON A SAPS CONDUCT FOR M. THLERS, Inteliigence has just reached the Foreign OMce here thot the German authorities at Ver- sailles Lave consented upon tue formal demand to tat effect conciuded in diplomatic but de- cided language of the governments of Great Britain and Russia to grant M. Thiers a safe conduct from ‘Tours through the German lines into Paria, It is expected that an interview between M, Thiers and Generai Trochu will decide the fate of the negotia- tons for an armistice, THE FRENCH PRESS ON THE ARMISTICE. | A correspondent at Boulogne sends word that there 18 nO Dews there from Metz. From Tours he reports that the newspaper La Francais expressly denounces the negetiations for on armistice a8 conceived and carried | forward In a spirit of nostility to France. or at least of subservience to Prussia, It asserts that ihe sud- cen anxiety of England to bring about a cessation Gf active wish operations has been tuspired not by any ¢ the French republic firmly established, ly by a desire to see Germany released irom a position which is fast becoming untenable. 1t dec’ares that all the evidence goes to show that Prussia ab solutely needs peace; that her military organiza- tion, imposing upou her greater burdens in along war than her coniederates of South Germany bear, threatens her with a disproportionate amount of sutering and loss, France only desires honorabie conditions of peace, and those nothing cau ensure her but the prolongation of the contest. bvery mouta adds to bee organization for tye oifensive. Every month driits Prussia towards j the deiensive. Were Parts itself to be forced fn two mots’ thne to surrender it would only be after battes which would have so far brokeu the streng th of the Juvesting army as to ren- der it lex ror the forces which by that time France will have in the feid to make it absolately ne- cessury for Germany to purchase peace at any price. Za Francais, therefore, exhorts the govern- ment to stand firm, and not to be cajoled or infiu- exced by neutrals who have no enlarged or sympa. thetic regard either forthe honor of France or for the permenent conditions of aa European peace. It recommends that the clection of members of tho Consuiutional Assembly be held on the isin of November, and that tho meet ing ve called for the 21st, and it winds up by citing the example of the frst Congresses of the American Confederation, which were chosen with+ out asking permission of the British invaders of the colonies, and which persevered in their patriotic tagk though the city of New York, the chier port and Philadelphia, the capital of the young republic, were forced to succumb to the superior milltary skKuil and nomwbers of the British army. Your correspoudent cites the article as express iba the views Of M, Gambeita, the leading member of the provisional government, Be adds that the intuence of M, Gambetta and General ‘frochu, from Whom communications have been re- cently received, is thrown strongly in favor of @ removal of the seat of government either to Bordeaux or to Clermont-Ferrand, This is in view of the fact that opera tions of the German army on the Lotro are expected to bring on @ sertous collision with the French forces ie a very short time, and it Is thought best that the government should be out of the reach of even a possible disaster, PRESSING THE ENGLISM INTERVENTION, Té is now reported that Austria nas renewed her activity In support of the English negotiations, and that she is warmly backed by the Malian govern- ment, FRANCE REJECTS TNE GERMAN TERMS. OF ARMISTICE, A special despatch to the London imes, from Berlin, intimates that the French had rejected the German terms of armistice, but thinks the fall of Meta will lead them to reconsider their determina- tion, WANTS TO HOLD ON TO METZ. The Anzeiger, of Berlin, says that Germany, re- gaining Metz, has the strongest point on te line of the Moselle, and she must keep it. LORD LYONS PREPARING TO LEAVE TORS. Lord Lyons, the British Minister to France, is pre- paring to leave Tours, He has engaged the first Noor of the Hotel de la Paix, in Bordeaux, TEE LATEST WAR NEWS. