The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1870, Page 6

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ATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— New York, Friday, } CONTEN ortchakofrs Cirenlar to Earl Text of the Russian De- ‘an War Agi- and Peo- sts Against of the ‘Treaty ua hesdy for War Shout Sustained; Lord Naph nmand the M st to Russ pea Pnergetic jan Army et Ship James Memories Re- hip Japan— berles—Mis- A Bowie Knife Tou ndics—Despe Tue Bon KOOL ote Mount Sacr suveet Fight m for the F Years and Six Town: Joun Aguin—The Death of of Mrs. McDougal tion to American Kn Fleetwood — Park—Tae A Coopers’ rdered rel hawken—' dent and £ stauding—A Sugvestion- G-Ediiorials: the Repub continued from sixth page)—France: Rumors from the Seat of War; Great ful Sortie from Paris; Communi- Germun Fleet in the North Sea; Von Der Tann Fall ng Back; A Sortie from Belfort Repulsed srmaus; Renewed Demand by Great Britain for an Armistice—Knrope: Spain Pro- claims the King 1n Constitutional Form and apal Protest Against Iiallan Spolia- n—General Telegraphic Invelligence—Meteorological usiness Notices, raniine: Distinguished OMmcials In- ‘Bank Hospital—Corrupt Legis- ~-Mexico: The Iiness of Presi- The Presi tral Campaign— : Expuision of Naval Action at dist Mission in China and res—The American T.le- w York City News—High 8=Visit to Qu spect the Jation in arrier Pigeons and Fal- nancial and Commercial Re- of ihe Cumberiani—A Rare Phenon m—Artrival of a Missionary from Oreg Billtards—A Back Seoundrel—A Bully Tormenting a Woman— Cofortabie Wedding Night—Marriages and erin the M Outlook arding ton—Inangn- Shipping Intel- Back Tra the Amei I2—Adve Tue Russian QvESTION AND THE CoTron Marxet.—Ti cotton market declined on ed with the Russi in New York Tarup Mirk.—Milk consumers will he glad to hear that th i > ducer conventior which the q)% or swill milk v ) assed. main question involved ‘s simply whether Mhousands of childrer guall be saved or poi- yponed to d ! Gne Mor Mormons in Utah have jus the Gentiles have for along time endeavored to doin vain. They have arrested a batch of Rocky Mountain brigands, who have lately made predatory incursions upon Pacific railroad trains, capturing treasure and other valuables, If the Mormons stick to this sort of business they will win the approbation of people who do not exactly believe in some of their domes- tic habits, bol {ONS ON fe AtGHT RAOR.—Th: ccoplisbed what A Bowe Kxire TOURNAMENT is one of the modern methods that the reugh characters of the Western States have invented for the set- ilement of personal disputes in a fair and satisfactory manner. Two of them im Kansas, according to the letter of our Lowell, Kansas, correspondent in another column, settled a dispute by fighting one another on horseback with bowie-knives, and the exciting elements | the redaction of taxes means free trade. The | WEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. position, in fleets, in armies and in alliances, | Au Engtlsh Counterdiast to Russin—The ‘The Discord: ef the Hepeblican Party— General Graa’s Views of the Late Elections, In a recent conversation in the White House with Senator Wilson, as it appears, General Grant, in reference to the late elections, said that, although disappointed with some States, he thought thet these elections, upon the whole, had resulted satisfactorily to the republicans; that he did not think there was anything in them to cause alarm for the future; that the people could not be success- fully drawa aside from the maint®mance of the great principles of the republican party; that what the people want, in his opinion, is the payment of the public debt, the reduction of expenditures, the reduction of taxes and an economical administration of the government. Furthermore, it is the cpiaion of the President that ‘‘the party that refuses to be drawn away by sido issues and that pursues the policy here indicated will elect its candidate in 1872.” These views of General Grant (for we have no doubt that they are his views) are entitled | to the respectful consideration which herein we propose to give them. His platform—the payment of the debt, the reduction of expendi- tures, the reduction of taxes and an economi- eal administration—is good and sound. It has, too, so fur served the republican party in this | year’s elections as to secure for them a good | workiny majority in the popular branch of the next Congress, which, with the Senate overwhelmingly on the same side, setiles the two houses to the next Presidential election. So far the coast is clear; but when General Grant says that the people cannet be success- fully drawn aside from the maintenance of the great principles of the republicaa party he evideatly means something more than the principles of economy, retrenchment and re- form. He doubiless means the great prin- ciples applied in the reconstructien of the late rebel States and embodied in the new amend- ments (o the