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ference Between Thiers and Bismarck. At last an armistice has been offered by Count Bismarck through a channel and in circumstances which make success more than © possibility. It has been known for some days that M. Thiers was the one Frenchman who was likely to. bring about an armistice, Observing men had begun to foel thatthe great historian, statesman and orator had not visited the various capitals and interviewed the various governments of Europe wholly jn vain, After having visited London, Vienna and 3t. Peters- burg, he sought out the government at Tours, found his way subsequently to Versailles, and, by consent of the Prussian authorities, he has been permitted to visit Paris, see and talk with the men in power, and. retura to tho Prussian headquarters at Versailles. Tho cumulative result of the labors of the old man—for Thiers is now in his seventy-fourth year—is that Bismarck offers an armistice of twenty-five days to allow the general elections to be held throughout France, the armistice to be based on the status quo existing on the day of signature. Later nows gives Great Britain credit for the scheme which Thiers has submitted to Bismarck and of which Bismarck has approved. If all this turns out to be well founded an armistice muy be considered certain. What kind of an armistice? Will itbe an armistice only between Paris and the investing Prussians? Will Gambetta, who found Paris too hot for him, and who went-up in a balloon, happily succeeding, in reaching Tours—will he and the Tours government consent to an armistice? M. Thiers has been to Tours, and we have no good reason to doubt tbat he is in complete harmony with the men who in that city claim to represent the French nation. We have no desire to raise difficulties; but that the government in Paris and the govern- ment at Tours may differ is not to be regarded as an impossibility. What relations M. Gam- betta sustains to General Trochu we have no means of knowing. Itis just as likely that they differ as that they are agreed. Trochu has evidently the confidence of the officers and men properly belonging to the French army and now inside the walls of Paris. More than that: he seema to have the confidence of the members of the provisional government who have preferred Paris to Tours. Jules Favre, who is, perhaps, as good a man as Gambetta and a little better,, refuses to leave Paris, clings to Trochu and runs all the risks of the beleaguered city. It is possible, we say again, that M. Thiers is in the confidence of the divided government of France—of the men who represent France at Tours and of BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pace. the men who represent France in Paris—but ‘1—Advertisements, if he is not, what will be the value of an 2—Advortisements. $-Paris : Reported Conclusion of an Armistice for Twenty-five Days; Free Elections to be Held tn All the Departments; Outbreak in Paris in Wonsequence of the Government Consenting to an Armistice; An Election ee Made to the Parisians; A Aeoh pe from Napoleon Defend- ing Himself; His Pian of Campaign Overruled and That of MacMahon Adopted; Order of Con- ‘atulations from King William to His Troops; lanifesto from Garibaldi; He Appeals to the United States; The New Prefect of Marseilles Shot; Further Detaiis of Bazaine’s Alleged Treachery. 4@—Republican Ratification Meeting at Cooper In- stitute—Democratic Ratification Meeting in brooklyn—Republican General Committec— New Tammany Hall Democratic Rerorm Asso- | clation—Republican Mass Meetmg in Brook- lyn—The son Elections—Political Notes— Amusements—New York City News—Another Cleveland Horror—Admiral Dahigren’s Will. S—Europe: The United States Mission to England and the Alabama Case; Details of the Wreck of the Cambria; Bussia’s D: tr from Con- soliduted Germany—Yachting: The Tidal Wave and the ‘Devoted Yachtman’’— Aquatic—Death ofa Noted Turfman—Tne Cyclone in the Pa- cific—West Point Items—Brooklyn Olty News— Poor Forgery—suicide of a German, ‘torials : Leading Article, An Armistice, Re- om Resuits of the Conference Between rs and Kismarck—Amusement Announce- ments. Z—Editortais (Continued from Sixth Page)—Tele- game. jews from all Parts of the World— ws from Washington—Gigantic Bond Rob- bery—Foundered at Sea: Steamship Varuna Lost Of the Fioriaa Coast—Ben Butler's Opinion of New York Politics—Shock- img Double Tragedy—Prospect Park Fair Grounds—Tnity oi Design in Creation—Ger- man Mags Meeting—The -Pollce and the Elec- tion—Tne Candidates for Congress—Personal Intelligence—Business Notices. S—News from Cuba—The Courts—The French Fa- triotic Bazaar—Reforming Repeaters; Terence Quinn Sentenced to Two Years’ Imprisonment and to Pay a Fine of Five Hund Dollars— Department of Docks—Navat intelligence—Ubi- tuary—Clown, Auctioneer and maste r— The Side Boulevard—A Belligerent Jersey Gypsy—-The Ten Thousand Deputies-—The Grbokiyn Whiskey War—News from Fortress Monroe—The Workingwomen—“ Bully Nelson’’ — Home—The Central Park Commission. era—New Jersey Items—General Notes—An Oda Soene at a Funeral. cial and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Mattera—-Witchcraft Times Come Again—Mar- riages and Deatns—Advertisements. 