The Sun (New York) Newspaper, November 10, 1870, Page 2

=e perm ares ‘The Sapa Sun. Sa cat At bhines for AIL y THURSDAY, NOVE 1870, BER 0, Amuncmente To-day, ooth's Theatre lip Van Worle eurstone Erie Railay, Tony Pastor's Opera Moure New Atiractionr ‘The Heach Proamatic Tunnel —Opee we Yaiton Weallach’e Joby Bell The Rivals * Museum. Laie Thompron Trompe, Matinee, ~The Results Lessons. The autumnal elections are over, The results are not yet precisely ascertained, but the general drift of the tide Js unmistaka blo, Including the contests in September and October, nearly all the States of the Union Lave now voted; and although the ascondancy of the Republicans has been bere and there shaken, it has not been seri- ously impaired. So far as we can safely judge from the incomplete returos of Tueslay'’s trial, there are only four States that in 1868 voted for @naNT which have this year been carried by the Democrats, Theso are North Carolina, Indiana, West Virginia, and Missouri; and it is barely possible that Ten- fesse, on account of the quarrels of its Re- publicans, might be added to the list, while the apparent Democratic victory in North Carolina and West Virginia is partial at Election best, and the Democratic majority in Todiana is very emall The signal defeat of the Republicans tn Missouri is gelely duo to the independent course, alike Dold and magnanimous, of B. QuKATZ Brown, aided by Cant Scuvns, two distinguished leaders of that party, who in- sugurated a grand movement, not unlike that of the Barabuarners at Buffalo in 1848. ‘To this movement the Democracy of Missouri lad the yood sense to yield their enthusiastic support, and they are victorious. Against these Democratic gains the Repub- licane point to the fact that they have wrested from the Democrats New Jorsey and Louisi ana, and are pretty sure to carry Georgia in December, all of which voted for SuyMoUR two years ago In the conteste this fall the Democrats have reduced the Republican majorities in four or five States, perhape more but their own Majorities are aleo reduced in many States, as, for example, Maryland, Delaware, and Kentucky. Tn the severe struggle for the supremacy of the next House of Representatives, the De mocracy have made considerable gains. But when the elections are all over, and the con- teste for disputed svats are determined, the Democracy wili do well if the Republican majority does not reach forty, We think it ie more dikely to exceed than fall below that figure. Upon the whole, then, the result must be tegarded as rather disastrous and blighting tw the hopes of the Demoer: pure and simple, two years hence, And why te thie thus? Can this result be claimed as either an endorsement of Guant’s course since he became President, or an indication that the Republican party are satisfied with him, and favor his renomination? pot, and for the for a vietory, Clearly obvious reason that these considerations did not exert any controlling Influenco upon the The State wherein the Pr niost directly inter fered with and sonal fortunes were most fod where | cleetion the cany which his per. tly involved, # renomination was presented oe a distinct issue, was Now Ye the R Kk; and here ubliean party was badly beaten he Dor sowe their disasters in these elcetions to two causes: first, their failure to present any new iesues, any inspiring ideoe. any cardinal policy to the people; and eve: ondly, and muivly, to the widespread belief that they would signalizo their return to power by an attempt to reopen many of the old questions eetiled Ly the war and by re construction, ‘This lntter ix the ehicf stam bling block jn t pational cont st moved) We Reeogni Boman wh took the r to euccess: in ag And will tell thei, can it be rm zasan ind sputable truth that her in thought, word, or deed the loving side in We late war, of in the issucs which logically eprang out can Le eleoted to the Pres deney two years bonce, let the Democ resolve that in the gelection of their eandi date they will « Mexorable situation; and that to meet these demands they eannot rl wrong wile y themselves to the demanda of the apon any declaration torporate into their y whieh uiform they 1 but mu body their faith in the mau they support In plain worde, if the Democracy hope t qin in 197 ow states Me heroic etrngyhe the Union are sot ry, bat whose ac reconstruction 6} words they mas eiundard 1 whose professions in regard t for tho pres nly sound and sat u reapect to the war and ak even louder t There must be no doubt either iv regard to his fa th or hie works Tho electious this pel tleian w year testify. te 10 hos studied tho history of the pablo of interpreting the signs that no candidate for the Pre f the old, familiar Democratic every past, or Ieee of tho fut Mleney whic type, and je | ut track of the party, can Le eucecasful in 1872 Buch a candidate might pe ttand a bare chanco of winning howd the Repat licane Le fo infatuated oH to renominate Ge Qnany, Tho bare persibil puehi rewult will prevent euc rr , however, of phe #8 proved Preridontial @ cotastre the renomination of a man who | & ecnepleuous offles, and in reeyect to whom the great bedy of tho Republicans foel that, however Meritoricuninay bo hie claim for great ser ees in the field, these have been fully dis ebarged by conferriug upon him tho highest military grade in the army, and the most Gistinguirhed civic honor in the gift of the Republic, The only hope of the national Democracy Mherefore reste in thoir presenting @ Presi dential candidate in 1872 who, whilo he is acceptable to the Demoerata, ean be contially Bopported by such Republicar sae are ready to enter into & new organization that will look to the future for ite triumph, In our judg wut, thie te the only path wherchy the Democracy can emerge from their present dilemma, and hope for victory in 1872, And We now seo no public man who possceses 60 many qualifications which the erisie de mands and combines so many elements of success ap B, Gnatz Brown, the friend and confidant of Tuowas H. Benton, and who