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& NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Hrarp. No. 360 Volume ‘ AMUSEME! NTS THiS AFTERROON AND EVENING. BOWSRY THEATRE, fowery.-New Yors Buna LARS--ROGLERS OF TUR HEsTH, &C. Matinee at 136. BOOTHS THLATR ywoen th and Oth avs. — Rip Vax WINKLI NIBLO'S GARDEN Broadway. ‘ue SPECTACLE OF ME BLACK CROOK. Matinee at Lis. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana 18tn street.— Coguwrirs. LINA SDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—LItrLE JAOn SUKPPARD, Matinee at 2. GRAND OPERA HOUBE, on Lee BxtaanDs, Matinee at 2 er of Bib ay. and 23d wt. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae PANTOMIME OF Wer Wiuiir Winkie. Matinee at 2 WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 80th st..-Perform- ances every ufteruzon and evening. GLOBE THEATRE. 12 Hrondway.—Vaninrt KxTER- TAINMENT, £0, Matinee at 3. FIFTH AVENUE THRATRE, Twenty-fourty street.— |Sataroga. Matinee al Fourieenth street. Con. STEINWAY HALL, GRAND orn, MRS. F. 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Hl u e Politics—Curions Phenome- \ “Not Guilty” is the Penalty for Kiliing a Nigger m Kansas—Au iron Horse—Adyertise- SN a Miners: Grand Council of the Union xt Tamaqua—Voice of the People—Journalistle Notes—An Elephantine tion—The Poughkeepsie Heirship Case— y ph ad in Vermont: A Lad of o rin The Double Bi larine Transfers—The Case of Rev. Mr. Tucker—Insanity in Californila— pa {carfan Community—Financtal and Com- ublicans—Governor Hoifman and the | nocracy”’—Personal Intetligence—Amuze- * Announcements. wo Days’ Battle near Amiens; Under General Faidherbe, De: iis Leaving Cherbourg urther Particulars of the ; Great Excitement and Panic Murder of @ ee h General by Red Beredetti: Cg ae of His Position and the Affair at Ems—Telegraphic News from Al) Parts of the World: The Enro- pean Congress to Assemble January, 3, 1871— from Washington—New York City aries Notices. Churehly Commemoration of the ning of Chris Peace on Earth, Good Will Songs of Love and Adoratien; Ser- mions Foil of Counsel and Admonition; iand- some Decorations: Delightful Music; Eloquent Discourses; Religious Observance of the Festival in the Metropoils and Elsewhere, from Sixth Page)—Music Drama--Arkansas: Meeting of the ire—Gambelta: Meeting Between the cretary and a Herald Correspon- pody Family Feud—Reported Mutiny —General Newa Items, mond Disaster: Burning of the Spots- @—Curistmas (continue: and the wu Rk Hoiel; Seven Lives Lost, and Sever: Missing—Unific ation of America: ry in Hoboken—A Child in Fiames— farm and seeel in Brookiyn-—-Shipping. lntelit geuce—Advertisements. First Cask ror THE Evropzan ConGRress.— Prince Charles of Roumania calls the atten- tion of the European great Powers to the fact that his position as settled by the Treaty of Paris is no longer tenable. <A first case for the European Congress—and the ‘‘sick man” again in the East. The dtplomatic doctors will have plenty of practice if they once open a general hospital. A Granp “Star.”"—The Empress Eugénie is negotiating for the hire of Drury Lane theatre, London, in erder that she may ar- range a benefit performance in aid of the fund for the relief of the French prisoners of war. It will be a brilliant occasion—a ‘‘star” man- agement lending additional light to the star of charity. Tuk Mrvzrs’ Unton, in its recent secret Session al Tamaqua, Pa., ordered all miners to quit work on a strike for higher wages. This, too, in the dead of winter, when the miners all admit that the companies have a great quan- tity of coal on hand and the families of some of them are already near starvation; but the secret council is a Holy Vehm, whose decrees must be obeyed. Tue Iractans have resolved, by logisiative vote, to go to Rome “within six months.” They may not have the pleasure of meeting his Holiness the Pope in the Eternal City at that time, and so be left in the same position us Oliver Goldsmith was whea an intrusive acquaintaace took away the haunch of venison from his rooms— Left alone to reflect, having emptied the shelf; With nobody with me; at sea by myself. Getra Cavtiovus.