The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1870, Page 6

% NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Tigra. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. XXXV. Volume AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brouaway.—Tur j Tux Tarary oY LIMERICK. waheacgher: LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Br BI — Romko JarFien JENKINS. sna a Ma a cag GRAND OPERA HOWSE, corner of Sth av, BS Les BRiGanvs. . th av, and 23d at, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Wee Win. Winx. ‘ghee —TME PANTOMIME OF WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ances every afterneem and evening, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tun Fan Wrsr—Tue Two GALLEY SLaves, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—MaNn Nb WIFE. BOOTR’S THEATRE, 23a Riv Van Winkie. ween Sth and 6th avs.— YOURTRE! CuagLorre Co st! T THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— DAY; 0], 98. ARIS IN 178. GLOBE THEAT! TAINMEN', £0. Broadway.—Vaniety Enver. 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Pace eae e 1—Advertisements. 2—advertisements. @—Paris: Particulars of the Defeat of the German Army Near Orleans; Tne Army of the Loire to covey A Great Battle Expected to Take Place To day; England Only Safe So Long as ¢ Remains Mistress of the Seas; Active Preparations for the Defence of Lille; The City Deemed Impregnable—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World—A Steamer on Fire— sare Intelligence—jersey Legal Inconsist- neies, 4—State and City Politics: A Review of the Field of Action from a New Standpomt—Sharpe’s lats—Uollector, M hy: What He K About Political” Farming—A New Steamship Line—Religious Inteiligence—The Slaughter of the Innocents: The Case of Alleged Malprac- tice; fhe Geary Inquest; What the “Dr.” Thinks About Convulstons. $—The Slaughter of the Innocents (Continued from Fourth Page)—Explosion on the Camaen and Amboy Raiiroad—The Courts—Financial and Commercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements, G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Fall of the ‘Temporal Power and the Future of the Papacy”—-Amusement Announcements. —Editorials bela from Sixth Page)—Bis- marck: Hexaup’s Special Report of the Prussian Premier’s Circular; Detatls of His Negotiations for an Arimistice; The Demands of France too Exorbitant to be Compilied With; Disadvantages to Prussia of a Teinpo- rary Cessation of Hostilities; ‘The French Authorities Do Not Wish to Hear the Views of tne Pope—New York City Intel- ligence—Double Murder Last Night—Base Pall and Cricket—N ws from Washington— Personal Intelligence—Lecture on “Consum- ing Fire’-—Metiodist Misston—Military Cl at—Another Poiitical Arrest~Business ) Ws at the Antipodes— nmtatthe Grand Cen- 1otel—Brookiyn News—Shipping In- ve—Advertisements. Viorory.—The scene of General De Paladiue’s victory was evidently between the villages of Baecon and Coulmiers, situated east and east-northeast of Orleans. The Associated Press despatch is correct in saying that there is no such place as Coulommieres near the Loire, but is incorrect in the location it has named. Coul- y kilometers from Orleans. miers is some twe $3 ANpD ComEts.—The messen- ger of the dispensation of the fulness of times preaches to-day. Subject—‘The final de- struction of the kingdoms and n hand.” In short, the ‘‘inessenger that we are near the “‘great tribulat Earruqu. the “final conflagration,” begiani | Rome. | Tne CnarnamM Srrext Horror.—The | inquest on the body of Mary Geary, who died in childbirth at the abortion den on Chatham street, has been concluded, and has disclosed some further secreis and mysteries of the horrible business pursued by “Dr.” Lookup and his assistants. It appears that the old hag, Mrs. Dickinson, who waited upon the female patients, was in the habit of adminis- tering a baptismal rite of her own to the new- born infants, A verdict censuring Lookup as guilty of malpractice was rendered by the jury, and he was remanded to prison to await y; the action of the Grand Jury, on whom now | rests the responsibility of punishing him for his crimes. Tue Armistice NxrGoriations.