The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1870, Page 6

V 6 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tho Old Party and tho New Party Move- ments of the Day—The Keal [sue Between General Grant and Tammavy Hall, “Where am I to go?” asked Daniel Webster when he found himself stil! in Tyler's Cabinet and Tyler read out of the whig church as a locofoco. ‘‘Where are we to go ?” is now the inquiry among many republican floaters, with the confusion of Babel prevailing around them. General Ben Butler is said to have lately expressed himself after this fushion—that tho republican party, upon the tariff question, is split in two by the backbone of the Allegha- nies; that it is cnt up on all other financial issues; that it has no coherent force, no leadership, and that, instead of supporting, it seems to delight in snubbing, General Grant and his administration. According to Wen- dell Phillips the republican organization, hav- ing fulfilled its mission, is now all at sixes and sevens, without any common principle or com- mon purpose, but the liberal and progressive men of the country may slill rely upon Gene- ral Grant. The Free Trade Leagua are evi- dently ripe and ready, scheming and active, for any coalition that will cut out General Grant, beginning with the organization of the next Congress. According to the democratic organs, from Damascus to Jericho, Grant is already ‘ta dead cock in the pit,” and, sink or swim, will surely be thrown out as a dead failure by the disgusted leaders of bis party. So much for the wrangling republicans. But how fs it with the happy family of the democracy? They, too, are without princi- ples, policy or recognized leaders. Accord- ing to the republican journals, if the radical democrats of Missouri are red hot for free trade the party in Pennsylvania are as stiff as Greeley on cold iron. Nor does it appear that the democratic fodder of the next Presi- dency is cut and dried for Hoffman. They say that the Western ‘Pendleton Escort” have not forgotten the New York artful dodgers of the Tammany Convention, but are pre- paring a bomb for Hoffman which will blow him sky high. As they went into the Charles- ton Convention with the flag of ‘‘Douglas and squatter sovereignty” nailed to the mast, so they will carry into the next Convention the en- sign of ‘‘Hendricks and John Quincy Adams,” or of ‘‘Gratz Brown and Adams,” or of ‘‘Thur- man and Adams,” or of ‘Pendleton and Adams,” or of some Western man for Presi- dent against Hoffman, with Adams to clinch the ticket in the East. Adams is the left bower of these Western men, and if driven to the wall they will make him their right bower against Hoffman for President. The Western democracy are proud of Adams as the acqui- sition of a Massachusetts nabob of the old school, and proud of him as a democratic champion of the Massachusetts and Missouri new school of universal amnesty and free trade. But, only think of it! John Quincy Adams, achip of the old Massachusetts federal block, the democratic ticket for the Presidency! What would the old Jacksonian democracy of 1828 have thonght of such a horrible prophecy ? But was not Martin Van Buren with Charles Francis Adams the free soil ticket in 1848 against whigs and democrats? ‘‘Polities make strange bedfellows,” as John Minor Botts said, in getting under the same blanket with Captain NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY "AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx HeErarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 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At Sertie from Parts on Wednesday; of the French; General pu- the River Marne; The ate Amiens and Retire Upon : Negotiations for a European rs: Annnal Report of Postmaster swelli—The New Census: Sudden Asyium u istate Matters—That Uniortunate y¥—Is.1t a Murder?—Revolt 1a the Jackson- ville (FI .) Prison. S—Brighan ‘The Son of the Prophet Tyler. Hoffman, however, has clearly the Speat 3—Prospect Park Fair | inside of the democratic track for 1872. He Grounds—United Si Senators on Their is up to the times, likewise, in going for the burying of all dead issues, no dead weights, and for a clean run upon the living issues of the day. Yet certain dyed-in-the-wool copper- heads, including one from Connecticut, have Way to the Capitai Westehester—Jack on § Laying of the Co of Seamen's Exchange retary Robeson Under Ground— Rum and Lead: A Young Men on in a Barroom—A Fighting fire in Beekman Street— y Robbery in Naval Intelligence—The Old First Ward A . School—Licendiarism in New Jersey—News | protested that Hoffman is begging the ques- from San Fraucisco—Poutical Noles and | tion—that the democratic party still believes litorials; Leading Article, “The Old Party | in S| is i< po ie ite ME eee ar tla e a in State sovereignty and the Dred Scott deci The Real Issue Between General Grant and ‘Tammapy Hall— Amusement Announcements, 7—Eiliortals (Continued from Sixth Page)—?er- sonal 1urelligence—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World—Washingtou: Government Expenses for the Ensuing Year; The Sena- torial Contest in South Carolina; Brigham Young's Income fax—Business Notices, 8—The Alabama Claims: Important letter from Ex- Minister Reverdy Johnson; American Claims, Thirteen Millieus of Dollars—News from Eu- rope—Narrew Escape—Scientific Triumphs; Lecture by Professor Doremus—New York City News—The Fishery Question—Yacht Building— Smalipox; The Disease ome | in the City of Churches—An Unwily Fox—The Brooklyn Orphan Asyjam—Affairs m Louistana and Norta Carolma—The “Tigers”—French Ba- zaar—The Mobile Horse Fair—Highway Rob- bery and Attempted Murder—Exciting Murder Trial in Augusta, Me.