The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD CRRARA DARA AABROODS BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. @AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. eee ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic “espatches must be addressed New York [ERALD. KAXKV.... cc eeeeeereeceeereceees NO. SLD AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, 720 Breadway.—BIuLIARDS— Romeo Javvizn JENKIN. ' GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cerner of 8th ay, and 23d st.— pore Buicanns, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Breadway.—THE PANTOMIME OF Wee Wivue Winkie. ” woOD's MUSEUM Broadway, corner Sih st.—Perferm- jpnces evory afterneen and evening. 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FLouR, &0, Hl ——— BAN FRANCISCO atharaay, HALL, 685 Breadway.— isons MINGTBELGY, Fanos, BUBLEGQUES, £0. ke pee \, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—| a praetor, Buneneauss, ae. ee Li bRooxnyy OPERA HOUSK——WeLom, Hoaurs & ‘AV auz's MixerEete, ‘NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—ScENES IN ‘Sree RING, AckoBATH, £0. |. NEW YORK MUSEUM @/ ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— pBcunox anv Ant. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSCUM, 745 Broadway.— PoreNoE anv xr. TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Tuesday, November 15, 1870. CONTENTS OF -TO-DAY’S HERALD. AGE, ' 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Paris: Rumors of Another Victory for De Pala- dines; Von der Tann Defeated in a Battle near Arthenay; Twenty-six Guns and Many Pri- soners Taken by the French; Further Details . Of the Recapture of Orleans; Paris Distress- ingly Short of Provisens; An Attack by Trochu's Ferces Hourly Expected; The Ger- mans Steadily Advanciag on Lyons; Bismarck Denies Entering Into Negotiations with Eu- gente—News from Washington—Nayal Intelli- gence—Obituary. ig 4@—Napoleon’s History of the War: His Majesty’s Review of Events; Causes of the French Re- verses; Hopes of the Final Result—Random ‘Wedlock—The Elevated Ratlway—The Bridge Disaster in Missouri—Mayor Hail and the Lotus Eaters—the Belt Railroad Strike—The Election Riot in Baton Rouge—Murderous Assault by a Negro—Feat on the Trotting Turf—Another Abortion Case—Trade of New Zealand. S—The “Coming” Briton: “The Pauperism, Fac- tory Slavery and Ignorance of the tush Peo- ple; Address by Mr. Mundella, of the British Parliament; Labor Strikes and Arbitration— Proceedings in the Couris—Women ip Eu- rope—The Twin Corpses—A Child Killed by Alcohol—A Oase of Obild Murder—Persona- lia—Troops Through the Suez Canal. G6—Eilitorials : Leading Article, “America, Russia and England Face to Face in the Darda- nelles”’—Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Editorlals (continued from Sixth Page)—Tele- fraphie ews from All Parts of the World: ‘ne Russo-Eastern Note; Danger of Englana in a Euro) War—Amusements—The Re- cent Elections—Personal Intelligence—The French Fair—Business Notices. 8—Financial and Commercial Reports—Internal Revenue Affairs—National Bank Statement— Newtown Election Frauds—Municipal Affairs— The Cambria Wreck—Newark’s Matchmaker Again—A Chess Players’ Convention—Another Bloody Affray in Jersey—Terrible Railroad Accident—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- \ ments. Pa Tcubishop Bpalding: Forcible Exposition of rchbisho} ‘a iu EX po~ aren ‘araigs by, Fhe Archbishop of Balii- more—A Palace of Jewels: A Stroll Through ‘Yiffany’s New Jewelry Store in Union Sauare— Base ‘pail Metereological Record—European Markets—The Poughkeepsic _—_ Infanticide Case—Shipping Intelligence—Advertizaments, j—Acivertisements, 2—Advertisements, 1 First Catch Tsem.—The Spanish court artial at present holding its sitting in rene has condemned to death the leaders f the Caban insurrection. Of what avail is rondemnation if the men so condemned can femain at liberty? Tae DisaProinrep Ravroats in Missouri ‘propose to read Carl Schurz out of the party. The radicals can’t afford to do it, Yor Schurz and those who believe with Schurz form by far the larger part of the republican party at present. , ApMs FoR Franog.