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— NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. SANNA ARAN JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LINA EDWIN’s THEATRE, 720 Broadway.--HuntTED Down ; On, THE TWo LivE Many or Laren. Matinee. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corn ne of 8tb av. ana 28d #t.— La Prxiono.e. Matinee at OLYMPIC THEATRE, Rroadway.—THE PANTOMIME OF ‘Weer Witte Winkie. Matinee at 2 BOWERY SHRATER. Bowery..-Tnk PANTOMIME OF SEE Saw. Matinee at WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 8b at.- ‘ences every afternoon and evening. Perform: GLOBE THEATRE, 7% Broadway.—Vaciury ENTER. TAINMENT, &0. Matinee at 29. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—SREBace AS GRETOHEN-MARGUERITE. FIFTH AVENUE 5) ma Twenty-fourth street.— SaBaTOGA. Matinee at 1. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 884 st, between th ana 6th ava.— RICHELIEU. Matinee at 13. NIBLO'S GARDEN, poonews .—THE SPECTACLE OF ‘Tax Biack CRooK. Matinee at 139. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broatway ana 13th street.— ‘Tae Pook GENTLEMAN. Inee—OURS. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THBATRE, Brooklya.— SoLon Surseue—Live INpiaN. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—PaiLmaRMoNto Concrrr. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—A GaRanp Vanrery ENTERTAINMENT. oStzinwar HALL, Fourteenth street-—-Granxp Con- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- RBin1y ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 24. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vooat- IkM, NEGRO AC76, 40.—THE FIRE FIEND. Matinee at 254. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broaaway.— Neowo MINSTRELSY, Fanoes, BURLESQUES, £0. BRYANT’S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 st., between 6th and 7th ays.—NEGHO MixsTueLsY, BookNtRioitiEs, £0. APOLLO HALL. corner 8th street and Broadway.— Dm. Coxny'’s Diokama or InzLanp. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—SoENTS LN THE RING, AcROuATS, do. Matinee at 234. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—HOOLEY's AND KELLY & Leon's MINSTRELS. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE——Wercn. Avonrs & Warrr’s MINSTRELS. CARRY THE NEWS TO Many. ASSOCIATION HALL, S3d sireet and 4th av.—GRAND Conorrt. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIENOE AND ART. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Brondway.— SOMNOE AND ABr. WITH ‘SUPPLE MENT “New Yor York, Saturday, January 2S, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY's BERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisementa. 2—Advertisementa. 3—The State Capital: Proceedings of the Legis- jJature—An Awful Accident : Demolition of the Brooklyn Gas Works—Fashionable Life at the National Capital—Proceedings in Congress— Pire in Fortleth Street—The Church Street Pire—Aid for the French Sufferers—Music and the Drama—State Legislatures—Massachusetts ltems—The Nation’s Wards—Billiaras—An- other “Image” in Sing Sing Prison—Supposed Arson in Westchester—South America—Phila- delphia Intelligence—The Southern Asylum for Diseased Soldiers—Poisoned in a Hospital. 4—Editoriais: Leadin; erry “Paris and france— The Republic of 1793 and the Republic of 1870-71""— Personal Intelligeuce—Amusement Announcements. S—Tie War in France: HeraLp Special Reports from Versailles, Bordeaux, Saarbruck, Berlin and Vienna—Revoit in Paris—A’ Prison Stormed by a Mob—Kelease of Red Repu lican Prisoners—The Impending Capituiation of the City—Operations in the North and East of France—Interview of a HERALD Correspondent with Gambetta—General War Report on the Canadian Fisher Theodore Thomas’ Symphony of the Past—Business Notices. @—The Taylor Will Case : Strong Testimony for the Proponents—Madame Jumel—Women’s Suf- frage—Tne Mysterious Murder in Memphis, Tenn,—Juvenile Jack Sheppard—The Condi- Uon of Mr, Watson—rinancial and Commercial Reports—Marniages and Deaths. '7— Advertisements, S—The Haggerty Homicide—The Camden (N. J.) Parricide—The Casey Habeas Corpus Case— Naval Intelligence—The Death of Wellington— Singular Case of Hydrophobia—New York and Brooklyn Courts—A Jail Jumper—Another Erie Railroad Suit—Trhe Alabama ana Chatianooga Ratiroad—The Murderer Rulloff a Horse Tnief—General News Iterus—Personal Notes—Ex-President Pierce’s Monument. @—News from Europe—The Freed Femans: Arrival of the Russia with Reinforcements of the Exties—aAfter the Snow Storm—New York City News—Voice of the People- A Shocking Story—The Gallows: Execution of Charles Jolly, Jr., and John Armstrong, the Murderers of the Lepine Family—The American Bankers in Paris, 10—Hanion tne Murderer—Boston Sports—The Tidal Wave—News frem Washington—The Pennsylvania Coal Miners’ Strike—News from Advertisements, jonceri—Views Cuba—Snipping Intel!tgenc Two Youne Desperavoxs of eighteen were captured on