The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1870, Page 6

7-7.’ 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Vetume XXXV.. ——————— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street Moun Buu. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Breadway.—ALAppIn— Bis0k Even Susan. LO's GARDEN, clown DiawexDs. GRAND @PBRA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 934 ot. —La Guam Docurces, THEA’ Breadway.—TaE Pan’ OLYMPIC 4 Aran, TOMIME OF Broadway.—ENGLIsn Orgra— War Wiis Win uM corner Sth st.— - Wood's MUSEI bene yn § ‘Perform- BOWERY TRE, Bowery.—DoTt—Tun Gaux— Coox oy THE WILDERNESS. FIFTH AVENUS THEATRE, Twenty-fourth ot.—Man ane Wirt. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 284 st., between Sth and Gta ave.— Bir Van WOK. ‘EENTH STREET THEAT! (Theatre Francais) winaseta, Quasy oF Evouaspe oP GLOBE THEATRE, 79 Breadway.—Varrety ENTER- eADMENT—NYMPHO OF THE CARIDBRAN BEA. NEW YORK STADT THEA’ @uauan OFERA—THE Hueveno: . ¥. B. CONWAY'S Park , - war as Wire. SEATED, roehirn TONY PASTOR'S @PE! 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. = Paar 1—Advertisements. ‘Q—Advertisements. 3-Parts: Herald Special Report from the Invest- ing Army; Attempted Assassination of Kil William; ‘rancs-Tireurs Destro! Railroa Communications; Severe Battle Before the Be- Sleged City on Friday; Defeat of the French: Heavy Los8 on Both Sides; The Bombardmen: of the Capital to Begin To-Day; Detaus of the Captures at Metz; Address ‘of General Bour- baki to His Army; Prussta’s Demand for Ter- ritory Prevents Peace—Drowned in the Har. bor—Amuseinenta, 4—New York City News—The Worst Case on Re- cord—A Loud Call on Brookiyn—The Central Park—Patriotic Fairs—The French Wounded— Shocking Fate of an Inebriate—Politicai—Lec- tures—Frauds in Government Contracts— Newark’s Gay Deceivers—The East Side Boule- vard—The Rooster Arena—Obituary—A Na- br Bank Stamped—Curious Cause for Sul- le. G—Poiitical Assessments of Government Clerks— The Census—President Grant’s Indian Policy— Financiai and Commercial Reports—The Might of Kight—Long Island ltema—Westchester Court Matiers—Real Estate Matters—Arrest of a Murderer. G—Euitorials: Leading Article, Late Astounding Events in France and Her Present Condition— Amusement Announcements. ‘Y—Editorial (continued from Sixth page)—Tele grepluo iews from all Parts of the World: ‘ne ‘ee Throne Question Omcialty. Set- tied; ch Congratulations on italian National Unity; The Turkish Mission to Wash- ington; Alarm of Christians in Persia—News from Washtogton—-The Gale on Sunday Night— Personal Intelligence—Business Notices. ®—New York City Courts—Military Chit-Chat— Naval Intelligence—Fleetwood Park—Horse Notes—Police Board—Sentenced to Death— Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, ®—Advertisements. 10—City Politics: Mass Meeting of the Young De- mocracy; the Registry; Meetings Last Night— The Newark Frauds—The. McHenry Case— Shupping Intelligence—Advertisements, 11—Advertusements. 12—advertusements. Let Voters REMEMBER that to-day is the lpst day of registration. “Locgine THE StabLx DooR AFTER THE Horse 1s Storen’—Taking a fresh census of the city of New York after election day. Tue Hverricasgs which recently visited Cuba have destroyed fully one-quarter of the whole sugar crop. The fruit of the island is also-serlously damaged. Tae Martisique INsurREctIon has been suppressed. Twenty of the misguided negroes have lost their lives, and about‘one hundred others have forfeited theirs. So much for the negro rising in Martinique. A Pomrr Lower.—Gold dropped another point yesterday end sold at 111}. Last March tt fell to 110}. The war in Enrope took it back to 123§. Iis retrocession to jar before the end of 1871 is not an impossibility. Tor Unwrep Srares Supreme Covurr opened a new term at Washington yesterday. Chief Justice Chase and Senior Associate Jus- tice Nelson were both absent through illness. The proceedings wore opened by a melan- choly memorial to the Yale Agseciate Justice Grier. fig Tue Youne Democracy of Jersey deserve high commendation. By an obvious blunder they have assumed the name assumed by the cough elements in this city, but they are so truly innocent and chaste that they have nomi- ogted men unknown to politics altogether and are Agfa Likely to carry the State. Avrarns Is Mexico, according to the latest advices from the Mexican capital, are much more quiet than they have been for some time Comparative tranquillity reigns. How see will continue Is another ques- Hon, Peace in Mexico is like the little Joker pf the gambler—‘‘Now you see it and now you don’t see it.” Let us