—The French have lost to many arms in the series of disasters that pave attended their military operations during she present war that they require a large num- per of new weapons for the fresh forces which are now being organized. The factories in France are actively employed in the manufac- ‘ure of cannon and rifles, and thousands of mall arms have already been procured in ngland as well asin this country. The Hud- Bon river steamboat Vanderbilt has brought flown a cargo of arms from Troy, which are to be immediately forwarded to France for dis- tribution to the new troops under the direction of the republican government at Tours, Tur Fist Sregp Towarps TAMMANY—The trip of Senator Fenton to California during ‘pur late State campaign. ‘Call you this packing your friends?” But what interest had Fenton {n our election, with Murphy in the Custom House? Slippery customers, these trading politicians. What says Murphy? Tux Ports or THE Post are laboring very hard to makeup acaso in favor of General Cox, and against General Grant and the McGarrahan land lobby job; but the more they stir it the muddier they make It for Cox, and the clearer they make the justification of the President ia turning the case over to Con- gress. Too Maxx Cooxs.—The old proverb of too many cooks will aptly apply te the republican party of New York in our late election, as compared with New Jersey, where they recog- nized only ene cook for the party, the chiof book at Washington. Hence the scanty repub- ean lunch in New Yerk on cold victuals, and e hot and bountiful party dinner in Jersey, pith all the sido dishes, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. $e , America, Ruysia and England Face to Face in the Dardauelles. The American Congress having repeatedly protested against the impediment to free navi- gation in the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, the anxiety of England to settle the Alabama claims at the time of the analogous demand of Russia for the abolition of unfair restric- tions upon the freedom of the seas is very natural, considering the apprehensions of Great Britain as to the Russo-American alliance. The United States government having never ratified the treaty of Paris of 1856, which ren- dered more stringent the previous stipulations for the exclusion of men-of-war and for the obstructions to free navigation in the Black Sea and the straits connecting with it, Admi- ral Farragut and other officers before him never failed to contend that they had a perfect right to sail through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus to the Black Sea, and that the regulations entered into by the Porte with other Powers could not bind the United States, which was no party to such a regula- tion, These views of Farragut were formally corroborated by Congress in a series of reso- lutions introduced by Mr. Kelley, of Penn- sylvania, asserting the right of this country to free navigation and its determina- tion not to be held responsible for treaties made by foreign Powers among themselves without the consent or the approval of the American authorities, This Congressional, fosolution, declaratory of the non-existence of the treaty of Paris so far as the United States is concerned, became the subject of diplomatic action on the part of Secretary Seward, and culminated in the modi- fication of restrictions and taxes upon foreign shipping in the Eastern waters. sits The principal effect, however, of this Amerl- can intervention was to encourage Russia in demanding the removal of obstructions which were declared by the American: Congress to constitute an outrage upon the generally acknowledged principle of freedom of the seas, and to lead to the agitation of the ques- tion of abrogating altogether the preposterous treaty, which would never have been con- cluded if the Emperor Napoleon had not been bent on humiliating Russia, and if England had not deemed it a matter of salva- tion to cripple the power of Russia in the East. It is @ remarkable coincidence that, pending the issue of our differ- ences with Great Britain, the United States should have played into the hands of Russia by co-operating with her in protest- ing against the stultifying stipulations of the treaty of Paris, and thus giving a semblance of confirmation to England's fear of an Ameri- can-Russian coalition against her with a view of neutralizing her power of resistance in the East, It may be observed, however, that this coalition of America and Russia was rather accidental than premeditated. Russia cannot infringe upon the treaty of Paris except by the general consent of the signing Powers or at the risk of war. The United States, on the other hand, being no party to that treaty, pro- tests against any obligation to acquiesce in the attempt of the Porte to banish our men-of- war from the Dardanelles, Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Thus, while the appearance of a Russian fleet in the Golden Horn would con- stitute a casus belli, that of the American squadron could not be construed into a viola- tion of treaty obligations; and this is the reason why England desires to settle her accounts with us at a time when our American squadron could easily, without embroiling us in war, make a demonstration against Great Britain in the Black Sea, and to that extent give a moral support to the Russian demand for free