The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1870, Page 8

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Pace. segs : 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3~Aavertisements, Advertisements, S—Poris: Details and Scene of the Great Sortie: Conflicting Reports of the Result; The Junc- Non of Trochu and De Paladines Announced; General Ducrot Across the Marne with 160,000 Men; Despatch from King William Claiming the Repulse of the French; Three Days of Des- perate Fighting—Heavy Losses on Both Sides. 6~Fire Unaer Water: Burning of the Great Caisson cf the Brooklyn Bridge—Burnea to Death— Trotting at Fleetwood Park—Leotures Last Night—Amusements—New York Uity News— ‘The Court House © nissiopers—Railroad Rates—Despair and Veaii—Trouble Brewing Among the Knights of St. Crispla—The Myste- rious ~Murd From Our European Conti- nental Files—Navai Inteiligence. 9—Evrope: The Eastern Question and Prussian War © maparte’s Private Correspond- eiling Motives of the War witn Ger- PL contumaed from Fifth Page)— ’s Reply to the B.itisn Note ndon; ‘Giadstone's Cabinet : The hed in ‘Tied’ and Divided; Gorichakoif Considers the Treaty of Paris Abrowated; Intense x- citement 1 Great Eritain—General Telegraphic N Business Notices, ages and Deathse» Advertise- — Mar 1—Acvertisements. 2— 3 from Washington—War on the Rail: erie and Morris and ssex Controversy pping Tnteiligence Advertisements, B—Advertiscments, 4 ~—Adveriisements, Advertisements, 4 De Ropas Leaves .—The Spanish overnment has at length decided to accept a resignation of Captain General De Rodas. e leaves Cuba about the 20th, and the ad Jnterim Captain General will be the notorious Poneral Vaimaseda, who for a long time has been plotting against the officer ho succeeds, + T, ©. Canticort, not many years ago Speaker of the Assembly at Albany (on a bar- ‘ain with the republicans), and more recently Piste States Revenue Collector at Brooklyn, nd for two years a prisoner at Albany for vonspiracy to defraud the revenue, bas been \pardoned by the President. Poor Callicott had served out his specified term, but was still held in default of the payment of an appended Mine of ten thousand dollars, The President, 0 doubt convinced that while cooped up in rison the unfortunate man could never pay he fine, thought it best to release him, and we ¥hink so too, If his experience has taught him wisdom he may yet live to redeem his great mistakes. 4 Taz Cosnnssiongr or InTZRNAL REVENUE.— Nhe appointment of a’ Commissioner of Inter- nal Revenue to fill the vacancy created by the ‘transfer of Mr. Delano to a Cabinet position is 'pne of the most important now at the disposal ‘of President Grant. The post is » highly re- ‘sponsible one, requiring the possession of pe- culiar talents in the person who shall be called Ppon to fill it, and the selection should be made avith extreme care. Among the names men- jioned in connection with the office we aro leased to notice that of General Alfred Pleasonton, who has already exhibited great precutive ability and personal energy in dis- wharging important duties in other branches of © internal revenne service, General Pleas- mton is eminently qualified to fill the position f chief of the department, and his merits as tras soldier, good citizen and an upright man, entitle him to the most favorable consid- tion at the hands of the appointing power. resident Grant will honor his administration making General Pleasonton the Commis- jer of Zntarnal Bovanue, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1870.—QUADRUPLE SHEKT, | 2ramco making = Dosperase Fight-Cas the Republic Bo Established? The news which wo publish this moraing shows that the French are making a dosperate fight. The telegrams, as usual, aro rather conflicting in their statement of events and the situation of the belligerents, the French claim- ing great successes and the Germans asserting that they have repulsed the forces of France In all the sorties and important engagements. The despatch of King William to Queen Angusta and those from Berlin do not accerd with the despatches from Toura or even with those from Lendon. Though we are always disposed to give crodit to the despatches of the frank old Prussian monarch, the result of the fighting before Paris, as reported by himeelf, does not show any great or very deci- sive success for his armies. He admits the “positions were taken by the French” in their sorties at first, though he adds they were in the end repulsed all round. Admitting this to be so, how was it that no more prisoners were taken or no more of the French killed in such prolonged and hard fighting with such vast forces engaged? In the reported repulse of the French sortie on the south of Paris there was only, as the King says, ‘‘ever one hundred prisoners taken and several hundred dead and wounded.” Driving the French “back behind their works,” as he claims, with such small losses, looks very much as if the French retired orderly and for strategic rea- sens. A later despatch, which says “the French are now renewing tho attack on the south,” makes this view of the situaiion a rea- sonable one. Another despatch, by the way of London, reports that the losses of the Prus- sians were enormous. It is said, too, that the Army of the Loire had successfully