national constitution, including the abolition of slavery, the establishment. of eqial civil and political rights te all men, as citizeas, of all races and colors, and the power given to Congress to enforce these great prin- ciples “by appropriate legislation” over every foot of land and water witsia the jurisdiction of the United States. Theso are the great principles, we suppose, to which General Grant refers as insuriug the continued ascen- dancy of the republican party. He is right, too, in this opinion, if it is certain that the demoeratic party intends-to continue the fight against the republican measures of Southern reconstruction so neatly completed and re- duced to practice by General Grant himself since his call to the head of the government. The overwhelming success of the General in the Presidential contest of 1868 was largely due to the suicidal resolution adopted by the Democratic Tammany Seymour Convention on the motion of Wade Hampton, fresh from the rebel army, declaring the reconstruction measures of Congress ‘unconstitutional, revo- lutionary, null and void.” This cutthroat resolution, with Frank Blair’s supporting letter, in its very announcement defeated Seymour and enabled the republicans not to walk but to canter over the course. We have had no democratic stupidity of this sort, how- ever, since the proclamation of the fifteenth amendment. In Delaware, Maryland and Kentacky they still fight ‘‘the damned nigger ;” bunt even in those States they fight him as a “fixed fact” at the polls, Upon this supreme test, then, the democratic party accepts the situation in the constitution as it is, with the civil and political equality of all men as citizens—white men, yellow men, red men, niggers and all. Thus the great principles suggested by Gen- eral Grant are among the dead issues of the past. The democrats fought them step, by step “‘to the last ditch ;” but in the last ditch they have given up the battle, and the “almighty nigger” is all right. The republi- can party, therefore, have only the President's platform of economy, retrench- ment of expenses, reduction of taxes and payment of the debt to stand upon; and these movable planks in some cases have been placed so wide apart that many of the weak brethren are falling through between them. For instance, here we have the 7'ribune, a republican organ, which insists that payment of the debt means a protective tariff; and here we have the Hvening Post, another republican organ, which is ready to fight till it rains cats and dogs, and ready, still, to fight in the rain, for the dogma that At Chicago they have also a 7'ribune, hitherto a rampant radical republican, which is so hot in the cause that it proposes a new party on the platform of free trade; and all throngh the gr Northwest, where their products are | wheat, corn, pork and beef, they would, per- | haps, agree to a tax upon the ‘bloated bond- | holders” of the East if they could thereby get free trade in iron and woollen goods, The | President, it appears, is glad that in coming out for a new party, after supporting John Wentworth, an outsider, for Congress, tlie Chicago Zrivune is sailing under its true | col a3 an enemy to the republican party. We suspect, next, that General Cox's free trade notious are at the bottom of his retire- ment from the Cabinet, because, as it appears, | the Pennsylvauia protectionists, headed by | Senator Cameron, made a dead set upon Cox’ } to get him ont, Again, while the Weening | Post is doing battle for Cox and against the | President on the McGarrahan claim, we sus- | pect that free trade is really the secret of the | Post's admiration of Cox, and of its detesta- | tion of McGat an, and of its hostility to jhe President's sensible course upon this McGarra- han claim. We cite these cases of republican discords as affording each an explanation of some of these late democratic victories, In this State again the results show thatin the late election Sena- tor Fenton’s influence in ‘the rural districts” was not given to Woodford, and all because the gentle and genial Thomas Murphy was made Collector of this port. Fenton, in fact, over Murphy had a crow to pick with the } the aid of the demeorats (including a free trade plank) carried Missouri by thirty thou- sand majority ; and is this a small matter? Next look at Tennessve, whers last year a republican bolter carried over the State—bat, coat, boots and breeches—to the democracy. This year the democrats have it so overwhelm- ingly that they count it fixed for 1872. By republican dissensions, too, North Carolina has beon turned over to the democrats; and here and there in different States republican bushwhackers have swamped quite a number of the regular party candidates for Congress. These republicin discords and feuds, and spliis and defeats, are easily explained, Tho “great principles” which have held the party so compactly together during the last ten years (this year excepted) are all settled, and, having