was on influential Democrat Lef re the war, # leading Republican Senator for many years, and who has jut Won @ grand triumph in Missouri on a platform which is acceptable to liberal men of all parties. The Democratic party can reject our ad vice, and they ean be ruined. i — — Caleb Cushing Secretary of State. Gen, CaLen Cusmina has gone back to Weshington, having finished the business for which he wan eent here by the Adminis- tration. We presume that it was very much owing to his advice and influence that ar- rangements were made Letween the national authorities in this city and the Mayor and Police Commiesioners, by which all danger of rioting on Tuesday was obviated, The position of Gen, Cvsmixo at Wash- ington is not well understood by the people at large. Thongh a Democrat in politics, he ie really Secretary of State. President GRANT having appointed a man to that office who is not able to do its work, Gen. Cusmtna is called in when there fe anything to be done requiring talent and information. He writes all jyaportant despatches that Mr, Fist signs, and advises Mr. Fist generally what to do. In a word, Gen, Cvanina is really the Secretary of State, while Mr. Fist and Mr. Bancnort Davis, the bribetaker, are mere show figures; and except where there is @ prospect of making money, as in the sebeme for the purchase and sale of Cuba, and in preventing the export of arme to the patriots of that country, while supplying them freely to the Spaniards, they move only as he advises. Would it not be better for the sham Secre: tary of State to go out, and the real Seere- tary of State to take bis place? Ought there to be any humbug in such o matter? It is trae that Gen, Custtxo is a Democrat; but that might be made up by his giving a houso or a horse or a cottage by the seaside to the President a Tho Congressional Election Law. During the recent canvass, and while the proceedings for the prevention of fraud in our election, under the act of Juno last, were actively going forward, wo abstained from all remarks upon the policy and character of that a Tie experiment of preventing false voting and falss counting by means of Congressional legislation was to be tried, and we were unwilling by any criticism or suggestion even to seem to favor those who make a business of such frands. But now that the election is over, the propriety of such a law of Congress can, we trust, bo fairly con kidered by all partics. The crime of false voting and false count- ing is one that str kes at the root of republi can institations. It aims to overthrow the will of the people, and it renders an election. not the honest expression of the popular jndgment and wish, but a more trick, a cheat, by which one or two, or more managers substitute their own determination for that of the electors, Where such fraud prevail there is no longer a republic ; is @ despotism, or at least an oligarch; , and that of the sst and most foul description. It is indisponsable, therefore, that such frauds should bo prevented. But is it best that for euch o purpose Con. gress should interfere in the manner provided in this statate? In our judgment it would be mors judicious to leaye the evil dishonest here to be corrected by the people and the legisla tion of the Stace The people of New York, fi for inst », can cortainly bo trust-d to rem $s enormous and @o dangerous lot thor cine convinced that the abuses really exist, and they will rise up ad settlo the difficulty forey. atside interference is necessary for this against ther se, Tho mass of the Democrats are od to fraud in elvctia tho mass of the Republ just as mach as ns, All that is ry la to prove tho fact, to establish it vethingy more than the al ated partisans, and the nd correcting the erlme will surely be done. And if tbe done by the people of New Y tires m Liens in intellig ion of of punishing a nuinber, | ent, and moral, how ean it be done by the authority of the United States, when, after all, tho nation is com posed of only a few millions more of the samo kind of people with those of the Siate? A great objection to this act of Congress «that, under the gaiss of a goneral law, it nothing but a apcelal statute for the city of New Ye Ostensilay J¢s purpose is to regulate the elootion of members of Congress, but really tt is downed to aect the el of Beate and local oflic tho a educated, lon mas wel, 1 travtion given to it by tho United States District Attor, ney in this eily; and yet nothing conld bo clearcr than that Congress has not tho shadow o right to dictate tho mode of holding elections for State oflicors, With these elections it has nothing to do whatever; and yet If it had not been sap. posed that it would havo un effect upon the votes for Governor, Mayor, and other offleora of New York, such a statuty would not hi been enacted Tt is therefore an act of false pretences ; and @ more 6or.ou8 objection to a law of Con, than that that wh ress eannot woll be conceived it aims at @ different object from t pretends to aim at ! A still more serious objection is that interferenco of F # an al anthority In matters whi netita va dove not in tend to hav to Fodoral authority. sion of the power of tho Presi It is something wholly alien to. our political system —something which must be stopped, unless the republic is to be traneformed, We leave out of ylew hero that feature #o repugnant to tho mind of every American: tho presence of United States troops at hard with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets to control an cleetion, The usage of the country has been that the United States troops should ouly be called in when the Governor of @ Btato should certify that the authority and militia of the State ad pro insutiicient to maintain order; but in this instance wo have hal the troops of the National Government prepared to in torfere, without any request from the Gover nor that they should do 90, Bat, apart from this odiour feature, the klea of influenctag THE SUN officials of the United States is something that ought not to be admitted by Congress