The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1870, Page 10

8 NW, YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER, 30, 1870-QUADRUPLE SHEKT, NEW YORK HERALD |™* "exes steestiow—tue spectre of te ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yoru Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Breadway ana 1Stn street. Jouw Bout. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Breadway.—Al.appin— Biaox Erep Susan. ee - NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—EnGiico Orzza— Rose or Castine. STRINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.-GxanD NILegon Conoxet. GRAND @PERA HOSE, corner ef Eighth avenue and etd ot.—Le Petit Faust. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Breadway.—Tur PANTOMIME oF Wee Witte WINKIE. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner Sh st,—Perform- ances every afterneon and evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.Doty—Tae Gamm— Cook or THX WILDERNESS. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fearty st.—Man anp Wire. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 28¢ st., between Sth and 6th ave.— Bir Van WINKLE. 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Pack. inate 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. isem: monds 1 18, Africa: The Diamond Jape of Good Hope; How ihey a ana tne Yield; Diamonds of Fort f Sixteen Carats, A Diamonds of Two, Five hieids and Bow ind Incidents and p's Special Report of Ba- Particulars of (he Capitn- a*Declares the Event a € and Says the Authors Should Be Outlawed; A Freneb Fieet Leaves Dunkirk; Communica- tion Between Amiens aud Ronen Re-estab- lished; BSismarck’s Opinton of Lord Granvilie’s Note—News From Washington—City Intelit- geuce—Amusements- saw Jockey Ciub—Criticisms of New Books—Accideut at the Grand Central Hotel—Fire in Broadway, Loss $18,000—The Supposed Grafton Bank Robber. @—State and City Polltics: A General Review of the Political Situation—Yachting: The Tidal Wave and Her Sailing Qualities—Traps and Triggers; Championship on Match Be- tween Ira A. Paine, of N k, and Edward W. Tinker, of Providence. Marshal's Host: Uncle Sam and His Two and Deputy Marshais—St. Ann’s Fair—The Newark Carr- Cobbett Rencontre. y—Maryland Jockey Club: Twenty-five Thousand Peopie Present at Plinlico; Fine Racing and a Giortous Day's Sport in General—Trotuing at Fleetwood Park—The Liberation of the Eter- nal City—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Knife in Greenwich Street—Brooklyn City News—The Forger Fle d—Army and Navy Inteliigence—Suicide by Taking Poison—Quarrel About a Boundary Line—The Case of Thomas Flanagan. S—Editortals: Leading Article on the European Situation, the Spectre of the French Republic Once More—Amusement Announcements. 9—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World— Personal Intelligence—Arrival of the Cousin of the Tycoon of Janan—City Politics—Dow- ling’s and Kelso’s Raid—Gusiness Notices, He 1s Brought Before Ja Vrit of Habeas Corpus. a—The Late Aurora y—Re- king Crime Odious— ‘ities of Ne ‘clal Reports— Car- 10—Theo, Allen from dozo on South Am ligious Intelligence— Arrival of Passengers—The York—Financial abd Comin Marriages, Births and Deaths. 41- Advertisements. 12—China: The Massacre of the Christians; Excit- ing Causes and Results; imperial Chinese Order for an Inquiry—Japan: The Feudal S¥s- tem in Process of Abohilon; Serfdom Abol- asned—Kea! Estate Matters—New Jersey Items—Suipping Intelligence—Advertise- British Neutrality in War and Bern- Exposition of the Policy; Bismarck’s Diplomacy aud the Prussian Cabinet Situation; Ireland, the Papacy and the French Republic— A Child Murderess Hanged: Execution of Mar- garet Waters, a Professional Child Murderess, in London—ihe Gulf Hurricanes. $4—Tne Wounded in War—Shipments of Material from the West Troy Arsenal—Aadvertisements. 15—A ivertisements. 16—Acvertusements. AnorneR QuADRU@LE IssUE OF THE Weratp.—Last Sunday the pressure upon our advertising columns was so great that in order to accomodate it, and at the same time to do full justice to our readers in supplying the fullest and latest intelligence from all quarters of the world, we were compelled to print a quadruple sheet. To-day we find ourselves in the same positien. This activity in adver- tising furnishes one of the best indications of the prosperous condition of our metropolis in all branches of trade and business; and we hope that that presperity will continue and increase until a quadruple sheet of the Hzrarp will be as regularly issued as its triple sheet now is. Tas War Sitvation.