The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1871, Page 6

er NEW YORK HE | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. . FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— BaRaToa. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 334 st., between th and 6th avs.— ‘RIOBELIRU. YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bi SRE Oh tally jowery.—SREBAOH NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae SPECTACLE OF ‘Tu Biack Crook. . WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana 18th street.— Fart Heaat Nevex Won Fars Lapy—Usep Ur. LINA RDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—His Last Lnos—Mazarra. . »_ GRAND OPERA ROUSE, corner of 8th av. and 88d st.— Les Briganns. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—THr PANTOMIME OF WILLte WINKIE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. wens oF Tux HzaTs—SataN. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 80th st.—Perform- ences every afternoon and evening. — GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—VaRigty ENTER- ‘TAINMENT, SC. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATR! - Viorimé—SOLON SUINGLE. ala TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- BInTy ENTERTAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comro Vocat- tem, NEGRO Acts, £0.—THE Fink FIEND. RLoN's Doom—Ron- SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— Nucuo Minsreetsy, Fanogs, BURL RSQUES, £0. BRYANT’S NEW OPERA HOUS! ‘28d t., between 6th fend 7th avs.—Neono MINSTRELSY, CORNTRICITIRS, &C. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteen:h street—GRranp VooaL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. APOLLO HALL. corner 28th street and Broadway.— Dx. Coxny’s DionaMA OF IRELAND. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.SonNES IN ‘THE RING, ACROBATS, 40. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brook! —HOOLEr's AND Sur & Lron's MinsTees. mr BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE——Wrica, Avenks & Ware's MinsTRELS. -CAREY THE NEWs TO Mary. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— jOR AND ART. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIRNOE AND ABT. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, January 37, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Chanzy’s Army: HERawp Special Report of the Great Struggie; Map of the Battle Field of Le Mans—Operations in the North—Bourbaki’s Advance—Paris Bombarded: HERALD Special Report from the Besieging Army. 4—Proceecings m Congress—Right of Riparian Ownera—The Nathan Murder—The Rogers ly—The Methodist Muddle—Voice of the People—News from Cuba—The Alaska Seal Pishers—Shocking Case of Barbarity—General News ltems. S—The St. Domingo Project: Ben Wade and Ris Expedition in This City; Secretary Fish's Documents Relative to the Status of Dominica Before the Senate—The Pennsylvania Repub- Ucans—The Massachusetts Senatorship—News from South America—Lecture of Dr. McCosh— Crime in the City—News from the Pacific Coast—War on American Fishermen. @—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Bombard- ment of Paris—The War—The End at Hana— The Mexawp's News Victories"—Amusement Annéuncements. ‘7—Edrials (Continued trom Sixth Page)—Paris mbarded—Inside the Doomed City—The ype and the Church—The Cross of Geneva— ¢ The European Oongress—Views of the Past— Business Notices. 8—-The Loss of the Saginaw: Statement of the Sole Survivor of the Gigs Crew—Political In- telligence—The Taylor Will Case—Rulloff, the Binghamton Murderer: Facts Connected with the Killing of his Wife and Child—The New Steamship Alexandria—Bankruptcy : Impor- tant Decision Affecting the Right of Appeal— Admiralty: Important to Shipmasters and Towboat Owners—Meeting of the Board of As- sistant Aldermen Yesterday, @—Proceedings in the Courts—Important to Real Estate Owners—Financial and Commercial Reports—Journalistic Notes—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. 10—The State Capitali—News from Washington— Smith’s Silver: Hank, of the Mohawk Valley, and that Service of Plate—Amusements—Ship- ping Intelligence—Advertisements. 