Thursday night while committing a burglary in a dry goods store on Canal street, and one of them attempted to shoot bis captor. Would it not be well to make a raid on the Fagins who teach these young villains the business? Tae Haccrrry Inquest was continued yesterday, and the evidence taken was cor- roborative of the facts as previously pub- lished. Varley was admitted to bail in $5,000. There appears to be no doubt that Varley has got to the windward of the law, and fortified himself safely bebind the plea of self-defence. Tae Szconp instalment of Fenian exiles arrived by the Russia yesterday, and were received by the Tammany committee and escorted to Sweeny’s Hotel, where the first arrivals are now staying. The new comers are nine in number. The arrangements for the grand reception ceremonial, postponed at the request of O'Donovan Rossa, will now pro- bably be made at an early day. — Tue Lxaistative Cope oF ARKANSAS has been greatly improved since ithe war. A contestant for a seat in the State Senate made a strong speech against all his political opponents in that body recently, and was upheld by the Lieutenant Governor, who, in fact, took active part in the tumultuous discussion that ensued. Most extraordinary epithets were tossed about, and yet there was no bowie knife or pistol business, and we have not yet heard of any preparations being made for the traditional duel with knives in a dark room. 2 RINSE See Tue Gas Works AccipENT IN Brooxiyx.— The singular disaster which occurred at the Brooklyn Gas Works yesterday is the third serious mishap at that establishment (not counting the murder which Owen Hand com- mitted there some time ago), and such an aggregation of accidents is enough to make the people of the*neighborhood uneasy. One goan was killed by the falling of the huge iron eolumns supporting the tanks, yesterday, the entire works were rfearly demolished, the loss financially being placed at $200,000, and the citizens in the vicinity, frightened at the near pessibility of an explosion, tovk indiscrimi- nately to flicht. try See ah Ne aba A ae wR din ola) Dee, | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1871—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Paris and France—The Republic of 1793 and the Republic ef 1870-71. We are expecting now from hour to heur the news of the fall of Paris, the most imposing and impressive of all the astounding events of this gigantic war, the decisive triumph to the arms of Germany and the crowning disaster to France. Incom- prehensible as the facts appear, it is still true that Paris, enclosed first by a strong military wall, strengthened by outside entrenchments, Innettes and redoubts, and next by an exterlor circle of the strongest modern fortifications, and with the city and its defences occupied by over three hundred thousand fighting men, has still been held for four months so tightly in the iron grasp of Germany as to fail in every sortie on every side to break the Ger- man line, while every outside movement for her relief from the French provincial armies of three hundred and fifty thousand men has met with disastrous dofeats, until imperial Paris, the heart and soul of France, exhausted by famine and reduced to despair, is about to repeat the humiliations of Sedan, Strasbourg and Metz— ; Fallea, fallen, fatlen— Palen from her high estate. Is this the proud, imperial Paris, or is this the mighty France whose resistless legions, under the “‘Little Corporal,” went forth to the subjugation of Europs? No; it is not the Paris or France of the first empire and the firat republic, but another Paris and a different France. Nor is the Germany of 1870-71 the Germany so frequently and remorselessly overran and cut up and par- celled out among his family and his satellites by the first Napoleon. We see it now that France, in her military elements, spirit and capabilities, has been declining since the Continental peace of 1815, and that Germany, under the example of Prussia, has since that day been growing and developing as a mili- tary power, with “all the modern improve- ments,” and particularly in that most impor- tant of all, the universal education of her children. We began to see this new German side of the picture in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, though Louis Napoleon thought it was the needle-gun, and, later, that his Chassepot was more than a match for it. We had, how- ever, no conception of the military decline of France until startled by the crushing defeat at Woerth of that magnificent Frei h depenst army column of Marshal MacMahon. What, then, are the causes of this military decadence of France? They are partly due to the advantages of the military system of Prussia and Germany as compared with that of the second French empire ; but there are other causes affecting France to her founda- tions which may be traced to her great revolu- tion of 1789. Down to