hope, however, for the best and be thankful for even the shortest reign ef quietude poor Mexico obtains, ‘Arreuetep Assassination oF Kine Wu- ‘1aa,—A Hiuratp special from Versailles ptates that an attempt was recently made te assassinate King William at Versailles, but that he escaped unburt, and General Roon, his minister of war, was injured. Assassination { « dastardly element in war. Tt is mever t although in the present instance is no certainty what might be the effect Germany en the sudden death of the King, the assassin doubtless had the probability 6 disesiroay social disarrangement in bis ~ a eo ~ WEW Late Astounding fveuis ia Fravce aod Ler Present Condition, Poor France! “How has the mighty fullon! There is no parallel in the history of great nations to the rapid fall and prostrate condition of France. But yesterday, comparatively speaking, she was first among the first Powers. All the nations feared her military prowess. An alliance with her was eagerly sought. Proud England deemed herself happy and safo while France was her friend and ally. In turns both Russia and Austria, two of the most powerful empires in the world, were humiliated by her arms. Yes, it is only a few years since the war of the Orimea and that famous Italian campaiga which drove the Austrians from Italy. The military glory of the first republic and first empire seemed to have been revived. The verdict of the world was that France was still a mighty and brave nation. No nation was willing to measure swords with her single-handed. Even Prussia consented to the dismantling of Lux- embourg but three or four years ago, at the demand of France, rather than risk a war. She ylelded even to the imperious demands of Na- poleon in the matter of the candidature of Prince Hohenzollern for the Spanish throne to avold, if possible, a war with France. Such was the prestige of French power up te the present war, four months age. Look at France now. Whatachange! It seoms almost incredible that such a Power in the heart of Europe, with forty millions of brave people, should be se transformed. It is like a miracle, We need not recapitulate the events of the war—the astounding suc- cess of the German hosts in one great battle after another. They are familiar to all our readers, Little less than half a million of armed men on the side of tho French have been put hors de combat—nearly the whole of the regular army, the flower of France—in the short space of four months. Besldes some of the strongest fortresses in the world have fallen before the enemy, and an amount of war materials, arms and guns almost incredible has been surrendered. Many ofthe fairest provinces have been over- run and desolated. The conquering Germans spread over the country wherever they will and in every direction, like locusis, and meet with but feeble resistance. The vast French navy, that was built up at an enormous expense,-ani considered second to none in Europe, has done nothing. The proud capital of France and of the civilized world, which was fortified at every point in the strongest manner, is shut off from the rest of the world under tho grip of the Prussians. The lato imperial govern- ment -bas abandoned France to her fate, and the existing provisional government is a fugi- tive from the capital and knows not where to find a reating place. The ery of agony arises from every part of the country. French patri- otism, so ardent and profound, cannot find a rallying point in suficient force to stop the tide of conquest. ‘fo put the climax to all these terrible misfortunes Bazaine has surrendered an army of a hundred and fifty thousand men, with the strongest fortress in France, to the enemy. The first question that naturally arises in the mind js, how bas the great French nation been brought to such a condition? Admitting the superior preparations of Prussia for the war, the superior skill of her generals, the enormous forces she assembled and the advan- tage she has taken, more than the French, of those modern agents of progress, the rail- roads and telegraph, still these will not account entirely for the overwhelming and constant defeats of the French and the prostrate condition of the country. The cause, in a great measure, must be found in the imperial government and the demoralized state to which it had brought the nation. The proclamation of the provisional government, signed by MM. Crémienx, Glais- | machine, Bizoin and Gambetta, on the surrender of Bazaine, which we published yesterday, ex- presses in the most graphic manner the causo principally of these disasters. ‘‘ Frenchmen,” they say, ‘‘measnre the depths of the