The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1870, Page 6

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KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Breadway.— BOENOE AND ant. New York, Saturday, November 19, 1870. CONTENTS OF 16-DAY’S HERALD. Pacr. é 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 5 1 Herald Telegrams from Euro- Explanatory Letter from Prince ne tnviolability of Turkey to be Maintained; Prossia Anxious for the Mainten- ance of Peace; Napoleon Demoratized; The Conservatisin of Treaties; The Emperor's De- claration “fhe Treaties of 1815 are at an End” the use of the Present Crisis. France: Another Battle and German Victory; The French Army of the Loire De- feated near Dreux; OMicial Despatch from King William; Herald Special Report of the Situation at Lil and Wagened Tired of the Wa: 4@—Enurope: Sentence of : Libel on a Count General Bourbaki Suspected he People of Paris Growing English Journatist for British Commerce and the Continental W: ws from Asla—Trot- ting at Fleetwood Park—The Engtish Tarf— The Libe: b—Corporal f’unizhment—The Bogus Will Case, S—The Naval Fight of Havana—News Mmaicu—Camels in Nevagda—A si from Ja- mer from nt—Under # rient—An Exploded Exper roadway—The Ores of the it Basin— Silver Mines m New Mexico—The Croton: New York City Secured Agamst a Water Famine— Political Intelligence—European Navies—The Cane and Cowhide; Atiempting to Thrash a Jersey Journalist—Suicide of a Poet in Provi- dence, R. .—The Oar and the Cue—An Old ume Paragraph. 6- Editorials: Leading Articie, “The Impending European Crash—The Treaty of Paris the Mod rn Pandora's Box'’—Amusement An- nouncements, J—Hditorial (continued from sixth page)—Per- sonal Intelligence—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: An Alabama Claims Mis- sive from Secretary Fish; Spain Jubilant Over Her New King—News from Washington— Billiards—News from Venezucla—The New York HERALD in Massachuseits—Business Notices. S= Criminals Convictea: Burglars, Highwaymen, Forgers and Garroters Paying Penalties— Naval Intelligence—The Foreign Mail + vice—United States Treasurer S and Navigation—The United States Army— The Courts. O—Fighting forthe Crumbs: Aneke Jans Likely to be Surpassed in the Number of Her Heirs— Woman's Suflrage—Personul—The Assault on Harry Hill—Modern k Turpinisms— A men—Financial and rriages and Deaths. 10—A_Ploodthirsty Youth: Arrest of a Would-be Murderer and Burgla: ie Striking Coopers— The Pohee Commussionership—Workingmen'’s Union—The Matinee Balls ime | the Queer—Meteorological Record—A lewark Mystery—Shipping —_Inteillgence—Advertise- ments. 14—American Paper Currency: Resumé of Its His- tory, Value and Vicissitules; Early Coloniai Experiences of Paper; Revolutionary Scrip; ‘The Continental Cong! nteresting, Instruc- tive and Exhaustive Statistics—Anti-Secret Society Convention—The Population of New Pngland—Savayes hi Bloody Work— Iron Steamboats ers—The Election Pleasant Revo- Murder in Orleans lutionary Remints Africa—A Veritabl ‘VYhe Elopement in v A Bur White 12—Advertiserments. Jak—Advertisements. A Goop Tuva For THE PEAGE. OF Evrore.—Grorge Franc ain has not been heard of for five days. epuise is well exemplified in the determination of a number of Western railroad = mana; to establish handsome ticket offices in London and other European j{ cities, where pay be procured tickets over any American railroad, American EN af Fee Sw : © oxty ONE axp No Mone.—The recent *turn-over”—as it is called out West—of the Chicago 7'ribune, has but one defender among the republican press in Illinois—the Quincy Herald. This looks bad for the would-be “revenue reformers” in that quarter. Dre. Gwin, formerly United States Sena- tor from California, whilom “Duke of Sonora” in Mexico, and holder ‘‘in fee’ of other distinguished land titles, bas turned ap in Salt Lake City. What! Is the old silver-haired veteran going to turn Mormon ? Bren Osean ee ‘ Isn't he a ‘‘leetle” too old ? Tor AvAsaMA Cxaims BILL.—A cable telegram from London, dated yesterday, says that o despatch from Secretary Fish om the subject of the Alabama, claims bill had been ecdived at the United States Legation. Earl Granville was out of town. We are told, also, that the English politicians were again in a “onsternation” relative to the American ques- Hon, Epgland is very nervous just DOW. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1870.