The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1870, Page 6

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L—Adver!isements. e Love in Full Retreat ined Upon a Vigo- ns Sixteen Miles irom the City: Kvery Part ‘ies Commanding render of the Fort- In- nd Occup ern Question Tible Calamity Lives—A Protec Tax on the Fo artaal Serip; a juuler’s Disability Biil—The Thiet Murder—The New England ‘The City of Ragusa—Broo! ri Water Supply—Brockway, the Counterfeiter— wo Murderers at of the Great Ke aud.” ‘tof Prince » Austria, n and In- Gortchakoi’s Prussia and G) ternation Cc nce Asso- Papacy: ‘Temple, Reston; A “Crusa ree. Kome trom Italian’ Usurpation—Laying of the Corner Ahawath Chesed’ — ¢ of Admiral Porter, cle, “Prussia and of Stone of the Templ Detective Young—The Y%—Eidiroriais ( ‘ \—Per- sonal Intelligence m All Parts of the Worid—Obitu:r, of the Nation—City Missions—La:tie clety and Home for Aged liely Venezuela. 8—The Murder for the Mu Coavicte gree 1on—Voree of the Teople—Another Che he Post OMece—Pro- eer ues the Courts—The Public Le: Revolution a Fowler, ion—The Ba L Cla of Riches— Intelligence ports—Marriages ments, wy York City News—That Fierce “Frog” ent—Horse rrotng in Bridgeport, Coun.—Awu ow Territ for wy € Brooklyn—Art ogical Report— Crispin’ Stri Dt ark—Sbipping Intelli- gen FW1—Adve ) “Surtine A SPRAT 11 Jaron A MacK- @REL’—The present pretended disruption in the republican family preparatory to the grand Presidential Union catch in 1872, with Grant as the priucipal angler. Savine Grace.—It is reported the Prussians re moving on Havre de Grice. Where is the Duchesse d’Orleans? We mean the fast old American packet of that name. Tae TENNESSEE Butter has resumed his Beat in Congress, and in the caucus yesterday objected to the general removal of disabilities. Mr. Butler should be more considerate. He may have to ask pardon himself some day if the Pension Bureau really holds those charges pgainst him that we heard of last summer, Gampetta is more of a lawyer than a sol- ier, and his continued presenee with General (Chauzy’s line and its consequent disasters suggest that it be called in future the Line of the Lawyer. _ Sgvator MoCreery, of Kentucky, as a demo- erat, is not sufficiently reconstructed to under- stand the true policy of the democratic party for 1872, and the wiser men who control its councils should take care to keep all such glorifiers of ‘‘the lost cause” as McCreery in the background. Danret MANN AND JAMES DEACON, two Canadians, were executed in Kingston yester- day. The two were hanged together, but met one another for the first time on their way to the scaffeld, when a very affecting scene took place. They fell upon one another's necks and wept, and although one of them was then _ to undergo punishment for murdering his | wife by a continued and persistent effort to poison her wita strychnine in order that he might live more sutisfactorily with an Fdiot paramour, and the other was ‘to suffer for the crime of killing the guard of a gen where he had been atoning in some i for a life of robbery and horse-thiev- ing, the two expressed themselves as sure of @ happy home beyond the skies. We know that | ‘the God of all is merciful, and that he saved a @ying thief upon the eross, but if all murderers “Pave such uniform and never-failing passports heaven capital punishment should be abol- hed as o penalty for murder. Prussia and Russia—The New Governing -Powers of Europe. “I want more head and less tongue,” said the greatest of modern leaders and statesmen, when selecting men to fill the varlous offices of a new government that he was organizing. He meant that silent and steady work which allows aitention to be fixed and concentrated on the task in hand, instead of being diverted and frittered away by endless discussion and garrulous, noisy comment that, moreover, diseloses to all the world and places at the disposal of open or hidden enemies what should remain the treasured secret of the gov- erning and contrelling power alone. In the later days of the second Napoleonic empire talk and fanfaronade took the place of that silent will and persistent onward movement which gave such apparently resistless and un- varying success to its military enterprises and its diplomacy in the beginning of its dashing career. Meanwhile, precisely the opposite system had been adepted and was prevailing in Prussia, Bismarck is a thinker and a toiler, not a windmill of words, and from the moment wher his intelloct began to sway the destinies of his country babblers began to dis- appear from positiens of high trust and confi- dence. Noise ceased to be an element of official life. ‘Silence in the ranks!” became the civic as well as the military order of the day. Everything was thoroughly orgaaized and put in shape, and when an Austrian Cabi- pet with loud-mouthed threats and pompous bulletins advanced to win an easy victory, as it believed, in 1866, the overwhelming