that revolution the French peasantry and the masses of the French people were hardly, in fact, above the con- dition of Russian serfs, The lands, under the remains of the old feudal system, throughout the State were held by the State and its nobles and cultivated by the peasantry, practically as serfs, They were emancipated by the revolu- tion of ’89; and then, after the confiscations of the domains of the crown and the nobles, in the new distribution of the lands, began that subdivision or parcelment of great estates into small farms to which France is indebted for her present system of small farms owned by her peasantry. It was from the inspiration of this emancipation and lifting up of the French peasantry that the armies of the re public of 1793 were a match for all Europe. Then came in the great Napoleon with his imperial government, and in making secure the good work of the republic done for the peasantry, and in seizing their new military inspiration, and in transforming peasants, butchers and bakers into marshals and princes and potentates, he made the armies of France the masters of the Continent. Thus the pas- sion for milltary glory, strengthened by the substantial fruits of the republic and the Aib- eral bounties and personal ambition fostered by the empire, exalted France to the first place among the great Powers. Thus the devotion of France to the memory of Napoleon the First opened the way to the restoration of the empire under Napoleon the Third. His legend, too—‘‘The empire is peace”—was right; and, while he adhered to it it made him the arbiter of Europe. The peasantry on their little farms were satisfled with the empire and peace. It was glory enough for them. They did not want any- thing better. In the peaceful cultivation of their fields and gardens they had sure profits; in the Emperor a sure protector ; and they saw no profit in war. But all this time the loose materials of the great cities, ham- pered by despotic restrictions upon the press and speech and public meetings, and having gained nothing from the republic but ita ideas, and having nothing to gain from the empire and nothing to lose from a revolution, were on the watch for a revolt. And so it came at Paris with the catastrophe at Sedan. And here was the fatal blunder of Gambetta and Com- pany. They thought, under the republic of 1870, to revive the resistless French military spirit of the republic of 1798. But the whole face of things had been changed, and they did not see it. The republic of 1798, in the eman- cipation and exaltation of the peasantry, gave them a priceless cause to fight for—the repub- lic of 1870 promised them nothing which they cared to gain, but much which they dreaded to lose. So it is that under the last Napoleon France was not the fighting France of the first Napoleon, and so it is that under the present republic she has shown nothing of the fighting spirit of the first. Now comes the question of her future gov- ernment. If the Emperor of Germany, in casting about for a responsible French govern- ment, shall, through the imperial Chambers, broken up by Sedan, re-establish the empire, it will be apt to stick. But, whatever her government hereafter, the fature réle of France will be peace and its certain victories, and not the hazards of aggressive war. The Lon- don Confereace awaits her representa- tive. Within a few weeks, duly authen- ticated, he will be there. Then will come the readjustment of the Eastern or Black Sea question, and then, from the latest givings out, the business of the Confer- ence will be accomplished. Should this, how ever, be the end of this Conference, there wiit doubtless soon be another called to setrte the controversy between Italy and the Pope and to establish some general law for the maintenance of veacesea law, for example, requiring peremptorily the sub- mission hereafter of all quarrels among any two or more of the Powers concerned to the tribunal of a general conference, inasmuch as the new German empire holds what is called the balance of power. Meantime it is apparent that Germany, with- out the aid of a conference, will settle her fu- ture boundaries with her other accounts against France. She will settle them with France, and will meet France in the London Confer- ence to discuss only the Eastern question, and perhaps the Roman question, should Italy bring it forward. In this separate settlement between Germany and France, so inviting is the occasion, and so tempting the opportunity to recall the empire through the French imperial Legislature, dispersed on the 4th of Sep- tember, that it is among the immediate pro- babilities before us. Louis Napoleon may have had enough of the uncertainties of the French revolution makers, but still the im- pertal Regency, in the name of his son, may be established, and it may stand, too, with the return of the protecting imperial French armies from Germany. But may