—Kentucky Horrors—A Scene in the Confederate Senate. 9—Haru to Die: The Scalawag Row in Alabama; Excitement tn Montgomery—Phillips’ Last Manifesto: Protests Against the Republican Party—Gold in Yexas—The Public Debt State- ment—Meeting of the Board of Deck Commis- sioners—Financial and Commercial Reports— Marriages and Deaths, 10—Rome and the King: Church and State in Con- fict in the Holy City—Rampant Radicals: Mecting of the Murphyites Republiean Com- mittee—Breokiyn Courcs—The Boston. Hartford and Erie Railroad Again—Musical and Dra- matic Noves—Stupping Intelligence—Adver- tisements. 11—The Potosi (Mo.) Horror—A Scoundrel’s Career Abruptiy Closed —Big Haul of Blackiish—Mar- riage and Silver Wedding—Adverusements. 42—Aaverusement sion, and repudiates ‘“‘the nigger” and the con- stitutional e@mendment enforcing ‘nigger equality,” and sticks to ‘‘the constitution as it was.” We suspect, however, that with Sey- mour and Blair, under the Wade Hampton resplutions ef 1868, the democratic party has had enough of this folly of fighting the wind- mills, and that even in Kentucky, where Sambo has been the hardest dose to swallow, the party in 1872 will not only chime in with the fifteenth amendment, but get up the biggest Kentucky barbecues, those Western free dinners in the woods, for the votes of “our colored fellow citizens, invited to drop in,” What, then, is the real situation of the two great parties? It isa situation which some- what resembles the ‘‘era of good feeling” of Monroe’s time, leaving out the good feeling. There is not much of that now among our party men on any side, excepting General Grant, the Tammany sachems, the Tammany republicans, Mike Norton and honest Tom Murphy. They all feel good, notwithstanding the fuss and nonsense raging all around them. But the political situation of 1870 reminds us of that of 1824, in the fact that now, as then, the political elements are all adrift, in the very condition for an old-fashioned scrub race like that between Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay. Nor could anything prevent such a scrub race in 1872 if Grant were only out of the way. Take out Grant to-morrow, and be- fore Christmas you will see the crystallization commenced of a high tariff party, a free trade party, a temperance and women’s rights party, an independent Southern pariy, a high pres- sure Alabama claims party, an independent workingmen’s party, and a small but active copperhead repudiation party. There is, indeed, no limit to the political confusion suggested with General Grant cut off at this juncture by death or disability from Tor is the topic of the hour. Tne Posie Dest Statement For DEceM- BEr—A REDUCTION OF $7,475,860.—The offi- cial statement of the public debt shows a reduction during the past month of the above amount—a very flattering exhibit of our pro- gress in the work ef cancelling the obligation. The reduction for the past year was over $116,000,000, and for the period since March 1, over $104,000,000. The debt, less the re- sources of the Treasury, is now $2,341,784,355, which figures include the accrued interest on the several classes of interest-bearing obliga- tions entering into the public debt. “Moses Sar To THE CumpreEN or IsrazL— “Keep the Passover.” Let the children of Israel remember this when they visit the | our political affairs. Colfax, we know, would Hebrew fair to-day, and pass over liberally. | take his place ; but would Colfux do any bet- 44 : ter than Tyler, Fillmore or Andy Johnson? Tne Atapama Cxamws.—We publish a Would the smiling Colfax do half as well as Seagate wae essai plead the growling Johnson io keeping the republi- aa tor ed Pre ise can party togethor? : ay rine 4 _ . licans was a windfall, a godsend. Ie guiries put ty the president of an insurance tat rca Fobubot, to ate Maaiead. oF sompery ts regent te the tenure of oor claims fighting among themselves, and in fighting agnient the oe eibnesee on account of Johnson they fought like the colored troops, go prmasiing vale ‘hee pecs for ‘they fought nobly,” and cleared Sud aoe % the fifteenth amend- pains atti boa gg volgen posing As things ure Eris ait denne hee as Deu there is and there can be no candidate for the States government and appeal directly to the republicans but Grant—no anchorage, no t of Great Britain for indemni platform bat that of his adwinistratioa. Oa sabpeatncien eres _foF indemnity. | t9 ether sido there is no hitch, no difficulty but Grant, and