resisted an attack of the Gormans on its left and right wings, and was moving forward. If it be true, ag is also reported, that the French have obtained possession of the road to Fontaine- bleu, it is not unlikely that Trochu’s forces at Paris may be able to operate conjointly with the Army of the Loire against the besieging Germans. But we must wait for further news before determining what are the chances or the relative positions of the belligerents. Bravely and desperately as the French are fighting, the Prussians have great advantages. There is not much hope that they can exiri- cate themselves from the meshes in which they are enveloped, and less that they will be able to drive the hosts of Germany from their soil. The most that can be expected, even with great successes, is that the French might make the Prussians more desirous of peaco and get out of the trouble with easier terms. And here we are led to look at the present object and spirit of the war on the part of Prussia. Both the purpose and character of this dreadful conflict have changed. From a war of defence and against ‘the Bonapartes” it has become an ambitious and a relentless one, To squelch the French republic and to dismember France is now the object of the King of Prussia. He says—or rather Ceunt Bismarck says for him—that it is not continued from hostility to republicanism, Both pretend that they are not making war upon the republic of France; that they are comparatively in- different as to what form of government the French people may choose, and that they have no wish to interfere with such choice or to impose any government upon the nation, his declaration does not aecord wiih their action nor with their sentiments and policy. It is unreasonable to suppose a proud monarch—an absolutist of the old ‘divine right” school, like King William—would be in- different to the establishment of a republican government in France, or that he would not try to prevent it, It is as unlikely that his aristocratic Minister, or the proud aristocracy of Prussia and the hundreds of petty princes of Germany are indifferent. No; they fear too much the dan- ger to their own privilezes from a great republic in the heart of Europe embracing such a vast territory and population. They know by experience and from the lessons of history what an extraordinary influence a French republic has in awakening and diffas- ing republican ideas and aspirations in sur- rounding nations, They dread this propa- gandism of liberty and democracy, and, if pos- sible, will extinguish the fire before it is well lighted. Tt has been frequently said that the French cannot establish a republic, could not matntain one, and have not the ideas, stability of nature or moral character for permanent republican institutions, The facts of history seem to jus- tify this harsh opinion; for the French have, in the course of eighty years, had several revo- lutions, deposed several dynasties and pro- isclaimed the republic three times. The first revolution—the great revolution—which over- turned the old Bourbon monarchy and virtu- ally extinguished it in the blood of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, established the republic on the broadest basis. But the frightful ex- cesses of thatrevolution—the bloodiest tyranny of modern times—and that, too, under the mockery of liberty, equality and fraternity, soon produced a reaction and ended in the ascendancy of a military conqueror. The em- pire of the first Napoleon was the natural con- sequence of these excesses and the disor- ganized state of society to which they had led. But the revolution did not end. It was perpetuated, because the old order of things, both political and social, was utterly uprooted and could not be restored, The first Napoleon bad the sagacity to see the difficulty when he undertook to establish his own dynasty. The old landed aristocracy was obliterated and their lands were divided among the mass of the popula- tion, He created a new titled aristocracy—a military aristocracy—to support his throne; but it had little real pewer, because it did not possess the soil—had not those immense landed estates which the eld aristocracy of France possessed, and which glve the arlsto- eracy of England so much power. The confiscation of the great estates of the nobility by the revolutionists and making the assignats a sort of land warrants created a new landed proprietary. The soil of France was cut up into small estates. Instead of afew thousands of proprietora there became millions. The great mass of the people be- came the owners of the soll. The abolition of the law of primogeniture—another measure that tended very much to perpetuate the revo- lution—increased from year to year the number Of land owners, There arg. wo believe. some- ‘thing Ike six millions of proprietors now, and if we reckon the population of France at forty millions this would make nearly one out of seven a land owner. Outside the large cities there aro but fow familios that do not pos- sess a portion of the soil, however small that may bein some cases. Hence we can very well understand the ardent patriotism of the people and the desporate fight they may make for their country and homes. Then this extensive subdivision of tho soil has both a conservative tendency