The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1870, Page 4

ENGLAND. PUBLIC SENTIMENT TOWARDS FRANCE. Will Paris Fall?—-Prussian “Arrogance’—-Ger. maz Dstike of England—What Britain hould Disraeli and Glad tone Home Agitation—The Law of Entail in Real Esate—Ireland and Scotland—What the British Democracy Requires, LONDON, Nov. U4, 1870, ent substantial vietory by the french un- der a eral hitherto unknown to fame has created diversity of opinion as to the consequences likely to follow. The failure of the armistice; the condition of the besieged; the dally Increasing power ef the bestever; tue utter hopelessness of atd to Paris from without; the unsatisfactory state of public feeling in France; the incompetence of cach and all of the men who had thrust thomseives iato power; Euro- pean feeling on the strife between two neighbor: all these things combined were, in the opinion one class of persons, hastening that peace which all were desirous to see established. But this unex- pected victory has upset everything. No chance of peace now. Vain and presuming the French always were, but the novel intox: ion which this victory is sure to cause will elate and carry them beyond all reasonable pounds, The other side view the matter differently. They not only comgratulate the French on gheir achievement, but hail it as the prelude to greater successes in the future, It will ratse the tone of the French treops and nation, in- fuse hope and courage into a people all but crushed, and curb Prussian audacity and destroy faith in her mvinctibility. A Tew more such successes will make Bismarck jess exacting, and his master less satisfied that the god of battles ison pis side. Iam no par- tisan, I, of course, have my own opinions on the contest that is raging. 1 have my opinion as to which of the belligerents caused the war, and which is continuing {t. I centend for the right to see and judge of any and everytaing from my point of view. Jelaim the right to judge erroneeusly, if I like to do 's0, and to insist on my judgment being correct. AmI not afreeporn Briton end inhabit. antof afree country? Do not Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues claim a similar right? Did they not only the other evening, at the Lord Mayor's ban- guet, tell us a great many things which they held to be right, and many more which we did not believe? Has not Mr. Cardvell for seme ume past positively asserted things as to the condition of o my which we will not accept as trae? Has he not repeatedly declared that the effective strength of our regular army ts, in round numbers $9,000-—he might have made it ninety—and the reserve oor Well, he has claimed the right wsay What he liked, and said it; and to believe what he said. In ike measure we claim the right to belicve as much as we like of what he tells us. And between you and 1, we believe his statement as to the effective strength of our army as we do in the amiabiitty of disposiuen of Bobby Lowe and John Bright. But thts 1s wandering from the French and Prussians, CAN PRANOR RETRIEVE? (think it well for both parties that the French have gained a real victory their enemy. France, with ail her faults, and she hus many to anawer for, has suffeved deeply; her cup of sorrow has flied 10 overflowing and Prusstan arrogance has become ea When the struggle com meuced I wished to bear of French defeat, because France had r you will, forced on the war, She had for long years assumed the dictator- stip of and sneered at the balance of Europ er, And inthe Hohenzollern affair she bad as m right to Interfere as Turkey had. But she sinned and has suf nd Prassia should remember that but for ach forbearance during the struggle between Pr and Austria, what is now called German unity woald nave been impossible. he smaiiest tute on the part of France in favor of Austria would bave huricd Prussia back defeated and disgraced. There is such a tung as gratitude between peoples and nations, anything that Vattel may have said or im- Plied to the contrary notwithstanding. That the victory 1s likely to lead to evi mstead of good I can- hotdeny. If we could see it followed by other vie- tories of importance we should hope that both par- ties would be eager for a reasonable and solid peat But can we dare hope for furtuer French suc knowing as we do tue univense disadvantag Which tuey labor? Js it possible that taie has ac last given tein, in General {ines, anew Napoleon to tame the Prussians as che od did? If this were the case we should ail be glad to see the Prussians ariven back within their own territory, if the would stop there, But given such a thing ac d—in the Prussians driven backwould the Frenca be content to regain what they have lost, or would the boasifat cry of “To Berlin” be repeated in the hour of triumph? Knowing tue French as we do, we may well deubt thelr moderation in the delictous moment that would see them triumphant over the hated rival who has humbled France as she was ne humbled before. Who er what should stay France th Without a proper goverameat, without proper lead with almost every adult aries, Wb uid check @ whole nation buraing wiih hatred and revenge’ And yet one cannot but Wish that ihe time of French deliverance ts at hand. it is the wniversal wianh here, Whatever may have been thought or feit at the beginuing of the war, the majoriiy of Eugitshmen are strongly opposed to the position Which Bismarck has assumed, and which, backed vy Russia, she wil keep, uniess a succession of Prussian defeats makes the French furnudable, and enables Austria to feel herself tn @ position to be heard. Wiih France ence freed frem the merciless foa which ts draining her life- biood, ske can always be mere thaa 2 match for Prussia, and, wits the help et England and Ausiria, ean vefy both Russia and Prussia, and secure Turkey dgainst Russian aggression. PRUSSIAN FEELING AGAINS® ENGLAND. We are told that a bitter fecling against Kngland ts being encouraged im Prussia. Perhaps itis, and you may be sure we are not learning to love Prussia more tian we did. Her successes during the present war has made ker forget what she really She can never injure Hngiand except by keeping Austria neutral during Russian invasion of Turkey. Bat will she leave France go utterly prostrate that the latter wiil be poweriess to join in the struggle? Not- withstanding Prussta’s e will, evon if she be successiul to the end, ly 1a @ better posi- tion than sie leaves France. Should sne Onally con- quer and ubiige France to promise to indemnify her Ju war expenses, the Judemnity will be liquidated by metalments extending over many years, and Prus- sia will find Rerself minus men, minus money, minds @ harvest, with an awful rational debt aud au impoyerisied people. Should she be deteate1 and lose the indemnity she expects, what theny She had better consider these things now. ENGLAND'S POLICY AND DULY, Althougir not ag se who contend that Engiand is to diame for not having actively in- verfered to prevent war, I do blame Eng- the land for not having done more thaa'she has done. Jam @ epinion that we could have been the means of putting such pressure on the beliigerents as couid have put @ stop to the war ere this, gland, I hold, Was and 1s in a position to dictate terms, Were she mm earnest she Might so order events, even now, that ‘Prussia, Would not dare to take one step in advance. The latter tnay utter as many absurd boasts as she likes about keeping Alsace and Lorraine in deflance of the world In arms; but if Engiand would only be true to herself she might, witout any sacritice, without the los8 of a single life or the cost of & pound, bring the present dispute to a terminauon such as would satisty Euro] How? With the aid of the neutral Powers. What if Russia declined to join’ Where is scarcely another Power in Europe, great or emai, which weuld not combine to give peace to Europe. If England iet it appear that she was in earnest, Austria, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Belginm, Holland