hence the game of the demo- crate is to sow dissensions and to widen any breach that may appear between Grant and i his party, from @ division on @ great quos- Governor Horrman addressed the Hebrew fair the other evening. This shows that the Governor is alive to the necessity of encourag- ing all benevolent endeavors. tion to the quarrel of a small potato office- seeker, Meantime the course of events indicates tho character of the coming Presidential conflict. It will be w conflict betweon tho administration at Washington and the administration of Tam- many Hall—between tho spoils of the general government and tho spoils of Tammany; and Tammany, with hor tweaty-five, thirty or forty millions in annnal expenditures, as the case may be, and with all her gigantic railway affiliations, will be a powerful enemy. She has the sinews of war of England, the disci- plino of the Prussians, the élan of the French, the solid Irish vote, and she is after the dar- kies, She is going in to win, and to win she may, ona pinch, for 1872 give up even Hoff- man, but sbe will rule the party. She does not care for the shells so that she gets the oysters, Then, too, as the issues of the war recede, the people will incline more and more to federal non-intervention in local affairs, to State rights in State matters, and to popular rights in every thing, while down South, as the bitterness of negro suffrage, like Sara- toga water, begins to be pleasant, the white landholders and the black laborers will be drawn more and more into a happy political accord, and will thus re-establish something like the old Southern political balance of power, We expect, too, that a fusion of interests on financial issues—Northwest, South- west and South—will gradually fuse those sections politically against the East; but meaatimo General Grant and the measures and policy of bis administration are till shead for 1872. He surely has the game in his hands, and needs only a little of the iron will and resolution of Old Hickory to win it. Let him put his foot down and his cane, liko Jackson, upon every great question where his authority in the party is disputed, and swear “By the Eternal” this thing shall be so, and he will be as strong as Jackson in bis re- election. Buchanan’s example of temporizing is not a good one to follow. A Great Sortie from Paris. Our special despatches, published yester- day, reported a terrible struggle as going on at six o'clock in the evening, on the eastern side of Paris, where General Trochu’s forces had fiercely attacked that portion of the investing line held by the Saxon and Wurtemberg troops. At an early hour this morning we received a telegram from Tours, published elsewhere, containing the important intelligence that yes- terday General Ducrot, with one hundred thousand great sortie from the city, which was completely successful, and that the French army had crossed the river Marne. A despatch dated Wednes- mea, made a from Versailles, however, day night, while reporting a sortie and a san- } guimary engagement, states that the French repulsed, which tainly must have been the caso or it would not have been possible for the Germans to maintain telegraphic communications with Versailles. newed yesterday, as one telegram reports that the Prussians have evacuated Amiens and re- tired upon Paris, before which city, it was be- lieved, a great struggle was going on. were everywhere cer- It may be that the battle was re- News This Morning—Tho Reports Favorable to the French. If experience had not demonstrated the impolicy of placing implicit reliance upon war reports emanating from French sources our faith in the reliability of King William's despatches would be somewhat shaken this morning. Those who expected to read fur- ther confirmatory accounts of the Prussian victory at Beaune-la-Rolande will be disap- pointed. With a single exception all the despatches are favorable to the French, That one exception states that the Army of the Loire is retreating, and mentions a report that General Da Paladines was not only wounded but was also taken prisoner. Opposed to this statement we have reports from London and Tours which pronounce the Prassian despatches fallacious, and assert that in the engagements which have taken place the French were successful. It is difficult, even while bearing in mind the general un- reliability of war news from Tours, to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion regarding the result of recent operations, We know that General De Paladines has not yet succeeded in piercing the Prussian centre, but what is doubtful is whether he has been able to hold his own or is retreating. As we suggested yesterday, the battle of Beaune-la-Rolande could not have been a very great one, for the losses on both sides were absolutely trifling, compared with what they must inevitably have been had large bodies of men been engaged. But while we still believe that the Army of the Loire has not been completely defeated, our knowledge of its present position is still too limited for the forming of any idea of