The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1870-TRIPLE SHEET) The Great Party of tho Iuture—General Grant and His Splendid Opportunities. We are on the verge of another change in the issues and elements of our political pariies, The late elections indicate it. The great revo- Jution which commenced with the active agita- tions of the slavery question forty years ago was completed in the fifieenth amendment. the foreground, and step by step, since it came into power in 1860, it has advanced from vio- tory to victory, the great aggressive and pro- gressive party of tho day, from the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law to the proclamation of the filteenth amendment. Its work achieved is a revolution in the government as great as that of France from the old Bourbon monarchy despatches must be addressed Nuw Yorx | Throughout the Unien the negro, who was a | to the republic of “liberty, equality and fra- HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. pater THE DAILY HERALD, puolishea every day in the year. Four cents per copy, Annual subscription price $12. ‘The EUROPEAN Eprtion, every Wednesday, at Six CENTS per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. AMSSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st—TuR HNCHBACK. BOOTH’S THMATRE, Rur Van Winkie. YOURTEENTH STREET CHARLOTTE CORDAY. ween ib and 6th ave,— RE (Theatre Francais)— GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Vanizte ENTER: TAINNENT, &C. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 15:0 strect.— Tus BOWOOL FOX SCANDAL. 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BROOKLYN OPERA, H0' Ware's Minsran.s, THE on, Hoenes & TASTROPHE, £0. teenth NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fou THE RING, ACKOBAYD, AL. strevt.—SorNES IN NEW YORK M SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— BCIANCE AND Art, DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— BOiENOE AND Akt. TRIPLE | ment from slavery to liberty, and from the slave or an outlaw, is a citizen and a voter. The milion of Union bayonets which effected tuis change put down at the same time the pernicious fallacy of State sovereignty. The old government, founded upon slavery and the caste of color, is gone, and a new government, resting upon the basis of universal liberty and equal rights, takes its place. The outside democratic party has ceased at last to fight it, and the battle isended, The inside ani the outside party are adrift upon a sea of specula- tions, and the question is, how will they come out? We are looking te General Grant for a new departure. Surely he cannot expect to stand still when the progress of modern events is at the rate of foriy miles an hour, Ten years ago a Northera man found south of the Obio river or the Susquehanna without his vouchers as a friend of slavery, or that ‘‘he is sound on the goose,” ran the risk at every village or cross-road grocery of a coat of tar and feath- ers and a ride ona rail, From this landmark of negro slavery to the oration of an African Senator from the seat of Jeif Davis we have gone through the work of a revolution which honest Abe Lincoln, in his annual message to Congress in 1862, proposed to accomplish as far as the abolition of slavery, by the year 1900. This work of a century, then, of the old stage coach epoch, has, in this new age of steam and lightning communications, been done in ten years, in the change of our govern- caste of kink and color to the common plat- form of civil and political equality. Nor in the work of progress are we alone, Within four years Austria has advanced from the cloist rs and cobwebs of the Middle Ages to the front rank of modern reforms; and Prus- sia, in the great German Confederation, has gained the position of arbiter of Europe, which France, under the debaucheries of the second empire, has lost. Within a few months the Pope and the city of Rome have been re- lieved of his temporal power, and the Eieraal- City, as the capital of “Young Italy,” promises to eclipse its splendors under Augustus, By the tremendous forces of steam aad lizhtning in harness, a free press and free thought, all the world is advancing to liberiy, equal rights and popular institutions. In fact, since ; Joshua commanded the “sun to stand still upen Gibeon and the moon in the valley of Ajalon,” and ‘‘the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down abont a New Yerk, Monday, November 21, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Pace. * ‘L—Adver‘isements, 2—Acivertisements, @—Kussia: The Eastern Question ata Crisis—For War or a Peace Congress; Military and Naval | Araament Order d by the Russian