and Denmark would join her in any thing she liked to propose. What could 2ussia and Prussia do against such @ comb! | nationy Some of our English liberal worshippers will denouncg me fer a visionary. And Mr. Disraeli, following, Will searcely countenance &ny large scheme which (oes not proceed frem itself, 1 am indifferent to both parties. I belong to netther. I watch passing events wita the attention of one to whom toe tractog of eifect from cause is an agreeable study. My experience and judgment leads me to predict that, if France be further humbled and com- pelled to accept such terms as Prussia may insist upon, Engiand will ere long find herself engaged in a deadly struggle with Russia without ald from thoso Whose ald she can easily secure now, but which, will be then refused, particularly if she meets with re- Verses, Englishman though am, and loving my country with a jove which satisiles me that the World has not her equal, aud grievedas J shali be should any trouble come to her, my sense of justice compels me to say that should the trouble 1 have Peed come, she will have brought is on herself, for se Can avert it by adopting proper means now THB RULERS OF THE NATION-—-ARE THEY EQUAL TO TRE EMERGENCY! T consider the disregard ef the future by men in power certain to lead te disasters which will try all our resources to remove, | see in the tone of Prussia, im Russian accumulation of munitions of war, end in active preparation by Turkey, trouble to . The thousand mitraliiueses that Russia has lately added to her store of arms can have but one ce, All her efforis wilt be made ward, with Prussian cognizance and sup- (ott; aud woen made. our tronbics wil! commence. | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER For the last atx months I have seen signs, and Preno thom out, of Russian views with regard io ‘key; views to carry out whica endcavors were in paration, Bub I am not & man of* nove, Roving worth noticing can | emanate {rom one who 1s not known. When Mr, John Stuart Mill, or Lord John Russell, or some such per. son gives expression theories remarxabie for their absurdity or impracticabilily their utterances are treated with reapeot. Why? Is anything resp< ot. able in Mr, Mill which Is contemptible in another? Is a lord convicted of rascaltty entitied to better | treatment than any other rascal? Here ts &@ case in polot, Mr. Gladstone Ja credited with the author. blip of anarticle in the Kdtnburg Revtew entitied “Germany, France and England.” His supporters and friends are compelled to adintt that it is wretchedly written and replete with platitudes, and yet the article is (Created with a degree of respect which would not be awarded to one possessing greater merit, the production of & meaner man. I have no hesitation in saying that had I been the author of the article tn quesiion and went it to the editor of the Review it weuld have been rejected, Take another instance. Mr, Glad- stone, whosa self-concel ventured & reply to the A more im- beetle attempt ata reply could scarcely have been made, but, coming from Mr. Gladstone, it was treated with more than mere forvearance, and, what was more satisfactory to Mr. Gladstone, obtained a pub- lisher, You must have observed the dead set maae against Mr. Disraeli’s preface to the new edition of ‘his works by the whole liberal press. One critte in parucular—ie of the Daily News—scoted at what eo Was pleased to term Mr. Disraeli'’s ‘‘slipshod English.” Now, every impartial) man will adinit that everything pennea by Mr. Disraeli has been ubly written, and the preface itself, which has been rudeiy attacked, is written in a style which nothing Mr, Giadsione has attempted can eqnal in respect of ee and elegauce, The faults in it are these which ave attended ar. Disraeli Wirongh life, aud which have in seme measure enabled hina to succeed tn everything ho has attempted—1 mean unbiusbing impudence and excessive G:otism., Ali this is very cheeky, is it not, from a0 obscure individual such as lamy At all events, my opinions are honestly given—that ts to say, free from party feeling. Can orn Mr. Giadstune or Mr. Disraeli say as much for theirs ¥ NATURAL IMPULSES, Englishmen tuke fits of zeai tor which they can give no reason. We were lately all for the sick and Wounded of the war. Every old maid, Cet young weman, young er old widow, appeare absorbed in the one desire to suppiy the sick and wounded with everything they id need or desire, One was pestered for ali kinds ef things. If one had two coats, he was expected to give one, and if he had three he was considered an unfeeling brute If he did not give at least one of them. But the secret of such zeai Was that they Who roamed about the country fer contributions escaped giving anything themselves. Well, we have got over our Franco- Prussian zeal. We overdid the thing, and got abused for our pains. Queen Augusta's and the Crown Prince of Prussia’s letters come teo late to satisfy us that our generosity had been properly appreciated. The hint given to the Prussian press to abuse us, and of which tt chgerfully availed itself, will not be lorgetten, nor the motive with which 16 was given; and we appreciate fer what it is worth the seap contained in the letters from the royal house of Prussia which have been made public, Some day Count Bismarck may find out that, clever as he is, he is not quite so clever as he thinks himself to be. Well, we are no longer over zealous for the belligerents; our zeal is given to @ home maiter. We are now battling on behalf of the school boards, which are to be appointed under the Education act, Candidates of every color, caste and creed are canvassing for Coe pees and it would be amusing, i it were not disgusting, te witness the tricks employed to insure success. Men who have bitherte been perfectly indifferent to religion have offered themselves, and have issued declarations that they entcrtaim strong religious views. The only sensible candidate f have read of is a lady—1 forget her name—who contends that reti- gious teaching should be confined te the principles contained in the Lord’s Prayer, Which is accepted by all denominations of Christians. By some persons the people are told to choose those persons who have either shown fitness for directing, or zeal in the cause of education, Tho Times, however, (thinks the advice not fair te those who have not had oppor: tunities of showing either quality. Of the several can- didates offered, L can least understand why Lord Lawrence has thought himself, and his iviends have thought him, in any way qualified lo represent the opie at the Educational Board. But who is Lord awrence? will naturally be asked. Lord Lawrence was lately Governer General of India; previous to that Lieulenant Governer of the Punjab m ihe East Indies, and, previous to that agatn, heid various omces im tae civil bruack of we Indian service, and was once magistrate of Delhi. As Governor General he was a complete failure. He had neither the mind nor the avility to maintain, with credit to bimseif or the country the independ- ent position ef Viceroy over the magnificent Indian Empite. As Chief of the Punjanb he did good ser- vice uader the direction of such Viceroys as Lords Dalhousie and Canuiug, than whom none better have ruled India. A magistrate of Delhi, Lord Lawrence, Was notorious for his penchant for ciub law, Which, if all that is related of hin be true, he freqnently ‘put m force. Then, again, Lord Law- renee, it is sald, by those who ought to know, has returned te England with a fortune of £500,000. Beyond wrihng & few minutes on the subject of edu. cation, Which as Viceroy of Indi he couldn't avold writing, be has done nothing vo show that he has ever given his attention to the subject. [have never heard that eut of bis large fortune acquired in tudia he ever gave a penny in aid of any school or college in India or elsewhere. Why does such @ man put himself forward for @ post for