the changes which have resulted from the late battle. From Tours we have a report thai the Pris- sians have evacuated Blois, which lies between that city and Orleans, and the occupation of which we were unaware of. It is also stated that they have evacuated Chateaunuf-sur- Loire, Chateaudun and Montargis. As regards the first named of these three places, we think there must be some mistake, as the French line was reported to extend to Gien, on tho Loire, and must necessarily have taken in Chateau- nuf, The news concerning the others, how- ever, is important if true. The withdrawal of the Germans from Chateaudur involves a failure to encircle the Army of the Loire, while the evacuation of Moniargis and its occupation by the French would give color to the statement that the Prassians wero beaten at Beaune-la-Rolande. Two more items complete our record of mili- tary operations. The Prussians are said to have been badly beaten at Etrepagny, near Our War he Seine river, and not far from Rouen, losing many men and several pieces of artil- lery, What forces were engaged is not stated, nor have we any means of learning. In the Southeast, at the village of Ninis, near Dijon, the Francs-tireurs and Gardes Mobile have achieved a success over a portion of the army of General Yon Werther, but the affair could not have been much more. than ® gevere skirmish between small bodies of mon. Mr. Sumner’a Lecture. Last night New York crowded to Steinway Hall to hear the most brilliant of American rhetoricians on the most exciting of the day’s subjects, What shall we say of Mr. Sumner? It is with him very much in American senti- ment as with Mr. Gladstone in English opinion. Everybody in each land is proud, ia a certain sense, of so great an orator. But everybody, except the dreamers of dreams, who date their mental letters two centuries shead—some- where about the year 2070, let us say—instead of in this sober workday nineteenth century hour, is a little impatient of both; so that we cannot help looking on Mr. Sumner, as the English do on Gladstone, with a mixture of affection, anger and admiration that make criticism very difficult. But we must do him justice, and we will strive to do him even better justice than he does himself, For why will he persist in coupling sentiments of the most exalted and heavenly nature, opinions drawn as it wero from the celestial fountains, aspirations such as more befit the cherubs “who have not the wherewithal to sit down,” with a conventionality and cut-and-dried rhetorical manner that suggests so alarm- ing a mixture of the dancing master and the Apostle? We must put up with spots in the Sun, of course, We all know that. But they are very inconvenient. They prevent our telegraphs working when they are too big and anmerous; and, similarly, Mr. Sumner’s heavenly ideas would reach our minds and hearts more surely if they were delivered with more of simplicity, less of that studied rhetorical drill which suggests that the student has employed the looking-glass at least as much as the midnight oi! in his labors. We will not linger, however, about Mr. Sumner’s manner; there is quite enough to say about his matter. He favored his audience, in the first instance, with a brilliant résumé of the immediate causes that led to the war. He passed in rapid review the Hohenzollern candidature, and tore to shreds, with all his skill, the flimsy pretexts on which France drew the sword. He quoted felicitously from Frepch memoirs to show on what frivolous pretexts the minions of the absolute French crowa had in former days deluged Germany and Europe with blood; and, passing quickly to the actual hostilities, he described with eloquenee and fire the series of sur- prises at Woerth, Forbach, Gravelotte, Sedan, Metz and Paris, which over- powered first the French Emperor, then the French empire, and, last of all, unhappy Franca herself, Nothing could be in better taste and style for the purposes of a lecture than this, the historical part of bis address. Nothing could be more conclusive than the elaborate condemnation passed on the diplo- matic and military action of France from a moral and political point of view. All this was effective, eloquent and vigorous; for here Mr. Sumner was on the ground of fact; and the facts connected with the war are so broad and glaring that no perversity of dogma or temper can possibly lead a man astray in his estimate of them. But then comes the moral of the fable. And the remainder of the lecture showed only too plainly that Mr. Sumner is no hard-headed, sensible Asop, thinking and speaking to plain men plain truth, but a dweller in the upper arp crenture far too bright ana For human nature's dally food. Indeed, the very title of Mr. Sumner’s lec- ture suggests the utter fallacy of the main doctrine which he applies to the war. In his eyes it is a ‘‘duel” between France and Prus- sia, It is an accursed resort to force on the part of two swaggering bravos, whom public opinion—or republic opinion, rather—will disarm _ hereafter. How perilous are phrases to dreamers! If Mr. Sumner could