—TRIPLE SHKET. ‘Tho Impending European Crash—Tho Treaty of Paris the Modern Pandora’s Box. The pen with which the peace treaty of March 30, 1856, was signed at Paris, by tho representatives of the high contracting Powers who had been directly or indirectly concerned in the Crimean war and afterward joined in conference, was fashioned ont of a quill plucked from the wing of an imperial eagle in the Jardin des Plantes, as M. de Conches, Chief of the French Protocol Offiee, testifies under that same date and over his official sign manual. The Napoleonic empire, then in its glory, of which the noble bird was emble- matical, has gone down in blood, and the eagle himself, or his progeny, may ere this have been grilled on revolutionary grid- irons to stay the stemach of hungry republi- cans, hard set by the vigors of the siege; but the work that they mutually did returns to plague the surviving States and dynasties that concurred in the convention. On the 19th of April, 1856, just twenty days after the signatures were cempleted, the Herap, in an article entitled ‘Treaty of Peace—What Is It Werth?” took the position that the new treaty was nothing more than a rehash of the old political arrangements of Amiens and Tilsit; that while it was said to be likely to secure the peace of Europe and remove many disturbing questions, it would do nothing of the sort; but that, like the other two conventions named, it lacked the main element of political vitality, because it was chiefly dictated by the selfish views of the contracting parties, and had little or ne refe- rence to the general interests of humanity. The concluding paragraph of the article referred to is so closely apposite to the case immediately before us to-day that we may properly quote it, word for word :— The interests of either Power may, at any moment within the next dozen years, let loose upon the European world the torrent of revoluuonary violence, ‘The treaty of raris seems to have been framed ig provide just sich a resnlt, We wish the despots of Europe joy of this precious offspring of their ingenuity. It prosulecs to be as fruitful of evil to them as was ‘uplter’s gift to Pandora. What foresight and sound sense there were in these remarks the new agitation of the Eastern question now convulsing the Cabinets of Europe very strikingly proves. The “dozen years” have simply extended to four- teen, and here we see the predicted trouble at the door. Russia, long chafing under the infractions of an arrangement never intended by the allies to be faithfully maintained, dis- covers her opportunity to ebtain redress in the confusion that has fallen upon the councils of her adversaries. Forced by her ill fortune in the Crimean war to yield an unwilling assent to a temporary settlement which partly disarmed her, while it doubled the aggressive facilities of Turkey and her backers, she has, time and again, demurred at violations of the Paris treaty which, although trivial in them- selves, were important as precedents for sub- sequent breaches of faith on a larger and more menacing scale. Her complaints were un- heeded, and the infractions continued until by many statesmen the treaty was regarded as a dead letter. One of our special despatches, published this morning, refers to this senti- ment, and mentions the frankness with which that wary diplomatist, Count Bismarck, ad- mitted that the Paris treaty counted for noth- ing from the day when Napoleon III. openly declared that the treaty of 1815 no longer had effect. The uncertainty of Count Bismarck is the certainty of Europe. The Powers of the West have learned by their peculiar experience to know that when the Prussian statesman speaks he does so by the book. His contemplation of the crisis is its explana- tion. The treaties of the last fifty-five years must be revised. Prussia desires unity and Russia desires security. Should Russia at the present moment be com- pelled to make war against the allies, her action would evidently do more for German unity than all that the Germans have done for themselves, notwithstanding ithe advan- tages that they have gained inFrance. Why? Because, should Austria move (and she is the only ally that England could securely count upon in the South of Europe) she would be overwhelmed by the very first grand advance that the Prusso-Russian armies would make southward. The consequence of such a defe: would be the immediate accession ‘Qpportunities and appliances for of the German portions of the Austrian empire to the sum total of Fatherland. Austria would be ruined as an autonemic, independent Power, and her shattered fragments would be assembled and combined into United Germany. Should Italy become involved, a