10—The Den of Infamy: The Nest of America’s Great Social Evil; The Death of Mary Geary; Arrest of the Doctor and the Harridan of the ping Inteiligence—Advertisements 11—Advertisements. 19—adverusements. armistice? The armistice spoken of is condi- tional ; it permits a general election and insists on the status quo, If General Trochu agrees to an armistice, and all the prominent men who aré with him consent, that will be very well for Paris. But if the Tours government, headed by Gambetta, refuses to come to any agreement, preferring, as they may say, death to dishonor, how will a general election bo possible? The difficulty we have raised con- stitutes one of the great difficulties of the situa- tion. It may prove to be the difficulty. Taking it for granted, however, that Thiers is the representative man, and that Jules Favre, wisely led by Trochu, will agree to accept the Prussian proposal, and that Gambetta and the Tours crowd will also agree, then, of course, an armistice must be the result. Twenty-five days will be granted France to elect her representatives. The elections, of course, will take place; but on what principle will they be conducted? For twenty-five days France will have absolute liberty within certain well defined limits and under certain most unmistakable conditions. France will speak her mind at the ballot box ; but will the ballot box represent more intelli- gence in November, 1870, than it did in May, 1870?. Will the November elections be wiser or more independent than the May elections? Will the plébiscite for peace or war do the’French people more or less justice than the plébiscite which has driven Bonapartism, the empire and France to destruction? In Marseilles, at Lyons and in all the southern cities red repub- licanism is rampant. In those centres moderate men have no chance. Marseilles and Lyons are as liable to differ from Tours as Tours is to differ from Paris or Gambetta from Trochu. It is manifest, from all the accounts which have reached us, that republicanism is itself no longer a unit in France. During the twenty- five days divided republicanism will work, Orleanism will work, Bonapartism will work, and every elector coming to the ballot box more or less prejudiced will vote as he feels. If it should happen that the government at Tours seem to agree, then to a dead certainty the mighty influence of Trochu, who is notoriously an Orleanist, and the almost more potent influence of Thiers, whose Orleanist proclivities have never been concealed, will restore the Count de Paris to the throne of France. We leap to this conclusion because we have no idea that an armistice can be followed by a fresh outbreak of hostilities. An armistice means peace, and peace means, for the present, at least, restoration of monarchy. It is a pity that it should be s0; but when we attempt to interpret the facts of the hour we must do our best to interpret them honestly. The pea- santry of France do most wnquestjonably love Bonapartism and the empire; but the men who are to lead France at the possible forthcoming elections are not Bonapartists, are not impe- rialisis. The question is to be between repub- licans and Orleanists, and, as the republicans are not united, the presumption is that the throne ‘and the crown will carry the day, the Count de Paris being the owner. All that we have said is of course contingent on an armistice. If M. Thiers fuils in his pur- pose the big guns which Prussia has brought in such number and at such expense from Berlin will open their huge mouths and belch forth such destruction as never before has fallen on any doomed city, It pains the heart to think of the bombardment of Paris. We think not of the magnificent buildings, or of the Ubraries, or of the art treasures, but of the sufferings of well nigh two millions of people. We think of the aged and the weak, of women and of children and of the thousands of brave men who, although they know the cause is desperate, will ngt abandon thelr chargo. “Phe bloodiest sens th the tks Wantep—A grand parade ground. Tow Steamer VARUNA, of Mallory’s line, fanning from New York to Galveston, foun- dered off the coast of Florida on the night of October 20. All on board were lost except the second mate and four men. Inporrant Omission By Kina WiLLiAM.— Tho King of Prussia has issued his royal address of congratulation to the German forces for taking Metz. There is, however, an impor- tant. and ungrateful omission in this congratu- latory document. He does not thank Marshal Bazaine, the prisoner Emperor Napoleon, and / the rest of the imperialiat intriguers. Wao w Sne?—At the rehearsal of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society the other aight—which, by the way, gave promise of a 4 splendid season—the President, Mr. Luther B. Wyman, announced that a new prima donna would appear at the concert who had never been heard in public, but whose extraordinary talent be would vouch for. Who is the mysterious lady ? Forsy’s Frrrezn Minvre Rore might be sarried out by Superintendent Tom Brown, who is not disposed to lay such things on the “ime table.” Quumw’s Sznrence.