not Gam- betta and Company, even with the loss of Paris, still keep up the fight? We think not. We dare say that Count Bismarck has made the surrender of Gambetta and Company equivalent to a condition of the surrender of Paris, Otherwise, with the speedy extinction of Gam- betta and Company in the field, the only course left open to Germany will be the recall of the Bonapartes. The Situation in France. Owing to the activity of the HERavp’s special correspondents in Versailles, Bor- deaux, Saarbriick, Montmedy, Berlin, Vienna and London we are enabled to give our readers a thorough account ef the general situation of affairs in France to-day and to tell how the prospect is regarded in the capitals of Ger- many, Austria and England. Paris has not yet surrendered; the real import of Jules Favre's mission to Versailles has not yet been made public; Queen Augusta even knows nothing about the proceedings at the royal headquarters, and all we may anticipate in re- lation to the expected capitulation of Paris may be taken from the German Emperor him- self when he says that he “‘expects the early surrender of Paris.” Of course much specula- tion is indulged in on the subject, and that there is good ground for such speculation is evident. At the present stage of affairs, when Paris is suffering from starvation and the army within its walls i is powerless to accomplish any advan- tageous Téaiilts, it is natural enough to attri- bute to Favre’s presence at Yerss purpose of arranging the terms “ap n wi Paris would yield. The expectation, no doubt, of such a movement on the part of the leaders within the capital gave this color to the reports which appeared in the London papers; but of the true nature of M. Favre's mission to the German camp we are still uninformed. The bombardment of the city eontinues, and we think this is pretty fair evidence that nego- tiations looking to the surrender of the city have not been discussed at Versailles, and that the situation at present is as undecided as it was days back. From the Heratp’s specials in Vienna and Berlin we see that the capitulation story in those capitals, as in London, has had a marked effect, and opinions are freely canvassed and decisions arrived at, all based on the same slim foundation to which we have alluded. Paris may be on the eve of capitulation, but there is no ground, taking what we have learned regarding Favre's mission, to believe that he was sent to Versailles to offer the sur- render of the city. The tone of Gambetta, who was interviewed by a Heracp correspondent in Bordeaux on the 17th inst., and the substance of which interview we publish this morning, is still as defiant as ever. His voice is still for war; and even if Paris should surrender, he believes the war will be continued in the provinces, He declares that the war now waged against France was not brought on by the French people. It is the legacy transmitted from the empire to the republic. He goes over the old story of Napoleon’s sins against the people, and that he is a strong advocate of the never- say-die principle both his acts and words advise. The republic has half a million of men without the troops in Paris, three hundred some thousand more are ready, and if Gambetta truly represents the sentiments of the French people, which we doubt, the war will not close with the fall of Paris, The German army in the north is again pre- paring to move, and before long we may ex- pect to hear of a collision between the two forces of Faidherbe and Von Goeben. The surrender of Longwy liberated another con- siderable force of German troops which, in all probability, will be added to Von Goeben’s army. ‘ With this addition we fear for the worst results to the French when next the two armies meet. In the east Bourbaki is doing the best he can to extricate himself from a dangerous situation. A special correspondent of the HERALD says that a large German force, commanded by Manteuffel, had got in his rear. With Von Werder in his front and Manteuffel on his flank Bourbaki is left two alternatives— that of surrender or escape into Switzerland. We have another despatch, however, which says that he manceuvered so as to free himself and save his army. The situation to-day, copious as are the despatches, foreshadows no sign of sudden collapse, though the position of the French armies within and without Paris show weakness in their organization and in- competency in the officers who command them. Tar Fisaerizs QuEsTIoN dificulty between the Dominion of Canada, the citizens of the United States and the British government is likely to be settled in an agreeable manner through the efforts of the Canadian commis- sioners, who are now in London, This we are assured of by a cable telegram from Eng- land. Should the anticipation prove to be correct the intelligence is good tor the Domin- ion, good for Queen Victoria and just right and proper for the flag