The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1870, Page 6

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OF T¢-DAY’S HERALD. ive Movement by General De e Engagement at Beauue-la- ] nde; Successes Ciaimed on Both Sides; Three Sorties Made from Paris and Repuised; King William's Report of the Victory at reg Orderly Retreat of the French A the North; Lille and pun- kirk to be Next Attacked; Evreux Oc- cupied by the Prussian Borcea—Russia: The Eastern Question Diplomacy Tend- ing to Peace and a Congress; Bismarck Ke- commends Russia to Withdraw the Gortcha- ko® Note; King William and His Premter Mold the “Key of the Situation;” Prussian Opinion of a British “Back Down;” ’Change Reassured; Prince Gorichakoff’s First Note smi in the Way—Telegraphic News from Kurope—News from Cuba, New Providence and Mexico—Obituary. , @—Agriculiure: How the Value of Farm Produc- tions May Be Largely Increased; Reperi of the Commissioner— The Immigration Question : Tue Late Grand Convention Fizzle at Indiana- pol's—Criticisms of New Books—Real Estate Matters—The Scaffold in Virginia: Execution of Kit Hubbard (Negro) at Pittsylvania Court House, Va.—Diamond Reef: Clearing Out the Harbor—Inhuman Conduct at Sea—The Late Storm—A Singalar Creature, sely, But Too Weill: A Legal Lecture f ‘The Public @ Expedition— [ ‘en’s Aid Society—Naval and Army In- ligence—Trotting at Fleetwood Park—The NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER , 30, .1870.— Tae Kasteru Question—Tho Intorests of the United States iv the East. The Eastern question, that has becn slum- bering during fourteen years, under the musty parchment of a treaty, has suddenly arisen and put the slatesmea of old Europe on the qué vive. Those who were instrumental in framing the treaty in 1856 did not foresee that they were only patching up tho old difficulty and that this traditional carbuncle of Europe would open anew, And yet they might have forescen it. For the last fourteen yoars Russia has been smarting under the humiliating condl- tions which were then imposed upon her, and she now opealy declares that she will tolerate them no longer. She will not abate a jot of her demands. The second note addrossed by Prince Gortchakoff to the British Cabinet may be considered more conciliatory in its terms, but is in substance only the reiteration of the first. The statesmen of England may cudgel their brains for a peaceful adjustment of this vexed question, but there are only two ways in which it can be solved—by war or by yleld- ing to the demands of Russia. In adopting the latter course England will tacitly acknowledge that the blood and treasure poured out during the Crimean war were spent in vain, The series of cable telegrams which we publish elsewhere reports the pregress of the question in the Old World capitals during the day and to a very late hour of the evening yesterday, In England the general aspect was more pacific. There was an impreved feeling on 'Cuange, that delicate baremeter of British sentimeat and opinion. The London newspapers treated the subject more or less peiatedly in their morning issues, A leading city journal, which is supposed to speak ander official inspiration at critical moments in the history of Great Britain, asserted conspicu- ously, in the name and behalf of the English people, that, “desiring the maintenance of peace, we stand on the maintenance of peace guarantees and the repudiation altogether of the claim to supersede the obliga- tions of the treaty of 1856.” The principle involved here, if it should be adopted by the Cabinet in Downing street, would restore the original cause ef difficulty and danger. This state of affairs can scarcely occur, however, if we are to believe another London paper, which alleged that it had an official statement to the effect that ‘‘Russia has decided te with- draw her demand and submit her propositien to the decision of the Conference.” Here we have ‘the Conference” spoken ef as a fixed fact. If this impertant meeting should be held we are to presume that peace will be preserved, as Russia will either gain her ebject or be forced to submit—for the present, at least—to the solemn arbitration of her national peers, delivered in friendly council. From the guarded statemonts of the Russian Minister in this country during the interview with a Hxratp reporter we understand that Russia seeks no territorlal aggrandizement, but will remain firm in her rejection of that clause of the treaty which keeps her war vessela from entering the Black Sea; and she has five hun- dred thousand good reasons ready to back her demands, In the face of these events it is well for us to examine whether the interests of eur country are involved in the East. There are American statesmen who hold that the United States are not concerned in any of the political questions that have set the Old World in commotion, They say that the Monroe doctrine should be our line of conduct, The doctrine of complete non-interference was well suited to the time at which it was proclaimed. The Uniled States were then a second rate Power. Out of the late struggle we have arisen a great, regenerated nation, and now occupy a commanding position in the world. For all practical purposes of communicatioa we have been brought within a few hours of Constaati- nople, and are daily creating new interests for ourselves in the East. Our immense re- ine Races—The lair Season—The Fire jer Casualty—Cuba: The Election of the Duke of Aosta: Reported Killing of “Bembeta”’ and Cavada; items from the Insurrectionists— News from St, Thomas—After the Campaign: ‘The Camden (N.2J.) Election Riots—Blliards— Westohester Coutty Items, : Leading Article, “The Eastern Ques- Interests of the United States in the Past musement Announcements, Y—Euitorials (continued from sixth page)—Per- Intelligence—News from Washington— es Last lt epee Intelligence — erously Inclined Madman—Business No- tices. 