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

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Votume XXXVI... = AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOIN AND EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Rroadway, between Prince and Houston sireeis.—Tux StaeKrs oF New York. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Sth ay, ana Wd sh Hivves Oce. Matinee. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—F RENOK Oprna La PERiouoLs. FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tur New Drawa or Divorce. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st, and Broad- way. NFOko ACTS— BURLESQUE, BALLET, 40, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tur Bauuer Pan- voONIMe oF HUMPTY DUMPTY, STADT THEATRE, Noa, 6 SFAGON—POSTILLON, vant hot enreeteeateaad WALLACK'S THEATRE, Bi A CoRtous Cagr—A Game OF 5 y and 13th street.— ULATION, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Foarteenth 1. ENGL! Orraa— MARITANA, eet nmenee WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st. —Perform- ances afternoon and evening—TUk OCTOROON. BOOTH'S TILEATRE, 934 st. Macunrn. BOWERY TexaTRE, Bowery.—Urur Farce. ST. JAMPS THEATRE, Twenly-eighth street and Proad- Way.—P'RIMA DONNA FOR A Niaur. etwoen bt ani Sth avs, — A Pavonire GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall. —Va- RIPTY Ex tRRYAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. ISM8, NEGRO ACI8, eo. ‘0 MINSTREL WALL, 585 Broadway.— Couto Vooar SAN Tur Sa 20 MINSTRELS, BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 81 m,, between 6h and Tu 4v8,—BRYANT'S MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSF, 201 Rowory.— SNIRICITING, BURLESQUES, Ao. Matinee. AY HALL, Fourteenth street. MovuntTon ROUS, Fourteenth street, between &o. PARIS PAVILION 2d and Sd avenues. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. u EET. eG 1s7l BUIRNOE AND A. ine sory Tuesday, October ements. ve ireaty of Washington : Butier's Analogy of tu at Instrument; How the United Stat Be Cheated—It m Y Address: Meeting of fe Muni- 4 ne Kind of 5 Sunshine rough the Che Money and Snpolics Salt Flowing In; Feeling the Hungry and Clothing the Naked. the Hungry and Clotiing the Naked a Fourth Page)— et orts—Domestic ™ jon ot — Pola Row—Marria “Alticle, The ‘Terrie t avd the immediate and Conseauences—News irom Eng. | e and Germ he Overt Act of | nt ANnoNncements, | 1 Amer! ica— | imal A ages and mobers of the © — Advertise- : Lay of the President and —Shipping Inteilig “Ham! Cor the of the cily last night. soug “Hi TORICAL e saved Rome, Facrs.—The and tie kick of ULAR Ex-Goyrn wxtow is in full cry | after the new Governor (Brown) of Tennessee. Tye old Parson fires low, aud seldom misses his mark. IN THE Sov ra. 1. —It is stated that the high rates of freight on the railroads " 1d Georgia are | compelling cattle drovers to retura to the old method of driving their stock t € This is poor economy and bad mans t on the d will ulti- Ret Tue Sreamsmip Civy oF Panis, from Now York for Liverpool, was off Cape Clear yes- terday disabled or ‘broken down.” A Heratp cable telegram from Liverpool re- ports that steamers bad been despatched to her assis!ance, ) apprehension was felt with regard to her oltimate safety, although a strong wind was blowing at the moment, HAuivax it g of the tide on were driven from th r moorings, houses blown down and part of the town sub- | | lent ci merged, involving a loss of about two hundred thousand dollars. The gale extended also to Montreal and Kingston, doing great 2 loss of life, the amount of which yet be secertaine TARY OF THE Navy has ordered the rin re among the naval cadets who receatly ad some fresh cadets to be dropped from the rolie, and has read an excel- lent fesson to all the rest of the cadets in his order on the subject. “Though mere youth- ful vivacity may be overlooked,” says he, “persistent: blackguardism will not be tole- rated.” Prince Jexzome Bonaparte, who has jast been elected representative to the General Council of Corsica, has been allowed to visit his constituents, and, we take it for granted, to take his place in the Council. A govern- ment which bas done so much to oblige the Bourbons, younger and older, has no right to be ungeverous to the Bonaparies. Pion-Plon is plucky, and it is quite possible, now that he haa fouod a constitutional right to speak, we | may have some sort of manifesto which will reveal the policy of the Bonaparies. Corsica sin agitation alrea ly. M. Guwor Repivives.