navigation of the Eastern waters. At all events President Grant will be obliged to send some of our men-of-war to the Bosphorus for the protection of American mis- sionaries and merchants in the East as a guard against impending dangers, The passage of our fleet through the Dardanelles will practi- cally dispose of the insane pretensions to coerce the American government to accept a treaty which was concluded without its adsent or ratification, and, of course, will leave it to the ingenuity of our cousins to put whatever construction they please upon the simulta- neous arrival of the American and Russian fleet ia the waters of the Dardanelles, A great opportunity seems now to present itself to General Grant to insist upon indemni- fication for the moral and material wrongs inflicted on the United States by the depreda- tions of the Anglo-rebel cruisers upon our com- merce, and by England’s connivance with our enemies in destroying the integrity ef the American republic, and at the same time of raising his country to the position of the arbiter of European destinies and stretch- ing a hand to that young and vigorous twin giant of the East which freely proffered its own to us in our hour of peril, The angry howl raised by the English press against our bill of grievances produced for a time a perfect storm of animosity, which was sup- posed at the time to affect General Grant to such an extent as to make him recede from the ground taken, But, on the contrary, he simply displayed the attitude of repose which sits so gracefully on one who feels strong in the senso of justice and in the power and determination of his policy. To place this determination beyond the shadow of doubt the President caused Secretary Fish to address a communication to the British government, which imparted the official authority of the Chief Magistrate to the arraignment. Great Britain was summoned in that memo- rable despatch to do justice to the national and individual grievances of the American people, She has failed hitherto to answer this solemn appeal, and the United States, with a becoming spirit of forbearance and magnanimity, has refrained from pressing ita demands, But England has a keen sense of danger, and Lord Granville seems now evi- dently appalled at the thought of having to confrent, at this critical juncture, two young and vigorous nations like America and Russia, which throw their strong arms around the more aged and wornout kingdom. This sense of apprehension of the English government and its organs is not likely to be diminished by Ben Butler's highwayman cry, “Canada or your life,” and by the political advantages which General Grant's administra- tion is sure to derive from making the socept- ance of the Fish ultimatum and the egtrance of the American fleet into the Dardanelles the magnum opus of his Presidential period, At this moment the republican party, broken by interaal dissensions, is scattered and strewn, with a broken limb lying in almost every State of the Union, except New Jersey. To gather up these shattered remnants and bind them together into a strong and healthy body is beyond the power of any State phy- sician, Let General Grant throw aside this mutilated and shattered carcase and gather around him new and fresh elements of govern- mental life, and, by boldly seizing the policy we put forth, gather in the nation in his grasp and hook tohim all the States of the Union with clasps of steel. Nor can even England complain for our upholding our national dignity and rights, If Ireland had seceded from England and we had given it one tithe of the aid and comfort which England gave the Southern Confederacy she would have instantly redressed her grievances at the cannon’s mouth. There are many in this country who think that General Grant was wrong in not sending Porter with our fleet to the Thames after the fashion in which Eng- land secured indemnity for the Don Pacifico claims in Greece and those against Abyssinia in Consul Cameron's case. It’ may be that the same wise and prescient sagacity which, in spite of momentary obloquy, so long watched and waited before Vicksburg and cut a way through the Wilderness, has but bided the right day. That seems now to havo sounded. Will the man answer to its call? The Military Situation in France, The interest of the military situation still centres about Orleans and Toury, where the two armios that are to make an effective break in the present deadlock in France are con- fronting each other. A despatch from French sources, which is almost ridiculously non- committal, says unauthenticated despatches have been received giving confused reports of another victory for Paladines’ army over Von der Tann, Some details of the fight are ven- tured upon, and it may be that the