—Premier Bismarck, alive to the necessity of keeping his diplomatic record clear, has issued a circular to the North German representatives at foreign courts setting forth his statement of facts regarding the armistice negotiations. He says that King William was even more anxious for peace than M. Thiera, but would not consent to go back two months in the prosecution of the war and allow the revic- tualling of Paris. He considered the demand absurd, and from a fair and impariial stand- point it undoubtedly has that complexion. | Nevertheless it was censidered indispensable by the Paris government, and on the strength | of King Wiiliam’s refusal the negotiations | were broken off. Bismarck, therefore, comes te the conclusion that the Paris government dared net submit to an election, fearing to eonsult the people, an only made shan ad- wances in the way of an armistice to quiet the a Rowert. The Fall of the Temporal Power aud the Future of the Papacy. The destruction of the temporal power of the Pope is beyond all question the most important historic event of this very eventful year. The history of the Roman Catholic Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. As ene has well put it, it carries us back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when cameleopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. It is a long leap back- wards from Pope Pius the Ninth to Pope Stephen the Second; but during that long period, extending over more than twelve cen- turies, the temporal power has been a fact. The right to temporal authority of the proudest royal house in Europe is but of yesterday when compared with the right to certain territorial possessions of the Supreme Pontiff. If long continued possession gives a claim it is not much to be wondered at that the Pope, the Roman Curia, the dignitaries of the Catholic Church all the world over, and even the mere members of that Church, should rebel against the spoliation of the ter- ritory which, from a date almost lost in the obscurity of the past, has been attached to the chair of St. Peter. Tradition has it that Constantine founded Constantinople for no other purpose than to enthrone Sylvester, the then Bishop of Rome, as the temporal and spiritual monarch of the West; and according to the Isidore Decretals, the genuineness of which has never been generally admitted, the gift of the first Christian Emperor to the Roman See included not Rome only, but the whole of Italy, Spain, Gaul and Britain. It is not, however, until the days of Pepin, or rather of his son, Charlemagne, that the temporal power of the Papacy becomes a historic fact. When Pope Stephen the Second placed the crown of Childeric, the last and the fattest of the long- haired Morovingians, on the head of Pepin, in the Church of St. Denys, Pepin, out of gratitude, went to Rome and bestowed on the Pope much of the territory which for twelve centuries has been known as the States of the Church. In the bestowal of this territory Roman Catholic writers claim that the origi- nal gift of Constantine was recognized. Another Pope was in trouble, and Charle- magne having crossed the Alps and rede- livered the Holy See, Leo III, crowned him Emperor of the Romans, Charlemagne for- mally and with becoming solemnity confirming the gift of Pepin. ‘hen, on Christmas day, in the last year of the eighth century, was re- stored the Roman Empire of the West, and on the same day the successor of St. Peter became a temporal prince. In the anarchy and amid the chaos which followed the death of Charlemagne and which continued under the feeble rale of his degenerate descendants the Papal territories could not yield ary very substantial revenue; but the right was more or less recognized, nor has it ever since been relinquished. Later, when the Western, or as it was now called, the German empire, was re-established under the First Otho—an em- pire which, amid much vicissitude of fortune, lasted until the year 1806—Pope John the Twelfth was reinstated in his territorial rights and privileges. lt would be tedious and un- interesting to follow the history of the tem- poral power of the Papacy from Stephen and Pepin, from Leo and Charlemagne, from Joho and Otho down to Pius the Sixth and the First Napoleon or to Pius the Ninth and Victor Emmanuel. Suffice it to say that dur- ing the whole of that long interval the temporalities have remained, and that while princes and emperors have alternately frowned and fawned, while popes have been imprisoned or compelled to govern the Church in foreign countries, while rival authorities have set up rival popes, and while rival popes have thundered anathemas against each other, the territorial possessions of the Papacy have always been administered in the interests and for behoof of the Papal chair. It was one of the biggest boasts of the First Napoleon that, as he was the successor of Charlemagne, so he might, if he chose, with- draw the grants which Charlemagne had made. As we have said before, it is not wonderful that the loss of these ancient possessions should, on the part of the Holy Father himself, on the part of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries and on the part of the great mass of the