—it must be re- garded aa one of the signs of the times that the veteran ex-Minister of Lo Pailippe, M. Guizot, et hie advanced age. appointments of President Thiers, and that he goes to Greece as the representative of France. The author of the Spanish Marriages is too | old for London, or Berlin, or Vienna or St. Pe- tersburg. Bat Greece isa sort of sinecure, 1t is dificult to get over the idea that the ac- ceptance of this appointment means that all that can be done will be done to restore the Hruse of Orieans. toue in Pres- | visited by a severe tornado | iaday, by | damage | # included in tue | NEW YOKK HEKALD, TUESDAY, Tho Terrible Fires of the Wost and tho Immediate and Preapeciive Consequences. The appalling and bewildering calamity which has fallen upon Chicago has attracted the attention and active sympathy of the civilized world; it hae, indeed, developed a universal spirit of fraternal charity never before so broadly made manifest in the history of mankind. We are startled by it with amazement and admiration, as we were star- tled by the grand and glorious uprising of New York and the mighty North in 1361 in the common cause of the preservation of the Union. We see in the generous contributions of relief for Chicago, pouring in from high and low and rich and poor, in both hemi- spheres, that notwithstanding the crying evils of the times, in high places and low places, the world is really advancing toward that golden age when “‘the desert and the solitary place shall be made glad and the wilderness shall blossom like the rose.” We have here the evidence before us from a thousand sepa- rated points, near and remote, of what in the moral’ world in these latter days bas been achieved by the schoolhouse, the printing press, the steam engine and the electric telegraph ; and our faith is greatly strengthened that through these all-powerful agents of fraternity the different nations of the earth will yet win their way to the millennium in a universal confed- eration of ‘peace and good will to men.” But while this overwhelming calamity at Chicago is the absorbing topic in the public mind, trom the Golden Gate of San Francisco to the Golden Horn of Constantinople, it is bat one, though the most appalling and destructive one, of the many fiery disasters of this fiery season in the West. Outside of Chicago the aggregate of human desolation and suffering resulting from these ruinous fires has been, or will be, we fear, greater than that resulting from the burning of that beautiful city, though we have reason to believe that the welcome rains bave now extinguished them all. The forest fires in Michigan have been very exten- sive and destructive. In addition to nume- rous detached farm houses, with all their out- buildiogs, crops, stock, &c., whole villages and towns on the Lake Huron and Lake Mich- igan sides of the peninsula have been swept away. From the interior we have no details, but whole couaties in the heart of the State are reported among the suffering districts. Equally disastrous have been tho fires in Michigan, on the north side of tha! lake, ex- tending thence southward into the Groo Bay disirict. of Wiscoasia, of which we have already given the particulars to our readers, with the dreadful losses of life at Peshtego and other settlements. From these forest fires in Michigan and Wisconsin the losses of life sur- pass the losses at Chicago, and the losses of property, involving the beggary of thousands of people, will amount to millions in money. We published some days since reports from Minnesota of extensive fires in that State, sweeping over the prairies and through the wooded districts with resistless speed and fury, and leaving scores of families dcstitute in their course and flying for their lives. Vrom Dakota we have had similar reports, and from Towa, though the total value of the pro- perty destroyed by these Iowa and Dakota fires is comparatively small. In the splendid forests on the Canadian side of Lakes Huron and Superior these fires have been raging vince July, darkening with their smoke the atmosphere for hundreds of miles over the land and water, and destroying many thon- sands of acres of timber, with the scattered settlements therein. An officer of a govern- ment surveying expedition in the Rocky Moun- tains reports that from the smoky atmosphere from the fires raging in those moun- sts his observations had been re- tarded for many days; and a late despatch from San Francisco informs us that fires pre- vail in the California movnotains, the whole length of the State. Nor can we omit the fact that within a month we have had similar reports from the mountains of Colorado, The immediate consequences of these fires are the perils of destitution and starva- tion to the thou 3 of the suffering people | who have