—Desultory fighting still continues throughout France. The con- centration of a force ‘to relieve Paris appears to be as far from consummation as ever. Minister Gambetta bas addressed « circular to the prefects of the republic, in which he says that he ‘has no official facts confirming the reported cspitulation of Metz, bot claims that if the report. is true the capitulation was the result. of a crime for which ite authors should be outlawed. “There exists one thing,” says he, “which neither can nor will capitulate— that is the French republic.” Brave but rash words! With the overwhelming forces now precipitated upon her, with the skilful general- ship opposing her, with her own regular army stamped out, her citizen forces unorganized, with all lost but honor, France's truest devo- tion and heroism now lies in the moral courage to accept the terms of peace which a victorious enemy has the right to impose. Sho has already shown physica! courage and endurance enough to command the admiration AE the nations for all hereafter. French Republic Once More. It is not, we think, unfair to say that the French situation to-day is the European situa- tion. In spite of all ber sorrow and humilia- tion—in spite of the fact that Paris, the brain of France, is no longer in communication with the outside world, France is still, ina certain not unemphatic sense, Europe. Ip the days of her pride France is in the habit of saying, “When we are contented Europe is atrest.” It thia be true in the days of her pride and con- tentment it is not, we think, less truo in the days of her sorrow and humiliation. Some three months ago France was proud, Imperially proud, and Europe trembled. To-day France is demoralized, spiritless, and Europe is ill at ease. It is impossible to praise too highly the German armies. Opposed to what was believed the mightiest military Power in Europe, Germany bas marched with compara- tive ease over s blood-stained path to the gates of Paris, Woerth and Weissenburg and Sedan and Mets have been unquestionably a series of surprises—surprises all in favor of Germany and all to the dis- credit and discomfiture of France. As a mili- tary Power France is now nowhere; but, although militarily France has fallen, she atill, in ber humiliation and sorrow, represents the dominant ideas of the age, and she is more the centre of attraction than ever. The difficulties which now beset and actually environ France are great; but France's diffi- culties are, in reality, the difficulties of Europe. © France in her despair and agony is 4 living lesson to Europe. Europe reads the lesson and understands it: Once more, in her checkered career, France has illustrated the folly of the one-man system of government ; and once more the republican sentiment, which finds feeble expr’ssion from the Rhing to the Pyrenees, is loudly echoed over the whole European Continent, To the French people the spectre of the republic has again vevealed itself, France sees it; and, in spite of her much trouble, she rejoices. The peoples of Europe see and rejoice; but the monarchs, the princes and _ prince- ings and the privileged classes gene- rally, notwithstanding the victories and defeats of the hour, gazo on the spectre with ‘ear and trembling. The United States, not unnaturally, take a deep interest in the French people. In the days of our infancy they were our generous and helpful allies. For this rea- son we think kindly of France and the French people. But not for this reason alene. We can never forget that the French people were the first to lay hold of our example and to body it forth in fact. Tho first French republic was, no doubt, in many important particulars, a failure ; but it was failure so magnificent that it almost deserves to be spoken of as a success, During those ten years, from 1790 to 1800, the peoples of Europe felt a power which they never felt before, and privilege received a vlow from which it has never since recovered, Folly and weakness, in the first instance, and privilege and divine right, in the second in- stance, killed the republic; but the ghost of the French republic—the terrible Nemesis of 1789—has haunted the palaces of Europe up to the present time. Ever as the spectre has been seen ever have the monarchs trembled, ever have the peoples rejoiced. Like the ghost of Hamlet’s father it has cried for revenge, and the cry, while it has smitten the wrongdocrs with terror, has fired the spirits of the wronged and nerved their arms with strength, Compelled to vanish in 1800, when France allowed herself to be deceived by an obsolete Roman title, it reappeared in 1812, in 1822, in 1830, in 1848; but French Emperors and so-called Holy Alliances made the voice and gestures of the spectre power- less. In 1870 the spectre is again revisiting the glimpses of the moon; again