contingency which all her truly enlightened statesmen and allher people would greatly deprecate, the Roman question on the one hand and the league of Garibaldi and of Guiseppe Mazzini on the other would render it extremely difficult for her to muster any army for a service not directly connected with her own national status. Turkey is a Power respectable in position, in numbers and in the fanatical devotion of her people to the precepts of the Koran; but Turkey is in the sere and yellow leaf. Moham- med represents order enly, and order has been greatly shaken in the Ottoman empire by the introduction ef Christian and modern ideas, In fine, there is no real streagth in the fan- cied coalition, The ties that would seem to bind it together are ropes of sand, and the Cabinets of the different Powers would infi- nitely prefer peace to war. England alone is in a position where, perforce, she must assert herself, fearful as she is of losing the great highway that leads to her Oriental possessions. England, indeed, with all her intrigues, is now in a difficult position. France, her grand ally in the entente cordiale, is stricken down while she has stood aloof. She is stripped of inde- pendent, initiative power, and, like the fox in the fable whose tail had been shorn from him in a trap, she seeks to persuade the other Powers that they, too, would be more safe and prosperous witheut that useful append- age. Should she prevail there will be a ceali- tion against Russia, to take effect at an early date. Should she fail the Cossack period of Europe would recommence—that Is te sey, the weight of a great Power at the North would press so heavily upon the political status of Eu- rope that the latter would have to be revised in every part. Russia, as we have shown, demands equal rights upon the Biack Sea, and control of the Black Sea eommerce means supremacy in the Kast, Tho Khedive of Egypt already begins to take position r an indanandance long desired and now ia a fair way of realization by Russian ald, Let the war begin and Egypt will soon master tho Isthmus of Suez at home and the choicest pro- viuces of Turkey abroad. Thus a Power will be built up upon the very track of the great commercial and political progress of the Orient grateful and devoted to Russia. But, over and above all this, there is the eut- lying majesty of the great American republic. Onr eyes are turned toward the West, as the gaze of Russia turns toward the East. These two Pewers are the Alpha and the Omega of the future. Acentury hence, perhaps, we may clash upon the broad expanse of the Pacific, but to-day we are friends. Unlike in every- thing, we agree by our dissimilarity. The principle that the Czar upholds in the Black Sea is our principle upon the Gulf of Mexico. America comprehends the situation of the Muscovite empire to-day, as she cemprehends her own for to-morrow. The crowns quake and the nations are agitated; but truth and justice find their refuge with the strongest ex- ponent of established authority left to-day in the Old World. Russia stepping into the arena thus suddenly, guarantees a reconstruction of Europe. That reconstruction can be made in no other sense than for concord and co-opera- tion. Thus is the Czar, by the providence of God, revealed as the political Messiah of the moment. The word gone forth from St. Petersburg and echoed in Waskington will be felt and obeyed from London to Rome. Yhe War Situation in France. The intelligence regarding the situation abont Paris and Orleans is somewhat contradictory. Several reports state that a French force was at Etampes, only thirty miles from Paris; that Prince Frederic Charles was still fully ten days’ march from Toury, and one account even ven- tures on details of a strategic manwuvre by which General Paladines had secured a posi- tion in the rear an® front and on the right flank of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin’s army. But the most reliable authority of all (that is, King William himself) telegraphs that a battle has been fought near Dreux, in which the French were defeated, Drenx eccupied and a pursuing movement towards Le Mans com- menced. We have all along found King Wil- liam reliable in the matter of telegrams. He seldom makes a report on insufficient grounds. His phiegmatic German temperament will never allow enthusiasm to run away with him, and we can take his word in these matters against all the Tours govern- ment can say. It is apparent, therefore, that the left wing, at least, of General Paladines’ army has been defeated at