The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1870, Page 6

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CONPENTS OF TO-DAWS RERALD, Another Chapter r snow of | eOUs | Mise from the Science of Counierlesiu §—Navo nd the He ne ng Article, “The Great Powers What Wil They Do with the ) user § Y—Editurials (continued from Sixth P: sonal—Paris: ihe H Special 4 from Versailles; German Assault on Friday; Unsuccessful 2 pt to Force the French Army from East Bank of the Marne; Dreacfal Losses on Both Sides; Victory Claimed fer the French Army Near Orleans; What Is Thought in Tours of the Laie Engagements; The Army of the Lore Again Advancing; No Arrangements Between Kiag Wiluam and Napvieon tor Peace—Kuss.a: European Congress Plan Gen- erally Accepted; Austrian Report of the Situ- ation; i gypt te Ald the Sultan ‘Activeiy—Brit- ish Kaids Upon American Fishermen—The Dis- dad Cable—Thrashing an Intruder—Business: intelligence: Departure of the United Nc S—Nuy States Ship Guard on the Darien Expedition; Porter and His Special Duties as Adimiral— Army Intehigence—The Dry Goods Market— Fire in Ann Street—Real Estate Matters— course of Empire—Fiuancial Report—Mar- Tages and Deaths. 9— Advertisements, 10—Aiter the Fire and Flood: The Breoklyn Bridge Caisson Yesterd: Bucerism: Jem Mace and Joe Coburn in Fearful Harnest— ‘ An Extraorcimary Aban- road Rates—A Steamer s About Doughty Cleared— The Question of Vegetables—A Remarkable Story—Marine Transfers—Snipping Intel. gence—Advertisements, 11—Advertisemenis. 12—Adverusements, {ne Mrrtina or Conoress,—To-morrow begins the hurly-burly at Washington, with the reassembling of Congress. The members of both houses are moving to the capital from all directions, and a powerful lobby is said to be already on the ground. The session will be short, but lively, and the wiuter in Wash- ington will be gay, notwithstanding the war in France. They frolicked in Paris while Wash- ington was under siege, and now the game is changed—that is all. We expect that there will be a quorum in both houses, and that our / NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Great Powers in ConfereaceWhat Will They De with the Popet be transferred to more peaceful quarters—to Elba, for example, or to Malta? We do not Alabama in a New Shape. General Grant must look well-to his laurels Prince Gortchakoff, in his first note to the cboose at present to enlarge on the possibilities. | just now. Neither he nor his party can afford signatory Powers relative to the Treaty of | We refer only to the difflculties. European | many serious checks in their present condition. Paris, made one of the boldest diplomatic strekes which any statesman has made in modern times. Gortchakoff never was want- ing in boldness; but on this last diplomatic stroke he compels the world to believe that he has learned something from the arch-diplo- matist of his time, Count Bismarck. A wise master never ceases to be a disciple. Gort- chakoff has made a European conference a necessity. The conference is, in fact, agreed upon, and the presumption is that it must be heldin London. The sop to England is due to Bismarck; but the sop has told. Now that another grand European confer- ence is to be held, it is not unfair to consider what this conference will have to do. Primarily, of course, this conference will have to consider the Treaty of Paris. It is a hard thing for the great Powers of Europe to be compelled to meet in council for no other purpose than to undo what formerly they did. But modify the Treaty of Paris they must. They have nochoies, They cannot help it, Russia has made her case so clear that even Great. Britain, which spent one hundred million pounds sterling on the Crimean war, must consent to revision, The revision of the Treaty of Paris will leave Rassia mistress of the Black Sea, and will once mere open for her the door to Coustan- tinople. Other qnestions, of course, will have to be considered. Eurepe, from the Black Sea*to the Mediterranean, is ali unsettled. France will do her best to hold out in prospect of sympathy from the conference. She may not be able to hold out; but she may. If she does her voice will not be so weak as some peopleimagine. Not to speak more of France, Ausiria has much to ask from a conference, and, we may rest assured, she will aot make @ | timid demand. Feeling her weak hold on her German provinces she will ask privileges in the East. If she must retire and make Pesth her _headquarte she will not fail to give good proof that she has a very special interest in the mouths of the Danube. A. Enrepean congress ought to represent the | small Powers as well as the great. If Den- tion of the pea to material g | over, but the big found in Rom of Europe they have a right niees. It is » mmddle all Afier the Eastern question the biggest ques- tion which the assembled Powers will have to | settle will be that of Rome, What will they do with the Pope? No man can take up any | newspaper of the day, any pro