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" 8 new y0rk herald JKOADWAY AND ANN ^TPE$T? JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR.. j All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nxw Yoiyt [Ik KALI). Tolnne XXXV No. ??* AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWFRY THEATRE, Bowarj Tu* BCBGLiM of Nbw York - Dkh KuciucnuTZ. nrrH A YEN UK THEATRE, Twentr-fourt!) ?t.-JliK ins Wirt. . ? OLYMPIC TUEATRE, Broadway.-Oitb a Boiffb? LITTLK Kaubt. BOOTH'S THEATRE, ItSJ It., be.wscn 6th Hd <H?i ars. ? Rir VAN WINKLB. LINA edwin's theatre, 720 Broadway.~bl.ak Ey'd Buzimg?Camii lk. WALLACE'S THEATRE. Broadway ana 13tU itreet.? fcUEHJii-tN'tt CoUEl'Y or Till RlVAl.lt. HIBLO'8 r.ARRKN. Ilroailwa/?TUB NEW IIOMFSTIO iJBAMA OK JlEA' T'N KA8.~. ORAND OPERA HOI'SE, rt>rni>r of Eighth avenue and lad ?l--ui'kua uourre-li 1'etxt r'Atar. WOOD'S MI'SEUM AND MENAfJERIE, Broadway, corner s0;b (. rrrfuimaucea every aflernoun and evening. NKW YORK STADT THEATRE, 43 Bowery.?OPJSBA be no- LA VIE 1'auisiknne. MRS. r B. CON WAV'S PArtK THEATRE. Brooklyn? (Juy Mannfbino. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OK MUSIC?EDWIN FOKBEST I.N knii 1.EAB. TONY PASTOR'S Ol'LKA HOUSE, *J0l Bowery.-VAkje1y Entrhtaim.me.st. THEATRE COMIQt'E, 514 Broadway.?Ccmic Vocalibm, NKiiKii A' la. Ac. BAN KRAM IsrO .U1SSIKEL, IIALL. 6*6 Broaiway.? N Kl.EO Mj.sSTUKI.hY, pabceu, BUUUtHIJUEb, AO. I KELLY a LEON'S MINSTRELS. No. C06 Broadway? The ijaiiietj ok hie l'Etttou?Tue Only Leon. HOOLEY'S OPERa HOUSE, Brooklyn.-NEuao MinSTKK1.KV, blBLEB^rEb, AC. AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION.-EssriBB kink, Third avenue and Mity-thlrd (treeu LEEDS' ART GALLERIES, ?7 aud 819 Broad way.? tollllUTlO.l OE PAlNTiNGS. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 74i Broadway.? Fcience ami akt. NEW YORK M'SEUM OP ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.? Science and a nr. T II1PLE SHEET. New York. Thursday, September 29, 1870. tOVIO.S OF TO-DAY'S (1EUALD. I face. 1?Advertisements. i?A Ivertiaemeius. 3?Paris: Surrender of Strasbourg to the Gorman Army: T!io IIkkald Special Report or Bazaine's Operations; Two Severe Engagements Near ilei /. on Friday and Saturday; The French Beprlsen and Their Attempted Escape Frustrated; Orleans < ocupied ami Tours Threatened by the Prussians; l ne Urltl-h Cabinet Considering the Question of lntenention. 4?Map of P,.ris, its Environs and Fortifications? Loss of the Meaiuer Galatea at Sea?The Chilean mi.uster?'The ex-Minister to Chile? The Iron Bar Homicide?Episcopal Convention?The Brittle of Sighs. 5?Europe: lntoresiins: Mai) Details of Events in Bel.: mm (i rmany and England?Financial und commercial Beports?Advertisements. O?Editorials: Leading Article, Progress of the War in F.urope, the Attitude of tho Neutral rowers?Personal Intelligence?Sews from Washington?The Steamship Hermann. 7? Te euraphic News from all Pares or the World? Movements ol Pre-ldent Grant?Yac hting : Regaita or the New York Yacht Club: the Contost for the Ashbury and DoukIhs Cups? Bcductlon of Taxes?News lrom Cuba,?Hurnnng Down a Circus?Business Notices. S? Marriages and Deaths?Advertisements. 9_ Advertisements. New York Courts?Preparations for thp Obsequies of Admiral Farragut?Shipping luteingence?Advertisements. 5 1?Ailvei tlscments. j g?Advertisements. Good for the Bookmakkp.s.?At the late trade sales in this city the books brought au average of filteen per cent more than last year. WniTE Stockings. 22; Matu&ls, 11?Equal in Dase Dan 10 me victory or woerm, mougn not quite up to the capture of Strasbourg or the Italian occupation of Rome. But where are the Red Stockings ? Tiik Cakes of Office go hard with Superintendent Jourdan. Notwithstanding his out of town trip for the benefit of his health, he is atill in a dangerous condition. Yet he persists in attending to his official duties as usual. Why do the Police Commissioners not grant bim a six months' vacation ? The public does not want to sacrifice so efficient an official. Kosstrrn (Jives it Up.?Kossuth has declined to serve as a deputy in the Hungarian Parliament. The affairs of Hungary, Austria, Italy, Rome, France and the world in general have taken a shape which completely bewilders Kossuth. He finds that the cause of "the solidarity of the peoples" ia getting on very well without him, and he retires in disgust. Good News from Rome?The newB that the Holy Father is pleased at having the Ital ian army to protect him, free of charge, in the place of his expensive foreign mercenaries. We knew he would like the chauge, and we arc sure that in baing relieved of his temporal kiordom he will become stronger in his spiritual kingdom, and nearer the example of St. Peter. God be praised! Another Accident occurred yesterday in the Brooklyn bridge caisson. While James Roouey was tamping powder for a blast in the rocky bed at the bottom of the caisson an explosion took plyce, and Rooney and another laborer neur him were badly injured. Tho bridge is progressing slowly and disastrously, and there is no estimating how many lives may be sacrificed before it finally spanB the East river. Oi:k Cuban Correspondence, which will be found in another