mem- bers, intelligent and non-intelligent, of the Roman Catholic Church, be unwillingly sub- mitted to. It would not, however, be difficult to show that what seems a loss is an actual gain. The temporal power of the Bishop of Rome naturally grew out of the alliance of Church and State, which was inaugurated by Constan- | tine and which was confirmed by Theodosius, The alliance of Church and State had from the outset taken its most offensive and dangerous form when the representative of Jesus of Naza- reth and the successor of the fisherman of Galilee was invesied with the prerogatives of a temporal sovereign. ‘‘My kingdom is not of this world,” was the language of the Master. “Silver and gold have I none,” was the proud confession of Peter when he bestowed his priceless blessings. “Give thyself wholly to these (spiritual) things,” was the exhortation of Paul to his youthful disciple Timothy. ‘‘To Cesar the things that are Casar's; to God the | things that are God’s: our kingdom is not of | this world”—was the motto of the first follow- | ers of the Son of Ged. No impartial man can | read the sublime yet simple lessons of the Ser- mon on the Mount, or imbibe the teachings or | follow the example of the immediate followers | of the Saviour of mankind and arrive at any other conclusion than this—That the king- dom which the original Gospei contemplated was a kingdom spiritual and moral, but not temporal in the accepted sense of that term. When, therefore, we say that the temporal power of the Pope—-the incarnation of the evil of the alliance of Church and State—has been the perversion and ruin of Christianity, our ineanivg is not hard to be understood. To this one source more than to all others do we trace the feeblene:s of ihe Christian religion | for well nigh ten egniuries; the carly scandals of ithe Popedom; tud Boxism which bas built up a great rivai Christian Chitreh in the East; the schism of a later date, which has built up a more powerful rival Christian Church ta the West, and other evils too numerous to men- tion. Granted that Peter was the chief of all the Apostles—granted that the Bishop of Rome } NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, N it is not to be denied that the power and wealth which came from temporal sovereignty put the Church of Jesus Christ off its proper track, The schismatic churches known as Greek, as Anglican, as Scottish or Genevan, while they have renounced their allegiance to the parent organization, have one and all per- petuated the organic sin—the alliance of Church and State, or, in other words, the temporal power. In each of those sections of Christianity the parent evil has remained fruitful; and secessions from the Greek Church, from the Anglican and Presbyterian communions are so numerous that we have neither time nor space toname them. Even in our United States, where the alliance of Church and State is unknown, we suffer, and suffer severely, from the hereditary influences which govern a mixed population, If this view of the case be correct the temporal power has all along been an excrescence of which the Church of Rome is now happily rid, It is an instructive fact that, when the tem- poral power of the Papacy has fallen, the dis- like of Church and State alliance has become strong in all lands, strong especially among the more healthful races of the Old World, and particularly strong among the more hopeful populations of the New. The example and experience of the United States have power- fully reacted in Europe in favor of ecclesiasti- eal as well as political liberty, Here we begin to seek our way back to the essentials of the Christian faith. State churches no longer exist in the British Provinces of America; they are dead in Australia; they are dead also in Ireland; they are dying fast in Scot- land; the contagion is spreading in Europe, and the fall of the temporal power will give a powerful impetus to ecclesiastical and religious liberty. Barriers to the union of ali Christian bodies are being rapidly removed. Christians of all denominations are dropping non-essen- tials, and on the basis of essentials are suc- cessfully striving to reach a hizher and more generous platform. It is undeniable that the universal Christian Church is gradually gravi- tating towards a grander and nobler unity, Looking at present facts and justly recognizing the current of events, who will say that abso- lute unity is impossible? As the Church becomes more and more one so will it return to first principles, so will it imbibe its lessons from original sources. Is it impossible that the Church, restored to its ancient unity, will recognize its ancient head, and that one of the greatest triumphs of the