account is true. The modesty of the French tells very well for its reliability; for it is evident had the matter been very uncertain that Gambetta would have telegraphed a complete victory at once. If, therefore, it is true that Von der Tann has been defeated again, Paris may take heart. If her deliverance is not effected she will at least have the satisfaction of giving her enemy a most uncomfortable scare, There is no doubt that the battle, if not already fought, is very imminent, and upon its result hangs in a great measure the fate of Paris, Thionville, just north of Metz, haz been bombarded by the Germans and the town is said to be burning. The movement towards Lyons continues, with no important strategic charges as yet, and a tunnel on the Strasbourg Railroad is said to have fallen in, hopelessly interrupting communication by that line. If this latter report is true it will prove an extremely severe blow to the Prussians, for their other railroad communications are round about and insecure. It is almost impossible, however, that it can be true. Even if the tunnel has fallen in, as reported, a German fatigue party is doubtless already at work clearing away the rubbish and preparing some means of reopening the road. Paris is reported distressingly short of provisions, which may well be believed, and a grand sortie is expected at any moment. Press Associations and Padded Telegrams. The controversy between the Ziibune and the World about ‘padded telegrams,” “dumped telegrams” and kindred matters, has brought out our lively little contemporary, the Star, which has a few sensible words to say on the subject. The Star belongs to a distinct association callod the American Press Association. It is unfortunate that the entire city press is not included in one association, and that the New York Associated Press organization. If this were the case such papers as the Star, the Standard, the Mail, the Globe and others could receive reliable information, and the necessity of running a separate press association be obviated. We suggest that these papers be furnished with the news of the regular Associated Press at reasonable rates, and commend the subject to the attention of the Executive Committee, If the World and TZiribune wish to ‘‘paddy- whack” each other or ‘dump” cartloads of dirt upon each other's telegraph matter it is no business of ours. The greatest difficulty the Hzratp experiences with its telegrams, both by cable and otherwise, is to find room for them inits columns. Instead of “‘padding” or ‘“‘watering” them, as some operators do railroad stock, and as, it seems by mutual consent, the World and T’ribune do their tele- grams, the Hzratp frequently has to con- dense its telegraphic reports, and in many cases, unless they are speeially important, throw them out altogether. Nearly every day we are obliged to cast aside telegraphic despatches that would suffice to run almost any ordinary newspaper. Lorp Granvitir's Repry to Count BERN- sToRrFF,—The text of Lord Granville’s reply to Count Bernstorff, the representative of the North German Confederation at the Court of St. James, which we gave in full in the HeraLp of yesterday, demands a passing notice from the fact that it places the neutrality practice of Great Britain on precisely the same footing as that of the United States, It does seom as if Lord Granville had the better of the argument ; and if it be true that Great Britain is doing no more—acting neither less kindly nor more kindly—than the United States, Prussia has no just ground of complaint. In concluding his letter Lord Granville expresses the hope and belief ‘‘that so just and thoughtful a nation as that which Count Bernsterff repre- sents will not permanently entertain feelings of rancor azainst England, or, he might add, the United States, foradhering as neutrals to the practice which they had always adopted, and which up to the outbreak of the present war has been the theory and practice of both the belligerents.” Will Secretary Fish tell whether Great Britain and the United States are now sailing in the same boat? Ir THe AssEMBLY 18 A Trg how will Tam- many manage it? Easily enough, after man- aging the Senate to her satisfaction last year, through the aid of the republicans, against the Young Democracy. France and Germany—A Naval Prize Fight in the Gulf of Mexico. One of the most inexplicable facts of the present war has been the utter inaction of both the French and German fleets, The former, created by Louis Philippe and liberally fos- tered by Louis Napoleon, was known to bo formidable, and the latter may boast of some of the finest fron-clads afloat. Yet scarcely anything has been heard of either since the declaration of war. At length, however, the long, strange silence has been