zine or review in any couniry in Europe or in | any part of the United States without feeling | that the Romaa question is not yet settled. It is not to be denied that the Italian peopte have as much aright to settle their own affairs as ce or Germany or Great Britain ates of America. Italy for } { suin for the | t muddle of allis to be | j sault was made with great statesmen, one and all, know that the Papal difficulty is no nightmare. Look at It, con- sider it, they must. Settle it, if possible, they will, Ignore it, they cannot, The Hitches in tho Cable. cables the despatches received here from Europe yesterday were comparatively few. The explanation made by the directors in England was to the effect that the number of despatches which had accumulated on this side of the Atlantic was so great, owing to the encrmeus increase of messages from Europe by reason of the Inte events on the Continent, that it was deemed advisable to order the transmission of messages eastwardly by the French cable, As the two English cables are notin working order, and as the only other means ef communication was by the French cable, of course we have to bear with the loss which the disasters to the English cables inflict, and patiently wait until the injuries are re- paired, If the French cable should now give out we would be completely in the dark as to what was going on in Europe. It would be almost impossible to estimate the amount of injury this would entail. If one argument more forcible than another ean be urged for the laying of more ocean cables to link the Old to the New World it ts the late disasters to the English cables. Thera is plenty of work for a half dozen—yes, a dozen—-cables, and the sooner they are laid the better. The War Situation in France. Apart from the despatch from Brussels, announcing an assault on the morning of Friday on the positions occupied on the east bank of the river Marne by the forces of Genera! Ducrof, nothing has been done by the around Paris or the forees occ | Though Ducrot’s achievements accomplished nothing more than the extension of the Ger- man lines on the southeast of Paris, and the real object of the revent sorties from Paris to effect a junction between the forces of the capital aud the Army of the Loi was defeated, the Germans resolved to re lost ground and drive the French forees within the walls of ty. Jn this attempt, if the Brussels despatches speak truly, they wera | foiled. On the morning of Friday the Duke xony, wt the head of the Twelfth and Twent zith corps and a division of the Wartemberg troops, nade the effort to dislodre Ducroi’s army from the villages which he held on the east bank of the river, The as- une: part of the Germans, and r determ| on the The ch fell aad mans, following up the seomiay advantage, were brovght within range of the guos of Forts Rosuy and Nogeat, whea a murderous fire was opeaed on Fresh reinforee- ments from Paria also coming up at the time, 're them, ca, Germany the Slaves, | fi is, on the | for America for the Am: other hand, just as little to be denied that the temporalities of the Papacy are sanc dl by | time-hallowed possession. If not from the | days of Constantine in the fourth century, af least from the days of Charlemagne and Otho in the ninth, the Pope has been a temporal prince. If possession in any case ought to be regarded as holy and inviolate it surely ought to be in the case of the Vicar of Christ. It is well, very well, to say that the Papacy would be strenger and more prosperous than ever without ihe temporalities. It is our conviction that it would; but the faet remains that the | Pope will not yield and that the members of } the Catholic Church in all lands—in the United | States as in Mexico, in Prussia as in Austria and Spain, in Leadon as in Rome—stand by the Holy Father and promise to battle with | him for what they call his rights. If we have any conviction it is this—that the tempo- | ralities have been a curse frem the begin- | ning, and that the dewnfall of the temporal power is 4 positive blessing to the Catholic Church, and, indeed, to the whole Christian world. & offers the oppor- tunity te restore Christian simplicity and | Christian purity, It removes the radical evil | which has marred the beanty and grandeur of the spiritual temple which the Master con- | templated. It makes an end of all divisions and paves the way fer a glorious reunion, which would crown an epoch. It does more; it makes the conversion of the whole world to Christianity comparatively easy. The divisions of Christianity, which grew out | of the State Church system, begot the heresy of Arius and the disgracefal strifea of } the East. The Arian heresy, and the conse- | quent troubles which culminated in but were | not healed by the first Council of Nice, gave birth to Mohammedanism. The strifes of later years, most, if not all, of which have resulted from the same cause, have proved the stumbling block to all missionary efforl ans. { readers will have the President's Message to talk over at their six o’clock dinner. A Figur IN THE Mexican Conaress.