The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXV..........000000000 aoe No, 302 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FOURTEENTH STREKT THEATRE (Theatre Francais) TAMING THE SuRKW WASLLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway anu 1b Two Kosne, LINA EDWIN'S THE OF TUE WaTOR-LA SONN streetm . FN Broadway BULA, bo. CAPTAIN Matiuec at 2. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Afveraooa~Maniua. Kv. COLE OPERA Broadway, 5 Boi AN Gimth. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth sivect.—GaanD Nitsson MaqTINED Cony: NEW YORK STADT THMATEE, 45 Bowery.Graxn GRBNAN OPEDA—Tun Magic Fuu te GRAND OPERA HOSE, cornor of Biehth avenue aod St. GRANDE Ducursse. Maunee at 2 OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. Ware Wiitie Windin. Matinee at 2 Tak PANTOMIME OF WOOD'S MUSEUM Proadway, corner doh st, -Perfarin- anoes every wlernoou aud cvealay, BOWERY Moun + Bowers. GRAND DUCUeRS STRAW MAN OF Nkw York FIFTH AVENUES THRATEL, Twenly-fourty sL—MaN AND Wirx, Matinee at LY. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, Pace i1—Advertisements. 2—Advortisements. ¢ Peace Arrangement und King Wilham ; Heavy Rife Firing Heard Before Paris ; Reported Routing ef a German Corps Near Beaugency ; The Prussian Forces Advanolng on Lyons; France Rejects the Prussian Terms of an Armistice—An Hour With Wendell Phtillps—New York City aad Brooklyn Intelligeuve—Probable Homicide in Newark. 4—Europe: Minister Pancroft’s Letter to Count Bismarck; The Princess Loulve and the Alar- quis of Lorne; Sketches of the Youthful Pair and History of the Koyal Marriage Act; Cron- Belween Bazaine The Helpless Condition of feance—Peare | position. He has the power, fn assuming the Her Firat Nocesstiy. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er seabora Salamis, And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations—all were his. He counted them at break of day, And when tre sun set, where were they ? This is Byron's graphic summing up of the invasion of Greece by Xerxes, and the defeat and dispersion of his fleets and armies, The picture, however, may be aptly applied to the late advance of the armles of Napoleon upon Germany and their aanihilation as a militar; force. On tbe 2d of August, at the head of an army infinitely stronger than that of the King of Persia, the French Emperov, atthe pretty litile German frontier town of Saarbruck, gave te Prince Imperial his “baptism of fire,” and then retired with the young lad to his headquarters at Metz to report to the Empress Regent in Paris his first engagement of the campaign for Berlin as a prosperous beginning. His armies on that day, stretching from Motz to and along the German border from Saarbruck up to Strasbourg, numbered three hundred and fifty thousand men, The soldiers of that army had the reputation of the best disciplined, armed and equipped, and tho prestige of the finest soldiers in the world, On the 2d of Septem. ber, nevertheless, afier being shattered ia many battles, one half the remainder of that splendid army, with fifiy thousand fresh troops 2s reinforcements, was captured, with the Emperer, at Sedan, and the other q was shut up withio the fortifications of Metz. Thus within the brief space of a month the prestige of Napoleon the Third as the arbiter of Europe, and the fame and the name of his armies as the imperial Romans revived, were scattered to the winds, and consternation and chaos eclipsed the gay pleasures of Paris. A month later and we find, while the Inte impo- rial dictator of peace or war is a prisoner amid | the mockeries of a royal palace beyond the Rhine, and while the Empress and the poor bewildered little Prince Imperial are eating the bread of exiles beyond the British Chan- nel, Paris itself, with its two millions of peo- ple ond its {wo hundred and fifty-two thou- sand soldiers, is a3 closely invested by the German legions as was the little city of Jeru- salem by Titus eighteen hundred years ago. We find the provisional republican government of France partly In Paris and part in Tours, over a hundred miles away, and the only mode of communication between these two divisions the hazardous and uncoriain balloon. Yesterday they had the news in California, in Cuba, Egypt and Bongul of the surrender of the strong city of Metz, with on army of one hundred and filly thousand men, inglud- ing several marshals of Franca and tho last of the flower of her imperial troops, bronzed and hardened to war in their cam- paigus in Algeria, Italy, Mexico and the Crimea. ‘To-day the great and powerful nation of France, with hor forty millions of people, isin reality as helpless