defeat at Sadowa suddenly and terribly revealed to it such skill, discipline and resources in the Prussian antagonist as had not been even sus- pected at Vienna, Nay, at Paris, London, and even in New York, predictions had been nearly all upon the other side. The year 1870 has brought conspicuously before the world a repetition of this lesson, the more remarkable after so striking an example precedent. Io July last the French Cabinet, composed of boastful talkers, who inflamed the pride and egotism of the nation, repeated the folly that Austria committed four years ago. In the meantime Prussia had been extending and developing her system of quiet preparatien, and when collision came the hastily assembled French armies saw them- selves utterly outnumbered, outgeneralled and overpowered at all points, On the persons of captured German officers of inferior rank were found maps of the smallest localities and crossroads in the districts that the invaders were approaching, such as were not in the possession even of the imperial staff of Napoleon II. After MacMahon’s defeat at Woerth that distinguished marshal had to in- quire the way, when retreating from the field, of the neighboring peasantry, and with no little difficulty escaped the victorious Germans, who were rapidly and easily outflanking him through their superior topographical imforma- tion. Again, at Sedan the French generals were evidently surprised, owing to a similar superior knowledge of the ground on the part of their antagonists. Silence and celerity pre- pared and massed the Prussian forces, led them to the field, won for them the victory and hurled them upon the very heart of France. ‘Talk was beaten; work was the conqueror, Russia, sternly warned by the disasters of the Crimean war and the humiliations of the bitter Treaty of Paris, has also been acting on the silent plan, Gathering up and reconstruct- ing her naval and military forces, extending her telegraphs and railroads with feverish rapidity, purchasing the best arms and enginery of war and periecting her administration at every point, she, too, possesses, while we write, a capacity to strike how, when and where few, if any, outside of her dominions, or not in high office within them, can pretend to know. She never would have dared to brave the British lion in his den, as she is now doing, unless she knew a secret of tremen- dous power and had it in her grasp. A Henatp correspondent, conversing recently with a Russian gentleman of high standing in the empire, repeats the statement from his lips that the Czar has now four hundred thousand mean not far from the Austrian frontier, possesses five hundred thousand Rem- ington rifles and two thousand mitrailleuses, along with a naval force “‘that is little known and has always been under-estimated.” Again, a reliable letter, dated at St. Petersburg but a month ago to-day, uses precisely this lan- guage:—“‘It is known that the new armament of our forces is completed, and that the con- tingent amounts to more than one million of well drilled soldiers, while, as regards morale, itis far superior to what we possessed during the Crimean war.” Another letter received from the Russian capital by the latest Euro- pean mail and dated November 26 says that the new law levy now in progress will yield five hundred thousand fresh troops, and that a ‘devouring activity” reigns in the War Office there, while at Kertch, « naval pert of great strength quietly constructed on the coast of the Sea of Azof, everything is in readiness for an impos- ing demonstration of iron-clads on the Black Sea, should occasion demand. At the same time an indescribable enthusiasm, almost fana- tical in its excess, thrills throughout the em- pire, and in Austria the best informed publi- cists express little doubt that an uprising of the whole Slavonic race in favor of Russia would at once follow a declaration of war either by that Power or against it. This revelation bursts upon astonished Eu- rope as a direct sequel to the surprises that Prussia has just hurled upon the nations like successive thunderbolts. The cloud of silent preparation that hid the laboratory of the Northera statesmen rolls apart and behold! Prussia and Rassia disclosed as the masters ofthe scene. The one with seven hundred thousand tried, trusty and victorious veterans on the soil of France throttles that country at its capital and holds it down beneath her heel. The other but awaits the word to pounce upon Austria, should the latter lift one hostile finger, and to sweop down upon all that is left of Turkey in Europe, while Great Britain— another Power lately bewildered with talk rather than sustained by action—sinks back perforce into a secondary place. The entente cordiale is weighed in the balance and found wanting, and King William and the Czar have beceme the arbiters of the Qld World. What may we now anticipate as the next result ef this wondrous tranafer of digaity “NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, D and might? First, a grand confederated German constitutional empire, embracing, along with the greater States which already adhere, Alsace and Lorraine, by right of reconquest ; Luxembourg, by necessity, and the Germanic provinces of Austria and Russia, by political gravitation, the former Power dis- appearing ultimately from the list of first class States, and the latter receiving, in com- pensation for her German duchies, the undis- turbed facility of marching southward and eastward, by such arrangements of war or peace as her strength or her diplomacy, or both, can win from her Slavonic and Ottoman neighbors. And what of France? The situatien of the hour plainly reveals the fate intended for her— to wit, either direct occupancy by the Ger- mans for an indefirite period, or the restora- tion of an Orleans or a Bonaparte, backed by such portion of the three hundred thousand French veterans now prisoners in Germany as would follow and support the home-returning standard. King William, Emperor of Germany and Protector of France—the latter held down in her place of penitence and service, as Cesar held her, when she was Gaul, in the iron clutch of his Roman legions. And as Cesar placed his garrisons in the chief centres of each of the seventeen Gallic provinces so may the German conqueror maintain an adequate force in the main French marts of trade and manufacture— at Havre, at Cherbourg, at Lyons, at St. Etienne, at Bordeaux, at Marseilles, at Teulon, as wellas at Paris and in the great fortresses, Thus could he sway the industry and the commerce of forty millions of French- men to their own great material benefit, per- haps, at last, but by a magnificent free system so far as Germany is concerned, yet protective as against the rest of mankind, to the vast profit of his own race and realm. Should he restore a prince of either of the fallen French dynasties to the throne he will be but returning the compliment conferred by France when ske placed the usurped crown of Mexico upon tie head of German Maximilian ; but he will not, like the French empire, leave that prince to perish. Protection from such a fate would be the safe pretext for re- taining a heavy armed contingent in the French capital and leading cities. order, law and the peace of Europe would be the rubric of the new continental system by the weight of the sword and the ‘‘grace of God”—viz.: Russian pennons fluttering from the Dardanelles to the Danube, and the Ger- man imperial tri-cclor and eagle combined waving proudly from the Danube to the At- lantic! Above all, And the end? Empires rise and fall and nations change; but the one eternal, grand design prevails. answer the anxious cry, ‘“‘Watchmaa, what of the night?” with cheerful accents. very combinations, this drawing together and amalgamation of peoples, uniting them struggle and disaster first, in common effort and recuperation afterward, is but beating down the barriers, opening the way, pointing out a glorious common aim—a mutual under- standing that shall precede the final peace which is to give birth at last, in the fulness of time, to the confederacy of Europe and to enduring, because broadly founded, and uni- versal liberty. He who studies deeply may These in The War Situation in France. The French have learned nothing of the military art by their disastrous experience in the present war. has cut up the Army of the Loire, just as the Crown Prince cut off MacMahon at Woyrth and outflanked him at Sedan. tion in front deceives the new generals of the republic into the belief that the whole force of Germany is being slowly driven back, when, in fact, a larger force is quietly moving for their rear. Prince Frederick Charles A halting opposi- They appear to be now as igno- rant of the movements of their enemy as they were when surprised at Weissenburg. They have learned no new lesson of vigilance or strategy, and have forgotten no old ones of carelessness, bravery or heroic resistance, ‘The movement upon Havre continues stead- ily. A fight has occurred at Honfleur, in which the advance of the Prussians was re- pelled, but the main body has arrived at Benzeville, only sixteen miles distant from Havre itself. Eighty batteries have been directed against the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and the first shell of a series may drop into the darkened aisles of the grand old church at any moment. Tue WEST AND THE PRESsIDENT.—A Wash- ington correspondent of the Kansas City (Mo.) Journal of Commerce says the rallying point of the republicans in the West for the next Presidency ‘‘must be General Grant and his administration.” That is a very good point to startfrom. But suppose by the variableness of Congress the ship of State should steer for ‘*Point-no-Point, where would the commander bring up—on the Point of Rocks? A South AMERICAN IMITATION OF Pari— Montevideo under siege, reduced, from scarcity of food, almost toa famine. But if they must have such things in enlightened Europe, they will follow the fashion in South America. It is only such rude barbarians as Red Cloud and Spotted Tail that can be made to understand the folly of war. Know Noruineism in Canapa.