—The announcement that the Germans are fortifying their line of retreat between Versailles and Meta will be received with some surprise, It is an indica- tion that they are less confident than formerly. True enough, the mecsure is purely one of pre- caution, but that it should be taken only at this late date is significant of apprehensions lest the necessity may arise for strongholds to fall back upon. Tux LoxempourG aNp BLack Sea Naviga- TION Questions are looming up still more prominently from Berlin to the Hague and thence to Constantinople. No want of cases for the consideration of the diplematic doctors who will assemble in consultation in the London Conference January 3, 1871, Delicate cases, too—obronic ailments, for the cure of which the entire ravge of remedies embraced in the existing cabinet pharmacopwias have hoon alrendy tried in vein. | Say, J General Grant and the ‘seabinamctiaw eraser Hoffman and the Democracy. Confusion prevails in the republican camp. There bas been something like a premonitory West Indian hurricane in the Senate, Sumner has been giving full vent to his wrath against the President, and his threats of a déchéance have carried terrer into the ranks of the admin- istration and great joy into the tents of the democracy. They who have looked upon Sumner as an agent of Beelzebub now find him transformed into an angel of light, while they whe have regarded him aa a model of radical heroism now denounce him asa traitor, Carl Schurz, after leading off against General Grant on the Missouri election, is delighted to play the bettle holder to Sumner on St. Domingo. Patterson, of New Hampshire, and Tipton, of Nebraska, stand by Sumner on the test vote, and twenty other republican Senators, including Fenton, are among the missing, What does all this mean? Is it the beginning of a destructive pelitical cyclone, or a black squall which will soen blow over? There is mischief in the wind and in the gathering clouds Hast, West and Sonth. Suddealy these questions— What can General Grant do with this unman- ageable republican party? What can the republican party do with General Grant ?— divert the American mind, even from the tre- meadous issues involved in the present siege of Paris and all the political complications of Enrepe. The movements of the party engineers on both sides for the next Presidency are becoming very interesting. The republicans are de- moralized, and some of their most trusted leaders and most skilful managers are work- ing for a new deal or a new party; but still the party has a common base of operations in General Grant and his administration, The democrats are hopeful, as usual, but they have no generally recognized head or platform and no base of operations but Tammany Hall, and Tammany is admonished from the West that she ia only a local organization, with all her money and all her spoils, A month ago there was hardly a whisper from the republican camp against General Grant as its candidate for 1872, but now wo are warned that within the next two years the whole face of things may be changed. A month ago, flushed with the groat success of another elec- tion of their Governor, Tammany hailed her champion, Hoffman, as the coming man for the next democratic nomination, certain and sure; but now, from the growling democracy of the West the Sachems recoil and wish it to be understood that Hoffman is not their ultimatum and that they do not intend even to press his claims if objectionable to the great Western wing of the party. General Grant is again in the Wilderness. Will he be able te push forward, or be com- pelled to fall back? Massachusetts is per- plexed with the defection of Sumner; Mis- souri is lost by the bolt ef Brewn and Schurz; Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina have, by similar divisions, been given over to the enemy, and now Georgia follows suit, and by a vote which indicates the speedy recovery of the whole South by the democratic party. Nor is this all; for while the Chicago 7'ribune, hitherto a sort of Red Cloud or Spotted Tail among the radical tribes of the West, is now among the bolters on ‘“‘revenue reform,” the New York Tribune, the Marplot of its party in the Empire State, proclaims that it is too soon by at least a year to talk of General Grant’s superior claims as the republican can- didate for the succession. How is General Grant to extricate himself from this entangle- ment? He escaped from the jungle of the Rapidan by pushing straight through for Rich- mond, thus compelling the rebel General to back out in order to save his communications. Now, however, Grant has not only the regu- lar democratic enemy in front to fight, but all these republican bushwhackors operating on his flanks and among his provision trains. Tho Western ‘“‘revenue reform” bolters, they have been coquetting with Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, and Gratz Brown, Governor elect of Missouri, in view of a candidate for the new party of the Chicago Tribune, ond Trumbull, like Barkis, ‘is wil- lin’,” and so is Brown, provided the demo- cracy will come over. Sumner, it is rumored, is really aspiring for tho White House, and thinks that there will be an opening for him with the removal of Grant from the course. Fenton, it