abyss into which the empire has precipitated you. For twenty years I’rance submitted to this corrupting power, which extinguished in her the springs of greatness and life. The army of France, stripped of its national character, became, without knowing it, an instrument of tyranny and of servitude, and it is swallowed up, in apite of the heroism of the soldiers, by YORK HERALD, TUESDAY; NOVEMBYK 1 1870,—TRLPLE SHRur. try gad aiding the enemy, How else can we The Bpectre’ of Wainiko. ta) Féancs. “| whole |massde of the French population. account for the surrender of an army of a Count Bismarck’s circular to the Ministers | Let, theu, the coucerta,..the discourses, the bundved and fifty thousand men by Bazaine? | and diplomatic agents of North Germany | lectures, the exhibitions thet, are wont to be Such an immense force ought to have cut its | residing in foreign countries gounds a note of | offered for minor charities be turned toward way through @lmost ahy besleging army had | deep and solemn warning through the genoral | the response to this one terrible ory for help it been well managed and led out before | din of war tbat comes to us from Europe. It | from those who are ready to perish io enfeebled by starvation. Is not that | is, indeed, like ‘a fre bell in the night,” tore- | an allied land, the arly friend of very imperlalism which has overwhelmed | cali men, not only in France but throughout | our own republic and so long the France in ruin now plotting with | both hemispheres, from their dreams of mar- intellectual guide of Christendom. Our the foreign enemy to deliver her up bound | tial pomp and show to the stern and dreadful | Legislatures, ational and State; our hand and foot ? realities of the situation, The document refer- | municipal bodies, our boards of trade, our The unrelenting war carried on- against | red to, which ‘was published in a Heraty | moneyed corporations, our orders, clubs and France by the King of Prussia on pretence of | despatch from Washington city yesterday | societies of all kinds; -our agricultural, rail- wanting guarantees of peace, long after his | morning, points out the practical fact, | road, mining and moneyed princes; our rell- first avowed object had been obtained, shows | appalling in its importance, that, owing to the | gious congregations and the whole people, that there is another purpose. No doubt this | wanton destruction of roads and bridges lead- | collectively and individually, could perform neo is tocrush the rising republic through reduc- | ing from Paris to the provinces—a destruc- | holier er higher act worthy of our civilization ing the French people to the most humiliating | tion wrought by the French themselves—the | and our progressive age—more full of solacing and hopeless condition. The same atrocious | invading Germans will find it utterly impossi- | remembrance to each heart, more in beautiful @bject the so-called neutral Powers desire to | ble to supply the two million people which the | accordance with our Christian profession, see accomplished. They fold their arms com- | capital contains with the necessaries of life | more fraught with glorious auspices to us and placently while this terrible bloody war—this | even after the city capitulates. As itis, the pris- | our obildren, now and hereafter, than to succor war of devastation, which is a disgrace to civill- | oners taken by the Germans in the various fights | our fainting brethren of France and exorcise, zation and the age—is going on, with the hope | and sorties attempted by the garrison state | with the white hand and the gentle word of that the French republic may be buried in the | that the latest rations have been but one | Charity, this grim spectre of Famine from ruins, This is the secret why the selfish | pound of meat per week for each soldier inside | their doors, British government—why the British mon- | the defences of the city, with the stock of archy and aristocracy will not raise a finger in | animal food rapidly disappearing. Meanwhile Lar Evanr Native, as well as every adopted bobalf of France, and why all the other | the investing force bave, by intense exertion | “lien, entitled to, vote, register his name monarchies and oligarchles of Europe | and unceasing vigilance, been able to keep | 497. do not ssy a word in the cause | open communication with the Rhine frontier, All Hallow Even aad All Saints’ Day. of humanity, King William and his hosts | and have drawn very heavy aid, in all requi- | Not afew of the old traditional observances are the Vandals of modern times, and their | sites, from home. But they have also