8—Proceedings in the Courts—Falr Play and Bet- ter Pay to (he Schoolinistresses—Financial and Commercial Reports—An Enterprising Wo- man. @-Incursnce Assnrance: The Atieged Kings County Insurance Job—Search for Stolen Property—A New Western Clty—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. 10 -North Carolina: Ex-Governor Vance Elected United States Senator; Speech of the Senator t—Marine Disusters—Amusements—Indig- on Meeting In Montgomery, Ala.—Woman Sudrage—Notes from Buston—Census of the Citv—Baropean Markets—Sutpping — Intellt- gence—Advertisenients, 11—Advertisements, L2—aivertisements, Ressta DEMANDS that the European Powers shall prepare for carly action in the Eastern question, Good for Russia. No time for fresh combinations or new alliances for war. Vote early and on “‘the square.” I'x-GoveERNorR Brown, of Mississippi, says he would as lief vote for Millard Fillmore or Robert ©. Winthrop (old whigs) for President, » as he would for Seymour or Hendricks, Did ) he intentionally forget Hoffman? Tux Evropean Cone@ress which it is now preity certain will be assembled in London must, we are assured, be ‘‘wholly unfettered” and empowered to open “‘all questions.” A splendid chance for Bonaparte to state his case, and for the United States to submit the Alabama claims bill. Bring forward the cal- culations, Nive Lyongs oF Syow are reported in some ef the mountains of Virginia, East, west, north and south of us within the past two weeks there have been little snow squalls or storms, and we can hardly expect, even in , this “‘tight little island,” to escape much longer. Our late beautiful weather was too deautiful to last. By THe occupation of Evreux the Prussians dave got nearer to Cherbourg than they have yet been. It is not likely that they will make any movement upon this place, as to do 80 they would have to pass between the fertresses of Caen and Vire, or reduce them. The cap- ture of Cherbourg, with its magnificent docks and other public works, would be a terrible blow to France. However, the town is strongly fortified, and gan be defended by the Ack os well ae by the r sources, our industry and the late inventions of science have raised this conatry to a posi- tion of grandeur. There is an old maxim that says, ‘‘ Voblesse oblige,” and it may be affirmed with equal justice, Grandeur obliges, Those statesmen who think that we have ao. political interests in the Old World are behind their age; for, during the last few years the foreign element has been steadily flowing to our shores, and its influence has made itself felt in the framiag of our foreiga policy. Another thought presses itself upon the attention of our government. In case of a war between this country and Eogland—and such an emergency may arise if we take into account the late utterances of General Butler— Russia can render us effective assistance, She can deal » deadly blow to the most cherished interests of England by barring her passage to the East. % 4 There is another consideration—a moral one—which our administration will do well not to forget. Of all the European Powers Russia was the only one that evinced a sin- cere sympathy for our cause during the late war. If the Cabinet of St. Petersburg had followed the seductive advice of the Emperor Napoleon, in order to bring about a formidable coalition against this country, the South might have been able to constitute herself into an independent State. It is a notorious fact that the Emperor Alexander repelled these insidi- ous proposals, He did even more; for at the moat critical moment of our struggle he sent a fleet into our waters in order to attest, by the presence of the imperial flag, the sympathies of his government for the people of this conatry. But, say Machiavelli and his followers, gratitude should not be the line of conduct in political actions. We believe that this doc- trine is as false as it is hackneyed. Gratitude in public and private life is not only a virtue, but a matter of sound policy, and States, as well as individuals, acquire credit if they stick to their friends. A firm in Wall street would bring disgrace upon itself if, in a critical mo- ment, it should desert its business friends, Does not the moral of this also apply to the firm of Grant & Company in their political relations to the firm of Alexander & Co. at the present crisis of af- fairs? We do not think England will