or tolerated Ly the people. Besides, this law forms @ pernicious prece- dent, Enacted now in the interest of one party and with a good purpose in view, the pro- cess may bo applied hereafter in the interest of some other party and for a bad purpose. Thug what is intended to secure an honest election to-day may be used to accomplish » fraudulent ono tomorrow. It is not safe to resort to such means at all, For all theso reasons we urge upon Con- gress at its approaching session the duty of repealing this law. If this cannot be done, let it by a new act separate the election of members of Congress from State elections, 80 that there shall be no attempt to stretch the principle of Foderal interposition beyond ite proper limita. ———— Martin T. McMahon for Congress. We nominate for representative of the Fourth District of New York in the Forty- third Congress, to be chosen two years hence, Gen, Martin T. McManon of the Third Ward of thie city. We nominate him as an Independent Democratic Republican canai- date, Gen. McMaton has just completed the most extraordinary canvass ever made in this city. He was first proposed by Tire Sun just two weeks before election day. He had no organization to back him, except the brcken-down Young Democracy—that \s to say, pretty nearly no organization at all. Hie own energies, the support of a coneiderablo number of personal friends, the sympathy of ail who desire to reform the government of thie city, andthe advocacy of Te Sun were his chief resoures Working with these, he has succeeded in reducing the Tammany majority on Congress from 16,050, as it stood in 1868, to 4,066; while in the district Gov HoreMan his now obtained a majority of 9,770, and Mayor O'HALL a majority of 8,006. his splendid result for McManon was won in the face of every conceivable obsta. cle. This Congress district includes part of the Senatorial district of Boss Twrnn, the mighty millionaire of Tammany Hall, Next year TWEED will come before the people for reflection to the Senate, and his chances would have been much impaired had MceM« NON been elected. Besides, in this district lives Jon Fox, a chief of the Young De- mocracy, who has never mado his peacs with TWEED, and who took an active part in the canvass for McMAl0N as soon as he was nominated by Te Sux, TwEeEp could not allow himeelf to be beaten by any move- ment in which Jomn Fox was known as bearing a part. He must defeat Fox at whatever cost or hazard, And thus, in addi- tion to the regular power of the Tammany machine—and this power has been correctly described Ly one of its supporters as sufl- cient to elect a jackass to Congress if the orders of ‘Tammany had given the nomina- tion to such a beast—McManon had to con- tend against the private animority and pub- lic ambition of the richest, the most cunning, and the most unscrupulous of the Tammany oligarchs. ‘Taking all these facts into ac count, is not the result a splendid one and full of encouragement for the future? And as we do not wish to be unprepared for the next canvass, we begin it now by nominating Gen, McManon; and we call upon his friends to form their organizations in all the wards ond precincts of the district, so that in 1872 there may Le a fair contest ; and may the best man win We do not know how people generally regard this subject; but it ceems to us un asonable that Mr. Tween and Mr, SWEENY elect all the Congres n eibly represent this city, In the de u chosen on Tuesday last there is not ono of the six gentlemen elected who is not indebted to TWEED and Sweeny for the privilege of running, or who could have been chosen had these two dictators secon fit to direct other Even Janrs Brooks and Ft A the right to claim that they can do something for themselves would surely have been defeated had not Twerp and SWreENy given their consent te theirelection, Such ad: think, needs to be correeted. should en who ost at Woop, who alone have otism as this, we We Lave made a good beginning in this canvass for MoMA Non, poopdo to keep it alive by preparing for hig elec hence and we eall upon on two years — Query: Does Howick Gaerney feel un happy over the defeat of Woorronn, the frend of Oaxsmiru? aie We had the pleneure of shaking: hands with Citizen Roostvent yesterday on the eoneln. sion of the contest in the Fourth District, MMe was in excellent spirits, somer than befor side amount of whiske dvinks in getting elected to Cor Fourth jut the member ¢ ne 1d looked even bi This was su rising, eon’ d lager a fellow ss from the strict, et pos $ @ rare equanimity and re nables one to b pher, and though li ento as sentiments on the science ology Were not #0 sound before the recent contest as they becun ving for. werd, wo haye the best hope that be will also tui In that bo nate him as the Demoerati 8, He is w philoso: @ while it was out @ statesman, we nomi for United ‘This oftice will have to be fiilod next year, and where ean the Demoersey find « fitter Senator than Brother Roosevent? We t want him to run again in the Fourth District mn candi States Senator, be we design to elect another man ther when the time comes, me We lear St, Louis and South frou ern Railway, le Louis to Shawne town on the Ohio river, is rapidly advancing to ho western division, ed for busi just, A section tiftecn miles from Shawneetown seventy-six miles long, was ope fa on the Ist westward iy al in operation; and at the pres: ent rate of progress the entire li will be open within # year, ‘This road will bring ar gion al moat og large as all New England into unication with the country at large, It is built in the best manner and furnished with cars and engines of the fret quality, The Board of Trade of St, Louis lately passed @ roxolution de- claring it to be “the most important railway enterprise now projected from St, Louis,” Momt of the line is underlaid by the great Illinois cout field, estimated to yield from nine to thirty mil- Vion tone of coul to each square mile, Besides abounding in coul, iron, and timber, the country through which the road passes is fertile