millennial future, to which so many, for different reasons, so hopefully look forward, will be the restora- tion—in a nobler and purer form, of course— of Papal sovereignty? In any event we dare not say that the loss of the temporal power is any serious loss to the Roman Catholic Church or to the Christian world at large. Arrest of tho Logan Murderer—The Detec- tive Force. The detectives, who had fallen into some disrepute in public esteem since the utter failure to discover the murderer of Mr. Nathan, have partially redeemed their character by the arrest of the murderer of the man Logan, who was implicated some years ago in the charge of murdering poor old Mr. Rogers. After much hard travel and careful tracking upon the footsteps of the criminal, through several Western and Southern cities, two members of the detective force succeeded in capturing the ruffian Dunn andsafely lodging him in this city ; for which they are entitled, of course, to much credit. Now, cannot the same skill and acu- men which have succeeded in delivering into the hands of justice this rowdy murderer be employed in unravelling a mystery in which the public area thousand times mere interested than in the discovery of the Logan murderer? Has the sagacity of our detective force col- lapsed before the difficulty of discovering the man who murdered Benjamin Nathan ? Greater mysteries have been solved before now even by ordinary police organizations, and people are beginning to think that the Nathan mystery remains shrouded in dark- ness, not because the detectives cannot, so much as because they will not, bring it to light. This is a very unfortunate imputation for the detective force to suffer under; but it is nevertheless true that many people incline to that opinion. Meantime we are glad to have an opportunity of congratulating the detectives who succeeded in securing the murderer Dunn. We should like, however, to see a little more of the same activity dis- played in that branch of the Police Depart- ment in other cases—say, for example, the Rogers and the Nathan murders. That the perpetrators of these atrocious crimes should still go undiscovered is a slur upon the escutcheon of the detective force. Tre SITvATION IN Litte.—By special tele- gram from Lille, forwarded through the cable, we have an interesting report of the situation for war as it presented to our correspondent on the 11th instant. The people and authori- ties are determined on a resolute defence against the Prussians. They have an exceed- ingly strong position, with vast numbers of re- cruits from the surrounding country. There is also an army of veterans. Lille will under- take the responsibilities and pains and penal- ties of a siege. The place is being provisioned actively. Preparations have been made to flood the country for miles in face of a Ger- man advance. The probable execution of this last resort of the inhabitants of Lille alarms the Belgian goverament and its frontier officials. ENTERPRISE OF THE Heratp.—We copy the following from the Trenton (N. J.) Gazette of yesterday: — The New York HERALD has gone into the inter- viewing business ona huge scale. On Thursday it contained a five column account, transinitted by cable, of an interview held by 13 correspondent with Napoleon, and yesterday it contained a two column account of an interview with Bazaine. The HERALD makes a characteristic spread over these achieveinents. We are somewhat sceptical, how- ever, as to their genuineness, The whole thing looks one much as though it Was concocted in the HERALD oflice. If our worthy friend of the Gazette will take the trouble to leave the Jersey capital for a fow hours he can, by stepning into the office of the Afleatic cable, corner of Broadway and Liberty street, ascertain in a few moments whether the ‘intervtews” he refers to came over the cable or whether, as he is sceptic enough to imagine, they were *congocted in the Hunatp office.” ‘The Heratp ts Shoe augh paltry basiness. Dywaywoa’ Dygewrten.—The Welsh clergymen of the country are holding a re- ‘Jy hia authorized and anointed representative, | unign ia the city, including a loyeleagtia Welsh, OVEMBER 13, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Military Situation—Tne Advance of the Army of the Loire. The French victory at Orleans is the first important victory that bas been gained by the French army since the beginning of the war, and it appears to have been a complete one, The Germans were driven, after two days’ hard fighting, out of Orleans, toward Chateau- dun, where they received such a telling fire in the rear that they changed direc- tion and continued their retreat by the Pithiviers road. They now rest at Toury, where