—A rich scene occurred in the Mexican Congress on the 14th of last month. The abolition of the Free Zone was the subject under diseus- sion. During the progress of the debate a member from Matamoros deliberately walked up te one of the members from Tamaulipas and struck him over the head with a lead- headed cane, So the despatch from the city ef Mexico inferms us. The result of this attack was the drawing of a revolver, a clinch aad a roll over on the floor. This little diffi- culty may be regarded as a hopeful sign, Such scenes have been enacted in Washington ere this. Possibly the Mexiean Congressmen may be taking lessons from their American cous- ins. This for a commencement will do, but ‘We next time we expect they will copy some | at Etampes. the Germans were not only checked in their assault but were driven back with seriong loss. Beyond — this | no result was achieved by the French. The Prusslans, we are told, are concentrating If this be the e the French army is not south of Orleans, ue the de- spatches of Friday would Jead us to be- lieve. Though no mention is made of the exact whereabouts of the Army of the Loire it is very possible that it occupies a position near to that held hy it at the early part of the week—that is, to the north of Or- leans. A late despatch from Tours says that {ft is again advancing? Should this repori prove true a battle between Gene- ral Paladines’ forces and the army of Prince Frederick Cuarles is almost certain. In the North the Germans are still active, as we tind that the town of Abbeville is occu- pied and Doullens is threatened. Whether success or failure altends the present endeavors of the French armies it must be conceded that the French republican troops are maintaining French honor with far more intelligent resistance than the armies of the empire sneceeded in doing when Napoleon was Emperor. Tue Sarcupay Review ANp vax New Yore Hrrarp.—In another place in this day's HERALD will be found « not unreadable article from the Londen Saturday Review. As will be seon, the Heriewer isin trouble about our astounding eaterprise. A. correspondent of ours some days age bud the good fortune to at, Wilhelmshihe. interviewed Marshal Bazaine. Londos payers are not unwilliag to make use of the results of onr enterprise, It is a nevelty, the writer thinks, ‘‘fer news from France or Germany to reac! On a subsequent day he us by, way of day Review bas been astonished by our enter- prise, nor ie it the first time we have said that if the Reviewers only had patience they among the so-called heathen. The abolition of the temporal power of the Papacy, restor- ing as it does the head of the Christian Church to the grandly simple position of St, Peter, should behold greater wonders than even these. This other surprise has come, Others will follow. We are uot at all without the hope that we shall yet be able to review an offers a new point of departure—-a point of | English Prime Minister in London and trans- departure full of the richest promise. exceptions, say the Pope is right. What will the assembled Powers in eoufer- ence do for the Pope? Before the conference can assemble Victor Emmanuel will have entered Rome in triumph. If the Holy Father with true Christian meekness welcomes his ever the reader chooses to call him, all will be well. ‘The greatest problem of the age will be for the future peace of the world, How many Pope will not have it; and the millions of | for the benefit of the British people, Catholics in all lands, with certain qualified | British mewspapers do not perform their work But the } mit the interview from New York to London if the more satisfactorily it may be our duty to per- form it fer them. Crear Rawroan Fares.—It is satisfactory te be able to extract from the somewhat con- And it looks as though this vexed Alabama question were going to take a turn which would be a virtual triumph for‘America, but would, perhaps, set everybody in England and the States laughing at the President and the Secretary of State in a manner that would not party. For two years nearly have the claims of America been hung up by diplomacy. Our government chose to take a line on the subject which may have been politically glorious, but was not well suited to the pockets of the unfor- tunate people whose ships were burned by the piratical Alabama. We hada moral claim against Great Britain for her whole attitude during the rebellion. And we had a money claim in respect of the damage done to us by ships which her gross and criminal negligence permitted to be fitted out en Confederate be- half in her ports. Now, en the face of it there was no reason in the world why these two things should have been mixed up together, The two claims were utterly different in kind, and might have been prosecuted, as it were, in separate diplomatic indictments, We might have said, we require pay- ment for damage done to our