Govern- ment; British Exposition of the Violation of the Treaty of Paris; Engiand Reaay to March frooys from Asia in. Case of War; What the Premers and Peoples Say. France: French Report of a Geri: Retrograde Movement; Von der Tann and the Duke of Mecklenburg Falling Beck; General | de Pulad nes’ Army Advancing; No Bombard- ment of Faris Pos-ible at Present; Spread of Disease in toe German Armies; Manteuvel’s Fores moving to the Loire: More armistice Negotiations —Reported—General Butler’s | Opinion of the Mc jarrahan Land Case—sum- | mer in the West—Sunday Morning in Wil- Hamsburg—Fue in Broadway. @—Religious: Sermons and services Yesterday; Man’s Duty to His God, to His Ne gbvors and to His Country, Liveiy Lessons on Ortiodox | Topics; Tie Worshp of God en Land and | Water; Discourses by Dra. Hepworth and | McSweeney, Rev. Messrs. Beecher, Kichard- son, Frothiozham, Puliman and Others. $—Re! gious (continued from Fourth Page)—Youth- ful Burgiars—A Michigan Tragedy—south African Diamond Fields, 6—Editorials: Leading Arucie, “The Great Party of the Future—Genera) Grant and His Splen- Cid Opportunities”—Amuscment Announce- ments, J—Editorial (Senne from Sixth Page)—Trle- raphic News from all Parts of the Worid— Murtc aod the Prama—Crilicisms of New j political campaigner. whole day,” there has been no suspension in the movements of our solar system, and none in the efforts of mankind to better their con- dition, To these efforts, however, modern inventions and appliances have given a momentum never dreamed of even s0 late as fifty years ago; so that all nations feel the pressure, all are moved by it, and the United States more powerfully than any other. Does General Grant, then, in the very front of this universal forward movement of the nineteenth century, expect to stand still? Does he think ho can rest upon his laurels? Glorious as is the work he has achieved, does he think the American people sup- pose their work is finished with the Union they have restored and the peace, liberty and prosperity they have won? No. Does he, then, suppose that retrenchment of expenses, reduction of taxes and the payment of the national debt will suffice for the campaign of 1872? He seems to think so. Here, then, we must buttonhole him for a momant, while we talk to him from the experience of an ol You have, General, the Presidential succession at your command, and the great party of the new dispensation Beoks—Persoval Intelligence—Political Notes and Comme ts—Business Notices, S—Below the Crust: A Lescent mto the Dancing “Kens”? and “Dives” of the Sixth Ward—Notes ont'e War—Mexico: The Health of Presilent Juarez—ltems from Australasia—A Noble Mis- sion of Charity. @—News from Europe—Court Calendars for To- Day—Finane al and Commerc.al Reports—The Christian Character of Washington—Arrest of a Notorious Forver—Marriages and Deaths. €0—Wasitington : Collector Murphy at the White House; The President Phuosuphizing Over the Late Elections Approaching Marriave of the Spanish Mimni-ter; Inte esting Reugious Sere vices—“Aiter Seven } cars”: The Mysterious Double Murder in Newark—Our Periodical Literature—New York ity News—Fire tn Brovklya—A Child Kidnapped—shipping In- telligence--Advertisemsnts, WeIrelend As Jt Is—Cotton in India—Bismarck and Ha) ti—Advertisements, AQ—Advertisements. Joop For Missourt.—The complete returns of Missouri show that her population is nearly | forgon, a million and three-quariers, This is an in- and of the future. The elements of both our great parties as they stand are only divided by side issues, small-potato politicians and the spoils, The floating materials from both these parties are increasing, and the republican party wants some new idea for another for- ward march. So far it has been the aggres- sive party in its great ideas, and it must still be aggressive, or it will be displaced. Your conservative party may do as a temporary makeshift, but in a great battle against a pro- gressive idea it is always a failure. The old federal party, developed under John Adams, was a conservative party; an we need not repeat its short career against the aggressive radical republican party of Jef- This Jeffersonian republican party having finished its appointed mission, and crease in the last ten years of five hundred | haying no new ideas to fight for, was broken and forty thousand souls. This is pretty good fora State that suffered so much from her border position during the rebellion. Tom Murrsy has invaded the White House and captured the President. Yesterday morn- ing the genial Thomas presented himself at the Presidential mansion, where he was received with distinguished favor, and over the enchantments of the dinner table ex- plained to General Grant the political situa- tion in New York. Tbe President expressed himself satisfied with the administration of affairs in the New York Cus‘om House, and assured the Collector that he was io no imme- diate danger of decapitation. Thus one great cause of uneasiness among federal officials in this city is removed. Waar Ir Costs.