—The authorities seem determined to impress upon the repeaters of this city the fact that repeating is not only anconstitutional but that it is a penal offence. Terence Quinn, who sprung the test question ~ ato the constitutionality of the law, is prov- Ing {ts constitutionality very effectively by a term of two years’ imprisonment in the Albany ; Penitentiary, to which he was sentenced yes- torday. yin Sait Ya ts Serious Coxvocation—The legal minds j ma city. on the question whether & — ‘ps law ig a law or whether it isa nonentliy, ved, > Cushing bev dar ay the cob- in that respect on behalf of the govern- me” will, alas! be the bombardment of | torial tripod, Paris; but for this “bloodiest picture ‘not | Goueral Grand» Views of Bazalao’s Sur- Prussia but France will be to blame, The cry of intelligent humanity to-day is that France will. be wise in time and bow to the fate which her own folly or the rashness of her rulers has provoked. In the name of hu- manity we call for an armistice, whatever may follow. The War Situation—Tho Movemonts of Prince Frederic Obarles’ Army. Our special despatches from Paris indicate that food is becoming scarcer and dearer every day in the boleagured city. The movements of Prince Frederic Charles’ army, relieved by the surrender of Metz, make this shortening of supplies more dreadful in its possible gon- sequences than it might otherwise be. Part of his army is preparing to invade Picardy and Normandy, where as yet food is abundant, and a portion will march against Lyons down the rich valley of the Saone, through the wine growing districts of the Cite d'Or and Saone et Loire, and probably isolate from France, as Paris is isolated, Lyons, the second city of the nation, These forces will eat the country as bare as it has beon eaten about Paris, and the gaunt figure of famine rises more threaten- ingly with every step of their advance. Inside Paris internal dissensions have arisen of sufficient magnitude to frighten the firmest believer in the republic. The provisional government was compelled to find safety behind the closed doors of the Hotel de Ville. The riot was induced by a reported conclusion of the armistice, to last for twenty-five days, in which time the Constituent Assembly elections aro to be held, Paris in the interval being allowed to bring in food. The National Guard prompily quelled the out- break. We treat more fully of the armistice question in another column. Tho proofs of Bazaine's treachery are multiplying. Lyons is preparing for a stout resistance. The mal- contents in Marseilles have gone so far as to shoot and wound their new Prefect, and Min- ister Gambetta has issued one of his gushing proclamations in consequence. Garibaldi has also vented another enthusiastic prose epic on the jealousies of republics; and, altogether, in Paris, Marseilles, Tours, the Vosges and everywhere else in the republic gush and gab seem to be main resources of the men of France. Not Very Popular—Monarchy in Spain. A telegram from Madrid says that on the vote in the Cortes on the Duke of Aosta’s can- didature for the Spanish throne one hundred and eighty members out of three hundred and forty were in favor of tho election. This, of course, is a majority, and, we suppose, will settle the question. But what a baro majority! A change of eleven votes would have loft the monarchists in a minority. Now, considering the personal popularity of the Duke of Aosta, the favorable opinion of his father, the King of Italy, and the very progressive and liberal conduct of all that family, this is a remarkably poor show for monarchy in Spain. Then we are aware of the fact that this Cortes was elected before the republican sentiment re- ceived afresh impulse from the events that have recently transpired in Europe. Besides, Prim, Serrano and the rest of the royalist intriguers in Spain have exercised a powerful influence in bringing about this result. If a new Cortes were to be chosen now, or if the vote of the people were to be fairly taken on the question, we think that even the Duke of Aosta would stand a poor chance of being elected. The vote, as stated in the telegraphic despatch referred to, leads to the inference, in a very significant manner, that Spain is more republican in sentiment than monarchic6l. PoxttioaL Soruss—Of all office-seekera the moat stunted. Parpon oF THE Fenians BY EN@LAND.— The British government has pardoned the Fenian O'Donovan Rossa and a few more of his colleagues confined in English prisons. Rossa was a sad victim to the cruelty of con- vict prison discipline, and probably comes out into the world a poor wreck of humanity. Some of his fellow convicts have either died or gone mad in prison. The best thing the government could do now would be to open the doors and let them all free. In fact, these men should never have been incarcerated at all. Many of them were convicted of acts and words done and spoken in the United States, and quite a oumber of them are officers who served the American army of the Union with great gallantry during the late war. Had they been the chiefs of an impos- ing insurrection in Ireland it might have been necessary to put them under duress; but as they really represented little more in the shape of a formidable organization than an organized sentiment of hostility to British government in their native country, which will probably exist for all time, there was little justice and very poor policy in making martyrs of them. They should, therefore, be all released. Tor Brooxiyn whiskey war continues. A large number of stills were destroyed yester- day. A Drasotroat Came.