is suspected, deliberately meditates in '72 the independent dodge of Martin Van Buren of 1848 against the regular party can- didate, should that candidate be Grant, and all these mutineers have their fellowers. How is Grant to escape with a whole skin? Howis the republican party to escape a crushing de- feat from these divisions, factions and cliques operating for a new shuflle, cut and deal, and ascrub race? We cannot tell. There is an armistice at Washington, in the absence of Congress, among these clashing cliques and factions, till the 4th of January, and, with the return of the two houses to business, even the wrath of Sumner may have cooled down, and he may be Bae for a compromise between bama claims, “Beere- @ dinner ho gave the other evening to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, discoveted that Sumner's wrath was not implacable, inasmuch as he cordially fraternized over the wine and wal- nuts with Morten, the chosen champion of the President against Sumner in the Sonate. In any event the troubles of General Grant, as the head of the republican church, and the dangers threatened his administration and his party, are very serious, and perhaps the best expedient towards a rectification of these discords, to begin with, would be a reconstruction of the Cabinet. Surely a Cabinet reconstruction, based upon a new depariure on Cuba or the Alabama claims, or both, dropping St. Do- mingo, would spike the guns of Sumner and shut up Trumbull, Carl Schurz, Gratz Brown, Fenton and all the other soreheads in the detached city of Strasbourg on the Rhine frontier. On the democratic side all these late develop- ments of republican discords are delight- ful. Without a chief or principle or platform or plan upon which to rally they are sure of the prize this time. But as their confidence increases the active jealousies between this section and that section, this man, that man and the other, begin to appear. The demo- cracy of the West are advancing their claims, “] and they will ke trifed with no longer, New York they consider a. with any man, and Hoffman will not do for Indiana, But why talk of any candidate for the democracy, when, under the two-thirds rule, some new man, wholly unexpected, may be nominated, after the fashion of Polk in 1844 and Pierce in 1852? The only thing which appears to be cer- tain in this business is the fixed determination of the West against Governor Hoffman, It is evident that he was brought out too soon, and that he must wait a little longer. Governor Hoffinan, on the other hand, has, we may say, been officially withdrawn from the course by Tammany. The anti-Hoffman outery from the West has caused the Sachems to spike their big gun and abandon the Presi- dential fleld. This, however, may be only a ruse, like that of the positive, peremptory and three times repeated Presidential declination of Seymour. No matter. The Western ‘‘Pen- dleton Escort” in the Tammany Convention of 1868 learned the trick te their cost, and “a burnt child dreads the fire.” The Western demecrats, in short, are dead set upon taking their next Presidential candidate from the West, hit or miss, make or break, sink or swim, In 1860 they wort down to Charleston with this resolution, and as the Southern oli- garchy would not have Douglas the West cut loose from the oligarchy and left them to pad- dle their own canoe into the rebellion. We may safely assume, therefore, that New York will have to give way to the West in 1872, or that there will be another democratic split and scrub race, as in 1860, Seymour, in 1868, manifestly spoiled the cake for Hoffman in 1872, and Tammany will probably make up her mind to hold him over for 1876. Is it not the gamo of Tammany to look out for the oys- ters and to avoid quarrelling about the shells ? It is; and as it is, we incline to the opinion that the Sachems are sincere in their declara- tions concerning Hoffman, though we fear this question will not be settled without a terrible rumpus between New York end the West. Cha The reported defeat of General Chanzy at Le Mans has not been confirmed and proba- bly will not be. At the same time we are pre-. pared to hear of his retirement to Alengon. This, in fact, was foreshadowed by our cor- respondent writing from Le Mans a few days ago, and whose letter was sent by cable spe- cially to the Hgratp. Nor will such retire- ment be necessarily a compuisory retrograde movement. Chauzy's plan evidently is to move as far north as he possibly can, so that he may relieve Bourbaki’s forces from the danger of an attack fellowing the sudden junction of the two German armies operating in the vicinity of the Loire. Besides, if Chauzy succeeds in his flank