—Tie republican papers ‘are just beginning to realize what a bolt costs. The Troy Whig does up a little bit of figuring in this connection by showing that in 1863 John A. Griswold had in Rensselaer county 10,707 votes, and in Washington county 6,632— an aggregate of 17,339; and Hoffman had in Renseelaer 10,230, and in Washington 4,111— an aggregate of 14 of 2,998. This yeur the result stands—for Woodford, Rensseiacr, 9,330; Washington, 5,767—an aggregate of 15,097; and Hoffman has in Rensselaer 11,165, and in Washington 4,249—an aggregate of 15,414—a dem cratic majority of 317. voto is increased 1,073, can vote is diminished 2,242. will be well for the dissatisfied and the republi- intments and chagrin, or | upon which he was elected, ee ne h of a party leit diem tenfold increased heat the slavery agitation, | able people and lovers of music will show there will not be enoug! from which to get up a respectable bolt 341—a republican majority | 0" up and dispersed in 1824. Adams became President; but what did his excellent administration avail him against General Jackson and his cotton bag victory of New Orleans? Those cotton bags, how- ever, were pretty well used up in 18: Jackson’s second election was mainly due to his war against ‘‘Nick Biddle and bis National Bank monster.” Van Buren came in under the wing of Jackson, but, owing to the financial revolution of 1837, he went out in the next election in a popular whirlwind, to the songs Thus John Quincy | ternity.” This powerful party, from the bloodi- est civil war in human histery, has restored peace and the Union without the usual after- work of the scaffold, and while under the logic of events a “blasted nigger” holds the planta- tion of Jeff Davis, even Davis himself may freely play the lion of ‘‘the lost cause” from Maine to Texas, But here, Mr. President, with this great revolution completed, here is the opening for a new departure. Do you expect to hold your ground on the merits of a careful and pradent administration? John Quincy Adams could not do it, To stand still is not in the nature of the American people, and it is a policy oppesed to the universal spirit of the age. You want, General, for your party, some new legends. ‘‘Letus have peace” is good; but we have peace. We want some- thing that we have not. We want some new word of progress that will ring like a trumpet through the land. We want Cuba and all that group of the West Indies; we want Mexico; we want Central America and a ship canal across some one of those isthmus passages for a short cut from New York to Shanghae ; we want the line of the great St. Lawrence to the sea as an outlet for the rapidly accumu- Jating, heavy products of the mighty North- west, and we want an American settlement, do you hear, of those Alabama claims, These things are written in the book of ‘manifest destiny.” The book is in your hands, Mr. President, with aay or all these splendid prizes at your option, You may take your choice; but in failing to choose you will disappoint the expectations of the conalry, and evea Fenton may run you a s2rubrace for the succession, Tmo Eastern Question Diplomacy in Eu- rope=eace or War? The series of cable telegrams by which we teport the European diplomacy with respect to the proposed revision of the treaty of Paris, and the Easteroa question generally, presents the current news history of the subject for yesterday, but scarcely anything more. Its contenis, telegraphed from different sources, make up the narrative of a day, but convey nothing of a decisive character. It is evident, however, that the different Powers, the cosigners of the treaty of Paris in 1856, have become fevered and excited to a very great extent. The Cabinets are distrustful of each other. Trance, hith- erto a grand ceatral power, has been placed ex cathedra from the Old World Council room, the continental pivot has thus been loosened, and the monarchical equipoise, which was go nicely adjusted in the Paris Confer- ence disturbed. The scale inclines heavily in favor of Prussia just at present. A grand difficulty appears, however, to stand out in the fact that Prussia does not seem disposed to remove the weight of her sword from the bal- ance in which she has thrown it, somewhat after the fashion of the ancient Gaul. Bis- marck