the peoples rejoice; again the monarchs tremble, and again the presumption is that the pale shadow will have to retire unavenged and unsatisfied. Not yet, we fear, can a republic be success- fully established in France. Not yet has the hoiir of popular triumph arrived. Yet once more must the peoples fall back upon hope. But hope cannot be deferred forever. The spectre of the republic is the spectre of lib- erty, and in spite of all Powers and all combi- nations of Powers liberty must triumph in the end. The fall of Meiz has baffled many hopes. It is no longer permitted us to think that France can repel the invading foe. The situation, complicated before, has become more complicated than ever. Aun armistice may be considered certain; but an armistice, judging from all present appearances, will give birth to a congregs of all the Powers; and on what principle or principles the great Powers are to come to an agreement no man, however gifted with prescieuce, can foretell. Now that Germanism has become a united force, Panslavism and Latinism begin to feel the necessities that are laid upon them. Latinism is not likely to be an immediate trouble, but Panslavism is. On the shores of the Baltic Slavonians and Germans are strongly mixed. So long as Germany was divided Germans had free course in Russia, and notwith- standing her mixed population, many of whom are in sympathy with Panslavism, Austria is mainly ruled by Germans. The unification of Germany is already sharpening the lines which separate the nationalities on the Conti- nent of Europe, aud it is impossible to foresee what questions in connection with race and language and religion may arise in the first grand European congress. © Russia will have something to ask, Austria will have something to ask, and if Denmark and Sweden could only make common cause the Scandinavians are not with- out a complaint. It is painful to write it, but it is no longer of any avail to deny that the Turkish empire in Europe exists only in sufferance. Meanwhile, whether there be war or peace, the monarchs are likely to have their way; but whatever be the basis of the peace settlement, it will result in the for- mation of larger national unions and in the lessening of the number of actual governments, This will be a popular gain, and, therefore, a gain to liberty. It will lessen the number of barriers which separate man from man; it will diminish and enfeeble the alienating forces, and so it will pave the way fora siill larger and closer union, The peoples are yet uncon- scious of their power; they are to a large extent blind to their own interests; but the of nroareas Ja in thels faror, and ja the long run they must win. The dynasties may again compel the spectre of the republic—the spectre of liberty—to vanish; but the spectre will reappear and continue to reappear until dynasties are no more and the sovereign peo- ple rule Europe and rule the world. The example of the United States of America has settled the fate of dynasties and of standing armies. Despots and bloated armaments are doomed. When we look into the future we see no nationalities, no dividing lines occa- sioned by race or language or religion—we see the United States of the World. While, therefore, we contemplate the probable failure of another republican effort in Europe, let us look forward hopefully and joyfully to the golden future—the better times that must come. Our Special Telegram Repert from Mets— Bazaine’s Ceadition, the Capitulation and Sarrendor. Our enterprise in reporting the initiation, progress and latest scenes of the great war struggle between France and Prus- sis Is just now crowned in a very worthy manner by the publication of a yoluminous special telegram, in which the most important military event of the day—the capitulation and surrender of Mets by the French—is de- tailed. The writer dated at Saarbruck yester- day morning and forwarded his despatch to London; it was transmitted thence by ocean cable to New York, delivered here the same day, and appears in our columns this morn- ing. As a feat of science, with sclence made tributary to the uses of American daily journalism, the present effort has been hitherto unequalled, so far as we can recollect, except in the one instance in which we our- selves telegraphed the result of the battle of Magdala and the absolute defeat of King Theodorus of Abyssinia from Africa to Egypt, thence to England, and from there to New York, supplying the first news of the triumph of Queen Victoria’s troops for the information ef her Majesty and the British people. This journalistic work was completed almost within the term of one day, and stands unparalleled in the history of what we may justly term the