and pop- ulous, Nearly a quarter of w million people live ling in Minos and Indiana, This year they have produced sixtoen million bushels of corn, four million and balf bushels of wheat, rud nixteen million pounds of tobacco, besides other products im the sane proportion, Tbe ihway on th the election of » State by the presence of THURSDAY, NOVEMBER are also twenty-eight steam mills on the western half of the line, with an aggregate capacity of four thousand five hundred barrels of flours day, ‘These facts show that the Board of Trade of St. Louis did not exaggerate the importance of the enterprise, ——— Col. James Fiex, Jr, ordered Company P, Ninth Regiment, to go to their armory in citi- zen’s dress on Tuesday, and protect their property in case of a riot, Every Colonel is held respon- sible for the arms and accoutrements of his rogi- ment. Knowing this, and fearing that a mob would attack an armory at the outset for the pur- pose of seouring arms, Col. Fisk took precaution- ary measures, and quartered fifty ununiformed men in the armory of the Ninth, ‘These fifty men furnished food for the Falee-Reporting Tribunde sensational announcement that Fise bad ordered the whole Ninth Regiment under arms on election day. The authorities at Washington seem to have implicitly believed the Fulse Reporting Tri- bunds nonsensical story, for we learn that a con- sultation was held at the War Department with closed doors on receipt of the news, and that the consultation lasted some hours. We have no particulars of the conference. The Government was neodlessly alarmed. The Fualee Reporting Tribune should dispense with the services of the imaginative reporter who tramped up this laugh- able nonsense. —— The Tammany leaders before election made heavy bets that Lanwira would not poll 45,000 votes. The Transcript (Tammany’s own organ) yesterday morning gave him over 46,000. If any- body, however, supposes that Boss i'wasn is going to lose his money, be will be mistaken, Wateh Tammany’s satellites, and see how skilfully they will reduce Lenwirn’s vote in the official canvass, aseeemetipieeeenaaiens From tho correspondence which reaches this country by balloons from Paris, it would seem that fresh meat is becoming very scarce. But Americana must not therefore conclude that the Pi 3 are op the point of starvation, There is an abundance of cereals, which have always been the chief subsistence of the Celtic and Latin races, The three flesh meals aday which are so common here, would there be con- sidered as unnecessary for even the farm labor. ers, The small landed proprietors seldom touch but are nourished principally on bread, wine, and thick opion soup. The mechanics of the capital live much more sumptuously; but even ther are accustomed, when on strikes, to subsist almost entirely on bread and Aaricots blance—the white beans of this country, -_aoassnenloeen The people of Charlestown, Mass, have a proposition before them to unite with the city of Boston, They are by no means unanimous in its favor, and @ meeting of its opponents was held on Monday evening to express their senti- ments, and to take measures to defeat the pro- ject. One of the speakers put the anti-annexa- tion argument very forcibly. He said that while Charlestown remained intact, a majority of ber citizens could always have what they wanted ; but ewallow her up in Boston, and her influence would be so small that nothing could be hoped for with cortainty, If annexed, the small portion would be governed by a community of 250,000 outside her borders, and there would be no re- dress. Now, when any itoprovement is asked for, the members of the city government are likely to know the facts in the case, and will spend their time to fully investigate the matter, Not so in Boston; for there the members of the city government would in most cases be stran- gers to the interests of the Charlestown district, Another speaker said that the whole annexation movement was instigates by aman in the Navy my Yard, who wanted a new Congressional district made eo that he could goto Co On the whole, it would seem that tho Charlestowners are very well off as they are, and bad better keep so, io fist aie oe Another case of poisoning through the in- of & druggist’s assistant has oc It was in Providence, R, I, A colored woman presented at a drug store @ prese of which calomel was an large of the proprietor, put ‘The coroner's ju competency curred, ingredient. Tb n the ab. corrosive sub’ boy, who was in nee of the te inst store recommended t physicians’ prescriptions be written in Eng Nisha of Lain; but a more useful preeau tion would be to bang @ cruggistor two for murder, Miss Hanniny A. Kiyes is to Ase n Holl uming Fire, W cet ture at xt Saturday eve g upon Con wlvise all the polidcians go and hear her, She a give them information about something they stand in uved Arailroad is projected in Brazil, which is likely to. be of considerable to the com: merce of the United States, It is to be called the Modaira and Mamoré Railway, and will ex tend from San Antonio to GuajariMerim, a distance of about 170 miles, Ia object is to furnish tra on of goods gong to and from Beliy pund the fulls of the M river, Which are an insuperable obstacle to navi. gation, and now compel trafic wal and expensive It costs €200 gold to carry a ton of freight by this route from Europe to Bolivia; wherens, when the projected railroed is completed, it will ng to take an un. the Andes route over to » by the way of Para, only one-third as much, end still yielding a hand The regi bo opened to American as well as wn merchants is highly productive, and contains a lar that its trade will He profit to the will Euro; carriers, a which population, » ly valuable be extren We are authori rumors from Washington, al! that all the s that Jud, gn his office ws Chief Jus dust, d to state Corre intends to re tice, are nothing but We used to hear a great deal about oyster wars in Virginia, in the days when Hexny 4 Wis was Governor of that State; but lotterly peace seems to have reigned