makes the most of the opportunity, The Premier sees that Russia inclines towards the great military Power of North Germany, so he shows himself as being quite ready, either to strike a profitable alliance bargain with her for war or to enter a congress or conference for the purpose of peace- able debate, The peace conference idea re- mains, indeed, the most prominent one. We are told of Russian preparations for an army movement on a vast scale; of Russian naval esprit, of the British War Office being excited, a of British troops being made ready to march from Asia to Turkey, and of warlike indi- cations of lesser note, butit is easy to perceive, notwithstanding all this, that diplomacy is actively at work for the maintenance of peace, and that the sovereign rulers dislike even the probability of beholding the war spectre in another shape from Paris, pevbaps in a still more hideous one, on the banks of the Danube or in the Bosphorus. The eyes of the Christian world are turned earnestly to the East. Rome and the holy shrines, from Rome to Constantinople, engage the attention of mankind. The Czar, the Kaiser, the Premiers and the generals are each one anxious to lead the movement. Each one wants to get there first. They can- a not agree to march all together, like a ‘band of brothers,” and heace the European compli- cation. England relies on this fact, She offends, it may be, through the Granville circular, but she believes that an outside coali- tion for redress is impossible. Austria would like to gain some slight advantage with Rus- sia, but she is afraid to move. France is powerless. Russia ‘‘connives,” in the lan- guage of the telegram, and Italy declares she will remain neutral. The people, British and 28, and Germans, in London and elsewhere, do not believe that war will result from the present agitation. What, then, remains? A congress, it may be; a readjustment of the Eastern question treaties, and either the relief of Paris or its occupation by the Prussians, REAPPEARANCR OF Ni1ssoN IN NEW of the hard cider and log cabin candidate, | yorx.—The people of New York are to have and to the chorus of Tippecanoe and Tyler too, the opportunity of hearing Miss Nilsson again the present week, and in a new and highly in- Tyler, with his bank vetoes, an aggressive teresting réle, She will reappear at Steinway policy, so crippled tha old whig party that Hall on Friday night to sing in Handel’s grand in 1844 Polk, a small politician, on the pro- | ‘oratorio, ‘The Messiab.” The Mendelssohn gressive platform ef ‘Texas and Oregon,” was too much for the great Henry Clay, per- Union and grand orchestra will assist in the performance. This will be a musical treat of sonally the most popular man of his time in| rare excellence and that seldom can be the United States. In 1848, on the military | offered. There is to be a matia¢e concert glory of Palo Alto, Resaca dela Palma, Mon- | performance on Satnrday, and on Tuesday terey and Buena Vista, ‘Old Rough and | night there will be oratorio again, This is Ready”—General Taylor—cut out Ganeral Cass, the democratic candidate; but in 1852, slavery question, through Henry Clay’s com- the last time we shall hear Miss Nilsson before she leaves for the West. It is to bo the grand idea of sectional peace on the | regretted that we are not to see this charming artist in opera this season; but may we not o~ | Mexico, The democratic | Patty. promise measures of 1850, Pierce, ‘| amateur | hope to have that pleasure before she departs soldier and a haphazard nomination, ‘not only | for Europe in the spring? Her time in this defeated General Scott, the conqueror of | country will be necessarily short, because she but utterly demolished the old whig | has to fulfil an engagement in London next spring; but she might appear for a short sea- Here opens the new chapter of our second | son in opera in New York when she returns Hereafter it | republican party. Pierce, led by the Southern from the West, if an arrangement could be republicans to | ‘‘secesh” oligarchy, in violating the compact | made wilh a manager ef one of our largest reopened with o | theatres or opera houses, and if our fashion- brought this republican anti-slavery party lato | some liberality and make an effort te that end. Agency of Ra‘tzondy and the Telegraph im War. The present war fa Europe shows in a re- markable manner the agency of railroads and the telegraph in the operations and result of such a conflict, This mighty power of our times determines, it may be said, the victory on the side of the belligerent that knows how to use it best, We have heard and read much of the art of war, and, no doubt, it isa great