nothing else to fight over, the ambitious leaders and greedy spoilsmen of the party are fighting the administration and each other over such issues as free trade and the spoils. And we can tell General Grant that these are bad symptoms in his rarty; that the old democratic party began to go to pieces just in this fashion, even before it had run negro slavery into the ground as ‘a divine institution.” But is not General Grant, with bis new platform of economy, retreachment and so forth, doing very well? Yes; but there is nothing in it to fight about, and go the restless spirits of the party are going off upon side issues. So it is that Governor Hoffman, in the eyes of his friends, begins to look already like the next President, and walks the earth with the confident air of the Crown Prince of Prussia. And why not, when he, or any other man, under the broad, expansive ensign of Tammany Hall, has such a fair prospect before him? Lastly, General Grant must do something in his annual message to Congress in Decem- ber to wake up, inspire and harmonize his party, or before the end of the approaching short session he may find it a labor of Her- cules to get its clashing leaders, cliques and factions again together. For this some new idea is wanted. The negro question is used up. Even women’s rights, as a living issue, will be better for 1872 than the dead issue of negroes’ rights. The Military Movements in France. History in Europe is at white heat just now, and the old story of the war in France is like & cool cinder among the burning coals. The grand events that are threatening all over the Continent have robbed the Franco-Prussian situation of nearly all its interest. The news itself, however, is by no means unimportant. The intelligence comes in very credible shape that General Trochu has made another magnificent sortie, feinting on the line about St. Denis, on the north, and op- posite Villejuif, on the south, and hurling the full weight of the immense masses of men that he can command for the purpose upon the segment of the circle in front of St. Cloud and Sévres. This occurred on Tuesday, the day when Paladines’ corps ef twenty-five thousand men had advanced to Chartres, thereby threatening the rear of the very troops which Trochu attacked in front. We have no par- ticulars of the fight; but with the heavy guns of Fort Mont Valérien to open up a way for him ard to give the enemy a preliminary demoralization, anda strong and vigilant force demonsirating fiercely in the rear of the Ger- man line, even a non-military reader may see al a glance what irreparable damage Trochu must have inflicted upon the besiegers by a well-timed and resolute attack in front. It is even said that he reopened communica- tion with the left wing of General Paladines’ army; but this is improbable, unless he com- pletely broke up the Prussian line and raised the siege of Paris. We shall probably have fuller particulars in a day or two, when we shall be better able to discover what advan- tages have actually been gained. One thing seems to be established, however, and that is that Trochu is pretty accurately informed of the movements of the co-operating forces out- side. The Army of the Loire is not known to have made any decisive forward movement simul- taneously with the sortie except in taking pos- session of Chartres, It remains in the same position that we reported it in yesterday. Prince Frederick Charles is moving as rapidly as pessible to the assistance of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. One of his columns has crossed the river Yonne at Sens, and another has reached Tonnerre, at least forty miles further south on the same river. Viscount Treimmarp, the Napoleonic appointee as French Minister at Washingion, who arrived in New York some days ago, after a long sojourn at sea and on the Western Pacific coast of South America, in total igno- rance of the revolutionary changes in France, is now ia Washington sorely discomfting the administration by the unprecedented quandary in which he places it by the presentation of his credentials. He cannot be received offi- cially, because we have recognized the republic, and he can receive no credentials from the provisional government, because it has no recognized head. Why Gambetia or Favre will not do as a head isa question that recurs to ordinary mortals, but these diplo- matic people have a way of carrying on their affairs that passes ordinary under- standings. : Waxine Up!