movement, and throws his army in a position northwest ef Paris, he will virtually oover Havre and Cherbourg, and will be heavily reinferced by the forces gathered te dofend those cities. Meanwhile, with General Faidherbe keeping Manteuffel employed near Amiens, Bourbaki, who is certainly the ablest officer now in the French service, may suc- coed in forcing his way to Fontainebleau, or by a vigorous offensive movement compel the Germans te concentrate against him, and thus give Chauzy a chance to push on to St. Denis or some point on the west of Paris. The Richmond Disaster. The Spotswood Hotel, in Richmond—the famous Spotswood which saw the brunt of our civil war and heard within its walls the secret consultations of the rebel chiefs in their days of glory and their days of disaster, which looked upon the numerous horrors that have so stricken that devoted city of disasters—has itself fallen before the demon of fire. It was discovered to be burning at two o'clock yes- terday morning, and before daylight it was a smoking ruin, and at least seven human lives had rendered up their last accounts amid the crash of its falling timbers and the relentless fury of its flames. The details of the disaster are heartrending. Similar horrors are familiar to the people of that unhappy city, for the wild terrors of the freshet last autumn, and of the State House disaster last spring, are still fresh in the memory ef all of us; but that this last calamity—this capsheaf of the year’s catastrophes—should have fallen upon Christ- mas Day—the festival day of all others through- out the South—like a terrible extinguisher upon the merry-making of a people, is enough to make the soberest citizens of Richmond shake their heads in despair. ry7n Movements, Tue War News.—The battle which opened so favorably for General Faidherbe at Noyon, on the 23d inst., is reported to have ended on the 24th with a complete defeat for him. The details are yet wanting ; but the bare fact of a defeat appears to be fully sustained by the re- ports which have been received from various sources, Toure has been n again entered by the German ‘troops, The citizens of Chalons, like those of Rheims, have resisted the de- mands of the German garrison, but have been summarily suppressed and a number of lead- ing citizens have been sent to Germany as hostages. The line of railroad cemmunica- tions between Versailles and Metz is being fortified. The advance on Lyons has caused a great excitement in that city, and a rising among the “‘reds” is reported. _ arety eA al Gamprtra.—The hardest worker in France at present is the Minister of the Interior. His energy isextraordinary. Ever active, always on the move, present whenever and wherever emergency demands it, he spares himself in no respect when France demands so much from all her sons, From an interview which one of the Hreatp correspondents recently had with the Minister's private secretary—aa interview sanctloned by Gambetta, and which may be regarded as the expression of the Minister himself—the readers of the HERALD can form a fair estimate of the spirit, determination, courage and aspirations of the French re- public. nile Iv May Be True that the Germans have defeated the French Army of the North near Amiens, but we doubt if they have routed it. A few weeks ago the same army was reported utterly routed before Amiens; nevertheless it was reorganized with wonderful rapidity, and by its recent offensive operations com- pelled General Manteuffel to abandon his march on Havre and hurry to meet it. If the French were no more beaten on Friday than they were before, the German flying army, as it is called, is not likely to lay siege to Havre or occupy Cherbourg in 9 hucry, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1870. LLL En nD Christmas Sermons Yesterday. Nothing is more significant of the benefit conferred upon humanity by Christianity than the unanimity with which persons of all sects and creeds do honor to the natal day of Christ. We doubt not that even the Jew and infidel in our midst were not lacking in a certain self- satisfaction and undefinable feeling of plea- sure on the auniversary; for though they reject Christ as a divine being they cannot refuse to recognize His coming on Farth as the opening of a new era which was to confer and has conferred inestimable blessings upon mankind. Our civilization, so much gentler and tenderer than that of the Hebrews and pagans before the birth of Christ, attests that He indeed came to bestow peace and good will upon all men, War, with its countless vic- tims, mayseem to mock the claims of Chris- tianity; but evenin the war of to-day may be seen the influence of our reli- gion, mitigating