they are receiving reinforcements from Prince Frederick Charles’ forces at Chartres, and will doubtless make another stand. The French army, under Paladine, outnumbers the Prussian force even with these reinforce- ments, and, if moved forward rapidly, will doubtless be able to drive the enemy into the works about Paris. Then, with a grand sortie from the inside and a preconcerted attack outside, the German situation may be rendered more uncomfortable than King Wil- liam has had much reason to anticipate. But it requires prompt action—no delay, no dally- ing, no stopping to celebrate victory. Paladine appears to be capable of understanding this fact, but he is very near Tours, and the visit of Gambetta to his camp reminds us too forcibly of the interference of the Washington politicians in McClellan’s campaigns to be suggestive of any very cheering assurances. Garibaldi, in {he mountains, is said to be marching towards Belfort with 12,000 men, who, however, are illy armed and equipped and very disconteuted. In the North Bourbaki has ranged round him an admirable army, which, it is estimated, may be increased to 400,000 men, and is concentrating them for a move on the ‘northern side of Paris. Lille is fully prepared for a siege if necessary, and proposes to flood the low countries in her neighborhood if the Prussians appear. The Germans around Paris are apparently undismayed by the reverse at Orleans. King William calmly telegraphs the fact home to Dame Augusta, concealing nothing. It is stated in a despatch from the headquarters at Versailles to a Berlin journal that the idea of bombarding Paris has been given up, as it is known that the people will be starved out within a month. Under the circumstances in which France finds herself at present, and which Bismarck depicted in his recent circu- lar—eaten out and almost impoverished—it is questionable whether a brisk bombardment, enforcing an early surrender, would not bea more merciful act than that of forcing starva- tion upon the garrison, With the renewed hope that will be engendered in Paris by the victory on the Loire it is not probable that surrender will be thought of unless the pangs of starvation become present and pressing. War Tue REPuBLIOANS FaILzp TO RECOVER New Yorx.—Among the reasons given by the republican organs are these :—First, soured by the appointment of Murphy as Collector of this port, Senator Fenton’s friends stayed at home, and as Senator Conkling was not strong enough to carry the State without Fenton the State was lost. Second, the compact with Tammany Hall, whereby doubtful fellows on the registry list were allowed first to vote, subject to examination afterwards, gave the State to Hoffman. Third, the republi- cans were discouraged and didn’t come out. Fourth, Tammany carried the State by trans- ferring her repeaters to the rural districts. Fifth, the ‘‘Young Democracy” were the dead weight that broke down the republicans, Sixth, the Tammany republicans turned the scale. Seventh, it was the money and the spoils of Tammany that did the business. Lastly, the Tammany democracy carried the State in polling the majority of votes, which is the most satisfactory reason of all. Garratt is fast becoming ubiquitous, with- out effecting any military results by his ubiquity, This morning it is announced that after the battle at Montbeliard he advanced with twelve thousand men upon Belfort. Our last reports placed the Germans in undisturbed possession of Montbeliard. and no account of their being driven out has been received. We fear that the news referred to has as little foundation in fact as the former reports of Garibaldi’s victories and surrenders, Genera Scuenck, of Ohio, lately defeated for Congress, is now spoken of as the proba- ble nominee for Minister to England, in the place of Mr. Motley. General Schenck is a man of marked abilities, and as a Western man, we presume his views are in harmony with those of General Grant on the Alabama claims which are said to be substantially the views of Senator Sumner, an Eastern man. It is understood that a Western man is to have this mission, and so there may be some truth in these rumors concerning General Schenck. Fro AUSTRALASIA, by way of the Sandwieh Islands and San Francisco, we havea very interesting budget of news, dated at Sydney the Ist and Auckiand, New Zealand, the 7th of October—five weeks later. The colony was deeply excited over the European war news, the inhabitants, as if by natural impulse, eympathizing with Prussia, The accounts from the gold fields are favorable. The New Zealanders were in a peaceful attitude, but inclined towards diplomacy and the assertion of the maintenance of their peculiar rights and privileges. Tue Winpine Up or THe PorrricaL Cam- PAIGN has produced a wonderful effect in North Carolina, completely subduing the bel- licose inclinations of the citizens. Governor Holden has just issued a proclamation declar- ing that peace and good order everywhere pre- vail in his Commonwealth, and that the coun- ties of Alamance and Caswell are no longer in a state of insurrection, It is to be hoped the reconstruction is most thorough this time, and that there will be no more demand for troops to preserve order and prevent outrages in the Old North State. Tar Frenon Freet.