declare war against Russia without the assistance ofa Continental Power. The author of an article in the last nnmber of the Zdinburg Review— and who is presumed to be no less a person than Mr. Gladstone himselt—admits that large mics gre neconsary fas qarrylog qa offensive warfare. We shall quote his state- ment :—‘'While everything combines to make us safe, everything also combines to make us harmless, To judge fron recent experience, the relative share of maritime force in aggree- sive warfare is dwindling, and we are an essentially, incurably, maritime Power. All the sea dees for us as defenders of our own shorea it would impartially de against us when We procved to attack the shores of others.” In the Baltio Cronstadt is more inaccessi- ble te hostile fleets than ever. Russia has fifty iren-clada, and the forts which defend the entrance of the river Nova are imprognable, A British fleot venturing into these waters would expose ilself to destruction, In the Black Sea the Eaglish might bombard Odessa, Kertch and a few other ports of minor impor- tance; but, on the wholo, they would incur a heavier loss than they could inflict. The oaly Power which could be the ally of England ia Austria, Is it probable that Fran- cis Joseph will risk a second Sadows and tho dismemberment of the Austrian empire? At the first demenstration of hostility a Rus- sian army of five hundred thousand men is in readiness to bear down upon Vienna, On the other hand, Russla has repeatedly declared that she has no designs upon any part of the Turkish territory. She states that the liberty of the Black Sea is vital to her interests as a first rate Power. She wants nothing more aud will be satisfied with nething less, Public opinion will recognize the justice of her demands, No one can dony that the Treaty of 1856 has been repeatedly violated, and the clause concerning the Black Sea is in contravention of the grand principle of the liberty of the seas. In view of the foregoing arguments and facts the prosent : administration should lend its moral support to the cause of Russia, and thus discharge the debt of gratitude we owe that Power, The War Situation in France. We are somewhat at a loss to form any definite opinion as to the real condition of the contending armies in the Valley of the Leire. The telegrams are so mixed and the claims on both sides so contradictory that it is almost impossible to get at the actual state of affairs in that section of France, That there has been fighting at Beaune-la-Rolande, a town about twenty-six miles distant from Orleans in a northeasterly direction, yesterday, wo have geod reason to believe; but the decisive battle, which, in all probability, will decide the fate of France, has not yet been fought. A despatch from Tours says that the French forces near Gion and Montargis advanced towards Pithiviers, in conjunction with the forces statioued near Artenay, and at- tacked the Germans successfully; but the coming up of forty thousand fresh German troops seemed to operate as a check on the victorious march of the Freneh, This is but a repetition of the strategy adopted by the Germans throughout the campaiga, They have ever been ready with men to con- centrate at any particular point at the proper time, Perhaps te the adoption of this system the greater portion of their extra ordinary suc- cess inthe present war is due. Though the despatch from Tours claims a victory, with great less to the Germans and some guns, an equal amount of consideration is entitled to the announcement frem Versailles asserting that the Germans wore victorious, One thou- sand prisoners are said to have fallen into their hands, and the operations throughout the day were directed in person by Prince Frederick Charles, Along the whole line fighting appears to have taken place, and if the Duke of Mecklenburg believed ia the easy capture of Le Mans he must have experienced disappointment in his attempt to capture it, if he made such an essay, as the despatches would lead us to infer he did, for that city is still held by the French and defended by a force variously estimated at from twenty-five thou- sand to fifty thousand men. The victory at Amiens is conclusive. The French were beaten there, anda royal despatch from King William announces the fact. From all that can be learaed of General Manteuffel’s future move- ments the belief is that he intends to move northwards and attack Lille and then move on Dunkirk. Time, however, will reveal what is now wrapped in mystery. Three de- monstrations were made from different points of Paris on Monday, but each resulted in failure. There is little in the situation of affairs in France to-day to chase away the gloom that hovers over taat once proud but now humiliated nation. Dz PALADINES ON THE OFFENSIVE.