broken. It was reserved for Ameri- can waters to be roused by the first thunders of the Franco-German struggle for the mastery of the seas, As the great naval battle of our civil war—that of the Alabama and Kear- sarge—was fought on the eastern verge of the Atlantic, so have the French and German Vikings brought their dispute to its westera verge, seeking to emulate in the new world what Americans had achieved in the old, The famous battle between the Serapis and the Bonhomme Richard was the antetype of that between the Kearsarge and the Alabama; but no other similar naval engagement had since occurred, until theother day the French gunboat Bouvet and the Prug- sian gunboat Meteor blazed away at each other for an hour in the Gulf of Mexico. Both these gunboats entered the port of Havana on the 7th inst, The Meteor sailed out again after the departure of the French mail steamer Nouveau Monde, which immediately returned, fearing capture. On the night of Tuesday, the 8th inst., the Bouvet left port, but waited outside for the Meteor, which followed after the expiration of twenty-four hours—the time prescribed by law—a naval duel having been previously arranged between the officers of the two vessels, The Spanish war steamer Her- nando Cortez also went out, bearing as umpire the Governor General of Cuba. The crew of the Meteor numbered sixty men; that of the Bouvet eighty, The Meteor carried three guns and the Bouvet five, Upon the coming out of the Meteor the Bouvet, which was ten miles beyond the offing, steamed inward toward the neutral line. The Bouvet opened the contest by firing five shots, which the Meteor promptly returned. The Bouvet then attempted to board the Meteor, In this she was unsuccessful. Her rigging became entan- gled, carrying away her main and mizzen masts, The rigging falling with the masts became entangled in the Meteor’s screw. At the same moment the Meteor sent a shell into the inside of the Bouvet, smashing her steam- pipe. The Meteor, by reason of the disabling of her screw, became unmanageable, and the Bouvet, finding the quarters hot and capture certain if she waited until the Meteor could disentangle herself, quickly made for port under, it is said, both steam and sail, the Meteor continuing to fire meanwhile. The Bouvet succeeded in crossing into Spanish waters before the Meteor could disentangle her screw, At this time the Hernando Cortez fired a gun as a signal that the combat had closed, The telegram which announces this news adds that ‘‘both fought bravely.” Vic- tory was accorded to the German gunboat, whose three guns seem to have been too much for the French gunboat’s five, thus calling to mind the old English brag that one John Bull was a match for three Johnny Crapeaux. Both vessels are now in the port of Havana, repairing severe damages, but eager for another fight. The Meteor had three men killed—whose funeral the German merchants in Havana all attended—and one man wounded. The Bouvet had three men wounded and, perhaps, one man killed. The German residents were greatly elated, and were arranging a grand banquet for the officers of the Meteor. This unvarnished tale of the battle of the gunboats offers no sensational horrors. There areno scuppers running blood, no magazines exploding and darkening the air with the de- tached limbs of grilled Prussians and frizzled Frenchmen; no shoals of sharks following in the wake of ‘‘huge leviathans afloat” to gorge their maws with Gallic or Teutonic tidbits, There is nothing, in fine, that would do for yellow-covered literature or the crimsoned boards of Old Bowery. We hear, indeed, the thunder of guns, the angry shriek of masses of metal hurled innocuous against iron plates, the scream of the Gallic cock and the triumphant cry of the German eagle, while above the asphyxiating volumes of belching smoke rises sublime, like another Don Quixote, the figure of that chivalric hidalgo, Captain General De Rodas, who has come forth to “gee fair” between the two belligerents. It is a naval duel between France and Germany, with Spain for umpire. But, after all, were it not for the loss of three or four lives and the groans of a few wounded, the fight would be but a farcical fizzle. The friends of peace may rejoice at the result of this combat, since it demonstrates that ocean warfare, at least, has reached a point where scientific defences have reduced the loss of life to the minimum, and made the deck of a ship in action a much safer place than many an American railroad car. But the question of supremacy is not yet settled. The belligerents are bent on renow- ing the struggle. Having given the riparians of the Gulf of Mexico a taste of their quality, why should they not treat New York toa repetition of the same spectacle? There is plenty of sea room off Sandy Hook. Let that be the next duel ground. Yachts, steam- boats, steamtugs and all kinds of avail- able craft might be chartered to carry excur- sionists to see the show at the moderate charge of fifty cents for the round trip, the proceeds to be devoted to the relief of the wounded of both the french and German armies. Should the weather prove inauspicious on the ap- pointed day, let the exhibition be postponed to the first fairday. Ifo grand dinner should afterward be given at Delmonico’s to the sur- vivors, who knows but it might inaugurate an era of good feeling and lead to ultimate peace between the two great nations now at strife? Mr. Morey Prremprority RecaLtep.