—A project has been started in Canada to organize a society to which none but natives are to be admitted, the objects being similar to those of our exploded Know Nothing movement of some years ago, Jt will probably meet a similar fate. ee Why Hx Sravox His Cotors.—The com- munity will be glad to be informed that the course of the Zrue Georgian in striking the Grant flag and hoisting that of Hoffman for President was not occasioned by any personal hostility the editor entertained toward General Grant! It would be eurious to learn what considerations influenced our contemporary in so important a matter. “SoLITARY AND ALONE” Senator Tom Benton set in motion the ball for expunging frem the United States Senate the record against Gene- ral Jackson. ‘‘Solitary and alone,” almost, Senator McCreery sets in motion a ball for the restoration of the Arlington estate to the Lee family. Tue Eourse oF THE TWENTY-SECOND.— Will is be witnessed ia Georgia? Congress Yesterday—The Amnesty Bill. General Butler's bill, reported by him from the Reconstruction Committee, which pro- fesses in its title to be one of general grace, amnesty and oblivion, was discussed in the House yesterday, and is tobe brought to a vote to-day. When we see the numerous classes that are excepted from its restorative operation we might be inclined to wonder who it was that were to be benefited by it, did we not learn from the report of General Butler’s speech that it was to apply to postmas- ters, sheriffs and constables, and such other small fry, ex-officials of the United States, as, having taken the oath to support the constitution of the United States, after- wards gave aid and comfort to the rebellion, and are now, consequently, under the pelitical disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amend- ment to the constitution. The classes which the bill specially excepts from any grace or favor on account of their participa- tion in the rebellion are officers of the United States Army or Navy educated at the military or naval academies, members of the United States or the Confederate Con- gress, heads of executive departments, diplo- matic ministers, and judges under the United States or Confederate governments, members of conventions who voted for or signed ordi- nances of secession, governors of States while in rebellion, those who treated with cruelty soldiers of the United States while prisoners of war, those who embezzled public moneys or stores belonging to the United States, deserters from the army and navy and bounty jumpers. Whatever may be thought of the justice of punishing in this manner officers who deserted their flag and members who left the Senate and the House to encourage and support the rebellion, we cannot see the pro- priety of extending the penalty to the other classes indicated. It is a well-known histori- cal fact that, under the maddening popu- lar excitement of the times, ordi- nances of secession were voted for and signed by delegates who were most strongly in favor of the maintenance of the Union, but who could not resist the local influences by which they were sur- rounded. Many of such men were subse- quently members of the Confederate Con- gress and some of them were governors of States, and the refusal to extend the mantle of grace, amnesty and oblivion to such men makes the title of the bill a cruel misnomer. It is just such men of influence and high standing in the communities in which they live that should be welcomed back into the national fold, and made instrumental in win- ning all their fellow citizens back to loyalty and love of country and flag. We approve heartily, and the country will approve and endorse, the substitute which Mr. Farnsworth, of Illinois, himself a member of the Recon- struction Committee, offered for the bill. It proposes, in a few lines, to remove all political disabilities imposed by the four- teenth article of the constitution. It has no restriction or exception. Such an enactment alone is deserving of the name of ‘‘general amnesty.” Such a bill alone will be creditable to the Congress of the United States; such a bill alone will tend to smooth away the asperities that have survived the war, and only such a bill will meet the approval of all right thinking men at home and abroad. We hope, therefore, that the House will sustain the proposition of Mr. Farnsworth and pass it as a substitute for Mr. Butler’s bill, which may then properly retain the title of a bill of “general grace, amnesty and oblivion.” The only other subject of interest on which Congress was engaged yesterday was a bill reported in the House from the Committee on Manufactures, to give the sanction and en- dorsement of Congress to the commemoration of the centenary of American independence by a grand international exhibition of art and manufactures in the city of Philadelphia in 1876. This matter was discussed fora couple of hours and went over without action until to-day, when it will probably be taken up and disposed of. Tne Fatt or Maracarwo.