The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1870, Page 6

8 — EW YORK HERAL JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York D Our Lmnpenting Elect Herat. Volume AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘Tue BoueMia Grew. GRAND OPERA 10 Bid st—La Guanpe Duc Sax. OLYMPIC THEAT Wee Witwer Wink WOOD'S MUSEUM Bread: ances every afierneon a! BOWERY THEATRE, Cook oF THE WiLveENE: FIFTH AVENUB THEATRE, Twenty-fourth s.—MAN anp WIrE. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 24., Dewween Sib and 6th avs.— Bir Van Winkus. FOURTEENTH STREET THRATRE (Theatre Francais)— ELWABETH, QUERN OF ENOLAND. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Vanirty ENTER- SALNMENT—NYMPHS OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA. wv. C! RE, Brow ~ Py THEATRE, Broudway and 18th street. BNEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 48 Bowery. —Geanp BRMAN OPERA—TUE CZAR AND CARPENTER. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Breadway.—ALADDIN— Braox Evep Susan. MRS. F. B. CONWA\"S PAKK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— ‘Man any WIFR, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—MLL¥. 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Pace. “1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Paris: Hrraty Spectal Report from the Oapl- lal; Darkening Prospects of the Beleagucred City; Determination to Defend the Place to the Last; Departure of the Empress Eugénie trom Witheimshone; Vroposed Action of Great Britain on the Armistice Question; Text of the Treaty of Bazaine’s Surrender; the Amert- can Exodus from Paris; General Grant's Optnton of Bazaine’s Surrender, - 4—Europe: Princess Louise of England and the erquis o Lorne; Prussjg’s Feace Demands on | fatice; Napoleon's Investments tn Foreign pear Value Su a pron! Former Cmas 0! Cyty—The Political Campaign in trae aut abana Palioat Notes. 6—T! ew Election Law: The Constitutionality of the Act of Concress Sustatned—Uncle Sam's: E Patrol: The United States ction Police— Trotting at Flectwood Park—The Gallows in Califorma—Almost a Centenarian—The New Steamship Ismailia: Another Addition to the Mediterranean Service—The Burglar Trap Gun—the Unton League Club Trageay—The Interrupted Duel. G—Editoriais: Leading Article, Our Elections, General Grant, The Republics the Democracy—Amusement Announce ts. y—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page}—Personal Intelligence—Telegrapmic News from all Parts of the World—Kome and Italy: Terms or Re- conciliation Between the King and the Pope— News from Washington—City Improvements— Impending and The Missing Steamship—Amusements—Bust- ness Notices. S—The Revenue Ratders: The Fifth Ward of Brook- lyn Again Invaded—Educational Affairs—Fires in October—Fires in the City—American Reai- dents at Tung-chow, China, Rescued by Brush Naval Vessels—Hebrew Benevolent Socieues— News from St. Thomas—Cricket—Dead in a Celi—A Curious Case—Police Boara—The Lin- colo Monument Fund-—-Brookiyn City News— Court Calendars for To-Day—Financial and Commercial Reports. ®—A Den of Infamy: Murder by a Chatham street Ghoul; Malpractice and Death; A Young Girl the Victim—Real Estate Matters—An Im- proved Panel Game—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements. 10—War News Continued from Third Page—A Wall Street Forgery—Obituary—City Politics—The Late Alderman Connolly—Shipping Inteill- gence—Advertisements, BI—Advertisements. 12—Advertusements. PoraTicaL ALMANACG.—Look out for all sorts of political hoaxes—about these days. Goop Tana For Louis Narorror.—It is stated that Louis Napoleon has ten million francs invested in mortgages on property in this city. We hope this is true, and that the éx-Emperor will come here to enjoy the fortune he has so judiciously saved for a rainy day. As he spends his money freely, New York is just the place for him. Tue Waiskey Rarws.—Supervisor Dutcher deserves great praise for his active raids yes terday on the illicit distilleries in the neighbor- food of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was backed by two thousand United States troops, and for a time that portion of Brooklyn looked ee if an armed enemy had invaded it. Twenty ‘stills were seized, ¥ o oo _ Sooo. Teustazs.—Whatever partisan tac- ica may require in regard to other nomina- tions, the rein should be relaxed in regard to the nominees for Schvol Trustees. Por these places only high-minded, intelligent, honor- gble men, well known for their personal integ- ity, should be selected. For school directors, Perefore, let the electors take the best men, wvithout distinction of party. Tuer: Ovaut Cerrainzy to be some power the law to hang the villanous quack who d the death of the young girl at his lispensary in Chatham street the other night. Wle bas been before the courts on numerous occasions charged with crimes similar to the esent one, but by eome quibble he has ‘alwaye escaped. There is no reasonable ‘Goubt that his soul is stained with as infamous Mpurder as Margaret Waters, the baby farmer, ever guilty of. ' First Coyvionon’ Uxver tite Coneres- pionan Exvrorion Law.