of the Union fishermen, Tue But to License Deve CrerKs was finally introduced in the Assembly yesterday. It proposes to abolish accidental death at the hands of incompetent and untaught boys in drug stores, and leave the killing, if any is to be done hereafter iu that way, entirely to the educated physicians, ‘The Londen Conference and the Pope. The London Conference, which has met and adjourned and done nothing, meet when it may, will be a useless affair unless it considers and tries to solve the question of the patrimony of St. Peter. It is true, the Conference is said to have resolved to confine itself to the con- sideration of the Eastern question only, and that the adjournment has taken place to allow France the opportunity of taking part. It is our opinion, however, and we gather it from the interest taken in this Papal difficulty by England, by Austria, and by Germany under her new form. As we said yesterday, Anto- nelli has been consulted by both Austria and Germany; and considering the desire which the government of King Victor Emmanuel has manifested to avoid giving unnecessary offence to the Holy Father, as well as the interest taken in the matter by Premier Gladstone, it is not unnatural to conclude that an attempt will be made to induce the Conference to undertake the solution of this troublesome question. Antonelli, it is quite clear, forgets not, neither forgives, Middle Italy, from the line of the Po to the Neapolitan frontier and from the Mediterranean tothe Adriatic, has for ages constituted the States of the Church. Up until the French invasion of 1792 the States of the Church comprised not only all this territory, but a portion of the left bank of the Po besides. The Vienna treaties re- stored to the States of the Church their an- cient limits, with the exception only that a small slice of territory on the left bank of the Po was given to the Duchy of Parma. This territory covered a surface of sixteen thou- sand square miles and numbered a population of three millions. In 1860 the States of the Church, in consequence of the Italian up- rising and through the help of France, were reduced to about one-fourth of their original bulk. All that properly belonged to the an- cient exarchate of Ravenna was wrenched from the Hely Father, Nothing en the Adriatic shores was left to him. Rome and the adja- cent provinces of Viterbo, Civita Veccbia, Velletri and Frosinone were spared. The territory was reduced to four thousand five handred and fifty-six square miles. The population was reduced to seven hundred thousand. Now all is gone. Nothing remains. Antonelli’s demand for the line of the Po and the Neapolitan frontier shows that the Papal guthorities acquiesce neither in the violefice of 1860 nor in the vio- lence of 1870. The Pope proclaims himself despoiled. It is not possible that this teryj. tory can be again restored, for that would be to cut Italy again into three slices; and the King « of Naples would not be without good Yeagon “tot Accnadhs g the restoration of his kingdom. But indemnification is not impossi- ble. The Pope, in fact, has a right to insist on indemnification. If the London Conference will not consider his claims another Confer- ence may find it necessary todoso. Ona question of so comparatively easy solution the world cannot afford to be kept in hot water. “Hank Smith,” Greeley, the Tammauy Re- publicans and General Grant. General Grant, just before our late Novem- ber election, if we are not mistaken, directed Collector Murphy to weed out the Tammany republicans from the Custom House, and ac- cordingly a good many were weeded out, but the weeding did no good in the election. The trouble was not in the Custom House so much as in the republican associations of the city, and there it still continues. For instance, at a meeting of the Republican General Commit- tee of this city the other evening, Horace Greeley in the chair, a paper was submitted from a sub-committee of the State Central Committee, embracing twelve distinct charges against this Greeley city committee of corrupt affiliations in the spoils and plunder with Tammany Hall. It is thus charged that in every one of the Assembly districts of the city democrats in the republican associations are enrolled as members; that certain republican managers are members of the Tammany Ring; that of the one hundred and fifty-nime members of the Republican General Committee in 1870 (Greeley's committee) not less than thirty held relations in the different city departments with Tammany Hall and received pay and emolu- ments frem the democratic party; that Tam- many republicans dismissed from the Custom House were provided for by Tammany Hall; that in our November election democratic tickets were issued from republicans, and so on to the end of the twelve charges. The Greeley General Committee, in answer to these charges, appointed a sub-committee to look into them, and