escaped only with their lives—men, | women and helpless ehildrea. ! for Christian inqa Here is a field and charity which, even in the presence of the one hundred thousand people burned out of house and home in Chicago, should not and will not be neglected. We presume that the Michigan sufferers have obtained or will receive immediate sesistance from the rich city of Detroit, and that the unfortunates of Wisconsin, wandering louse- less and famishing from their homes destroyed, are being looked after by the prosperous city of Milwaukee, with iis bountiful stores of breadstutfs and provisions, But our benevo- ns of all creeds tay still be called upon to aid in providing the ways and means needed to enable these homeless and destitute people of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and other States and Territories to weather through the long and cruel winter that is be- fore them. We have no misgiviogs, however, upon this point. Let the local authorities and communities of the districts devastated by these terrible fires mike known their wants, and, we repeat it, they, from all points, far and near, will be generously supplied, We know it from the universal and spontaneous relief coming in to Chicago, from the St. Law- rence, the Hudsou, the Thames, the Rhine and the Danube. We are, however, seriously concerned as to the prospective consequences of these Western prairie and forest fires, Chicago will rise froin its ashes more beautiful than it was on the day which ushered in the night of its sweeping fire; new homes will be pro- vided, we-gonfidently hope, for the houseless | people along Ll the shores of Lakes Michigan and Huron and dn the Western prairies; but | it is provable that the hundreds of thousands of acres of the forest? pf the West swept away by these fires will mever be replaced, and that their loss will be conducive to drought, famioe, fire and pestilence hereafter, The section of the Continent embrachig these prairie and forest fires exieads from California and Oregon to the great lakes, From the great Plains westward to the Pacific the cli- mate isdry and comparatively rainless, be- cause, excepting the sides and depressions of the mountains in favorable places and the river borders, the country {3 timberless, The heavy evoporations from those tropical basins, the Galf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, are, from the immediate valley of the Missis- sippi eastward to the Atlantic coast, almost wholly expended over the wooded section of the United States, and the basin of the great lakea, During the summer there is no local condensing atmosphere over the great Plains to bring down the rain, because those plains are timberless; and so, except an occasional summer shower, they are raialess from the passing frosts of spring to the returning frosts of autumn. It will soon be generally under- stood, too, that as the forests are cleared away from the head streams of the Mississippi and from the region around the great lakes the an- nual summer rain fall in those districts will be diminished, and the withering drought of this last summer and the present autumn, with its fearful followers—these desolating fires—will regularly return with the returning summer. These are the prospective consequences of the continuance of these Western prairie and forest fires, Without their assistance we are clearing away our forests too remorse- lessly, and we have only to continue this work at the present rate of destructiveness a few years longer in order to reach the penalty of extensive droughts and wasting fires and famine from year to year. Looking to the future prosperity of our new States and Terri- tories, the preservation and enlargement of their forests and precautions for the safety of the people concerned and their property against these prairie and forest fires, in view of this year's dreadful disas- ters, become subjects of the highest importance to Congress and the Legislatures of the several States directly interested, It becomes the duty of Congress to provide, as far as possible, for the security of its Territo- ries against these annual wasting fires, looking tothe maintenance of the cash value of the public lands therein and their settlement; and our Western State Legislatures have too long left their people subject to these fires from the carelessness, , folly or wickedness of railway companies, settlers, hunters, emigrants and vagrants with this dangerous servant of fire. If we know that a kerosene lamp, may set a city in flames, we also know that a spark from a locomotive, or that the still flaming lucifer match with which a woodman has lighted his pipe, if