under a reasonably good government, and a revolutionary ten- dency against grinding oppression or class and monarchical usurpation, It is doubtful if the first Napoleon eould have perpetuated his monarchiogl power or the Bonaparte dynasty through his son, beyond a certain period, had he not fallen through his own vaulting ambition and the coalition of Europe against him, and his son had lived to succeed him, With all his states- manlike ability and popularity he could not destroy the seed of the revolution and tho republican sentiment ef the French people. This remained always partially smothered fire, only ready to ignite and blaze forth when- ever stimulated by misgovernment and the restless nature of the people. The restoration of the old Bourbon line after Waterleo was effected by .foreign bayonets. Combined Europe had crushed France, with her Emperor, 80 effectually that the people were compelled to take whatever government was offered. Another cycle of less than twenty years and this monarchy fell again under the car of revolution. The French might have tried a republic again at that time, but through the influence of Lafayette and other leading men a sort of compromise monarchy was established— a “citizen king” was elevated to the throne— not a King of France this time, buts ‘King of the French.” The monarcbical principle was tried again under this new phase, but the inevitable revolution kopt on, working silently and marching with the reaction of Louis Philippe’s government till 1848, Eighteen years were the oycle of this experiment, near about the same time of the previous monarchi- cal experiments under Napoleon and the old Bourbon restoration. In 1848 France had acquired a good deal of experience, and pro- claimed the republic with some hope of estab- lishing it, The republican sentimetit had grown mightily both in France and throuzhout Europe, as was seen in the general and extra- ordinary revolution at the time. Again, how- ever, the excesses and impracticability of the republican leaders were seen. The Napoleon- ists and monarchists fought the revolution down, The republic was squelched by the coup @état of Louls Napoleon, and this Bonaparte made himself ‘‘Emperor of the French.” By great tact in flattering the van- ity of the people, through successful foreign wars, through making internal improvements, and through talking all aloag of liberty while he exercised almost absolute power, he was able to delude the French and to keep the revolution in check. But it required all his The War Situation In France. Parls has not fallen without a grand and determined struggle—a straggle which still continues, But all hopes of her obtaining ald from the Army of, the Loire is destroyed by the retreat of that army through Orleans, doubtless on Its way to Blots for the purpose of defending Tours. The reports which we publish this morning are more varied than we could wish them, The armies which for months past have been locked up in Paris by tho Prussian investment have made sorties in force at different points, aad with desperate earnestness. The French Generals Ducrot, Trochu and Vinoy have led their forces under the shelter of the heavy guns of the forts and have, perhaps, obtained “a negative success. The ro- ports from Tours might naturally lead the reader to believe that the investment of Paris was broken, Too much rellance should not be placed on these announcements. On Tuosday the Second and Third corps of the Arny of Paris, composed of regular troops of the line, and numbering about one hundred thousand men, defiled under the shelter of the guns of forts Charenton, Vincennes, Nogent and Rosny, and attacked the German works in thelr front. These forts are situated on the easterly side of Paris—Charenton being the most southerly and Rosny occupying the most northerly position, The intention of this movement evidently was to engage the German armies, and while the battle progressed General Vinoy, at the head of the First Army corps, was to attack the German lines on the south, pierce them if possible, push on with his army and effect a junction with the Army of the Loire, which was supposed to be advancing from the south, From Tuesday morning until Wednesday night tho battle raged near Choisy- le-Roi, L’Hay and Chevilly, On Thurs- day morning General Ducrot crossed the Marne and occupied Messly, He did not hold this position long, as we find that the hardest Sighting took place at Champigny, where he encountered severe resistance. It would appear, however, that he was unsuccessful in carrying out his entire design, for though he endeavored to fight his way to Brie—doubtless Brie Comte Robert, in the de- partment of Seine-et-Marne and on one of the roads to Fontainebleau—he evidently failed, and was compelled to return to the Marne. After inflicting what damage he could upon the Germans he fell back on Champigny, re- crossed the Marne and took a position at Thernay. While these operations were in progress the army under Vinoy does not appear to have acted with the determination which distinguishes the bold dash of Ducrot. At least we are led to this conclusion from the information received by cable. The part of the programme which the First army corps, under General Vinoy, was to attempt was to penetrate the