1—Advertisements. ‘32—Advertisements, Van Seyator Assort, of North Carolina, is ‘very strongly opposed to general amnesty. Since Vance has been elected to succeed him the believes the rebels never will be truly loyal. > Four New Georgia Mempers have been admitted to the House, three of them demo- erats and the other a blacker republican than Revels. If this is the best that the radicals ean get out of the most reconstructed State of ‘all, is it worth their while bothering with re- construction any further? PrestipENtT GRANT is to visit Philadelphia to-day to settle that vexatious question of a Pennsylvania member of the Cabinet. Some- thing must be done to keep these Pennsyi- vania people quiet, and we do not think that Geary or Forney would be too much of an in- fiction to secure that blessed end. F GENERAL SoHENCK declines a banquet ten- @ered him by his friends in Cincinnati prior to his departure on his mission to Great Britain, in consequence of some blunder in the arrange- ments, It is a pity more blunders ofthe same | kind do not occur in the same relatien. ‘This system of toasting and feasting men sud- denly elevated to important positions is more worthy of being honored in the breach than in the observance. S NortH Carotina still There is a gang of outlaws, it geems, in Robeson county who keeps the citi- gens continually in a state of terror. On Saturday a. man named Taylor was shot and killed by a squad of these, while a company of federal troops were only two hundred yards distant. The murderers escaped. There ‘geome to be ne remedy for this dreadful state of affairs, exeept the arming of citizens and a general hunting down of the assassins. Newspaper Exterpriss.—Some of our con- temporaries have been making a great cele- ‘bration ever their enterprise and expenditure in special news frem the fertile fields of French war, and yet our own outlay in particular feature of special cable tele- from Frenge within the last few weeks exceeded the outlay for the same purpose ‘all other papers in this city combined. We we paid out a sum that would be a rich Inceme for some of the princes and archdukes the German States—the Holsteins and Bi ngens and so forth, and half a dozen smaller principalities of Europe. In we have given whole pages of specials Europe almost every day. If our self- contemporaries doubt that we have more than all the city papers combined, to have them consult the books of the h office, which will show the actual ery journal io the city. The Bombardment of Paris—The War— The End at Hand—The Herald’s News Victorios. The end is athand. The readers of the HERALD who, from the lifting of the curtain, have followed through our columns, from day to day, the progress of this terrible drama in France, will fully comprehend the meaning of this brief announcement. It means that heroic Paris, with the terrors, as of a rain of fire and thunderbolts from the heavens, super- added to the pressure of famine and the hopelessness of sorties and outside relief, is at the point when she must choose capitulation or destruction. It means that at any moment now we may get the mews by the cable, our lightning conductor across the water at the bottom of the sea, that Paris has surrendered, with the three or four hundred thousand armed men within her encircling walls and fortifications, and that this overwhelming col- lapse will be the end of the war. We say the end of the war, because, from the movements of all her outside forces to rescue Paris, it is evident that France in this struggle has staked everything upon Paris, and that Paris is France. The fall of Paris will add to the three hundred and fifty thousand French soldiers held now as prison- ers by Germany not less, from all accounts, than three hundred thousand more, assuming that Trochu, whatever he may still attempt, will fail to break the enclosing German wall of frowning cannon and bristling bayonets. Thus, with the loss of Paris France will be deprived of the strength, including her best generals, of say six hundred and fifty thousand of her best soldiers, held as prisoners of war, and of at least two hundred thousand killed, wounded and otherwise disabled since July. How, then, with Paris gone and all its warlike materials, can France, shorn of eight hundred and fifty thousand of her fighting men—how can she continue the fight against the undi- minished legions of disciplined Germans upon her soil? As it is, all the French armies, on every side, operating for the relief of Paris have been baffled and throwma back or de- feated and dispersed. Chanzy’s overthrow at Le Mans is a sort of Waterloo in itself; and, from all appearances, only a timely retreat to some distant or otherwise secure shelter will save Faidherbe, Bourbaki and Garibaldi from the misfortune of Chanzy. But, again; the capitulation of Paris will enable Von Moltke to reinforce the German armies operating in the west, north, south and east of France to the extent of at least two hundred and fifty thousand veteran troops. This is doubttess understood, even by Gam- betta, who has been prosecuting this war as a bold adventurer, who has nothing to lese from continued war and sothing to expect from peace. Hence his desperate efforts to prolong the struggle, reckless of the consequences to Paris and to France. We believe, however, that Trochu is more the patriot than Gambetta, and that when it is made manifest to him that further resistance