Dreux, and it is highly probable that the decisive battle be- tween Paladines and Mecklenburg is even now going on in the neighborhood of Etampes and within hearing distance of the besieged in Paris, The importance of this engagement is obvious. If Paladines wins and drives the German forces in dismay back upon their comrades in the trenches, then a resistless sortie of hundreds of thousands of men from the inside of Paris and another fierce onslaught by the victorious Frenchmen on the outside will grind King William and bis treops like grain between the upper and nether millstones, and the siege of Paris is raised. If Paladines loses, then France must begin over again. The latest despatches say the fight was renewed yesterday afternoon. As the day pregresses we shall probably hear the sequel of this battle and more satisfactory details of all the impor- tant events connected with it. ‘The Present Situation tho Question. The English Cabinet remains divided in regard to the policy to be pursued with refer- ence to the demands of Russia, and Parlia- ment will probably be called for next week. In the meantime Mr. Odo Russell has been despatched to Versailles to ebtain a categori- cal answer from Bismarck to the question, “Which side will you take?” Austria is sub- missive and strongly deprecatory of war. Von Beust mistrusts his own powers and wants to resign. Russia remains calm and unyielding, towering head and shoulders in her dignity above the pettier nations about her, whom her single word has put in such helpless fury. Prussia, it is understood, thinks there is no cause for alarm. The whole matter can easily be settled. All that is required isa clear understanding and a conciliatory dispo- sition. The general tenor of the news this morning indicates 2 more peaceful disposition on all sides, though there is no cessation of tke preparations for war. While Russia shows no unwillingness to submit the matter to a Congress, she is reported to have massed her troops on the Vistula, in readiness, if Reces- sary, for a swoop into the territory of Austria, and while the peace party in England is still anxious to compromise, the popular feeling favors taking up the Russian gauntlet. The question of war or peace is still evenly balanc- ing in the scales. of Eastern How tHe Repvsiican Break TAKES IN THe Sourn.—The Richmond Whig, comment- ing upon the pending ‘little unpleasantness” in the radical ranks, remarks that the “signs of the times admonish all that the period for close, narrow political corporations, whether ultra radical or ultra demoeratic, is rapidly passing away, and that the successful combi- nations of the future must be formed on more liberal and expansive principles, must ignore the dead past, and must embrace new and living ideas,” This is precisely the position of Governor Hoffman and other democratic leaders in this State, and it would not be sur- prising to see, finally, the doctrine accepted by tae democracy all over the country. Germany ONE AND [NpIVISIBLE.—The con- solidation of Germany as a nation is almost complete. Baden, Bavaria, Hesse, Saxony and Wurtemberg are within the fold and almost set- tled in their places at the family table. The household arrangement is not just exactly com- plete to-day, but it will be soon. The Eastern question agitation hurried the smaller Powers to seek refuge near the domestic hearth. Bis- marck is a very lucky statesman. While the outside mations are troubled the Prussian Premier grows fat and is happy. PREPARING FOR A DgFEAT.—The French at Orleans, it appears, had collected a large num- ber of boats to be used in crossing their army to the southern bank of the Loire in case of a defeat in the impending battle. This does not look much like cutting a way through at all hazards for the relief, of Paris, Our Special Telegrams from Europe—The Eastern Question and the Franco-Prus- sian War. 5 The series of special telegrams from Europe, which appears in our columns to-day, em- braces matter of the very highest importance, and presents news of the greatest interest. Our correspondents report from London, Ber- lin, Frankfort, Vienna and Lille, under date of yesterday evening, so that in some instances a few hours only have elapsed since the first delivery of the letter in the tele- graph office abroad and its presentation to the American public in priat. Our special writers speak of war and of “rumors of war.” They detail the progress of the Eastern question excitement which was provoked by the delivery of the Russian note on the subject of the