—Judges Woodruff ud Biaichford have decided that the Congres~ \gional Election law is constitutiengl, and that the section under which Terence Quinn was Gndicted has to be enforced. This setties the ‘hate queation about the constitutionality of Ahe law, and as that ia 3¢ violent opposi-~ ion to it is futile and absard. If the law be ‘obnoxious to the charges alloged against it, let the proper course be taken to secure its repeal—that is by sending the right kiad of men to Cyungreds. Broadway.—ENGLIsn Orzza— er of Eighth avenue and Broadway.—TAE PANTOMIME OF “4 corner 3th st.—Perform- he ‘y¥-—Durr—THe Gsur— our political elections. General G the Republicans and. the Democracy. Our State and city elections come off on We are, however, glad to see that General Tuesday next, and from all the indications on | Grantis beginning to take a lively interest in every side the democracy, under the broad | °F State elections ; for we see in this that as ensign of the ‘big Indians” of Tammany, will | * candidate for another term he recognizes the rout the republicans, cily and State, as the | Necessily of doing something to encourage, splendid army of MacMahon was routed near | 88ist and consolidate his party. We are glad the Rhine and in the Vosges, infuntry, artil- | Of it, because on this tack he will be apt to lery and mitraillouses, cuirassiers, Turcos | discover that something more than a careful and all. administration of the Treasury and the faithful execution of the laws will be wanted for the next Presidential campaign, and that accord- ingly we may expect in due time some grand stroke in his foreign policy that will carry him again into the White House by acclamation, The War—Paris Awaiting Bombardment. The interest of the struggle in France now centres altogether about Paris, General Gari- baldi continues his arduous defence of the road to Lyons in the east, not only against the accepted enemy, but against the insidious effects of jealousy among tho French leaders. The Army of the Loire, which is said to num- ber one hundred thousand men, remains inac- tive in the neighborheod of Tours, Gambetta continues to speak stirring words to the peo- ple, urging them to organize fer the defence i of the nation, when all they actually need for eee = ri and machinery for holding organization is the presence of » competent oti. f leader. Strangely conflicting rumors in regard But as a sort of equivalent for this surrender | to yfetz are flying about among the ocredulous of their Rhine frontiers the republicans at peasantry. Tho mysterious conferences of Albany secured from “‘Boss Tweed” new and | proled marshals and the Emperor still take more stringent registry law for this city, not- place at Cassel. Everywhere there is withstanding the abolition of registration over | criminal indifference to, or actual intriguing the rest of the State. The republican leaders against, the defence of France, except appeared to be satisfled with their bargain, on | in Paris itself, There, in the city of moblots, the idea that their city commissions were 80 | frivolity, carelessness, im the city of all others unpopular as to damage instead of strengthen | famong for want of earnestness, there is an ex- their eause, and that a good registration law | pipition of stubborn resolution, of firmest de- for the city, rigidly enforeed, would be apt | termination to resist to the bitter end, that to.turn the scale in the aggregate vole of the | should be a standing reproach to the tardy State, in cutting off from the city repeaters, people of the provinces. ballot stuffers, perjurers and doctored returns | he Prossians, freed from Metz, are closing to the extent of twenty or thirty thousand | yp on the gay city. They have batteries fraudulent votes, The republican managers, | grected at Meudon, Bellevue, Carrieres, St. however, in order to enforce this new registra- Denis, and ether commanding points about tion law, deemed it necessary to call upon the | the city, from which, with guns of such calibre strong arm of Congress to help them. They | as our army used in many instances during the did so; and they secured a Congressional | war of the rebellion, they can send shells investigation of the returns of our city elec- | ghricking along the Rue d’Enfer or