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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN MTIUEIiT.
JAMES GORDON DENNETT,
PROPRIETOR.
All business or ihdv.i letter und telegraphio
despatches must be uddrcesed Nitw York
Herald.
Volume XXXV No. 307
amusements this evening.
NTBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.? EnGliid OPKKA?
Th* Bouxmian Uiul.
GRAND OPTRA IIOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and
tM at.?La Ubandk Dl< i>m*.
OLYMPIC TUFATRiC, Broadway.?Tux Pantomime or
We* Willi* Win Air
WOOD'S MUSEUM H roadway, corner 30th at?Perform
ancee everv aUerueou auu uvenlnx.
BOWBBV THEATRE, Bowery.?DOIT?Tut GAME?
Cook or tue WiLunur. j:: a.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Tarantf fourtti it-Man
jeno Wife.
BOOTH'S THKATBE, did it., ootwaen bib and 6tn an?
Bip Yam Winbl*.
PODRTKENTII 8TRF.KT THEATRE (Theatre Franeala)
Elizabbth, Qukbm or Enolanu.
OLOBK THEATRK. 718 Broadway.?Yaripty Est**
? AINHIMl? Nmi'Ub OP TUB CAUIBSBAN 8*a.
WALLACE'S THEATRE. Broadway and ifth rtrect. -
Tub Rivals.
PNBW YORK STADT THEATRE, id Bowery.-dKAlO)
OiMAi Opxka?Tu* Czar and Cakfbntbb.
LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway?Aladdin -
Blaok E*ei> Scsa.n.
MRS. P. B. eONWAV'3 PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. -
Man and Wipk.
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC?Ml.Lt. Nillson's
Gbamo Conckut.
TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 3*1 Bowery?Ta
urn Kntkbtainmknt.
THEATRK COMIQUB, bid Broadway?Ceiiio TOOAL
xam, Nromo Ai'Yo, tu
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL. S86 Brwadwa*?
L'aoao MuimtbblbTi Faboes, Bgxlbsovkb, Ao.
KELLY A LEON'S MINSTRELS. No. 8M Broadway?
Tub Only Lxon?La Hour db St. Flocb, Ao.
HOOLET'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn?NBUBO Kin
aiBKLOY, BURLESQUE* AO.
BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE Wploh, ?0?n*i A
Wuitb'b Ninstrkls?Colored Tbooth Fought Noblt.
NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. ?Soexeh in
The Ring, Acrobat*, An.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXEMPTION?Euriki
Sink, Third avenue and Sixty-third a treat.
NEW TORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, till Broadway?
Science and art.
DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 14i Broadway.
pOlBWOB AND AKT.
TRIPLE SHEET.
New York, Thursday, November 3, 1.170.
(OHEliS OF TO-DAT'S HERALD.
Page.
T?Advertisements.
It?Adveri isenients.
3?Parts: nritAi.n Special Report from the Oapl
? al Darkening Prospect.-. of the Beleaguered
Cttv; Determination to lie end the l'lace tu the
Last ; Depnrtiire of the Empress Eugenie Iron
WiihelBishohe; Proposed Action of Great
Britain on the Arnmtlce Question; Text of
the Treaty of Bazaine's tiiirreuder; the Ameri
can Exodus lroui Paris; General Grout's
Opinion of Razaiue's Surrender. ?
4?Europe: Princess Louise ol Ens I and and the
M&rmiipo Lome; Ptiissju's feace Demands ou
France; Napoleon's Investments tu Foreign
C'ountrtea; Value of Modem Parts; Former
fienoa ol the VRJ?Its Political Campaign in
irginla aud Alabama?Political Notes.
0?Thfc New Ele tion Law: The Constitutionality
of the Act of Con res Sustained?Uncle Sam's
Patrol: The United Htates Election Police
Trotting at Fleetwood Park?The Gallows tit
California?Almost a Centenarian?The New
Steamship Istnollia: Another Addition to the
Mediterranean Service?Tlie Burglar Trap
Gun?The Union League Club Tragedy?The
Interrupted Duel.
6?Editorials: Leading Article, Our Impending
Elections, General Grant, The Republicans and
the Democracy?Amusement Announcements.
R?Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page)?Personal
Intelligence?Telegraphic News from all Parts
of the W- rld?Rome and Italy: Terms or Re
conciliation Between the Kmg and the Pope
News front Washington -City Improvements?
The Missing Steamship? Amusements? Limi
ne-s Notices.
R?TTie Revenue Raiders: The Fifth Ward of Brook
lyn Agalu Invaded?Educational Affairs?Fire*
in October?Fires tn the City?American Resi
dents at Tung-chow, Chuia. Rescued by liruwti
Naval Ve.-aela? Uebrew Benevolent Societies?
News from St. Thomas?Cricket? Dead In a
Cell? ' Curious Case?Police Boara?The Lin
coln Monument Fund?Brooklyn City News
Court Calendars for To-Day?Financial and
Commercial Reports.