—The national party in Venezuela has experienced a severe check by the fall of Maracaibo, which was captured on the 23d of last month by the forces of Guzman Blanco. General Her- nandez, the commander of the national forees, is reported killed, and Pulgar, one of Blanco’s generals, was shot through the heart in Mara- caibo shortly after the fall of the city. Tue Present declines to hold out an olive branch to Senator Schurz, and the breach between him and the Missouri republi- cans is not likely to be healed. Tue NAVIGATION OF THE ELBE is impeded by ice, and drift ice has been flowing down the Seine. In the opening of the winter this is con- siderably ahead of New York; but we may yet overhaul them before New Year's day. SxoRETARY BovutwELt is now said to be at loggerheads with the President on the Motley question, and intends to resign. Motley does not strike us as the sort of man about whom there need be se much contention. It is thought that Secretary Delano will succeed Boutwell, and Judge Agnew, of Pennsylvania, will succeed Delano. The only dread we have at present over the prospect of Boutwell’s retirement is that Pennsylvania will again be- come unduly agitated about her place in the Cabinet. A Question or GaTewaAys-An exchange thinks that because ‘a woman who can properly preside over her house is fit to stand in the gateway of heaven itself,” as the woman suffrage folks declare, it is not to be taken as proof of her fitness to stand in the doorway of an engine house and peddle ballots on elec- tion day. Some wicked politicians would rather meet her in the latter gateway than the former, believing the chances for making their ‘‘election sure” in one case better than in the other, Wat Srreer measures the more uneasy situation of the Eastern and Luxembourg questions in Europe by a slight advance in gold, the price of which yesterday touched 1114, a8 against 120} the day previous, “Let tHe Dean Rest’—As well the mingled bones of the buried Union and Con- federate soldiers at Arlington as these of the chiof of the latter, Robert B. Lee, ECEMBER 15, 1870.-TRIPLE SHERT, The Impending Bombardment of Paris. Old King Wilhelm, as it appears, getting tired ef the starving out process, has resolved onthe bombardment of Paris, and Monday, the 19th instant, is named as the day when his siege batteries will open fire upon the doomed city, It has been the general im- pression that he has not so long refrained from a storm of shot and shell because of a desire to avoid the destruction or disfigura- tion of the city, but because, from his lines outside the circle of its protecting fortifica- tions, he has no guns of sufficient range to do any material damage to the city. It is re- ported, however, that the German siege bat- teries command every point of Paris, and that Notre Dame, in the very heart of the city, presents as fair a target as did the Stras- bourg cathedral, If so, the Germans have guns of a range of six or seven miles, and that they have such guns is very probable, for it will be remembered that in our late civil war General Gilmore, from Cumming’s Point, six miles below Charleston, pretty effectively shelled the lower portion of the city. If, then, the German siege batteries com- mand the very heart of Paris, and if they are to be opened upon the city on Monday next, what will be the consequences? Will Paris be reduced to a mutilated wreck, like Stras- bourg, or be more than half destroyed by a conflagration, like Thionville? No; we do not apprehend either a destructive hammering or burning to Paris. We are rather inclined to think that when the Parisians find from actual experience that they are at the mercy of the German batteries there will be a speedy capitulation on the part of General Trochu, inasmuch as the two million beleaguered souls under his care, seldiers and civilians, are already reduced, in the way of delicacies in fresh meat, to rats, cats and dogs. We can hardly .suppese that Trochu will try another sortie in the absence of any supporting force outside, and when his half famished troops and his horses not eaten up must be so far starved as to be useless for the purposes of a sortie. We conclude, then, that the capitula- tion of Paris will be no longer delayed when the German shells begin to fall upon the Tuileries and the Hotel de Ville. The New Census. Marshal Sharpe is about to commence ope- rations immediately onthe new census. His deputies will, of course, have to undertake their duties under considerable difficulties. People, being a little disgusted with the annoyance of the last census taking, will be naturally careless