its herrors and sup- planting with charity and magnanimity the brutal ferocity of bygone ages. And something more has ceme from Christianity. It has elevated man to a proper manhood; it has converted woman—the drudge, toy, slave of twenty centuries ago—to the condition of a companion of man, equal to him in every proper respect, Why need we further reca- pitulate the great benefits Christianity kas con- ferred upon mankind? More brilliant than the rays of the sun, their light falls upon every heart and gladdens every home. There was so much unanimity in the ideas expressed in the sermons delivered yesterday that to mention those of one preacher is to make the reader familiar with the ideas of all. Christ was the theme, and the wondrous re- sults which have followed His birth were the burdens of the discourses,” But we do not feel wearied by their sameness in reading over the sermoas. So many reflections arlse from a contemplation of all the good which Christ has done that we ever tire Of the “oft-rofentea story Of His birth, Divest Him even of the robes of divinity and He still remains a great, unapproachable figure, the spirit and incarnation of all that is pure and rizhteous, tender and merciful, lov- ing and just. The greatest benefactor the world ever had, adoration and praise of Him natu- rally spring from our love and gratitude, And the spectacle presented yesterday of Catholio and Methedist, Episcopalian and Baptist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist, and all the other numerous sects of Christianity, ceasing for the day to disregard the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount by searching care- fully for the motes in their brothers’ eyes and uniting in praise of Christ—such a spectacle was indeed one to gratify the Christian and humanitarian. There was little in what Dr. Chapin said which Father Clancy could not agree with, and nothing in the sermon of Rev. Mr. Richardson which could not meet a hearty response from Rev. Chauncey Giles. And in like manner Rev. Mr. Morrill, Dr. Schenck, Rev. Mr. Meredith and other clergymen in this city united in ignoring their theological differences and confining their discourses to the subject of the ‘“Saviour’s birth.” Even Brother Beecher’s gentle reminder to his con- grogation that the auction of pews at Plymouth church would take place next week did not altogether impair the effect of his sermon. Of course to this general unanimity there were some exceptions. Ata few of the churches the preachers went out of their way to assail the religious dogmas of other sects ; but, on the whole, in this city, Brooklyn, Washington and elsewhere reported, Christmas Day in the churches was marked by a spirit of kindness and charity worthy of the great anniversary and of true believers in Chris- tianity. Nor was one saddened by the knowledge that next Sunday and the Sunday after, and each succeeding Sabbath day for the next year, the preachers will resume their on- slaughts upon one anether’s creeds, and that “Popery” and “heresy” will be as fiercely assailed as if Christ had never brought peace and good will to all men. There was too much happiness derived from the unsectarian sermons of yesterday for it to have been marred by reflections upon the unpleasant ceriaitities of the future. Peace orn A GENERAL War w Evrore?— By a special telegram from London, dated in that city yesterday, we are enabled to an- nounce that the members of, or delegates to, the European conference have been duly sum- moned to assemble in session in London, on Tuesday, the 8d of January, 1871. The plat- form or programme of subjects for debate, or the scope or power of the Congress, has not been defined. It is quite apparent, however, that one of two things will ensue from the assemblage—the peace of Europe will be re- stored or the Old World pinged) into a meneral war. + Tur Pan.anrarorists who believe that capi- tal panishment should be abolished have had a savere offset in Vermont, A boy of nineteen committed a most brutal murder there two years ago for money, and these philanthro- pists have exerted themselveg strongly to saye fm from execution, ‘They Bveit sured the passage of a law by one house of the Legisla- ture commuting his sentence; but the stern sense of justice on tho part of the people in general brought such an overwhelming mass of protests that the other house refused to pass it. The good sense of the people may usually be trusted in such cases. Tue Kipyarrrp Cororeo Girt Rr- LEASED.