there among the ti en of the bivalves, Connecticut, bow ever, bas not been so fortunate, The authorities of the town of Branford undertook some tig ego to seize and coufiscate the schooner of ove Joux Aventit, who was taking oysters in What they mistakenly supposed to be the town private beds, The town Justice ed them in their action, and the a 8 eUpp tier has been until finally fought through the courts m of the ¢ by ade neetil ut Supreme Court, the ‘own hag been discomfited, aud the brave oya ter n has come off victorious, The agreement existing between Russia and Gorn in respect to the rey treaty of Paria of inid s likely to prove the be the end of the Ottoman I Th idea of blockading the high seas of the world for the purpose of propping up the erumbling throne of the Bultan could only have been conceived by the despotic mind of « Venavet, Boxapants, and it fulls to the ground with him, ‘The ity in which that treaty was signed is now threatened by for- ¢ign armies in consequence of the misrule of Naro- Ifit had not been for his misohlevous influ- ence, the treaty would never have been signed. At any rate, it was not ratified by the Amer Government, and Congress has, on the contra protested at all times against its arbitrary charac- tem Any measure looking to the abolition of restrictions upon free anvigation will be hailed with delight in the United States, expecially if this boon should be the forerunner of the col: lapse of the Porto and the independence of the 4 Christian nationalities of the Kast, Lrox 10, 1870. THIS SURPRISING WAR. —_—_—_— NOTES OF A BRITISH OFFICER ON THE FRENCH ARMY, aes Army Long Since Played Ont- —folferine—Louls Vertnel a alt Show — Gen, for A Private Letter communicated for The Sun. Bavsseia, Oct, 14.—The French army, though it was considered tre OF prejudice to say 60, had long been living on its past reputation, like the Prussian army at the close of the last and beginning of the present century. on the repatation of the soldiers of Frederick the Great, The routine with- out the spirit, as we know, failed signaily against the new system and superior generalship of the French republican and imperial commanders, It was, again, like the British commissariat in the Crimea, The British were the only people in Karope who had one worthy of the name, till the French learned something of it after 18%) by the ex- perience of Algeria, Before that large armies could ‘only subsint and movo with efficiency in densely popu- lated countries, where provision was collected within acertain radius. This is ® main reason why the great Napoleon failed in Syria, Spain, and Rassia, Yet in toe Crimean war, andor eircumstances the most favorable, the British sabsistence department proved simply disgraceful, and not only inferior to the French, but to thet of every army in Europe, Tt had been living on its past repotation. Yorte- nately for Great Britain, rhe had in India men who had maintained and improved the best traditions ot the system, as wae shown shortly after in the Sepoy rebellion, and subsequently in the Abyssinian expe- dition, (HR FRENCH ARMY IN TIE CRIMEA, ‘The French army in the Crimea was, in the eyes of clove and competent observers, far from coming up to the high standard formed of it. The account civen by Kinglake may be read with great adva tage on this subject, Making allowance for some natural prejadice and for undue partiality to Lord Raglan, to whom he was personally attachod, his account is graphic and correct, He lind the advon- tage of collating the opinions of euch men as S\ Colin Campbell and Gen, Cathcart, old and able veterans who had inet the French armies of the first Napoleon on many battleflelds, and who were ab to make personal snd judicious comparisons, To sum ap, Nne wore in the Irench regiments of the all respecta very ordinary; but to rach division were attached plexed corps of light infantry, ench as Zouaves, whose efficiency, particularly as ekirmislers, was at trot time exceptional. On these and on a formidable proportion of fleld artillery thelr gene- rals wers accustomed and instructed to rely, and seemed a ily unwilling to move witvout the Lit. ter, That artillery was also select, and seemed very efficient as long as the horses could be pre- torved in tolerable condition, Its fre was more ae- curate than that of the Rassians, and far more tn- telligently directed, though slower in movement, on account of the deterioration of the animals; but, as all the Mghting was comparatively within » ring fence, no jadement could be formed of its endurance fn the march and wear of a more active eampaien. As to the commande they ceted with extreme eaction, and gave no evidence of any particular ski Tt may be eaid, in fact, that none was wn on any side during the war, excent by the Russian GenefaY Liprandi (an Italian), and the Turkish General Omer Pasha (& Croatian) NOW NAPOLEON CHOSE MIS GENERALS, But it was understood that the French Emperor in selecting bis generals had not picked out tue most able, but those politically the *afest—men of whose personal devotion be was best assured, or who would rigidly obey their orders to risk nothing, and who would not adventure on a decisive battle, which if lost woul, in the first war he bad under. taken, lave been dangerous to him, and if woo with any brilliant results, like the capture of the Russian commander-in-ebief, might at that time bave raise? up & formidable rival ip the conqueror, These views were strictly carried out from the battle of the Alma, where the infamous Marshal St, Arnaud (sho bad been in 1829 cashicred and convicted of the larceny of @ fifteen-(rane tassel) moved with a tilla protecting bis right and the British protect- ing his left, During the siege of Bebastopol the French secured the nearest barbor, the euriest ground for trenching. Toeir left was protected by tm their right aad rear by the British, who bad to bear the bront of three ont of the tor battles that were fought, and the Sardiniaus of the fourth, end to make their approaches over rocky