—As ugual both belligerents claim to have gained successes in the engagoment reported to have taken place at Beaune-la-Rolande on Monday. It is evident, however, that the engagement was indecisive of results, At the same time some importance must he attached to the fact that the Fronch were the assailants, and not the Germans. De Paladines seems to be making a desperate effort to pierce the Prussian left centre, and, throwing back the left wing, march upon Versailles and raise the siege of Paris before the Prussian forces can concentrate upon his rear. What success will attend his movements remains to be seen. Failure, however, does not neces- sarily iavolve a repetition ef the Sedan disas- ter, While Le Mans is held by the French forces he has a safe line of retreat, even though he be cut off from Tours, which he is very likely to be in a day or twé. At Last Gexzrat Troonv Has Mave a Sorrig, but it was so feeble that it was easily repulsed. Three demonstrations are reported to have been made—one from Mount Valcrien, against Bezons, a few miles from Versailles, which took place Monday night; another against Montretout, and a third against Choisy-le-Roj, both of which were made yes- terday morning. The last referred te was the most serious, but none of them seem to have been made with any vigor. Now or never is the time for Trochu to fight. If he cannot even cut his way through the Prussian lines he can keep his opponents employed and pre- vent their sending reinforcements to the army near Orleans. ; Jusr Like Him.—George Francis Train is reported to be in prison in Marseilles, and for singing the ‘‘Marseillaise” in too high a key. Still we have no fear that his detention will be acause of war, and but little hope that his relopeo will save Paria, | Tho English Primo Minister. The spectacle presented by the government of Groat Britain at this critical moment is so pitiable that it should go far to gratify and satisfy the florcest hater of that country. Mr. Gladstone is Premier of England; and it must be borne in mind that in the British conatitu- tion the Prime Mivister it is whose mental and moral calibre determines the character and fate of the administration. If he is s great man he may make his goverameat great in apite of the weakness of subordinates. If he is a weak aud small man all the oloquence and statesmanship imaginable in inferior members of the Ministry will not save it from failure and coatempt. And inasmuch as it is tae Premier whose guidauce and judgment must necessarily influence and determine the whole courso of policy, domestic aud foreign, it will not do for him to bo a one-sided or a two-sided man, He must be, as Lord Bacon described man, ‘‘a being of large discourse, looking before and after,” If he happen to be a great student he bad better brash the dust of his library well off before he goes into the council chamber. For it is bis business to make bistory—not to write abeut history or think abeut history or advise about histery, or, least of all, to croak about history. And it is above all things necessary that he should be able to deal with facts as they are and as they arise, and have no over- whelming preference for ove part of political action over another. He ought to bo able to take impartial interest in foreign affairs, finance, law reform—all sides, in a word, of international and domestic politics. Unless he be endowed with this sovereign quality of large-hearted and large-minded impartiality ho is a subordinate in soul, und ought to bea subordinate in place. Now it is the peculiar misfortune of Eng- land at this crisis that she has a man at her head who has such an exclusive genius for financial aad other domestic reforms, such a passion for economy and {mprovement at home, that he positively abhors the interna- tional side of politics altogether. If there were no foreign politics there would bo no armies, no fighting, no wasteful expenditaro on guns and gunpowder. That is the short gospel of Utopia, and Mr. Gladstone is its short-sighted apostle. He hates the whole foreign trouble so bitterly that his mind is positively blind and deaf and dumb on that side. He simply will not look atit. The coa- sequence is that he has always set his face against the very question of efficiency iu the army and the navy, and resents with ludi- crous bitterneas any attempt to make him con- sider what may be the duty and position of his country under any of those terrible turns of fortuno which the rotten and insecure fabric of Europe makes possible every day. They come upon him, therefore, with a shock that deprives him for the time of all judgment, all power to act, almost of all sense of what is fitting and decent in his great position of helmsman of the ship of state, and forces him into acts and utterances which make him and the nation he is supposed to govern the laugh- | ing stock of mankind. Mr. Gladstone, it is very well understood, has left the practical conduct of foreign affaira in England of late altogether to Lord Gran- ville, the Foreign Secretary. Both in Parlia- ment and in council the Premier has been, in these latest months, on this greatest of great subjects, a silent non-combatant. But if he has beer silent where he ought to have spoken, he has been orly too ontspoken where he had better have held his peace, Both on the platform and in the press he has been deplorably, not to say fatally, copious and fluent on this head, and some of the things he has said have been as surprising and shocking to public opinion as a minor