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Nothing from Paris or the Lolre=Prussinn Defeat Near Besancon—Cambriels Removed— Fourbaki at Work—A Precautions Against Sarprise=More About Mission to Paris= Prussian Beotaliiy. TOURS, Oct. Evening. No oMicial intelligence from Paris or the Army of the Loire is known to lave been received to-day, PRUSSIAN D AT IN THR V ‘the following oficial despatch has just been re- ceived and made publi BOURG, Cot, 28, 1870, A telegram from Basic announces that the Prus- slans have suffered a defeat between Montbéliard and Besancon. They fied in disorder taking with them fifty-three wagons fillea with wounded, and leaving 1,200 killed on the fleld, ‘Three hondred of the fugitives crossed the frontier into Swiss terri- tory. They were disarmed and directed to proceed to Posentray. CAMBRIELS REMOVED. Geveral Cambricis, by decree of the government, is removed from command tn the East, and General Alexauder Ernest takes his place, KOURBAKL AT wons, Advices from Lille represent that General Bour- baki has visited and made caveful inspection of ail the strongholds in the north, and was engaged in reviewing troops and giving orders for defence. The government here considers that his inarch to the as- sistance of Amiens, saved that cily from atiack and bombardment, A MISSION TO PARIS. Colonel Wickenstein, military attache of the Rus- sian Embassy, left Tours to-day for Versailles, having receivea a safe conduet from the Prussian headquarters. He had ‘just arrived here from Lon. don, and will go from Versailles to Parig, PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SURPRISES. Miolster Gambetta has issned a decree establish- ing in each department a centre of observation, so that the troops may no longer be habie to surprise by the enemy. Proper parites will be held respon- sible, under heavy penaitics, for constantly report- ing the movements of the invaders. MORE ABOUT PRUSSTAN BRUTALITY. A Protestant pastor of Geneva, a native of the United States, who has accompanied ampulance trains since the beginning of the war, is now in Tours. He gives @ harrowing recital of ! the brute! conduct of tie Prussian soldicry towards the defenceless country people. He says he has seen them wantonly destroy farming implements, looms and food, take away the men and compel them to work 23 laberers, leaving the women, children and tfirm to starve, He intends to address, through the press, a letter to the kind people of Germany, giving details of these eut- rageous. acts, A FUROPEAN CONGRESS, It is reported here that England meeting of a European Congr: peace, AID desires: to ar the ee VOR TNE FRENCH W USDoOD. Solvee Dram»tique at the Franco- \meric Instituie. A soirée Gramatique in aid of the French sufferers by the war was given last evening by the pupils of the Institution Franco-Americaine, 15 East Twenty. fourth street, The large sa/ons of the establisment were crowded with @ select audience, which com prised many of the ieading French and American citizens of New York. Among them were Pere Ro- nay of the Institute St. Louts, in Twenty-uurd strect; M. Mercier, of the Courrier a Flats Un Proiessor biston, of the Cniversity of New York; Professor Millet, General Delafield and family, Lexingion Fox and family, Dr. Crosby and Mr. Olmstead. The entertainment con- sisted of dramas and music, V. Duchochois was deservediy applauded. The amusing comedy, ‘Ici on Parle Prangals,"’ was ad- mirably given, and created roars of laughter. The most noticeable part of the programme, however, was “Les Ricochets”—a comedy given in French by the pupiis of the institution. ‘The purity and ease with which the language was spoken, and the ad- mitable acting, capecially of Miles, Mercier, Carrier, Fridenberg, Arnault and Crosby, excited deserved applause. The wrrangements, under tie direction of Mesdaines Maillard and Carrier, were all tat could he destred. GAMIBALDI AT TOUR A mail telegram from Tours, dated on the vth of October, says:— Gartbatdl arrived here at hatt-past seven this | mornmg and alighted at the Preiecture. At hall | past eight be received visits from MM. Crémieux, Gials-Bizoin, Laurier and others, Arriving Unexpectedly no preparations had been made to receive hiin at the station. A lieutenant of a line regiment who happened to be there offered to escort Garibaldi, who replied that he was not uccustomed to be escorted, adding, “We shail meet again on the fleld of battle together, to de. liver the territory of the French republic from tue invader.” Garibaidi proceeded to the Pre- } fecture with Genera! Isembert, and although very fatigued he received the Prefect and the members of the government. Meanwhile, a battalion of Francs ureurs, hearing that Gartvaidi had arrived, came into the garden of the Prefecture, together with the people, and asked thy aribald! showld review them, shouting at the same thne, “Garibalds for- *? sPhe republic forever 1” jarivald: appeared at the window of the Prefec- ture with MM. Crémiewx and Glais-Bizoin, but, bang indtsposed, le could not go down. . Crémieux aad Glais-Bizvin descended, re- viewed the Fraucs-reurs, and atierwards rej ied Garibalat. At the request of th zo embraced Carib, jion. Garibaldi and M, Cr Words to the Frapes-t ing “Garibaidt fo; Crémieux foreve: @ Francs-tirenrs, M. Glsis-Bl- di ia tie pame of ihe yatia- mieux then addressed a few Who disverse i, soni