about furnishing any more information, {If the original census taking had been properly conducted there would be no necessity for harassing the public again with the stupid routine of a visit to every house by ignorant census marshals, catechising every householder and worrying the inmates of every man’s dwelling. But as the census has undoubtedly been incorrectly taken it be- comes necessary to go over the ground again, in order that the great metropolis should be put right upon the record as regards popula- tion and material wealth. The indignation so widely expressed by our citizens at the imper- fect manner in which the late census was taken induced, or rather compelled, the govern- ment to order that anew census should be taken. We hope that all persons will give the marshals all the information in their power cheerfully and help them along in the per- formance of their duties. By this means we may possibly get a fair return of the actual population of the city, Butrer’s Disanmuiry Removat Brut has a list of ten exceptions, but the people take more exceptions than that to the bill iiself. EuropeaAN FExktiIng oN THE EASTERN Quxstion.—In another page of the Hzratp this morning we publish a number of extracts from the European press, as well as a letter from our correspondent in Constantinople, by a perusal of which our readers can form an idea of how Europe is agitated on the Eastern question, In Vienna, as in Constantinople ; in Berlin, as in London or in St. Petersburg, the subject is now one of perplexing anxiety. Statesmen and publicists and journalists are all occupied in the consideration of the posi- tion of Russia, which, it must be conceded, is manly, honest and determined. Turkey is evidently uneasy, Austria divided, England cautious, Russia alone taking a stand unmis- takably firm and with a conscious reliance in the justness of the position assumed by the Czar. Tur House was Excirep yesterday over a proposition to hold a national exhibition in Philadelphia on the centenary of the Declara- tion of Independence. They let the spread eagle fly around as if the affair were coming off next week. They need not be so hurried. They have five years before them. Ivaty AND Her New Carrrar.—The committee of the Italian Parliament on the bill for the transfer of the national capital to Rome have recommended that the transfer take effect befere the Ist of April, 1871. Why not now? What is the useof delay? Before the Ist of April a European conference may take the matter out of Victor Emmanouel’s hands, If the King of Italy, from lack of de- cision, loses his opportunity to make Rome the capital of Italy, he may find that he has placed his crown in serious peril. Faint hearts are not suited to these go-ahead times, A Goop CuaNnce For TamMany.—It is stated that the names of twelve hundred co- lored men are on the books of the New Jersey Colonization Society for passage to Liberia; but they can’t be sent for want of funds. Would it not be a good idea for Tammany to supply the necessary cash and thereby get rid of twelve hundred radical veters? It might secure New Jersey for the democratic party in 1872, “Harp-a-Leg!”—The discussion in the United States Senate on the Arlington restora- tion. Prerosterous Disrruss—The distress of the New York Observer touching the move- ments of certain Catholic democrats of this city in behalf of the temporal rig! of the Pope. Let our alarmed anti-Papisttontempo- rary be assured that there is noggreat danger from these “‘Papist demonstre,tions,” and no cause to fear the downfall /of the American eagle or the prostration of our liberties under \ the foot of the Pope. Lee in the Senate. Mr. MoGrdury, of Kentucky, made a great mistake when he ventured on a eulogy of the chief of the rebel les in the Senate, and he shocked the sentiment of every Union man in the nation when he proposed to remove tha bones of the Union dead at Arlington in order to return, in its original beauty and complete- ness, the old family estate of Lee to his widow. To have ventured on so untimely and obnox- ious a proposition shows a degree of ragh- ness on the part of McCreery that evidently unfits him fer the calm deliberations of the Senate chamber. It can be accounted for only on the conviction that Mr. McCreery, a thrifty Kentucky farmer, born and bred in the pro-slavery notions of that State, be- lieved all he said about the dead chieftain, The action of his democratic colleagues, Davis, Bayard and Saulsbury—all as strongly pronounced democrats as himself—indicates that they are not prepared to go so far in the matter nor to make the removal of Union dead from Southern cemeteries a democratic de- mand at present. The vivid remembrance of that letter of Frank Blair, Jr., ab the Fourth of July Convention in this city in 1868, wherein he somewhat enthusiastically endorsed the rebel lead- ers, and thereby secured, in great measure, his defeat for the Vice Presidency, warns