revision of the treaty of Paris; and inform us equally of the move- ments of the French and Prussian armies in the field, the hopes and jealousies of their commanders and the almost certain bombard- ment of Paris by the Prussians. There were consequently prevalent in Europe at one and the same moment a new cause of alarm for the peoples in the clamor of another war, with all the sad and melancholy realities of the consequences of the struggle for Paris. Prussia was likely to remain perfectly neutral on the Russo-Eastern com- plication—neutral go fat as may be possible. The Berlin government, indeed, views the crisis with great equanimity, King William’s Cabinet regarding the Russlan demand as a natural event in the history of diplomatic pro- gress since 1856, and Germany, generally, inclining to the opinion that Napoleon had demoralized the feelings of the executives towards the sanctity of treaties by his open announcement some few years since that “the treaties of 1815 were at anend.” Peace was uppermost in the minds of the citizen nation- alities. Frankfert, which had been deeply excited on the Eastern question, was reassured. Vienna sympathized with a Cabi- net alarm for 2 moment, but Vienna was again calm. An idea had seized hold of the public mind that the Russian war movement agitation wasin reality undertaken in the interest of the Prussians before Paris, with the view of affordiag to the outside world something to talk about while King William perfected his final arrangements for an assault on the be- sieged city. Our special telegrams indicate, as will be seen, a desire for the maintenance of peace between Russia, Turkey and the other great Pewers, The advices intimate, also, that the European cabinets are anxious for the adjustment of a peace between France and Prussia, and that it is very probable the mist of the Oriept may have been utilized for a moment to veil somé ministerial movements in that direction from the eyes of the peoples, Sprain Hos a King at Last=How Will This Affect the Cuban Question? The Spaniards, or rather the political schemers at Madrid, were determined to have that bauble, as we Americans may call the crown. And they have found at lasta man to wear it. After all the plots, counterplots and intrigues; after the renunciation of the honor ef being King of Spain by several pro- posed candidates, and after plunging Europe in war over this king-making business, Prim, Serrano and company have found a respect- able young man, twenty-five years of age, with a rising family of little ones, to accept the situation. The Duke of Aosta is the adventurous youth. He has strong hopes, no doubt, that the good luck of his father, Victor Emmanuel and his family, in Italy will go with him to the Peninsula. Cer- tainly he seems to fear the Spanish republi- cans and revolutionists as little as his father does the anathemas of the Pope and Cardinal Antonelli. We must say it is a fortunate family, with the exception, perhaps, of Clothilde, who married Plon-Plon Napoleon. It is a family that revolutions serve and ele- vate, while they overturn other royal families. Victor Emmanuel, the father of Aosta, being a liberal and popular monarch, and the affinity between the Italians and Spaniards, will do much to give security to the young Prince’s throne. But with all that, with all the favor- able circumstances surrounding him, the elected King of Spain sets sail in a troubled sea, These are stormy times and the age of revolutions. There was a powerful minority in the Cortes that voted against him. The sentiment of Spain—of the mass ef the people—inclines to a republic, The country is tora by factions and its financial resources are pretty wellexhausted. King Amadeus will have no easy read to travel. Then, the Cuban questien is an execedingly troublesome one. It is not probable that he could do more than the Regency in suppressing that. Cuba will conquer her independence, most likely, though it may take years to wear out the Spaniards. Will he continue a costly and fruitless war against a transatlantic col- ony struggling for liberty? If he should that would make him a tyrant and destroy the pres- tige for liberality which he inherits. If he should concede the right of a people to govern themselves, and consequently the indepen- dence of the Cubans, might not that raise a powerful hostility to him in Spain? The best course that he can take, prebably, is to let the Cubans purchase their own independence im- mediately on ascending the throne of Spain. That is, let them do this in a manner