—It begins to look as if the French Admiral meditated a serious demonstration against Hamburg. Our tele- grams mention rumors of an impending bom- bardment of the city, and the Admiral himself intimates something of the sort when he offi- cially notifies neutrals that their coast vessels be permitted to enter the port at their own risk. Ihe, explanation for this qualification doubtless is that after entering neutral ves- sels must run the risk of being subjected to a bombardmaph The Philharmonic Society and Its Influence on Music. Of all the musical entertainments of the sea- son the concerts and rehearsals of the Phil- harmonic Society are regarded by those who love true music and are anxious for its inte- rests in this city as the pioneers in the progress of the divine art. For twenty-eight years this admirable musical organization, of which Messrs Harvey B. Dodworth and U, C. Hill were among the first founders, has steadily adhered to the high standard of art which its name designates, and at length, after many vicissitudes, it has gained the support and en- couragement of the metropolitan public. This support and encouragement were withheld for a long time, not on account of a lack of taste on the part of the public, but because of the most woful mismanagement of the affairs of the society. The Board of Directors has been, asa general thing, the most narrow-minded, clannish and obstinate set of people that ever was known in the management of a great public body, and year after year the society drifted on, patronized by a very small proportion of our musical public and hopelessly flounder- ing in the mire of financial despond. The election of Professor R. Ogden Doremus as President produced quite a revolution in the society. His keen business intelligence saw that the orchestra should be increased to one hundred performers, and that the repre- sentative opera house of the metropolis should be the place for these grand concerts. His suggestions were carried out and the society never enjoyed such prosperity as under his direction. Both concerts and rehearsals were attended by the élite of the city, and the treasurer looked radiant over the largely increased receipts. Still, he only commenced the revolution, and much remained to be done, For instance, an organization like the Phil- harmonic Society should not limit itself to only six concerts during the year. Nearly three months have elapsed since the regular fall season of amusements opened, and until Friday last the public were left in blissful ignorance of the very existence of the Phil- harmonic Society. Again, there were nume- rous complaints about the sale and distribution of seats, and a disgraceful scramble at the opening of the doors of the Academy at each concert and rehearsal. This, we believe, has been remedied this season, But the most serious mistake is in the arrangement of the programmes and the selection of solo artists. In the former case the unaccountable penchant of a few members for the insane ravings of the apostles of the “music of the fature,” Liszt and Wagner, inflicted a species of martyrdom on the patrons of the society by compelling them to listen to stuff which would be more appropriate in Bedlam than in the concert room. When Theodore Thomas gave his symphony soirées here his programmes always presented variety and novelty, although even he occasionally fell into the mistake of producing such nonsense, But there was rare enterprise displayed by him in giving the soir¢es an air of interest by constant novelties. The Philharmonic Society announce three orchestral works as the programme for their first concert. Two of these works have been played dozens of times at the Sunday concerts at Steinway Hall and by nearly every band inthe city. Wedo not for a moment wish to speak against the intrinsic merit of these selections, for they are unsurpassed in their line. But we assert that they form too meagre a bill for the first concert of the Phil- harmonic Society. Many of their most enthu- siastic patrons have expressed the same to us. In the selection of solo artists, although some of the best