—The administration organ at Albany announces that “ihe time has come to strike for a prompt and satisfactory settle- ment of the Alabama controversy.” Right at last! Now let the republican press through- out the country ‘ring the changes” on that topic, and there may be some hope for co- hesion in the republican ranks, Goop Op GaNeraL Zacnary Tayror had a troublesome habit of stuttering badly when excited. On one occasion, during the Semi- nole war, he led a charge against a pody of the redskins, crying out to his men, **G-g-ive ‘em r-r-ata!” Had he lived in Missourimas he once did—during the late election, he might have cried out to the democrats when charging the republicans, ‘“G-g-ive ‘em President; and so during our recent canvass, as a hint to his followers, he went out to Cali- fornia; and came back well pleased, no doubt, to find Hoffman re-elected. Some pork of a of that mode of settlement are so tersely set | poor quality will shrink this way in the forth in the detailed story of the fight that we | boiling. Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz in cannot do better than refer the reader to our correspondent’s letter. Missouri, although read out of the party as bolters by the President himself, have, with G-g-ratz!” They have done so, and did it up “brown,” too, How to Osratn Graturrous ApvErtisiIne For a STUPENDOUS Jon.—Get up a row in the Cabinet and have the newspapers publish a batch of correspondence, accompanied by editorials, Tho Attitude asd Pelicy of Busse, and the European Question. “] could have shared the Turkish empir> with Russia,” said Napoleon I. one day, in the seclusion of his Cabinet, to a confidential friend. ‘We have discussed the question more than once, Constantinople always saved it, This capital was the great embarrassment, the true stumbling block. Russia wanted it and we would not grant it. It is too precious akey; it alone is worth an empire; whoever possesses it can govern the world,” The same great authority on another occa- sion condensed his vast political knowledge in the aphorism that ‘experience is the wisdom of nations.” Could that wisdom have been acquired at ao less cost than the experience which has covered the soil of the Crimea, of Italy, of Schleswig-Holstein, of Austria, and is now covering the beautiful plains of France with ruins and corpses, how infinitely better the result would have been, humanly speaking, for the moral and physical welfare of Europe! But, unfortunately, the tuition of nations has to be conducted through tears and blood, and when we reflect upon the horrors that our own generation has already witnessed and still beholds we are almost forced to believe that men and nations alike aro still far, very far, from real knowledge. Nine-tenths of the diffl- culties that arise between individuals and communities spring from misunderstandings either through wilful intent to pick a quarrel or through honest want of correct informa- tion. This truth was never, perhaps, more strikingly illustrated than in the present imbroglio between Russia and the other Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris. With that peculiar faculty which seems inherent to every international dispute that in any wise involves Oriental affairs, the mere suggestion of a few changes in the famous document has thrown the Old World into fever. The Eastern question, in fine, is the ‘‘irritating plaster” of Europe, Every time that it is seriously touched all the Powers, great and small, at once lose their self-possession, the money markets heave like an angry sea, and fleets and armies are heard musieriag and preparing in all directions, The Napoleonic dictum that we have cited at the beginning of this artiele is referred to as an infallible indication of ‘“‘the designs” cher- ished by the flerce Muscovite, and it is taken for granted that he is about to move at once upon Turkey and overthrow the entire equili- brium of interest so nicely arranged for the almost exclusive benefit of the allies in 1856. The latter, then, have not learned wisdom by experience, but have left it to the exclusive acquisition of the Czar. That potentate, we are entitled to believe, not from the clrcular of Count Gortchakoff alone, but from the very nature of the case, has pondered care- fully, has devised and managed sagaciously, and now acts opportunely as well as mode- rately and reasonably. He is master of the situation in a diplomatic point of view, and he knows it. That situation has its duties for the responsible ruler of seventy millions of human beings, and he advances at the right moment to discharge it—at the right moment we say, because out of the huge clamor of war he may, at this very pitch of the crisis, combine a pan of peace; out of the nettle danger he may pluck the flower safety, not for himself alone, but for all Europe, and for the East as well. Let us see by the light of the events now occurring in Europe how this may be possible. It is just a fortnight since the Heratp quoted the significant language of Le Nord, the well known Russian organ at Brussels, intimating thatthe peace of Europe, compromised by the blind ambition of one Power and the obstinacy of another, craved the intervention of a third one strong enough to be respected by the rest and yet not fairly liable to the suspicion of sympathizing with the undue passions or pro- jects of either. That intervention, the whole world knews, has already been pacifically but