that will not look like a direct purchase. In other words, let them be independent by paying a hundred millions.or so for Spanish property on the island, and to pay for Spanish losses in the war. The trouble was not bronght en by him, and the Spanish people woul@ hardly demur seriously to sueh.4 solution of the difficulty, if he should act immediately on ascending the throne and before hestile parties are formed against his government. The Cuban trouble, as it stands, is. an unfortunate legacy left to him by preceding governments. It will be wise policy in him to remove it at once and forever in the way we mention. Unless he should do this he will be in perpetual difficulty and the Cuban question may prove a great danger to his crowa. Tue PRESIDENT, it is said, has deliberately gone to work upen his annual message, which will be submitted te Congress upon the reas- sombling of the twe houses in December. It is tebe hoped that he will rise to the grandeur of The Opposing Forces of England and The Naval Prize Fight Of Boosia. Havana. We publish in another column of the In view of the probable clashing of the | Hrgarp this morning the full particulars of stalwart grenadiers of Russia and the sturdy guardsmen of England it is well to take a cursory glance at the military resources of the two nations. England, it is well known, has a mere nominal army ready for service. Protected by the sure barriers of the English Channel and the North Sea from external foes, she has devoted herself rather to the commer- cial arts than the arts of war, and if she has kept pace with the rapid improvemenis in the science of attack and defence at all, it is mainly in the construction and arming of her immense na’ Her supremacy in war lies altogether in her naval armament, Britannia rules the waves, but she cannot be certain of ruling any- thing else. In the war now threatening she may furnish an army of one hundred and fifty thousand disciplined soldiers, but not more, and how will such a military mite fare in a conflict where half-millions are the minimum of individual armies, and where poor defeated France, crushed and dis- organized, still brings gallantly up to the front her six or seven hundred thousand? In'the Crimean war England hardly furnished more than fifty thousand men. Inthe more recent Abyssinian expedition she probably em- ployed twenty-five thousand, more than half of whom were detached from her East India forces. These are discourhging statis- tics with which to enter a war—a war, too, which may not end merely with the revision of the treaty of Paris or the confirmed neu- tralization of the Black Sea; but, if we may judge from the example of the Powers now actually engaged, may become a war for national life or death, and result in crushing, dismembering, rending limb from limb the great Powers that commence it full of heart and hope. Russia, like Prussia, is always ready. She for years has considered peace merely a fine chance to extend her internal improvements and prepare for war. She has had fourteen years of uninterrupted peace in which to do this, and although no official data of the con- dition of her army has recently been given, it is safe to presume that in that fourteen years she has succeeded in equipping and training her soldiers to an equal proficiency with any force opposed to her. She probably has six or seven hundred thousand men for service, and conveniently at hand in case of need. The bravery of her soldiers and the skill of her engineers and generals were fally demonstrated in the defence of Sebastopol. The other Powers most likely to drift or be driven into the war—Austria, Italy and Turkey—have larger armies than England, and united will present a formidable array against the Czar. But the game of war is very uncertain, and skill, courage, interior lines and the improvements of science, usually “put up the cards” from the first against any excess of unmilitary muscle. Tue Russian Question in Wau Street.— The speculators in the Gold Room yesterday were indisposed to take so hasty a view of the crisis in Europe as affecting their interests in the precious metal. Hence, while prices at London were at one time as low if not lower than those reported on one occasion the day previous, gold was less excited and required a great deal of bidding to move up to 113}, which is two “‘points” below the highest figure of Thursday. The great fizzle in gold last summer, when it flew up to 123§ and tumbled back to 113, is not forgetten by the unlucky buyers who then ignored the appreciated eredit of the country and the inconsistency of such an unnatural advance. A Western BrkAcH OF Promise Cask.