waich neither his heart nor his orain quaiiiies him? The answer is, betng an obscure Lord, he ts destrous of being no- ticed. If he attempted to make hunseif conspicuous in the House ef Peers he conld do so, but then he would be conspicuous for ignorauce aud duiness. GERMAN HOSPITALS. Colonel Lioyd* Lindsay has, In his report of the visit he recenily paid to Paris and Versailles, given @ picture of the condition of the German sick and wounded which is anything but creditable to the rulers or Germany. H¢ asserts that the whole sum subscribed “in Germany by the Johanniters, who are the great voluniary aidersin this war, amounts to £21,000." The following passage im his report 13 worth consideration:— I beifeve {t to be the eatablished system throughout the German army, but it will astonish English surgeons and Eng- lish people to Tearn that with tho army now before Paris there 4 no provision whatever for the extra care and comfort of the sick and wounded, No tents, no hospital diet, no blankets, no hospital suits of clothing, no slippers, no wnderclothing. +The old blood-stained uniiorms are worn in the hosptt and again when discharged from them. The men walk about with naked feet and scanty clothes, their ration: issued as usual and are made the most of. Everythinj Supplied by voluntary contributions, and I state it a and am prepared to prove it {f necessary, that thousands of French and German soldiers have had the mocessaries of life ish contributors to the National Fund. THE BUSSIAN WAR NOTE. Since writing the wbove Russia has sounded the first war note. She asks a revision of the Treaty of 1556, or, in other words, that she may be in a posi- tion to place Turkey at her mercy. Some ot the liberal papers see nothing in this to cause fear at present, because, even should the present war cease, Prussia will be unable to render active aid to Russia for along time to come. They forget, or wish us not to know, that Prussia never intended given them by and was hever expected to give active assistance to Russia in any attempt the latter may make on Tur- key. All that Prussia was expected to, and will do, 1s to prevent Austria takiag any active part in de- fence of Turkey, Ere a fortnight expires we shail hear more on the sudject, In the meantime, our Cabinet Ministers, entirely satisfied in the multitude of thei instructions and faitniul to their policy of never deing to-day What they ean do to-merrow, have gone to enjoy themselves in the country after the dreadful labors which three or four Cabinet councils neeessarily entaliedion them. AUSTRIAN POLICY. From Vienna we are amused with “interesting” Aecounts of the compliments which have been ex- between the loving and royal brothers, Hohenzollern and Hapsbarg. The tollowing will in- terest and give you au idea of the Chrisiamiy which animates the plundering Prussians and the plondered Austrian Kings:—It says that, on seeing the historical pictures of battle fields In the Palace, the King repeatedly expressed his regret that tho old bond of friendship between Austria and Prussia had been dissolved, and directed the Prussian Axi- bassador at Vienmwa, Count Schweinnita, to com- municate his Majesty’s sentiments direct to the km- peror of Austria, Count Beust, upon this, hastened to obtain an audience of the Emperor for the Prus- sian Ambassador, who was received by his Majesty with the grestest cordiality; and, after the inter- view, the Anstrian Ambassador at Berlin, Count Wimpffen, Was instructed to express “the extreme pleasur with which the Emperor had learned that, in the midst of the great events of the war, whe King had given a friendly thought to Austria, and to state that “Austria desired nothing mere strongly than @ real reconciliation with Prussia.” Tue Post adds that such a reconciliation weuld, under present circumstances, be very desirable for both countries, as Austria has new given up all thought ef revenge; and Germany, after her tre- mendous sacrifices im the present war, mast be anxious for peace, IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. ‘The question as to land in Ireland, whitch caused £0 uch excilement lately in Parliament and the whole Kingdom, is likely to lead to agitation as to the land in England and Scotland, the unequal divi- sion of which is said to be scandalous. One of the ople’s papers point out that 180 years ago 180,000 families held freehold estates, and 160 families now own half ef tlie soil of England and three-fourths of that of Scotiand. J have no me: at hand of testing the correctness of this #tatememt; but it must be admitted that, whatever might have been the circumstances which led to mterfereace by the legisiature with the jand in Jreiand, equal protection to the tenant of laud mm England is a right whieh he is justiNet in claiming. Another subject must ere ng be #erieusly considered—viz., the autres which property entails. I sheuid like to see such agitation en the subject as will compel serious consideration oft by the Parliament, The extent of destitution ia @ scandal and @ shame, and must be provider against, or seme day the people will take the maker into their hands—and theu? “SCREECHING ANN’*—A New Hamrsnikk DLx- GEND.—A correspondent of the Woi‘bero’ (N. H.) News teils how some of the good opie ef New- market were frightened a few nights ago by the noise of a steam whistle which seemed to be several miles distant, Some thought it an alarm of fir and went two miles, then concluded {i was In N tingh m. Peeple in Nottingham heard it and Vhought it was in Newmarket. Some declare tt was at Hali’s mill, whicn is about half a mile eut of the village; but the watchman says it was not, Others think tr “Screeching Ann,” who passes through ouce in seven years, having been murdered tn this vowion many years since. a the story goes THE COMING ECLIPSE. Tho Great Cclestial Phenomenon of December 22. Line of Observation of the Total Eolipse of the Suu—Tho Bavans Enlightening the World from Darknoss—What a Solar Eolipso Reveals—The Gladstone Cabinet at Wax vith the Astronomers, . The curioalty thatts at all times excited London journal—by the occurrence of @ celestial Phenomenon has been especially heightened win respect to the solar eclipse of December 22 next, on account of the uugracious reception which the gov- ernment at first recorded to an application from the astronomers of the country for assistance to enable them te take that advaniaze of the ovcusion which the present state of science demands, With their customary foresight, the celestial philosopliers ar- ranged their programme of operations early in the year. An accurate calculation of the path which the moon's shadow would follow as it swept across the earth, and the graphical projection of that path upon a map, at onee determined tie stations at which observers must be focated to make tle most of the event. 