against the stadt Desoiated by Bire S ling ERTp astounding military strength of Ger- Hormenting School Ceremonial—The Kichwoad | many ag was distracted Mexico {a the G—Maryland Jockey Oinv: Tuird Day's Races at the Pimlioo Course; Four Splendid Races aud Large Attendance of Spectators: R. B. Con- holly, Kingfisher, Edenton and Finesse tie Winners—“Unele Sam’’ after Tammany : Its Validity § Questioned—Proapect Park Fair Grounds—Compounding a Felony—Our Coast- ing ne—The Yellow Fever in Spanish Port lieged Murder in Second Avenue— China—Stabbed fn a Figit—A Case of Mis- | taken Identity-—The Riot im South Carolina. @—Editoriai: Leading Arucle, The Helpless Con- dition ef France, Peace her First Necessity— Amusement Announcements. F-Ediiorial (continued iroin Sixth Page)—Tel graphic News trom All Parts of the Worl Prussian Constitutional Reform and Amuest The Czar Alexander Sympathizes wit. many: Genera! Burnside in Londo: Legisiation for Cuba; Larthqua’ Athens—News from Was National Guard—N: Woman's Ciub-Betting on the Almusements—Vatal Pid Lamp Ex Army and Navy inteliigence—Tue A Calamity—Busiiess Notices, &—New York and Prookiyn City Vourte—Pina nejal and Commercia! Reports—Real Estate Trens- fers—Crime in Westlester—Uistury Repeat- ing Its: 9—Adveriisements, 10—City and Other Politics—Important Arrest— Shipping Intelligence —Advertisements. #1—Brazll—Sctentitic Notes—Ausiralasiau items— Advertisements. W2- Advertisements. Tae Gotp Barometer recorded the sur- render.of Metz with the figure 111}, which is the lowest since last spring, or before the | European war began. NAPo.son, 4, will probably be sent to Eiba. How histery repeats itself in these stirring times! One, even without a very vivid imagination, could readily imagine him- solf living in the early years of the centurym 8 8 Sxorkrary Cox took leave of his Cabinet | colleagues yesterday, and will retire from bis { position in the Interior Department on Monday. | Commissioner Delauo will enter upon his duties as Secretary of .he Interior on Tuesday | vext. } Cotter JovrnarisM.—Io a number of the most prominent colleges in the United States | the publication of local journals has become | an established fact. This is not a bad idea, if | the character of the articles that are allowed to appear in the papers in question does not tend too much toward the soplomorical style. By becoming familiar with writing for the press many of our young college siudents may | eventually make practical journalisis—a pr fession that is rapidly assu in the higher walks of scienco and general | usefulness to mankind. ” geams,—Now that there is no Napoleon Spain is getting along nicely. Spain, in our judgment, is foolish in seeking a king; but Spain ought to know her own affairs best, How wonderfully the Germans have como to the rescne of Spain! The war has given Spain liberty. She sought a Hohenzoliern in order to please France. Now she returns to ove of her first loves to please herself. To Napoleon, from his prison at Wilhelmshobe, how funay this Spanish throne quostion must now seem! How in his inmost soul he must growl at Spain aod the Hohenzollerns! Tux Enenisu Mission.—To-day Senator Morton dines at the White House, and, no doubt, the main subject of discussion between the President and the Indiana Senator will be the English Mission, The President, with his usual cantion, has given no indication of his selection of a successor to Minister Motley, but it is understood that the appointment will be conferred upon a Western man, Among the most prominent names mentioned in con- | of France, then, should at once proceed to a grasp of Bazalae. There is something that appalls us, something that we can hardly realize, and which we cannot comprehend, ia the startling facts that the internal defence of | the first mililary nation on the globe is to-day reduced to the guerilla warfare of Mexico against Bazaine, and that Bazaine, with a hundved and fifty thousand of the finest sol- diers of France, chassepots and all, hes sur- rendered as ingloriously as Napoleon, Incredible, however, as these facts may appear, they are before us, and before pros- trate, bleeding and slarving France, ia all their gloominess, and they must be recogu by France, or she may be utterly destroyed as an independent State, Was not Poland at ono time the great central Power of Europe, stretching from the Black Sea to the Baltic? Did she not, throngh Sobieski, in a great crisis of peril to Vienna and to Central and Western Europe, expel the audacious Turk, who, with his splendid army of three hua- dred thousand men, counted upona march over the Continent? And where is Poland now? What