The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1870, Page 8

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CO—Stubborn Prize Figh rt has been malt- named Schwill. A Lawyeg is Crxcr treated by a lager b r party Ir THe Frenen outworks have been pushed { forward with such success as to put Versailles in danger from their guns we cannot see why Trochu does not continac pushing them. He would finally compel the Germans to extend their lines so enormously tat entting a pas- a Presidential Scrub Race and Its Territle Dangers to the Country. When a great political party, in the height of its power is alain, like Cwsar, in the Senate House, it means revolution and confusion in all the body politic before there can be a res- toration of order, system and harmony. In a political sense, General Grant and his admin- istration are menaced in the Senate with the fate of Cwaar. The conspirators are there and the conspiracy is under way. Sumner, pompous, pretentious and consequential, is the proper man to play the part of Brutus, Fenton is not quite up to the calibre of ‘“‘the lean and hungry Cassius,” but he has the spirit and the will, and he will do. Carl Schurz, a red revo- lationist by profession, of the European Jaco- bin school, is the very fellow for the réle of “the envious Casea.” The faithful Drake, in his farewell speech in the Senate, might have said of Schurz, in reference to the late Mis- souri election, as Mark Antony said over Cwsar’s dead body— “See what a rent the envious Casca made." Indeed, excepting General Cameron, Gene- ral Wilson and one or two others, we are not certain that General Grant has any supporters in the Senate who are honestly working for his success as the mainstay of the republican party and the national Treasury. Some of the Senatorial body want a new party, as Cal- houn wanted a new party when he found that General Jackson was too much for him; some have their petty personal revenges to satisfy, such as Fenton; some, disappointed in the spoils, have ceased to care a button whether Grant goes up or down; and some, intent only upon the enormous plunder of railway land jobs and whiskey rings, would like to get General Grant out of the way, as an obstruction to their schemes. These aro among the numerous signs of a general break- up of the republican party, and of a disas- trous scrub race to the country for the Presi- dential succession. In this scrub race we may look for three or four candidates from the debris of the republican party, and over three from the drifting materials of the democratic party—an Eastern candidate, say Hoffman; a Western candidate, Hendricks, most likely, and a Southern candidate, probably Andy Johnson or Wade Hampton, and possibly Jeff Davis, In this month of December, 1870, the con- | dition of the republican party, though not so sharply defined, may be compared to that of the democratic party in December, 1859. Then the signs of an impending democratic dissolution stood out in bold relief in both houses of Congress; now the signs of a republican break-up are only partially visible in the Senate. Then the Southern oligarchy were with the President and he was with | them; now the Northern bolters and malcon- | tents are against the President, and so far they have not fatally crippled him. But the grand result of the fight among the democratic politicians ef 1859-60 is promised from these republican bolters and disaffected leaders of | 1870—the dissolution of the party and a Presi- dential scrub race from its separated factions | and sections. What then? We shall not have the easy reconstruction of parties which followed the scrub race of 1824, nor the bloody results of a | terrible civil war such 43 followed the demo- cratic dissolution and scrub race of 1860; but chaos willcome again. In 1824, when the old republican party was finally dissolved, and Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Ciay were run for the Presidency, each upon his personal merits, there were no delicate and dangerous | questions to be affected by the election of any | one of them over the others. In the end, there being no choice by the people, when the | election was determined hy the House of Rep- | resentatives in favor of Adams, the reconstruc- tion of parties which followed (crystallizing eventually into the democratic and whig par- ties) was more upon personal issues, such a3 the battle of New Orleans of 1815, raised between Jackson and Adams, than upon any- thing else. In 1860, on the other hand, the democratic scrub race was deliberately con- trived by the Southern slaveholding oligarchy as an opening for an armed rebellion and an independent Southern confederacy by force of arms. It was a senseless and suicidal war on the part of Jeff Davis and the South, as the war