Tue republic forever !? | Garibaldi as a General of Keguiar Troops. it 1a just as well to recollect, says the Pall Matt Gazette, whe Prench republicans exnit in the ad- dition of Garibaldi to te stadt of tneir army, that u tie warrior, thoaga ab times he has been Ui In revolutionary move- nients, has been unitormiy unfortunate in bis en- counters with regular troops im the open deld. In 1869 his veiunteer couuuand was only saved from being destroyed er driven into Lake Como by Gene- ral D’Uroan, who had completely outmanwuyred him, because at Uuis critical Jucture the allied army advanced towards the Ticino, and Glulay was forced to cali in ali detachments instantiy to mect them at Magenta. In loé6 the volunteer army corps which co-operated under Garibaldi in the mountains wost of Lake Guarda was held in check by a mere handful of Austrians, and roved of ere. small service in facili- Allng the attack on Venetia by the regulars under the King of Ciaidini. How ulterly the last two Italian expeditions oi the hero of Caprera have conie , to grief at Aspromonte and Mentaua is in the memo- ries of all. ‘Khe fect is that Garibaldi’s forte 13 alto~ ther in & different line from that which the ‘rench need. He is great at exciting evthusiasm in @ population that has been sinmbering under the eviis of a despotic government until the fire of revo- lotion is kindled. other sort of jeader, one who understands the details Of war on a yrand scale, and, above wil, can eulurce disciviine, and thai bas veew aways the extraordinarily suce The singing of Mile, | | counties comprising the Southern district of O| But the French want quite an- | Weak point in Gartbaldi’s forees whenever and Wherever he has appeared at the head of one, The General Poikes, who 80 precipitately abandoned Or jeans befove the Prussians approached, despite the protests of the municipaltty, and without even to collect his own a solgier chiedy In connection with the not very brilliant yet complete victory where hie Jed a brigade of French infantry under De Faitly during the Ganbaldian ¢ hae of 1807, 0 dexterously used by Mr. Disraeli! Lothair.’” But stich as was this service against the irreguiar levies which threatened Rome, either its or his supposed imperialist leanings wero sufctent reason for his Ng gazetied soon after to the rank of general of division, and he was given a command, though he Was hot pur on the staff of these corps collected th the cavt of France two mouths since, NEW YORK IN A BALLOON. detachments, 14 M. Gumbettn Wounde Mr, Reynolds, of New York, gives the folowing account of an arial excursion which he took, with two others, trom Paris on Friday morning, October Nadav 7, ut the same with M. Gambetta: The weather crowd = was assembled the members of the goveri ce. We rose, amid cries of “Vive la Republique !" seven hundred metres, passing over the Prussian lines, ‘The wind fails; we hear cannon shots; we moment that ascended See signals; a weli-sustained fusitiade commences; Gamb: tta’s balloon is Obuses are shot to try and burst the The wind the batis hiss on all sides, above our ballool he moment Is a trying one. gets up. We 1 ‘ak i sock we lost sight of Gambetta at He descended too near, and was an object for the Prusstin balls. The bailoon had a hole made Mn it, and his hand was grazed, At tour we reached land at Roye, The peasants were terrified and would not come near, bat soon the better class came iu thelr carriages and gave us & Welcome grecting. We found Gambetta at Amiens; he descended near AWood on the other side, which wus occupied by Prussians, At Amiens Gaubetta veveived an enthu- siasUC Ovation, ‘There is uo discord in Pari BROOKLYN CiTY. A Bogue Policeman—Triplots~Dan Pffer Cun- valescent—The Central Bank Troublos— Miscellaneous Items of Intelligence. The Methodists of Flatbush will dedieate their new church edifice, forty by elgity feet, on Sunday next, The buiidiug is of brick wad LwWo stories Ligh. Peter oMee, Whose death was announced in the columns ofa morning paper yester by some incorrigthle Seoundrel, 18 alive aged well, and Was BU MeN post of duty a usual yesterday An Eastern District physician Burean of Vital Statistics yes'er his, @ Mrs. Monigomery, resk!ing in Rem near b had just ioreased the pe Williamsburg by t lution of tures, & babes were doing well. United States Marshal Dallon has received the books and papers of the deimact Central Pank, and will hold them until an assignee is appointed, United States Commissioner Winslow has notified the creditors to appear before him, at 189 Montagne sireet, on the 12th of November, at leu o'clock A. Qi, when their charms will be paid. reported to the on street, fon of that 2 District Attorney Morris prosecuted Thomas Jen- mings for bigamy and