interest, we may next inquire, have the governing feudal aristocracy of Eng- land, what interest has the royal house of Austria, or even that of Italy, in interposing a helping hand to the present French republic? They have none of them any moro interest in this matter than the Czar of Russia, save in the maintenance of what they eall ‘the balance of power.” They may not consent to the absorpiion of France by Germany, bat it is apparent that they wif consent to the reduction of France to that last extremity of prostration in which she will bo compelled to accept the government dictated by King William, What government | will that be should France be reduced to this humiliation? Will it be the Bonapartes or the Bourbons? It may be the Bourbons; but there is a mystery about Bazaine which points tothe Bonapartes. The present government i treaty of peace with Count Bismarck on the best terms that can be obtained, through such assistance a3 in their selfishness the neutral Powers may he ready to give, to arrest this fearful military power of Germany. But with part of this French provisional government in Paris and part in Tours and on the move it cannot be got together, Let a shorter method, then, be adopted. Let General Trochu, then, assume the responsi- bility and organize a new provisional govern- | ment in Paris and open negotiations | for peace, in view of the imperative necessity of saving France from chaos, and | the imperative duty of saving the two millions of souls in Paris from starvation, and he may | save Paris and save France and secure the republic. The surrender of Meiz will add one hundred thousand men to the army luvesting Paris, and will farnish one hundred and fifty thousand men for the spoliation of Lyons and | Southern France generally. For warlike puv- | poses France after Sedan may be compared to our late Southern*confederacy after the sur- | render of Lee; and if so, Franca after Metz may be likened to said confederacy after the surrender of Jo Johnston. Against Von Moltke and the seven hundred thousand effective soldiers of the German alliance France is practically disarmed. Peace be- | comes now the first consideration and the first | He knows that ‘‘order is Heaven's first law,” responalbility, to exalt himself and to make a peace which will end the sufferings and mill- tary disasters end spoliations of France and secure the republic, rae non | The War Situation—The Surrender of Metz. The capitulation of Metz is now said to have included one hundred and seventy-three thou- sand prisoners—a blow at the military power of Vrance more disastrous than Sedan. It completely obliterates the regular army and deprives France of two more of its moat capa- blo generals—Bazaine and Canrobert. There Seems to be no further hope of a successful resistance, except to enthusiasiie France, whose sanguine temperament probably even io such a crisis as the present hopes against hope. We hear as yet nothing from the authorities of France as to the views they hold | regarding peace under the changed prospect. With Metz no longer theirs, nearly two hun- dred thousand of their skilfully trained sol- diery prisoners, the services of two of their most competent marshals rendered null, what |* in there to hopo for? It is stated that the French have refused the German terms of an armistica ; but that the snrrender of Metz | may have the effect of — changing | their views in that matter. There certainly seems to be but one way now to prevent the bombardment of Paris, and that is by accopt- ing terms of peace. Nevertheless from all sections of the republic come reports of desul- tory fighting, of the same useless character, unconnected with any determined effort to relieve Paris or to save the republic, that the French have apparently looked to ever since Sedan as the only means of resisting the enemy. There is skirmishing on the Loire, near Orleans, and another great battle is said to muminent there, A stout resistance at Mezitres is made; Amiens is zealous in providing means of defence; the Francs- tiveurs are especially active and have suc- ceeded in capturing a provision train, and more partially successful sorties have been made from Paris. But these are of no import- ance beside the great Prussian victory at Motz. ‘That one success would overshadow and nen- tralizo a thousand of the dosultory and de- tached victories that seem to content the French, Poor Franco has been defeated, not through her want of zeal or courage, not through the gallantry of ber soldiers or the solf-sacrificing spirit of hee citizens or her statesmen, but through the deplorable lack of organization left her as an