singers and instrumentalists in the city have appeared at their concerts, still the pernicious principle of favoritism has often ex- cluded great talent and admitted mediocre ability, and in one or two instances the result was painful to a musical ear. The society has agreat mission to fulfil and every means at its command to accomplish its work, and we trust that its affairs will be conducted in the broad, liberal spirit that is expected of it. If, like the Bourbons, they refuse to learn from experience, all the exertions of Professor Doremus in behalf of the society will have been in vain. Tue Statement that General De Paladines has one hundred and twenty thousand men under his command is doubtless an exaggera- tion. If he has, however, he ought to be able to crush the forces under General Von der Tann before the columns of Prince Frederick Charles, which comprise the very flower of the Prussian army, can come up. Tne New York Custom Hovuse.—It was rumored in Washington yesterday that Tom Murphy's official head was to be lopped off, and that his mantle was to descend upon Su- pervisor Dutcher. General Woodford is also reported to have a hankering after the fat things at the Custom House, and at least a score of other disappointed candidates aro willing to sacrifice their fortunes and lives in holding the position of Collector of this port. Orgrations IN Nortnern Franor.—Our despatches from Tours report a battle as im- minent between the army commanded by General Bourbaki—now occupying a position extending from Beauvais, in the department of Oise, to Lyons-la-Forets, in the department of Eure, taking in Gisors, on the Epte river, and Les Audelys, near the Seine—and the German forces, which, we suppose, are com- manded by General Manteuffel. The position of the French is such as to cover both Rouen and Amiens. ™. Tue INrervizw wir Napotgon.—The Troy Daily Times, one of the most influential papers in the interior of the State of New York, and edited by a gentleman of culture and judg- ment, has the following in regard to the iater- view of a Heratp reporter with the Emperor Napoleon :— American journalism has won another victory. A correspondent of the New York HERALD has “inter- viewed” the etna ot France for the space of n hour and a half by the clock, during all which period a representative of the St. Petersburg Jour- nal was cooling his heels in an antechamber, having been unable to get speech even with the great man’s secretary. Ifthe HERALD makes the eagle scream a little too loudly over this evidence of imperial par- tality for itself and other American institutions it will readily be excused. Under the circumstances a po obs and self-giorification are very par- nable, We do not intend to make the ‘“‘agle scream’ too loudly over this successful effort of American journalism, but intend that it shall be simply a forerunner of still greater achlevements in the way of newspaper enter- rise gn this side of the water, . Horse Racing in Amecrica—The Pust, Pree sent and Future. Horse racing in the South in the youthful days of the republic was a pastime solely con- fined to gentlemen of the highost standing in the land, and George Washington himself could not be excelled in his love for a fine horse by any of our modern turfmen. In the Northern States such names as those of Livingston, Gibbons, Jones, Cole, King, Robert L. Stevens and John C, Stevens were asso- ciated with the breeding and running of horses. With the decease of these public spirited gentlemen the running race course fell into disuse, and sad days came for the American turf, From 1844 to 1854 horse racing, asa nationad sport in the North, had reached its lowest stage of decrepitude, and then what the Yan- kees would call a ‘‘splurge” was made in the opening of the National Course in 1854, now known as the Fashion Course. Then the backbone fell out of this attempt, and for another decade of years, until 1864, horse racing languished and was almost dying out of the land, when it suddenly sprung into fresh, vigorous and beautiful life under the fostering care of gentlemen of wealth and position, like Jerome, Belmont, Travers, Purdy, Cameron, Forbes, Withers, Dun- can, Sanford, Hunter, Morris and others, whose efforts have been crowned with most signal success. Until the gentlemen to whom we have referred took the matter in hand racing by the Northern States, even more than in the South, had been entirely unfit places for ladies to be seen at. Racing is essentially and to all purposes an aristo- cratic sport, and none but those who have ample means and hours of leisure can afford to meddle in turf matters. The formation of the American Jockey Club lifted the sport with