against Germany has proved to be to Napoleon and Franee; but do wo not see in both cases that aspiring and desperate dema- gogues are reckless of consequences ? Assuming, then, that we are to have a Presidential scrub race in 1872, the republican party being broken up, it will make no mate- | rial difference whether the election is made by the Electoral College or turned over to the new House of Representatives chosen in this year’s elections. With the republican party out of the way the party lines will disappear, even in Congress, and the members of the House, sage through would be comparatively easy work. ; Mare i. who killed William Davis in August last, at No. 1 Bri the Batiery, under circumstances that indi- cated brutal murder, was tried in General Sessions yesterday, found guilty of man- slaughter in the second degree aud sentenced to the State Prison for seven years. It is probably impossible to get a fair and square verdict of murder against a woman. ge street, near Tax CaAprvrz or Nvits by forces is a severe blow to the Garibaldians, who made the place, in some respects, their e German base of operations. This reminds us that we have been repeatedly told of successes by the forces under aldi and his sons, but some- how nothing is ever said as to the places where ting took place. ihe Tar Durem Gap Canar is of some use. A, sieamer significantly called the Olive Branch passed through it yesterday. Ben Butler’s war services are ne longer te be sneered al. Tae DEFALCATIONS among quartermasters’ and commissary clerks at Fortress Monroe afford avother instance of the necessity of a reform in our governmental service. The icated are the | friends or officers, and the principal offender is said to be the son of a ge There is no doubt that they were all 1 to the positions which they buve thua ed without any examina- tion whatever as to their honesty or capacity, and only because they had influence or in- fluential backing ‘| government if called to choose a President, will be con- j trolled by the spoils and plunder. Therefore in 1872, whether we get a President from the people or the House (the republican party being broken up, and the democratic party too, on different candidates, and General Grant being thrown out), a scrub race will be followed by a political revolution in the itself. The political elemenis which for twelve years bave been kept in the background will, as the most active and united forces, come to the front; the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments to the constitution will be declared irre- gular, spurious and void; the sovereign rights of the States each to control its social institu- tions and political elections will be reaffirmed, and the national d’bt resulting from the war against the Confederate Southern States, will be abated and repudiated, as a monstrous insult to the South and as an oppressive bur- den saddled upon the country by an unconsti- | tutional despotis m. Strong as our national bondholders feel in their securities, we can tell them that their only reliable security is General Grant. He is pledged to the faithful redemption of the debt, and we all know that he is safe and | sound on this great question. We are sure so | far, but no farther. Break up the party iden- tified with Grant's istration, cut off Grant and give us a ib race candidate for i our next President, and we shall have a ecrub | administration, a scrub Co 3, and a condi- | tion of political and financi that of France under Gambetta. Take away General Grant, and you can carry even the | bombard that city. negro vote of the South to-day for repudiation, and you may carry the vote of the West in the same direction to-morrow. The success of Carl Schurz in Missouri is a revolutionary sign in that quarter of bad omen; for Schurz is aptly defined in Bismarck’s expressive allu- sion to those revolutionary sans culottes of France as ‘‘those gentlemen of the pavement.” We have finished the work of a great revolu- tion, but now the reaction is upon us. Andy Johnson, in his last annual message to Con- gress, in, plumply proposing repudiation, had a glimmering of this, only he was a little too fast. But he picked out the arrow which may still strike the vulnerable heel of Achilles. If the administration party, pledged to the public debt, is broken up, the elements pledged among themselves to repu- diation will take its place. This is the simple logie of the question. Then, indeed, shall we have something like the blessed bankruptcy, anarchy and universal demoralization of Mexico in full blast. Look at it. Twenty- five hundred millions of debt is a heavy burden; but it may be wiped out with a sponge. There is the danger—the sponge. Schurz has none of these national bonds, they say, to look after, and so the course