there at present the matter rests, Here, no doubt, we get at the explanation of the recent presentation to Police Commis- sioner Smith—a popular citizen and a clever man, familiarly known as ‘‘Hank Smith”—of a mass of silver plate, exceeding in value ten thousand dollars; and. the present was made at a special dinner costing some five hundred dollars more. Smith is a republican—that is, as they say, a Tammany republican—and belongs to the Greeley Association. Now, a gift of ten thousand dollars’ worth of silver plate to a Police Commissioner, while still in office, is a curious thing; and in this presen- tation the presence of a large proportion of Tammany Indians makes it a very curious thing. Without beating about the bush, the affair is open to the suspicion that Tammany manages Smith and that Smith manages the republican party of this city within his range to the satisfaction of Tammany. In this view of the matter of what value to General Grant or the republican party is Greeley, who sits in the republican councils with such Tammany republicans as ‘Hank Smith?” Of course, it would be useless on the part of General Grant to attempt to prevent the purchase of republicans by Tammany. Tammany can buy them, does buy them and will continue to buy them. But General Grant can make a wholesome example of Greeley and his committee by giving this lukewarm supporter of the administration the cold shoulder. In this view we would call General Grant's special attention to this important sub- ject in connection with the widespread demor- alization of the republican party of this city. Jon B, Pzox is still pecking at the Erie Railway managers with his little bill for divi- dends, There are no dividends yet, however, except such as the lawyers get out of the litigation, Congress Yesterdny—The Income Tax. The House yesterday, under the lead of Mr. Hooper, chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, executed a flank movement upon the Senate in the matter of the repeal of the income tax. The seyenth section of the first article of the constitution provides that all bills to raise revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, and as this was a bill to reduce revenue it was sagely and logi- cally held that it came within the meaning of the constitutional provision. Precedents were found in the past history of legislation for that position, and accordingly the Speaker ruled that the question was one of privilege; and the House thereupon adopted, without discussion, and without going through the process of a vote by yeas and nays, a resolution directing the return to the Senate of the bill passed by that body on Thursday repealing the income tax, with a respectful suggestion that {t is within the province of the House of Rep- resentatives alone to originate such a mea- sure, Tfaving thus vindicated its privileges as the representative body of the nation, and in doing 80 given the coup de grace probably to the measure for the repeal of the income tax, for this session at least, the House took a recess till evening, for the purpose of giving to some members an opportunity of delivering some prepared speeches for publication in the Globe, and fer circulation in pamphlet form among their constituents. The session of the House to-day is to be devoted to the same important purpose. The Senate wasted the most of yesterday's session in the useless discussion of an imprac- cable measure—the bill to protect members of Congress from importunity in the matter of appointments to office. Why Make Two Bites of a Cherry? Much trouble must result from the capitula- tion of Paris. The peace settlement may prove to be as troublesome as the war has been. Why should not the German Emperor make the res- toration of the empire complete? It was the proud boast of the first Napoleon that he was the successor of Charlemagne. Why cannot King William, without boasting, make the res- toration of the empire complete? It would be easy for him to annex France to Germany. It requires only a little effort to do the same for Italy and Portugal and Spain. It would be the best thing possible for the Latin races to accept German protectio and to imbibe 9 little German strength, Such AY ai WiRanyenael would be helpful towards the settlement of the nationalities question. It would make Ger- many the great conservative Power of the Continent. It would also, and, as we think, without the aid of any conference, bring to a satisfactory conclusion the whole Papal diffi- culty. Kaiser William and the Pope, friends already, might get on as well as did their illustrious predecessors. If France persists in her refractory course Bismarck may be left no choice. The Long Island Farmers’ Movement. The convention of farmers and agricultural owners held at Jamaica, Queens county, on Thursday last, was sufliciently important in numbers, wealth and enthusiasm to guarantee that the excellent movement