9?A Den of lntaniy: Murder by a Chatham street
Ghoul: Malpractice and Death: A Young Girl
the Victim?Real Estate Mutters?An Im
proved Panel Game?Marriages and Deaths
Ad vertlsements.
lO?War News Continued from Third Page?A Wall
Street Forgery?Obituary?City Politics?The
Late Aldt-rman Connolly?Shipping Intelli
gence?Advertisements.
+ 1 ?Ad vertisomen ts.
J a? Advertisements.
Political Almanac.?Look out for .'ill sorts
of political hoaxed?ibout those days.
Good Thing for Loins Napoleon.?It ia
stated that Louia Napoleon has ten million
francs invested in mortgages on property in
this city. We hope this is true, and that the
4x-Emperor will come here to enjoy the fortune
be has so judiciously saved for a rainy day.
As he Bpends his money freely, New York ia
just the place for him.
Tub WnisKEY Raids.?Supervisor Duteher
deserves great praise for bis active raids yes
terday on the illicit distilleries in the neighbor
hood of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was
barked by two thousand United States troops,
and for a time that portion of Brooklyn looked
ftp if aa armed enemy had invaded it. Twenty
Btills were seized. . ..
School Trustees.?Whatever partisan tac
tics may require in regard to other nomina
tions, tli? rein should relaxed in regard to
the nominees for School Trustees. Por these
places only high-minded, intelligent, honor
able men, well known for their personal integ
er. should be selected. For school directors,
therefore, let the electors take the best men,
ijrilhout distinction of party.
| TniRK Ocoot Ckbtainlt to be some power
jto the law to hang the villanous quack who
procured the death of the young girl at his
piisponsary in Chatham street the other night.
$Ie has b"en before the courts on numerous
feccasioos charged with crimes similar to the
'present one, but by some quibble he has
always escaped. There is no reasonable
doubt that his soul is stained with as Infamous
JBurder as Margaret Waters, tho buby fanner,
fas ever guilty of.
,
First Conviction Under the Congres
sional Election Law.?Judges Woodruff
?ud Blatchi'ord have decided that the Congres
sional Election law is constitutMUftl, and (bat
the section under which Terence Quinn was
1pdieted has to bj enforced. This settios the
?rhale question about the constitutionality of
the law, and ac that is the cise violent opposi
tion to it is futile and absurd, if (he law be
Obnoxious to the chnrg s alloged against it,
let the proper course be taken to soenre its
repeal?that is by sealing the right kiau of
toen to Congress.
Oar Tinpendlna Rlrftlonfi?Geni'ral CIrant,
Ike ltrpukllcana undi tbu Usmtrrary.
Our State and city elections come off on
Tuesday nexf, and from all the indications on
every Bide the democracy, under the broad
ensign of the "big ludiaus" of Tammany, will
rout the republicans, city and State, a? the
splendid army of MacMahon was routed near
the Rhine and in the Vosges, infjntry. artil
lery and mitrailleuses, cuhanBiors, Turcos
uiid all.
This is the prospect, and there has beon no
other prospect in the State since the despe
rately contested and decisive Presidential bat
tle of 1808, in which the democritio majority
of the city overtopped by ten thousand on the
President and twenty-seven thousand on the
Governor the combined republican majorities
of the rnral districts. But Hoffman's sixty- |
nine thousand majority in this city of 1868 was
so amazing and incredible to the incredulous
republicans, and a blow so stunning and de
moralizing withal, that in 18C9 they permitted
the rural districts to go by default, and thus
lost oven the Assembly, their last foothold
in the State. In losing this they lost their
city commissions, for in our new City Charter,
which followed, they were all turned over to
the Wigwam?a transfer which gave the
sachems the means and machinery for holding
city and State.
But as a sort of equivalent for ibis surrender
of their Rhine frontiers the republicans at
Albany secured from "Boss Tweed" a new and
more stringent registry luw for this city, not
withstanding the abolition of registration over
the rest of the State. The republican leaders
appeared to be satisfied with their bargain, on
the idea that their city commissions were so
unpopular as to damage instead of strengthen
their eause, and that a good registration law
for the city, rigidly enforced, would be apt
to turn the scale in the aggregate vote of the j
State, in cutting off from the city repeaters,
ballot stuficrd, perjurers and doctored returns
to the extent of twenty or thirty thousand
fraudulent votes. The republican managers,
however, in order to enforce this new registra
tion law, deemed it necessary to call upon the
strong arin of Congress to help them. They
did so; and they secured a Congressional
investigation of the returns of our city elec
tions of a year or two, and a report thereon of
apparent and suspected frauds, which resulted
in the passage of two new election laws by
CongresB, with which, in the proceedings for
their enforcement here by the authorities of
the United States, our readers have become
familiar.