—Through the efforts of the American Consul General at Havana, Maggie Robinson, a colored girl who was kidnapped at St. Louis two years and a half ago, and whose case then excited so much interest at Wash- ington as to cause the government to interfere in her behalf, has been released, and she is now on her way from New Orleans to St. Louis, where her relatives reside. These facts are even more significant of the value of American citizenship, irrespective of color or condition, than the memorable and successful interference of our national navy in behalf of Martin Koszta, a Hungarian, who had simply declared his intention of becoming an American citizen, They are, moreover, suggestive of a prodigious revolution occasioned by our late civil war. The humblest American citizen may now confidently count upon fall redress of wrongs, whether abroad, luficted at home or: The Dreadful Misfortanes of Ouba. The letters from Cuba which we published yesterday exhibited what the poet Campbell might have recognized as almost equal to his “bloodiest picture in the book of time.” The new Captain General, Valmaseda, seems deter- mined himself to take the field in a war of extermination, while the insurgents are no Jess resolute in pursuing their policy of laying waste an Island which used to be the garden of the world. he destruction of estates by the insurgents for the past two months has been very great, andis continuing, despite the efforts of the troops, and already hopes of a crop of any importance are gone. Our correspondent at Santisgo de Cuba describes the depres- sion in that city as more general, and for stronger reasons, than it has ever been since the breaking out of the insurrection. Planters have been compelled to abandon their places and bring their negroes inte tewn. Hundreds of the poorer country people are rushing thither, fearing to be encompassed within the insurgent lines, and killed if found there by the troops, Crowded in filthy tenements, large numbers are daily dying from starvation or from cholera, which has at length been added to the dreadful misfortunes of Cuba. If this hor- rible state of things shall last for a year longer what will beceme of the Cubans? All parties, alike the adherents of the Spanish gevernment and those of the insurrection, will be involved in the common ruin, Can the administration at Washington devise no plan that by interven- tion or by mediation shall put a happy end to all this wretchedness and wrong ? Our Social Christmas, Christmas usually ‘‘comes once a year,” but this year it has come twice. Yesterday its ordinary religious solemnities were blended with and, perhaps, even sobered by those of the Sabbath, It was exclusively a holy day. Church bells chimed, church organs resounded and sacred music was in order at o she fomily Altar'as well as at church.” But our social Christmas comes to- day. Divested of religious observances and restraints, itis simply a joyous holiday. Offices and stores willbe closed ; even Wall street sus- pends its ‘‘operations.” A regular legalized holiday invites us all, of every age and class, to enjoy the festivities of the season. Com- paratively few, it is to be hoped, will fail to respend to the invitation. Even those whose hearts are, for any reason, too heavy to share in the almost universal joy cannot refuse to be glad that others are blest with a merry Christmas and with the prospect of a happy New Year. The jolly old Pope who, in an early age of the Church, issued a bull strictly forbidding fasting on Christmas Day under auy pretext whatever, would here and now find nono to protest against so gepial a decree. On the contrary, those who sit down to bountiful tables should do all they can that the poorest may also feast to-day. In dining rooms and gay parlors and gayer ballrooms, in theatres and concert halls—wherever, in fine, the old and young shall meet to celebrate the day, let them all make merry in their hearts on this our social Christmas. Tue Grorata ELxotion—A decided demo- cratic victory, a disastrous republican defeat ; for it indicates a reaction down Sonth which, by the year 1872, will have carried over every Southern State to the democracy. What, then, with New York, Connecticut, Indiana, Missouri, Oalifornia and Oregon gone by the board—what, then, we ask, is the chance for the demoralized and divided republicans? Let the ‘bloated bondholders’ tremble. Their six per cent interest in gold is getting to be a very interesting problem, and the late ex-Pre- sident Buchanan, who would not risk a dollar in these government securities, smelt the rat. All the Southern negroes, as well as the South- ern whites, are ready to sustain the theory of Buchanan concerning our national debt and its securities, and this is the drift of this Georgia election. Toe Mission or Sir Joun Rosx.