2 ‘The line along which the sun will be seen tetally eclipsed stretches from the North Atlantic across the south of Spain, passing almest centrally over Odemira, Tavira, Cadiz and Estepona; then passed ever Algeria, cutting Oran and Batna, and goes through Syracuse, in Sicily, away into’ Turkey and Greece. The duration of total obscuration at any of these places will be a few seconds, greater or less, than two minutes, an interval too siert to make the eclipse a highly important one; and the probable value is further diminished by low altitude of the sun, and the consequent possibility of winter mists impairing the observanons. All astronomical and meteerological conditions having been fully consid- ered, it was decided to send, if possible, observing parties to the neighborhood of Cadiz and to Syra- cuse, ‘The ebserving forces were marshalled, and about sixty gentlemen who had expressed their willing- ness to make the journey were told oif for the various departments of observation, to which we shali have presently to allude, Ship accommodation was required to convey those to the two biations, and a sum of money was wanted to increase the grant ef £500 which the Royal Society and the Koval Astronomical So- clety joimtly voted to defray the cost ef instrumen- talequipment. The Admiraity were asked for two vessels, according to precedent Gerived trem ‘be eclipse expedition of 1860, and for a grantef £1,000; and, although unoficial pourpariers were reasona- bly hopeful, and although, a@ It has since trans- pired, Mr. Childers looked faverably upon the appli- cation, an answer Was, after several weeks’ delay, returned to the effect that ships could not be lent, and that for money the Treasury must be applied to. To the official mystery here inveived there is no present clue. Piqued at their repulse, and possibiy times as long as the aun’s diameter, seem to vary their form in the course of an eolipse and to present differ- eut appearances to different observers, For helps to acquire more facts we have photography (if 16 can be applied tn the snort time available for prepara- UUons) the spectroscope and the pelartscope. ‘The former Of these will, 1t 1s hoped, determine whether the allvery light comes from a luminous gas or from solid matter in a state of Incandescence (metaphori- oaily, Whether It 1s the light of @ red-hot iron or the light of glowing hydrogen), or it will show if the two qualities of light are beth present. ‘The polarl- scope will determine whether the ligitts the coro- na’s own selt-germinated luminosity, or whether 16 is reflected sunlight— whether the corona is a source of light itself, or whether it is @ mist Itt up by the sun, And as the corona seems to possess a double character it will be necessary that both instru. ments be applied to the inlying and the outl; ing regions of it. Moreover, to each spectro- scope several persons must be attached, and two at least to each polariscope; for the time of total obscuration is s0 short that it must be compensated by division of labor, ‘To analyze the light of the corona, and as far a8 possible to decide its source, are then, the main ends of the December observations, There have been observations, spectrescopic and beep a made on previeus occasions, but they have been too con- ficting to supply any evidence of value. Other matters will receive their shares of attention, but these shares will be small. Mainly to solve this iast of existing eclipse enigmas bas America sent sone of her highest octal philosophers to Europe well equipped for thelr task. With the atd that has now been given to our own observers, England and america will pretty well hola the honors ef the eclipse between them. France and Prussia are out of the game, though the former, having an observa- tory at Algiers, may do something. Spain has an observatory near Oadiz, and she has sent a wel- come to the astronomers foreign to her. Those, we believe, are the only State relations to the science of the commg eclipse, THE INCOME TAX. to the Ca! The Questie stitutionulity ef the Law to be Tested in th> Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 1870. ‘The appeal taken by tha Secretary of the Treasury in the case of the Philadelpbia and Reading Rail- road vs. Barnes, the Collector of Internat Revenue at Philadelphia, involving the validity of the collec- tion of the income tax since the Ist of January, 1870, will be pressed for the early consideration of the United States Supreme Court, and on Tuesday next, when the docket is called at the peginning of the new session of the court, Solicitor General Bristow will ask that the appeal taken from the decision of Judge Strong in this case shall, for important rea- sons, receive the earliest attention of the Court, The amount of tax indirectly invelved is little less than six millions of dollars. But even should the Supreme Court sustain the decision of Justice Strong and declare the cellection of the income tax for this year illegal, Congress has but to re-enact the law in spectiic terms, and cover by its legislation at the coming session the amount already collected. In ether words, instead of refunding the taxes collected, it will enact that the taxes paid and unpaid shall be paid, thereby holding in the possession of the government what- ever has been received, while internal revenue oitl- cers will have eer | to compel the delinguent and these companies that have refused to pay the tax assessed to do so. It is true that thinking that the money without the ships would be of no avail, tue astronomers, represented by 4 jeint committee of tlie societies above Bained, let the mat- ter rest. Some indignation was aroused and found vent for @ time in appeals to public sympathy; out when ao American astronomical party ne to England to acrange for ebserving the eclipse and brought £6,000 their government money in thelr pockets, and actually offered to ae for the Englisa observers what the British government apparently declined to do, the necessity for pressing she matter further @as mere than apparent. A deputation was named to urge the claims of the eccasion upon Mr. Gliudstene; bul, before this could be organized, Mr. Lockyer, one of the prime movers in tne business, waited injormally upon Mr. Lowe, and found lim entirely favorable to the bestowal of any reasonable ameuat of aid. hip was promised, and £2,000—twice the amount originally asked for—was named as the maximum sum that an authorized committee might expect to have placed to their account. SOIKNTIVIC ENQUIRY—WHAT A SOLAW ECLIPSE RE- VEAIS. We will now pass to the consideration of the phe- nomena which are revealed by a solar eclipse, and the purticuiar point of interest’ attaching te obscr- vations Of the one under notice. For our present purpose we may consider the astronomical data de- Tivable from a. solar eclipse as of two kinds. One refers to the movements of the moon, the other to the physical Constitution of the sun. The first con- cerns Us just now so littie that we iay dismiss it by saying that the appearance ef the moon against or in front of the sun allows an ebser- vation ol our saieliite’s ,place ahe heavens to be made ata very erfticical Point in her orbit—namely, when she ts in a direct ilae between the earth and the sun, ‘This observation is of great unportance te mathematical astronomy, but i¢ can only be completely made at a fixed observatory waich, by the way, need not be on ihe line of totality, and it would not be included in ihe pro- gramme of an observing expedition to afar country. Such an expedition must devote itself to the acqurre- ment of physical aud costleal knowledge from ap- pearances which are only shown when the disc of the moon compietely hides the disc of the sun, and permits the view of certain solar surroundings which are etherwise too faiut to be seen. These sur- roundings are of twofold character, First, there is a silvery white, glowing radiation, of considerable breadth, whick encircles the moon appar y—bue doubtless the sun really—like the glory which paint- ers depict around the heads of sainted personages. This has been seen in eclipses from the earl times, aud the first chroniclers of its appearal gave it the name of corona, by which it has since been Known. Second, there is close to thesuna narrow fringe of brilliant red exerescences, which were first noticed during an ecipse in 1706, and for a time supposed to be an atmosphere around the meen. The records of this early observation, and of another similar to it hear its date, were forgotten by astronemers till the ebservers of the eclipse of 1842 were electritied upon beholing at the instant of totality a number of flame-colored masses of ght protrading as it were from the black lunar disc. From that time the ‘‘red prominences,”’ as they were culled, bocame the para- mount features of a solar eclipse. It the eclipses of 1851 and 1860 the greatest pains were bestowed upon the observation of them, photography lending its valuable aid upon the second occasion. In Mr. De la Rue’s bands the camera telescope did excelient work, and by the