earthquake. <A few weeks ago, at a public meeting, he actually declared that he was ‘‘astonished, pained and bewildered” at the evonts that were going on in Europe, Now let any man of business who has a heavy litigation on hand just consider what his feolings would be if his counsel were to declare that the case, if committed to his charge, “astonished, pained and bewildered” him. There can be no doubt that the case would very speedily be out of that lawyer's control. But poor Mr. Gladstone, altheugh one of the most conscientious of men, does not perocive the absurd incongruity of such sentiments with his position, The ship of state in’ England. is likely to get into very deep waterindeed just now. In fact, onty a brief fortnight or so after Mr. Gladstone uttored this naive confession of the ingompetonce of a dis- tracted mind down Came Rusala and the East- ern question like a thunder-clap upon British “bewilderment” and neutrality. Every man with ordinary common sense and cool braia in English councils might have seen the cloud gathering. Mr. Gladstone assuredly had fagultigs big enough for that if he could haye used them: But 0. Blood was flowing in torrents. Empires were falling. The ‘‘capital of civilization” was being besieged. Armaged- don seemed coming on. There was a general appearance, to Mr. Gladstone's philosophical and fiscal and ecclesiastical benevolence, of hell or bedlam having broken loose all round. So he, whose duty it is to guide, control and plan for the country, was fain to pronounce himself “‘pained, astonished and bewildered.” Why, this is not so great or so statesmanlike ag the famons measures of the late lamented Mrs. Partington, That energetic old lady, invaded by the Atlantic Ocean, did at least seize her familiar mop and do her utmost. But Mr. Gladstone’s mind, according to his own showing, has broken down altogether. So, again, at the Lord Mayor's dinner, on the 9th of this month, this great siatesman, spoak- iag of the war, gave utterance to nonsense so rank a# to show only too plain'y how inade- quate are his faculties to deal with the great events agitating Europe and the greater events, perhaps, {mpending. ‘‘This war,” he said, “has prescated te our view military catas- trophes of a character 60 transcending all former examples ‘bat @ mystery surrounds them which no one as yet has been able to penetrate.” For solemn absurdity of the Pedagogue-Prig-Pecksniffian order commend us to tbis seatence! ‘“Transcendane catas- trophes presented to the view!” ‘‘Surround- ing mysteries which none can penetrate!” These things surely read like extracts from Mr. Kisk’s playbills rather thaa the respon- sible utterances of a British siatesman. Flatu- lent and dangerous nonseuse! There has been no “mystery” at all in (hose mgmentoua maxims concerning virtue and vice, idleness TRIPLE SHEE. ies i ' events which we are all following with ao muoh interest. Sedan, Mots, Paris, the ruin of France, the rise of Germany, are all expli- cable by the simple application to life of those eo gene me ena ee nt Report of tho Comufmlonor of Aaricaltured We publish in another columo.a copious ab- stract of Commissioner Capron’s Report om Agriculture, which is replete with interesting facts upon this subject. It appears that while some scientific progress is! going! on through- out the country there is still a great want of the knowledge that the .land>must be reeu- perated only by the judicious alternation of, crops. For want of this practice among our farmers thousands of acres of really good soil are being exhausted every year—literally starved out. This is and,,hag been for. years the ruinous habit. of the Southera planter. While an acre could raise ‘a few bushels of grain it was. worked out, and then left to utter impoverishment. Hence whole tracts of the best lands became in time a wilderness, The report draws attention to the fact that many exotic plants and trees can and igdustry, which came next after pothooks and bangers in the copybooks of our infancy. But to Mr. Gladstone's ‘‘astonished, pained, bewildered” brain these things are mysteries, the very mystery of iniquity itself; for they are War, described by the ancients as ‘‘de- tested of mothers,” ‘but, to Mr. Gladstone's eye, deranger of budgets, and, a3 such, doubly or thrice accursed. Heary Taylor, who wrote tha “Statesman,” said thats statesman ghould have not a good conscience but a strong conscience, by which he did not mean a bad conscience in the least, but something more than a good conscience. Now, Mr. Gladstone is a good man in exactly that sense in which Taylor condemns, good conscience in a statesman. To put it as plainly as possible, such a man, capricious, unreliable, sensitive and noble, when great emergencies demand great action, Is all scruple, without any measures, He is so dreadfully afraid of violating the laws of God that he can do nothing te help the needs of man except preach; anda good set sermon with a vea- geance has Mr. Gladstone preached about the wer in the pages of the Hdinburg Review, and which. may be pronounced the most eloquent and indiscreet utterance anybody in such a responsible position