com-| of the Church of Rome appeal so strongly to secret allies are the crowned heads and | pletely ea. a out and exhausted the country deep and universal sentiments in human natare aristooracies of Europe. Can the republic of | environing Paris, over a radius of some days’ | as to retain their hold even in this sceptical France stand under such fearful combina- | journey not made by railroad, and the daily | age, In fact, their influence is now by no tion? That is the question of the day. The | wider and wider consumption Is rapidly extend- | means restricted to the Church and the com- prospect is gloomy at present, but France in | ing the unproductive area. The food question | munities in which they originated. Thus last former times did wonders when she was fully | has already become a very irksome and oppres- night, at many & fireside throughout this coun- aroused and Europe was in arms against her. | sive one to the strangers. The latter number | try ag well as in both Catholic and Protestant At all events, should the King of Prussia, | nearly, if not quite, sevea hundred thousand | countries of Europe, folks as merry and friendly as those described by Burns with the connivance of the other crowned | menin arms, and chiefly concentrated around heads, squelch the republic now, the principle | the French capital, the actual number furnished her did convene will live, and a day of retribution will come, | by the North and South German States to ouftna aud thet tlow enn when the people of Evrope shall rise in their might and demand everywhere liberty and self-government. together, for the war, being more than elght hundred thousand, and allowance being made for those put hors de combat by sickness, wounds and death. All, then, that the reopened railroads ranning eastward to Germany and the scouting expeditions sent out on every side can do is to meet the incessant demands of this enormous force. They can achieve no more. What, then, are to become the inevita- ble consequences of throwing the vast popula- tion of Paris on their own resources in the Buros eaid of All Hallow E’en:—“It is thought to be a night when all the superhuman beings who people space and earth and air in search of mischief revel at midnight, and it is also & grand anniversary of the more benefi- cent tribe of tairles, whose occupation is to baffle each evil genips jn his wicked pursuit.” To-day is All Sainte’ Day. Anglicans and American Episcopalians, as well as Catholics, will religiously observe the solemnity which was originally instituted on the dedication by The War Situation—France Still S abborn. France is still determined to resist. The fall of Metz seems only te have added fuel to the enthusiasm. Bourbaki at Amiens is organ- izing the Army of the North with an apparently definite object. He intends, according to his proclamation, to raise the siege of Parie with Pue Gaaten of #fid treason of her chiefs.” The army had been detached from the poople and used as an instrument to oppress’ them. From the hour that Louis Napoleon usurped power over France through the army to the day of bis fall he maintained his authority by the bayonet. His government was the most skilfully cen- tralized one in Europe. It was a perfect covering and controlling every department and municipality. Any plédiscite— any vote he wanted—could be werked out by this machine, under his direction, While he flattered the vanity and diverted the French people by several foreign wars; while he created an ephemeral prosperity in France, through enormous expenditures of money, and while he pretended to concede some liberty, he held the French under the most despotic rule and made the army the instrument of oppression. It was impossible that a government would stand in this enlightened and progressive age on such a foundation. His government was a glittering and gorgeous fabric that dazzled the imagination for a time, but it rested on » foun- dation of sand. There was nothing honest, earnest or true about it. It was, to use another simile, a bubble that burst immediately it was pricked. Napoleon was a mere theorist and an actor at all times. He acted on a grand scale, and acted well for a time, but still he was always an actor and nothingmore. When he was brought face to face with hard facts and with the intense earnestness of this prac- tical age he was found deficient and fell. While he was revelling in the dreams of bis theories the hard-headed, earnest and practical Germans came upon him and took away all his fancied strength. Had he fallen alone there would have been no cause for regret, but he has dragged down the