imperial legacy. She can make pe..ce withoul shame, make if, Let her The Press of Rome Revolutionize¢—A True Philosopher in the Conating Roow, All the leading journals of Florence, with the majorily of the minor lights of the Italian national press, are preparing for an early emi- gration (o Rome, the capital of the kingdom. The centre of executive power will thus be tnade the focus of political enlightenment. The scapular and breviary will be retired from the Capitol to the cloister and the sanctuary, and their places ba supplied by the lever of the printing press and the free sheets of inde- pendent morning newspapers. While the | of London; Meoting of che American Association of Social Sclence. It is refveshing to turn from the petty and | personal interests involved in party elections to the deliberate consideration of the underly- ing principles of our political and social ays- tem. The ninth session of the American Soeial Science Association at Philadelphia affords us an opportunity of doing this. Many a practi- cal. politician, so-called, might be edified by the papers read on Tuesday before this associ- ation. Sucha politician would, moreover, be surprised at the direct bearing which many of them had upon the most urgent practical questions which can demand his attention. The very (ilies of the papers indicate the actuality of the speculations advanced by their writers. “Mining Legislation” was elaborately treated by Mr. Eckley B. Coxe; the ‘Annexation of Canada,” by Mr. E. H. Derby; ‘Minority Re- presentation in Europe,” by Mr. Thomas Hare, “Houses for Workingmen and Women,” by Mr. George B. Emerson; ‘Civil Service Retorm,” by Mr. J. 'T, Rosengarten, and “Electoral Reform,” by ex-Senator C. R. Buckalew. The subjects oa Wednesday were “The Press, its Relations and {nfluences,” by Mr. G. Hi. Yeaman, who failed to estimate daly the real object and power of the news- paper press; the ‘Relations of Business Men to National Legislation,” Mr. H. A. Mill; the “Relations of Capital and Labor in England,” by A. J. Mundella, M. P.; ‘*Uhe Study of Social Science,” by Mr. Lowrie, and ‘American Chartograply,” by Profeasor J, D. Whitney. On Thursday the Social Science Convention closed iis session after listening to papers on “Art Schools," by Mr. C. C. Perkins; “The Theory of the Civil Service,” by Mr. Brinton Coxe; “The Evidence of Experis,” by Dr. Isaac Ray ; ‘Tnternational Law,” by Mr. J. Wheaton, and a concluding address by Mr. Eliot. Without endorsing all the views set forth in theso interesting papers, it is but fair to say that their range of topics is so ex- tensive as to justify amply the assertion of Judge Sirong in alluding to the magnitude of the work uudertaken by the association and all other similar associations, that no other department of science presents so wide a field for investigation, and no other promises a richer harvest. Histrionic Art in New York. War has closed the theatres of Paris, The | London stage is darkened by the almost total eclipse of its ancient glories. But New York, which contains a larger and more eager theatre-going population than any European city, may now boast of an extraordinary variety of dramatic and musical attractions. The Herarp daiiy advertises no less than twenty-five theatres and concert halls. Nils- son, Seebach, Janausehek, Jefferson and Lea Silly, to mention no other conspicuous names, have rendered the opening of the present sea- son exceptionally brilliant. Praiseworthy attempis have been made to extend the recog- nized iafluence of the histrionic art in kindling the imagination, widening the sympathies and exalting the conceptions by *‘ihe living magic of the eye, the tone and the action.” Mana- gers and actors should learn, however, that the public appetite grows by what it feeds monks are repeating their Paters busy news- upon. The daintier and the more abun- hoys will be hallooing ‘“extras,” which will | gant the supply the more delicate report the progress of the world in brief notes and exacting tho taste becomes. The hy electricity, the genius oud faith of Galileo be pvenged and consoled equally by the triumph and fulfilment of the prophecy of Puek. Italian occupation of Rome bas in truth revolutionized the newspaper press the Holy City most compleiely. The revolution is 4 healthy one, producing a disentbralment of mind and A consequent independence of thought and freedom of expression. This fact constitutes one of the most important and cheerlag con- sequonces of the recent Italian movement for the perfection of national unity, Had hia Majesty King Victor Emanuel depended on military force solely for his success he would have failed