has ever yet been known to make, The article is one long tissue of schoolmaster’s criticism, rod in hand, ef every- body connected with the war. Solemn con- demnaation of the French Emperor, sneera at the King of Prussia’s piety, doubts whether Germany, about to be supreme, will ‘deserve the confidence of Burope’—exactly as if Europe was a public meeting and Germany was going to take the chair; ending with a long glorification of England as the one vir- tueus, generous, pure, right-loving Power, who is never to fire a shot in war, or spend a guinea on war, but who, somehow or other, chiefly because she is an island, is to bring about the millennium before long. This account of the article, though brief, is perfectly truth- ful. And we do not wonder that all sober and judicious people in England are quiyering with shame and regret that so good a man, her Prime Minister to boot, should make himself such a spectacle for gods and foreigners, But there is werse bebind, The Russian difficulty has come on top of all the other troubles, and Mr. Gladstone, most powerful Minister since Walpole, has been so exercised in mind about it that.he has positively written to the London Zimes, that last refuge of the travelling Englishman cheated in his hotel bill or delayed ten minutes by a railway express, ‘My dear fellow,” said an Englishman who believed in ghosts, ar- guing with another Englishman who dida’t— “my dear fellow, what should you do if you went into the parlor and saw the figure of your deceased grandmother playing the piano?” “I should write to the Zimes,” was the reply. If this does not finish Mr. Glad- stoue we can hardly imagine what will. The truth is, one so exquisitely good, but s0 capri- cious in his opinions—a combination of arch- angel and will-o’-the-wisp—is not fit for tho first, if for any, place in politics, And things are becoming too serious in Europe for such child’s play as we bave been speaking of. It is tolerably plain that, under the stress of the Russian difficulty, Lord Granville, really a strong man, is virtually superseding the cloudy-minded Premier, Mr. Gladstone would have been a truly great statesman in Japan or China before the day when the outer barbarians forced those happy and secluded ones to have foreign affairs, But he is lost in “‘wandering mazes” in a world where empires go down in the shock of battle, and where blood flows too freely for men who have the right proportion of blood in their veins to think of goods and budgets exclusively. Mr, Gladstone is in temperament feminine, in intellect a logic mill, Hence his blunders and deficiencies. And just, though crushing, was the criticism passed upon him not long since by a brilliant Englishwoman—‘‘He has a woman’s nerves without a woman's tact.” for instance, the valuable cinchona, or Peru~ viaa bark tree, . The experiments »made in the Department of Agriculture prove that it can be grown here with great success, We learn from this report that the Japan ese silk worm is goclimated here, and flourishes healthfully in the open ‘air on the nexious ailaathus trees ef Brooklyn, As yet the ani- mal has not been utilized here as extensively agit has been in California, We commend this report of the Commissioner of Agriculture to the attention of eur rustic readers. They will find many valuable facts and suggestions in it. OMcial Voto of the City. The Board of Canvassers, having performed their duty, give us the official returns of the vote at the late election. The report gives Hoffman fer Governor 86,633 votes, Woodford 34,891, which, with over a thousand scattering ballots, shows-a tetal vote for Governor of 122,084, Fer Mayor, Hall received 71,037, aud Ledwith 46,392. The total vote for the office of Mayor was 119,418, Matthew T. Brennan polled 79,177 votes for Sheriff and Charles E. Loew 78,872 for County Clerk. The action of the Board of Canvassers has settled the fact of a majority for the democrats in the next Assembly. The Committee on Protests having reported in favor of the elec- tien of Mr. Carey for the Seventh Assembly district the Board accepted the report and declared Mr. Carey duly elected. This breaka the tie in the lower house, but it will not spoil the fun which may bo expected at tho approaching session, Tammany has things now her own way; so we may look for Mr. Hitchman as next Speaker, and, as succession in office is recegnized in the highest officer, Cornelius Armstrong will probably fill his last year’s post at the Clerk’s desk, At all events there will be lively times in the Legislature of 1871, Nonsense.