art; but in this age war owes a great deal to scientific discoveries and appliances. Great generals in all ages have understood the importance of celerity of movement and the rapid concentration of a large force at a given point. To strike before the enemy was ready, and with overwhelming numbers, has been the strategy of all celebrated command- ers, The first Napeleon was particularly dis- tinguished fer this, But it was not till our time—till a few years ago—that armies could be moved by locomotive speed or intelligence communicated with lightning rapidity, Rail- roads and the telegraph have revolutionized the art of war. The American republic was one of the first nations in discovering the importance of these modern agents in war and in using them on a large scale, as it is first in the development of all progressive ideas, As soon as our late civil war began to assume vast proportions it was seen by the sagacious military chiefs of the Union armies that the railroads and tele- graph must perform an important part in the conflict, The wide extent of country over which the war was spread made the use of railroads and the telegraph more necessary here than where war is confined to narrower limits. But they are not less available and valuable to belligerents whose military opera- tions are confined to a more limited area, Both sides in our war appreciated the useful- ness of these agents and used them, but the rebels were unable to do so to the same extent as the federals, They had not the same resources for constructing and maintaining them in order, And it was this advantage that contributed in a great measure to the succ.ss of the Union armies and to shortening the war. To construct and keep in order railroads and the telegraph was made a special service and separate department in the war, General McCallum was placed in charge of it, and had a large force of men scially detailed for the work. Where the Union armies could seize railroads in the enemy’s territory they were appropriated ; where the railroads had been damaged by the enemy to obstruct the march of the Uaion armies they were promptly repaired, and where it was important to construct new lines they were constructed with surprising rapidity. The engineer corps and a large body of workmen under General McCallum went in advance of the armies for this purpose, and right upon their heels followed the troops | with the necessary materials of war and com- missary supplies. Semetimes these lines of communication were opened or put in order with such speed that a large force, with all the necessary supplies, were concentrated at a given point withia as few days as it would have taken weeks or months to bring up in former times. Had it not been for the rail- roads, which facilitated army movements so greatly, and tho telegraph, which eommu- j nicated intelligence instantly, the war, instead of being ended in four years, might have lasted ten or twenty, and even then the result might have been different. About the same time, or, to be more precise, a year or so before we developed the great utility of rairoads and the telegraph in war the French used these agencies very success- fully in the war with Austria on the soil of | Italy. The Emperor, Napoleon the Third, showed great vigor then, and brought up his fine army and materials with remarkable celer- ity. The rapid, sharp and overwelming tlows struck at Austria until the conflict closed with the peace of Villafranca placed France in the first position, and made Napoleon a hero, Aus- tria was not ia a situation to use these modern improvements as effectively as France, or she did not comprehend as well the importance of them. Ifwe come down a few years later, to the war between Prussia and Austria, we find that Austria was still behind the times, while her adversary was up with them. The rapid movements cf the Prussians, through the use of the railroads and telegraph, over- whelmed the Austrians before they were well prepared. The result was the victory of Sadowa, which epened the gates of Vienna to the Prussians and made them supreme in Germany. But the most astonishing effect of using the railroads and telegraph in war is seen in the present conflict between Prussia and France. Ina fortnight after the declaration of war by Napoleon nearly half a million of men on both sides were marshalled on the Rhine border. It seems incredible how these immense forces, with all the proper complement of infantry, cavalry, artillery and munitions, and supplies of all kinds, could have been brought there in soshortatime. Ina few days, as soon as the fighting commenced, it was evident the Prus- sians had used the