— It is stated that the President on Friday directed Secretary Fish to recall Minister Mot- ley peremptorily, directing him to leave his affairs in the hands of Benjamin Moran, his Secretary of Legation, It seoms the Presi- dent had hoped that his previous disapproval of Mr, Motley’s course would have influenced that gentleman to rosign, but he was too thick- akinned to take the hint, Impeachment ef Judge Woodruff—Feraande Wood Has Other Fish to Fry. ‘A number of idle rumors have been floating around the city for some days past to the effect that Fernando Wood intends to move for the impeachment of Judge Woodruff at the open- ing of the approaching session of Congress. We are credibly informed that Mr. Wood in- tends to do no such thing. No matter what course Judge Woodruff has thought propor to pursue pending the controversy in regard to the enforcement of the olection laws of Congress, there cannot be the slightest doubt that he acted in good faith and conscientiously throughout, and that nota speck can be dis- covered upon the purity of his judicial ermine. Fernando Wood is too old a astager, too thorough a veteran in the scionce of poli- tics, too great an adept in the whys and the wherefores that govern political movements, to be guilty of a blunder in this day of ripeness in his political sagacity. No; Mr. Tt has “other fish to fry.” Besides the multifarious’ duties devolving upon him as member of Con- gress, he hag to-day a task to perform which has not fallen to his lot for a long, long time, since the days when he taught the magnates now wielding such tremendous power in this city the art and mystery of political mancuvring— astyle of manceuvring tha} haa enabl me democracy to hold undispyted sway for 6 imany yeats. Ho has to’ ‘ach the young mem bers elect to the Forty-second Congress how to conduct themselves, He has to teach their ro rors cach how to shoot, He has show Bob Roosevelt that tho, » is something to angle i aldo nicekied Ei and some- thing to fire at besides widgeon, He has to demonstrate to Colonel Roberts that, the Fenian game being bagged, he has to let fig at something higher than chambermaid subs¢rip= tiong for the liberation of poor old Ireland. He has to mould the plastic mind of Smith Ely, Jr, into gome steadiness of purpdge, and to point out the way for that tall, lithe, énor- getic young gentleman to “take the hide off” — as Oakey Hall Would say—his radical opponents, Here ig a trio for the ‘Veteran of Bloomingdale” to commence a new school of politics, based upon the old democratio eclectic system in Congress, It is & nucleus upon which a powerful opposition organization may be perfected in the House, Itis a point from which the new aspirants for political honora may take a start for fature preferment in the councils of the nation. They will, no doubt, visit Washington occasionally this winter for political instruction, And Fernando Wood is just the Mentor to lead these youthful Telema- chuses—we do not mean ‘‘Tammany cusses”—- to future glory. He is now in the prime of 4 vigorous manhood. His head is as clear and level as any politician’s in the country, His grand old white mustache glistens with pride in the hope of triumphs yet to be won by its erect possessor. In short, Fernando Wood looks younger than he did years ago; and evidently he is not at all inclined to extinguish his candle of future fame by an attempt at the impeachment of such an upright magts- trate as Judge Woodruff upon puerile and frivolous charges. Mr, Mundella’s Lecture. Tn another place in this day’s Heraxp will be found the lecture delivered last night at the Cooper Institute by Mr. Mundella, one of the members of Parliament for Sheffield, England, The lecture, as reproduced in our columns, is well deserving the attention of our numerous readers and of the American people generally, It is complimentary to America and American institutions, and it deals out in no stinted measure praise to American citizens. It treats of Great Britain and British reforms, and, while it does justice to the great reform mea- sure of 1832, it