is clear for him against Grant; but Fenton and Sumner are among the bloated bondholders, and their folly is amazing. But, oh! it may be said, these horrid foreshadowings are absurd. So it was thought of the warnings of the late rebellion. We are sure of nothing in this age of startling events, and nothing revo- lutionary is impossible. We venture, there- fore, another prediction. Let these mutinous leaders of the republican party continue their mischievous work against the admin- istration, so as to make in 1871 General Grant's retirement from the Presidential field or his defeat a foregone conclusion, and by the year 1872 such distrust and fear will come upon our national securities and such depreciation that repudiation will become the ruling condition of the Presidential election. The War Situation in France. The military movements in the north of France are of thrilling interest. They indi- cate a determined and earnest effort on the part of General Faidherbe to relieve the garri- son in Paris by an attack upon the weakest portion of the investing line—that about St. Denis and the Peninsula of Genevilliers. Faidherbo has passed Amiens on his march thither, and driven the German forces occupy- ing that town before him. They are evidently a mere handful, whom Faidherbe eould crush without trouble if he could reach them at once, but Manteuffel, who recently disappeared from before Havre, is appa- rently marching rapidly to reinforce his friends and to throw himself, with the army that captured Rouen, between the advancing Northmen of France and the German lines of investment. The race between the two, like the one between Bragg and Buel, in Kentucky, is a dash for a city and strategic position. So far as heard from the Germans are ahead, and before Faidherbe, with his tender-footed militia, can have reached his goal they will doubtless be ready to present the same inflex- ible wall of iron veterans to him that the Duke of Mecklenburg presented to the Army of the Loire. This latter army is doing good work merely in holding its own. Its stout resistance to Prince Frederick Charles, under all the circum- stances, is a fine example of the effect of esprit de corps even upon soldiers of only three months’ experience. This continued occupa- tion of the large army which the Prince and Duke have withdrawn from the besieging forces serves to confine the operations of the war to the narrower compass about Paris, where the French hold both the interior and exterior lines. We hear no more of separate expeditions operating in distant provinces, nor of bodies of ublans raiding among fresh and fertiie granaries far from the main army. The provinces of France, thus relieved of the presence or the dread of the enemy, can bend their energies to recruiting the immense armies already in the front, and France is yet full of men. The appearance of five French frigates off Pillau, in the Baltic Sea, is reported. They threaten the town of Kinigsberg, the second capital of Prussia, and if they can effect a passage through the narrow inlet to the lake called Frische Haff they may be enabled to At this stage of the war the bombardment will not serve any very good purpose, and certainly will not divert any force from the main theatre of action. The French fiect has been idle too long. It should have carried the war up the Elbe and the Weser four months ago. It cannot hope to affect the situation now. Looxtne Our ror Squaiis.—Sir John A, Macdonald, the Premier of the Dominion of Canada, yesterday expressed his opinion that the British troops, recently sent home because they were not needed, would be back in Canada within five years. Sir John evidently sees trouble ahead. The relations of the Dominion with the United States are decidedly unsatisfactory, and the Premier is preparing for any emergetic: Ir Beets To Loox As 1F tak OvERatioNs of General Fuidherbe in the north of France were of more importance than was at first supposed. The evacuation of Amiens by the Germans and their movement in the direction of Faid- herbe’s forces indicate that he was getting un- | comfortably near to their line of communica- tion. Itavill be remembered that he commands the Twenty-second French corps, which re- cently recaptured St. Quentin and Ham. At last accounts he had advanced beyond Amiens, but it is doubtful if he will be able to continue his march in the presence of General Manteuffel’s army, which is stated to number sixty thousand men, and to be now on his track. But whether or not he is compelled to retreat northward again, it is certain that his demonstrations have not been barren of result. CaLirorsiaA Enrerprise.