—We have an absurd story fcom Versailles to the effect that, in an interview with Odo Russell, ‘‘Bismarck said the uncon- ditional surrender of Paris would not be aceepted. The capitulation of the city would only be permitted when the conditions for a complete cessation of hostilities had been agreed to.” That Bismarck could have said anything of the kind is improbable, Should the supply of provisions in Paris failand an offer be made to surrender the Prussians would be compelled by all the rules of civi- lized warfare to accept the offer, unless they were willing to feed the garrison until tho work of pacification was complete throughout Frauce, That is something se manifostly non- sensieul that the idea of its occurrence cannot be entertained for a moment. Paris is not likely to capitulate except to starvation, unless the temper of the present rulers of France changes wonderfully. When Trochu offera to lay down his arms King William will receive his surrender gladly enough, for, putting aside the barbarity of a refusal, the Prussians would not care te be assaulted by a famishod army driven to desperation. Toe Mayor's Reasons for appointing Thomas J. Barr to the vacant Police Com- tmilssioner’s chalr appear to be pretty good. The Mayor says that for twenty years he haa had experience of Mr. Barr’s capacity as a man thoroughly acquainted with police disci- pline—an excellent qualification, we should say, for a Police Commissioner. “Moréovor, he finds that Mr. Barr has enjoyed the good will and respect of the people in thia, that they sent him to the State Senate and to Con- gress; that he was entrusted with an impor- tant office during the War by the” federal government—in all which stations he displayed the highest integrity and performed his duties with ugefulnesa and honor. For these reasons Mayor Hall concludes that Mr. Barr is emt- nently qualified to fulfil the duties of Police Counnissioner, This is an excellent record with which the now Commission’: outers upon his responsibilities. As Mr. Barr is a gentle- man of great intelligence and gifted with no mail share of common dense, it is not likely that the public will differ with the Mayor's estimate of him asa public officer. Fe OPA ted eh Be a ves New GerMany.—Sioce 1866 how Germany has leaped forward! How it has grown! The North German Confederation was a great triumph. The humiliation of France has been a greater triumph. The greatest triumph of all ig that the Confederation of the South which was to be, butwhich sever waa has merged itselé in the Confederation of tho North, While the forces of G:rmany are around the walls of Paris, France meanwhile humbled and prostrate, Baden, Wurtemberg, Hesse, Bavaria have signed treaties which make Germany, although not yet complete, the mightlest Power by far on the European Continent, A peace and a subsequent trouble and the German States of Austria will join the Fatherland; and then Germany will, ag early as possible, be a unit, Meanwhile Count Bismarck’s policy is the most successful policy of the hour, met Kiva Wits is reported to have been shot at again; but the report lacks the confirma- tion of a despatch from the King himself on the subject, and so we don’t believo it. a remarkable fact that, excepting the Heratp correspondents, the only reporter of the great events of this war in yen @ who has proved to be entirely reliable is St old King Wil- liam, and @ matter so important as a provi- dential escape from a treacherous Bavarian he would hardly withhold from the Queen. The report in question, then, may be dis- missed as a silly fabrication. An Assurp Rumor--The rumor that Pras- sia is in the market for the purchase of the island of St. Domingo. There is no room for another of the European Powors among the holders of the West India Islands, Spain has outlived her welcome in Cuba, and, soon er late, she will have to leave. The Monroe doc- triue will not permit any extension in any shape of the European balance of power in those waters, It must, on the other hand, prepare to give way to ‘manifest destiny,” beginning with the island of St. Domingo, for we have no idea that General Grant has aban- doned his popular and inviting scheme of annexation. We shall probably hear of it again in his message to Congress on Monday or Tuesday next. A Danegrovs Ree, not laid down on any nautical chart, has been discovered off New River, ‘seventy-five miles north of Cape Flo- rida, by the commander of the United Siates steamer Juniata. Soundings wore taken and four and a half fathoms of water were found, but at times there is much less, ‘The reef is a most dangerous one, being directly ia the track of all steamers bound seuth, Discovery or Gop PLAacers In Mzxico.— Gold has been discovered near the city of Chihuahua, in the northern part of Mexico. The discovery of anything but revolution in that part of the world is something so rare that it is a pleasure, not expected, to be able to make the announcement of the fact. Women Tgacners In THE Pupiio Son001s.— A communication which we publish to-day calls attention to the movement made by the women teachers in the public schools of this city for an advance of salary, These ladies claim that where the duties performed by Prvssta holds the ‘“‘key of the situation” with *ference to the Eastern question diplo- macy in Europe, So we are told by a cable telegram. Perhaps Pio Noze lent one of the | them are equal in every respect to those ““ceys” to Count Bismarck af:er his Holiness | which men in the samo capacity per‘orm there received the present of that Berlin carpet for | should not be any such inequality in pay as the Counoil Hall, « now exists. No one will dispute (he fairness be cultivated in this country by proper oare— . oa ft is