does not overlook the nume- rous and important progressive measures which have followed. It will be ‘observed by the reader that while Mr. Mundella rejoices in the popular progress whizh his country has made he is not yet satisfied, The goal has not been reached, and he sees many difficulties yet lying in the way, Mach as the lecturer admired this country, the institutions of which he has come to study forthe benefit of his own, he sees blemishes which ought to be removed and deficiencies which ought to be supplied. His views on capital and labor are sensible, Mr, Mundella, like Mr, Hughes, who recently spoke to the same audience on the same sub- ject, isa warm friend of the working classes ; but he is no demagogue, no leveller, While he fights for the rights of the workingman he does not ignore therights of the capitalist. We rather like the idea which Mr. Mundella andMr. Hughes represent. We shall be glad to wel- come any number of the young English states- men who are their coworkers in reform, By gontact with us they cannot fail to be bene- fited, and from their free speech it is possible we may learn. The time has gone by when nations existed for the benefit of the privileged few; and if ever the human family is to be one there must among all peoples be a free interchange of sentiment, Archbishop Spalding. The very interegting interview with Arch- bishop Spalding, which our correspondent in Baltimore recounts in another column, ig cor- dially commended to those good Catholics who have had conscientious doubts about the Pope's infallibility. The Archbishop states the proposition clearly and tersely. ithe Pope is, of course, not infallible as regards his temporal powerg or decisions, or it may be even as regards his private morals, although no man living is personally purer than Pius IX. ; but he is infallible as the head of the Church which is infallible. The infallibility question was settled by the Ecumenical Coun- cil finally and beyond appeal, and it was decided by an overwhelming vote after a fall discussion. The Archbishop gives a gloomy picture of affairs in Rome at present, The Pope is closely guarded by the Italian soldiers, and is virtually a prisoner in his own palace. The troops comprise some of the worst charac- ters in Italy, and they keep Rome in a con- tinual tumult. Murder and robbery, insults to priests and outrages on nuns, are of daily occurrence. The Archbishop puts his trust in God and looks hopefully to an early triumph of the Holy Father over all his enemies, ‘Tne Exoxvsion or Russia from the Black Sea asa naval Power by the treaty of Paris of 1856 is a humiliation of which she thinks she has had enough. She has only to say that she has resolved te end i¢ and then to put a fleet on the Black Sea, in order to force a settlement. The only Power that can inter- pose to punish this proceeding is England; but, should England send In a fleet to enforce the treaty, may not the United States, under no obligation to that treaty, send ina fleet to enforce foir play? Upon this question, on behalf of the freedom of the seas, as well as upon the Alabama claims, General Grant may reunite and consolidate the republican party, which is now falling to pieces, and carry even the city of New York with that important balance of power, the Irish vote; for would not England’s difficulty with the United States be Ireland’s opportunity? This thing, too, can be done without war; for England, ona pinch, would give up Canada to the Canadians and Ireland to the Irish rather than risk a general collapse from a war with the United States, The French Bazaar—Charity Opons Her Arms. * The Grand National Fair for the benefit of those who may have been widowed and orphaned in France by the horrors of the present slaughter—which we by courtesy call war—will commence its charitable ministra- tions this evening at the armory of the Seventy-first regiment, at the junction of Broadway and Sixth avenue. It is unneces- sary, perhaps, to say that the gentle presid- ing spirits of this great charity are women. What would there be of tenderness or charity in this wide world of ours if womanhood did not inspire it? This National Bazaar is expected to be a magnificent affair, so well organized and skilfully furnished with all the elegances which decorate the tables upen such occasions that even the love of pelf might be tempted equally with the impulse of charity to contribute a liberal patronage to this noble affair. We need speak no stronger words in bebalt of this enterprise than the touching language which the ladies themselves have uttered in their address: — The dead on the field of battle are at peace; the wounded soldier in the hospital 1s cared for by the sleepless benevolence, ofictal and voluntary, of the country