electricity of the great leading morning press. It was a grand occasion, availed of for a world-wide enlightenment. Our special war telegram of to-day is, how- ever, of far more important consequence. It confirms the report of the capitulation and sur- render of Marshal Bazaine at Metz, and thus reopens the military ‘grave of France,” which was closed some few years after the ‘‘deadly Waterloo.” It will be seen that this action of Bazaine was rendered absolutely necessary in face of the existence of the most melancholy military necessity. Starvation stared the French army in the face. Death from wounds, sickness, and that slow and deadly consuming emaciation of the physical system which en- sues from an insufficient supply of food reigned around him on all sides. Regimental discipline was lost sight of in the pressing exi- gencies of the ferox natur@ of the stomach, The French soldiers went over off post to the Prussians, and the Prussians, acting under the impulse of the heart of gallant Cssistian sol- diers, supplied them with food from their own scanty rations. Insubordination at length made its appearance among the French, A corps deputation waited on Bazaine and de- manded that he should lead them against the enemy; that he should invite the inevitable death, instantaneous and professional, and thus foil the grim spectre which attends on starvation. The moment was a very trying one. It constituted the crisis of Bazaine’s career; it made the serious point of French history. The Marshal met it firmly, bravely. He announced to his starving soldiers that ne- gotiations looking to a capitulation of the fort- ress were actually in progress at the moment, and that they would no doubt be successful. They wereso. Changarnier carried the French message, Prince Frederic Charles met him, and King William approved of it immediately., Joy was diffused on all sides, Onr special writer was accorded permission by the Prussian commanders—a marked com- pliment to ourselves—to enter the fortress of Metz. He did so, The ghastly scenes which he there witnessed, as will be read in his special telegram, cannot be forgotten easily. Their present narration may tend to prevent war in fature. Women and children had died in numbers from sickness produced by having eaten the fiesh of wornont and discased horses. A man was fed with four ounces of bread for twenty-four hours, and frequently he could not have even that allowance. Camp hygiene and discipline had been abandoned, and Bazaine was at the head of a huge skele- ton, a corpse which had heen merely, during weeks past, at least, galvanized by national recollections, and moved by a remembrance of the now “‘faded glories” which they cover. The Prussians burried on the work. They found a very valuable amount of arms and army equipments in Metz, These they took possession of. The captive army had food immediately. Commissariat officers were set to work in order to obtain additional supplies from the surrounding country. The French prisoners will be taken to Germany, through Belgian territory if possible. Marshal Lebceuf goes with the captives by his own wish. He will take a parole in Germany ; thus evidenc- ing his disinclination to return to France, per- haps for the same reasons which moved his ex-royal master towards his personal sur- render. Bazaine and Changarnier will, it is alleged, visit Napoleon at Wilhelmshéhe. Fresh developments may be presented subse- quently. In the meantime we are rejoiced that we can, on this good Sabbath morning, specially assure the American public of the surrender of the French fortress ef Metz and give hope of an approaching conclusion, so far as the hor- rors of the field and hospital are concerned, of the great Franco-Prussian war. Bovxp to Ruy anp Ouest ‘70 Win.—The | veteran turfman and politician Baile Peyton, of Tennessee, announces his determination to stand a canvass for member of Congress from the Tennessee Fifth district, although he de- clines a regular political nomination, Mr. Pey- ton has for many years been esteemed among the most valuable citizens of the South. His reappearance in the national House of Repre- sentatives would afferd to the world one indi- cation at least that harmony among the people of the United States had been permanently re- stored. The Pope and His Temporalition, This morning's despatches from Rome inform us that his Holiness Pius IX. is dejected at the present withdrawal of his temporal power over the civic affairs of the Holy See, which for so many ages had been the recognized appanage of his predecessors in the chair of St. Peter. We are told that he will not stir beyond the gardens of the Vatican, and that he refuses to sanction the customary