—The Davenport (lowa) Gazette has the following quaint way of putting a breach of promise case out West :-— A fine looking woman, a hundred and eighty- two.pounder without chignon or panier, entered suit in Keokuk against her weak, wizened faced, purblind, four times widowered, eiglty pounder landlord, to recover damages for breach of promise, two thousand dollars being the amount claimed. She got ten dollars, The West is fast becoming as famous for breach of promise as some parts of it (Indiana and Illmois, for example), have long been for divorce cases. The frequency of both show a sad state of moral sentiment among our thriving Western States. CANADIAN InmiGRATION INTO LOvISIANA.— The New Orleans Bulletin is advocating the migration of Canadians to Louisiana. It alludes especially to the French Canadians, and says arrangements have already been made for ene hundred families in Quebec to be forwarded to Louisiana immediately. his. is literally “‘going to extremes” in the matter of immigration. It is a novel idea that of replenishing the agricultural labor in a climate like that of Louisiana. A Disappoinrep Rapicar.—The Baltimore American (radical organ) confesses its disap- pointment at the result of the election in tie Maryland Third Congressional district, and says, “The fact stands ont patent to all that, even with the addition of the colored vote, the republican party is in a minority in every county in the State, excepting Anne Arundel.” Then there is one State at least, and that one of strong Southern affiliations, in which the democracy still more than hold their own, not- withstanding the republicans claim to be so heavily strengthened by negro enfranchisement. Can A Wire Sur a Hussanp?—The ques- tion whether a wife cam sue her husband has been recently decided in am Iowa court. It seems that a husband borrowed one thousand dollars from his wife and then deserted her. The wife sued to recover the money, the hus- band demurred on the ground that a wife car- not sue her husband. The Court everruled the demurrer and gave damages fer plaintiff in seven hundred dollars. No doubt this was a righteous decision, so far as it wert. But if the decision be sound was not the wife enti- tled to the full amoant borrowed, with interest ? VeNEsvELA is undergoing another revelu- tion. Although the recent battle of Bonquese- meto resulted most disastrously for Guzman Blanco, the insurgent, almost annihilating his army, he succeeded in collecting his shattered forces and with them defeated the government troops near Truxillo after a hard fight which lated four days, It is reported that in a sub- sequent engagement the government forces were completely routed and that Guzman I en nn ne ee EE IESE SE eI re aE EEUEEDUEEDSTEEEEENEISEEDEEEEEEENEEEEED the occasion, and strike out bravely for the,| Blanco was proclaimed President of tha Vene- “tmanifest destiny” of the republio, ne EN HEI ES EIS SISSIES SSS SESS oR we ae Ae ee nee ee eee ee ee ee ane eee zuelan Republig the late naval prize fight between the French despatch boat Bouvet and the Prussian gun- boat Meteor. The description of the conflict comes from one of the Heratp correspondents in the Antilles, who had an excellent opportu- nity of witnessing the whole set-to from the deck of the Spanish man-of-war Herman Cortes, which accompanied the combatants, with Captain General De Rodas on board, who was to act as umpire. Our correspondent de- scribes very minutely the whole affair—ex} plaining how the fight was brought about, the arrangement of the preliminaries, selection of umpire, scene of action, first blow and first blood, number of rounds, clinch—everything, in fact, from the shying of the castor into the ring to the tossing up of the sponge by the Herman Cortes when the Bouvet was almost helpless from injury to her boiler and the Meteor unmanageable on account of the entanglements in her propeller. Before the fight the betting in Havana was in faver of the Prussian. The only sad incident about the whole transaction is the death of the three poor fellows who lost their lives during the contest. Were it not for this we could enjoy a hearty laugh over the naval prize fight. Even the harbor of Havana might be obtained at a reasonable price for a series of performances, the money paid for the privi- lege of fighting inside the lines, of course, to beset to Spain De Bodss cold’ manage the show and employ the soldiers of the Spanish army, which has not done anything in Cuba for the past year or more, to act as special constables and water police. In case that idea does not suit we recommend that both combatants make the cruise of the different harbors of the United States and give a series of exhibitions therein, There is not the slightest doubt but the under- taking would prove a paying venture, All prize-fighters do it, Why, theo, might not the Prussian Meteor and the French Bouvet conform to an established custom? New York will give them a good reception if they will “try it on” in the lower bay. Resorcines Over THE NEw King.