now on foot to secure better market accommodation for pro- ducers and fresher supplies of garden stuff for consumers will be vigorously pushed. Such men as O'Donnell, Vanderveer, Hendrickson, Cooper and Marsh, who set forth the griev- ances of the people in their addresses, are not easily turned aside from any just purpose that they may undertake to pursue. The first named of these gentlemen owns and edits an influential and well-conducted weekly paper, and the others represent various commanding local interests, all of which are injuriously affected by the needless delays, drawbacks and expenses resulting to the farmers bringing their material to our city, from the ridiculous inadequacy of our market places. On our side of the East river the entire population of New York, with the exception, possibly, of a few agiolewrs and small specu- lators, sympathizes with a movement that looks so decidedly to their benefit, and we have no doubt that when the convention reassembles on the Gth of February its resolutions will be strengthened by many assurances of hearty approval from this city. In fact, there is but one view of the case, and that condemns the present scandalous system, or, rather, lack of all system, by which this metropolis is kept far behind almost every other great city in the civilized world with regard to the convenience and cleanliness of the structures and squares where the food of its vast population is sold. Protection to Emigrants. The question of incorporating a society for the protection of emigrants, and with a view of breaking up the Castle Garden establish- ment, has been brought before the Congres- sional Committee on Commerce, It is said a bill will be reported favorably during this ses- sion. There is, no doubt, a great deal of im- proper treatment of the emigrants, corrup- tion, jobs with railroad compantes and other things to complain of under the Castle Garden management, though this institution is bettor than no protection at all to the vast numbers of ignorant and friendless emigrants that arrive at this port. As it is, the poor emigrants often fall into the clutches of our land pirates, but if there were no organization to protect them they would be in a very unfortunate situation. But there is room for great im- provement upon the Castle Garden establish- ment, and we hope Congress may do some- thing for the better protection of emigrants. However, let there be no job in this matter. Let us know who the proposed incorporators are and what supervision the United States authorities are to have over the company and its acts. Would it not be well to have the whole matter put under the control of a special burean of the Custom House? The respon- sibility would rest then with the general government. Considering that the emigrants are a sort of wards of the federal government, and not of any local authority, this appears the proper way to provide for their pretection. Coneressman R. R. Burter has been acquitted of the charge of forgery, there not being a particle of evidence against him, according to the Judge’s idea. This much slandered Representative has been charged with nearly all the crimes in the calendar and found guilty of none. We may therefore consider him an exemplary Congressman and hope he will not do #9 aay more, A Herald Interview With Gambetta—“TMtd Velce is Still for War? From a Heraxp special correspondent as Bordeaux we give our readers this morning & very interesting account, by the Atlantic cable, of his interview the other day with Gambetta, the warlike chief of the French War Office, on the war and the present deplorable situation of France. The appearance, bearing and peculiar Personalities of this remarkable man, and hia views and purposes in regard to the war, are so clearly outlined in this despatch as to satisfy the reader's curiosity with regard to Gambetta. We see that he is an enthusiast, if not 4 fanatic, and we fancy that en the stump he is a regular ripsnorter, like one of our backwoods thunderbolts—half horse, half alti- gator, propelled by a steam engine. What chance the plodding Von Moltke has against such @ man Gambetta himself can, perhaps, best explain. He says that the fall of Paris will be a matter of no consequence to him; that the War must go on tillthe Prussians are expelled ; that his colleagues in the ‘National Defence” are all of this mind; that the demands of Prussia are too humiliating to be thought of; that the Parisians, before surrendering, should make of Paris a second Moscow; that France is still full of fight and fighting men; that she has half a million now armed outside of Paris, of which a quarter of a million are now ready to join the army; that he has not touched yet the levy of 1871 nor drawn upon the married men; that France, with the loss of Paris, can still muster two millions of fighting men, and that the French people, against the German people, fighting