eventually and with certainty. The Chureb can do better than that. It holds, or endeavors to hold, the mind of the people. The fault of the clerics, however, is that they want to warp the human mind in one direction and dwarf it to the status of an unreasoning acceptance of ‘accomplished facts.” Inde- | pendent journalism, iutelligently exercised, neutralizes the efforts of the ecclesiastical aspirations in this direction, and inasmuch ag civil freedom advances so does independent journalism. flourish. Rome supplies to-day The of an encouraging attestation of this great fact. The bigotel and intole- rant newspapers, whieh had been subsidized by the clergy for such a lengthened perio!, have been extinguished in the breath of the plebiscitun. The Osscroaiore Romano, | the organ of the Jesuits, “sold out” imme- | diately. The Civilta Cattolica closed its office | and the Giornale di Tome has disappeared, These journals have been succeeded by the Léberta and the Ge Roman people will henceforth be enlightened by a free press and the steam engine of the pressroom. They will read and ‘“‘inwardly di- | gest,” and thus will thoy learn to be really free, happy and industrious and contented, | A special writer in Rome has called our atten- | tion to this happy change and at the same time | to the existence of a newspaper philosopher, a real curiosity, a man svi generis, This is the | veteran distributor who bands out the papers | across the counter in the governmsn: premisos in Via della Stamperia. This old man has wit- nessed revolutions. Thirty years ago he gave out the still damp copies of the official journal of Gregory XVI. to the people; he lias sold the same paper for Pius IX. (when liberal); for the Roman republic; for Pius 1X. (when reaction- ary), and to-day he takes his pinch of smi? and sells it for the King anda ‘‘solidified” people. That man Is a real good Catholic. aad acts on the principle of ‘‘what is is best.” MANAGEMENT OF CENTRAL Park.—One of | the city papers makes serious charges against the management of Central Park, This is merely the claptrap incident to an electioneer- ing campaiga, and should not be entertained for a moment by any class of our citizens. If the charges alleged be true why not produce the proofs, or cease altogether this silly twaddling, that is only calculated to bring into contempt its authors, and to belittle in duty of the governing men of I'rance, because nection with this position is that of James F. Wilson, of fowa, President Grant's first choice for Secretary of State. it is their first necessity; and, Bazaine being entirely thrown aside, Genéral Trochu, with the Army of Paris at his back, ia masier of the the minds of strangers one of tho most beauti- ful places of public fesort and innocent racrea- tion in the world? public oan no longer be satisfied with the old “star” system, which has wrought infinite harm both in England and in America, The demand is inereasing for thoroughly organized and permanent stock companies, that shall adequately support the most distinguished per- formers, Completeness and splendor in scenery, costume and all stage appointments are now required, Above all, the defective training which most actors and actresses be- tray in voice, attitude, movement, expression and gesture, their blind adherence to conven- tional tricks, thelr neglect of the simplest and most obvious requirements of stage business, their ignorance of the principles, laws and rules on which good aciing depends—in fine, their lack of a scientific basis of art—a basis which most of our sculptors and painters also lack—are awakening disappointment and disgust. No remedy for such deplorable defects can be effectual except a school of art, or, rather, of arts, inasmuch as all the arts have affini- ties which subject them to similar conditions. To such a school actors, preachers, lecturers, political orators, sculptors and painters might all resort for the patient study of scientific methods, like, for instance, these porfected by Delsarte, the teacher of the famous Rachel. Father Hyacinthe, together with French and English statesmen and European celebrities in every branch of art, have boen numbered among the pupils of this greatest modern master of the science of expressing and deliaeating human thonght and emotion. One of the most zealous of Delsarte’s disciples, a cultivated and wealthy young American, who was to have made his first appearance at the ThéAtre Francais this winter, but whose plans were interrupted by the war, has just returned from Paris to New York. Delsarte predicted for this fuvorite pupil a most suc- cessful career should he become a profes- sional actor. If his own enthusiasm should be shared by intelligent capitalists we might hope soon to see established in this city a school of histrionic art over which Delsarte himself might be invited to preside. Such a school would afford rare opportunities to develop the latent genius which, as private theatricals have already demonstrated, really exists among the young ladies and gentlemen of New York, | a8 weil as to encourage and aid the ambition of aspirants for professional excellence and distinction. New York would have thus made agreat advance towards becoming what it is manifestly destined to be--a true art centre of the world. ReMovaL or tHE Nationan Capitat Con- | ventiox.