urgently attempted by the Czar Alex- ander who has interceded with Prussia for an armistice and conference to save France further humiliation, and has in vain besought England to second the effort with decisive and unmistakable energy. The press of Ger- many, with the sole important exception of the Allgemeine Zeitung of Augsburg, are loud in their praises of the perfectly loyal attitude of Russia throughout the pending conflict, and the Word Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung devotes a long and able article to the subject. They admit that it was Russian diplomacy which prevented the armed intervention of Austria at the outset, and allude with feeling to the presentation by Alexander of the highly esteemed Muscovite Order of St. George to two German princes and to Count Von Moltke. The Augsburg paper alone, which ig the mouthpiece of virulent Russophobia on the Continent, as Mr. Urquhart is in the British Islands, continues to ery ‘‘Wolf! wolf!” at all times and seasons. The one, like the other, maintains that the Muscovite ogre will devour not only Constantinople and the rest of Turkey for his hearty meal, but will also demand rich slices of Fatherland for his dessert. In order to reject the former accu- sation we have but to remember that, ofler all, the famous reputed ‘‘will of Peter the Great” is pretty clearly proven to have been a mere ingenious invention of the Chevalier d’Eon in the time of the Empress Elizabeth, and that, had it been quit@ rea}, the reigning Czar pudlicly relinquished its asserted views and those of the Empress Catharine at the conferences which ended in this very treaty of 1856, In addition to that historical fact we have positive official information, com- municated in our special letter from St. Peters- burg, published on Saturday last, that Con- stantinople, far from being the aggressive aim of Russian diplomacy at this time, is its source of sincere apprehension, so long as it is “the precious key” of which Napoleon spoke, but a key in the hands of a hostile coalition which, while excluding Russia's navy from the Dar- danelles and limiting it in the Black Sea, throws the access to both wide open to the other Powers in time of war, and thereby ex- poses the southern riparian provinces of her empire to incursion and conquest from out- side, after prohibiting their fortification on land or protection by sufficient fleets upon the sea. This view, it is plain, quite reverses the case, The Czar, and not the Sultan, is the party who has reason for alarm, Turkey is strong in while Russia in that direction is not, The real statesmen of Russia do not, to-day, desire to sbake the more solid bases of the empire by the seizure of Constantinople; and that the admission of so many more foreiga elements— Turkish, Greek, Bosnian and Bulzgarian— would disturb them who can doubt? Again, the idea of any contemplated aggres- sion on Germany is equally futile. The latter has no Russian provinces, ani if Rassia bas two or three in which German is spoken they, like Alsace and Lorraine to France, are tho most loyal of the loyal to the Muscovite na- tionality, and the requirement imposed upon these Baltic States that they shall learn Ras- sian—the general language of the empire—is no more obnoxious than the demand by Prus- sia that the Poles and Wends under her sooptre shall learn German, What, then, is it that Russia solicits, and how does her position favor peace rather than war? Prince Gortcbakoff's circular answer3 both these queries, we think, to evory un- prejudiced miad. It, on the one hand, claims a faithful fulfilment of tho letter of the treaty, and, on the other, in so doing, throws wide the doora to aa immediate coggress of the signatary Powers, the head and front of whom is England, England, then, must meet the issue, She must accede to such a congress at once, or, after having incurred the wrath of Prussia by her equivocal commerce in the war ; the indifference of France, in return for her indifference; the distrust of America by her “Alabama” dealings, she must occupy the position of a recusant who will give no redress and who thereby invites war. The sober second thoucht of the British people will not admit of any such conclusion; a conference will ultimately and soon be granted; tho treaty of Paris, and with it the actual position of Paris and of France, will be favorably modified; the conventions of 1815 as well a8 of 1856 will be altered. Prussia will obtain an opportunity eagerly desired for an honorable retreat and France for an honorable reinstate- ment; the ‘“‘key” that is ‘“‘worth an empire” will be yielded to neither the Russ nor the Turk, in fee simple, but become the common inheritance of progress, commercial and politi- cal, and this cloud of war will have proved to be the harbinger of that very peace which Europe craves, All this if “‘experfence” has, indeed, become “the wisdom of the nations.” For such a belief we have a reassuring pledge in what we thus demonstrate to be the real attitude and policy of a Power so dig- nified as Russia, guided by a heart so humane as that of Alexander and an intellect so statesmanlike as that of Prince Gortchakoff. Toz Otp Wortp Pxortus—Pzace or War?