temple of French great- ness, honor and glory with him. The corrup- tion and demoralizing influence of his govern- ment left France an easy prey to the invading Germans. It is suspected, and with reason, that even now his creatures—the imperialist faction—are plotting agalast their owa coun- flying armies @ light infantry, which can ope- rate as soon as their numbers are large enough without walting for the vast munitions deemed necessary for heavier bodies, The National Guards and Mobiles appear to be ‘concentrating at Tours and Rennes, and im- mense demonstrations in favor of the republic are being held throughout the republic. It may be that the terrible troubles of the war have been necessary to weld the people together and to make the republic, founded in blood and disaster, the permanent government of the nation. The disasters still continue, however. Dijon has been occupied by a force of Prussians, and fhe inference seems to be that the move on Lyons is about being prose- cuted with vigor. The bombardment of Paris, it is said, will certainly commence to-day. The stern Ger- man troops, like the old Roundheads, have been engaged in solemn religious services pre- paratory to the great work. They have been asking God to bless their arms and to shed the light of His countenance upon the monstrous blow that will devastate the fair capital of sciences, arts and culture. ‘‘He moves in a mysterious way,” and it is not for us to say how He may choose to work the great wonders occurring round us every day. In harsh con- trast, however, with the Cromwellian exhibi- tion of fervor on the part of the Germans is the fcivolous and heartless invitation sent to the princes of the small South German States to come and see the bombardment—Paris butchered to make a German holiday. The reports from Prussian headquarters indicate that rations are already scarce inside, and it is stated that women and children frequently force themselves to the Prussian lines, pre- ferring instant death from the Prussian fire to slow death by starvation inside. From this we must infer that the bombardment is to take place without removing the women and chil- dren, and if such is the case another horror is to be added to what threatens to be the most direful event of modern history. Let Every Dzmoorar entitled to vote regis- ter his name to-day. Tuo Fourth Congressional District. Between the two democratic candidates for Congress in this district, Robert B. Roosevelt and General M, T. McMahon, there can be very little doubt as to the question ef success. Mr. Roosevelt happens to be on the strong ticket of Tammany, which in itself is a pass- port toa popular majority; but besides this endorsement there are many fine old tradi- tionary ideas connected with Mr. Roosevelt's name and family which naturally render him the favorite of the people in the Fourth Con- gressional district. The ancient Knicker- bockers left their mark more prominently than any other race upon the history of this city. The spirit of democracy, we might almost say, sprung out of them, and in the lower portions of the city they had their homesteads nearly a century ago. Mr. Roosevelt is not only lineally a representative of the old Knickerbocker stock, but in many of his characteristics re- tains the simplicity of taste and the blunt honesty of his progenitors. Personally he is a man of force and a man of progress. His competitor, General McMahon, is a gentleman whose private character is above reproach, and whese public record, both as a soldier in the wat and as our representative at the republic of Paraguay in the most troublous times in the recent history of that country, entitles him to all respect. But, unfortunately for General McMahon, his-name appears on the wrong ticket, and therefore his obances for a seat in Congress are exceedingly slim. With- out doubting General McMahon’s qualifications at all, it is impossible not to see that he is in the wrong place just now. With such capacity as he possesses there is a future, and the time must come when his own ambition and the wishes of his friends may be gratified. Marsnar Smarpe, it is ramored among the roughs, is getting » large supply of handouffs for election day, Let all hands resolve that he shall have no exouse for using them, and that will take the comoeit out of hip winter season in an isolated region eaten out and shaven close by the locusts of war? Will there not be positive danger of the starvation of hundreds of thousands of people, as Bis- marck predicts? The conclusion is heart- vending to contemplate, yet it is not only pos- sible but imminent. But it