—The convention lately held in Cin- cinnati for the purpose of encouraging the movement for the removal of the national capi- tal from Washington to some point in the val- ley of the Mississippi was a stupid failure, as it deserved tobe, It has taken more than seventy years and the expenditure of hundréds of millions of treasure to erect the public buildings now ornamenting the national capi- tal, and the present generation, we are in- clined to think, is in no disposition to incur an addition to our already enormous indebt- eduess by such a foolish undertaking as that coutemplated by the Cincinnati gonvacation, Washington is at this moment nearer to the Pacific coast than it was to Boston only a quar- ter of @ century ago. The facilities for rapid communication between the most distant parts of the country are being improved every day, and we hope ina short time to have occasion to announce that the modes of transit between New York and the national capital have been increased at least twofold and with a corre- sponding reduction in the rates of fare. The Appeal of the German Widows, From several of the Prassian provinces there has gone up to Berlin a powertul appeal for peace that must touch the tenderest sym- pathies of Count Bismarck and King William. Itis the voice of destitute widowed mothers in favor of themselves and their half-orphan children, This petition against the further prosecution of the war has been signed by thirty-five thousand seven hundred and fifly- three widows in Westphalia, Ruenish Prussia and Hanover—widows whose husbands had been slain in battle, leaving them with seventy- eight thousand seven hundred aad sixty chil- dren in imminent peril of starvation, In lan- guage beantiful in its simplicity, terrible in its trathfulness and melting in its pathos, those sorrowing and suffering German womea point out the sad industrial and social conse- quences of tha war and implore Kiag William to spara hia people any further aggravation of them. Many of the factories in which those women might have hoped to procure employ- ment are closed; funds that under other cir- cumstances might have been applied to their relief are used by the government for the pro- secution of the war. Their condition could hardly have beon worse than it is at present had the German armies been defeated aud the Fatherland invaded by the French; and now the only hope they have against utter indi- gence and death is in the speedy re-establish- ment of peace, We in this country can heartily sympathize with these stricken families of Germany as well as with those of France. In our war of the rebellion there was hardly a home through- out the country that did not feel the effects of the ravages of war—hardly a woman who was not called upon to mourn the loss of hus- band, son, father, brother or dearest friend. Already the loss of life in France and Prussia has been proportionately greater than it was with us, while the destruction of property in France has been far more extensive than it was inthe South, It will require perhaps a quarter of a century for France to recover from much of the injury inflicted on her during the summer of this year, while some of the losses she has sustained can never be restored. The victories which the Prussians have achieved have been dearly bought, for the destruction of human life has been greater on the Prussian side than on the French. When Napoleon IIT. declared war against his royal rival for national supremacy the war spirit in Germany rose to the highest point. But now war songs have given place to prayers for peace, and throughout the Fatherland the supplications of stricken widows and orphaas, bereaved by the loss of loved ones and threatened with extrem- est want, rise high abovo all the rumors and whispers about proposed peace negotiations that come across to us from England afd the Continent. The best thing for both France and Prussia now is peace, and wo sincerely (rust