thrown carelessly among the dead leaves of a Western forest or in the dry gras3 of a prairie, may light a fire which will deso- | late thousands of square miles of territory. Our first duty is to relieve, as far 2s possi- ble, the distresses resulting from these Western fires; but the next and most important duty, looking to the future, is to provide against the recurrence of these calamities in the needful legislative remedies, national and local; for “an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.” Disasters by Wind and Wave. Flood and flame, storm and tornado, appear to be vying with each other in their sweep and destructiveness, not only over our own land, but in other and distant regions of the earth. The telegraph yesterday brought us intelligence of a terrible tornado which for two days had swept over portions of Canada, unrodfing or blowing down houses, rocking churches and public buildings, tearing up | trees and hurling them with the savageness of a fiend against persons and property, and carrying terror and consternation to every heart. Montreal, Kingston and other cities are in a fright from which they snffer much more than by actual contact with the storm, and Halifax harbor has been visited by a harricane of such violence as is seldom known in northern waters. Turning from Canada to the far-off shores of the Celestial Empire, the Atlantic cable reports | Tien-tsin, Hong Kong and other parts of that empire swept by wind and water, which leave a terrible wreck behind. In Tien-tsin ten thousand square miles have been submerged and the people are suffering greatly. In Hong Kong hundreds of Chinese have been drowned, buildings have been struck by lightning, ves- sels wrecked, and devastation and ruin stalk abroad. God is no respecter of persons, and His physical agents treat the Chinaman and the Anglo-Saxon alike, and the common enemy makes common friends of mankind. While | we must, of course, feel a greater degree of | sympathy with our own people in suffering, we must also in our measure feel for those who suffer everywhere, and especially with the Canadians and the Chinese, who will one day become citizens of the great republic, Spaxisn Acrration For Revotvrionary | CHANGE.—The latest cable telegrams from Madrid go to show that the Spaniards remain | deeply agitated towards a change of govern. ment. They want—at least some of the most influential of their leaders want—to perfect a republic pure and simple. addressed a manifesto to the nation. In this he denounces the sysiem of radical opposition to the government, proclaims that Cuba must be held for the Crown, and officially anathe- matizes the democratic movement of the hard- fisted workingmen of the International Society. The radicals replied to the Cabinet declaration blage was on exceedingly important one for Madrid. The leaders were outspoken in their opposition to the government and fervent in their resolve to strike hands in friendship with the Internationals and radicals in all parts of Europe. The Spanish political crisis becomes more s°rions every day. Amadeus may fall in the chasm which will be created by the nativist party divisions, Perhaps it would then clo CoxstTitUTIONAL DIFFICULTIES IN AUSTRIA.— It appears from our latest news that the policy of decentralization, which Austria has been pursuing since 1866, and particularly since Von Beust becam? Chaneellor of the empire, isin danger of falling turough. The Czechs of Bohemia have d+manded autonomy, and it is only a few days since the Emperor Francis Joseph publicly made it known to the Bohe- mians that he should consent to be crowned their King. It is difficult to believe that Von Beust did not give his consent to this policy. It is weil known that he was the father of Hungarian autonomy. ‘The disintegration pol- icy has been a little too fruitful, The Aus- trian Germans are grumbling, aad it is possi- ble that Von Beust bas taken fright. If Fran- cis Joseph does not fulfil his promise to the Czechs the Austrian empire is in danger. The great trouble is that danger lies as much in the way of inaction as of action. Many thoughtful men fear, and not without reason, that the Austrian empire ig doomed, | day. | The foreign relations bat a most prudent political organizer. Minister Sagasta | ina city mass meeting yesterday. The assem- | Prince Alexis’ Reception by the Navy. It will be expected, of course, that Admiral Rowan and the other naval officers of the equadron at this naval station will do the best they can to entertain the Grand Duke Alexia and the Russian naval officers who come with him. Admiral Rowan and all under him must feel that they are called