splintering tions of a year or two, and a report thereon of | through the walls of the Hotel des Invalides. apparent and suspected frauds, which resulted | Inside, the people, while impatiently waiting in the passage of two new election laws by | the guccer which the provinces should give Congress, with which, in the proceedings for | them, are busy rendering their position as im- their enforcement here by the authorities of pregnable as possible, They claim to have the United States, our readers have become | plenty of provisions to last until January, and familiar. they are fortifying, casting additional cannon We have heretofore explained and sustained | and making new enrolments into the National the provisions of these laws as property | Guards continually. At least one theatre has designed to encourage honesty and to dis- | reopened, playing generally for the benefit of countenance and punish frauds of all sorts in | the wounded, and the people, worn out with We have also sus- | the tedium of the siege, attend joyfully. The tained the President in hia policy of enforcing | theatre and a general jollification act, a0 these laws, in view of bis constitutional duty | doubt, like a safety valve on the surcharged to take care that the laws are faithfully exe- | feelings of the Parisians, With the impending cuted. It is apparent, however, that his | doom of the bombardment hanging over them subordinates have permitted their zeal in this | they display a courage, a firmness, a belief in business to outrun their discretion, that there | the republic that is enough to shame the has been too much of pomp and parade, and | monthing leaders of the government at Tours of the mustering of troops, aud of warnings | into casting themselves bodily in the breach and threatenings of the armed intervention of | and seeking in heroic deaths at the front some the United States in this approaching city | relicf from the shame that ought to over- the State, or the Legislature ? Nothing. This is the prospect, and there has been no other prospect in the State since the despe- rately contested and decisive Presidential bat- tle of 1868, in which the democratic majority of the city overtopped by ten thousand on the President and twenty-seven thousand on the Governor the combined republican majorities of the raral districts, But Hoffman's sixty- nine thousand majority in this city of 1868 was so amazing and incredible to the incredulous republicans, and a blow so stunning and de- moralizing withal, that in 1869 they permitted the rarul districts to go by default, and thus lost even the Assembly, their last foothold in the State. In losing this they lost their city eommissions, for in our new City Charter, which followed, they were ail turned over to the Wigwam-a transfer which gave the noxt the Mayor of this city, the Governor of election—too much of all this in the general estimation of our citizens of all parties. The consequences are that, while there is a gen- eral disposition to recognize the laws in question, these very officious and offensive proceedings for their enforcement have ope- rated to weaken the republicans and to strengthen the Tammany democracy. The republican journals upon this question have contributed much to this state of things by their foolish course of suggesting a military occupation of the polls on election day as an imperative necessity, and as, perbaps, the only expedient for securing a fair election. In denouncing this military intervention as the application to New York of the military sys- tem adopted in the reconstruction of the rebel States the Tammany democracy have gained ground on the floating republicans, and the “Young Democracy” are heading for the Wig- wam, There might, perhaps, have been a power- fol alliance effected among all the elements here opposed to the Tammany Decemvirs, but for this unfortuoate and offensive idea of the interposition of the United States army for Tammany's overthrow. But how could the ‘Young Democracy,” with all their precious antecedents, and all their peculiar notions of the freedom of elections, be expected to rally around Marshal Sbarpeand his deputies and his soldiers against repeaters ? And as for the Tammany republicans, in being ejected from the Custom House and the Post Office, how could they be expected to support the ticket of General Grant and Collector whelm them for their frivolous failuro to relieve the city. Law—Inportast cision. In another column will be found the opinion of the United Siates Circuit Court of this dis- triet-—Judges Woodruff and Blatchford on the bench—on the constitutionality of the mew Election law of Congress, the question of which was raised upon the