convicted him. Jennings’ first wife, Who was coerced into testifying against him, was left sick and destitute, but the charitable District Attorney, upon learning the fact, Imime- diately gave her yout Of lis Own poe to re- lieve hes Imigediate winis. George Butcher, the painter who fell from the roof of No. 48 Concord street on Thursday morning, a distance of fifty feet, died at the City Hospital at an early hour yesterday morning. Deceased was thirty- UwWo years of age, anda native of England. His wire and family are now on their way to this coun are, of course, unconscious of the sad catast ry, and phe, Dan Pfifer, the celebrated turfite, who was re- | ported as fatally injurea at the Prospect Park Pair Gronnd on Thursday, while training a fast horse, 16 How pronounced out of danger by the physicians in giteodence upon him, [tis hope! by them that he wile Ag $2 be about agati inthe course of a | Week or fed day: - Charles Batver, a German, was arrested yesterday for personailng an ofiiver, The accused pretended tobe @ New York detective officer, and threatened to arrest an individual named James McMahon because the latter would uot accept an inferior watch for one which hai, he represented to Mc- Mahon, been lost by a jeweller with whom he left it. Basser was In the fempiloy oi the jeweller whose in- terests lie was thus serving. He is eld for court, A tine table for lighting the poblic streets of this | city has been agreed upon by the Mayor and Street Commissioner for the months of November end De- cember, There are 10,715 lamps now lighted, which consume 42,455 feet of gas perhonr, The proposed pian will effaect asaving of $65,000 for the pertod named, Its # virtual retrograde moyement to the good old times of ne light wuen the moou falls to show her fece, though down on the Almanac todo 80. Another workinan in the caisson of the t river bridge was mjured yesterday afternoo.. John MeGaitigie, one of the ‘drillers,’ was preparing a blast in one of the heavy stone boniders witch are sO frequently encountered in making the ex. cavations at the bottom of the caisson, when the powder which he was ramming in with an iron bar igntied from a spark which was sprack Irom the fiinty rock, und exploded the full charge. He was severely if not fatally Injnrea, The unfortimate man. who 13 the thivd victim to care’ess blasting at this work, wa% removed to the City Hospital. THE METHODISTS. | Meeting of the Book Committee in Cincin- | nntimThe New York Troubi > CINCINNATI, Oct. 28, 1870. ‘The Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Chuivh, appointed by the last General Conference, | has been in session here since last Wednesday. An examination of the affairs of the Western Book con- uM here and in Chicago has shown them to be in @ very satisfactory condition. ‘The case of the Rey, Dr. Lanahan, Assivtant Agent. ; in New York, oharged with offictal misconduct, mai- leasance, neglect of oilictal d and viher things, is under to be uoder consideration, ‘The report that the old trouble of the > roncern, Invelying Dr. Carlton and James was to be reopened 1s without foundation. w York . Porter, THE MEMPHIS RACES, MEMPHis, Oct. 28, 1470. To-day was the fourth of tne Chicksawa Jockey Chub races, The first race was for a purse of $1,665, to which the cb edded $360, and was won by Sauce Box, veating Jef Davis second ana Mariacehi third. Time, 40\;. Seance Box was the Javorite—betting being five to one m her favor—but owing (o a bad start the sports hedged. Sance Box, after passing the half-miic, brushed and closed the gap, coming in a neck ahead. ‘The Blut City Stakes, for three vears old, in two ; mie heats, for $5,066, the club adding $1,000, ihe jolow ing is the Summary :— Kildare. . 1 Minute Brown 4 John MeDonaid. 0 Dis. Irene Sheppard 42 Roque +5 0 Dis. Jennie 4% : 6 3 Kila Was the favorite and won easily. re tendance was large anddlie bi “TELEGRAPH I Ing heavy. W3 TERS. | | The Governor ey's Rail i | rond Subetdy bit | The total serson Is 13 of Oregon has [s pumber of deals by yeilow fever Iu Movile duis G Davis has ised an order revoking quarantine in al! Texas ports Yrom the 4th of Novewber neat. ‘The town of Centreville, Kako, 8 totally destroyed by fe on the 24th of Octovers? Ns O85 Uealzured by The smallpox ia raging in Selom, Oregon. the Legislature died and two oikcre are dangerously ili. people are panic-siricken. J. a. Kelguin's. store in Witltmantic, Conn., was broken Jato on Thuréday wight and robved of ‘over $2,000 woith of goods. Hiram Jones was yesterday convicted in Portsmouth, N. I, of the murder of ‘his wife in Jane last, and sentenced to ve'hanged on the first Tuesday I Novemver, 1871. One member of rhe persons iy suburbs,” The 10 18 1,477,799. ‘The democratic nominee for Congress tn the Illinois First flistict having withdrawn, John Wentworth (long Jon) ns determ! in as thdepende: ‘against A. 8. Farwel, the republican candidate. nn) “EBne A te. Richard W. Aiken wan arrested at Pouzhkeepsic yeater- day soraing by Sheriff Kenworthy, charged with defrauding Obaries A. ims and Charles H. Meigs, of New York, of 125,00. His bail has been fxed at 740,000, but be bas not been able to obtain it, A railroad boarding house at Bismarck, Mo., on the Iron Xountain Ralltond, was burned nly yesterday. moroing. Fhe Keeper of the house, whose nome is unknown, wae Vurned to death. Two other men were badly Injured.’ The house was ful of sleeping railroad jaborers and iecbabics and their eacupe Was eifecied with wi vob Gifleuitys Green, an assistant in the Comptrotier’s | ¥ that a patient of | NEW YORK CITY. The Knife at Werk About Town—Mr. Allon in the Tombs—Accidents and Violent Deaths~ Miscellaneous Items, The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s phar- macy, HEnaLp Bullding, corner of Ann atreet:— 1869, 1870, 186), 4979, BAM. + 40 50 . 62 6A. M. - 42° (68 oL $A. M. a MM 12M... +e 40 02 1PM. ir Average tempor. Averege temper: last year ure yeaterday . ture for corres) A soirée musicale tn atd of the wounded French soldiers will be given by Mra, Dr. G. W. Brooks at her residence, 88 West Thirty-second street, on Monday, evening, October 31. George Whittle, of No, 04 Henry street, yesterday morning fell mto the hold of the steamship Bra- viltan, lying at pier No, 4 North river, and was sert- ously Injured, He was sent to the Cliy Park Hos. pital. Jusitce Dowling yesterday held for trial Edward Connell, of 428 Canal street, having stabbed tn the neck, with a’pocket knire, Toomas Ward, of 84 City Hall place, Connell stittes that be was acting in selt-defencve, ‘The body of an unknown man was found floating in the water, foot of Spring street, th river, at +Ix o'clock yesterday morning, by private watch. quan Weish, 6235 Washington street, The body waa # nt Lo Lhe Morgue, John Ward, alaborer on Stewart's new building, corner er Fourth avenue and Thirty-second street, fell from one of the apper stories to the ground and ved Injuries from the effects of which he died tn Bellevue Hosplial. Deceased lived in Bast Thirty- second street. The “ton.” Theodore Allen, who has been con- fined In the prison attached to the Second Distriet Police Court since Saturday last, on a charge of pe jury, yesterday took his depariure in the “Bi: Maria’ for the Tombs, having been fully committed for trial by Justice Cox, ‘The thivty-ninth annual fair of the American fu- stitute—the most successful ever held—is drawing toa close, A few days only remain for visitors to enjoy thts grand school of industry, invention and art. Let no one delay looking in upon this museum, factory, art gallery and workshop combined, During @ quarrel which occurred on Thursday , ight between John Miller and Ellen Collins, near | Forty-second street and Third avenue, Miller was severely stabbed by Elion with a butcher's knife, | she was arrested and lock up yesterday at the | | ked Yorkville Pollee Court fo answer.” Miller's wound Is Hot dangerous, On Wednesday evening, Mr, John Callinan, the venerable father of M. J. Catlinan (Garryowen), en getting off the front platform of one of the Forty- second street cars while in motion, slipped and fell under, the wheels crusning him severe! immed late! Fourth street, by cor of the Fifte where he hes dangerously ill, Philip Brady, of 123 West Twenty-fith street, the party who stabbed officer Michael Cline, of the Ninth precinet, in the abdomen with a knife, on the nightof the 2d inst., was arrested at the corner of Mercer and Spring sireei# on faursday afternoon by officer Belly of the Twenty-ninth precinct. Upon being arraigned vefore Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market yesterday morning, he clalmed to have been acting in seif-defeace, but was committed in defauit Of $4,500 ball Lo answer at the General Sessions, On Thursday fourteen Japanese arrived in this city from San Francisco. They are stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Their names are Semahumer, Oyermur, Hayuser, Nerkaherma, Hatura, Arge, Likada, Machida, Hougma, Marva, Hiw domer, Merwonw and Matumoic, They have been sent out by the Japanese government to learn the different languages of Europe and to get a general knowledge of everything. Four of them go to Ber- | Hn to school, two to Paris, four to Lendon, two stay in New York and the other two go to ttaly, ‘They will return to Japan in 1875, ‘The Treasurer of the German Sanitary Pair reporta, in addition to the receipts previously published, amounting to $27,064 47, that he has received in cash donations $499 85, and