evidence that the bnerring photo- graphs afforded it was settled that the red, some- Umes cloud-like, sometimes flame-like, protuper- ancea certainly pertained to the sun, By the date of the next important eclipse (1863), a new tool, the spectroscope, was in the hands of observers, How well they used it in India those who take even a small interest in scientific progress will remember. The litde prism of glass, that had already told wonders concerning the materiais that supply fhe solar furnaces, then added to its triumphs by shew- ing that these red excresceaces are part ol a shell oi glowing gas surreunding the solar glebe. But even this achicvement was out-triumphed before the year was closed, A consideration of the ‘manner in which the — spectroscope disperses, and therefore dilutes the heterogeneous light which comes from the sun's general surface-— Wile jt allews to pass unafiected the homogeneous light which emanates from gascous bedies, such as the prominences were proved to be-—-tee considera- tion of this diverse action suggested to Messrs. Lockyer in Engiamd and M. Jansen in India, to try whether the prominences could not be seen without an eclipsesby turning thelr speciroscopes to the edge of thesum, They independentiy made the ex- periment and were rewarded by the sight of the red, glowing solar clouds, m spite of the dazzling bril- liancy of the sun. They virtually put ent the sun by really spreading Its light ever such an area as to Make tie resulting brightness less than that of the prominences—tne light of which will not spread itseit—and then these were ciearly seen. The red surroundings have now become familiar things, and their ever changing positions and appearances around the whole circumterence of the solar disc are day by day graphically resorded. It will be understood that, although they are only seen upon ihe sun’s border, they really cover the whole globe; for the “prominences” are but the higher parts of an irregular and tempestueus atmosphere of clow- ing gas with which that globe is enveloped. Into tie vast eld ef inquiry and specuiation which has been opened eut by this easy method of con- stantly studying the sun’s flaimnlng atmosphere— which seems t float over his incandescent surface like a mist hovering over & lake, and to be iutt- mately associated with spats and ether solar sur- tace of phenomena—we have not time to enter. Sufice it for us that there is no longer need for an ecitpse to render the red shell’s conteur visible, and that it will, therefere, receive small attention in December next. In the early stage of the prepara- tory arrangements it was proposed to provide ap- paratus for again photographing the ecitpse phe- Demena, but it was never clearly settled whether the promiinences er the corona would be the subject of the light-painters’ operations. ‘We mention in passing that “Baily’s heads” no longer attract eclipse observers’ attention, Their appearance is due simply to the sun’s light glinting between the mountains ana the moon's edge just before the moment Of total eclipse. They were soon explained out of interest. ‘he outstanding object upon which all, or well nigh all, attention will be cencentrated during the Christmas-tide eclipse will be the carera. The high- est curiosity exists as to its origin and the part it plays in the solar economy. Theories concerming It exist in plenty. It has been held to be a glare in our own atmosphere; but the whole of it certainly cannet arise from this cause. Then it has been re- } garded n8 an atmosphere of the moon; but this sup- position is quite untenable, - It may be an extensive atmosphere about the sun; # vast envelope of gase- ous or finely divided selid matter, overlying that red shell whick, for conventence, we shall cailan atmos: phere elsewhere. It may bea dense portion of the zodiacal light; it may be the crowding region of the vast meteor streams that circulate in cometary orbits around the suu, and which must be numerous: enongh to cause such % cloud at their perihelion swarming place. These are hypotheses. For facts we only Know that a bright part ef the light near the sun seems to be tolerably persistent, and that fainter out- Ivung parts, Which shoot ous in sheaves two or three @ penalty cannot, in tts case, be enforced for neglecting to comply with the law as construed. Itis, therefore, with tne hope that the Supreme Court will speedily dispose of the question ‘Vhat it will be urged for # hearing without delay, so as to enable Congress to euact whatever law may be necessary under the circumstances, In regard to the proposed retroactive legislation, it will be re- membered that Congress has already passed several such laws, and tie right to do so bas never been controyerted by the Supreme Court. Tho Solicitor General says that he has had some experience already in arguing cases against the United States, and Is fortified with arguments to enter upon the discharge of this his first oficial duty before the Supreme Court. Mr. Delano, in his report as Commissioner of Internal iudes to this subject, and says that as early as January 4, 1870, he called the attention of Congress, through its appropriate committee, to the ambiguities of the law then in force and the dificulties likely to arise in the collection of these taxes, and asked legislation upon the subject. Net only did he anticipate the obstacles that would arise, but re- peatedly, by letters and 1n person, urged upon Sen- ator Sherman and Representative Schenck the ue- cessity ef settling the question promptiy. On the ‘lath ef January last Assistant Treasurer hig Oy at New York, wrote totne First Comptroller fer in- structions whether he should retain the tax on sala- ries as during the year 1869. Fatlag to get anything satisfactory from the chairman of the Committee on Finance or the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, the Comptroller conferred with OM missioner Delano, and th y agrecd that the tax as discontinued, Not only was Assistant Trea surer Foiger se instructed, but on the isth of Janu- ary Assessor Cleveland, of New York, was instructed by Commissioner Delano that the tax imposed upon dividends, | &c., should be collected as heretofore. The ‘overn- ment, througn its responsible officials, having insisted upon the collection of such taxes, will now have to shoy under what IMmterpretation of the law the imstructions were given, ana the refusal of Con- gress to take cognizance of the subject until a later date will be construed as implying that no legislation was necessary. The fact that there was @ reasonable doubt as to the authority conferred, which has since received judicial sanction by the opinion of Justice Strong, will, in the future argument of the case, mvolve the right of Congress to construe its own laws. if the Supreme Court shall declare that powers are uncon- stitutionally exercised, and that the law authoriz- Ing the collection of taxes on Incomes, dividends, &c., expired on the Sist of December, 1869, then Congress will undeubted|y impose @ tax for the time the law has been enforced i 1870, thereby accom- plishing by new legislation what was keglected at Its last session, MSCELLAN FORZION ITEMS, As “a homage to public morality,” the citoyennes cantiniéres of the Paris National Guards are to be done away witn. The resnit of a minne inspection of the fortifica- tions of Metz by the German engineers 1s that these fortifications are considered “eacciient im every re- spect.’? In the first week of November there were 133,751 persons in receipt of parochial relief im London, in the preportion of 34,857 um the werkhouses and 98,804 outdoor paupers, In a ballet performed at Berlin ove scene repre sents Paris, whence Gambeita and others are escap- ing in alarge balleon. A Prussian soldier sheets at the balloon and brings it down. The French Embassy in Copenhagen haa sum- moned all Frenchmen resident in Denmark, aged Jrom twenty-five to tinrty-live, immediately to return to France, im order to be enrolled im the army. Tne Dresden Journal learus from Warsaw that for some months past the reserves of the Russian army have been secretly called, not in the ordinary way, but by contidenual orders to the cluets of “cireles.’