arraignment of Terence Quinn, indicted for fraudulent regis- tration in this city. The opinion was de- livered extemporaneously and with consider- able emphasis by the learned Judge. The accused, it is charged, was not enly a noa- resident of the district where he registered, but was disqualified as a voter, inasmuch as he was a convicted and unpardoned felon. It was not, however, in actual defence of the accused in this case that the ablest counsel in the city were employed, nor was it to secure bis conviction that that great constitutional lawyer, Mr. Caleb Cushing, was im- ported into the State and yesterday sworn in as Assistant Disirict Attorney to take part in the controversy. It was a test question, upon which the constitutionality ef the act itself was atissue. We gave in yes- terday’s Heratp the debates of counsel pro and con, and this moruing we present to our readers the opinion of Judge Woodruff in extenso—Judge Blatchford concurring—sus- taining the constilutionality of the act of Con- gress which has given rise to the discussion, one of if not the most important that hag en- The New Ele i} De- Morphy? ‘Do men gather grapes from thorng, or figs from thistles?” Not often. Hence we find that while the Tammany Tepublicana are 400. indignant to support Woodford, and too gaged the attention of the federal courts in this district for many years past. Judge Wood- raf, in dealing with the constitutional aspect of the case from the judicial standpoint, did not “dainty and dignified to | ignore the points raised by counsel and the fraternize with such fellows as the “Young | Sathorities quoted by them in support of their Democracy,” these boys, while they do not } theory, but_hag gone over the whole ground believe a word of if, are so shocked with | of argument, and in a most elaborate réview of the slave trade affiliations charged against | all that was advanced agafust and all that his Woodford that they cannot associate with | own judicial research presented in favor, sus- Marshal Sharpe. Consequently they fall into | teined by his opinion the constitutionality of, line with Tammany Hall, and if theroby they | thelaw. Of courgeit will still remain a vexed gets refreshing mouthful, being hungry, who | Question outside the courts; but to the well can blame them? What is the ‘first duty of | disposed and all who desire information on a man? His victuals and clothes, It is apparent, then, that neither the new city registration law, nor the new election laws of Congress, nor Marshal Sharpe and his deputies, nor the bugaboo of the United States army, nor all these forces combined, will shake the ascendancy of the Tammany demo- eracy in the city or the State, but will rather confirm the sachems in their pewer, and, in widening their influence, will strengthen their candidate for the Presidential succession. The case is clear as daylight. Call the Tammany chiefs an oligarchy if you please. What does it signify, when they have the disbursement of twenty-five, thirty, forty or against this tremendous motive power and the wast locomotive pewer that lies behind it? Nothing. What can General Grant himself policy Nothing. What, then, is there that can take from the Tammany democracy on Tuesday mooted point the opinion of Judge Woodruff will, and deserves to be, an interesting study at this time. Wo therefore recommend its peru- sal to all our readers, so that at least they may be able to argue understandingly whichever side of the question they may take, Ha Corumsus Detano has fully entered upon his duties as Secretary of the Lnoterior, vice Cox, beheaded. It is astonishing how much Mr. Delano’s popularity, which was not very great before, has increased since his ele- vation. A Repusrican Murtine of mixed colors at Norfolk, Va., which wae Deing addressed fifty millions of money a year, and uo one to | by Secretary Robeson, was broken up by a make them afraid? What can afew Custom | violent disturbance on Tuesday night, o House clerks and beggarly postmasters do ; number of persons being injured aad one negro killed. Pistols were freely used. The very worst argument conservative Virginia can resort to now is the pistol. She needs the do, short of some great stroke of national ; hoo and the spade and the plough, and afier | steam communi challenging the public admiration? | ber four years’ unbuppy use of firearms should | be establishod, be contented to avoid pistolling altogother ia politics NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 3, | 1870.