think consecutively he would see how fallacious, even foolish, is this mode of looking at the matter; and, even more, how wholly out of keeping with his own eloquent statement of the facts and their moral interpretation. A duel is fought by consent between two individuals. Cartel is sent, taken up—it used to be at the sword’s point, literally—and the two go out and fight. But in this great national struggle France notified Prussia that she would be attacked any how. No acceptance of challenge, no refusal, was possible. Germany had to seize the sword at once, whether she wished it or not, or perish by the sword. This fallacy at the foundation vitiated all Mr. Sumner’s reasoning as to the immediate duties and responsibilities of Germany. She has got her adversary down, and, according to our lecturer, should gracefully spare his life and let him rise. The trouble here is that the adversary on the ground has refused to know where he is, and with desperate though forlorn bravery has struck again and again at the vic- torious foe bending over him. ing to the laws of the duel the foe on the ground had to confess himself vanquished, sue for life, or, if he would not, accept the mortal stroke. But there is absolutely no analogy between a due! and a war between nations. Surely, on these great subjects, a first rate intellect like Mr. Sumner might be straightfor- ward in mind, and walk, not in fallacious clouds of sentiment, but in the light of day. We sball live and die in the belief that nobody need have so much fog round his head unless he pleases. The rest of the lecture was devoted to a denunciation of what the lecturer was pleased to call the ‘‘war system,” and p really noble anticipation of the formation of those ‘United States” of disarmed Europe, which shall render war impossible hereafter. “When,” asks Mr. Sumner—a lawyer, be it remembered, and with great pretensions as a jurist—‘‘when will this legalized, organized crime be abolished ?” We do not wish to cavil about words usually, but “legalized” crime is really rather stroag from a statesman, lawyer, jurist, public instructor, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate. This will be, we are told, when the ‘‘samo law of right” is confessed ‘‘for nations az for indi- viduals.” Well, Mr. Sumaer, we should be sorry to be thought insensible to your glowing visions. But really this will never be, for it would be a simple falsehood, logical contradiction and absurdity. Sydney Smith told us long ago, with simple trath, that corporations—and nations are corporations—have novor a soul ta he saved Even accord- ; nor—something else—to be kicked, A nation and a man will never be under the same moral law; for they are different things, with differ- ent lives, with different laws of being, and no more capable of being incladed in the same moral category than a fish and an elephant in the same zoological category. But we really shall not go on to write a treatise on political metaphysics. Let the war system be abolished, says Mr. Sumner, and the nations be disarmed. We say rather, being Americans, let the war system be abolished by some nation grand and good enough to disarm the nations. Does our bril- liant dreamer really think that the awful pas- sion and duty of war, as it presents itself trom time to time to nations, can bo quenched by the rhetoric of the most brilliant and fine- hearted sentimentalist ? The dream of univer- sal peace has haunted men for ages; but always has there arisen to break it up some stern and terrible necessity, when men in every age, every nation, every clime, have said :—‘‘Hereafter, at some more blessed and happy juncture, and for our happier children, may those things be, but now we needs must. ourselves fight and kill and die.” Mr. Sumner has never known any of these things, of course, There never was a time when he thought the duty ef urging men to die and kill in myriads ina battle field was urgent, primary, paramount, and that millennium must wait awhile till that dreadful business was got over. There is nothiag of so short memory as your sentimental rhetorical student. Is it we who dream? Or was there lately a civil war in America, of which our gifted lecturer was the most fiery and obstinate inspirer? We would invite Mr. Sumner to come back to the solid Earth, by far the fittest place for the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commit- tee of the Senate; and, observing of how little practical help his counsels are to Ger- many, France or America at this juncture, we commend further to his notice the neutrality proclamation issued by the Tycoon of Japan in respect of this very war, in which he solemnly warns his subjects against express- ing opinions in public on the one side or the other as being infractions of neutrality. It is not that precisely which Mr. Sumner does, but something which French and Germans are both likely to resent. To preach a pedagoguic sermon about the horrors and barbarism of war to two great nations in the thick of a fight ts, perhaps, a little cynical for so great a philan- thropist