upon to show gentle- manly liberality to the distinguished foreign- ers, Our gallant fellows would feel mean if they could not do this. We have no doubt they would rather take the money for this object out of their own pockets and scanty pay than allow themselves and their country to be 80 humiliated. In all probability they have made suitable preparations ont of their own money. But ought this tobe? Ought this distinguished guest of the government to be entertained at the cost of our naval officers and out of their limited pay? The Navy Depart- ment ought to bear the expense—onght to pro- vide liberally for the entertainment of our Russian guests while in the hands of the navy. We believe there is a contingent fund under the control of the Secretary of the Navy, and some of it should be used for this purpose. Let it not be said that the government acts meanly, whilo our naval officers are ready to strain their resources to save the credit of the republic for generous hospitality, Will Mr. Robeson hunt up that naval contingent fund and give Admiral Rowan and his officers a chance of treating the Russians generously without taxing their salaries for the cost? Whatever is to be done let it be well done. The Gloucester Fishermen’s War on Canada. The Gloucester fishermen, in their efforts to involve this country so far as they can in war with Great Britain, and thereby abrogate the Treaty of Washington, have at last taken a very desperate step. A party of them, secretly organized for the purpose, recently recaptured the American schooner E. A. Horton, which was lying at Guysboro, N. S., awaiting the decision of the Admiralty Court upon charges of violating the Canadian fishery laws, and put to sea with her. Immediately an English gunboat and cutter started in pursuit, and at lest accounts were still on the chase, The Gloucester men are greatly excited: in view of her speedy arrival at that port, especially as a British gunboat has appeared off Gloucester to intercept her. The Surveyor of the Port at Boston has sent an American gunboat to Gloucester to look after Amer- ican interests, and the good will, peace and amity so lately negotiated be- tween oursolves and Great Britain are at the mercy of any little breez> that may blow this spark into a flame. In the meantime General Butler is lecturing on the disadvantages of the treaty, trying in his magnetic way to prepare the people for any difficulty these hot-headed fishermen may precipitate upon us. The act of the fishermen was undoubtedly a flagrant violation of our laws and of the laws of nations, and whatever the original seizure of the schooner by the British may have been, and in view of the very recent suppression of atiempis # more unlawful on the part of General O'Neill and the Fenians, it would seem that the government has no course to pursue but to teach these brawny sons of the sea to have more regard for the peace and prospects of their own country, even if they must bave leas for their own private pockets. The Emperor of Germany on the Natioaal Situation. His Majesty the Emperor of Germany opened the legislative session in Berlin yester- He delivered an address from the throne, of which we report the main features in the Heratp to-day by cable. The Em- peror was animated and decisive, both in his action and expression. He pointed to the grand results which have inured to the Ger- man nation from territorial unification, The spirit of patriotism which produced such re- sults must not be permitted to relax until the people of the whole empire share in the profits. The treasury must be replenished and kept full. Provision must be made to cover the cost of the border adjustments with France. | In view of the financial requirements France must pay up her war indemnities. Parlia- ment will arrange and legislate the establish. ment of a uniform gold coinage for Germany. are amicable and friendly, the correspondence with Austria being of the most “cordial nature,” Emperor | William is not only a most powerful sovereign, His present speech may be accepted as a new evi- dence of this fact. He closed with the words, “there is no cause for anxiety”—a very pithy but truihful expression, which must prove very grateful to his subjects, Progress on the Const. The latest news from the South Pacific—of which we publish a very interesting telegraph report to-day—is quite encouraging. Political excitement appears to have abated in Peru and Chile, The vast resources of both conn- tries were being developed more healthily, | railroads were at work in Chile and large | amounts of valuable produce were being | transported on the lines for export, Gold bad been discovered