German line on the south and open communications with the Army of the Loire. Notwithstanding the telegrams an- nouncing that Vinoy’s army and the forces of tact and the greatest effort to do this, The very war which overwhelmed him was made with a view mainly to keep down republican aspirations and to maintain his popularity. This brief review of the struggle between republican sentiments and monarchy in France shows that the French are democratic at heart, and that their agrarian system, by which the lands are divided among the mass of the popu- lation, will tend to make any other govera- ment than a republic impossible permanently. How long the struggle may last no one can tell. Great efforts will be made by the Prus- sian monarchy, the German princes and aris- tocracy and the monarchs of Europe to destroy the present republic, and under such @ pressure it may fall. The Fronch may have to submit to another monarchical government forced upon them, as they did to the old Bourbon restoration in 1815, but the revolution will not die out, Tho republic is inevitable ultimately; for that is in accordance both with the spirit and progress of the age and the social condition of France, However much the Prussians may protest to the contrary, the war they are now relent- lessly carrying on is against the republic. It is a war against the ideas of tho times. It is as atrocious and cruel as it is destructive. Dreadfal as France suffers, such a nation of forty millions of people cannot be extinguished, It will recover. With the lessons the French are now getting we may hope to see them wiser and better. Their vanity and restloss proclivity for war may be cured; they may learn to decentralize their system of govern- ment and to establish liberty on a firm basis. France has been the laboratory, so to speak, of progressive ideas in Europe, though sho has not profited by them herself as she ought, and now it is to be hoped she will try no more monarchical experiments, but end in establishing the republic. The Last Barroom Murder. The killing in a barroom in Mott street, on Sunday night, of a member of a gang of very notorious characters, by a brother rufflan, has been the moans of illustrating ina very remarkable manner the proverb that there {s honor among thieves. In this case there was exhibited a certain amount of magnanimity, which is, perhaps, as fre- quently developed in the rude as in the refined nature. The lion of the forest, for example, will devour no prey that he has not himself conquered and destroyed. Thus in the rough- est elements of humanity we find at times something of that ragged phase of chivalry, which pertains aliko to the higher order of beast and the lower order of man. In the oase referred to, the facts appear to be that one of a rowdy gang was shot by another member of that same gang, as it is alleged. They are re- ported to be all river thieves, or something of that sort, bound together by the common ties of plunder and a combination for self-protec- tion which is indispensatie to their safety, This young fellow died protesting that he met his death by the accidental discharge of a pistol in his own pocket. All the facts go to show that he Was murdered by a companion, one who was ‘so closely allied to the gang as to warrant the idea that he was a confederate, But to the last the victim refused to inculpate his comrade. No importuning of the police authorities couldinduco him to tell the true story; and so, with his last breath, he proved the proverb true that there is sometimes honor |. and magnanimity among the most deprayad gharaotera, Paladines have effected a junction, these re- ports are evidently false, because, as we have already stated in the foregoing, De Paladines was in full retreat across the Loire at last ac- counts, ~Besides which the distance from Paris to the position lately held by the army would have rendered such junction impos- sible in the short space of time between the sortio and the sendiag of the despatch. Fire in the Brooklyn Bridge Calsson. The fire which broke out in the caisson of the Bast river bridge at Fulton ferry, Brooklyn, on Thursday night, and continued to burn yes- terday, cannot be easily accounted for except by carelessness on the part of the workmen employed in the depths of this vast wooden cavern, which lies forty feet below the water level. Perhaps no blame can be attached to the workmen, for it appears that the suction of air was so greatas to attract the flame of a candle tothe oakum with which the seams of the caisson were filled; but the officers should have guarded against a calamity of which they had frequent warning. It is impossible now to calculate the amount of damage done to the caisson; but, from the force and continuance of the fire, it is quite probablo that the wooden chambers inside aro totally destroyed. Thera aro soma fears expressed that the heavy weight of stonework on the top may cause the whole structure to topple over when the water is pumped out. Tho process of ppmp- ing will commence on Monday, and there will be much anxiety felt as to the result. The whole cost of the caisson was about a million dollars. The damage by the fire may probably amount toa quarter of a million. This con- flagration must be regarded as a most unfor- tunate disaster