is not Paris alone which finds itself in this miserable plight. All France is, to some degree, menaced with a similar calamity. In the twenty departments now mainly under the Davy hand of the invader the arrest of pro- duction and of harvesting, the excessive con- sumption by both armies, the reckless or una- voidable waste, the burning and other destruc- tion of material, and the removal beyond the frontiers of large quantities of agricultural produce which cannot be reimported have swept the country bare. Moreover, we must recollect that last spring, before the war began, we had repeated advices from France of anticipated short crops in France, and that these advices have not been contradicted. Recently there have been more satisfactory accounts from the southern departments, but, as a general sum- ming up, even were there no war, this great French nation of forty millions would have had to depend very largely upon imported cereals for its winter subsistence. The two years’ advance supply on hand of breadstuffs, which was one of the boasted arrangements of the imperial system, seems- to have been, for this year at least, as much a myth as the strength and reliability of its military organiza- tien. In one word—a word of solemn, over- shadowing portent—the gaunt specire of famine leoms up in more gigantic and ghastly propertions every hour over the once fair land of France. The nation but yesterday so mighty ia “herd bestead and hungry,” and neither rulers nor people know whither to look in this hour of their tribulation, The trials that have fallen upon them are almost apoca- lyptic in their suddenness, their completeness and their terror. With the threatened dearth comes the nameless horror of the ‘‘pestilence that walketh in darkness,” which falls upon all famished regions, and of the still more frightful outburst of frantic passions among hot-blooded races driven to despair. The hour seems close at hand, indeed, for the beaatiful, the imperial city of the late Napoleonic empire, when ‘‘the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened,” and all the proud nation shall share in her sorrow. This is a terrible contingency. for Christen- dom to contemplate—a momentous lesson for ambitious princes and statesmen to ponder. It cannot be underrated or fail to be compre- hended. Let ns hope that its instruction will not be thrown away. ' Yet again, mingling with the abstract idea thus presented to our minds is the agony of individual suffering, not among stalwart men alone, but among the innocent and defenceless victims of the war—the aged and infirm, the wounded and the siek, feeble women and help- less babes. At the thought of their dark, dire, irredeemable destitution the very heart of humanity thrills with pity. But on this side of the Atlantic we have never yet con- fined-our sympathies to mere commiseration. As for the Greeks in their hour of misfortune; ss for Poland and Hungary, when they both starved and bled; as for Ireland, when her homeless children were dying by thousands on the highways or in the pest-heuses of their native land, which should have been the island Canaan of the north, the hand of American boonty was instantly and repeatedly extended, #0 let it be held out now over the stormy sea and through the wintry gloom to stricken France. And there is no time to lose, Every day of delay may be fatal to many poor brother, whom timely aid would have saved. Noble societies of foreign nationality have already been organized among us to aid the sick and wounded in both Germany and France, and native subscriptions havo not been wanting; but the imminent, presalog need at this moment ia for help in kind Boniface, Bishop of Rome, of the Pantheon, as the Church of All Martyrs, May 1, A. D. 610, when it was called the Festival of Santa Maria ad Martyres. removed to the other half year, November 1, when the harvest had been got in. In process of time this festival became general to All Saints, as it is now.” to-morrow by what the Italians call La Com- memorazione di tutti ¢ fideli defunti, the Com- memoration of All the Faithful Dead. In Italy, Spain, France and Germany, and to some extent in England and the United States, it is then the custom for the families and friends of the departed to visit the cemetery and strew flowers on their graves. Alas! how many French and German soldiers have lately died, whose graves unvisited, whose only burial place is the battle field ! to the right. will be no disorder either to-day or on election day if this advice be followed. safeguard to Paris, in order to learn the views of his colaborers in the government