in new fields in Peru. Logis- lative affairs and Cibinet calculations were permitted to progress peaceably in Santiago, Chile. The politicians had floated out the old rumor of coming troubles between Chile, Peru and Bolivia; but the people appear to have paid very little attention to the ma- neuvre—a hopeful sign, and one more valu able than gold or silver to their country. Cop- per had been found in new beds near Iquique. A Cabinet had been formed in Lima, and preparations were being made for the in- stallation of the President. Oar neighbors on the South Pacific territory will come to estimate their own national interests in good time. When they do they will cease to reyo- lntionize, and go to work, Material South Pacifis Tuk CANADIANS are hurrying troops to Manitoba to defend it against the Fenians, It would be better for them to leave that work entirely to United States Marshals, Rurerrine to the platform of the New York democracy, the Mobile Jegisler finds in it nothing that may not be fully endorsed by a Southern democrat, wit the single exception of the unnecessary use in one place of the offensive word “rebellion.” The Legister, it appears, does not like to have “things called by their right names,” UUTUBEK 17, 187L—TKLPLE SHEET. ENGLAND. More Money fo (a Chicago and Rules for the Pre- sentation of the Alabama (Claims. An American Missionary Preaching in the Tower of London—Demand for the Separation of Church and State—An Inman Steamship Disabled. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Oct. 16, 1871. ‘The subscriptions taken atthe Mansion House for the benefit of the Chicago sufferers amount thus far © £20,000. The Strand Theatre devoted the pro- cecds of Wednesday's performance to the relief Tuna. The Chamber of Commerce of SheMetd has re- solved to call a meeting of the principal cttizens for the purpose of contributing to the reltef of Chicago. A meeting for the relief of Chicago was held in the Town Hall of Liverpool to-day, at which the Mayor presided. A comnnttee was appointed to receive contributions, and £8,500 sterling were raised on the spot. Subscriptions which have been opened in the various cities throughout Great Britain have met with cordial responses, an@ the outgoing steamers from all our ports will carry large contributions both in money and material. Taking advantage of the holiday a large meeting was held in the fown Hall of Manchester yesterday, for the purpose of raising subscriptions to the Chi- cago relief fund. The Pishop of Manchester presided, and spoke in advocacy of liberal coniributions in aidof the dis- tressed city, Messrs, Jacob Bright and Hugh Birtey, members of Parliament for Manchester, and Mr. Adams, the United States Consul, were also present and ad- dressed the meeting. The contributions on £4,600 sterling. Pesides this amount a large quantity of ciothiag was given. HOW TO PRESENT THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. A supplementary edition of the London Gazette this morning publishes the British Commissioners’ regulations for presenting claims to be adjudicated under the Washington Treaty for damages done by the Alabama, AN AMERICAN CLERIC IN ST, JOHN'S, OF THE TOWER. The Rev. Mr. Thompson, an American clergyman, preaches in the chapel of St. John, in the Tower of London. The chapei has not been used before since tho time of the Reformation, A FREE CHURCH IN A PREE STATE. An address has been issued by representative workingmen, demanding separation of Church and State in England, The address announces that Meetings of workingmen will be held throughout the country ip support of this movemeut. FATAL MAPINE COLLISION. Two steamers were in collision on the Tyne last night, and five persons were drowned. THE COrroN SUPPLY. ‘The steamship Calabria and ship Queen, from Bos- ton and New York respectively, landed 1,101 bales of cotvon at Liverpool to-day. QUEEN VICTORIA. the spot amounted to A Radical Revolutionist Declares Ker Majesty Insane. Demand for a Regency Prepara- tory to a Republic. TELEGRAM TO THE MEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Oct. 16, 1871. Mr. Bradiaugh, the radical extremist and revolu- tionary agitator, attended at an immense reform meeting which was held in the city to-night and de- livered one of nis characteristic speeches to the as- semblage. He declared that Queen Victoria ts {usane, and demanded a regency, to be entrusted to the Judges of Law aud Equity, until a republic is estavilshed, THE GERMAW PARLIAMENT Speech of the Emperor William to the Assembled uae slators, Imperial Review of the Situation at Home and Abroad—National Economy a WNocessary Duty—the War Indemnity and