ground in fact, the British were ludicrously catspawed all Thongh not constiwutiog one-third of the they had, as te record shows, the Iargest number of killed and wounded; but at the close the French took the Malakoff, and carried off the glory of the campaign force THB SOLPRRINO CAMPAIGN The next time the aire Of War was in the Solferino em reneh army aj which were Gzsf texted vel appliances Here for the 1 stores wero moved to the # Here for the frat time rifled mu universally adopled alter the Crimean war, wero ured by *. Those of the Preneh were euper and preeisic tot aud corps like t } Zouavee Here, nin ranze Charseurs te Vin hy tra Hillery was fiewt harms, fhe campaign ¥ triumphant, with advanta » prestige of the French army, and with the dan or darh which in fail tide ¢ bat where wae the ge their o ral sit always exlivite Loni Nap ob into ail the hard Sighting of MacMa tnd if the views and Mongarian Benedek bad not heen thwarted (us they were afterward in the Sadowa c: of Austria mpaign) by f high and have been an end the jeato commanders aristocratic rank, the Doth to MacMahon and | So, again, at So: NO, Wiech Was enly Wen by w Kerateh, In which Beae lek was again overstaughed, of the new I citive effort. eer and La whieh the anrape arullery pri THE FRPNCU ARMY & PRETORION GUARD Ik was heneo euppored by superficial observers at Louie Napoleon, giving bie “whole mind” t zation of the Freneb army, as the young frlend of Punch did to tie wet of his cravat, led the arch of lirprovement im anilitary matters, au absolnie sovereign; he was an innoy frst adopied ironclads in the Cr (ough tt reguired the memorable bate in Hat ton oats te revolutionize the navies of the w Arel used rifled field avtillery im the Talian jen; be formed ond cultivated the Inpertal Guard ond epecia Dut elce Investicators ike Troebu at bome, and many abroad, were ea’ He was ple corps ed that the French army was not keeping pace with the general u of Militry progress; that it Was not even standing still, but that in essentials it was uetuaily deteriorating. ad of combining, with the enlinited mean power tu his hands, the most powerful wor ma cline in Europe, he eseridced everything to per sono devotion and ty securing in all ranks porous Aberents, Inste rutig an army, he succeed ed Jo wrodueing Yow gnard, me to Frenchmen thau to the ina dynastic interest was a fa \ event of his death er grievous indrmit HAVE POT UP THE IMPERIAL CROWN F Versoually he bad incurred the conte army whieh had fought with him at Magentis, and Witnes*od his flasco— of the fae men Whe, thonsh Frenebmen, upprecisted and vehemently @heered the chivalrous gatiautsy of Vievor Emanuel and of Garibuldt, ‘The eror silenced them, an it wee expressed by Fome of them, “through stupoing their mouths and gageine them with honors and re yards,” jurt asthe British Ministry, alter the Cri mes, hed done by Sir Fenwick William Wilhams Williams of Kars, ‘Though he originated the use of field artillery, tt was shown in the Chinese campaign, noder Montan. ban (Count Palikac), Indicrously inefficient compared to the British, At the opening of she present war, it was far behind that of most of bis noighvore While he had ® magnificent collection of horses for his own ute, while the Champ Klyseés and Bois de Roulogne exhibited the most briliiant display of equines io the world, and while fome of the houee hold troops were showily mounted, the number of Amprs ved hornes throughout nuntey, whieh bad remarkably increwsed during Louie Phiippe’s rege, had diminishes, and the average breeds deteriorat- ed. The setool of Algeria, whieh had once been beneficial to the French army aa that of India to the British (and without which it would be nothing), tad loosened ail the bands of discipline, and created fle- Hitious reputations. All military commands, all virtaal military authority, was rigorously confined to known and secretly watched partisans of the Imyerial régime, and its pecuniary irresponsibility and extravagance, ‘That prerequisite of imperial loyalty entablished, individual malversation or indis- cipline, which soon became universal, were neither punithed nor exposed—ot most, rebuked, without being effectually checked, The whole army fabric ‘was not only worm-eaten by abuse, as the Emperor must have known, but it was in fufinitely worse condition than he dreamed of, and in fuct, as the ‘event proved, RNTIRELY ROTTEN AND CRUM BLING INTO DUST. In a dynastic interest, and with » view of courting Personal popularity, even urgently necesssry re- forms connected with the état major, or stoi 1; tom, were abandoned, To keep up the tradition of every French soldier carrying a mar bacon in his knapsack, a certain number of men were com- missioned from the ranks, always for their veboment loyalty ; for which reason 1t happens that over thirty commissioned officers, and of as high rank as major, are found in one batch of prisoners unable to sign their names, ‘The jealousy of euch men, and of superiors little above them in intelligen’e and know- ledge, look umbrage st the interference of scientific officers, Bull, thongh aware of all these causes subversive of discipline and efficiency, those who had seen the French army in the Crimea and in Italy wero sim- ply astounded at its condition in ‘THE BROINNING OF THE CAMPAION. Everything in men and materia} sent to the front {0 make ® show, and nothing in reserve, Of that army and its material it turned ont that a large Proportion was only on paper. Nothing but consum- mate military ability, and the dash and promptitude of action shown by the first Napoleon in his early cys, gave even a chance of success, So fur from this, the mismanagement was signal, from high to Jow. It was believed that L. Napoleon, after the experience of his one eampoign, Lad too much common sense to attempt to manage another ; that he would surround himself by the best talent in the French army, and be euided by {1 opinion. Instead, ati commands wei given to third-rate men, and he had the fatulty of attempting to direct