* ‘The Pope has reprimanded Father Beckx, the Gen- eral ef the Jesuits, for permitting Whe publication of a pamphiet b her Curei, ope cf his staf, whi objects to the intervention of Prussia in favor of the temporal power. Five jeurnais were published tn Metz during the siege, and bigh prcies are asked for sets. Fer tue Impartiat forty francs 1s demanded, and for its hit tle balf sheet, with black border, contuning the capitulation, fifteen franes, Greece possesses fiftecn gymnasia,fanswering to the Scottish universities, and 1/4 pubile schoels, answering to the Scottish high schools or Euglieh grammar sehools. Ninety-four professers are occu- plea in teaching in the former, 236 mastery im the latter. The Copenhagen journals, Dagblader and Fadre- landet urge the Danish government vo entreat the Prussian government for a projongation of the term for free emigration from Schleswig to Denmark, supulated in the Peace of Vienna, wiich expired November 16. In the first nine months of 1870 England exported to Russia 195,809 tons of tron, while in the first six Belgium provided her with 19,566 toms of rail iron alone. Russia, moreover, in the interests @f her vast, extent of territory, proffers & demand for raflroudy quite equal toany supply. The condition attached to the prize of £100 offered to the UnivePsity ef Oxferd, Eagiand, for the best essay in refutation of Materialism, is that “the ar- ments used are to be independent of those of legel, and of what ts called the spiritual philosophy which nad its rise in Germany.” A Japanese youth, brought from Yekohama, as @ naval cadet in the British screw frigate Liverpool, committed the suicidal hari-karl in the ward room of that vessel during her passage home. He had been despondi since leaving Valparaiso. The body was buried in the English cemetery at bahia, The Bishop of Manchester (England), speaking at an education meeting, at Bolton, said:—“If tnogiish- men were willing to recognize the power of ihe policeman over the school attendance of their chil- dren no doubt in the future they might be as weit educated as Prussian and Saxon soldiers; otherwise, he lo®ked forward with little faith te what could be done in the way of compuision.”” THE OLDEST MAN NoW LIVING IN Mississirrs.— There lives in the county of Itawamba, two miles east of Futvon, a gentleman by the name of Jonn Owens, Who was 111 years old the 15th day of Octo- ber last. Mr. Owens was born in the State of North Carolina, on the 16th of October, 1759. He has been luving in Nerth Mississippi for the last forty years; prior to that he lived in Jackson county, Ala., fifty; , Sard to which time he lived in Tennessee and orth Qarolina. He has been twice married, the last time when he was ninety-foar years old. ‘The old gentleman has never taken a dose of calomel or blue mass, He has been a member of the Hard Shell Baptist Church for seventy-five years, during which time he has been & pious, consistent Chris. tian, He has never sued any one, nor been sued. io wis iife.-— Ica sazetie, ‘4, 1870.-TRIPLE SHE®® WAR DESOLATIONS. Social Misery Resulting from the Prussian War. The Homes of Germany— Widows and Orphans— Winter at tho Door—The Dead and the Living~Democracy in the Future—'48 and Its Popular Triumphs—Republi- canism South—Then and Now. Srurraanr, Nov, 9% 1870, Sabjoiued 14 a statement taken from a German paper which tends to convey an idea of the fearful ravages and of the misery and sutfering which the continuance of the war inflicts on the German peo- ple, It 1s stated that the number of married women, wives and widows of soldiers, receiving relief in the province of Westphalia at the beginning of last month, was 11,817, together wiih 22,713 children, In the prevince of Manover 9,624 women, with 26,418 children, had become objects of public charity, and inthe Khenish provinces there were destitute 14,312 married women, with 20,619 fatherless chil- dren, This gives a grand total of 35,753 women, with 78,760 children, in only three Prussian provinces, It may fairly be assumed that the suffering is not less In the remaining provinces of Prussia, We have already seen the first snowfall, and there are many indications of an early aud severe winter, What aggravates the situation is that the price of all kinds of provisions stands considerably above the usualaverage. Aad to this the mischief done by rinderpest and the potato rol, and we can easily imagine what the immediate future of these poor wemen and children will be if deprived much longer of their natural support, SORROW AND CHARITY. I shouid add that nine-tenths of the husbands of these women belong tothe landwehr, Many of them were comfortably settled in business before the war broke out; on their return—if, indeed, they will re- turn—they will find thetr homes broken up and their families dependent on public charity. 1 have had to listen to many a harrowing tale; last, not least, only « few days since at a railroad depot, where I was detained for several hours, owing to an accident on the line, A landwebhr battalion, encamped at a neighboring village, sent @ guard daily to the depot, and, by way of improving time, I got into conversa- tion with the men on duty, ‘THE FUTURE. All were what they termed ‘forty year men,” and declared themselves heartily sick and tired of cam- paigning. Hopes were entertained by them that the surrender of Metz would epen the possibility of their regiment being sent home at once. Poor fei- lows! They did not know that a winter campaign is in store for them, and that their troubles, amid a hostile population, are only commencing, How- ever, I did not feel called upon to damp tneir spirits. The duty of these landwehr regiments is arduous; they have little fighting and consequently no glory. ‘The Aome of these men I ascertained to be Barmen, Selingen and lserlohn; most of them were mechanica and engaged in the mauufacture of hardware, men illy sulted for outdoor work and bivouacks. De- prived ef ali comforts, they are kept constantly on the alert, harassed by Francs-tirears “and armed peasantry. Without exception these regi- ments are composed of intelligent, orderly end sober men, but at their time of lite military discipline becemes somewhat irksome. ‘rhey are, moreover, noi such feols as to believe in military rule and its continuance hereafter, and I am inclined to think that when they come home Count Bismarck wiil find his hands full to set “the house In order.” In fact, there is no doubt on my mind that it 1s much easier to talk about the future ol a *‘German empire” than to provide (he means of ensuring its integrity. DEMOCRACY, Tn Prussia proper, and ta the Northern provinces, republican ideas may probabiy find little favor at this mement, Butitis notso in the Southern States, Here, if a change of the aciuat state of things must be effected, it requires a change for the better—not for the worse, The governments of Baden and Wuriemberg, it is reported, have given in their ad- hesion; but the people are entirely indiferent about @ union with Prussia, while im Bavaria the people, as Well as the government, are directly opposed to Count Bismarck’s proposals, His well-Known ability a3 a manager may possibly succeed in evercoming the scruples of the Bavafian King, but he will | find it uphill work. King’s scruples are based on the will of the le and a thorough dis. Uke to military rule. The popular belief among Ba- Varians is that they will lose much and ‘ain Tittle by substituting Prussian for Bavarian rule. It 1s singuiar enough that on the Bavarians nearly always the welgnt of fighting has fallen in this war, At Woerth their losses were heavy; at Sedan, ac- cording to an oflicial statement, about 5,200 Ba- varians have been Killed and