as Mr. Sumner. Perhaps just now Frenchmen and Germans know and feel a good deal more about these horrors than any lecturer can tell them. To proclaim ez ca- thedré the conditions of peace, as they ought to be, is, moreover, one of those things whose futility will not ward off the indignation of the belligerents. Germans will laugh, perhaps, but curse a little under their breath. You must play the game of life according to the rules of the game of life after all. General disarmament is a very far-off thing. It will be consummated about the time when original sin is eradicated. But in the meantime one of the only securities of the world against war is that the defeated nation must abide the conqueror's will, If disarmament and universal peace ever do become realities ou this vexed and tortured Earth it will only be if and when there arises one nation mighty enough to declare that war shall cease and just enough to make all nations respect its decision with delight. Mr. Sumner, with all his faults, has done something to help to build up that nation, and he can do more yet. Come back to the solid Earth and the Senate of the United States, Mr. Sumner, and leave the ultimate issues of the world and man to the God who made them both. The Atlantic Cnbles. The fresh experience which we have just had of deep sea cables reads us a fresh lesson. The lesson is simple—we must have more cables. News from Europe by cable is just as much a necessity to the American people as is the morning sunlight or the New Yorke Heratp. Imagine the state of feeling if some of these fine mornings there should not be a single item of news from Europe. The effect might be serious and somewhat ruinous, Think of the agony of the millions who thought of France and Germany. Think of the agony of the millions who thought of Russia and England and the Eastern question. Think of the result on trade. We have now become se much used to our cable intelligence from Europe that the absence of it in the HEraLp would be like an eclipse of the great orb of day. We now see that this cable machinery, like all other machinery, is liable to go wrong. As we cannot have spare cables, like spare pulleys, to use on o moment's notice, we must have what is next best—a larger number of cable connections with Europe. One was tantalizing; two inspired hope; three seemed almost enough. To-day we know that three do not adequately meet ous wants. Letus have more, Let American and European capital take this wholesome direction, Three or four more connecting us with great Britain, one or two connecting us with France and Spain, one at least connect- ing us with Holland and the heart of Germany, another connecting us with Sweden, and we shall begin to be satisfied. Itis simply absurd, as we have said, to rest satisfied with things as they are. There is no lack of money ; there is as little lack of skill, and every fresh cable is a fresh source of wealt! “My Huarr ispirern a Goop Matrer.”— Lot this sentiment be indited upon the heart of every man and woman who wishes to besiow benevolence and determines to attend the Hebrew Benevolent fair. Wat Dors it Mr A correspondent writes that certain ghouls have bepn seen at night within the solemn precincts of old Triaity churchyard, working away at lifting the headstones from the graves and smashing them up. Can it be that the pious corporation of Trinity sanction this desecration? We think not. They are heartless enough in dealing with their living tenants, bub surely they could not be so terribly hard on the dead ones. “le 1 Wark Hunery 1 Wours Nor Tax. Taxrx,”—How many hunger and Jet the worm gnaw at their hearts unbeknowa to ths outer world! Bestow from the fulness of your riches @ little bounty to the poor at tae Hebrew tair, Tho New Aspoct of the Russian Questions The despatches published this morning, under our most conspicuous foreign heading, indicate that the grand diplomatic and military game which for months past has held the world in suspense and has bestrewed one of the fairest portions of Western Europe with corpses, is working its way into the clear reve- lation of perfect light. The British Cabinet is in a state of crisis because Earl Granville stands firm to his note, on the one hand, and the attitude of the Russian Prince Gort chakofl indicates no retreat, upon the other. Yet, in the meanwhile, Russia positively disclaims any hostile designs upon Turkey, and Prussia,’ as an intermediary Power and an intercessor, courteously accedes to something quite nevel.. What is that? the reader may ask. Ah! the secret pith and kernel of the whole mat- ter—to wit, the virtual possessorship by England of the new chief channel to East Indian commerce, the Suez Canal, leaving Russia to do as she pleases with thé Ottoman empire. Ia other words, Prussia finds it not only easy, but just the very thingy working into her own hand, to use both het Powerful nefghbors and secret friends—Great Britain on the right and Russia on the left—to cut off and extinguish the outside prestige and influence of France, as she herself is trampling