part of the IIekald this morning, is both interesting and important. The particulars of the shocking execution of the young patriot Avesteran, who died nobly, anrl oron in /InalK lr!nf*5?? V? vu < ? uvhiu Iiiuiupiicu v?CI U13 Ojjaiiinu executioners, and an account ot the cruise and successful landing of the expedition of the steamer Salvador, form the prominent features of the correspondence. A Stupendous Jon.?The authorities of the British War Office, it is reported, are in conpul'.aiion with the Board of Works for the com plete fortification of London. If this is true the same idea, doubtless, is at the bottom of the enterprise that led Louis Philippe to the fmildin? of the fortifications of Paris, and Louis Napoleon to his boulevards?namely, the idea of protecting the city against the inside revolutionary reds. We apprehend that the late republican demonstrations in London have given more alarm to the British government ,han the investment ot Paris bv the Germans. low YOK* PlUUli mt the War la Barepe?The Attitude of the Neatral Power*. While Paris holds out and while the patriots talk magniloquent!/ Prussia inarches on, adding victory to victory, and making herself perfectly at home on the soil of France. While Jules Favre and his associates in the provisional government encourage France to bold out and fight the fight to the bitter end, and while M. Thiers wanders wildly from capital to capital, seeking help and finding none, Strasbourg, France's proudest fortress, has fallen. Metz is in desDair. Paris Itself is in an agony, clinging feebly to her last hope, and the Crown Prince of Prussia, under the shadow of the statue of Louis the Fourteenth, at Versailles, distributes rewards to the honored I brave of his army. . The situation has become such that no man not blinded by passion or prejudice or ignoranca can doutot the final result or encourage France to prolong a struggle in which blood will be vainly shed and in which she cannot hope to win. The attitude of the combatabts is by many misunderstood, and by some who ought to know and do better wilfully and wickedly misrepresented. Prussia is blamed because she will not halt in her career of conquest. Bismarck Is abused because he was not all honey and deceit to Julea Favre. King William is abused because, having been compelled to sacrifice millions of precious lives and millions of treasure?for all of which he and hia family must give good account to I'russia, and, indeed, to the whole German people?he will not foolishly fling away all that he has won and make the grandest of all campaigns the greatest of all absurdities. What is the actual situation as between Germany and France to-day? War was without good reason, as we have again and again told our readers, made by France against Prussia. If France had baen successful the French legions would have marched to Berlin. Napoleon the Third, aftdr having ridden in triumph under the Lindens, would, in the royal palace of Berlin, have repeated all the sins committed by bis uncle after the battle of Jena. Germany would again have been humbled. German unity would have been made impossible for at least another half century. The Rhine provinces would have been annexed to France. Waterloo would in part have been avenged. The illomened star of the Bonapartes would have shed its baleful light on the nations of Europe, and progress, genuine civilization, would have been sacrificed on the altar of certain Napoleonic ideas. Bdtthe tide of victory has rolled in the opposite direction. Germany, this time victorious, has poured her legions in upon France. The northern hordes, after somo centuries of comparative weakness, have again risen in their might and rushed irresistibly southward; but on this occasion the northern hordes represent civilization, modern ideas, modern force. Alaric, Attila, Ganseric, while tliAv ata ?trnrif*?nfrnnirniv in fn^t fhnn ever?are no longer barbarians. Because Germany, not France, has won, maudlin sentimentalists all the world over rave about humanity and civilization and barbarity, confound the true with the falne, justice with [ injustice, and howl against the victorious Prussians as if they were ft very pack of wolves. Let us look at tfie situation calmly. What can King William, what can Bismarck, what can the German generals do other than they are doing ? Bismarck has told us ho is willing to make peace. So has his master, King William. The Crown Prince has again and again expressed himself in terms which prove that war for its own sake has no charms for him. But France has no government. The government chosen by the French people is not to be got at. The government now in power is a government without popular credentials. In other words, the government de jure is without power, and the government ae jacio is wunout rignt. it King William treats with Napoleon or with the Regency France may repudiate. If King William treats with Jules Favre and his associates France may repudiate. King William has some six hnndred thousand men on French soil; he must feed them ; he cannot lead them back; they will not be led back until peace has been secured. Bismarck has seen Jules Favre, the acknowledged representative