citizens’ property. Thatis one thing; and besides that, on separate account we require apology, or money, or territory for the political damage obtain an interview with the fallen iim peror | The leading | New York.” It is not the first time the Satur | done by your ill wil, your moral support to the rebel cause, your premature recognition of them as belligerents. General Grant and his advisers did not take this wise course, and it looks very much as though the claimants for damage done by the Alabama and the British government were going to take the wind out of their sails in consequence in a very inge- nious, unexpected and sharp-witted manner, The British government has not liked the question being hung up indefinitely, nor, as is natural, have the gentlemen who are some thirteen million dollars out of pocket by the guns of the Alabama. It has been known for some time to those behind the scenes that the acute British lawyers were casting about for a way out of the dilemma; and at last the shell has been thrown into the camp of the adminia- tration. The claimants against the Alabama have, in short, begun to agitate oa their own account, giving the go-by to the Cabinet of Washington altogether for payment of their ‘om the British government. And is generally understood that that govern- ment is willing to meet their views, being withheld only by the apprehension that this course, obviously damaging as it would be to | the prestige of the President, might still fur- ther exasperate eur goverament and prevent that thorough, good understanding with this country ich repentunt England, waking up a last to common sense and right facling, is now anxious to establish. This direct payment to our citizens would be a flank march on the position of our gov- ernment, the very idea of which has evidently flurried them sadiy. Under this perplexity they have warned our people, who want their money for Alabama dimages somehow, and are ndt exactly willing to wait till the day of judg- ment for it, that they would be guilly—save the mark !-—of a misdemeanor in trying to get it directly from the British government, Mr. Reverdy Jounson, in the statesman-like letter we published recently, disposes of this no- tion overwhelmingly. Our citizens are for- bidden, as they well know, from entering into political negotiations with foreign Powers. But the Prohibiting act very properly excepts from this proceedings taken by a citizen to recover a mere pecuniary demand from another country. Mr. Johnson advises the claimants to go straight forward with their demands, and pledges his opinion as 4 lawyer that they are noder no danger in so doing. We are quite of his opinion, and we sball not be surprised if this question, therefore, receives before long some very interes'ing and novel develop- ments. Now we have a word of advice and warn- ing tothe President and his Cabinet, which they will do well to regard. They had better recede prompily from this untenable ground of probibiting our citizens from getting their money if they cau. They can notify in the most peremptory terms to Great Britain that if that Power chooses to do tardy justice to our much injured people in this respect it will still be held most stringently to the discharge ef all other broader political and international ¢laims which America may have upon the whole ques- tion. The payment, therefore, if made by England, will be received under plain protest that it discharges nothing but the bare damage done by the Alabama, and that alone. And considering the insolence with which England so long repudiated all liability on this head, it will be no small trinmph to this cour- try if she pays at last, all other questions being reserved. And our government is in an unsafe attitude in resisting this cofirse. For suppose onr damaged citizens do, as Mr. Reverdy Johnsen advises, ‘‘go ahead?” And suppose the British government does pay down? Why, in that case, our people will have too much sense of honor and sense of justice to go into a passion. They will be glad that eur injured people have got in their thirteen mil- Jion dollars, and they will be too much dis- posed to langh at Mr. Secretary Fish, we fear, for any other and more severe feeling. If our “mairotes," as the canny Scotch bave ft, when they come in the comfortable shape of balm to our wounded feelings and oash down, ‘The Spanish Butcher Holding Supreme Power in Cuba, Valmaseda, ‘“‘the Spanish butcher,” as he has been appropriately called, will have full play for his brutal instinctsin Cuba now. The recall of General De Rodas, as Captain General Owing to the recent disasters to the English | exactly add tothe strength of the republican | Of Cuba, will leave Valmaseda in supreme authority. Knowing what we do of his bloody and merciless career in that unfortunate island, when he held only # subordinate com- mand, we shudder at the frightful cruelty which the Cubans are likely to endure now that he is to be Captain General. It is said he takes the