Its Uses— No Cause for Anxiety and Cordial Relations with Austria. TELECRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BERLIN, Oct. 16, 1871. Ilis Majesty the Emperor Wiluam opened tic ses sion of the Retchsrath In person to-day, The Emperor proceeted from the Palace to the Legislative Hall in state, attended by various officers of the royal household, councilors aud other dignitaries, He was received with demonstrations of respect- fal loyalty by the people as the cort ge proceeded through the streets and cheered by the members as he entered the Parliament honse, The Emperor ascended the throne immediaicly and proceeded to deliver the tmperial SPEROH. He commenced his address with a review of the past session of the North German Parliament and of the course and progress of German unification. The progress of this important policy and the pre. sent condition of united Germany he coasidered eminently favorable and gratifying. Passing from tals subject to the toptes to be con- sidered during the present session, he satd the chief care of Parliament would be the consideration of the Buiget for the support of the empire. The aa- vances made by the several States of the German Confederation must be repaid out of the funds re- ceived from France as a war indemnity, ‘The Budget must include the expense of stiling the government of the territory acquired from France. The Emperor expressed the opinion that a reor- ganization of the coinage of Germany 1s desiravle, He said the Federal Council was at this tume en- gaged in devising measures for the establishment of a gold coinage basis for the arrangement of a uni- form system of German coinage, He also proposed, as a subject ripe for discussion, the securing of a line of direct communication | through Switzerland to Ttaly, to be so controtied throughont that the interests of Germany would ve fairly considered, Aliuding to the foreign relations of the empire, he sald that the relations with forelgu States are en- tirely satisfactory. ‘There was no cause of anxiety tn any quarter, Especiaily was the correspondence with Austria ofa cordial nature, and the intercourse with that country was no longer sliadowel by reminiscences of past conficts THE QUESTION OF THE East. An Jmperial and Important Interview in Prospect. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpow, Oct. 16, 187. The Question of the Fast, agit has been termed since the close of the Crimean war, attracts atta Uon in political circies, Itis rumored that General Ignaite, the Russian Minister in Constantinopic, has been charged by Prince Gortenakot to contrive oevaston for an ine 1D OVERT ACT OF Wit WAR. Gloucester Fishermen Seize an American Schooner in Guysborough, N. S., and Escape with Her. An English Cutter and Gun- boat in Pursuit. THE FISHERMEN GREATLY EXCITED, English and American Gunboats Waiting Their Arrival Off Gloucester Harbor, Gtoucesrer, Mass, Oct. 16, 1371. ‘There is a big row in this quiet little towa, which, although small tn itself, may lead to A BIG INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE, Like the pig about which two women quarreliea in the Netherlands yeurs ago, this same small speck of war may possibly develop into a great blot on the surface of the peace of the body politic, and, if not immediately brought to a pacific soluuion, may be the means of a grievous and worrying amount of dispute. The headings on the Lulletin boards to-day read thas:— RECAPTURE OF A GLOUCESTER FisiInG SCHOONER FROM THE DOWLNION GOVERNMENT, ONE OF HER OWNERS SAID TO BE ENGAGED IN THR FPATR. . Hr 18 BACKED Ur BY A CREW OF STALWART CAPR ANN FISHERUEN DETERMINED TO BRING HBR Inro Port on Burn Her A Currer AND ENGLISH GUNBOAT IN PoRsurT. A Unirep Srares GunnoaT WILL DkFEND TAB FISUING SCHOONER IN OUR WATERS. Tuk GLovcesteR FISHEKMEN THOROUGOLY AROUSED. Tue Government Must Now Snow Irs Hann. ARE OUR FISHERMEN TO BE PROTECTED? The facts in the case are these:—The schooner £dward A. Horton, Torry, master, of this port, was seized September 1, near St. George, N. S., by the cutter Sweepstakes, for alleged violation of the fisu- ing treaty, and taken into Guysborough, while the master and crew were turned ashore to get home the best way they could. She had a full cargo of mackerel! and was nearly ready to come home. The case was of A PECULIARLY AGGRAVATING NATURE, as she belonged to Measrs, McKenzie, Knowiton & Co., a comparatively new firm, who had one of cueir vessels seized tast year and were put to much ex- pense and inconvenience in getting the vesset bonded. ‘There has been a deep-seated fecling of indignation prevalent among the fishermen and flak- ing owners at these