of the present government of France. Ho has 6tatcd the tenns on which bis government is willing to grant an armistice, lie has made it plain that 14)e Prussians have no desire to force upon France any form of government; that they want no more than to he satisfied that the government with which they conclude peace is a government faithfully representing France, and that its deeds are binding upon the French people. With the present government they cannot make peace. With Napoleon or with the Regency they might legally make peace ; but a peace so arranged would be a farce. It would be worse; it would bo an insult to the French people ; and neither King William nor Bismarck nor any Bensible Gorman has any desire to wound unnecessarily the amour proprc of the proud and sensitive people of France. An armistice, however, is a different thing, and that Prussia is willing to grant at once. If France will not now accept Prussia's terms for an armistice France must suffer, although longer to hold out is, by universal consent, madness. There are those who blame the neutral Powers for not interfering. Rnssia is blamed. Groat Britain is particularly blamed. The inaction of the great neutrals is ascribed to selfishness, and selfishness only. All such reasoning is based on false premises. The neutrals can only advise. They cannot afford to fight, for the simple reason that there is nothing to fight about or for. It is well kuown that Russia and Great Britain have already advised, and advised in vain. Sir Henry Bulwer, an old fogy of the Palmerston school of politics, rages: but Sir Henry forgets that the moving, active world is a little younger than he. Carnarvon is young, but he is too young to be relied upon in a question of so irrave importance. The fall of Strasbourg. necessitating, as we think, the fall of Mctz, gives Russia and Great Britain, the two great neutrals, their long desired opportunity ; and, unless we greatly mistake, intervention, which is now all but certain, will have some mean? ing and not a little force. Much, however, depends on the wisdom of the French provisional government. It is for us to remember our own civil war. and our persiateut L HERALD, TflXJKSDAY, S effort! to make rictorjr certain and peace secure, before we too much blame the rictorloui policy of Bismarck, the pride of King William or the stubbornness of the 6?rmaa hosts. * The Military Mltuation la France?Thr Fall of htriubourf and the Raid Through the Kooth. The surrender of Strasbourg is essentially the most important success which the Prussians have achieved since Sedan. The possession of the city gives them the whole line of railway from Strasbourg to Paris, thereby shortening their line of communication greatly and rendering it more secure. In addition it releases the large army under Von Werder, which has been operating against the city, and which is now free to operate with the armies at Metz or Paris if needed. The late desperate attempts of Bazaine to escape from Metz are reported somewhat in detail by our special correspondent in his camp. The attack on the 23d was made against the right of the Prussian line, and was a severe one, the Prussians being saved from defeat only by the arrival of heavy reinforcements from another part of their line. The next day another vigorous attack was made on the left with the same effect, tho French in both iustances being compelled to return to the protection of their fortress. The movement of Prussians south appears to be a grand raid of oavalry, accompanied by batteries oi flying artillery, and is under command of Prince Albert. Orleans has been captured, but the troops do not seem to hare made auy preparations for holding the city, being evidently unsupplicd with infantry enough to make a formidable garrison. The movement may be compared with Grlerson's raid through Tennessee and Mississippi in1862, Stoneman's raid into the neighborhood of Richmond, or John Morgan's raid through Indiana and Ohio. In the case of the Prussian cavalry, however, the force is larger, the country more productive, the opposing forces less formidable and tho distances not so great. There seems to be nobody to oppose their advance except a few panic-stricken gardes, who fly before them at the first fire. They have carried such consternation into the government at Tours and the country people that all are fleeing southward, the government crying loudly for the organization of the whole population of Franco to repel the invaders. The government, it is thought, will assemble at Poitiers, a point about sixty milos south of Tours, where they will have close communication with the seaboard at Bordeaux and Rochelle. Mr. Twerfi's Purchiuta of ('rotou Water. It is pretty well known that the city came very near running out of Croton this summer, which would have been a Bad calamity indeed. We are just informed by the statement of Mr. Tracy, chief engineer of the department, how we were saved from that misfortune. It appears that the supply of the Croton river was failing, but it was discovered that certain lakes of pure, transparent water in Putnam county could be diverted to the use of the city at a moderate coot il" tho