is useless and worse than useless, he will, in a self-sacrificing spirit of patriotism, humanity and common sense, surrender the city to save it and its people from death and destruction. Meantime the bombardment of Paris goes on day and night. The surroundings of the city are in ruins or in flames. Explosive bolts of iron, of over two hundred pounds in weight, howling like demons in their destructive flight, are plunging down through the humblest roofs and grandest domes in the heart of the doomed metropolis. It is the bombardment of Strasbourg ten times magnified. In its destructive projectiles, and in the war- like engines and forces employed, it dwarfs all precedents of modern or ancient times. The remorseless siege and destruction of Car- thage, we do not forget, Involved the extinc- ton ofa gréat nation and a great people; nor will the intelligent reader fail to recall the appalling loss of human life—eleven hun- dred thousand souls involved in the siege and burning of Jerusalem by Titus; nor do we overlook the sacking and buroing of Rome by Alaric; but neither Babylon, Tyre, Jerusalem, Carthage or Rome, furnishes anything in the horrors of war more shocking to the Christian humanitarian of the nineteenth century than this horrible bombardment of Paris, with its blind and indiscriminate killing and mangling of soldiers and non-combatants, the strong and the helpless, men, women and children. Yet this is modern war, with ‘‘all the modern improvements.” As the historian of passing events, however, it is the province of a great journal to record them faithfully and witbout flinching. This duty in our daily reports of this war, as of our war with Mexico, and of the European revolutions of 1848-9, and the war in the Crimea, and the war in Italy and the Schleswig-Holstein war, and the war of our great rebellion, and the war of the French occupation of Mexico, and the war between Prussia and Austria, and the marvel- lous campaign of Napier's Abyssinian expe- dition, and the war in Paraguay, and the revo- lution in Spain, and as in our reports of various other wars, isa duty which, regardless of expense and labor, we have faithfully endeavored todo. We undertake to say, too, that the future historian of this Franco-German war will find more reliable materials in the contemporaneous files of the New York Heratp for his work than in any other public journal of the time, from the beginning to the end, Take, for example, the graphic letter of our special cerrespondent at Strasbourg, describ- ing the complete equipment and the imposing appearance of the magnificent army column of MacMahon of fifty thousand men as it marched out of that strong frontier city to meet the enemy. Take, next, our correspon- dent's letter describing the battle, and the ghastly field of the battle of Woerth and the rout of MacMabon, which changed at once Napoleon’s march to Berlin to a German movement for Paris, and we have two very important points of the beginning of this war so broadly covered by our despatches as to give the key to all the French disasters that have followed. Indeed, in our specials, from Prim’s disastrous nomi- nation of the courageous Hohenzollern as King of Spain to this bombardment of Paris, the Heratp furnishes a history of this war more interesting than any future historian will be able to give, with all the official materials from both armies at his command. Look at our daily special despatches by the cable, sometimes covering a pace of this of dollars from day to day, and the reader will understand the secret of the Hgraun's still enlarging popularity. We not only furnish our American contemporaries a large propor- tion of their mest valuable news despatches, but much information of European events to European journals. Meanwhile our columns will answer for us that we are first in the field and first from the field with the news of any important event or movement in our own country or continent, Our editorial opinions, too, of the drift, tendencies and probable consequences of pass- ing events, and of soeial, religious, industrial, financial, political, diplomatic and military movements in the four quarters of the globe, are drawn from experience, research and care- ful analysis, and free from party or sectarian entanglements. Thus, independent of party influences on all sides, we are free to deal with facts as we find them, and so the HzRALp has given and gives not only an unbiassed history of this war, but a dispassionate judgment as between the. two great nationalities and all other parties concerned in it or in its far- reaching consequences. The fall of Paris is near at hand, and this event, we think, will be the end of the war and the begianing of the The Military Situation in France=The End Approaching. All that