railroads and telegraph more effectively than the French. The conse- quence was a succession of brilliant victories for them, such as the world bas never witnessed before. It appears surprising now, looking back at the result, how Napoleon could have neglected as he did the use of these modern agents of war, especially when we consider that he had used them so well a few years be- fore in the Italian campaign against Austria, Such weakness and want of foresight looks like fatality. He had evidently lost that vigor and sagacity he formerly exhibited. And how skilfully Prussia appropriated and held these means of communication with her base as she advanced farther and farther in France! The French have been conquered at every step as much through the railroads and telegraph as by arms. The nation that uses these most effectively in this age must conquer; hence, as was said, they have revolutionized the art of war. The Conciliatory Atitadg of Russia. Just as we expected, the government of the Russian Czar has, with that dignified magna- nimity which is the noblest prerogative of true power anda righteous cause, sent a concilia- tory note to the European States interested in the Paris treaty disclaiming all intent to man- ufacture trouble, while at the same time firmly maintaining the justice of her receat comolaint, “It is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” The Czar has the opportunity to p!unge all Europe into political chaos; nay, he holds the entire ‘‘bal- ance of power”—that ark of rescue for the thrones and sceptres of the world—at his mercy, but abstains from the act that would shatter it to pieces ina day. This is a posi- tion to win increasing sympathy and to en- hance respect. Prince Gortchakoff asks for what is equitable and is due to his country, and he wisely does so at a moment so oppor- tune that he may obtain it without a war. The absurd irritability of England on the subject, and her bullying attitude, indicate unmistak- ably what would have been done, were France and the rest of the cosignatory parties to the Paris treaty unembarrassed by other complications at this moment. Rusala, we repeat, is on the defensive, and she merely seeks to strengthen her position at a juncture when things are shaped to facilitate the effort, and even to give her weight in se- curing peace for all Europe. It is a sinzular travesty of sense and fact to accuse the man who has been garroted and pinioned by half a dozen stout fellows on the high road of being a disturber of the peace and “‘a public enemy” because he tries to get loose and go about his business when he sees his assailants fighting among themselves. Come, Uncle John, bethink you of your own boasted motto that “fair play is a jewel,” and do for Russia on the Black Sea as you would be done by on tho North Sea and on the Chan- nel were a hostile coalition to prohibit your free navigation of the same and all measures to fortify your maritime cities on the coasts of those comparatively interior basins and estua- ries. The parallel is not far-fetched, and it needs but a reversal of the case to make it most formidable for an insular and isolated Power. The War Situation in France. There is little news of importance from the seat of war to comment upon ex- cepting the information from Tours an- nouncing that the armies of the Grand Dake of Mecklenburg and General Voa der Tann are falling back before the French advance, which threatens to outflunk them. If this news proves true it is impor- tant. General Manteuffel recently received orders to march southward, and at last ac- counts was moving from Amiens with a view of co-operating with the forces now opposed tothe French Army of the Loire. This re- port, however, is not consistent with that of yesterday, which declared that the French advance for the present had been discontinued, Paladines, having secured 8 strong position, was going to hold it for some time to make further pr.parations. If he has the force under his command which official re- ports say he has we tnink that delay on his part will not prove to his advantage. Hesita- tion has proved most disastrous to the French arms throughout the whole of this war. It bottled up Bazaine in Metz, for had he “‘iussed round” for a while, asis the opinion of the most successful of American generals, he would not have been caugut in the trap at Metz. If Paladines has the force he is said to have he ought to push on, and, if Trochu means to do anything with the armies withia Paris, he ought by this time to be able to do it, From the appearance of things we ara near a crisis, which few days must bring to a head, Queen Victorin vs. Her Ministry. Her