—It is stated from Montreal that Sir John Rose is on his way to the New Dominion, entrusted with a mission from the British government of conciliation and compromise with the Wash- ington government on the subject of the Cana- dian fisheries. With the pressure brought to bear against England by the impending evil of ageneral war we had a right to expeet peace overtures ere this; but it is better late than never. We are ready and willing at any and all times to hear propositions for settle- ment and listen to terms of conciliation, always reserving to ourselves the right to reply ‘‘yea or nay.” We know that the policy which so recently dictated the release of the Fenian prisoners in Ireland dictates the present mis- sion of Sir John Rose, and that England, deso- late and friendless in her hour of need, is cry- ing aloud in her despair for the kindly counte- nange ve of son some greatura who loves her. But Wwe can Kécopt the mission as mis ely ag if it were inspired by a moré Cordial “sen im ant, and Sir John Rose is as heartily welcome as “roses in December.” Kina Wom ano tur Porx.—King Wil- liam, it is said, has oftered the Pope the nice little fortified town of Fulda, in Hesse-Cassle, as a residence. If the Holy Father will not make terms with King Victor Em- manuel; if he will not remain in Rome, Fulda would be as desirable a home as any other. The town is well fortified ; it is an ancient ecclesiastical seat, having been in times gone by the residence of the prince bishops. It boasts of a fine cathedral and an archiepiscopal palace. The inhabitants are mostly Roman Catholic. It is one of the strange features of these strange times that the great champion of the Protestant North should be the most zealous defender of the Pope. Bap For Franoe.—Nothing imparts so gloomy an aspect to the future of French republicanism as the sanguinary tempor exhibited by the ‘‘reds” of the large cities. We publish this morning an account of the murder of a French general at Lyons, which does mere than anything else to confirm the statements of European writers that the repub- licans of France are unfit for self-government. It was unkindly said, soon after the overthrow of the Bonuparte dynasty, that the French republic meant military terrorism in the pro- vinces and mob law in the city, and the recent manifestations in Lyons, Marseilles and else. where scom a vacification of the assertion, Double “Six,” Domino!—Republicaus “Out/? Boss Twoed’s donation of fifty thousand dol- lars to the poor of the Seventh ward is one of the most encouraging signs of the time. A voluntary contribution for charitable pur- poses of this degree of munificence—fifty thousand for a single ward—bas not heen equalled since the days of the great philanthropist, George Peabody. Who ever imagined that the name of George Peabody, the revered and renowned philanthropist, and that of Willlam M, Tweed, the ‘‘best abused man” of the terrible Tammany ring, would ap- pear upon the same page and in commendation of similar benevolent purposes? Not many, we think, But such is the fact, and as such it must be received by the community. Now, what should Tammany do to keep up this grand pioneer movement of one of its principal leaders—a movement calculated to win te {ts side every poor man, woman and child, not excepting niggers, in the country? It is simply this:—lInstead of squandering millions in establishing milk and water news- papers in some parts of the country, in buying out nen-Tammany and non-paying ceneerns io others, in sopping famishing radical politicians, io watering this neglected republican flower and in padding that skeleton ef a frame wasted in unrequited devotion to the republican cause, let it expend the money thus wasted by establishing branches of this great original “Tweed Relief Association” (based upon a free will capital of fifty thousand dollars) and spreading them all over the country. When it becomes a national affair the title might be changed to the ‘Tammany National Relief Association,” with power and means to extend relief to all the poor, especially those enjoying the elective franchise, to be found in all doubtfal States, They can stretch our city tax levy to any extent. What a splendid organization this would prove in the contest for the Presidential prize in 1872! How easy to. manage j itg kin, machinery ! Let the ‘proclamation g go forth to the nation that under democratic rnle there will be no more pover- ty, no more destitution, no more raggedness or squalor, no more sorrow, no more stomachs pinched by the pangs of hunger, no more limbs frozen by the icy blasts of winter, and what can prevent the overwhelming triumph of the Tammany democracy? From the Seventh ward of the city of New York can this proclamation be issued; for after