just now, as it must retard the progress of the East river bridge for a con- siderable time. A Conflict of Railroad Laterests. The Erie Railroad and the Morris and Essex Railroad companics have had a controversy for some time about the right of way through the tunnel at Borgon Hill. Yesterday both companies had a railroad duel at each end of the tunnel, The result was that about ten thousand people doing business in this city were deprived of their usual mode of transit to their homes in the suburbs of New Jersey, and more than the same number of commercial travellers were deprived of the usual avenues of communication with the metropolis, The State of New York should adopt some measures to prevent these obstructions to the natural flow of its commeroial business, and the State of New Jersey, at the next session of its Legislature, should take the necessary steps to obviate existing evils, which area barrier to its general progress. Tho Legislatures of New York and New Jersey will meet in a few weeks. Why can- not commissioners be appointed by both bodies to settle this question of the right of way? What force cannot accomplish judicial moa- sures may, DroempBer, the first monti of winter, has come upon us in the charming diaguise of May, and these beautiful skies, and our Broadway swells, and the beautiful eyes of our beautiful belles, are almost enough to make us perfectly indifferent as to the price of ice next summer, so that these beautiful days of December aro continued. Bui the end is not far off, and we may have skating yet before Christmas. Wuat Has Broome or Van VaLKensure ?— ‘This question has been mooted about the Boord of Qommiaslouers of Publia Rarka, Russin Accepts an International Confereace. Our European despatches, published this morning, announce o fact of paramount im- portance in the history of the time. Russia having, by a policy equally vigilant, wise, far-seeing and firm, called the attention of Europe and of the world to the unfairness of the Treaty of Paris imposed upon her by tho triumphant Anglo-French alliance successfully sustaining Turkey in the Crimean war, and having secured strong adherents by the jus- tice of her cause and the skilful as well as dig- nifled course of her leading statesman, Gort- chakoff, suddenly, but in the most adroit and timely manner, shifts the whole burden of a final settlement upon the cosignatary parties to the obnoxious Convention. France is, for the moment, powerless in this matter; Great Britain has beheld her Queen exasperated, her Cabinet convulsed, and her entire body politio thrown into a sickly tremor by the appréhension of imme- diate war; Austria has quivered like an aspon- leaf under the shadow of the uplifted arm of Panslavism animated by pro-Russlan sympathies; Turkey has resounded with the din of hasty and confused preparation; Prus- sia has grimly smiled—a military Janus, seated in the car of triumph, with a face of peace turned toward Russia and a face of war toward both France and England. The whole Conti- nental balance of power has felt the shock and the thrill, and, just at the critical moment, when a word from St. Petersburg would have turned the scale and set devastating fleets and armies {n motion, the Czar speaks only to accept a conferenco of all the Powers united in the treaty of 1856, This conference granted, and the just, legitimate point for which Russia strives is gained! The preponderating Powers in it will perforce be unfavorable to anything that might prolong a warfare that is found to be practically ruinous, not merely to the coun- tries directly engaged, but to all others coter- minous or holding direct business relations with them. War in our timo is a hideous, goblin-haunted dream of a shameful, wicked past, and the rulers who love it are “‘Ambition’s fools,” or mon in whom the old barbaric fero- city of darkor and unBappier times still lurks. Now, neither those who direct the destinies of Britain, nor the Czar Alexander, nor the Em- peror Frana Joseph, nor the Sultan Abdul Aziz can be accounted such. They under- stand the real spirit and the genuine senso of a practical age, in which the limbs and hearts and lives and property of human beings aro deemed of value, and the tinsel trumpery of legalized murder deceives no man of modern ideas and true Christian nuriure. The senti- mentalism of the “pomp and circumstance” which call the filth and carnage of the battle field, the groans and anguish of the hospital, the debt that grinds millions of toiling men down into the dust for generations, and fills our jails, our almshouses and our lazarettos, by the falae name of “glory” is discarded and abhorred by the statesman and the patriot and by the nations whom such a man fiily repre- sents, Hence Prince Gortchakoff, cordially echo- ing the whisper of his imperial master Alex- ander, and sagely trusting to the conscience of modern Europe—nay, of mankind—just rea- wakened by the frightful war now crying aloud to heaven from the breast of gasping, bleeding France, accepts an invitation to discuss the rights he firmly claims for his country in the presence of the assembled Powers, This is a concession worthy of # great empire, ruled by o great mind and a good heart. We predict that, unless Europe be in- deed doomed, this act will