appropriations in the city treasury were sufficient to purchase tho water rights. But, as is usual in too many cases, there was no money in the treasury for that purpose. In this emergency the engineer laid the matter before \V. M. Tweed, the portly president of the Board of Public Works. Something must be done or the city would run dry. So Mr. Tweed, as the chief engineer alleges, advanced the money himself to pay for the water rights, with the intention of delivering the deeds to the city whenever the proper legislation could be procured for their purchase. Ic seems that the purchase was made accordingly for twenty-live thousand dollars, and from fifty to sixty million additional gallons of fresh water were thus poured into tho city daily, saving us at a very critical time from a drought. There are said to be jobs at the bottom of j everything in which a politician is concerned. It is the common saying and the common thought. It is not surprising, then, to find people suspecting that Mr. Tweed's purchase will probably result in a handsome thing for himself. But there certainly is no fact in evidence to justify such conclusion just now, and when the deed is transferred to the city we ahnll knnw hnw iinqplfixh wns tho nhmr>t nf Mia president of the Board of Public Works. Sir Henry {Jclwer'b Opinion.?Sir llenry Bulwer, looking at the present aspects of the war in France, says:?"If, standing in view of an immeasurable calamity which threatens to afflict the world, we are wrapped up in an unchangeable resolve to remain motionless, then I cannot refrain from expressing a most mournful apprehension that the day is not far distant when God will withdraw from us a power which we have not known how to use worthily, and that a policy so cowardly will be fatal to our future greatness, our national character and onr national interests." This means that if England persists in her present narrow and selfish policy of "masterly inactivity," doing nothing for the cause of peace at this crisis, she will live to repent her folly; and Sir Henry no doubt speaks the popular opinion of England. A Souk Affliction for Tammany is the terrible threat of the "Real" democracy that no candidate who accepts a nomination from the old democratic mother, Tammany Hall, shall receive a nomination from the fledglings wbo had only three votes m the Legislature at Albany and not a vote at all at the Rochester Convention. There was once a donkey, we are told, who terrified a great many animals by putting on a lion's skin and assuming the dignity and fierceness of the lord of the forest; but the poor fellow grew so proud that he could not restrain himself from uttering a vocal pronunciamento, when, no sooner did he open his mouth than the bray of the jackass betrayed the absence of the lion, and those who feared before now laughed. /Esop's moral requires no glossary. The Rbpobt that the German steamship Hermann was captured by the French gunboats off our coast, or that she was being chased by them, seems to be a canard. Wall street, hard up for a speculation, is responsible for the sensation story. The Pbesident left Boston yesterday, and . is uv w in Hartford. EPTEMBER 29, 1870.-TRI Tkt CipUiUiUi mf Htrukwur|. The old Alsatian city has lowered Its flag to the Invading Germans, the armistice granted at five P. M. on Monday last, the 26th Inst., having terminated in a formal surrender of the place, signed at two o'clook in the morning of yesterday, the 28th. Thus within forty-nine days the chief stronghold of the French in the vicinity of the Rhine has been compelled to succumb, after a siege the fame of which will live so long as the history of our time survives. The period of its terrible probation?a few dayB beyond one month and a half?has more than sufficed to span the brief respite allotted to the empire of Napoleon IIL after 4)in larinni nn?ru(lnn? nf tJm wftr That ponderous organization died weqka ago, and Strasbourg outlived It as a French city just twenty-four days, the republic having been declared upon the 4th of September. By this event France loses seventeen thousand valiant fighting men in the ranks and four hundred and fifty-one officers, the capitulation apparently including the ten thousand National Guards and Gardes Mobiles who rallied to assist the original garrison of seven thousand regular imperial troops. The Germans have thus about eighty thousand men, or the effective of the two army corps which were charged with the Biege, set free, with the exception of a moderate garrison, to reinforce the main body of Kin? William now under the wallB of Paris. Moreover, they get rid of the last important obstruction on their direct line of railroad transportation from the French capital into Germany, and acquire untrammelled acccss to the navigation of the Rhino and tn anmn ?Tt.Ant nf th? oreikt nivnn.1 " ?1 ? O- -? running trom that river to the Rhone. Steamers ply up and down the river; on the one band to BaBle, in Switzerland, and on the other to Rotterdam and London, via Cologne and the intermediate ports. The enormous advantage of this opening to the invading armies i9 strikingly apparent, especially when we consider that it at the same time lays