religious festivals of October. Whether these accounts, coming from such a dfstance and through so many channels, be strictly true or not, it cannot be denied that the present Supreme Pontiff and a large body of bis adherents cling with unrelaxing tenacity te the prerogatives of the temporal power, and that in this fact # most delicate and even dangerous question is involved. Any opinion which is part of the earnest creed of intelligent men of nearly every nationality, and in nearly every nook and corner of the world, is something that rises far above hasty speculation or flip- pant remark, and the man who indulges in either singularly fails to appreciate the great and solemn lessons that Providence is daily forcing upen our attention in a time remarka- ble for its moral and its material phenomena alike. Thinking thus, we shall not ourselves be guilty of such mistakes, if we can help it. But, at an epoch when brotherly concilia- tion between men and nations is so greatly needed ; when Christianity and liberty, strag- gling against a thousand ever-recurring forms of unbelief and oppression, have need of all their resources to shut out the rain of fire and blood which rampant passions are bringing upon the earth, it is lamentable that the wis- dom which guides an ecclesiastical control that touches the hearts of so vast a portion of mankind as does the Church claiming to be Apostolic and uriversal should not find a glorious compensation for the temporal and imperfect authority over a petty province in the augmented opportunity and facility of spiritual influence and progress. In spite of all partisan denunciation and perverted facts the history of Rome since the accession of Pius IX. to the throne, after the death of Gregory XVI., show himto be at heart an enlightened and benevolent prince. He began his reign by proclaiming a general amnesty, and at once set about adopting reforms that would have elevated and enriched his people. In this he was thwarted by pre- cisely those invading powers who found in the temporal sway their continual pretext for inter- ference and for that kind of “protection” “which the wolf gives to the lamb by covering and devouring it.” It was againstan Austrian and Bourbon conspiracy to involve Pius, Rome and Italy in one common ruin that the Italian people arose with such splendid enthusiasm in 1846, and it was over the young Roman volunteers of 1848 marching to Ferrara and Vicenza that the Pontiff uplifted his hands in benediction in 1848. Buffeted about in turn by French, Austrian and even by British diplo- macy in the sorrowful years that succeeded, the temporal power has been the unseaworthy bark of aday long gone by that has, again and again, nearly carried down with it his for- tunes and the interests of his Church. This period seems now to have closed, and assuredly the attachment, respect and support of a whole nation and the free sway of ‘reli- gion must more than outweigh the uncertain- ties of a decrepit province and a barren sceptre, Statesmanship and duty both would seem to impose this reading of the lesson as the sternest command uttered from a source on high. The light that is set upon a hill shines further than when it is hid under a bushel. Christ on Calvary was greater than all the powers and principalities of men. The transcendant work of a spiritual power released from the cares and trammels of tem- poral responsibility, ina time like this, is to break down all barriers that keep brethren apart; to burst asunder all bonds that imprison them; to preach pity and peace, humility and the pardon of wrongs dealt one to another, unity betwéen men and nations, and the lifting up of the heart to God. This is the hour and this the occasion for sucha ‘Kyrie Eleison” from the Consecrated City and the holy hill. THe Prace Conrerence of the Spanish- American republics of South America, Pera, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia and Spain was opened in Washington yesterday with Secretary Fish, as mediator, in the chair, The Envoy of. Bolivia was absent, and after a few harmonious preliminaries the meeting adjourned until he arrives in this country. Our worthy Secretary of State is doubtless deing a very commemd- able work in thus trying to secure peace between these belligerent parties, but as they have engaged in no actual hostilities for nearly four years, since Callao gave the Spanish fleet such a repulse, and as Spain has never recovered sufficiently from that blow to renew the strife—and with Cuba on her hands probably never will—and as none of the South American republics havea navy at all for- midable even to Spain, the good offices which the Secretary of State tenders to these Powers seem entirely unnecessary. If he would tender similar mediatory services to France and Prussia, or to Spain and Cuba, the benefit to be derived might be considered worthy of the dignity of our government and somewhat analogous to the services rendered. Tae Cotorep Man IN PoLitI0s.