bring its bless- ings, The existing conflict will be arrested and further struggle avoided. Reason and right will prevail; Christianity, commerce and freedom will be vastly aided in the East, and a grand precedent will have been set by the light of which the nations may begin to dis- arm, the number of non-producers, and conse- quently the burdens of labor and the crimes of penury may be diminished, and decency, jus- tice and freedom, at last, go hand in hand with what we often prematurely term ‘‘civiliza- tion.” Russia, in setting this splendid example to the world, wil! not fail to profit by her moder- ation, nay she will win more than the expea- diture of thousands of lives and millions upon millions of roubles in stupid and wicked war- fare would have cost her, and future historians will record the intellectual and moral victory thus won as the grandest achievement in Mus- covite annals since the days when Ivan the Great delivered his people forever from Mongolian tyranny. Thus imposing is the latest attitude of Russia! Saint JosrPn, THE Son or Briaaam Youne, is a genuine chip of the old block. His testi- mony in behalf of Mormondom and Mormon polygamy, as given to a visiting Herap reporter and published in our columns yester- day, shows the young man to be an apt scholar in the Mormon philesophy and logic of the old man, ‘The representative in Congress of the Salt Lake Saints, Mr. Hooper, who was also present as an eloquent defender of the Suints, is hardly equal to ‘Saint Jo;” but, as the profound Dogberry expresses it, “’Fora God, they are both in a tale.” They are down upon the’Gentiles, down upon all interloping scala- wags, down upon Congress and down upon “Mr, Grant.” Like Jeff Davis and his fellows of thelate Southern confederacy, they want to be let alone, and they cannot see anything in the constitution to justify these outside inter- ferences in their domestio affairs, Against such philosophers there is no argument but the argument of stubborn facts, and so we must leave the Salt Lake Saints to the stubborn facts, which they will soon bogin to realize in the progress of the present Gentile movement upon Uiah in search of silver and gold. A Cask Tuat Snoutp Nor Go Us- Notiozp—The desperate assault alleged to have been committed upon a poor old man by Congressman Fox the other night. It is said, that the injuries received are of a paioful and dangerous character, and, moreover, that they were inflicied with great brutality. The assault was one of the incidents of the late election, resulting, it would seem, from the disappointment of the Young Democracy, of whom the aggressor is a leading member. We heye not heard that the assailant was arrested ; but it is to be hoped that this case will not pass unnoticed because of the position occu- pied by the aggressor ap one of tha’ iay- poakore of the antion, Ropert of the Postmaster Genoral. The Postmaster General's annual report, which we published in full yesterday, is o satisfactory exhibit of the workings of hig department during the last year. He hag enlarged his mail facilities and has reduced the deficiency in his revenue, The burden of the Congressional franking privilege is the dead weight upon the department which renders it impossible to meet its expenses from {ts own resources. The subsidies to mail steamers on the Pacific have worked so well in the enlarge- ment of our Pacific trade that a continuance and increase of these subsidies is recommended, The new “correspondence cards,” which are working so nicely in the British postal syst: are warmly recommended for adoption here, and we presume there will be no difficulty in getting authority from Congress to try the ex- periment. The business of the postal money order bureau covers thirty-four millions of dollars for the year—a great increase. Indeed, from its cheapness, convenience and perfect security, this money order system is ono of the most popular institutions of the government We are sorry, however, that the Postmaster General has not made.an appeal for something like the Eng¥ish and European continental postal telezram system the great feature of his report. We suppose that the actual duties of his vast establishment as it is have pretty ful occupied his time and attention. Satisfi however, that the transfer of the telegraph lines of the United States to the Post Office De- partment would be a great gain to the depart. ment, to the public press and to the people, we hope that Mr. Washburn will keep his bill before Congress until the two houses pass it, Gratz Brown told a few wholesome truths at a complimentary serenade given him by hig political friends in St. Louis the other evening, Among other things, addressing the veteran Union soldiers present, he said:~ igviripeseotunilayg Meek I pire gone in tho canvass of this great State [have ever found that ‘hose who bore the brant ef battle were the first to extend thé right hand of reconciliation—(cheers)—prompt to forget all animosity, and to consign to oblivion obso- lete tasues, bygone phraseology, past nomenclature, It was only those who held high carnival in the rear that would still prolong the note of discord, hoping for continued pillage. (Oheers.) This pointed rebuke of the ultra radicals, who opposed the enfranchisement of whites when the