—Yesterday seven gentlemen of the road were arrested at Sacra- mento, Cal., charged with fourteen arsons, | thirteen highway robberies and sixteen bur- glaries. The Pacific States are filling up with an enterprising and industrious population. tT Firta AVENUE ‘SION seems to have come to a standstiil. A good deal of work bas been done in the way of widening the street; but there it appears to stop. What ia the matter? The proceedings in Congress yesterday can- not be said to have been either Important or interesting. The Senate spent much of the day in discussing the responsibility of the government for property of loyal citizens taken er destroyed during the war, and adjourned without coming to a vote on the question. In the House the usual miscellany of a Monday's session was disposed of, in the shape of the introduetion and reference of bills, none of which probably will ever be heard of again during this Congress. The question of the repeal of the income tax presented itself in the form of a resolution, offered by Mr. Kel- logg, of Connecticut, instructing the Com- mittee of Ways and Means to report a bill for that purpose, but the proposition did not com- mand a majority of votes, much less the two- thirds required for its adoption under a suspension of the rules, and it went over for future action. It is worthy of remark that this question is, more than perhaps any other, a sectional one. The members from the Eastern and Middle States are, ag a general thing, in favor of the abolition of the income tax, while those from the West- ern and Southern States are just as generally in favor ot its retention, the reason being that, while it falls so heavily on the merchants and manufacturers and wealthy classes of the Northern cities and towns, the agricultural classes of the West and South are, for the most part, exempt from tax- ation under it; therefore the members who represent chiefly poor agricultural com- munities are invariably to be found voting against the repeal of the income tax, while those who represent mercantile and manufac- turing communities are to be found favoring its repeal. The vote yesterday was sixty-four in favor of the resolution to seventy-one against it. The only other noteworthy incident in the House proceedings of yesterday was the in- troduction, by a Kentucky democrat (Mr. Jones), of a very silly preamble and resolu- tion, excusing, if not justifying, the rebellion, and extending general amnesty to all con- cerned. The thing was so untimely and ill judged that even the democratic members, with the exception of only a dozen oréso, voted against it or declined voting at all. They were ready to support the resolution, but the preamble was more than they were prepared for. The only effect of it could be, and probably will be, to weaken the chances of Mr. Farnsworth’s substitute for Mr. Butler’s Amnesty bill, on which the vote is to be taken to-day. : In addition to these miscellaneous matters in the House the Pension bill, appropriating about thirty millions, was passed, and some progress was made on the Legislative Appro- priation bill, The International Law of the Future= Mr. Dudley Field’s Lecture. Mr. David Dudley Field lectured last even- ing upon the very interesting subject of the “Probable Changes in International Law Con- sequent Upon the Franco-Prussian War.” It is evident from the summary abrogation of treaties which have already grown out of the war that at its conclusion the subject of inter- national law will have to be thoroughly dis- cussed by a congress of nations and the code will have to be greatly revised. The treaties of Paris and of London are already used as paper pellets by the aggressive Powers of Prussia and Russia. The war in France goes on with no basis of mutual humanitarian policy marked out between the combatants, and the great neutrals, who, under the inter- national law of the present day, have the right to suggest and enforce humanity, are them- selves nervous and agitated with the impend- ing evil of a general contest. Mr. Field makes three excellent suggestions in his lecture. If war cannot be altogether prevented its horrors, its frequency and its long duration can be lessened. The list of contraband articles should be greatly enlarged, not only that neutral nations may thereby avoid the great temptation ef profiting com- mercially by their neighbors’ disasters, but that less fuel may be added to the flame and the contestants come sooner to the end of their resources. The most prominent point, however, is his proposition to apply to the sovereign nations of the world the system of arbitration set forth in the constitution of the United States, by which the complaints of an individual State against the central govern- ment are decided by the Supreme Court. Let there be a permanent tribunal of the nations to arbitrate upon international quar- rels before the last desolating arbitrament of the sword be resorted