that this wail of the widows and their prayers for peace will have the desired effect. Royal Courtovsies to the Empress. It was a pleasant and consoling episode in the history of Eugénie’s exile, that visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to the romantic old mansion at Chiselhurst on Wedaesday to pay their respects to the fallen Emprass, Swipped of her high rank, banished from the home where she ruled iu most royal fashion for so many years, this visit to her English home by the heir to the throne of England an¢ his princess must have been soothing to her wearied and disturbed heart. The visit had a twofold significance, for it was not only an act of private friendship, but a visit of state, in which the Queen, “though not present, was represented officially by her lord chamber- lain, and in a kindly way by the Prince, who was charged by his mother to renew the ex- pression of her sincere sympathy with the misfortunes of the Empress. The young French Prince did the honors of the occasion, and no doubt he stood the baptism of com- pliments much better than he did his famous baptism of fire at Weissenbourg. Itis meet and proper that the ex-Empress should be thus kindly noticed by the royal family of England. Engénie was always a good, lovable woman, both in her private and her public sphere, who earned for herself everywhere the respect of the world. Even those who do not love the imperial system which gave her a throne and a crown do not refuse their sympathy to her now that she has lost both. Tae Dancer or Curisrians 1N CHINA.— It will be seen from our telegraphic despatches to-day that the Christian population in China—European and American—are in great danger. Itis said that a day has bean fixed for a general attack on all the Christians in the empire. If China is able in this civilized age to repeat the St. Bartholemew massacre it will not be good for China; but Great Britain, Russia and the United States will not be free from blame. It is evident that the Chinese people are under some horrible priestly influence, and that if they are not resirained they will do some terrible work. It is high time that the three Powers just mentioned were taking vigorous steps to pro- tect life and civilization in China. Seepaon’s Fargwenr.—This evening Marie Seebach gives her farewell performance in New York prior to her departure for fresh fields of success ia the West. To-night she essays that difficult Shakspearian character, Katharine, in ‘‘The Taming of the Shrew.” This is her first attempt at interpreting Shakspeare in America, She has been pro- nounced by critics in Germany, where Shakspeare found his best transiators and interpreters, as almost unequalled in this réle, There will undoubtedly be much interest felt to hear the great tragédienne in this play. She has reached the highest point of sublimity and produced the finest touches of nature in such parts as Marie Siwart, Jane Fyre, Adrienne, Valerie and Marguerite. Her first rendition of Shakspeare will ba a novelty, on tha ava af her denarture, en eile nent Workings ef Oar Firo Departmeat. If figures vrove anything they prove that the Fire Departmeit of this city, under its presenf management, is a‘yell conducted part of ous city government, anv is an additional evidence of the efficiency of the departments created the Charter passed by the last Legislature. The Board of Fire Commissioners are certainly entitled to a good deal of credit for the wa: in which the depariment has been Psat: It appears that during the six months of 1869-~ from April to September—the losses by fire were 41,376,510, while during the same mouths under the new management there waa a decrease in the losses of $261,225. When we remember that the members of the new organization went into ofiice only last spring there is a great deal of credit due to the members of the Board and to the president, Mr. Hitcbman, for the satisfactory resulta, The telegraph alarm has contributed greatly to the suppression of fires by enabling tha active force of firemen to reach the sceag of disaster quickly. At present the fire alaray extends no farther up town than Fourteenth street. Considering the danger, which is at any time imminent, of terrible conflagrations in the numerous manufactarigg establishments in the upper end of the island, it seems necese sary that the fire telegraph line should be ex~ tended to the ex(reme point of the island. The Fire Department thus, in the reported figures, presents a very satisfactory record; and, indeed, the same may be said of all the other public departments—the Depariment of Parks, of Public Works, the Department of Piers and