from the sale of season tickets $798 ‘The amounts realized from admission tokets and daily sales since the last report are a follows:—October 20, $1,811 $3; October Sh 018 15: October 23, $4,F64 21; October 24, $5,453 32; October 26, $3,785 12: October 26, $3,459 The fun total recelyed siuce the opemng of the fair 1s } $00,206 80, Asmail company of the Socicty of Friends gath- ered jact evening, responsive to the appointment of James K. Bailey, of lowa, a mivister of their society, at the meeting house in Twentieth street, near Third avenue, Broiier Batley made a fervent prayer, after having read from the Bible those verses te ting the surety of “No condemnation for the follower after the spirit and not after the flesh.” He then ad- dressed the company in _@ manner explanatory of the above Biblical declardtion, and exhorting those present to dedicate or to renew the dedication of hemselves to God and to make public avowal of such dedication, promising also that God would “see thein through if they would only give them- selves uway to Him.’ Several other brothers and sisters exhorted and prayed before the close of tie inecting. PROL ih HOMiCU XEWARK. Yesterday aftecnoon, between three end four o'clock, ® desperate rencoutre took place ina low drinking saloon on River street, New- ark, between one of the proprietors, Mi- chael Carr, and a carman named Willlam Corbett, residing in Union street, in the course of which the latter was struck a terrifle blow with a heavy base ball club, causing a fracture of the skull, which, it is though’, must prove fatal. It appears Corbett, who has hereiofore borue a mos. unchviavle reputation for rowdyism, and who is a brother of Mark Corbett, the same who Was recently acquit on a charge of rape, entered Carrs lace, No. 83 River street, in a drunken condition, and demanded drioks Without pay, Whereupon Carr refused to at- tend him, and advised pim to ‘go on to the next sta tlon."? Corbett remained, however, and, as 13 staced, ; became very abusive, until finally Carr proceeded to put him out, when he dvew a knife and dared the saloon man to touch him. Seizing a base ball club the latter drove Corbett out at last. He walked away, but presently returaed with a iarge four pound weight, and was about to harlit at Carr when be was feiled with a siedge-hammer blow of the club. He was picked up In a state Of insensibiiity and re- moved to his home, and medical atiendance sum- monet, He still continued unconscious at lust ac- counts, and can scarcely survive. His assailant was promptly taken into custody, singularly enough by officer Corbett, an excellent and efMcient member of the police force, aiso a brother of the injured man, end lodged in the City Prison. He is a young, strapping fellow of twenty-three who eve now has figured ia the puo- lic prints ag @ projessionail practiser of the so-calicd ‘ananly ayt.”” He has, Lowever, retired from the boxing business. He ciaims to have acted purely in self-deience, and says that Corbett did make a lunge at him with the knife and stightiy cut him up g chin. His face certaiuly shows that he was cut sOMelo We SPIRITISH AND SPIRITUALISM. On last evening, at the rooms of the New York * Grand total... 1 yy Mr. | ism and Spiritaalism. Various were the pliloso- | the | audience that such a thing did exJst as spiritdom, | was the resembiance of sty! Liberal Club, Plimpton Hail, a lecture was delivered Stephen Peari Andrews ti defence of Spirit- phers and voluminous was the philosophy quoted by jearned lecturer in order to convince his era) pleces of poetry were read by Mr. Andrews, ‘h, Lie said, were composed by ladies while in a state of sommambule or mesmerism. So striking of these pieces to that of R, Burns and Eagar A. Poe that he came to the conclusion they were composed on a return visit to the terrestrial regions by those gentlemen, long since econie members of spiritdom, and, as the aforesaid uthors did net seem capable ot producing such chess Wenere, he asserted that it was the syirits of Burns ani oe that composed them. CENSUS STATISTICS. Returns for the Several Ceuntics Comprised in the Soutkern District of New Yerk. United States Marsbal Sharpe has forwarded to the Census Burean at Washington details of census enumeration for the various subdivisions of the fol- lowing counties, which com the Southern dis- trict of this State. The torals of populatiun are ag Conanties, Counties. — Poputation, Greene "a Viater.. . Suliivan. Oral Rook! 8 TH WESDELL PHILLIPS. AN OUR Wi The Great Reformer in Pelitios—The Lesson to be Taught Politioal Partios—-Massachusetts Complications—Tho Fright of Republi ean Politioians—Mr. Phillips’ Devo tion to the Labor Interests—His Appreciation of the Fore eight of tho Herald, One of the most exerting