looked so bright and promising for France but a few short weeks ago is now changed to gloom and darkness. Patiently Paris awaited the armies which were organ- izing in the provinces for the relief of the capital; patiently the Parisians suffered the pangs of hunger, while the forces throughout the nation were preparing to succor them ; patiently rested the vast army inside the walls of the doomed city, but ‘earnestly longing for the day when the appearance of the tricolor outside would be the signal for a grand sortie en masse of the imprisoned army to cut its way out, effect a junction with the forces which had come to the rescue, and then united make a grand struggle for the liberation of France ; but patience and hope have alike been wasted in vain, and France to-day lies more prostrate than ever beneath the victorious banner of the Germans. Though the fight has not yet been fought to the bitter end, it is evident that it is fast draw- ing toaclose. The same heroism, animated by the same spirit, at an earlier stage of the war might have saved the French nation the humiliation it must neces- sarily undergo in order to Satisfy the German Kaiser. Not throughout the whole history of the campaign have we read of such determined resistance on the part of the French as that which occurred in the two days’ battle before Le Mans, the par- ticulars of which we have been enabled to lay before our readers from the pen of a HERALD correspondent, who was present during the battles. Chanzy’s army behaved like veterans, Considering its recent orgaization and the forces to which it was opposed its efficiency was almost marvellous. For two days it fought with terrible earnestness, yielding posi- tions only after the German vete- rans of the Red Prince had paid heavy forfeitures of valuable lives, and even when night closed onthe second day’s struggle the French, though beaten, held a line of battle ready to renew the conflict on the forthcoming day. Night came, but with it came not rest. Under the cover of darkness the German legions moved on the unprepared French, panic ensued, and then commenced the retreat in earnest of the French Army of the Loire. Falling back, pursued by the Ger- mans, the French retired from the field. It was no rout, however; but what condition Chanzy’s army is in for further operations we are not yet prepared to say; but certain it is that some time must elapse ere it can again resume the offensive, and in the time thus re- quired for reorganization the cause of France may be lost and Paris be in the hands of the German King. While the armies of Prince Frederick Charles and General Chanzy were ma- neeuvring in front of each other General Faidherbe in the north was inactive. Since the battle of Bapaume Faidherbe hes done nothing up to the present time. Now we hear he is again moving, but what he intends to accomplish, now that Chanzy has been beaten, it is not quite clear. Had he been active two weeks ago, had he attempted something daring, he might have prevented reinforcements from being forwarded to aid the Red Prince in his operations against the Army of the Loire. Twenty-five thousand men less on the German side in the recent batiles might have turned the scale at Le Mans. It is now too late, and Faidherbe can accomplish nothing. Passing from the fields of operations in the southwest and in the north to the east we find that Bourbaki is working with extraor- dinary energy to create a diversion in the Vosges. Success rewards him, but we feel satisfied that it is too late, even though he has been successful to the full measure of success the contest seems almost hopeless. The tragedy is almost finished, the climax approaches, and the present movements of the contending forces in France seem but as the groupings previeus to the fall of the curtain, Our SpeciaL Trixrckarh Letrers FROM Evropr—Quick Work sy Ezxocrriciry.— The two special telegraph letters from Berlin which we publish to-day, on the subjects of the European Congress in London and report- ing Count Bismarck’s indictment, by official circular, of the French republic for violations of the usages of war, were written in the Prussian capital yesterday morning, tele- graphed to London, forwarded by our agent to the office of the cable company, and thence transmitted by the ocean wire to New York. The letter despatches reached the Hrratp Building in the forenoon and appear verbatim in our columns this morning, having made the circuit in a space of time less than one day by many hours. The shade of Puck is almest beatified. The American people will be pleased with our enterprise. Enough ! Hoy. Henry Witson has been substan- tially re-elected to the Senate by a. caucus of the Massachusetts Legislature. He and Sum- ner have been Senators continuously for the