—The peoples of Europe have, evi- dently, a word to say on the.question of peace or a general war in the present crisis. This fact is made patent by our special cable tele- grams from the Old World. The monarchs caanet rush into bloody conflict so quickly as they did somo years since. There is @ re- straining moral force power in the popular voice. The rulers obey it to a certain extent even to-day. But for this Europe would most probably be wrapped in the red flame of war at this very moment, Kings and Kaisors are compelled to calculate the chances, A bloody sword weakeas the power of the sceptre; prolonged campaigns, when conducted by crowned heads, tend to accustom the eyes of the downtrodden toilers to vacant thrones. Tax CHtvese AND THE BURLINGAME TrEA- tTirs.—A young Methodist missionary, lately returned from China, delivered an address before a Boston audience on Wednesday even- ing last, on the subject ef the Methodist mis- sion in China and the causes of the late religious massacres in that country. The speaker stated that the Chinese were laboring under misapprehensions in regard to the meaning of the Burlingame treaties, and, one misconception flowing into another, the whole matter culminated in the massacres aforesaid, It is due to our government that this subject should be thoroughly investigated and the blame of the late atrocities be made to rest upon proper shoulders. Quarantine Sratistics.—The last case of yellow fever having disappeared from the Quarantine hospital, Dr. Carnochan takes the occasion of showing by the yellow fever sta- tistics of the Health Office how near we all came last summer to a general yellow fever visitation, During the quarantine season 349 vessels arrived at this port from infected ports and 670 from suspected ports, and were quarantined in the lower bay. Upon these vessels there were 450 cases of yellow fever and 103 deaths. Righty-ihree additional cases were received on Governor's Island, of | With this | which thirty-one proved fatal. formidable array knocking at the gites of the city throushout the unprecedented heats of last summer, not a single case of yeliow fever is known to have occurred inside the city, and no foothold whatever could the yellow fever demon obtaia nearer to the pent-up poor of our population than Goveruer’s Island. Can any argument or any nment speak more eloquently for Dr. ©. nan and his some- time obaoxious quarantine system than these sledge-hammer statistics ? Tne Vacanr Potice Commissionersuie.— The vacancy in the oflice of Police Commis- sioner, caused by the resignation of Mr. Brennan, has not yet b filled, but rumor assigns the place to Justice Dowling, We hope that in this iastance rumor is correct, feeling sure that Mayor Hall will not be able to find in the list of available candidates one | so well qualified by experience and natural ability to discharge the important duties of that position. Mr. Dowling’s antecedents have thoroughly fitted him for the oflice of Police Commissioner, and bis appointment will be regarded by the people as the best | that could possibly be made, Spayiso Avrnorities is Cusa MApE To Discorax.—The Spanish authorities in Cuba have been made to disgorge some twenty thousand dollars in gola py way of indemnity for the illegal seizure of the steamer Lloyd Aspinwall, belonging to New York merchants, A few more ‘‘disgorgements” of the same sort would not be inappropriate. Syow iv Burraro and heavy frosts in Mobile and thereabouts on the 16th of Ngvem- ber are the signs, they say, of. good skating in New York on Christmas Day. “Semi-Asintlo Nation” and “Violator of ‘Treatics.” A London city journal, which is genorally acknowledged as being the newspaper organ of the Gladstone Cabinet, prints an editorial article to-day in which Russia is classified “as a semi-Asiatic nation.” The writer inquires, “‘if sho (Russia) really belonzs to our international system, acknowledzing the common obligations of Christian and civilized nations.” We publish this editorial com- ment in fall simultaneously with its issue in London, having had it tele- graphed by the cable, Russia may be a “‘semi-Asiatic Power” just at present. We sre of the opinion, however, that she will be- come a full fledged Power in Asia withiaa short period of time, and that then will come, away along the banks of the Jaxartes and on the plains of Hindostan, the grand clash of arms which will settle all the questions of ethnological claims of superiority and terri- torial boundary rights which may be then pending between the Anglo-Saxon and the Muscovite. Asto the matters of Christiinity and relizious practice and civilization, we fear that our British friends are becoming ‘‘slightly mixed,” by reason of Oxford