audactous se zures, and the at- tempt on the part of the owner of the schooner Ciara FB. Friend to obtain his vessel, whieh ended ta her recapture by the Dominion steamer, Nas added fuel to the flames. The PLAN OF THE RECAPTURE of the Horton, so tar as your correspondent can learn, was concocted here in town, and one of her owners, itis said, was one of the prime movers. These plans were kept so secret that none but a chosen tew outside of those who were to take ai active part therein knew anything of the aifair. Suffice it to say that the plan was well matnred and the men who accompanied her owner to Guysboro were determined either to retarn the schooner to this port or destroy her, There were to be no Lalt way measures one way or tite other, and with tals resolve they left Gloucester, We next hear from them by way of a despatch re- celved from Haliiax, N.S., on the 13th Lust., which states that— Tne schooner K. A. Horton, captured by tho British cutter Sweepstakes, and taken ito Guys boro to awatt the desision of the Admiralty Cout! Was taken away on Sunday night by uoknown ties, who broke open a@ store, obtained her rials. then cut her cable and put to sea. No trace of tile vessel has been seen. A vessel was seen hovering outside, which, no donbt, aided in the afatr, ‘The cutter Sweepstakes and an English gunboat were In close pursuit, AS 8000 A this news was disseminated the peopte of Gloucester were AROUSED TO FEVER HEAT and various were the conjectures whether or not the daring owner and crow would succeed In eluding pursuit, aud bring the craft safe around Eastern Point lighthouse in Gloucester harbor, Every vessel approaching the harbor has beer closely scanned by eager eyes on shore, and the fishermen were all prepared to give the Hortoa ana her crew a cordial reception, This brings the account up to to-day, when tie intelligence was received that an ENGLISH GUNBOAT ‘was hovering off the Cape to Intercept the schooner. This created the most intense excitement, and kuots of fishermen were seen on the wharves carnestir engaged in discussing the momentous subject and showing their wiliingness in taking a hand in the game of checking any interference with American fishing vessels by Eng!ish gunboats in our waters, In the absence of Collector Robson, who 13 m Bos- ton to get the officials there tyterested in the mal ter, 8. H. Smith, Surveyor of this port, seat a de spatch to the Commiudant of the Chariestowa Navy Yard, asking itm to seud a gunboat tv the protection ofthe E. A. Horton tn American waters. lowing answer was recetved at two P. CTARTESTOWN, Oct a plot Smitn, Surve, ot Cus‘oms, Giouces er, Mass:— Gunboat will be seut to your aysistance, A. R. HUGHES, For Uke Commandant. Ab six o'clock & UNILED STATES GUNBOAT arrived in the harbor, and, taking on Loard severat United States officials and fishing merchants, among whom was Mr. Robert McKenzie, one of the owners of the E. A. Horton, started at ten P.M. on a cruise, The matter has also been brought to the attention of Collector Russell of Boston, WHO Will Interview President Grant, who ig In that city to attend the laying of the corner stone of the new Post Oillce, Intelligence of the schooner being off the harbor 1s anticipated every moment, and the query who will win tm this affair terview between tie Czar o: Kassia and the Sue } ot Turkey, isone which now agitates this comauaity from centre toc penis end FRANOE. The Rati lied Tre iousiod with Germany Presented io the Cabinet. Provincial Disturbances in Corsica~Chargoe Against the Bonapartes—Government Missious to Foreign Powers, TELECKAM 10 THE WEW YORK HEAML Panis, Oct, 16, 18Tt. M. Pouyer-Quertier has artived at Versatlies (rom Boviin, bearing copies of the treaties just conciuded between France and Germany. POLITICAL AGITATION IN CORSICA Arumor comes frout Marseitles of poitttcal dite turbances in Corsica, They are believed to be ite spired by Bonapartist partisans, A BONAPARTE UNDER LBAVR, Prince Jerome Bonaparte has been granted the pass aiked by nim, permitting Nim to visit Corsica. . TUK FORKIGN MISSIONS. M. Guizot goes as Frenen Miaister to Greece. The appomtmeut of Mr, Ferry as Minister to the United States has been withdrawn in deference to public opinion. M, Picard has been appointed French Minister to Italy, m place of the Count de beaten al, Pecailed, STEAMSH? Cliy OF PARIS DISABL TLEGRAM TO THE KEW TORK HERALD. LIVERPOOL, Ock 1 187. The Inman steamsp Cliy of Paris, € to. house, which Jett New York for Live 7b instant, is Of Cape Clear, brox Steamers have gone to her assistance, A siroug breeze 18 blowing, but not suficient to b. ay Bp prehens ons 1a regard by the sicumer’®