this Tweed Relief Asgociation gets fairly under way—in the words of the beautiful hyma— ‘There'll be no more sorrow there. Therefore let Tammany go in for this mags nificent national rolief movement without de- lay. Suppose it will require fifty or a hundred millions, that can be restored in two months after the democrats regain national power. Besides, the machine need only be run during the winter, leaving the operators to enjoy the summer months on their pickings and steal- ings. ‘Charity covers a multitude of sins.” Faith, hope and charity lead us to salvation ; “but the greatest of these is charity.” Let the good work go on, and let all the sachems follow the example of the liberal Tweed. Gamnerra on Cuoron anp State.—M. Gambetta, the only man in France who has come prominontly to the surface during this crisis, has taken a step which, if it does not make him, will most certainly do him damage. He has, it is said, written to Rome aneounc- ing his desire to terminate the concordat between France and the Holy See, his ulti- mate and avowed object being to separate Church and State. If M. Gambetta will halt at this point all lovers of social and religious liberty will wish him success. The principle of his programme is good. It is questionable, however, whether in present circumstances the programme is wise. The Church in France is now on the side of the republic. M. Gam- betta may find that ia carrying out his liberal purpose he has ruiacd the chances of the republic, The bishops will be liable to identify the policy of the dictator with the socialistic theories of the first republic, and with the blasphemous worsbip of the goddess of reason. If you wish to win, M. Gambetta, you must not march too quickly. Personal Intelligence. Mr. John C. Connor, State Senator, from Texas, 18 sojourning at the Metropolitan Hotel. Bishop P, R. Kendrick, of St. Louis, who had re- cently arrived from Europe, left the Brevoort House yesterday for home. Colonel W. H. Gowan, of the British Army, has taken quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Senator Conkling has arrived from Washington, and ts now at the Fifth Ayenue Hovel. Among his visitors was General B. F. Butler, with whom he had @ long interview. General Horace Boughton, from Texas, is stop- ping at the Metropolitan Hotel, M. Oleof Stenersen, the Swedish Minister, has left for his post in Wasiington. Commander T, C. Tensel, of the United States Navy, ls temponarily stationed at the St Denis Hotel. , Colonel B. B. Keeler and Captain Ww. R Harman, of the United States Army, are quartered at the ued ollta Hotel. @ 3. G, Abbott, of Bostoa, has left the Bre- bee Hous¢ tor home. Mr. A. D. Breed, @ prominent railroad contractor of Cincinnati, is staying at the Irving House. Mr, Lawrence Barrett, the tragedian, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Major Walter Beers, of Sulphur Springs, Va, is temporarily at the St. Denis Hotel. General William 8, Tilton, of Augusta, Me., has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. senator L. ‘Trumbull, from Illinois, left the St, Nicholas Hotei yesterday fer home. General 8. F. Butler is among the departures from the astor House, Seilor Peyra Vildosola, ® digmtary from Spain, is stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge R. B. Carpenter, of Charleston, S. C., hi apartments at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. James W, brooks, ex-State Senator, of Boston, is sojourning at the St, Denis Hotel. Senator B, F, Rice, from Arkansas, is among the latest arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. A TENEMENT HOUSE ROW, The Christmas festival was celebrated with great eclat In the tenement house No. 220 Chrystie street . The ceremonies were very impressive emonstrative, particularly towards evening, as Fourth ward whiskey began to circulate. Two of the merry company, George Leshe and Ellen Fagan, had a playful little set-to with deadly weapons, mucn to the amusement of the assembled guests, who occasionally were bled by their partisan feeling to participate in the ttle affair to the detriment of clothing and etary | in broken heads, Lesile stabbed the Fagan in the neck with an ugty-lookt ve shoemaker’s knife, causing @ dangerous woun and, #3 that champion and her bakers were about retailating, the police had the bad taste to ih- teriere, disturbing the barony ofthe occaston aud spoiling tnnocent amusemen' a ‘he Saivatrous Leslie was accommodated with lodgings in the Delancey street station house as & fitting compliment for hig little exploit, and Fi had her wounds dressed by @ police surgeon, alter which she was conveyed to her home tn @ daugerous _oynditiop. if Kean loa Leslie will swings