regarding peace, is pregnant with the greatest good to France. chance France will have of making a condi- tional peace, of securing any terms whatever from the powerful enemy that already over- whelms her, or of escaping from the woful fate of a proud nation wholly subjugated. M. “Tt was afterwards It will be followed must remain Reoister early. Maintain order. Keep Give every one a chance. There The Latest Peace Mission of M. Thiers. The visit of M. Thiers under a Prussian It is most probably the last Thiers comes fresh from the courts of London, Vienna, Florence and St. Petersburg, and is therefore fully acquainted with the views, diplomatically expressed, of the leading neu- tral governments of Europe. He knows what hope there is of armed intervention, of peace- fal mediation, or of a purely neutral indiffer- ence, on the part of the great nations who alone can help France in her present need. He is going to Paris to consult with General Trochu and the Committee of Defence as to peace negotiations, and ‘‘crammed” as he is by his visits in the interest of peace to foreign courts, it is very probable that en his repre- sentation of what he has seen and heard the question of an immediate peace will be decided. The action of the Prussian commander in granting M. Thiers safe conduct into Paris speaks volumes for the truthfulness of the Prussian reports of the war, The King and his counsellors evidently do not fear having the truth told the people in Paris regarding the prospect in the provinces. They seem inclined to make some use of M. Thiers for disseminating among the dispirited prisoners in Paris the news of the desolation among their people in the provinces and of the crowning disaster in their coadjutant fortress of Metz. These facts falling on French ears from M. Thiers’ lips will serve Prussian porposes almost as effectually as a bombardment of the city, M. Thiers has a grave responsibility on his hands. With him probably rests the success of an early peace negotiation, and, with the facta of Count Bismarck’s ciroular about the threatened starvation so vividly illustrated and exemplified by the horrors of Mets before the eyes of the world, he will be held to @ strict and stern responsi- bility. He most discard the sentimental- ism of his nation, he must weigh well the sanguine hopes that may be indulged in by his seldierly advisers on the Defence Committee, he must look only to hard facts— facta that would have ground the face of Grad- grind himself aud soon threaten to grind the faces of the French people. Tue Demoorats or Sr. Lovis, at one plunge, have gone head and ears into the most demoralizing mire that they ever flung at the radicals, They have ‘accepted into the party e negro who deserted the radical party, end have even consented to run him for Congress. It only remains fo show that the ‘‘n isa carpet-bagger fhow to sap the foundation of all the self-reayect that the Missourl ‘democrata have eyer,profeased to hare register to-day. 4 iieiechenechacnsee serait eae health! the Stage--A Voteraws ~ Summer Recreations. The livieg Nights of the stage in this country, like those of every other profession, have “their Hnes cast in pleasant places.” An inquiring visitor at Long Branch last summor would have been amply satisfied upon this polnt, in the cosey cottages by the sea and iu the handsome nags and drags of the distins guished actors there, enjoying thelr otium oum dignitate with General Grant and Collector Murphy. We have sometimes thought that ia thelr full and large enjoyments of the pleasures of the summer by the sounding sea the Jersey fishermen were entitled to the first grand gold medal. Then, again, we have been inclined to envy as the happiest of our summer « pleadire seekers out of town our landscape painters, who combine business and pleasure, poetry and romance in thelr wanderings and sketchings among the Hudson Highlands, o¢ at Lake George, or in the Adirondacks, or among the White Hills of New Hampshire, or amid the California wonders of Yo Semite. A friend, however, of that veteran and Popular actor, Mr. James H. Hackett, hae given us some hints of his summer recreations, which conyince us that with all the humor of Falstaf he has, in the choice of Webster. For instance, our informant tells us that this veteran Shakspearian, who does not “lag superfluous on the stage,” has just returned to the city from his summer retreat of “the Thousand Islands;” that his habitation there was Wolf Island; that in the refreshing breezes which sweep its southern shore from Lake Ontario, and in the abundant fishing of the grand and glorious