all Alsace and Lorraine prostrate at the feet of the conqueror, the fortresses of Toul and Phalzbourg having already surrendered, and Metz being utterly isolated and in its lust agonies. An additional heavy concentration of experienced spadesmen and bombardiers will now be brought to bear upon the latter place, and we may expect soon to hear of its fall. In the meantime Strasbourg goes back to the possession of her Gorman claimants, and will once more becorao ere long what she was for many generations, a city of tho German empire. ~ In" other columns wo have rapidly sketched the importance, business activity, social rank, and architectural, monumental, literary and scientific value of the place, with some outlines of its varied and remarkable history. It teemed with mementoes and associations of the past and with the opulenoe and wealth of our own period. In July last it was a gay, beautiful, thriving, money-making centre of lively manufacture and iaternational traffic? n rrrAnrinrr mart rvf onmrnar^io] nnnlonoA And a great resort of tourists, attracted thither by its wonderful history. Its matchless Doric church alone made It interesting to all mankind. Now many of the edifices, monuments, libraries and museums that enriched it are forever destroyed?an irreparable loss?and some of its finest streets and squares are but heaps of blackened ruins. Its population, originally about eighty thousand, was increased to one hundred thousand jusl before the siege by crowds of people flocking into the city for shelter. After the terrible overthrow of the French armies under Mac Malum at Woerth the place was investec by the Germans on tho 10th of August. Oi the 19th the heavy artillery arrived, and wa: planted on the north of the beleaguered Btrong hold, the country south of it all the way frou tho 111 to tho Rhine having been inundated b; the French. From that poriod the bombard ment was almost incessant, and the slaughter havoc, anarchy and terror within the cit; were indescribable. The 24th and 25th wer particularly awful days, and conflagration broke out on all sides. Famine and feve: increased these horrors until, amid the franth shrieks of the perishing townspeople and th crumbling walls of his citadel and forts, Genera Ulrich, the commandant, having done al that the most rigid duty could exac or the most sensitive honor claim, terminate a resistance beside which Magdeburg Rochelle and even Saragossa might lose thei military lustre, and gave over the city and ai its fast material to the victorious Baden an< Saxon besiegers under General Von Werder Thus the native city of Kleber and Keller man, and near which stands the proud ceno taph dedicated to the heroic Desaix and hi army of the Rhine, passes under .the banner c a people whose language she speaks and whos Protestant creed she owns, but to whos brotherhood she still prefers the Frencl nationality that has cost her such fearful purgation with (ire and tears and blood. By thii surrender the bounds of Franco are made t< shrink and those of Germany are morally ant physically widened by the measure of a long day's journey and the number ofisouie million < of souls. j Too Muon for rns Ckoton ? On? of our fellow citizens complains that tbeCroto; water supplied to his family and his tenement houses "is filled with tadpoles and animalcule of all eizeB and kinds." We submit, however that while the tadpoles of a large size might b strained off, there is no remedy for the animal culac but in a constant supply of fresh water t< the Croton reservoirs; and this supply canno be furnished by the Croton Board until th returning rains shall have replenished th< early exhausted fountains from which thi Croton aqueduct is supplied. As it is, ou Croton feeders have so well held their owi against the long drought that New York citj may be regaled as very fortunate in its con tinued supply of Croton water, notwithstand ing the tadpoles and the animalculue. Wha we want to purify this water is rain, and foi this we must look to a higher power than th< Croton Board. A Liberal Helping Hand should be givei by our humane citizens of all nationalities t< the French and German fairs in progress oi soon to be opened for the relief of the woundec of the armies of France and Germany and fo: i the relief of the unfortunate people left deBti I fcuteaud starring from the ifar. PLE SHEET n..?lli| IH?).J1. The Ot?n?lw of AMnl hmpt The final obsequies of the great naval hero of our civil war will take plaee in this city on Friday. An imposing ceremonial will be presented. The First and Second divisions of the National Guard will turn out, the great military and naval officers at present in the city, the Governor and hu staff, great masses of citizens and the President of the United States, will appear in the procession to do honor to the memory of our great commander. Altogether the obsequies will be a fitting expression of the profound respect with whioh all classes in the great metropolis regarded him and his glorious record. There is a general sentiment abroad adverse to grand and showy funerals. Dickens, it will be remembered, expressly stated in his will that he wanted no gaudy display of gloom, no