wounded, and now again we hear of frightful losses of the corps mee General Von der Tann, both at Orleans and jon. isery snch as 1 have described above existing in Prussia 1s found in Bavaria even on a larger scale, ‘The latter are less docile and submissive than their Northern brethren; the press breathes a purer atmosphere in Bavaria; public functionaries are less arbitrary than im Prussia. and @ host of minor con- siderations render it «difficult to imagine homo- geniety. The Bavarians know they fought well; their losses are heavier in proportion tothe small contingent than those of Prussia, and they contend that, under the circumstances, more conaidera- tion should be shown rather than piace their King in a position which they hold te be humiliating, If ever Buvaria ts | to be coerced into consenting to Count Bismarck’s proposals, you may depend on it the | Unten will neither be happy nor durable. The peo- ple and the press make no secret of these matters, | and im spite of Count Bismarck’s declaration, made | mmthe London papers—‘“he did not hold the opin- | Jon that the republican institutions of France consti- | tuted a danger to Germany’—it will be feund the | continuance of the war 1s necessary, mainly because | the very hot-ned of German republicanism is seaiea | in Rhentsh Bavaria. In those sections the wildest enthusiasm prevails in faver of republican institu. | ons, and the people there maintain that the siege of Paris is directed as much against them as against Frenchmen. It appears, therefore, tolerably clear that Bavarians will not easily be brought to submis- sion. On tne contrary, they will hold out to the last, | In tine, attempts will be made in Germany to pro- | mulgate the republic so soon as the Bavarian gov- i} | | ernment should dare to deciare in favor of Count Bismarek’s proposals for a confederation under the supremacy of Prussia. THE EVENTS OF 1848, In the Southern States of Germany the events of 1848-49 have not been forgoiten; and 1t anf be of interest to briedy recapitulate afew of the leading Teatures connected therewith. The electric tele- graph was but lite known in Germany at that period, the few existing communications being con- lined exciusiveiy te the use ot government. It took several days before the events of Paris could reach the Prussian capital On the 28th of February, however, 1 was known at Berlin that Louis Philippe had been compe had declared in favor of a republic. spread like wildtire. ment. Me ed to take flight, and that Paris The news It caused the greatest excite- ings were called expressive of sympathy with their French brethre In vain the poiice en- Gaavored to suppress the popular movement, Between the days of the 6th and 13th of March The city was held in coustant commetion, culmi nating In ® street fight, Barneades were erected in the principal thoroughfares, and, although a large mnilitary force was deployed throughout berlin, the citizens succeeded in becoming masters of the situa- tion, After a hard fight on the 18th and teth or March the King was induced to make concessions, All the troops garrisoned at Berlia were ordered to leave the city, According to an official return the imilitary had to deplore 275 casnaities, Including no less than nineteen officers kilied or wounded, the loss falling chiefly on regiments of the Guards. The present King of Prussia was at that pertod, Crown Prince; he was Generalissimo of the forces, and it Was at is command that the troops had fired on the citizens. He disapproved of the concessions: Inade Lo the peopie by the King, and the active part which the Prince (#. ¢., the present King) had taken im the suppression of the popuiar movement. made it Imperative that be should quit Berlia with the troops. The Crown Prince, it will be remembered, took refuge i Kngland for several months. The temper and spirit tn which the military power had been wielded had thoroughly exasperated the German peop! There existed no freedom of speech any- where, and the people thought the time had come to assert their mghts, The movement at Berlin was mitaied at every corner of Fatherland. The cry of angtush found écho at Breslau, Frankfort-ou-the- Main, Erfurt, Iseriohn, Elpersteld and elsewhere. At all these cities, and many others of minor import- ance, we have heard of street fights. The province of Posen was in open rebellion, and the troops sent against it liad about 600 soldiers and forty officers hors de combat, while the casualties among citizens were reported to excoed 2,000. Count Bismarck has probably goed reason to re- meniber these events, He held an appointment under the Governor about that period at Atx-la- Chapelle, and his deportment gave rise to an un- Pleasant altercation at a clubhouse of that city. THE DEMONSTRATIONS OF 1849. ‘The demonstrations of the republican party were not confined to Prussia. In May, 1849, we read of & general rise throughout tho little Kingdom of Saxony. Tne fighting in the streets of Dresden was Probably more serious than in any other German city. A provisional government hud been formed, and the King of Saxony, unable to move bis own torces, demanded and obtained succor from Prussia, On the 6th May, 1849, the troops, under command of a Prussian general, reinstated the King, who hat taken shelter in the netgnboring fortress of Koenig- stein. Dresden was held by martial law, and about 359 of its citizens perished in the strugate. Simul. taneousiy with this movement history records the rising iu Baden and Rhemsh Bavaria, ‘The republi- cau party Bad been able lo Win over # large portion Duke of Pods, oat corte neers, with sixty or uarenty mS Tor ee 44 © Prussian 80) was agal the unconsetoug instrument for putting to death numbers of citizens. Several batues were ht with Varying success at Landau, in Bavaria, nourg and other place in Baden. Finally, the Sons or Liverty took refuge in the ag? of Rastadt, which stronghold they were en- led to retain fo) arte Prussians then brougin of ened & bombardme: lack of provisions, ore ahus Breased, and with & beled vo capitan on festa eae force was com. rrender dlasted for thi hopes of these who naa labored L agree ie freedom, Many, many haa in exile; otuers,’ thrust into ‘prima’ gor euplaning what was looked npon by military rulers a8 “crime,” Time kept rolling on, and the asked, what difference is there velweae trees 1848 and 1870? Just this much, that the people of to-day are still less inclined than in 1848 to fight for the personal interest of princes or to suit t! pri. vate ambition of their advisers, Connt Biamasok will find himself terribly mistaken when he thinks that the soldiers, on returning to their miserable eng va meekly submit again to a yoke of deg. potie rule, THE SCIENCE OF COUNTERFEITING. Marvellous Extent and re of a Counter. feiter’s Operations—How the Country is * Flooded With Spurious Currency. four weeks, The siege guns and threat~ (From the Lonutaville Courier-Journal, Noy. 30.) We gave an account some weeks ago of the arress Of a party of counterfeiters at a house on the old Portland road, by detectives Bligh and Gallagher, and subsequent accounts ef the arrest of Dr. Joha P. McCartny, who was their leader, and who at that time got wind of the coming of the officers and made his escape from the house om which the descent was made, Mevartny, than whongno more notoriously suc- cessful counterfelter ever operated in the West, then went to Cincinnau, where he was arrested’ and placed in a station house for temporary confinement. From there he made his escape in a rather mystert- ous manner, which elicited much comment botm from the people and the press, and which has never been satisfactorily explained. On Friday night last he was arrested at Venico, Yl, by some St, Louis detectives, and in writing up the case the St. Loum Times gives the following interesting detatls of his antecedents and adventures:— . McCartny has been s fugitive from Justice for several years, and the government has