last sixteen or eighteen years. Massachusetts, unlike the Henry Wilson of thirty years ago, seems determined to stick to her last paper and costing us hundreds and thousands | Deatmetion Within the Walle ceived at half-past nine on Friday evening in London, which announced that a destructive rain of projectiles—some of them weighing ninety-six kilograms, or one hundred and niety-two pounds—was pouring into that por- tion of Paris lying between the Hotel des Inva- lides and the Odéon. Donbtless the zone of destruction has ere this been enlarged se as to include the whele of the Faubourg St. Ger- main and the Quartier Latin and much of the vicinity of those historical places. Even these had net escaped the transformations wrought by Haussmann, but most of their monuments were reserved for the more terri- ble ravages to which they are now exposed. If it be true that a shell has already struck the gilded dome of the Hotel des Invalides, the wish of Napeleen the First that his ashes “may repose on the banks of the Seine,” has beem strangely annulled by the Prussians. Not only is the Hotel des Invalides under fire—with its costly imperial tomb and its church, with all the banners taken by the French in their wars with other nations, and its gallery with its plans of the principal forti- fied cities of France and of the battle of Lodi and the siege of Rome—but so are also a multi- tude of churches and hospitals and palaces and colleges and public libraries and museums apd railway” ‘stations and dwelli 8, belonging alike to the memorable past and the living present. A bare enumeration of the more interesting objects on which the iron hail of war is now falling within the walls of Paris would fill columns of the Hzratp. There are the hotels of the old nodlesse of the Faubourg St. Ger- main, more or less faithful to the elder branch of the Bourbon family throughout all vicissi- tudes since the great revolution; the hotels of the Rue de Lille, the Rue de Varenne, the Rue de Grenoble, the Rue St. Dominique and the rest—grim enough outside, but imposing and sumptuous within and boasting still of spacious gardens, but nearly all at present deserted. There are palaces—the Palais du Corps Législatif, the Palais de la Legion d’Honneur, the Palais du Quai d’Orsay, the Palais de l'Institut, the Palais des Beaux Arts, the Palais du Luxem- bourg and what remains of the Palais des Thermes, ‘with the splendid Museum adjacent, the Musée de Cluny et du Moyendge, rich in medieval art treasure, the loss of which could never be replaced. TRE Then there are many other museums withitt the “zone of destruction"—the Museum of Artillery; the Museum of the Manufactory of the Gobeling, with its unrivalled tapestries ; the Musée Dupnytren; the Museum of Natural History at the Garden of Plants, and the Museum of the Works of Living French Artists at the Luxembourg Palace. Notwith- standing the telegraphic despatch which says that these precious works have been destroyed, we are unwilling to believe that the precaution of removing them to a place of safety, accord- ing to an intention announced by the Paris authorities nearly three months ago, has been neglected. Beyond the delightful garden of the Luxem- bourg rises the Observatory, founded by the famous Colbert, and dear to astronomers from the days of Cassini to those of Arago and Leverrier. Not far from the same garden are the numerous colleges, lyceums and schools which, either connected or not with the Uni- versity of France, have contributed so largely to place the French nation at the head of in- tellectual progress, The Sorbonne is occu- pied by three of the Faculties of the Uni- versity, theology, literature and the sciences. The Ecole de Médecine and the Ecole de Dreit are devoted to the other two Faculties, medicine and law. Besides these there are the Collége of France, the Ecole Normale, the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole de Mines, the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, and many other special schools, together with several Lyceums, such as the Louis-le-Grand, the St. Louis and the Napoleon, formerly Henri [V. Among the great public libraries now liable to be destroyed by as barbarous a fire as that which burned the old Alexandrian library, must be specially named the Mazarine and the St. Génevieve, to say nothing of the invaluable aggregate of book wealth com- posed by the libraries of the various collezes in the Quartier Latin. There are, moreover, the hospitals—the Hopital de la Charité, the Hépital da Midi, the Hopital des Cliniques, the Hépital for the Blind, the Hospital for the Deaf and Dumb, and, to enumerate no others in the long list of civil hospitals, the world-renowned Foundling Hospital. Foremost among the military hos- pitals is the Hopital