—The case of Evans, the Chatham street ‘‘doctor,” affords a grand opportunity for our courts of justice to check a terrible crime which is becoming a reproach to the nation, and which is surely and rapidly undermining Americans socially and as a people. Cases of this description, with the like fatal termination, have been too frequent in this city during the past threo or four years, and, though the ‘‘doctors” have been arrested in several instances, the cases seemed to have been “‘hugger-muggered” somewhere, and in a month or two the prisoners have been as flagrant as ever in the prosecution of their nefarfous calling. Thero is an official leak somewhere, Is itin the Coroners’ offices or in the District Attorney’s department? One man, Wolf, has lain for months in the Tombs with two indictments againat him. Will he be brought to trial? And how about Evans? Now taat THE RENOWNED Champ de Mars in Paris has lost its glory forever, let us have a@grand parade ground in New York on the Parisian plan. aw, Mn. Greeity, having kindly allowed nls name to be used as a candidate for Congress against Mr. Cox in the New York Sixth dis- trict, will make the third journalist in tho field ia this city for Congressional honors, Greeloy, Wilkes, Brooks! Literally an edi- render and the Fronch Army. The views of General Grant on Bazaine’s aurrender and the French army, as published in yesterday's HeRaL, are very interesting, coming, as they come, through one of our most careful correspondents, and embodying, as they embody, the elements of a profound criticism in a few brief and simple sentences, They are as “‘full of matter as an egg is of meat.” For Instance, General Grant ‘‘cannot understand the course of Marshal Bazaine in allow- ing himself to be bottled up in Metz (aa General Butler was bottled up in the fork of the James and Appomattox rivers) with such a fine army under his command.” Gen- eral Grant thinks there was no necessity for such a move; that Bazaine could have kept outside of Metz and maintained himself against all attacks, and could thus have avoided that worst enemy of all—starvation. When asked what he would have done if placed in Bazaine’s position (that is, after the battle of Gravelotte, by which he was cut off from a retreat to Paris), the President answored, “Well, I would have fussed around some way or other, until I cut my way through the Prussian lines,” and that Bazaine, with his fine army, ought to have cut his way through the Prussians, instead of allowing himself to be shut up in Metz. The batile field of Gravelotte lies a mile or two west of Metz, To that point Bazaine, with his army, had advanced, when, on the 18th of August, he was intercepted by the Prussians and compelled to fight. He fought all day stubbornly and splendidly, and the night had come on, when he was driven back from his position, Under cover of the dark- ness, however, leaving the regular garrison to hold the city, he still had the choice of a retreat northward out of Metz, after entering it by the western gate; for the demands of the battle had drawn the whole Prussian army to Gravelotie, where it remained during the night. This is what, we suppose, General Grant means by fussing around. He means that Bazaine should not have rested an hour after that battle until he had escaped from the coils of the Prussian army; and herein lies the fatal mistake of Bazaine—fatal from his inaction directly after Gravelotte, first to the army of MacMahon at Sedan, manceuvring for his relief, and next to his own army, cooped up in Metz, and, let us say, disarmed by starvation. By his “‘continuous hammering” and “fussing around” General Grant, in our late civil war, gained many a battle which, judging from Metz, Bazaine would have lost, from Belmont to Petersburg. But, leaving Bazaine, what says the Presi- dent of this war in France? He says he never had a doubt that the Prussians’ would win, from the superiority of their military system over that of the French; that the whole adult male population of the Prus- sians are trained and disciplined soldiers, against which raw recruits are useless; that the French simply had a regular army, and after that nothing worthy of the name. This, too, while the Prussian reserves were as good as their immense armies first sent into the field—all iatelligent, trained soldiers. And here we have from General Grant the secret of all these French disasters. It lies in this fact, that under the empire ‘“‘the French sys- tem has discouraged the use of arms among the people,” and that consequently, with the destruction of her regular standing army, France is defenceless against the trained legions of Germany. Furthermore, says General Grant, ‘“‘we would never think here of using up our regular army at the