St. Lawrence, and in the delightful drives and beautiful views frem the island, and in rowing and sailing on the bread bright waters of the great river, days of summer were only too short, while the ample record of the HzRaxp of all the g and interesting events in the four quarters the globe, from day to day, filled up the mea- sure of the evening. So it is that only upon the verge of “All Hallow E’en” comes back this venerable representative of Sir John to town. His professional career has beon long and prosperous, and his example in life may be profitably followed by the new generation on the stage, But have we, then, seen the last of Hackett’s jolly Jack? We cannot tell, but we hope that, as the first Napoleon once said of Blucher, ‘‘he is good yet for a dozou winter campaigns,” the longest Iv 18 tae Dury of every good citizen to express his sentiments on public men and mea- sures. In order to do so he must vote; and in order to vole he must remember that to-day, November 1, is the last day of rogistration prior to the election on the 8th. The Ospture of Dijon. Another celebrated city of France has fallen into the hands of the victorious Prussians, A despatch from the neighboring town of Beaune announces that a force of twelve thousand Germans has taken: possession of the City of Dijon, Thus one by one the fortified places in France are yielding to the invading armies, Dijon is the principal city in the department of Cote d'Or, and is situate at the confluence of the Ouche and Suzon rivers, one hundred and sixty miles southeast from Paris This ancient city, rich in historic memories which run back anterior to the dominion of the Romans, has passed through a series of vicissitudes the climax of which its present tants will the and embellished by Aurelian it was succes- sively burned by the Saracens, sacked by the Normans, partially destroyed again by fire, besieged and humiliated by the Swiss, and now similarly hambled by the Germans. - Ii was long the official residence of the Dukes o Burgundy, and its famous palaces contain many interesting and valuable relics of the inhabi- its occupation by After being enlarged deem Prussians. Middle Ages, Among its numerous architeo- tural attractions are the Gothic cathedral and other venerable churches. attaches to Dijon by reason of its being the birthplace of some of the most truly great and beloged men of France, Its present population is estimated at forty thousand, and: its citizens have enjoyed the reputation of materially fur- thering the fine arts, literature and various branches of active industry. Being an impor- tant point on the railroad line between Paris and Lyons, the possession of Dijon is. a valu- able acquisition to the Prussians, Additional interest Let Every Rxpustican entitled to vote SproiaL TELEGRAMS FROM THE SEAT OF War.—In a series of special cable telegrams, published elsewhere in our columns,. we report some very interesting facts and ineidents which have just been developed in the progress of the Franco-Prussian war. ents describe the situation as it exists before Paris, give additional particulars regarding the capitulation of Metz, and eupply also the details of two very sharp and decisive skir- mishes which occurred between a body of Francs-tireurs and parties of Prussian infantry and the German Guards,. ored to throw a Prussian army railroad train from the track near the village of Launols, but were surprised by the activity and caution. of the Germans, and subsequently whipped, badly, having had quite a number of men killed and wounded in proportion to the forces engaged. The weather, as. wilt be seen from our special despatches, {s becoming exeeed- ingly unfavorable for operations in the field, owing to an almost incessant fallof rain The work must evidently be “‘nurried up”*in face of the approach ef a severe winter. Onr correspond- The tineurs endeav- Sonpay on Firra Avuxvg.—Yeaterday in the columns of the Hzmatp we printed an article under the above title, which, not to speak of ites other merits, deserves. to ba spoken of as one of the most able social and religious pictares. of the age. Fifth avenue, according to eur reporter, is a picture of the nineteenth century. Search the wide worki over, there is no street which so fally repre- sents the Clvilization of the {nineteenth century. We no lenger pluck, ‘the teeth of Jews to get at their money boxes. We are not sorry for the improvement.” It is « source of comfort to us to know that ir. the city of New York, and in one street of ‘it, we embody the civilization of the present and indicate the civiligation of the future, Tho Fifth avenue