Majesty of England is not so dead to all concern in what is passing around her in the poliical and diplomatic world as some have hastily been led to suppose. If certain London rumors, in a high direction, be true, she has shown very emphatic signs of intellec- tual life and vigor by sending the Prince of Wales to the Cabinet Council with a very ex- plicit notification of her dissent from Earl Granville’s peppery despatch in reply to the circular of the Russian chef, Prince Gortcha- koff. All who remember the little passage of arms between her Majesty and her ministers, at the very outset of her reign, when those dignitaries undertook to regulate her house- hold and appoint and remove her ladies in waiting at Court, know that the Queen has pluck and perseverance; but most pvople have thought that she had practically retired from public affairs. However, this anti-war demozstration looks like a touch of the olden time, It is not easy to comprehend how so important a matter of Cabinet confidence as the alleged mission of the Prince of Wales could have been allowed to reach the street, unless for steckjobbing purposes ; but, taking it to be authentic, we can hardly doubt that Vic- toria’s views will prevail. Secretaries Lowe and Cardwell, who also oppose Earl Granville’s position, are men who have risen more directly from the people than have some of their colleagues, and they take a broad, unpreju- diced, economical view of the case. Then, again, Premier Gladstone hesitates, as of right he should, before so poor a pretext for so vast a war, while the popular voice—at least among tbe classes who think and reason— is outspoken against a breach with Russia, through the eloquence of such experienced, able and influential champions as Mr. Froude and John Stuart Mill. Should the Cabinet vote unanimously, indeed, for war, the Queen’s opinion would bo overborne; but, as matters stand, the vote is divided and Victoria is positive. We may pretty safely count, then, upon war being averted unless some sudden frenzy should impel Russian statesmen into one of those rash escapades which have, for thousands of years, unfortunately, been the trump cards of discord, devastation and slaughter between men and communities. Queen Victoria nobly crowns the record of a well-spent life by up- lifting her hand in protest against what would be but a needless and unjust conflict, from which all enlightened souls shrink back with horror, MATERIAL Alp FoR Franog.—It so hap- pens through the changing fortunes of war that our oldest ally, France, iq making large drafts upon us for the means of preserving her national integrity, Large quantities of war materiel have already been forwarded, and the ship Erie is now loading with arms and ammunition for the French republicans. It is a most happy coincidence that we are thus able to repay in kind the obligations ren- dered us by France in our first aud direst extremity, th CT, ‘The Sermons of Yesterday. It must be painfully apparent to those whe’ read the reports of sermons published in the, Herarp every Monday morning bow barren of original ideas the great majority of our, preachers are. We read substantially the same sermons every week; not delivered by the same minister, we admit, but by some other ono who seems to have made an agree- ment with his reverend contemporary to swap discourses, When we bear in mind that there are not less than three hundred and eighty Christian churches in this city it will be seen that by a well regulated system of exchanges no preacher need prepare more than one and one-fifth part of a sermon yearly. If we give to each sermon the fourth part of an idea, and they are seldom burdeaed with more, we shall have a total of not excveding ninety-one well defined ideas on the imporiant question of the future existence. Fortuaately for humanity, as we believe, the getting to heaven dovs not depend alio- gether upon sermons. If the preachers be poor, the choirs at least aregood, Yesterday, for instaace, the sermons were distinguished by a plentiful Lack of originality ; but the orgam and the choir were excelent, Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent A shout that ture heil’s coavaye aud, beyond, Frignted tae reign of Chaos aud of Night, We therefore have strong hopes that, im spite of the intellectual poverty of the preach- ers, many souls were yesterday saved by the music. Mr. Hepworth was eloquent on the old subject of moral courage, the necessity of every person possessing which he illustrated with very fimiliar argument. Rev. S. P. Swift spoke well upon the gentleness of the life of Crist, another ofi-argued subject. Dr. Dix dis- coursed on