start. We would first employ our volunteers and militia, and keep the regulars for the last resort.” This was the first Napoleon’s plan‘in battle with his Imperial Guard. General Grant, however, forgets that Napoleon the Third thought he had a sure thing of it in this war, and that but for this initial blunder all the rest might have been avoided, even after the de- claration of war. As far as they go, however, the views of General Grant on the French situation will command the highest respect, even in France and Germany, as the viows of a soldier whose achievements in saving the Union and in re- establishing the United Stites upon the solid foundation of universal liberty and equal rights have made ‘“‘the great re- public,” in all the elements of true greatness, first among the nations. i, Tse PoxrrioaL Marerta Mepioa—The Quinn-ine doses that send culprits to the Al- bany Penitentiary for two years, Tus Doxe or Aosta is likely to experience the truth of Shakspeare’s general assertion to the effect that ‘‘uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” by his attempt to wear one in Madrid. The leaders of the political oppo- sition parties of Spain are again out in support of Montpensier or Espartero. Prim proposes the Italian Duke. The liboral party has not yet ‘‘made up its mind,” according to the statement -of the Marquis of Santa Cruz. There are evidently somo ‘“‘scattering” votes in the Oortes to be yet “heard from,” or who may not perhaps have yet “heard from” Florence or Rome on the subject of the cui bono. Spaia is not reconstructed yet. Ler Ir Be Rememperep that, according to an act passed by the last Logislature, the Mayor, clty and county officers shall be voted for on the same ballot with the Governor and State officers, Look well to your tickets! Mapame Szesacud IN Brooxryy.—The Academy of Music in Brooklyn will to-night afford the lovers of the dramatic art in that cily a rare opportunity of gratifying their taste. Madame Seebach is to perform there her grand role of Mary, Queen of Scots, in Schiller's drama, Mile. Veneta sustaining the part of Queen Elizabeth. We have no doubt that the Academy will be filled with the representatives of the taste, elegance and wealth of the city. Wuat Was Taz Marren with the gas in Brooklyn night before last? Has the éfusade of Mayor Kalbfleisch against the gas compa- nies caused them to.resort to reprisals, which will end in leaving the city at some unexpected moment in utter. darkness? Let us have some light on this matter. 7 PouttiGAL SremeRs.—It is unfortunate that lightning seldom sirlkes twice in the same place, else we might hope it would strike these strikers so often that they would not rise, as they now do, at every election, to extort blood money from candidstes for office. journals, the Figaro, and appears in a con- densed form among our cable despatches to- day, It may be regarded somewhat in tho light of the last confeasion of.a great criminal. The ex-Emperor admits the misgivings with which his conscience upbraided him when he was weak enough to yield to the cry of ‘On to Berlin,” and thus attempts to shift from his own shoulders the immediate responsibility for the war. by rapid movements, to separate the South German States from the Northern Confedera- tion, and, by an alliance with Austria and Italy, to impose neutrality on Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemberg. The cause of his failure he attributes to the defects in the French military system and to the delay in bringing up men and materials; but, with apparent inconsis- tency, he acquits the War Department of blame. forced to assume the defensive a retreat upon Chalons was obviously the best course to be pursued; but that was disapproved by tho Regency as being calculated to discourage the nation, and hence, again yielding bis own convictions, the offensive was resumed and MacMahon’s advice and plan were adopted, which resulted in the disaster of Sedan. superiority of tho Prussian system over that which he himself had been pursuing in France, Ho superior numerical strength, improved artillery, rigorous discipline, respect for authority and the patriotic spirit‘6f the people, he admits that the French have been deficient in those high qualities which make a great people, and hence confesses the deteriorating effect of his rule. may be regarded asa candid avowal of tho manifold sins and iniquities of the Empire, for which the whole suffering. the Prussians are quartered at Cassel, within call of the Emperor Napoleon. Bazaine and Canrobert, General Leboouf and Prince Murat have already arrived at Wil- helmshébe and engaged in consultation with his Imperial Majesty. This grand gathering of French officers is evidently in the interest of the empire, inspired or encouraged by the government in France than that of the Napo- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NUVEMBER 4, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, Napolcon’s Confession. The pamphlet in which the ex-Empero, from his palace prison at Wilhelimshibe sums up the unfortunate events of the last three months, is summarized in one of the French But his excuse is that ho expected, When his firat