to. If Napoleon had laid a statement of his grievances against Prussia before the nations of Europe and invited their friendly offices he would have received the reparation he required, if his charges were true, or else the aggressive nation beginning the war would have found all the other signatory Powers arrayed against if. This of itself would ren- der war less frequent, mot only on account of the peaceable mode of settle- ment actually indicated, but on account of the great muster of force so sure to march upon the aggressor. A supreme court of the nations— a permanent arbitrator for peace—with the several armies of the world to back it, may possibly be one of the grand improvements in the future code of international law, which the war in France may bring forth—a war which so fitly illustrates with its horrors and cruelties how imperfect is the international law of the present. Ovr Speciat Despatou from Vendome, re- porting the movements of General Chanzy’s army towards Chartres, is confirmed by a re- port from Versailles announcing the defeat of six battalions of French at Brou. The affair must have been trifling, as the total.losses of both combatants are set down at only one hundred and thirty-six. But some importance must be attached to the presence of French troops in that vicinity, as Brou is less than twenty miles from Chartres. Recorpver Haoxerr ia his charge to the Grand Jury yesterday suggested that the builder or owaer of the buildings in Thirty- fifth street which fell recently, killing four persons, should be indicted for manslaughter, Certainly, if killing in a fit of passion is man- slaughter, Killing in a Gt of economy is as bad. Congress Yesterday—The Income Tax. ‘The Papacy After Pie Nesom’ Pousti ” Peuse fer the Weer wt the Charch from Home. By @ special correspondence from Dwhslin, dated on the 24 of December, we have the highly important intelligence that tis Hoti- aed Prearee The Attitede of Paris. “Ancient glories come agaia” to a race worthy of thelr inheritance, and, no matter bow many worn out similes or stale proverbs, bianted io their application by excessive use, may be brongbt to bear to prove that the city ness Pope Pius the Ninth, having hed « | of Parie—the bead and the heart of France— solema consideration of the probable conse quences of the lay conflict which ls waged by ought, could, woald and should surrender, the prominent, living, unmistakable fact stands ont King Victor Emmanuel against bis biersrobient | before as thet she has not surrendered, and independence, and anticipating that Pontifical communication with the Christian world outside of Rome may be interrupted at ; any mement by the whim or caprice of the Italian Executive, has come to the conclusion of delegating a plenary, but extraordinary, power of ecclesiastical appointment and die cipline to his Eminence the Cardinal Peal | Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, The Cardinal will, it is said, be duly suthoriend to appoint, in the mime of the Pape, | all the English-speaking bishops of the Church—those of Ireland, England, Scot land, America, Australasia and Avia, with the missionary episcopacy of Africa end the countries which are embraced in the Apostoile | Vicariate of the North Pole. This commis | sion will be an anointed bonor to the man— a grand Catholic tribute vo the religions neal and devotion of Ireland, of whieh, after all, the Green Isle bas hitherto hed but very few from the chair of St. Peter. Ia an ultramontane point of view no prelate of the European Church is move deserving of the elevation than Cardinal Paul Cullen, In his parentage he typifies the democracy, pure and simple, of his native land; in his promotion to the cardivalate he stands forth as an embodiment of the demo- cratic principle which prevails in the Catholic Church, He has labored in the Holy City, as an instructor of the priesthood, duriag sixteen or eighteen years, yet he grasped the crozier of the archiepiscopal see of St. Kevin with all the natural dignity of an Irish peasant’s son, and all the apostolic resolution of a “‘lion of the tribe of Judah.” This extraordinary commission to Cardinal Cullen tends to confirm the anticipations which we have expressed in the Hxratp during the past few years to the effect that the Catholic Church, which is—as claimed by its theologians—ever young, ever baptizing and always been baptized, is about to move its centre of government from Italy westward, and through the West to travel east to- wards Bethlehem, following the course of the star wich guides to the site of the stable and the manger, of the crib, and to Calvary. This movement, should it be carried out, will initiate the first point of a great Christian revolution, Cardinal Paul Cullen will pioneer it skilfully, although perhaps