down the military strength and trade re- sources of that afflicted country at home. But yesterday France was the patron, as a son of hers was the deviser and engineer, of the Sues Canal, and then England decried and opposed the enterprise. To-day France is .stricken and English capital steps in to control ‘the prize so long secretly coveted. Yesterday, both in Syria and at Constantinople, as well as in Egypt, France dictated the evolutions of the Eastern question and foreshadowed the destiny of the holy places, To-day Russia looms up as the master of the situation. “Tt is no longer in the north,” said the first Napoleon, whoso conversations still form a text-book for modern statesmen, ‘‘that great questions will be resolved, but in the Medi- terranean. There exists enough to content all the ambition of the different Powers, and the happiness of civilized nations may be pur- chased with fragments of barbarous lands. Let Kings listen to reason. Europe will no longer tolerate continued international hatred. Prejudices are dispersing ; routes of commerce are multiplying; it is no longer possible for one nation to monopolize them.” Now, this is precisely the wisdom which Russia has pondered at home and has been secking to apply abroad since the commence- ment of the reign of Alexander and under the able guidance of Gortchakoff, the inheritor in our time of the best traits of Nes- selrode. She has shown as much io ber enlightened commercial treaties, and especially in those contracted with her great Oriental neighbors, Persia and China; in her propositions with regard to the navigation of the river Amoor—the Muscovite Mississippi; in her genial and friendly sale of Alaska and her other possessions on the northwest of our Continent, and in her spontaneous, abiding and outspoken friendship'for her very antipodes in political form--the American republic. Now we behold emerging at the eleventh hour, from the vapors of the political caldron over whose Bubble, bubble, Tou and troubie, the wizard Bismarck has been presiding, a fresh and imposing conception of Russian policy. With railroads rapidly stretching their glistening lines, like rays of the rising Sun, to every part of her dominions, particularly on the south .and_ east; with steamships darting forth from all her ports oa every inland sea; with Christian missionaries persistently piercing the boundaries, crossing the frontiers and penetrating the recesses of Mohammedan and heathen lands, Russia advances upon Turkey, no longer for war, but for peace. The thirteen millions of Greeks, Armenians, Druses, &c., and the one million five hundred thousand Roman Catholics among the less than forty million of souls subject to the Ottoman. sceptre do not tremble at the approach of her legitimate influence, for which, indeed, the growing reforms adopted and favored by the present Grand Turk himself have largely pre- pared the public mind of his dominions. Ina word, out of the perilous embroilment of the preseat hour arises, in clear and beautiful outlines, @ magnificent guarantee for the security of the future, as out of primeval chaos, ‘without form and void,” with ‘dark- ness resting upon the face of the deep,” ascended, because the Supreme mandate had prepared it, a firmament of future beanty, ‘‘and there was light.” The clouds and confusion that have fallen upon France have precipitated the eastward movement of civilization and Christianity which might, otherwise, have lingered on the way through Western dynastic aspirations. Britain advancing by Suez and gaining clear and swift pathways to her East Indian posses sions, Russia must join (aot oppose) Turkey at the Dardanelles, and thus three enlightened. Powers together must unite in pushing farther eastward the arts and arms of Europe. ; The Czar steps to the front and into. the: comiand which, but seven short months ago, Napoleon held and forfeited. The Turk andthe: Egyptian are thrust into the vanguard of the armies of commerce and religion, which, hy local reforms, improvements and reconcilia~ tions, will settle the old disputes around the great central basin of the Mediterranean, and, at aday not distant, kindle a common beacon- light and plant a common symbol for the nations, with the seat of the universal Church and the banner of the cross.upon the topmost heights of Jerusalem. A Cuarrer or Horemirs.—We deprecate, as a general thing, the publication of sensa- tion accounts of the dreadful transactions that daily occur in various paris ‘of. the country, but to-day our budget is unusually full ef really interesting cases. They are terrible in their details and instruotive in their influeaces. In tho far West we find a most diabolical crime has been committed in the slaughter of an entire family. From Maine we have the, proceedings of © capital trial, in which 5 stare- ling episode in domestic life is desorived. Ia the interior of the State of New York a case of wife poisoning, remarkabie in many respecis, has just been develoyed. In Kan+ tucky one of the old famity of Throck- imortona has been made a victim, In the