lugubrious grandeur of mourning at his funeral. He looked upon it all as heartless and cold. Yet who will say that there would have been one heart following the wake of bis hearse unshaken with sorrow at the great preacher's death? He was wrong for ooce, at least. When a truly great man dies?a great and good man?who has excrciBed a wholesale charity by his great actions, grand ceremonials in his honor at the last are not empty shows. The great illustrator of human nature misunderstood that one phase of it. The multitudes, who never personally knew thp man, can and do mourn with as heartfelt sorrow at the death of Farragut or Dickens an his own immediate friends. They have a right, then, to attend his funeral?to pay in person the last respect they can pay to his memory. Such will be the cause of the outpouring to morrow, ine granu war record wnica me oia Admiral left behind him?forts Philip, Jackson, Mobile and the masthead?are all so closely interlaced with his peace record of simple faith, pure honesty, strict integrity, hearty zeal and uniform good nature?so touchingly intertwined with n sad story we have all heard of his country's neglect?that no American, whatever his political complexion, now or during the war, can fail to feel a deep personal sorrow at the great Admiral's death. Omt Approaciiino Election?Republican Tactics.?As the campaign advances the energy displayed on the republican side in the present contest serves to show how deeply the republican leaders regard tho struggle. The Saratoga Convention showed very plainly that harmony was lacking throughout the rank and file of the party. In order, therefore, to counteract the bad influence of such a state of affairs it became the determinatibn of the leaders to restore Bnch a degree of harmony as would secure efficient working. This, in fact, may be regarded as the kevnote of the present republican campaign. With this object in view few or no changeB have been made in the government offices in this city. Sinco Mr. Murphy has been appointed Collector he has evidently worked towards the securing of that end, believing, no doubt, that harmony among the factions of the republican family is the best way to secure political triumphB. Gonkling, Fenton, Cornell and the other leading spirits are Arm believers in the harmonizing policy, and on this line of action will the approaching 1 republican campaign be carried out. 1 Our Bonds in London Buoyant.?The Lon> don money market was in great agitation last night over fresh complications connected with the war between France and Prussia, but the ; details were unknown in Wall street beyond > the effect upon the Royal Stock Exchange, where consols suddenly fell from 92^ to 91$. I Curiously enough, however, our five-twenties ? in London were firm and yielded only an ' eighth per cent in the midst of this excitement. - The gold market here was strongly affected by n the news, the price ot gold rising last night to ? 114*. Anothkr Accident on tiie Erie Ra.ilp road.?This time it was a circus train which e was run into by the regular express train at g iurucr b oiaiiuii; out- iiiiin, iuo director 01 me r circus, being killed and the other members bo , badly injured that the show will probably not 0 exhibit for a long time. . Meanwhile the tj Grand Opera House, a sort of rival establish[j ment, progresses successfully under the im,t mediate management of the Erie Board, safe ^ from aily collision, except those between , managers and directors, which will sometimes ? occur in the best regulated establishments. j A Terrible Coalition against the unacclimated Spaniards in Cuba is that of the cholera, the yellow fever and the now aggressive insurgents. Spain would do well to sell oul ^ and leave. ?f PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE e Prominent Arrival* in This City Yesterday. Ij General Bruce, or Pennsylvania; Colonel K, Bowles, of St. Louis; Kev. N. C. Perkins, of Ohio J. Sisson, of Mexico; Colonel H. B. Smith, of Penn9 sylvanla; Colonel U. Gallagher, of Virginia; E. C, > Clark, of the United Slates Navy; J. A. Le Rue, ol | Mexico, and Colonel Flournoy, or Mississippi, are ai r the Metropolitan notel. ' W. E. Doane, of Savannah; Thomas K. Cuminlng? 9 and Frank Kersh, of Philadelphia, are at the West minster Hotel. Professor 8. B. Dnffleld, of Virginia; C. W. Payn , tor, and Captain J. \V. Mills, of the United state: Army, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Dr. Macauly, of England; Captain Shutleworth, ol t the Fifteenth regiment, English army, and C. c Belcher, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes, cf Montreal; J. D. ' Flgelow, of Washington, and O. J. Prentiss, ol e Cleveland, are at the Everett House. General Mcrrltt, of the United States Army; Oakea 9 Ames, ol Massachusetts; R. H. Pruyn, ot Albany; E. t O. Tult, or Boston, and J. A. Griswold, of Troy, are e at tne Fifth Avenue Hotel. General John G. Ilazen nnd H. L. Bloodgood, ol B l'rovldence, are at the Albemarle Hotel, e I'. M. Carmichael, of Albany; B. S. La Farge, of r Connecticut; G. >* Norris, of Baltimore, and Alfred } Gliinett, of England, arc at the Coleman House. Judge R. Hitchcock, of Ohio; Lieutenant Com^ mander