tractarianism, Trish Church debates, the Council in Rome and the holy shrines question and worship forms in Constantinople. Russia will continue, we suppose, both to pray and fizht according to her owa peculiar system, making a note of the London counterblast at the moment. The New King of Spain. The young Duke of Aosta, son of Victor Emmanuel of Italy, has finally been chosen King of Spain by a majority of seventy-one in a Cortes of three hundred and eleven mem- bers, and Spain, which has been blindly groping about in the dark after the tgnis fatuus of a republic, has at last despairingly clutched a monarchy. The vote does not seem to have been a very strong one in favor even of so popular a young man as the Prince Am¢dée, ond we may reasonubly conclude that a monarchy is not the form of govern- ment that the Spanish people mos! ardently crave. The choice of the Duke at this time sets the unfortunate country fairly in the arena where such deadly wagers are already threatening. The new King’s relation to Victor Emmanuel, makes Spain @ direct and close ally of Italy and brings her into close com- munton with the spirits that propose alliance panne the Ursa Major of the East, and she will therefore have her blows to take in the coming war and her concessions to make. in the expected congress. Her internal commo tions have not been altogether allayed by this calming libation of an Italian Prince, Cuba still oppresses her sleeping and waking hours, ‘the Carlists threaten disturbances in the pro- vinces and even in the capital, and dark Guy Fawkes conspirators are not wanting to lend variety to the long list of evils that attend the new monarchical venture, The young Prince himself is personally unfortunate in being the choice of the Spanish people for the throne at this time. He is only twenty-five years old, is the second son of his father and isa man of family. Morally and mentally he presents a very fair average for a prince. His prospects were excellent at home, and, although he mizht never have reached the throne of Italy, he had worldly goods enouzh and worldly sway enough to content him. He goes now, as Maximilian went, among a strange people who have at least tasted the sweets of a republic, who have made what may prove to be a mere show of electing him King, and who, like the Mexicans, are prover- bially proud, treacherous and revolutionary. The fate of Maximilian is a sad one to cor- template, and we heartily hope it will not befall his prototyps in Spain; but the analogy between the two is so plain as to be unavoid- able, Dethroned and disabled monarchs are becoming very frequent spectacles in Europe now, and probably as the winter progresses they may increase to an astonishing number. The young King will have to take his chance among the others, and therefore we think his withdrawal from the parental roof and eleva- tion to a stranger’s throne at this time is unfortunate for him. Breapsturrs are advancing in price in Europe in face of the prospect of a general war ou the Russo-Eastern question. So says a cable telegram. This is very bad news for the families of the millions of men who will be called ont to battle for the crowns should ac- tive hostilities bo commenced. Winter is just upon them, and the most valiant soldiers are generally those who are the most tenderly attached to their families, Neither the ame bition nor jealousies of the monarchs can de- tain such men in the field for a very prolonged campaign. Should this European war com- mene it may be terminated in a very suddea manner by that democratic power which is now behind the throne, Prossta, as we are told by special cable telegram, advises peace between Russia and the other great Powers on the Huastern ques- tion. Prussia is a most excellently exper! enced authority on the subject of war—its difficulties, expenditures and citizen conse- quences generally. Mer neighbors should hearken to her voice, 3 Goop Nominations. —Mayor Hall has exbi- bited much wisdom in making his nominations to the Board of Education for School Inspeet~ ors. Several of our most worthy been named for the position, These se afford assirance that the business aad disei- pline’ ot our public schools will be rigidly and } impartially attended to. Senxaror Witson Nor to Br Ovsrap.——The Worcester Gazefle, home organ of ex-Gover- nor Bullock, stamps the report that the x-Gov- ernor entertains aspirations for the United States Senate, ia place of Senator Wilson, aa an “absolute and entire fabrication.” We thought this would be the upshot of the mai~ ter when the report was first pronralyaled. Toe Sreoun Casiy TerkeraMs from Europe whieh are published elsewhere in our columns to-day embraco 4 wery ample aad’ complete report of the Old World situa- tion us it presented for war or the con- tinued preservation of peace yesterday. Our despatches detail the position of the cabinets, the tegislators, the generals and the peoples at large as it was observed by our corre<