plun failed and his army was The Emperor is frank in recognizing the attributes their military successes to By inference Ona the whole the pamphlet French people are now A Strange Assemblage at Cassel. Many French generals lately captured by Marshals King of Prussia. It would seem that the King is not disposed to recognize any other leonic dynasty, and that some concerted scheme is on foot to ignore the republic and compel the French people to submit, as one of the peace conditions, to the restoration of the fallen dynasty. Such an assemblage of French prisoners of high rank on German soil with such an object is very strange indeed, and is probably in accordance with some secret understanding between King William and Bazaine. A good deal of interest will attach to the subsequent developments of these imperialists, but it is not likely that any con- clusion they may come to will be satisfactory to the French people, who are now resisting the Prussians in-their course of conquest. REDvcED To THE RAnKs.—Caleb Cushing acts as sub-District Attorney to Noah Davis. Sproat TELEGRAMS FROM THE SEAT OF War.—Oour special telegrams by cable from Europe supply an interesting exhibit of the condition of affairs at the seat of war. Prus- sian reinforcements for the army, peace ru- mors, the situation in Paris, the approaching exodus of English residents from the besieged city, and the food supply question, as it pre- sents to those who remain there, are all treated by our special telegraph writers. M. Thiers’ mission and the armistice question are also referred to. The reports appear in our columns to-day. The most important and de- cisive facts of the news are those which an- nounce the Prussian army preparations for a general advance march of the King’s troops, north and south, in France, and the commence- ment of the work of fortress reduction all over the French territory. The German army serving before Paris is to be reinforced. The question of the food supply becomes more seriously pressing every hour in Paris, and in this, as it appears to us, lies the opportunity of the Prussians for a final triampb. People must watch and wait notwithstanding. Toe Brennan Soorery could not have done a better thing than in bringing practically be- fore the people the subject of a grand parade ground as among the great wants of the people of New York. Tae RePusiican Demonstaation in Cooper Tnatitute last night was a highly enthusiastic affair. Senator Conkling made the speech of the evening, and it was an excellent effort. The disturbances made in the hall by roughs ofa democratic stripe were of a disgraceful character that Tammany should disown at once. Immensg Aortviry must be progressing id the Brooklyn Navy Yard if one might judge from the large number of new workmen being employed there. The yard is swarming with laborers like a hive of bees, but the industry of that useful insect is nowhere observable in the public works going on in that institution. After next Tuesday there will probably be a falling off in the number of employds, as the important service required of them will be all rendered at the polls on that day. It is a pity that the subordinates of the adminisiration should be required to resort to such paliry political tricks as these. Waar 1H First Division Don’r Want—To be obliged to go somewhere in the neighbor- héod of Coney Island in ferryboats, tugboats and horse cars for their annual review. Earine Guyrowper.—After the supply of salt in Metz had become exhausted the French soldiers were reduced to the necessity of sea- soning their food with gunpowder. This mea- sure was recommended py the surgeons, and accordingly thd paltpetre in the powder was utilized for sanitary purposes, Jt must have been doubly unpalatable to the poor Frenoh soldiers, who were thus compelled to eat the powder that was intonded for the annihilation of tho Prussians, Party Ropadintion the Order of the Day: The political whirligig ts going round at « most anprecented rate of speed. Almost every day we have reports of ” ani particles flying from the political lathe and’ forming themselves into new parties, which, after a very brief existence, are fated to eee: pear for want of the sustenance of all political life—the loaves and fishes. These inchoate bodies repudiate the body from which they sprung, and the latter, in its turn, repudiates ita unnatural spawn. The O'Brien branch of the Young Democracy repudiates the Ledwith faction, and the latter, in its turn, repudiates the bolters. The supporters of Ledwith, or such of them as claim consanguinity with the democratic body, repudiate any connection or alliance with the radical or bread-and-butter republicans; but Ledwith, Fox, Blumenthal and the would-be leaders repudiate their own followers for such repudiation. the republicans repudiate the Young Demo- cracy as the faction of asylum burners. And, finally, Tho other evening the general committee of the Young Demooracy passed, resolutions en- dorsing the nomination of Hoffman and. the State ticket, and denouncing any coalition with the’ radicals in behalf of Woodford, at the same time pledging their support to the Ledwith ticket for Mayor and city