sudden and energetic power into its present popularity. The Southern, gentleman always had been in the habit of taking the ladies of his family to the race course, but they had not the great and promiscuous crowds of our Northern cities to face at their racing resorts. The grounds of the American Jockey Club are now patronized for the social reunions of the best class of society as well as for the gallant contests of the horses there encountered. The elegant and comfortable appointments of tho grounds and buildings draw large assem- blages of well-bred and refined ladies, glorious in their toilets as the lilies of Solomon. When the fair sex can be congregated together in large numbers to witness any open air sport, then that sport must of a certainty be a success, and we believe that the mascu- line bosoms of the Sorosis might be made to thrill with delight could they spare a day from the suffrage movement to witness a good four mile heat race. And there can be no valid reason why ladies should not enjoy the pleasures of horse racing. The tournaments of the middle ages, when men dashed at each other clad in armor, and the brutal bull fights of the Iberian races were always well patro- nized by them; and at a remoter period, when the dying gladiator, rolling in the bloody sands of the arena, has often raised his glazed eyea to the stone benches where thousands of bright, sympathizing eyes were bent upon his last agonies, and as he writhed in the pain of his wounds, delicate hands were brought together, making overwhelming echoes of applause in the ears of Cesar himself. There is neither blood nor _ brutality to be seen ata well ordered race course like Jerome Park, or that which has lately been inaugurated at Pimlico by the Maryland Jockey Club in presence of twenty thousand persons, half of whom belonged to the weaker and more tender sex. By and by we shall have jockey clubs in all of the States of the Union, and as they increase in number we shall have improvements in the manner of conducting races as_near perfection as they can be made. At present the races succeed each other too rapidly, and com- plaint is made that there is not time enough intervening between each race to allow the spectators to examine the appearance and quality of the horses. The horses should always before a race be brought before the grand stand and sbown to the spectators, and their names should be announced in a way to attract all who wished to gain infor- mation. One of the stewards or some officer of the track should do this service, and it would then be comparatively easy to recognize the racers before the start, while running and at the finish, At many of the race meetings not one quarter of the horses entered start in the race, and a thousand questions are prepounded during the excitemant of a dash or heat, as to “which is which,” or does ‘so and so wia,” by the excited multitude, and when the race is ended absolutely nothing is known of the result, The programmes which are offered for sale are of little service, from the fact that they do not give a full and comprehensive idea of the horses, as they should in every instance. Then at every meeting & variety of races should be offered each day for the amusement of the public who attendthem. Heats, dashes, hurdles and steeple chases should be given,’ alternating each other as performances in a theatre” But we would advise the abolition of the system of handicapping as a good reform in racing. A poor horse should never be placed on an equality with a good one, to effect the disgrace of the better animal, who may be loaded to the ground with weight. A handicap for beaten horses on the last day of a meeting, however, might prove a very effec- tive finale; but at any other time it causes great dissatisfaction, and can be, in the hands of unscrupulous individuals, a great incentive to fraud. And now we must say that the prospect for racing on the American turf has a bright future. Next summer there will be eight reg- ular meetings at our most fashionable race courses—two at Jerome Park, two at Balti- more, two at Saratoga and two at Long Branch—and the entries for the cups, purses and stakes will be very numerous. Less than ten years from the present time we prognosti- cate that the entries for the Westchester cups, the Saratoga cups, the Monmouth cups and the Monumental City cups will have as many start- ers ag ever ran for the Two Thousand Guineas, the Derby, tho Oaks, tho St. Leger or the Good- wood. The nobility of America have become fond of racing, and, with their energy and pluck, it must and shall succeed, Hundreds of fine new horses will appear on the different courses next season, and they paugt increase