—We have received a copy of an address to the colored people and democratio party of the State of New York on the situation in the Southern States. Also copy of, a letter from Gerrit Smith to his colored brethren. In the former the idea of amalgamation of the two raees is encouraged, and in the latter the author expressly. declares that he ‘‘deeply desires the death of the democratic party.” Beth these propositions will be solved by the natural course of political events, without pre- cipitous action from any sources. When the two races mingle and the democratic party is annihilated look out for the millennium, or resurrection day, The colored man has now allthe political rights under the constitution vouchsafed the white man, and if be aspires to more he makes a mistake. That's all, Prmor ApumMa, of Japan, has arrived in this clty with a numerous suite to study the system of government in this country. The Prince is a cousin ef the Mikado of Japan, and deserves at \east as hearty a welcome at the hands of our suthorities and fashionables aadanagore Tommy ox Prince Arthur pecelyad. Tee Geeat Tammany Taersest and the Meaning Thereof. The grand turnout of the Tammany demo- cracy on Thursday night last was a splendid affair as a torchlight parade, an imposing affair as a political assemblage, and s very significant affair as a democratic demonstra- tlon, The republican journals hardly know what to make of it. The spectacle of forty thousand men voluntarily parading in the rain, and that of a hundred thousand assem- bled in and around Union square and Tam- many Hall, are facts which cannot be trifled with, and which indicate some general under- lying cause of democratic inspiration greater than the ordinary excitements of a local elec- tion. In discussing this romarkable political pageant the republican organs, dazzled hy the portly presence of the enfant terrible ot the Erie ring, and amazed at bis audacity in bis plain speaking, are dreadfully frightened by it, too. They think it means the proclama- tion of an alliance between the Erie ting and the Tammany ring in ao game of robbery, spoils and plunder, through repeaters and ballot box stuffers, never dreamed of before. Indeed, from the general tone of the republican party press, city and State, the democracy of this city are an utterly reckless and abandoned coalition of rogues and ruffians, and the men of character and standing who give them countenance ought to be ashamed of themselves and their base associates. In this connection it puzzles one of our radical organs to account for the bonds of brotherly affection made manifest at the great gathering in the Wigwam between “Boss Tweed” and August Belmont, How “the Boss” should be so far reconciled to ‘‘the agent of the Rothschilds” as to bring him for- ward as president of the meeting, and how it was that Belmont should be thankful to Tweed and his followers for the honor conferred and should proceed to blarney the sachems, is the mystery which republican factionists cannot explain. Nor can they understand how a man of the refinements of Belmont should so freely and fraternally commingle with the uawashed roughs of a Tammany love feast. We suppose, however, that in such company as that of Henry Grinnell, Charles H. Marshall, James W. Gerard, Charles O’Conor, Maunsell B. Field, Wilson G. Hunt, Samuel Sloan, Robert J. Dillon and a host of others of commanding character and respectability, Mr. Belmon: in Tammany is quite as much at home as in the inner temple of the Manhattan Club. We think it possible that all these men of our Tammany democracy, of high, half-way and low degree, are united upon certain political notions which they hold in. common, and that they really believe in these notions. We dare say that this political party is in reality apprehensive of some sort of a design on the part of General Grant to carry this coming election by the bayonet, absurd as this fear is; and that the rank and file, by their trampeters, have been roused to a patriotic indignation which will carry them to the polls on election day, if necessary, even over a battery of mitrailleuses, flanked by a squadron of ublans and needle guns, This isthe meaning of the late great Tammany turnout; and it was, moreover, in- tended as a demonstration to Marshal Sharpo that the Tammany voters of this city are a living power, and that they will meet him again at Philippi. Ten Tuovsanp Reasons why a United