the relations between the rich and poor in a style that must have made some of his wealthy flock examine their souls, At the American Free Church Rev. Charles B. Smyth contrasted the Church of Curist and the syna- go ues of Satan, to the decided detriment of the latter. A very small congregation listened to Rev. Mr. Tracy’s answer to the question, “Who Was Jesus Chrisi?” His sermon was not quite as effective as it might have been had the passage of the street cars not pre vented attentive listening. Under cover of the noise some youag, unzoily couples employed their time ia love-making, thus giving force to the old couplet, which says :— Wherever God erects a house of prayer ‘The vevil always oulids w chapel there, And ‘uwall be lound upou exauiuation ‘The lavter bas the largest cougregation, Perhaps it would be unjust to apply the last two lines to the case referred to, but certainly the Fourth Avenue Railroad bas much to an- swer for, if they be applicable. Rev. Mr, Krotel explained the duty of Christians to God and to the government, Rev. Merrill Richardson discoursed on the design of preach- ing, and enlightened his congregutioa on the difference between original sins and sins not original, while Rev. R, M, Stratton stirred up his flock toa sense of their du.y to the heathen in foreign lands, At Lyric Hali Mr, Frothing- ham further developed the fact that his mind is still perturbed on the subject of religion, In Brooklyn Brother Beecher preached on Christian service and watching for souls, and in the evening the Tabernacle was used for a pious concert, Dr. Newman, at Washington, delivered an interesting sermon on the nature and benefits of faith to mankind, At all the other churches, in this city, Brooklyn, Washinton, Jersey City and elsewhere re- ported, the sermons were of the samo order, But few of them contained any- thing new. Their delivery, however, was good, and that, perhaps, is the best we cap say of them, Who Shall Be the Next Democratic Can= didate for President, Hendricks or Holle mant The starting of the name of Governor Hoffman as the next cnndidate for the Presi- dency has awakened the Western democrats, who are beginnning to push forward their favorite, whe is, undoubtedly, Senator Hen- dricks, of Indiana, Treating upon this topie the Lafayette (Indiana) Jowrnal—an influen- tial paper in that section of the State— remarks that ‘‘the friends of Senator Hendricks were very outspoken in declaring that his Presidential aspirations hinged upon the suce cess or failure of the democratic ticket in Indiana. Tere was no secret made of the fact that Senator Hendricks’ friends felt im- pelled to especial effort. With the success of the party in Indiana his hands were strength- ened, and he set at once about the combina- tions which should secure him the Presidential nomination, This advantage, however, has been fully offset by Hoffman's very successful race in the Empire State. Mr. Hendricks is wise as a serpent and wily a3 a fox, but ina Tammany leader will doubtless find his match, The plot and counterplot of the game will be an interesting study.” Tra'y it will; and it will require all the wisdom and tact the republican leaders can bring to bear to defeat either Hendricks or Hoffinan, when the friends of both are cordially united upon the man. The Foundling Hospital Fair. The attractions at this delighiful enteriain- ment in the armory of the Seventy-first regi- ment are drawing large crowds of visitors to the splendidly decorated hall, whero female loveliness presides at every table, playing the willing handmaiden to divinest charity. The scene at night when all is life and motion and brilliant light, joined to strains of delicious music, is exceedingly fine and worthy of a visit at any time, merely for the pleasure to be enjoyed there. But what of the matter of duty in supporting one of the noblest works cf merey in the metropolis? Of all the institn~' tions devoted to such purposes there is not one having stronger claims upon public sup=, port than the Foundling Asylum of the Sisters; of Charity, ‘The progress these good ladieg have made within the past year in rescuinys more than o thousand deserted children from misery and death is astonishing. And they have done this without assistance from the State or county, aided only by the gencrosity of private citizens and their own devoted labor. Now, therefore, that they ask, for the first time, a share of public patronage, shall it not be freely accorded to them? It must be remembered that the immediate object of the fair is to enable the institution to claim the sum of a hundred thousand dol- lars provisionally vranted bv the last [egisln~