place of De Rodas temporarily, and it is to be hoped that his rule will be short; but he and the Spanish volunteers have been long werking for this object, and have more than once defied the authority of De Rodas. In fact, General De Rodas was not cruel enough, with all the atrocities he has committed, to suit this monster and his brutal volunteers. They have been in a state of revolution against the legitimate Spanish authority as well as the Cubans, the difference being that while they resisted for the purpose of oppression the Cubans revolted to obtain republican freedom. The record of the bloody deeds of Valmaseda and his volunteers, which has been published from time to time in the American press, has no paral'el in modern times. The barbarities they have committed, the wholesale slaughter of unarmed people— yes, of even women and children—and of the shooting and garroting of numbers of Cubans, without trial, stamp them as monsters of cruelty, Their conduct is a blot upon the civilizatign of the age. They are the enemies of humanity, and ought to be classed with barbarians by all civilized people. Whata disgrace to Spain, that has permitted such enormities; and our own enlightened and humane government has folded its arms com- placently while such deeds have been done at our very doors—yes, while American citizens have been brutally murdered! How long will such crimes against humanity and civilization be permitted? Is the sympathetic voice of the American people and of their representa- tives in Congress to be forever stifled through the intrigues of a nest of speculators in Washington, New York and Madrid? Is this frightful, bloody work to go on and Cuba to be ruined, beeause a set of speculators hope to pocket some millions by the ultimate pur chase of the island? Unless something be done now in behalf of the Cubans we may expect to hear shortly of still greater bar- barity under the rule of Valmaseda. for the Old Worla. At this pleasant opening of December, while the weather for some days past has outshone fair May in the morning and outblushed June at eventide, thousands of hearts that thrill once ina while with gentle memories of the “ould sod” have been made glad by the an- nouncement in some of our papers published at New York, under foreign auspices, that Home Missions such and such a party is prepared to send off | his usnal batch of gift packages to Europe, guaranteeing that they shall all reach their | destination on Christmas Eve. One of these agents reminds folks that he has done the same thing with entire accuracy and success for nearly twenty years past, and winds up with a cheerful flourish of jubilation over the “happy hearts at home in the merty Yule tide.” Alas! we greatly fear that the homes of | France and of old Fatherland, at least, will be far other than merry in the approaching holiday season of 1870. Mourning and misery fill thousands upon thousands of them which were bright and joyous only a twelvemonth ago. Beloved forms have vanished from them forever into the red mists of war. Moloch, { disguised in spangles and red flannel and calling himself “Glory,” broods with ghastly smile over the wide region that so lately laughed but now weeps, from the Elbe to the Loire. The sweet chime of church bells is silenced by the clangor of bombarding cannon ; the hallowed sanctity of consecrated cemete- ries is lost where whole provinces are dotted with fresh graves, and the voice of the preacher dies away amid the wailing of widows and orphans erying for bread. But still these little gifts—the offerings of memory and affoction—will reach other homes that have been spared—welcome, again and again welcome, for their bright contrast with a gloomy time; for the ready help that they may perhaps extend just at the latest moment of faltering hope; for the sweet tidings ‘that they shall bring from a great, glorious land of faith and liberty beyond the Western main, where, some day, there shall yet be refuge for the toiling man and healing for the nations. Will there not be some secret blessing in the chance that shall draw such myriads of | hearts in free and happy America close to their homes and kindred, if even by the smallest and poorest token, on the day that commemo- rates the birth of Him who died for all? DisvineuisheD GENTLEMEN BREAKING Heaps ms Norvn Canourna.