du Val-de-Grace, with its ancient church, the corner stone of which was laid in 1645 by Louis XIV., and which is clustered richly with proud and tender his- torical reminiscences. Among the other churches in this doomed portion of Paris we need only mention St. Germain-des-Prés, St. Etienne-du-Mont, with its exquisite gallery; St. Sulpice, with its two dissimilar towers; St. Thomas d’Aquin, Ste. Génevieve, or the Panthéon, and that elegant modern edifice, Ste. Clotilde, to show how rich it is in ecclesiastical associations, which are now being desecrated. With the Odcoa, the second Théatre Fran- cais, we must not forget the little theatre of the Bobino, so full of lively memories for a whole generation of é¢udiants and ¢tudiantes, nor the closerie des Lilas, close by the place where Ney was shot. Finally, the railway stations for Sceaux and Versailles, rive gauche, are directly in the range of the terrible storm of destruction which is now falling within the walls of Paris. Tar Leaistature.—No business of local interest was transacted in the Legislature yes- terday, except the introduction of a bill in the Assembly to repeal the Experimental Railway act in this city, thus knocking the elevated railroad of Greenwich street eff its last leg and kicking out all its supporting crutches. The Election Committee heard argu- ments in the Twombly-Carey contest, Tom Fields having called fer an early report, while the confident republican mem- bers were enjoying themselves at Henry Smith’s little testimenial dinner in New York, thus springing a trap upon the minority whieh may settle the contested case very summarily. Majorities are whittled down to such a fine point now that no member caa take his dinner with the certain conviction that he is not dolng irceparable ipiucy tq bia vecty, ef the Church and War in Eurepe. A special correspondent of the HzRaLp in Rome supplies the vety interesting and attractive letter which apptars in our columns from the Holy City to-day. This communi- cation is of much importance also, for it speaks of many serious events from a grand centre of information, and by the tongue and lips of a man who is, to 4 very considerable extent, the moving power of that centre—his Eminence Cardinal Antondlli. The Hzrarp writer, dating In Rome on the 8th inst., for- warded his narrative to London by mail. From the English capital it was telegraphed specially through the cable to New York. Our representative in the Eternal City had just visited the Palace of the Vatican. He was accorded a friendly personal audience by the Cardinal Secretary ef State of his Holi- ness. Rome remained unaltered near to the residence of the Pontiff. The street scene was almost the same as in former years. Quiet prevailed inside the doors of the palace. Unawed, perhaps unmoved, by the tumults of the outside world—by ‘‘wars and the rumor of wars"—the dwelling of the Pope, the very essential seat to which ‘‘the orphans of the heart” turn for consolation, presented little ghange. There were Swiss Guards at the door and on the grand staircase, ushers both lay and clerical, well disciplined servants, a priestly major domo and polite attention. The HERALD correspondent, cognizant pre- viously of the routine etiquette, advanced rapidly, Cardinal Antonelli received him, as will be seen by our special report, in the most cordial manner. The Cardinal was at once animated and unrestrained in his manner and conversation. He spoke of many topics, passing in his naturally happy manner of re- mark from ‘‘grave to gay, from lively to se- vere.” He appeared rejoiced at having been afforded an opportunity of forwarding a mes- sage of Pontifical thanks to the congregations in America for the Catholic condolence and material aid which they have already afforded to the Holy Father. He sends it through our columns. Of the Roman question the Cardi- nal does not think it will be satisfactorily settled until after the close of the Franco- Prussian war. Of this terrible and destruc- tive struggle he says that it should have terminated at Sedan, and that Prussia com- mitted a ‘‘mistake” in refusing such an issue. Thy Gurginat hag @ poor opinion of the men whd i W. tule France. Holiness the Pope enjoys exéellent hea! th.” “Under the influences ef a contented mind and regular daily exercise the Pontiff shows forth the mens sana in corpore sano. Cardinal Aato- nelli described some of the most exciting scenes which were witnessed on the occasion of the recent inundation of a portion of the city of Rome, setting forth the prompt and charitable action of the Pope and the ready invention and orderly conduct of the citizens for the relief of the sufferers. The Cardinal referred, as if casually, to the Italian occupa- tion of Rome. He said that that event had caased him so