a little too much in the gloom of a Hildebrand asceticism fired with deep zeal. He will carry it forward to the shrine of Thomas & Becket, pause at the tomb of Hughes in New York, move it onward to the death spot of St. Francis Xavier in Asia, show its grandeur to the wandering tribes and in the new cathedrals of New Zeu- land, and then have the sacred deposit of re- ligion returned to old Eurepe, puriiied, simpli- fied and health-giving for the souls of the uni- versal brotherhood. Hailed with acclama- tion, his Emiaence of Dublin may receive the tiara as his earthly reward, but even should he not be so blessed—should the Ring of the Fisherman be placed on the finger of Arch- bishop Manning, of Cardinal Rauscher, of Vienna, or of a North German prelate—the modern Paul will be at least rewarded by the enjoyment of the hope that he will hear, at the great accounting day, the words of ‘‘ Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter into the kingdom.” Gladstone’s Amnesty. England is in sore perplexity just now— badgered and buffeted about by the Russian question and the inflexible Gortchakoff, wor- ried about the Luxembourg annexation and Bismarck’s fixed purpose, in both of which cases she has fallen into a very humiliating position—and, irritated by the taunts of the European press and the indignation of the people at home, the British Ministry is placed in a most unenviable situation, Gladstone feels this, and he is making desperate efforts to soothe things down and make them comfort- able at home, so as to insure, if possible, the continuance of power in his party. With this view he has ordered the release of the Irish and American poiitical Fenian prisoners who have been so long held in British jails. The release, however, is coupled with the same condition which the government of Massacbu- | the the | that the period for that somewhat interesting conclusion seems to be just as uncertain now ever, But the other day the bombardment wae to open which would reduce the palaces, the monementa, the churches, the superb carevensaries and the exquisite private dwell- ings of Chat wondrous elty to ashes; but Tt has ot opened yet, and we hear that it is post- poned for the sake of several contingencies net defined so clearly as to be fully under- stood beyond the lines of the besieging forces. He & pretty felrly admitted, however, that ‘Count Biemerck baa, from first to last, favored the dow, sore end steady plan of starving French capital, taking good care, meanwhile, to shut it in on every wide beyond the faintest possibility of * wnoceneful sortie or of a relief assault from outside, Cont Moltke, however, has advo- cated an early and hearty bombardment, and in this he bos been seconded by General Hin- dersin, who lately lost a son at La Bourget, in front of Paris, The counsel of the latter au. thority bas evidently prevailed for the mo- ment, as he bas advised the postponement of the grand attwck until there shall be such a sufticieat store of ammunition and missiles on the ground as that every fort defending Paris can be saluted with two thousand heavy shell per diem until it falls. A week or two ago it was believed that matters were in such shape that all this could be done; but upon close investigation and comparison of notes it is confessed from the German headquarters at Versailles that inclement weather, heavy roads, the lack of horses, deficient rations and the great hourly growing murmur of the people at bome, overburdened with grief for the dead and dying, and with labor and outlay for the wounded and disabled, whom they have to tend and assist, require the postponement of the grand assault, Paris canmot be made the Christmas box nor even yet the New Year's gift of King William to Germany for this pre- sent holiday season; and if not now, whea, if ever? . Meanwhile Paris, capital of France, and »' long centre of the elegance, gallantry and in- telligence of the modern Exropean world Paris, erst the seat of the Emperor Julian; the favored of St. Genevieve ; the city of the Merovingian and Carlovingian kings; the resi- dence of the Capets and the Bourbons and the “Lamp of the Continent,” as it was often styled in the history of past ages; Paris, the foyer” and beacon light of the great revolution; the pride of the Napoleons; Paris, besieged and captured again and again stace the fourth cen- tury, and now once more beleaguered by an irruption of the vanguard of the East rushing back upon the West—has Paris done aught to maintain her pre-eminence, redeem her ancient renown, meet the expectations and justify the confidence of the French people and of all who sympathize with them, and do indeed, or think they do, fully comprehend them ? By the comparison of statistics furnished in the letters of our own correspondents