spent over $30,000 in endeavoring to effect nis capture. Colonel Wood, the former chief of the Secret Service Depart- ment at Washington, used every exertion to capture him, not sparing either men or money, but was un- able to bring him to justice. When Colonel H. 0. Whitley, the present Chief, took charge ef the department he kept up the hunt, detailing old and well-tried detectives for the duty, and in. stracting them not to relax thelr exertions until Buccessiul, HOW AE WAS CAPTURED. The circumstances attending McCartny’s arrest were kindly furnished us last evening by Detectives Eagan and Applegate, to whom too much credit cannot be accorded for the great public service they have rendered, On or about the 5th of this moni McCartay, with his family, went to Portland, Kea- tucky. ‘ishing above all things for seclusion, hé searched tue suburbs of that town, and finally offered & man, who was living in a house at tha time, fifty dollars as a bonus to let tlm have posses- sion. ‘The house not being a very desirable one, the man’s suspicions were aroused, but he permitted the new comers to move in. A few days afterward the man went to the Chief of Police in Louisville and told him about his tenants, together with his sus- icions. The Chief supposing that they were burg- jars, detailed Detectives Biigh and Gallagher te work the case up. TRACKED TO HIS LAIR. The officers soon found out enough to warrant their making a descent upon the house. They ¢Cap- tured McCartny’s Wife and a man known as “Alexan- der Bil,” but McCartny had left the hous: that morning. On searching the house, however, instead of finding burglars’ impl-ments, as they had ex- pected, they discovered @ full set of engravera’ tools, ‘together with a printing press, rolling Machine, a fifty cent plate and a full stock of th various plates and inks used in the manulacture reenbacks, “Alexander Bill” 1s now in jal at ouisville. Colonel Whitley, upon hearing of the arrest. instructed Detective Eagan, of this city, to go on te Leuisville and investigate the matter and to see if he could not find some clow te McCartuy’s whereabouts. When Hagan arrived in Louisville he found that Mra, McCartny had been discha ged by the United States Commissioner ti and not being able to learn anything of her husband’s whereabouts, he brought Mrs. McCariny to this city. After staying here a few Gays she leit and went t@ her mother’s, who 1s living in Tilineis, . MCARTNY AND BIEBUBCH. At the time of his wife’s arrest McCartny, as wae afterwards ascertained, was here and at Fred Bie- Dusch’s house, red being at iiberty. It is certain that he saw Fred, or in ihe overcoat that the latter threw away the night of his capture was $400 of counterfeit money, Which had been struck oif of the veel tee was found om McCartuy at the time of hia ares! ARREST AND ESCAPE. A week ago yesierday McCariny, together with a man named Charley Johnson, was arrested by some detectives in Cincinnati. Nothing was found om McCartny, but from Jounson were taken $421 im counterfeit twenties, fives and fifty cent fractional currency, With afuil set of plates for printing the twenties. ‘They were locked up inthe Third street police station, but last Sunday night McUariny suc- ceeded in escaping, how is not known, BAFFLED AGAIN, Eagan was again notified by Colonel Whiticy to go on and take Charge of McCartny; but when the de- tective arrived, Monday morning, he found that the bird had flown to some more congenial clime. Much chagrined at the disappointment, Eagan re- turned to St. Louis, iittle dreaming that his long pe ead Search Was 80 near @ successful termi- nation. AGAIN ON THE SCENT. Friday evening last, about nine o’clock, Fagan received information that McCartny was then in Venice, [il., a smail village avout five mules up the river, and directly opposite the island where Fred. Blebusch lay hid aiter forfeiting his bau. Upon learning this Eagan, with detectives Applegate and Lonergan, crossed the river, went to Venice and caught their man in a hotel there, THE PRICE OF LIBERTY, When arrested McCartny proposed that if they would let him go he would give tiem full sets of plates all ready for the manufacture of every deno- Mination of money, from $50 down to fiity cents, and which he sald were worth, at the lowest figure, $50,000, together with $60,000 of ‘queer’? money, all ready for distribution, fle guaranieed that nis netes would sell readily at fifty cents on the dollar. ‘This proposition, it is hardly necessary to say, Was declined. MeUartny then offered no less than $85,- 000 for his liberty. AFTER THE CAPTURE. After his capture McUartny was handenffed to one of the detectives, placed in a carriage and brought to St. Louis. He was taken to one of our hotels, ana allowed to go to bed, two of te detectives sitting up all night with him in the room, BACK TO HIS OLD QUARTERS. Yesterday morning he was again troned and seat to Springfleid, lil, from the jailof which place he escaped in 1867, after having been convicted of counterieiting, His escort arrived there safely with him, and he is now once more behind the bars, WIS SUMMER QUARTERS. On the 7th day of May last McCurtny was here, apd bought 4,000 sheets of bank note paper, which he took with him up to Minneapolis, Minn., where he and his family spent the summer, busily engaged all the ume in manufacturing “coney,” or counter- feit money, and with which, had he not been ar- rested, he would in @ short time have fooded the whole Western country. HIS CONFEDERATES. McCartny, who, a8 we have stated, is one of the Most noted andexpert counterfeliers im the United States, has rare talent a3 an engraver, He makes ail his own plates, 1s @ good printer, and thus does all his own work without ranning the risk of letting others into his plans, About forty-five years of age, he is jive feet eight and a half tuches tali, has black whiskers, weighs about 150 pounds, and is au iutel- higent, genteel-looking man. He nas worked with some of the most notorious counterleiers im the country, such as Joe Miller, alias Kincaid, and the Reno Hoys, of Seymour, Indiana, who were taken out ef the jailin New Albany, where they were coi fined for robbing an express car of the Indianape- lis and Jeffersonvilie road, near Seymour, about two years ago, and hung by a mob, je Was also associ- ated with Lew Doiman, alias “Snyder,’’ who was shot by the police in this city One year ago last spring while attempting to escape; and last, though not least, with Fred. Biebusch, now being tried before the United States Distiict Court for counterfeiting. AS A LECTURER, For a while he went through this State detivering lectures on the best way of detecting countericit money, and making from fifty to one nundre’ aoi- Jars a ‘hi by So doing, together with disposig ok @ great quantity of the “queer at a good proiit, We were shown last night a $5 yrcenvack and a fifty cent fractional currency note of bis manufac- ture. They are certainly the best executed coun- terfeits we have ever seen, and are well calculated to deceive the keenest experts, At the tute of his arrest he had on his person a large quantity of the denominations mentioned, which, With a $1,000 five- twenty bona genuine), is now in the hands ef the United States Commissioner at Springfield. SHOVING THE QUEER, As an Mlustration ef the readiness with which Mcvartny’s counterfeits circulate among business men we were informed that one of the most promi- nent livery men ef Cincivnati sold Johnson, wao ‘was arrested there wita McCartny, a horse for $100 and took his pay im the queer, without, a suspicion as to Its nature, although accustomed to handle large amounts of money daily, This is but one in- stance of how much injury an expert ike Movartay can Work in a community. The thanks of every man tn the West are certainly due Colenet Whiticy and his sirewd, {aithtul assistants, Eagan, Loner nn and Applegate, for the valuable service they ave rendered in eifeciing so unportant @ Capture.