—TRIPLE ja! Telegrams from the Seat of Ware The Situation in Motz and Paris, The series of special telegrams from Europe which appears in our columns this morning supplies an ample, varied and quite interest- ing report of the condition of affairs existing in the siege lines near Paris, inside the city and at Metz. These despatches convey enough of exciting incident, some few very melan- choly facts, camp and regimental news, details of executive and legal progress, but nothing very fixed or deffnite as to the coming issue of the war—the when and the wherefore of this great struggle between France and Prussia. From Metz we have special details of the surrender of the fortress. The trophies or spoils of war which fell into the hands of the Prussians were of the most valuable descrip- tion, particularly when in possession of 4 great war-making Power. ‘The French pri- soners were numerows to a degree. Their case was regulated at ence under the active, prompt and decisive rules of the Prussian War Office. Civilians had a code of law proclaimed for their future guidance. Engineers went into the fortress and neutralized the French mines; so, as will be seen from our advices, the vast stronghold of Metz has passed away. It will no longer frown on the people—no more _ terrorize over citizen France or free Germany. The terms of the treaty of capitulation agreed to at Metz are given seriatim. They go to con- firm our news of the consequences. Prussia takes good care that there shall be no French reaction in or around Metz—the grim reality of martial law standing forth te the view of the civilian inhabitants alongside of the army courtesies, if we may se term them, of the new treaty. Marshal Bazaine retired quietly. He had, it is alleged, need of precaution against personal danger at the hands of his own men, General Bourbaki has, itis said, re- signed his command in the French army. Prussia remains irritated against England on account of her position as a neutral—the Berlin eabinet adhering, apparently, to the severe text of the Bernstoff circular to Earl Gran- ville, which was given é extenso in our col- umns a few days since. The Germans in Europe are angered against the English not only on their own account, but also by reason of the utterance of Eaglish remarks on the war feeling which has been exhibited by the Ger- mans in the United States, Our special telegraph writers enumerate the names of many of the Americans who have arrived in London from Paris through the Prussian lines. It willbe seen that the libera- tion of our countrymen from the besieged city was effected only after considerable trouble and by the firm exertion of Minister Wash- burne. The United States Ambassador was compelled, indeed, to bring M. Jules Favre squarely to the mark, es will be seen from our verbatim report of bis address, before the ‘Americans were liberated. Minister Wash- burne was brief, courteous and decided in his words, and consequently suecessful. It is to be hoped that his action will inaugurate a new era in the history of our foreign diplomacy, The members of the government of the French republic, the men who smote down the power of the empire in “‘freedom’s name,” are not by any nfeans tolerant towards the free expression of an independent journalism. This is evidenced by the action which was taken in the case of M. Portalis, editor of La Verité, who was arrested and submitted to magisterial interrogation for having published news of the proclamation of the “reds” at Lyons. The judicial course which was observed towards the journalist was of the most stringent kind, and almost according to the British routine in similar cases in the days of Junius; so that it appeared likely for a moment that he would be‘ dealt with severely. At this crisis came forward the Chevalier Wikoff, of New York, who owned the authorShip of the utterances in the manly letter which we print. Wikoff had had the facts which Portalis published from members of the Cabinet. His publication fell “like a bombshell” in the ministerial ranks. M. Portalis was visited in secret and finally liberated by an executive which appears to have been com- pletely frightened by the simple issue of his journal, Straws thrown up indicate the course of the wind. So after the Portalis arrest exhibition we are not surprised at the conclud- ing portion of our special telegraph Lotter from Paria, wuich enumerates the particulars of a confused and unsuccessful sortie ou the Prussians, an undecided and indecisive council of war, and the existence of a gloomy atate of affairs generally among the defenders, Two JOURNALISTS IN THE Firtp.