—The old leaven still works in the Sonth, Newspaper criti- cism upon the conduct of public men still pro- vokes a resort to violenee and scenes which are disgraceful to the parties engaged. Yes- terday, im the city of Raleigh, a caning affair ocourred in the public streets between General Clingman, formerly United States Senator, gevernment will ponder it well it will see | ana Mr. Turner, editor of the Raleigh Sentinel, that it is very hard to be angry with people who pay you down thirteen million dollars, and at the same time confess themselves bit- terly in the wrong, while, in the bargain, whieh resulted: in severe injuries to both par- ties, The attack was made by Clingman, in consequence of seme offensive articles which they | appeared in the newspaper. Turner seems to fused proceediags ef the great potentates of | ive you the chance, always welcome to a judi- | have made a good fight, for Clingman got the master, or successor, or colleague, or what- | the railroads who met at the St, Nickolas cious public, Hotel on Friday that they have come te the unanimons opinien that, whatever changes portation, there shall be no increase of fare. of having a good hearty laugh at those whe rule us, worst of the conflict, having to be carried off the field hors de combat, Jt was a very dis- The common sense of the public tells them | graceful affair altogether. People assuming question somehew, better example than the one which they puch aresult! But we have no such prospect, | fare are toe high at the present standard, | not persevere in an attitude which may make Pius the Ninth has within the last few days | They will hardly bear an increase, A. little | him and his Cabinet not a little ridiculous, Frens 1x Novempur.—During the month of | fired the big spiritual gun of the Vatican, and | paring dewn would be most acceptable, welected. Try it again, Sefiors. Bovember last forty-three fires occurred inthe ‘Tnited States, outside the cities of New Yerk the invaders of his time-honored domains are doomed and damned. Anathema, marana- a “e solved, and a powerful guarantee will be given | may be made in equalizing the rates of trans | that there really ought to be an end of this | te be gentlemen ought to know that a street There is no wisdom | fight is not the most decorous way to resent hundreds ef thousands of thinking men, all of | Let them stick to that determination and the | in keeping ithungap forever, And it is above | attacks upon their character. whom wish the Holy Father well, pray for | travelling publfo will fejoice) The gates of | all things necessary that the President sheuld | trary, it ig the first resort of the ruffian, On the con- Szorerary Dexaxo eccasichally makes mis- The British government is ready, we doubi | takes, but they are generally on the safe side. not, to pay the money to our people. Inthe | In his report as Commissiener of Internal BriguamM Youne has been required to pay | name of Plutus why should they not have it? When that is done let us still prosecute all our | souree during the present fiscal year at gnd Breeklyn, ia which the less at each fire | tiahas once more been pronounced. What | his income tax, like any other citizen, There- was $20,000 and over. fires, ineluding those during the same month | yield? If he will not stay in Reme on Victor | rights and privileges of any other citizen—' bs thie city, amounted to $3,883,413, being an | Emmanuol’s, or, rather, om Italy’s terms, what | try and be tried,” &. —* $1,G12,913 over the fire losses in will the great Powers do? Is the Chai ef St. Poeyer to remain io Rome? Is it to irgé, Brigham Yeung has a poor show if he should be in- dicted fer bigamy. The tetal loss at such | will the Conferemee do if the Pope does not | fore Brigham Young is entitled to all the other grievances, and, if they be substantial ‘@ | grievances, we shall get reparation for them in | months of the year amount to $76,000,000, ape of an apology or a Canada in due | and itis believed that at least $145,000,000 the Revenue he estimated the receipts from that $126,000,000, The receipts for the first five course. But, in the meantime, don’t let us be | will be realized by the Internal Revenue guilty ef the folly of throwing away the Buregu during the year, need Tho Movement of Exropean Fopalation as ; Affected by the War. The ravages and terrors of the great cone flict now scourging Europe—for European it ig and must be, in its widening consequences, at least—suggest interesting and important speculations regarding the probable effect that the pending crisis will ultimately exert over the ebb and flow of population, The German papers on both sides of the ocean are taking up this subject, we perceive, and some of their views regarding it are curious enough to invite special reference. uae opinion tnclines to the belief that this war will but increase the keen desire of the vast mass of European toilers to emigrate hereafter to lands where their blood, labor and substance will no longer be taxed so enormously as they now are, and must hereafter be, to carry out the ambi- tious schemes of rulers who make the Earth their chessboard, and shape their dice from human bones. Another opinion is that the acquired glory of Germany, her censoli- dated union and the grand destiny that seems to await her, will, so far as that great country is concerned, attract thousands back to her bosom who, in bygono years, had wandered forth impelled by romantic longings for ad- venture in new ‘ands ‘of whose luxuriant beauty they had wonderingly heard at home; driven by the angusta res domé that chilled their shelter and diminished their