in whose cause he has been struck down. But who shall care for the widow and the orphan? Long after the smoke of the battle has melted away the desolated homesteads, the devastated fleiaa, the ruined farms, the suspended industry of the regions over which it has raged, ace its awful work in pestilence and famine, Through Germany, where ‘no hostile foot has trod, the cry of the homeless, the fatherless and the poor grows daily more aod more terrible. What, then, must be the wretchedness, the woe, the want of the populations which in France have seen, and daily see, their strong men taken from them to perish at their door, their present shelter and their nope of future support consumed in the conflagration of all the savings of the past? ‘The Germans have already raised a splendid contribution for the victims of the war of their own nationality, and it was doubtless needed. Germany, though victorious, presents the aspect of Germany still suffering, both on the battle field and at home. It is true that her soil has not been desecrated by the harrowing scenes which followed the German arms into French territory. The Germans have not seen their villages desolated, thelr peasants hung at the doors of their own homesteads, their women dishonored even within the shelter of their own roof tree, their fields wasted untilno grain of corn nor implement to raise food on the farms was left to feed the starving popula- tion of a hundred villages throughout a vast district of country, over which foreign troops swept with the devastating force of some deadly simoon, Germany has not experienced this. She has been spared the sorrows of the vanquished, but she is still entitled to sympa- thy, warm sympathy, for the thousands of dead and wounded victims with which regal ambition has blasted the fields of Lorraine and Alsace and crowded the hospi- tals of Berlin. Wherever a German resident is to be found—all over the world—including the cities of China and India, and even the mining colonies of South Africa, at Cape Town, as well as in this country; the Germans have contributed generously in aid of the suf> ferers of the war. Charity is universal. It knows no nationality in its preferences. Its ample heart, so full of love, cannot contract upon distinctions of race or individuality, of friend or foe. If it does itis not that virtue of which the Apostle Paul spoke as tha greatest of the three great virtues. The Germangin this city—to their credit be it written—have sent most generous contribu= GENERAL SoHENOK, of Ohio, the republican financial leader in Congress, beaten by some fifty odd votes in the late election by Camp- bell (democrat), has consented, it appears, to carry his case tothe House on some four or five hundred soldiers’ votes of an asylum in his district which were excluded from the polls on a decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio. This decision was, that as this soldiers’ asylum is on a piece of land belonging to the United States the asylum is not legally on the soil of the State of Ohio, and that, there- fore, said soldiers, not being residents of Ohio, have no right to vote in her State elections, The constitution of the United States, how- ever, says that each house of Congress shall be the judge of the elections and qualifications of its members; and, this being the case, there can be no doubt of the admission of those soldiers’ votes by the House, so that Schenck may be counted in as the member elect from his district, Leaving all party con- siderations out of the question, the admission of Schenck on the votes of those soldiers changing the majority to his side will be right and proper; for the decision of the Ohlo Supreme Court in the matter is one of the absurdest that we have ever heard of since the time of Justice Dogberry. Taz Lecat Tenper Aot.—A decision was rendered yesterday in the Supreme Court at Washington, in the Deming case, which in- volves the legality of the Legal Tender act. The motion to restore the case to the docket for revision was denied, so that the original judgment, which affirmed the principle that debts contracted before the Legal Tender act became a law are payable in gold, is re- affirmed, CortEcTor Murpay is of the opinion that the republican party of New York sadly, yea, badly needs reconstruction, We think so too, and that the old and troublesome feud between the Fenton-Greeley faction and the Seward-Weed- Morgan-Conkling faction can only be cured by a new shuffle, cut and deal of the cards all round, and by leaving Fenton and Conkling to the choice of a treaty of peace or to the alter- native of being left out in the cold by the administration, The President can get on without them in the Senate, but they c.nnot do much without the aid of the President,