much additional labor that he Was prevented from accompanying the Pope in his daily walk in the garden of the Vatican during the past three months, with the excep- tion of one occasion. Volatile in tempera- ment, as a pure Italian, his Eminence closed the conversation with a few well-timed plea- santries, conducted our correspondent to the door with the most suave politeness, and bade him the ‘‘vale” ‘“‘vale” in a tone which charac- terized the Christian priest and accomplished gentleman. The French Envoy to the Congress. M. Jules Favre bas addressed a letter to the European Powers in reply to Earl Gran- ville’s circular, inviting the French govern- London ment to commission an envoy to the London Conference on the Black Sea navigation question, and the proposed revision of the Treaty of Paris of 1856. M. Favre is placed in a position of very peculiar difficulty. He is willing to attend the meeting of the plenipotentiaries in London, being convinced of the fact that the absence of France from the assemblage will, in the technicalities of European diplomacy, invali- date the entire proceedings of the body. But M. Favre is in Paris. Paris is closely invested by the Prussian army and just now under fire of King William’s guns. M. Favre is forced, consequently, to sigh, somewhat after the fashion of Yorick’s startling ‘I can't get out! I can’t out!” United States Minister Washburne has tendered his services to obtain him a pass and safe conduct through the Prussian lines, but, as he alleges, ‘the Ger- mans fire on flags of truce.” So what with the bombardment of their big guns and his dread of danger from their small arms M. Favre fears that he must remain just where he is, and lose the opportunity of furnishing mat- ter for ‘some future Livy” to tell of what timely services he may have rendered to his country. The matter of the Congress appears sur- rounded with difficulties even to-day. One thing is becoming more evident, however, that {nternational ‘‘red tape” does not tend to unite nations in the bond of international sin- cerity. Fear or distrust ‘admitted into pub- lic councils betrays like treason.” So spake Cato inthe Roman Senate in the face of a common danger, and the words are applicable to the situation which exists in Europe today. Saegripan’s “Rive” i Evrorg.—A special Heracp telegram from Florence, forwarded by way of London and through the cable yester- day, informs us that Major General Sheridan, of the United States Army, had just been en- tertained at a royal banquet given in his honor at the Pitti Palaee of the old capital of the nation. Rumor was active, even in diplomatic circles, on the subject of the object of the European tour of the General, particularly as to his visit to Florence. Thepreseat conclusion was to the effect that he journeyed in the in- terests of peace, with the intent of appealing to the great neutrals in favor of a powerful mediation betwoen Prussia and Fiance for the termination of the war. Who knows? The General is already famous as a peacemaker. Tuat Preotovs Canrat, who was 80 opposed to the sale of Dominica by Baez, it appears from documents in the State Depart- ment, once tried to sell it himself. Such people ought not have a couatry to eell, It ought to be aonexeds Conaress Yesterday—Genoral Amnesty~The Asylum for Disabled Soldiers—The Air Line allroad Bill—The Brooks and Hastings § Controversy—Tolegraph Cable Legislation. Senator Trumbull made a fruitless effort yes- terday to impress the Senate with the neces- sity and goed policy of passing a General Amnesty bill, excluding only persons who come within a certain classification, instead of constantly peddling out pardons in special cases. He offered to withdraw opposition to one of these special bills if the Senate would agree that this would be the last of them; but he could not get assent to that proposition, and the matter went over withoutaction. The question of converting the agylums for disabled soldiers into political headquarters for which- ever party happens to be in power was also discussed indefinitely yesterday on a bill ceding back to the State of Obio jurisdiction over the grounds belonging to the, National Asylum at Dayton, The usual claptrap about disfranchising the poor soldier was indulged in; but the very worst use he can be put to is to be made the tool of the politicians. Let the war-wora veteran spend the evening of his days in peace, unvexed and uncon- taminated by politics, Monday is the great day in the House of Representatives for the introduction of bills of leave and their reference to committees, It is a sort of weekly seed day, when all manner of things are sown broadcast, of which very little is ever expected to germinate, and probably the less the better. The usual quantity was thrown into the