G. W. Plgman, of the United States Navy, * and Colonel J. M. Scovllle, or New Jersey, are at the - St. Nicholas Hotel. t General J. Diunck, Surgeon Charles Smart and r Jas. Pratt, Jr., of the United States Army; J. Godoy, Minister from Chile; W. G. Fargo, of BulTalo; W. 5 Crockett, of Washington Territory; Bradley Barlow, of Vermont; R. A. Barllctt, of the United States Marine Corps, and T. H. Talbot, Assistant At! torney General, are at the Astor llonse. Colonel A. W. Morrlman and H. C. Folger, of New 5 Orleaus; Professor Holmes, of South Carolina; J. G. r Davis, ol North Carolina, and II. K. fcliyson, of I Richmond, Va., are at the Grand Central Hotel. r Prominent DrpartnrM. Colonel Pomeroy and C. E. Tuckcr, for Providence; Dr. Sauborn. f?r UaUiorauk and Dr. Far tor iiwlm f ??? -I? * WASHINGTON. i Important tleographleal IMsoorepriee o? the Northwest Coast?Regulations fbr the Transportation of Bonded , Goods?The President's New Commercial Policy. Wahuinotoh, Sept. 28, 1870. The President's New Commercial Policy. It Is stated that President Grant has originated and Is about to inaugurate a new commercial policy* of his own, with reference mainly to the South Ame rican oiaies, wuicu u is expecteu will result la transferring to us the balk or the trade and commerce of that country, and thus Ailing our snipyards and workshops with labor. It la promised that this new policy will place every branch of our national Industry in a prosperous condition. This ought to satisfy the grumblers and croakers that pur Presl-, dent Is looking to the prosperity and welfare of the country at large. ' New Heal Fisheries Discovered la the OkoUch Pea. The Collector of San Francisco has forwarded ta the Treasury Department certain papers purporting to be the affidavits of the officers of the Hawaiian bark Manaloa, which recently arrived at that port, setting forth that they reached Jones Island, Okotsch Sea, in April last, Indicated between lali-, ' tude 62 and S3 (legs, and longitude 146 and 14(1, which they found uninhabited, but a remarkable rendezvous for seals. They remained there till tha early part or Augpst, during which time they captured 11,500 seals, which were brought to San Francisco for sale. The collector, not knowing the locality of the Island, whether In American or foreign waters, was ur.ablo to decide whether or not a duty should be Imposed on the cargo and has submitted the matter to the Secretary of the Treasury for further instructions. An examination was to-day made at the Treasury Department of tho maps and charts of the Alaska purchase, but no snch island an Jones' was found. Tbe Islands of Sts. 1'aul and Georgo have heretofore been supposed tho only islands of any Importance where the seals congregate during the summer months, but the captain of the bark states that unother vessel Is due at San Francisco with a larger cargo of seal skins and will be able probably to give tbe government more definite ? Information on the subject, should it be found that the island Is In American waters the government will lake measures to possess itself of it forthwith, and the Alaska Commeiciai Company, which recently leased St. Paul and St. George for twenty \ years, may find they have not the exclusive control ol the seal fisheries m Alaska waters, l'ue Island la described as about iiair a mile In circumference, but swarming with seals. ?' The Funding Bill. The Secretary of the Treasury has had under consideration for some time the subject of the Funding act. The war In Europe affecting financial mattars, especially in that part of the world, has caused a postponement of putting the law Into e:recr. Hopes have been beld out to him that tnere will soon be a time when he can negotiate tho new bonds at par. Whenever such time shall arrive the Secretary will be prepared to furnish the bonds as prompt'y as they may be required. TransportntIon of lUnrchaiidine in Bond. " ) The Treasury Departmeht has just prepared rules and regulations conccrnlng the transportation of merchandise from the ports of Importation to certain oilier porta in Uio United States without appraisement or liquidation of duties at the port of tbe first arrival, under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Act or July last. The privileges of the act extend to the ports of New York. Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, Savaunal. New Orleans, Portland, Me., UutTulo, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Evansvllle, Ind., Milwaukee, Louisville, Cleveland, San Fran- ' clsco, Portland, Ore icon, Memphis, Mobile, and to importations from or to Europe and from or to Asia or the Islands adjacent thereto, via the United ???. V Wine, distilled spirits and perishable and expla sive articles and all articles in bullc are specifically / excepted by section 219 of said act from It) provisions, nnd no merchandise except such as shall appear by the Invoice or bill of lading and by the manifest to be consigned to ami destined for some one of tho porUL specified can bo entered for immediate transportation without beiiiK subject to appraisement and liquidation of duties ut tne port of first arrival In the United States. The law requires that