bread in the father’s house, or urged by,the not unnatur al yearning, even when absolute penury did not oppress them there, to win land and gold whero both could be obtained on easier con- ditions than the Old World offered. To America particularly thousands were at- tracted by a real preference for free Institu- tions and republican forms. But within the last six months hosts of these have felt the old pride ond love for the land of their birth revived by the stirring news that each day has brought them, and they would gladly retura,conld they shape cir- cumstances to that end. That very many aro new doing so, and that others will do so for some time to come, cannot be doubted. It remains for us, then, to consider how far this reflex current will extend, and what its influence in Europe will become. The English, Irish and Scandinavian ele- ments having little other cenvenient outlet elsewhere will continue to flow hitherward, and the returning French and Italians are necessarily so few in number, from se small an aggregate with us, that we need hardly count them. The German current, then, is the one that chiefly challenges examination. It is esti- mated that Germany has, in killed and practi- cally disabled for life, lost two hundred thou- sand of the very flower of her energetic, active, skilful artisans, along with a large proportion of educated men engaged in various pursuits of a higher order—engineers, merchants, con- structors, builders, agricultural overseers, professionals, d&c., &c., dc. As the war con- tinues, with heavy fighting now, and more anticipated, the general total of this species of depletion may be reasonably estimated at three hundred thousand. Here is a gap to be | filled, and by individuals of a comparatively superior class. Should the replacing quantity flow, back from America something would haye to make up for it here, and that necessity would draw in other outside quantities. But we can hardly anticipate such a revulsion. The vacancies in Germany would be filled from other parts of the Continent and, most naturally, from coterminous countries. The German speaking provinces of Austria and Russia would be the nearer sources of supply. History testifies with perfect distinctness how, hitherto, these comparatively limited causes have ina little while set in motion vast bodies and, at last, whole races of men. The natural tendency of the human streamis from the East toward the West and from the North toward the South, Fresh and more fer- tile lands, more genial climates, mere beautiful scenery were the first attrac- tions, and then the charms of settled civilization magnetized remote and say- age tribes and drew them toward the threshold of light. Thus Asia came te pre- cipitate itself upon Europe, and in the long lapse of time Europe rushed in upon America. Ever farther and farther westward the tide of empire has rolled until it has reached the limits of our Continent in one direction, and now begins to overrun and spread on either hand. As it advanced wars and devasta- tions behind it made gaps in the rear that had to be filled by fresh influx from the general reservoir; as the Huns and Visigoths swept down upon the Roman empire the Seythian hordes pressed in behind them, and thus, stage hy stage, the whole Orient received an onward impulse in its farthest recesses; as the Spaniards, English, Dutch and French, in later ages, began to pross into the New World the races from beyond the Danube and the Vistula advanced toward the Rhine. We now suddenly find them, by the tremendous weight of their vast numbers and close discipline, sweeping across that boundary with resistless furor and overrunning all the region known as France, but which, a year ago, might well have been termed the Napoleonic Rome. What do we now behold? Germany, somewhat depleted at home, and Russia, to that extent at least, set into grooves of westward as well as of eastward motion. If Ger- many hold Lorraine and Alsace, shall not the Russ have compensation in Po- land and the Danubian Duchies, perhaps in Scandinavia? If French masses displaced, disgusted and afraid of grinding war burdens and foreign rule, begin to pour into America, as we believe they will, may not, nay, must not, the enterprising German push into the neighbering sunny land of France, leaving Russians, Poles, Swedes and Danes again to begin their march of private search for trade employment and handiwork in the more genial latitudes of Germany? Their labor and skill will be welcome there to readjust the balance. But in all isis we must net forget Italy, which is the southward magnet, as France is the westward magnet in Europe. Italy, united and thrown open; her old com- mercial and intellectual centres re- established; her unrivalled seaports again alive with Oriental commerce streaming, to and fro already by the Suez Canal, and, ere long, by the Dardanelles, vast currents of enterprise will flow to her over, nay, through the Alps, Thus must the whole, European F 5