Statesgoldier or marine should not be seen in the streets on election day are to be found in the fact that ten thousand special deputies have been appointed by the United States Commissioner to assist the Marshals in carry- ing out the election law of Congress. If this army, two-thirds of whom are selected by the tepublican politicians, cannot sustain the United States Marshals in the performance of their duty, the force of repeaters and frandu- lent voters with which we are threatened by the radical organs must be as formidable as the Prussians before Paris. Our SprotaL EvrorgaN CoRRESPONDENOE embraces a variety of matter illustrative of the current history of the Old World, our writers noting the progress and tendency of the war and war policy, as between the belligerent Powers of Prussia and France, the neutrals and the peoples, The Eastern question is treated and gpoken of as it looms up again for solution—a ‘necessity which becomes more imporative in the direction of the Holy Land daily, and still more intensely so just in pro- portion as the outside governments are troubled, : Lyine As A Poitican Neoxssity.—One of our guasi-religious contemporaries, in an article on “‘Lying as a Political Force,” re- marks ‘‘that the improvement in the art of lying seems to have kept pace with that made in all the other arts which contribute to the comfort or entertainment of mankind.” It seems so, indeed, and one would have to go no further than the columns of the paper referred to for ample verification of the statement. Lying has not only become a political necessity, but, we are pained to say, a clearly religious duty, in some circles. The religious press would be doing better service in the cause of Christianity if it would let the muddle pool of politics alone. There is no necessity for lying under any, cir- cumstances.or in-any case, and the Scriptures refer toa very heated place te which all liars are eventually consigned. Paraevay.—We hear so little about Paraguay now that it would eeem as if Brazil had absorbed the little republic which caused her so much trouble as a punishment for the ambition of Lopez. The Paraguayans will not tamely submit to every indignity that Brazil, under the guise of protection or some other equally transparent dodge, will cast upon unfortunate Paraguay. The Brazilians have had everything their own way so far, but there are. evident signs of growing discontent at Asuncion, ‘Tis the willing slave that makes the oppressor ; but we mistake the Paraguayan temper very much if the followers of Lopez will contribute willingly to create oppressors, IncomPLETE Retorns from two-thirds of the counties of West Virginia indicate that the State has gone democratic by about one thou- sand majority. Two of the three Congress- men elected are democratic, and as the Legis- lature is also of that complexion a democrat will be elected United States Senator to suc- ceed Mr. Willey, whose tasm exvires mish the Ceristinaity t China asd Japan. There is a marked contrast presented now between the ‘effect which Christian oat zation has produced in China and in Japan. While we behold the spectacle of the Chinese people engaged in what has evidently on the face of the movement the appearance of a con- spiracy to murder all the Christian forelgners in the kingdom, the Japanese government {s sending delegations of its young men to Europe and America to study the operations and results of Christian civilization in the dif- ferent capitals and colleges. There are four- teen of these young Japanese now in this city. They are. to be located at the expense of their government at different points on the two con- tinents. Some will remain here. Othera go to Berlin, St, Petersburg, London, Paria, Vienna and Rome. The object, of course, is to employ,these students as propagandists of Christian civilization on their return home— to engraft, as far as thelr acquired experi- ence will permit, the systems of various Chris- tian nations upon the darkened civilization of ‘their own country. Ever since the American ‘expedition of Commodore Perry the governing minds of the Japanese empire have beea awakened to an enlarged view of the out- side world, and the thoughts of its statesmen have been fixed- upon. this country as the ‘first example presented to them of a great foreign Power exercising its influence in friendship and peace in strange contrast to the violent domination of other nations. We have seen the resalts in the expanded views of the Japanese; in the dis- tinguished Embassy which visited these shores @ few years ago, and the influence of the United States remains to-day as firm as ever in Japan. The movements of that empire are progressive. In China, on