merclianulse eut3red lor Immediate transportation chnll Ko milv ilollt'nva 1 tr* nnrl Ir.mafdwH/t/l K? n? moil carriers, who are to bo responsible to the United States as common carriers for the safe dellvery of merchandise to the Collector or other proper otllcer or customs at the port of destination, and that such merchandise must bo conveyed in rare, vessels or vehicles securely tasteued with locks or seals, under the exclusive control of the onicers of ' customs, And that such merchandise must not bo unladen or transshipped between the ports of first arrival aad final destination, and be lore any such carriers shall be permitted to receive and transport any huch merchandise they must be specially designated and authorized for that purpose by the Secre1 tary of (|ie Treasury and become bound to the United SI Si OA In botf 43 as hereinafter provided, and that all the requirements of tho act must be complied with i by all concerned. ... , The security bond of a common carrier Is to be ' f'iOA.UOO. Oqly such common carriers will be designated as are known to possess and have exclusive direction and control over suitable and sufficient i cars, vessels and means for transportation of sued merchandise to the ports of Its final destination, such as are rtctuired l>y law and regulations, and lor . the transportation of such merchandise from any < port of first arrival, mentioned in twenty-ninth section, to any port of destination designated by thirtyfifth section of said act. No car, vessel or vehicle shall be used except steamboats in use carrying i freight and passengers, making regular trips between the port of the first arrival of such merchandise and tie port of Its final dosUnation, and railroad box cars, known as freight cars, the cars and vessels to be of such construction and provided ' - with such meaus of fastening that the merchandise can be conveyed therein, securely fastened with such locks or seals and in such a manner ) us may oo irom nine 10 nine prescrinea and directed by the Secretary of the t Treasury, and the route ami transportation must be such that the merchandise can be conveyed without being unloaded or transhipped between trie ports of Its first arrival and ilual destination. The same examination and appraisement shall In all cases be required and had at the ports * of destination as are required and authorized at the ports or its original importation, on entry of merchandise for consumption or warehouse on arrival at such ports; it being intended, ! and it Is directed, that on the arrival of all tlie iner. chandlse mentioned and described in each triplicate eulry anil Invoice received from tlie port of lirst arrival and the delivery thereof to the collector or f other chief officer of the customs at the port t, of destination, andjtliereafter such merchandise will be dealt with In tlie same manner, and like proceedings shall in all respects be had In relation i tnereto" as are prescribed by law, and regulations . made in pursuance thereof, pertaining to the customs and to the importations entry, examination and appraisement, care and custody of dutiable merchandise, Imported irom foreign ports or places i at ports of original Importation into the United Mate, except as may be herein otherwise provided and directed, in case an entry of merchandise ' shall be delayed through any cause for more than twenty-four hours after the report of the arrival of any portion thereof the merchandise will be treated as unclaimed goods and stored in public stores or bonded warehouses authorized for the reception of that class *f me. chandlse, at the r.sic au J expense of the owner or consignee, provided that, with the consent of the owner or consignee of such goods, the collector or other chief officer of customs may order the same to be so stored immediately on arrival. Full instructions are given under the heads or "common carriers," "The entry and immediate. ' transportation of merchandise without appraaemcnt and liquidation of duties at the port of their first arrival,'* with tlie forms of emry and immediate transportation bond, which latter must be in a penal sum of at least double the luvoice value or the merchandise. There aro various other forms and bonds connected with the subject and miscellaneous provisions relative to returns and accoun s. The rules und regulations will be In force Immediately. THE STEAM-HIP HERMANN. The Rumor of Iler Cimse and Capture k Canard. The statement published lu one of the morning journals yesterday^tnat the steamship Hermann w it* chase(1 at sea l>v a French man-of-war, and that tho officers of Hie Scotia witnessed tho clixse, was a sheer fabrication. Captain Judkln* never sighted the Hermann at all, but passed a French gunboat, which Is at present lying off the Battery. The statement was false on tho face of It, for the Hermann, steaming at her ordinary speed, must havo been 140 miles from Sandy Hook, instead of lortv miles, at the time the Scotia nearod the lightship. A rumor that prevailed in Wall street yesterday alter- 4 noon that the Hermann was captured at sea and brought Into port Is equally without foundation. Mlie Li now well ou Ucr way to her pott of dftsUaarttVft.