and county offices. But this does not meet the views of the Ledwith faction, and ‘the action of the general committee is accordingly repudiated. But by this ‘repudiation Ledwith & Co, re- pudiate by implication allclaim on their own part to the suffrages of the democratic ‘votera of the city. Ledwith and Fox now bestride is fatal to them, inasmuch as all democrats voting for them must vote the republican State ticket, headed by Woodford for Governor. law passed at the last session of the Legislature it is provided that the Mayor, city and county officers shall be voted for on the same ballot with the Governor and State officers,. There- fore Woodford must, according to the bargain, head any ticket on which Ledwith runs, and all democratic votes cast for the latter must neces- sarily count for the republican candidate. This isa sad pickle for a democratic candidate to find himself in, and it is a pickle that will not likely be agreeable or tasteful to democratic stomachs. been played once too often—the last fatal cast therein being the Ledwith faction’s repudiation of the action of the general committee of the Young Democracy. The horn of the dilemma that By the Election The little game of repudiation haa Ald for the French Victims of the War. Woe published recently the earnest appeal of Mme. Othilie Bousson in behalf of tha French victims of the war. been actively engaged in the work of the Patriotic Aid Society, and the cases containing linen and cotton bandages, flannel vesta, &c., which she has already forwarded to France have safely reached their destination, now preparing some more cases, and sdlicila That lady has She is all who wish to share in this charitable: work to send to her address, No. 860 Broadway, corner of Seventeenth street, New York city, any fabrics or other articles that may alleviate the sufferings of the victims of the war. All the principal express companies, the leading railroad companies and the Transatlantic Steamship Company have generously offered to carry free all packages thus addressed to Mme. Bousson. ‘‘For the Victims of the War” should be marked on them, Americans should heartily unite with French residents in the United States in making liberal contriputiona to the Patriotic Aid Society. Thia they can surely do without violating neutrality laws, even if they cannot emulate the patriotic liberality of the California Frenchmen, whose Central Committee on the 30th Of October notified the government of Tours that they are this week to send to France fifty thousand francs for the national defence. The German Sanitary Fair, which closed last Saturday, produced the splendid sum of sixty thousand dollars, and the approaching French» Sanitary Fair, it is to be hoped, will be similarly successful, France, in this her hourvof: sore distress, has a well founded claim upon the gratitude of America for French sympathy and aid during the early struggles of our republic for independence. “A Niager Is THE Wooprite.”—It appears that one Lucius Maulins Sawyer, a colored in- dividual, who has held a responsible position among the attachés of the Metropolitan Hotel in this city for the past twelve yeara, is charged with the reprehensible offence of re- peating, his registration. The case, it is ex- pected, will come > »:fore the United States Girouit Court to-day. For the prosecution ap-' pear Noah Davis, United States District At- torney, and Caleb Cushing, Assistant United States District Attorney for the Southern dis- trict of New York; for the defence Counsel-, lor Benjamin F. Russell, a young lawyer quietly rising to eminence at our bar. The white democrat, Terence Quinn, haying been sent to the Albany Penitentiary for the term of two years for his error, it will be interest- ing to learn what couree will be taken in tho narrate rw a : Some. Timp ann Exorrabie Peoria fan-” cied that the march of a United States regi- ment through the city yesterday was meant to intimidate the public—the voters especially ;' whereas the troops were only returning to quarters after assisting in the grand whiskey, raid of the tremendous Supervisor Dutcher, the radical candidate for Congress, upon the mash and half-brewed poison in the Fifth ward stills of Brooklyn. The United States troops and marines did gallant sorvice on that ocoa- sion by doing nothing.” We hope that they will be as well employed on election day. Tue Brooxtyn Navy Yarp.—The question of the removal of the Brooklyn Navy Yard has entered into politics, and is one of the elements in the Congressional election for tha Third district, General Slocum, the present Representative, and who is a candidate for re-election, is known to favor the removal of the yard and the sale of the property; but this policy is naturally regarded with disfavor by most persons residing in the vicinity of the yard, and particularly by the workingmen, three thou- sand of whom now get employment in the Navy Yard. The opponents of the proposed removal estimate that the buildings and docks belong- ing to the government there, and which wou'd be sacrificed by the removal, are worth, or have cost, between ten.and eleven millions of dollara. while tha land covered by tho Navy