same privilege was bestowed upon the blacks, was well timed and well merited. Words like the above have the true ring and will flad an echo in the breast of every true Americo” citizen. Personal Intelligence. Senator Charles Sumner left the Brevoort Mouse yesterday for Philadelphia, where he will repeat hia lecture on the Franco-Prussian duel. Mr. A. H. Lafiin, ex-member of Congress, of Her- kimer, N, Y., has arrived at the Metropoiitan Hotel, where he will make ashort stay. He is en route for Washington, Governor Hoffman le‘t the Clarendon Hotel yester. day for Albany. During his stay he was bestezed by # host of hungry office-seekers. Fifteen members of the City Council of Baltimore have arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. They have come to study the Fire Department of tho city, State Senator W. W. Wright, of Geneva, N. Y., and family are among the recent arrivals at the Mo- tropolitan Hotel. Mra. J. B. Weller, wife of the ex-Governor of Ohio, who 1s at present rea:ding in New Orle.ns, ia stopping at the Everett House. Senator Corbett, from Uregon, and Speaker Blaine, of tne House of Representattves, left the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel last evening for Washington. Judge Ruben Hitchcock, of Painesville, Ohio, has come to the city and is temporarily at the St, Nicho- las Hotel. “ Hon. Gideon Tucker and family arrived yesterday by steamer China from Europe and engaged apart ments at the Metropolitan Hotel, where he will spend the winter. General B, F. Butter reached the city yestorday, en route for Washington. He is temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Will! Castle and Mr. §. C. Camphell, of the English Opera troupe, are at the Grand Central Hotel. Captain Patterson, of the United States ordnance department, is among the latest arrivals at the Ey> erett House. Secretary Robeson, of the Navy Department, loft the Fifth Avenue Hotel lost evening for Washington. Governor Price, of New Jersey, hax apartments at the St, James Hotel. Mr. Washington Mclean, proprietor of the Cincine nati Inquerer, and lady, are stopping at the Now York Hotel, Hon. S. Hooper, member of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, loft the Brevoort Monse yesterday for Washington. Senator Thurman, from Ohio, and Senator Harris, from Louisiana, arrived yesterday morning at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. A. 1. Lyon, Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., came to the olty yesterday. Heis stayingat tue Grand Central Hotel. Mr. J. H. Ramsey, President of the Albany and Susquehnavna Raliroad, left the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday tor Albany. Captain Edmund ©. Bittinger, of tho United States flagsiip Delaware, is now stationed at the Claren- don Hotel. Mr. J. W. Patterson, member of Congress from New Hampshire, and family, are at the Astor House. Senator Fenton left tho Fifth Avenue Hotel lass evening for Washington. rh OBITUARY. Captain James 8. Abeel, U. 8. A. This gentleman died at Rome, N, Y., on Trursday Jast, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, lio wus born in Pennsylvania, but came to this State when quite alad. In 1813 he entered the military service of the republic as third lieutenant, and was assigned to duty with the Twenty-third infantry, which regi- ment was disbanded on the 15th of June, 1816, Some months later he was commissioned a second lieu- tenant, and on the sist of December, 1834, resigned and returned to private life. Three years later, how- ever, lie again entered the service a3 military store. keeper of orduance, ® position he held, with the ‘rauk of captain, to tho time of his death, Abraham Hooley. Abraham Hooley, Sr, @ well-known retired moe chant of this city, died on Thursday mo-ning last, at his late residence, Jersey City, in the seventy- fourth year of his age. Mr. Hooley was an English- man by birth, and came to this country about twenty years ago. He engaged in the silk business 1n this city, and by his energy and business taot soon amassed a handsome fortune, Persvaaily he was very popular in social and business ciroles; 13 ve- nerabie appearance added te his affability of sanner securing for him hosts of friends wherever he went. ‘He was @ leading member in the Methodist Church, Mr. Hooley was in the enjoyment of the bost of health up to Wednesday aficrnoon, when ho wi suddenly attacked with the sickmess which resulter 80 unexpectedly In his death. James Thompson. Mr. James Thompson, a well known citizcn of New York, died, after a lingering fIino3s, yeaterday, at lis residence, No. 4 Forty-elghth street, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, He was born tn Eng- Tand, and came to this country, accompamied by his father, at the age of thirteen. After beving com- pleted his education at Baltimore, he settled carly in life in New York, and by industry sud persove- ranee, aided by superior business abilities and by ies in one direction, he ross to a high dew 2a of ‘onmtnonce asa merchant and accu- mu! ‘considcravie wealth, He was distingntssed for hia great ability as @ chess player, He wo spend muck of his leisure time ever the chess board, and one of the most oolobrated Res, in America, He died sincerely regretved by feuda, ang moprned IF Ws Vee. ~