for their national existence, will fight it out, and will not submit to the spollation of their territory ; that every day is a day gained to France, and that she is not so much exhausted as Germany. In short, the views of Gambetta on the prospects of this war are as hopeful as were those of Jeff Davis in his flight from Richmond by the light of the burning city. But what is impossible to Gambetta, the aeronaut, who can fly from a beleaguered city in a balloon, and who, borne on the wings of the wind, can be in Bor- deaux to-day and on the Belgian bordeg to-morrow ? we It is evident, however, that Gambetta all the time has his doubts of the success of France against Germany, for he complains of Fe abi qdonment of France by England, t hough ranco is her only ally on the Conti- nent. He says, from the present outlook, that within ten years Russia will be in Oon- stantinople and in British India, and that Prussia will be in Holland, Belgium, Trieste— that, in short, she will be spreading herself over the whole Continent and over the whole world. What, then, are the real o Inions of Gambetta on this war in France? hey tay be readily explained. He is an adventurer. He has a good thing of it in his present position as practical dictator of France. With peace, however, his occupation will be gone; and so, while he sees the end is near, he goes for con- tinued war. He takes good care, meantime, to keep out of the way of the Prussians; and with the fall of Paris it is probable that even this terrible fire-eater will pocket his losses and his savings and give up the shi Senator GENET proposes to amend the law of divorce by increasing the chances of obtaining one in this Siate. Mr. Dvtcner’s Hoty ALuiANog AFTER Honest Tom Murpuy.—Thirty-five clergymen of New York and Brooklyn—Methodists, Bap- tists, Dutch Reformed, Puritans and Preshyte- rians, but chiefly Methodists—have petitioned General Grant to appoint Silas B. Dutcher Collector of this port. They believe that “be is a very proper man for the position, whose appointment will add strength to your Excel- lency’s administration and be very acceptable to the public generally, and to the republican party particularly.” What does this mean— this holy alliance against honest Tom Murphy ? “Is the king dead,” or has Murphy made up his mind to retire, or what is the meaning of this movement of the Methodists and their Protestant allies? Have they discovered that Murphy is a Catholic, and that, in failing to catch the Irish Catholic vote, the experiment of his appointment is a failure? We fear so, and if so you may depend upon it Murphy is in danger, because these Protestant clergymen will be apt to put General Grant to a square test upon this matter, and he may have to sur- render. What then? Another general Know Nothing movement, perhaps? What says Mr. Brooks ? Dovstge EXxg£oution IN Missovrt.—Yester-, day, at Potosi, Mo., Jolly and Armstrong, the murderers of the Lepine family, paid the penalty of their frightful crime on the scaffold. The details of the murder, which we give in another part of the paper, show it to be one of the most horrible on record—a family butchered in a manner the mogt revolting. The execution was public. Women and children were present to witness the terrible sight of two beings launched into eternity. The prisoners made no public confession of their guilt; to the priests they may have done 80; but the evidence against them was so con- clusive that not a doubt remains but that their punishment was most justly merited. Personal Intelligence. Governor clanin, of Massachusetts, is among the arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor J, E. English, ef Connecticut, ts sojourn- ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Felix Nemegyel, American Consul at To- basco, Mexico, has arrived at the Metropolitan Ho tel. < General John H. Frei, of Baltimore, is quartered at the St. Denis Hotel. The Right Rev. J. J. Williams, the Roman Catholio Bishop of Boston, 1s staying at the Everett House. Mr. Henry Blow, United States Minister to Brasil, is among the latest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. J. F. Asper and Mr. Jasper Packard, members of the Congressional Committee, have arrived from Washington, and are temporarily at the Grand Central Hotel. General George Stark, of Boston, 1s stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel, General Doubleday, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Major W. J. Nevins, of the United States Army, is at the St. Denis Hotei on a brief visit. Professor J. Milton Mackie, from Massachusetta, well known in literary circles, ig at the Kyerett House, Mr. S. D. Kellogg, member of Congress from Con- necticut, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain R. B, Peck, of the United States Mertng Corps, is stationed at tha Motropolitan Hutel. |

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