operations, At the start, in one of the richest re tions in Europe, tho men were starving ; the for- tresses were unprovisioned ; ammanition was not on hand; smallarm and cannon ammunition were a fraud; peasants, and then teams, had to be hired for traneportation, No attempt was made to carry the cavalry or artillery horses. When they could, and os lung as they could, the commanders re- mained where they could get forage, and meanwhile the animals were novor exercised, and sometimes actuslly not watered, Of couree, when used in the fleld, they Uroke down at once, There was no cavalry toscout or make reconnolssances, The aenerals and their respective staff's made them- selves personally as comfortable as they could, and tho starving foldiers would do no guard duty, and DELIDERATELY WENT TO SLEEP AT THE CUTPOSTS, Now, while the French army bad, #0 far from keeping up with the march of military progress, been actually deteriorating, Prussia had been for twenty years intelligently and industriously improv- ing hers beyond the highest point of perfection eivewhere existing, ‘The Sadowa campaign had kiven her prestige, confidence, and experience. The movements of lier armies were admirably planned, and their improved and effcient machinery worked without a single check. She liad twice successively the remarkable good fortune, which probably never occurred in war before, of being able to earry out the programme laid down, even in ity minutest de tajle, Just ae well rehearsed actors do upon the stare, and with as lide interraptipn. ‘There is no disguising tbe fact that the French regular army is UTTERLY AND PERMANENTLY DEMOMALIZEN, 1 know of no other army which, cumstances, would not have never were remarkable (or playing stabbornly alos ing game, Undoubtealy they fousht with the ut most gallantry and obstinacy, Overwhelmed, cut off, weakened by privation, and naturally divested ofall confidence in their leaders, they bad to cor tend against two or three to one, and until recently never suceumded to an equal force of Prassiars T have no idea that, reversing those conditions, the Prussiane would is half as to At loneth, bowever, it is certain that they feel thor. lly witpped and cowed. ‘That regular army as 8 mass is ruined forever, The raw Mobiles and under the cir been, and the Freneb foughy ynal Guards stand where ils « s ron as se there is a percentago of exceptions, nduring pluck and experience may prove eaven the new levies; bot as a whole it would be a benefit to France if the Prussias 1 the whole of ber regular army which bas been ENGAGED ON THE THRATRE OF WAR We have been amused bere at the remarks, or a! loged remarks, made by your prominent com on the Franes-!'russlan campaign, to wit, by Gens Grant, Beaurezard, and J, B, Jovnston, Tt is true that she cround over Which your war was fought re: dered toe came nearly us different as that of chess and billiards, Tam free to confess that Von Moltke with the beautifully perfect iastraments at his con trol, would have felt as much puzeled to handle them on your peculiar theatre of War, as your Gen. would bo here; and farther, to admit that ither French nor Proesians would have shc tubborn endnrancy of ¢ the Roman-like perseverance pans Who, th nthe Confedorates, or Jerals uch ever and when I nioal was al Rome, continued to pr claim Hat ¢ po Ceatroyed, and aceon 4 it at das Gon. Grant said, Nefore tbe tirst shot was that modern wars were very slow, that te hing would act on the defen aud that the neh would bave to dig them uv, wilitary men Europe smiled. There pever was a military pre which the ffllacy was wore effectually exposed by the tion of prompt! it, LE trust for yo wakes Ghat Hf¥ political foresight ae Premideut ts Hie elearer, — NOW, MR. TWEED, TALK! How Much Wilt You Charge to Fix this Thing ¢- Something (hat the Property Molders Want to Kuow, To the Editor of Th Sin: U ords Assessments of this city, the n the rec f the Collector of es entered the as eving 10tst street from Pith avente to river, contrmed by the Supreme Cou improvement, the assess ment hus been removed by order of the Commi sioner of Pablic Works, Win, M, Tweed,’ Commissioner may ! lat good and sutie cause for removing Mie waseRsMent On the but Tebould hike to know if he bas any legal pow todo it, Why should these lots be exempted, ar the amounts of the other Jota remein unebanged # Ava iaxpaver and citizen I should like to know Nay not Mr, Tweed have been privately benefited by nition? At any rate, L ehould ike t have him explain Why he removed the assessment on tue 1 how he charges to do the proverty, and Tshonid like (© have them "fixed in the #me Way Your reporter can be eatisBod of the truth of what T write by examining Record No. 85, folio 10 to 20, in the offles of the Collectur of Avsuseine No. 19 City Hall Through the mediom of your “reve” you may Perh.pe RAVE eeveral interested property . some information ou the eubject, Hoping that you ay tucceed In so doing, Lam yours, & Noy. 8, 4070. ANQUISILON. —— Fisk and bie Coackma In tho course of speech by the Hon. ©, 8. Bpencer, be relates the following story of the Prince of Eries Barly this afternoe negroes in the employ cf Ci Tw poliin Iwo gorgeourly-attired HK isk deft hie th Yilird street, and preceeded to tae eUivy votod whole Kep the gw Hnel bia maine place, hearing lols which be Was aboUE LO depowit Hoffivan and Halt an lounging close t have been here and torning sharply aoon hiv Lwish all oF my employ they did quite riche, ree (0 yous ay they d , Ii, On seventy four | _ $$$ | BUNBEAMS. ona anne Pig's Bye is the name of one of the new cit of Minnosota. =It is predicted that the buffalo will be extinet in twenty years. —The population of Maine has increased just one-half of one per cent. sines 1860. Jenny Lind has been singing in London for the benent of the Gerinan wounded. =A Westorn druggist advertises : clans’ prescriptions eareiully confoanded. —There will be fifty-three Sundays in 1871— ‘We year beginning and endint on Sunday. —Hlampstead Heath, a famons holiday resort of