of the political campaigns this fall i# the pending gubernatorial canvass in Massachusetts, Aa the readers of the H&RALD are well aware, in that State there are four distinct State tickets—to wit, the republican, the democratic, the labor reform and temperance, ‘This introduc: lon of new elements into the political arena, and especially the nomination by both the temperance men and labor reformers of Wendell Philips for Governor, has avoused that latter day} sleepy Com- monwealth from its poittical lethargy (o a state of unwonted excitement, Especially in the ranks of the Governor Ciafin-Henry Wilson republicans, thg fecling engendered against the great agiiator—who, having conducted one once feeble reform to a successful tssne now seriously threatens to do the same for other struggling reforms, wresting the Bay State from the control of the republican party—ts most intense, Long accustomed to ruling there without question, having little fear of their Opponents, #9 completely in the minority, the republicans of Massachusetts with itly dissembied dread see ihe marshalling of the new power, which, under so formidable g leadership, may oust them from the power which they have so Jong enjoyed. From their Orat affected indifference of the combined temperance and labor tokets and their possible effect upon the canvass, the republicans— stung by the scathing criticism of Mr, Phillips’ open- lng campaign address—have passed te invective and to studied efforts to lessen the eect of the fery ora- tor's eloquence upon the masses, trembling the while with apprehension lest the most disastrous consequences befall their party. So stands the can- vase in Maggachuseits, Never, perchance, over 19 sues purely local was the Commonwealtth so aroused, Irom this date until the day of the elec- tion, still fercer, sharper, more acrimenious will grow the contest; while almost im every town of note throughout. the Bay State will ve heard the ringing notes of the great orator marshalling the ailted forces of labor and temperance to the con- tosied struggle, WENDEL! PHILLIPS IN NEW YORK. Learning that Mr. Phillips had take a brief run from Massachusetts to fulfil some lecturing en- gagements in Philadelpila and elsewhere, aad that he would be in our city for a few hours, the writer, presuming on @ previous acquaintance, visited the St. Dents Hotel, where he was stopping, and upon sending up his card, stating his earnest desire to see lim, Was favored with an interview, HIS PEKSONAL APPRARANCR. Few men who have attained the age of the reformer (Who 1st be considerably over sixty) are Dlessed with e: heaith and activity, Like the grander type nglishinen—a Brougham or a Pal- merston- this intellectual and bbe pre- servation doubtless 1s to be attributed to the habits which he has caretully observed reat his life. A strict tetotalier, free the use of tobacco, Mr. Phillips has carried the same care to diet and the systematizing of dally labor, reapiug the re- ward inthe full preservation of bodily health and intellectual vigor, ater a life of continuous exertion far beyond that of most men. Indeea, those who know Wendell Phillips only through his Impassloned platform utterances, or his scarcely less tery dia- tribes in the columns of the old AntlS avery Stand- ard, would be surprised could they enjoy an hour's quiet conversation with the mild, elderly inan, whose genilenesa of tone and innate courtesy of manner would be all at variuuce with their preconceived opinions. LABOR, THE QUESTION OF THE FUTURE. Gilding at once into conversation concerning polities, Mr, Phillips remarked that ail tue Old Issaes— luciuding siavery——ba been seitied. The papers naid that we “couida’l get along without the nigger.’ ‘Yhe antrslavery reformers had falsiNed Unis assertion oc ther enemies, ‘Iney iad plicea the negro where he was nv longer speclaly demanded or needed thelr aid. Having champioued one éiass and secured for i equal polltieai righis, they were now ‘ee Lo browden oul thelr edort, making it Include 1G Oppressed laboring Classes of all (ue gation, ‘Thore Was no national qaestion left fur tie future butiabor, The tari, luteal improvements, reve- nue, ail others Were secuogal or bad happily been disposed of In Mis acuusetis temperauce and labor had Huked pands for the accompashment of @ common purpose, The vid political parues were tg bo tughs thal other Interests werg ao stake beslie “rifge’’ aud “corporation: All Uiilat was needed was for ihe laboring men te know thew strength, Teach them once to break te thraldom of party aud the reimedy tor ali the evils of which they justly complala would be tu thelr own hands, In this country, wiih the ballot as » corrective, vhero was no excuse for the wasting of suostance by “strikes,” and