ex- perienced party men like Davis and Bayard that they must be reticent on such subjects. McCreery, who is already disappointed as a politician, probably did not care, His succes- sor inthe Senate is already chosen, and he takes no mofe interest in it, beyend the desire to leave some name behind him and come out of his short term with flying colors. As for the radical invectives that exploded so suddenly, and probably unexpectedly, over poor McCreery’s head like a shower of aerolites on his Green river farm they were in little better taste than the suggestion which drew them forth. We all know that Lee was a rebel, and an unsuccessful rebel is a traitor all the world over, and anywhere but im this country, and in any time, but this century, he would have been hanged as a rebel, or would have been exceedingly happy to compromise with the confiscation of his property. It does not require the united radi- calism of the Senate to tell us that, but, doing so, gives thd subject an air of importance that it would not otherwise have attained. Bet- ter to have let the rocket, McCreery, shoot himself off and fall to the ground naturally, like a stick, than to have sent up two or three dozen corruscations after him. The War Verging on the Sen Const. We all remember when General Sherman presented Savannah to President Lincoln as a Christmas box, and demonstrated the fact that a safe line of communication was not the vital necessity to an army that the generals of the old school had all along considered it. It seems probable that General Manteuffel, who has a dreadfully suggestive name for a maraud- ing soldier, will present Havre to King Wil- liam as a Christmas present, and possibly some one else may cap it with Cherbourg and Brest, and Prince Frederick Charles may be in time for the imperial coronation of the old King with a present of Bordeaux and Nantes, until the imperial boudoir will glitter with presents of seaport towns like a bride’s table with silver. The old idea of secured communications is entirely ignored by these German generals marching to the sea coast, as it was by Sher~ man, They believe in a base of supplies, but they carry it with them. Their lines do-not extend further than a foraging party can ride in the camping intervals of the march. There seems to be no doubt that Havre, Cherbourg and all the great seaport towns of France will fall eventually, and the navy of France, whick has been really the only enemy that Prussia felt unequal to in her own element, may be literally starved out, as Metz was. With no port of France in its possession the navy will present the extraordinary anomaly of a fleet without a country, and naturally without credit, and the result may be that it will have to capitulate for want of those sinews of war that are required even by iron walls afloat. Doxe BrowN—The State of Missouri, in her late election, Brown's majority being forty thousand. Ganmatpt Gives Ir Ur.—Garibaldi, it seems, has come to his senses at last. Ac- cording to report he has resigned his com- mand of the Army of the ‘Vosges and is about to return to Italy. The reason assigned is the unfriendly spirit manifested by the French population. Very few persons will regret Garibaldi’s wise resolution. Many of his friends regret that such a resolution was ever necessary. In his day Garibaldi has done the world good service. But he has outlived his usefulness and his fame. The patriot and hero has become a blundering filibuster. It would have been better for Garibaldi’s future fame if he had died a younger man, Supposine A Cask.—Should General Schenck, go as our Ambassador to England will he be prepared to attend as a witness when his friends contest the seat of Lew Campbell in the next.Congress? Perhaps Schenck would. rather be in Congress than in the uncertain position of Minister to Great Britain, Noug verrons. How Lone Witt Gamserra be allowed to gamble a little on the London Stock Exchange to the prejudice of American interests? Prize Fientine IN Ruope I[sianp.-—-Re~ ferring to the Associated Press despatch from. Hartford, Conn., announcing a prize fight be~ tween two bruisers in Rhode Island, the Provi- dence (R. I.) Herald says :— If this despatch ts correct the roatter was Gone ducted in a remarkably quiet: manner, for no one Ha, this viewuty 13 tO Nave heard a word about tt. This appears to be a matter in which the jurisdiction of the two Siates is more or lesa concerned, Will it lead to another Dore war? REIGN or LaNonaNow 1 TENNESSEE. —The prospects for the education of the rising gene~ ration in Tennessee ara very gloomy. The, Nashville Zanner state that the commom echoels are closed; that the people do nat know what todo, aod that the children are growing up without eves the rudiments of an Englisa education, Hore is a flue field for the exercise of the talents of that pecullar and important class known as ‘(New Baglaud school marmuy.” It will no$ do fog some mares,