London cockneys, is to be made @ public place of recreation. “ Physte Mattie Adams took the prize of the apple as th jsomest woman at the Georgy State Fair. ‘ —Apron festivals are the latest approved are ent for raising money for religious or charh ' ns are proverbially absent-minded, and the veacon ls obyious—they are often rapped up io their profession, —Two old buffers in Joliet have played 10,800 games of seven-ap in six months, and the best man ie only four games ahead. —The exquisitely sentimental song, “Sally Balter,” published in the Sundeame # few days ago, waa copied from the Sunday Atlas, =The Nova Scotia Annexation League cons template «large meeting at Halifax to forward the plan of annexing the province to the United States. —That story of second crop of strawberries being now picked im Minnesota is said to fe been one of the Western inventions to indace immigration, —It is said that the Kaw Indians salt the rail- try for the purpose of enticing ‘eaitle in front of the cars, so they can get the carcasseay —Prof. Jowett’s new work on Plato w' talo @ translation of all (he writings of the Greek phile- sopher, to each of which he prefixes an elaborate lu troduction. —A Terre Naute bridegroom refused to wed after he looked im the family Bible and fuond thot Le lady love was nine years older than ber mother bed represented. —Gardeners mind their peas, actors mind their cues; but church wardens, instead of minding thoir p's and q’s, very otton give their attention to thor pews and keys. —Horace Binney of Philadelphia, and Samuel Dono Parker of Boston, the oldest living eradaacee of Harvard College. Mr. Binney was a member of we clase of nd Mr. Parker of that of 1709, —Among the latest additious to Madame Tug eau ax-works are King William and Count Di» marek; bat to the potutment of the Fronedy refugees in Loudon the 01 placed in the chawbor of horrors, —Mr. W. W. Stor: Rome, has in hand a work on thi of Bt. Angelo at Rome, and ine ‘on a Roman medi«val subject—tue loves of Otho and Stephania, —Camden Place, Chiselhurst, the temporary residence of Eugénie, derives ite name trom th antiquary and historian, Wiliam Camden, who is to have composed there his Ansals of the Reigo of Queen Elizabeth.” —In some of the localities of Ci.icago it is said that real eetate has not advanced in price since 1868, Along tae courte of the lake property i# in brick de mand Lots on Prairie avenue have recently beon sold at from 850 to €400 per foot. —English papers complain that the balfpeony portal cards, which have recently been introduced, are Geveloping ® good deal of Intent blackguardism, the opportanity of sen open mes ages of a0 insult ing character through the Post Ofice belug appareatiy irresistable. —The Inte Admiral Dahlgron's will dirocts that a bronze statue be erected over the crave of iny dearly beloved son, Uirie Dahl, , and to his his, torical vinaication from the base asperstoue of thot who countenauced (he savage bardarity with wick ius remains were treated. —A foreign correspondent thus present coudiuion of Frauce: "Cont trade. No army for want of an organizer mon, Plenty of ialers—no activity. A muititude of wniforv no solders, Litense excitement, pationad songs, marching, dranming, telecraus full of Lien” —The Shakers of Tyringham, Berkshire connty, Mass. have decided to fell their eutire property ther aad remove to Lebanon Spriuzs, of possluly t9 other tottioments of the sect, Tho estate is very valuable, the scholar-sentptor of Castle itowizes the at drtil—no po heading comprising 140) acres of yalu.Ule farsning tend 1a Rerkehire county, meadow, t asture, aud wood lad, besid substantial dwelta It appears from an article in the Datennib Pinanaht, a Polish paper ed tn Pruvela, thas some of the most brill ant achievements of tae C aciny in the present war were performed, not by Gere #, DUL by Poles irom the Polish prov laces of Pras The Third D.visioa of the Landweur, under Gems Wiiose coulues® and determination 1a the re Mets have bocn so warmly praivod, eons ving verdict, which was rendered Ii) shows that the darkness of Veen entirely cleared aways KURNEWS Vannicr.—We, the Jurye, find the a dead waa yhiedoath im the d {/suin anoe!snow wutul irom weeping a ax wha Hints almost en} The 1th tn Calhon Eevt) county ry hal which unlauful weeping wos used With deadly inteut to KIl the afsesud Ded dane We, the a! nd unuercianed Jurys hope fully Delecve that Jian was 1 we said Ax, Mr. an English se! announces, as the result of caretul exper (er is of Hi tle use in predicting orulua’ The reason te thal nany postu ¢ strict y fulfilled in order that the re alt may becorrect, 6nd exp + that there postulates ave vory rarely awith w - ly vary, ex th every one of wh theory of predict eh the baron Vihue lairodues an n which it would be twp @ phi paper, notice fact that ters 18090 v s « avon of Wbiladel hia, when earefully and acct Fatsly taken, will equal f ot exceed that ot Hoastial A number of Frene! officers pi ” a uit to thelr apa soone of a v id * ' at pre y me ’ Jone fSontheastera M tae minal Case, wher for canes, ib was a ' 4 hee artal arieg Whers te Chirk. tt ot y gverratol, Yonb In ¢ tion with the ua ry exe { to but tele tor ‘ a reeou 1 1 while attending ¢ rm) ng a road whens boy wae —A certain Judge shire (own, Was parRing ai Jnet letting down ihe bars te fatuer stood tn the door tide cf the road, and reeling what shouted out: "Ji rive rome eattie Hi f his house, on the 2 hapetas wart twem cattle 12 in. dup's you ry there; I told you to pat tem tn the pasture bolum (Ve Louse.” The boy took no notice wharevr of ihe Te monatraree, and his fatlor reeatea ths order 1a ® louder tone without the least effoot, avd tM ” Tho son didn deign to look an, 1 parental injunction with a coolnems whieh pusitineld shocked the Judge. who, Wookiig at tho cuipr", tid tn w tone of otttcial divntiy: * Hoy, don's you heat you? father tpoakiag toy Ouy replied we boy, looking at the Judes, bub Eidou’smnid wnat De says, Mottior don’t, neliher, aud "wee we About Bt Ihe dog to be donk”