—George Wilkes, of the Spirit of the Times, has been nominated as the republican candidate for Congress from the Eighth district. James Brooks, of the Hzpress, is the Tammany can- didate. In 1868 Mr. Brooks had between eleven aud twelve thousand majority. There- foro the friends of Mr, Wilkes will have te work hard to secure his election. One thing, how- ever, must be said in favor of Mr. Wilkog—thag fhe triumphant vindication of his personal character ip the reé libel suit against thé editors of the Turf, Field and Farm places him in a deservedly worthy position before the people of his district. Thia peaceful contest between two champions of the quill is a far more pleasant spectacle than shooting blunder- busses at each other, or than being obliged to carry on suits at law to sustain one’s charac- ter against unjust imputations. Jounnte Green says he is certain of carry- ing his district for the Assembly against the nephew of that extensive corporation, the Big Judge—unless—here comes tho bother— unless he is ‘counted out.” ‘*You kaow bow it is yourself, Captain.” soa: He: Tar Danish West Innia Istanps stand a very fair chanoe of being brought into closer communion with each other than at any time in their past history, | The rejection of the cession of St Thomas land St. John by the United States has in | a measure produced that result. The people | of those islands have become alive to the | necessity of reforms and the good to be effected by retrenchment: wise resolve on their | part, and ove which will produce good results. Submarine tel tion between the islands will We wish the people of the Danish West Liv ‘o God apeed ia the cartving oul of their vlans aph cables will be laid and | SHEET, The Proposition to the Pope. Our special correspondent at Rome sends to us, under date of November 1, the proposi- tion in detail which the Italian government makes to the Papal See in view of the change wrought in its relations to the Church by the abolition of the temporal power. It will be seen that the spiritual jurisdiction of his Holi- ness will be by no means lessened, but rather fortified and increased, by his acceptance of the terms proposed. These are, in brief, that the Pope shall continue to enjoy all the honors and attributes of sovercignty ; that all prelates, bishops and functionaries of ecclesiastical orders shall enjoy entiro immunity from civil authority at the place of residence of the head of the Church; that special postal und tele- graphic facilities will be placed wholly at the disposal of the Papal court ; that representa- tives of foreign Powers will have the same prerogatives as at other sovereign courts, and that, in fact, the Pope shall be considered and treated as a sovereign for whose expenditures Italy shall make a liberal provision, and whose debts already incurred Italy shall assume and pay. This proposition would appear to contain all the principles of a fair and equitable adjust- ment of the delicate and difficult question which the abolition of the Pope's temporal power has evoked; but it is by no means likely that it will satisfy the Holy Father or his counsellors. Victor Emanuel expresses his desire to prove to Europe that Italy respects the sovereignty of the Pope, while at the same time it conforms to the modern principle of a free Church in a free State ; but it is exactly that principle which the Pope refuses to sanction, and which is rather classed among the errors of modern socicty. It will be seen by the protest of Cardinal Antonelli, which we also print in connection with our special despatch from Rome, that his Holiness remonstrates in the most indignant terms against the sacrilegious spoliation of his dominions, and declares the Italian King and government responsible for all ihe mischiefs that have resulted or may result from such violent spoliation. It is not likely that his pious wrath can be turned aside and assuaged by such terms as Victor Emanuel now offers, although our correspondent intimates that he accepts the situation. In the meantime, Austria has notified the Italian government that she will not interfere in the Roman question, and suggests that a conference of the Powers be asked to adjust the guarantees to be offered to the Pope. That, we presume, will be the form which the matter will eventually take, and we doubt not that the result will be to the advantage of the Church and to the greater glory of God. The Trap Gun Case. The Recorder's decision has put this case in ita proper light. In ignoring the verdict of the coroner’s jury which censured Mr. Agos- tino, and in thereby releasing that gen- tleman from custody, Recorder Hackett ‘pronounced the law in the case, which, we presume, every sensible citizen will admit to be correct, to be that a man has a right to protect his property against felonious attacks, whether he defends it by the use of a gun in his own hands if he happens to be on the premises when the burglar attempts to force an