our workmen should be ashamed ty resort to them. Between the weaithy capitalist on the one hand and the employé armed with the Ameri- can right of franchise on the other, underswod aright, there Is a baiauce of power beler than the “arbitvations” or exausting “strikes of Buglaud. CAUSES OF DEVOTION TO THE LABOR INTEREST, Do you wonder why Lam 80 deeply interested in the condition ol the tolling masses of the landt in the course of my lec\uring engagements of m years 1 have nad frequent occasion to travel by birect cars and steam curs leading ou of our large cites ab very eany hours—al all hours, ta fact, of the morning. Av (hose waiseasouable ours : would fil with a class of occupants that move Jonabie trayeders, at other hours, rarely e: ‘they were workingmen, ‘They did ob talk gossip. oy even politics, Will each other, ‘they sat ip silence—too w , two listless for the sightest exua efor. ‘Those inca, to be where Lsaw tiem, habitually musi have risen at five, eve four, un the morning to give tine to cat their breakfasts and be started on their journey to the piuces where the weary day of toll of ten, Lwelve or jourteeu Hours In duration awaited them. Yet while tuey thus over- Worked the body, at tie expense uf Ue wii, thous sands idied away existence, subsisung apo their over contribution to the wealth ot society. Seeing Uiese things over and over in my joucacys caased ine to resolve, Uf my ilfe was spared, to do soraeinng: more than I yet had ior the amelioration of Uie con- ition of this large class of our populatiou—a staud- ing shame to our boasted civilization. CHANCES OF THE COMBINED TICKBP FOR SUCCESS. Wiiut will oe the strength of the aliiet reform gu- bernatorial ticket [do uot pretend to muke any est mate, Some ol the shrewdest obseryers iu our State claum that tie labor Ucket will poll al leat 20,4000 votes, and the temperance ticket Well uigi as many, Liven less than tuls will be an acquired valance of power of tnestimavle value to both the te, and the labor mov But it isin tn ture Unai our $s reagth, undoubtedly, will b felt. Pi obably over 100 memvers Will ve our suppart—cnough to exert almost a indlueuce tn the election of a Cubed States Senator, ‘The politiciay aware of this, and Uielr eforia to avert the danger by every meuns i tielr power, even to poisommng tue Lunds Of our Coluied friends, are incréasing. Sut alarmed as they ure Uiey can- not preveat (be early ripentng of our movement. 16 Must BO On. y inay wount the trai, bub to op- pose if 1s to be crashed beneath its Wheeis, SSPATEMENIS OF SSACHUSEITS REPUBLICANS. Bul tne greatest meanness of the campangu i4 the A-suuli of ceitain republican politiclaus upon whe character Of members of the labor purty, Who are poor and deieuceless—too weak io save theuselves from beng siangntered. ‘There are men in Massa- chusetts ldentilled with the jabor party who we ibe peers of the Governor of the Stale or auy of bis Inlends; but they are laboring men, destituie of means and political influence, and they ure ground to powder because they dare Lo call themscives free and have rejected the collar of party. For ther dastardly attacks upou such men | can least forgive ihe Wading polluciaus of Massachusett. ABILIZY AND WISDOM OF THE L The above, of course, is but an inpe of Mr. #’hilips’ views concerning the var touched upon, ali of which were disew feaukness and freedom from rese: ve of that genuleman. Toucbing the Phillips said that, cufering from it gre. in the past, he had yet had frequent ¢ comment Upon its sagacity, deeming thy almost aioue of our cily preas in corre. and tuterpreting the future. It exerted an influeuce upon public opinion, and in the r of parties he earnestly hoped it would upon the side of the people. Much mor teresung character, bat not immediately concerumg the pubic, followed, when, it growing lace, the writer, with thanks for the courtesy with witel he- had been 1 withdrew vutroting ourruaay, Jobn Kerr. This well known citizen ot New York died at his residence ta this city on yesterday moruing, in the sixtieth year of his age. He was a native of ireland, but came to this country wien quite a young waa, and in 1830 went to A‘bany, Where he euyaged in business, In 1845 Mr. Kerr removed to tie metro- polis ‘and established a brewery here, in witch he was successful, He was also engaged ia numerous other.business enterprises, the success of wilich en- abled him te amass a fortune. Sovn afier the orga- nization of the Seventa Avenue Ratiroad Company he was clected its president, whlch position ne held up to the time of Ins death. Personaily Sir. Kerr Was @ most amiavie, hospitable and kuni-learted wentleman, whose d:ate wil be deeply mourned by & large circle of frieudis. He leaves a Wicow and weveral chive.