and of the English and German press we discover that the city of Paris, republican and cosmepolitan as she is, has, since September 1, or within less than four months lapse of time, assembled, drilled, disciplined, equipped, officered, pro~ vided and set in actual working array an army or armies of nearly four hundred and fifty thousand men; she has, either by adaptation, purchase or manufacture, supplied them with the newest and most approved and formidable = weapons; she has cast over six hundred rifled cannon of the largest calibre, among which are some just mounted on Fort St. Valerien, which sweep a radius of eight thousand metres, with shot and shell as heavy as those discharged by the famous American ‘‘Swamp Angel” at the siege of Charleston ; she has made her own liat, her own percussion caps, her own bullets and her own bandages, and she yet rivets the attention of King William, Count Bismarck, Count Moltke, the Czar, the Pope and the Queen of England upon the chances and changes of her destiny. Say what men will—carp, rail, find fault and detract as much as they may—Paris was never more traly the soul of France than at “this moment. The eyes of the “grande nation” turn toward her with the love and setts has just imposed on O'Baldwin the Giant— that of perpetual banishment from British soil ; not a very severe condition, perhaps, when we consider that so many of them are American citizens and officers in the Union Army-—men who have a home in this country and are not likely to trouble Great Britain with their presence again until they can be of service, when the long talked of difficulty of England and the opportunity of Ireland arrive. We are glad that the poor fellows have been re- leased from their cruel martyrdom As they were never fairly convicted of anything but a political offence, and being men of education— journalists and others—they never should have been subjected to the punishment of felons and common malefactors. We hardly think, how- ever, that Gladstone’s amnesty, coming so late, and under the pressure of sore distress, will effect much towards the pacification of Ireland, the object for which, it is alleged, the act of clemency was intended. Tur Rerorrep Apv. of General Bour- baki’s forces and their occupation of Vierzon, shows that after the defeat at Orleans they must have fallen back quite to Bourges, or moved westward after crossing the Loire at Gien. If the report can be relied upon Bourbaki is moving towards Orleans, Vierzon being on the railroad line from that place to Bourges. No Cavsz ror rae Re in Coat,—Accord- ing to the latest official reports there are now in market nearly six hundred thousand tons of Pennsylvania coal, more than at the same period last year. Therefore the increase in the price of coal to actual consumers is altogether unwarranted, and those dealers who demand the increased rate are little better than common violaters of the law against petty larceny. adoration felt by the most earnest vetary for the shrine of his patron saint; the effort and the aim of all French military operations is to relieve her; the corner stone of the new Ger- man empire will have beea found only when she shall have been captured and occupied by the Teutonic hosts. Bat this is not yet, and it may never be. The wonderful year, whose last fortnight is rapidly rolling away into the chant and incense of the holidays of the Nativity, has seen many works of interposing Providence, many unan- ticipated changes in the destinies of men and nations. France, by this time, through her suffering and her tears, may have expiated the folly of her long submission to usurping power and her arrogant disdain of neighborly rights and safety. The watch which is kept now so carefully upon the time-honored towers of Nitre Dame, and which, at every two hours’ interval thronghout the night, sends its solemn signal forth over the anxious city, may behold some new color in the dawa of Christmas morning to announce a truce or a triumph to the capital and to the people who have held out so bravely and se well, Her sons have perished already around her walls by thousands, and the feeling of vast numbers of mankind undoubtedly responds in spirit to the epitaph which hopeful patriotism may have dedicated to the ashes of the fallen: — Koriare aliquis nostris Ex ossivus ultor —, Tux GeorctaA ELEctTion commences to-day and continues for three days. There exists o strong impression that there will be more or less vivlence at the polling places, ia conse- quence of the unrestrained liberty usually given to the negroes at the holiday season of the year. We hope, however, that the colored race wi!l comprehead the necessity of keeping their frolies within bounds, and signify to the white population their ability Lo aporeciate the