entrance, or whether he places an in- strument of destruction in such a manner that it shall act, in his absence, as a guardian to his premises. The facts in this case show that this latter was the mode adopted. That it produced a fatal effect is, as the Recorder very properly says, the refult of the bur- glar's felonious act. He meant to rob the gunsmith’s shop—that is evident; but he met his death in the felonious intent, The Recorder's judgment, therefore, must be sustained. It is wise and just. It is only to be regretted that more such traps are not laid fo: burglars. There is nothing so terrifying to a cowardly criminal—and all burglars are cowards—as a mysterious and unseen dan- ger. The circumstance of the sudden death of this burglar will probably have more effect in deterring that dangerous fraternity from the practice of their profession than all the vigilance of the police. Tur ComMPTRoLtrrsnie QuEsTION—Mr. ‘O’Conor’s Leaar Oprion.—A question hay- ing arisen as to whether there is to be a vacancy in the office of Comptroller of the city of New York which should be provided for at the election next Tuesday, the opinion of Mr. Charles O'Conor was sought, and has been given in a very exhaustive and elaborate document. The opinion, though terse and clear, ag all Mr. O'Conor’s arguments are, is of too technical character to interest the general reader, and therefore we do not pub- lish it; but the result arrived at is that Mr. Connolly, the present occupant of the office, is entitled to hold it for four years from the 1st of January, 1871, the date of his appointment ; that there is not even color for drawing his right in question, and that consequently the fi tb e i office cannot be voted for at Bg approaghing Tar Revo.urion IN Urvevay is not yet ended. By the latest roports it was progress ing, and the rebel leaders were more defiant than ever on account of the successes which thoy had met with. It is most unhappy that the people of those little States in South America cannot live quietly and contentedly and avoid those disas‘rous conflicts which so often occur. Every’ revolution retards the progress of republican institutions in South America. If Uruguay is not very careful she may meet with the same fate as Paraguay—be taken under the protection of Brazil, and what that means it is hardly necessary to explain, election, * ant A Goop Sian.—The personal vituperation that marked the outset of the gubernatorial campaign in this State has, we are glad to see, almost eatirely subsided, and everything, to the exterior view, at least, seems to be con- | ducted in a high-toned and gentlemanly wuy. This is a good sign, and speaks well for the naturally amiable and urbane qualities of both candidates for the chief office in the State. AND Now we have two more reverends | participating in the Fulton-Tilton schism. They back Fulton. Cannot a respectabie preacher take his quict glass of lager beer withou: constraining the press of the country and the telegraph, and even the pulpit, to adverting him? (Tho Attitude of Russla, Our despatches from Europe again mention the great diplomatic and military activity of the Russian government, Early last spring, ere there was a sign of trouble directly betweom France and Prussia, we repeatedly called attention to the mancenvres of armies going om throughout the latter kingdom, and that, too, | while the remainder of the press, British and American, seemed to ignore them. We now remark the very peculiar attitude of Russia, and find in it growing symptoms of a far wider catastrophe than has already taken Europe by surprise. The well known Russtan organ Le Nord has distinctly intimated that the equilibrium of the Continent, endangered by the culpable ambition of ono Power and by the blind obstinacy of another, must be secured by the intervention of a State sufficiently strong to make itself respected by both parties, and yet not liable to be suspected of sympathy for the passions or the projects of one or the other. This is plain and pointed talk, and, to back it, we hear of the Czar concentrating neasly five hundred thousand of his best drifled troops toward his western frontiers and summoning his terrible Cossack riders to the field. Com- mon senge tells us that this muster is not made for the protection of his Prussian neighbor, since the utmost that France could hope to do, for the present, would be to raise the siege of Paris, It is not to shield Russia itself from Prussian invasion, since the Northern winter, which no foreign foe would dare to brave, ia at the door, and, moreover, Prussia has not completed the heavy task that she is unwisely enlarging in France. The political wisdom at Prussia, disguise