—All over Spain they were firing salutes yesterday in honor of the election of the Duke of Aosta as King, while the Duke at Florence was received with enthusiastic acclamations by the Italians. The new King goes in with drums beating and banners flying ; but how will he come out with the task of governing the restless revolution- ary elements of Spain? The Bourbons and the Carlists are neatly disposed of; but what of the republicans? These questions will probably be answered before many years in another revolution. Ravroarism Run Map.—The feud between the Misseyri republicans waxes hotter every day. The liberals appear disposed to frater- nize with the democracy, and as such a fusion would give the democrats both branches of the Legislature the bare suggestion drives the extreme radicals almost frantic. In their frenzy they propose that Senator Schurz shall be excluded from all Senatorial caucuses during the coming session of Congress, and that he shall be dropped from all important committees, and especially from the Commit- tee on Foreign Affairs. Not satisfied with thrusting Schurz out of their party they must needs provide a comfortable berth for Governor McClurg, who wa#so ingloriously defeated in his second race for gubernatorial honors. Instead of being allowed to retire to the shades of private life, to which an indignant constituency consigned him, he is to be called to Washington to revel among the spoils of office as the head of a bureau in one of the departments, ‘“REOONSTRUOTION OF PartiEs.”—The Springs field -(Ill.) Register, democratic organ, does not endorse the views of the Chicago 7'ribune about the necessity of a reconstruction of political parties, and holds to the doctrine that the democratic party ‘‘prefer defeat to re- nouncing principle.” It depends altogether upon what that principle is. It is sometimes toa party’s “interest to ignore principle’— that is, if its ambition be to insure the success of principles more vital and enduring. INDIAN OvuTRAGES IN TEXAS,—We: publish to-day accounts of fresh Indian outrages in Texas. These reports are corroborated by the testimony of the Quaker Indian agents themselves, and therefore ought to be entitled to credence. The government should look into these matters at once, and if any change be deemed necessary in regard to President Grant's Indian policy there should be no-hesi- tancy about adopting it, Tne War Spreir iN Nort Germany.—Dr. Jacoby, who made a speech against the: an- nexation of Alsace and Lorraine, and who for the same was thrown into prison, has failed to secure a place in the new German Parliament. This reveals the feeling of the German people. Even the German liberals refuse to comfort France. Nornixe Erste to Do.—The republican associations of the-city are turning each other ent of the party church. Let them: keep it up, and they will all be turned out in. a year or two. Waite MEN Looxine Up.—The Damocratie Executive Committee of West Virginia have issued an address in effect congratulating the white men in the State that they are at last as “good as niggers.” The democracy are moving. 4 Ovr Forziey Postat Ssrvice.—We give in another column a statement showing the operations of our foreign mail service fer the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870 It will be seen that the aggregate amount of postages on United States and European mails amounted to nearly a million and a half dollars, being nearly fifty-eight thousand dollars less than the previous year, This reduction is attri- puted to reduced rates of postage, which com- menced on the Ist of January. It is a. singular’ fact that the amounts of postages on mails exchanged with Great Britain and the North German Union are within a comparatively small sum of being nearly the same—that is, about six hundred and forty-seven thousand ‘dollars in the former case and five hundred and jixty-nine thousand in the latter—showing that our German population are, with a much