furrows yesterday, none of it, however, deserving special notice or attention. The Air Line Railroad bill had a slight airing, the House having voted, by one hundred and fourteen to seventy-eight, to allow it to be introduced, and then, the question belog on its passage, the morning hour expired and the bill went over till next Monday. Four Repre- sentatives from Georgia, one of them a bright, likely mulatto, were admitted without ques- tion or discussion, and were so much added to the aggregate wisdom of the national councils. That ever-vexed question of the cartage ays tem of the New York Custom House came ¥Pe in the shape of a resolution, offered by Mr. Sunset Cox, which was referred to the Com- mittee of Ways and Means. The controversy between Mr. James Brooks, of the Hapress aud House of Representatives, and Mr. Hugh Hastings, of the Commercial Advertiser, created a slight breeze inthe House through the presentation of a memorial of Mr. Hast- ings denying the authenticity of that famous Albany affidavit, and claiming that, as it was a fair stand-up editorial, political and per- sonal fight, the House should not interfere, but let the combatants fight it out in the courts and in their newspapers. Mr. Laflin, who presented the memorial, moved its reference to the select committee appointed on the sub- ject, with instructions to make a preliminary report as to the propriety of proceeding with the investigation. The House refused to vote such instructions, and simply referred the me- morial to the committee, which commences its labors to-day. The subject on which the ntost noise was made in the House yesterday was that relating to ocean telegraph cable legislation. On Mon- day of last week a concurrent resolution was passed, without special attention being called to It, referring all bills, resolutions and peti- tions on the subject to a special joint com- mittee of both Houses. When, subsequently, the discovery was made, there was no parliamentary means of reconsidering the action taken; but yesterday Mr. Banks moved to suspend the rules and to adopt a concurrent resolution rescinding that of the previous Monday. In the discus- sion that ensued he intimated that the motive for taking the question away from the Com- mittee on Foreign Affaira, which had already considered it and had reported a general bill on the subject, was because that committee had decided against reporting in favor of sub- sidies to any of these cable companies, The House refused to suspend the rules and to adopt the rescinding resolution, but imme- diately afterwards it did suspend the rules to enable the Committee on Foreign Affairs to report a general bill relating to tele- graphic communication between the United States and foreign countries, and this bill was immediately passed, without discus- sion and without division, Mr. Butler, of Mas- sachusetts, making a vain and futile effort to interpose opposition. This bill, which we publish in our report of the Congressional pro- ceedings, establishes the conditions,’ stipula- tions and reservations to which cable lines connecting the United States with foreign countries shall be subject, and giving the con- sent of Congress to the establishment of such lines as will accept those conditions. It makes no subsidies or special grants, but throws the business open to all competitors. This is the true rule—the principle of free trade as against monopolies. Bismarck’s Circular on the Usages of Civi- lized War. Some time ago, it will be remembered, a certain subordinate of Jules Favre, by name Chaudourdy, protested ina public document against the barbarous practices of the Ger- mans in this war. His charges were sweep- ing, and, if based on fact, justifiable. It was felt at the time that Bismarck must reply. In this morning's issue we print Count Bis- marck’s reply, sent by special telegraph to the New York Herarp. In the midst of our en- terprise, which we gladly go through for the benefit of the American public and in the in- terest of American journalism, we must regard. this circular as fairly entitled to a prominent place. It is quite manifest that Ceunt Bis- marck felt the sting which was given Germany by reviving such names as Goth and Vandal and Hun, and such like. The Count, as will be seen, makes a good case, He does not deny that unkind, cruel things may have been committed by the German sol- diery; but he gives not unreasonable excuses for violence and apparent transgression of | international law. As against France he makes stinging charges. In twenty-one instances the French have fired upon men bearing flags of truce. At Woerth the French used explosive bullets, Explosive bullets were found in large numbers: in Strasbourg. Tho Germans, if the Count spookg (rash. never wed euch weapons of Wary