the contrary, we see the ancien! barbarism of the people atill paramount, and uphappily displaying itself in violence, cruelty and bloodshed. Notwithstanding the Burs lingame treaty, and all the advances which Awerican and European civilization has made towards establishing a friendly foeling with the Chinese, it is evident, from recent events, that these people remain as barbarous as ever. Their pagan savageness appears to be impregnable to the mild influences of Christian civilization. It has come to this, that the whole Christian world will have te make common cause against the Chinese in order to protect their citizens resident in China, their missionaries of every faith, from the brutality of the Cainese people. And this must be done by force of arms. Since they regard no treaty nor fulfil any obligation in good faith, there is nothing left but to protect all Christian citizens, whether American, French or English, by the strong arm of com: bined action if necessary. The hostility of the Chinese may not be dis rected against Christians, as such, so much as against foreigners in general, upon whom they look with the jealous eye of ignorance, and whom they always feared as in- terlopers, meddling with their commerce, and introducing ideas dangerous to their heathen system of religion and govern. ment. But as the majority of the foreign residents in China are Christians the persecution to which they are now submitted— of which the shocking massacre at Tientsin was but the beginning—falls of course upon the Christian missions and converts. The alarming intelligence received from Bombay, that the Chinese have fixed upon a certain day for a general massacre of foreigners, and that they are marching and distributing their troops for that purpose, is shocking to think of, for against a general movement of this kind the foreign residents are almost without protec- tion. Looking at the condition of China in the light of these events we cannot perceive that our Christian civilization has exercised a very potent influence in that heathen country, The Diamond Fields of Africa. By newspaper mail files from the Cape of Good Hope we have an ample and interesting report of the diamond fields of South Africa, the new Golconda of that quarter of the world, As it was in California and Australia after the discovery of gold, the Cape Town and Kaflr- land population was fevered with the thirst of sudden gain, ‘here was a general exodus from the cities and towns to the mines. er dig~ gings. Industrial employments were neg- lected; the colonists wished to become mil- lionnaires in a moment. This condition of the public mind engendered many exaggerated reports as to the yield of the diamond fields, Some persons had been very lucky. To them the very situation of everyday life was spar- kling and brilliant. Others, again, had been unfortunate, Unseen diamonds were, in their estimate, humbug and nonsense, and the rush and enterprise set down as being a good deal of a “‘sell.” Coincident statements coming from various points of the territory go to show, however, that there has really been a very valuable discovery in Africa, and that diamonds of vast value have been feund, The finding of these jewels constitutes a very important event in the history of geological science, as will be seen by the learned expo- sition of a colonial savant, which we publish. He holds the theory of an internal fire surging and shifting within the bowels of the earth, and the aggregation and, perhapy, purifica- tion of diamonds at certain points by means of this vast, unseen heated wave flow. This theory is not an unreasonable one by any means. The mountain system of Africa, ranging from Mount Atlas in the northwest, and extending with its branches from twenty- seven degrees to thirty-two degrees north, attains in some of its peaks an elevation of twelve thousand feet. Then we have the Mountains of the Moon, with the vast rivers to whieh they give rise, and the great desert of Sahara stretching north across the Continent, from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, Gold dust and even diamonds have been already dis- covered in Africa, and salt, with other orys- talline deposits, are found in abundance at points, in the rivers and on the land surface of the territory. If the theory of internal fire be correct, and that like deposits prevail deeper and still deeper towards the centre of the globe, why should they not be ‘‘purified as by fire’—in the words of the Bible—and harden and crystallize and diamondize to that degree of consistency and lustrous beauty which renders the diamond so valuable in the eyes of mankind? The present yield of the diamond Gels of Africa may produce very