it as she may attempt, to do, has been alarmed, and » rumor came weeks ago from Berlin that in order to seoure the Czar's consent to the dismemberment of France she was willing to give that potentate the two duchies of Mecklenburg, and to compensate the ruler of these minor princi- palities by forming the conquered provinces of Alsace and Lorraine into one grand duchy under his immediate control, as governor or viceroy. But there is another solution to all this imbroglio, and it is comparatively close at hand. The secret of that solution will be found in the memorable words of the Great Napoleon, which we do freely into English from the exact text of his Memorial, written at St. Helena :— “Ere fifty years shall have passed,” said the imperiat political soothsayer, ‘France will be republican or Cossack, Then, if my son be alive, he will be called to the throne amid the acclamations of the people. If he be no more France will again become republican, since no other hand would dare to grasp the sceptre that he could not uphold. ni » “The Orleans branch; although acceptable, is too feeble ; it partakes too much of the other Bourbons and it will meet with the same fate, should its members not prefer to live the life of simple citizens, no matter what changes may intervene. Once again France will ba republican, and the other countries will follow her example. Germans, Prussians, Poles Italians, Danes, Swedes and Russians will unite with her in a crusade in favor of liberty, They will take up arms against their sove- reigns, who will hasten to make concessions to them so as to retain a part of their old authority; they will call themselves constitu- tional kings with limited powers. Thus will the feudal system receive its death blow; like fog in the midst of the ocean it will vanish at the first rays of the sun of liberty, “But things will not remain there; the wheel of revolution will not stop at that point; its impetuosity will multiply fivefold, and its rapidity will increase in like proportion. When a people has regained a part of its rights it becomes enthusiastically inspired by victory, and, having tasted the sweets of liberty, it grows the more enterprising in order to obtain the more, The States of Europe will for some years, perhaps, be in a state of continual agi- tation, like the sofl at the moment which pre- cedes an earthquake; but at last the lava will burst forth and the exploston will termi- nate everything. “The bankruptcy of England will be the lava which is to shake the world and swallow up the kings and the aristocracies, but will cement the interests of the democracy by its eruption. Believe me, Las Casas, in like manner as the vines that cover the foot of Etna and of Vesu- vius produce the most delicious vintages, so will the tree of liberty become fixed and not to be cast down when it shall have its root planted in that revolutionary lava which‘will have overflowed all the monarchies. May it bloom and flourish for ages! These may seem strange sentiments for you to hear from my lips; however, they are really mine. Iwas borm a republican; but destiny and the opposition of Europe have made me an en } i Ae B Such was B RET mace places attaining the grandeur of prophecy, in which Napoleon, from the calm heights of contemplation, after having held the fate of Europe in the hollow of his hand, announced the inevitable changes visible to him from the summit of his political Pisgah. The fifty years have rolled away; a nephew (not a son) of the Emperor sat for eighteen years upon the, throne of France, and has fallen from it. France is again republican; the nations of Europe are preparing to follow her example; the lava of revolution begins to grow hot be- neath the feet of Prussia and to throw its warmth into the palace of the Russian Czar. The Cossacks are summoned to extinguish it. Hence the armaments, hence the diplomatic agitation, hence the hurrying to and fro, on every road and iron rail from the Black Sea to the Neva, and from the Neva toward the Danube, The hour is coming; the supreme conflict is no longer distant. Republican or’ Cossack ?—which shall win? Tre ApvantaGE or Havine a Goop Rep- RESENTATIVE.—If the measure introduced into | the last Legislature by Representative Jacobs, of Kings county, proposing to abolish the registry system throughout the State, had been passed, as it might have been, what a deal of trouble would have beon saved the \ voting population of New York city, as well as | expense and bother and needless alarm to the federal authorities, In consequence our fellow citizens in the growing suburb of Brooklyn have this year been saved the annoyance of running around (o flud some out of the way {