Docks, and the Department o} Health. If they continue as they have begun to perform the duties required of them tha public will have reason to be content that th city is governed with a view to the comforta of the people in the beautiful parks, the safety of property, in the reduction of disasters by fire, and in the general tmprovements of tha metropolis. A Brave Little Fig't. A memorable episode of the I'ranoo-Prusy sian war was the brave little fight which pres ceded the capture of Chiteaudun, Barrioadeq were erected and for ten hours the invading hosis were stoutly resisted. The determined but unsuccessful attempt of the seven thou- sand inhabitants to defend their homes call¢ to mind scenes which Spain so often presented during the Penlasular campaign, when thé eutire people of « town or village, priests, nobles, lawyers, doctors, traders, and eveq the women and children, fought gallantly against the foe. If every town and village in France could be arousad to a similar spirit of resistance the Prussians might be driven onf of France, or, at least, their very victorieg would be 80 costly as to induce them to heal; tate before entering on a winter campaign) Chiteaudun was delightfully situated on @ hillside. Rebuilt in 1728, after a terrible fire by which it was almost entirely destroyed, ite numerous tanneries and factories of woolley goods and of hats, its active trade in cattley wines and hemp, and its well-constructe houses, gave it quite a modern look. Its priny cipal historical monument was its chiteau, a precious edifice of the tenth century, once th¢ property of the Duke de Luynes, constable of France and first minister of Louis XII. The Sainte Chapelle, the churches of the Madeleine, of St. Valerien, of St. Jean, of Notre Dame du Chandé and the ruins of Notre Dame de la Boissitres, were all interesting {o the tourist; But antiquities and modern improvements have all suffered a common fate at the handa of the vandals who, not satisfied with captur- ing Chiteaudun, have burned it to the ground, AN Easrary Question.—Athens has just’ been agitated by severe shocks of earthquake and the inhabitants astonished by the display of brilliant lights overhead at night. : Hon. FERNANDO Woop's Opinion or GuNd ERAL GRANt.—Mr, Wood, to a detachment of the Tammany turnout on Thursday night, said, in the course of a pretty lengthy harangue, that in his opinion General Grant “is a man totally devoid of executive capacity} without a single qualification for the discharge, of his important duties ;” that ‘‘it is diflcult to ‘ouceive a persou more unqualified than Gen- wal Grant for his present position;” that, ‘mediocrity exhibits Itself in all he does;” thag ‘Youbtless as a soldier he had stubborn cour aje, but so has a bulldog; but no one would thnk of making a bulldog President in cone semence;” that, ‘‘in short, General Grant anchis administration are failures, lamentable andjgnominious failures,” and soon. This ie the Hon, Feraando Wood's opinion; and, bein, one of those learned judges who pro= nouved the war against the rebellion a “‘fail- ure,” \othing more need be said on the subs ject. Too {uca Corp Warer—The speech of Horatio$eymour—all about the State canals—~+ to the Teamany democracy the other night. Tt was lik a wet blanket over tie shoulders of “the boys} already drenched through with the rain. New Yok Reprarxrs are to bo headed off at the next Getion if there is any virtue id the new fedral election law. The matter was discussé\ at a full meeting of President Gant’s Cabinet —_ yesterday; when it wat determined that the law should be stri¢y and impartially enforced, without detrimento the rights of any voters, and, if necessar, the military forces of the government are tibe called upon to aid gov-' ernment officers the discharge of their duties. It is not atl likely that any serious. disturbances will etie from the enforcement: of this election law,nless provoked by hot-. headed partisans whe prospects of success may be endangered by, fair expression of tho popular will. _—_—— Tor West INDIA AN Panama CABLE.—~ Sir Charles Bright, ) projector of ther West India and Panamarable, has been re~ ceived in Colombia with ¢en arms. His ree! ception at Colon on the \th inst. was most enthusiastic, and the Coldpian Legislature, in order to show its apprecljon of the cable enterprise, has voted to defrathe expenses of suitable acknowledgment \ gir Charles Bright's labors. Such a ditgition on the party of the Colombian authities speaks Igadly in their favor, and exbitg a strong Alesire to encourage peaceful entéyiges, That je cable, which is to link Colom Jamaica, and thus place the isthmus in commu.