We have heretofore explained and sustained
the provisions of these laws as properly
de signed to encourage honesty and to dis
countenance and punish frauds of all sorts in
our political elections. We have also sus
tained the President In his policy of enforcing
these law3, in view of his constitutional duty
to take care that the laws are faithfully exe
cuted. It is apparent, however, that his
subordinates have permitted their zeal in this
business to outran their discretion, that thore
has been too much of pomp and parade, aud
of the mustering of troops, and of warnings
and threatenings of the armed intervention of
the United States in this approaching city
election?too much of all this in the general
estimation of our citizens of all parties. The
consequences are that, while there is a gen
eral disposition to recognize the laws in
question, these very officious and offensive
proceedings for their enforcement have ope
rated to weaken the republicans and to
strengthen the Tammany democracy. The
republican journals upon this question have
contributed much to this state of things
by their foolish course of suggesting a military
occupation of the polls on election day as an
imperative necessity, and as, perhaps, the
only expedient for securing a fair election. In
denouncing this military intervention as the
application to New York of the military sys
tem adopted in the reconstruction of the rebel
States the Tammany democracy have gained
ground on the floating republicans, and the
"Young Democracy" are heading for the Wig
wam.
There might, perhaps, hnve been a power
ful alliance effected among all the elements
here opposed to the Tammany Decemvirs,
but for this unfortunate and offensive idea of
the interposition of the United States army
for Tammany's overthrow. But how could
the "Young Democracy," with all their
precious antecedents, and all their peculiar
notions of the freedom of elections, be
expected to rally around Marshal Sharpe and
his deputies and his soldiers against repeaters ?
And as for the Tamtnany republicans, in bsiog
ejected from the Custom House and the Post
Office, how could they be expected to support
the ticket of General Grant and Collector
Murphy ? "Do men gather grapes from
thorns, or figs from thistles?" Not often.
Hence we find that while the Tammany
repub^apg are loo indignant to support
Woodford, and too dainty and dignified to
fraternize with such fellows as the "Young
Democracy," these boys, while they do not
believe a word of it, are so shocked with
the slave trade affiliations charged against
Woodford that they cannot associate with
Marshal Sbarpe. Consequently they fall into
line with Tammany Hall, and if theroby they
get a refreshing mouthful, being hungry, who
can blame them ? What is the first duty of
man? His victuals and clothes.
It is apparent, then, that neither the new
city registration law, nor the new election laws
of Congress, nor Marshal Sharpe and bis
deputies, nor the bugaboo of the United States
army, nor all those forces combined, will
shake the ascendancy of the Tammany demo
cracy in the city or the State, but will rather
confirm the sachems in their power, and, In
widening their infiuence, will strengthen their
candidate for the Presidential succession.
The case is clear as daylight. Call the
Tammany chiefs an oligarchy if you please.
What docs it signify, when they have the
disbursement of twenty-five, thirty, forty or
fifty millions of money a yeaj-, und uo one to
make thorn afraid ? What can a few Custom
House clerks and beggarly postmasters do
against this tremendous motive power and the
Vast locomotive power that lies behind it ?
Nothing. What can General Grant himself
do, short of some great stroke of national
policy chailer ging the public admiration ?
Nothing. What, then, is there that can take
from the Tammany democracy on Tuesday
naxt the Mayor of this city, the Governor of
the State, or the Legislature 'i Nothing.
Wo are, however, glad to ace that Goneral
Grant is beginning to tako a lively interest in
our State elections ; tor we see i 1 thiH that as
a candidate for another term he recognizes the
necessity of doing something to encourage,
assist and consolidate his party. Wo are glad
of it, because on this tack ho will be apt to
discover that something more than a careful
administration of the Treasury aud the faithful
cxccuiion of the laws will bo wanted for the
next Presidential campaign, and that accord
ingly we may expect in due time some grand
Btrol:c in liis foreign policy that will carry Uiui
again iuto the White House by acclamation.
The VTar?Paris Awnliinj Bnniburdment.
The interest of the struggle in France now
centres altogether about Paris. General Gari
baldi continues his arduous defonce of the road
to Lyons in the east, not only against the
accepted enemy, but against the insidious
effects of jealousy among tho French leaders.
The Army of the Loire, which is said to num
ber one hundred thousand men, remains inac
tive in the neighborhood of Tours. Gambetta
continues to speak Btirring words to the peo
ple, urging them to organize for the defence
of the nation, when all they aotuaily need for
organization is the presence of a competent
leader. Strangely conflicting rumors in regard
to Metz are flying abont among the credulous
peasantry. Tho mysterious conferences of
paroled marshals and the Emperor still take
place at Cassel. Everywhere there is
criminal indifference to, or actual intriguing
against, the defence of France, except
in Paris itself. There, in the city of meblots,
frivolity, carelessness, in the city ot all others
famous for want of earnestness, there is an ex
hibition of stubborn resolution, of firmest de
termination to resist to the bitter end, that
should be a standing reproach to the tardy
people of the provinces.
The Prussians, freed from Mctz, are closing
up on the gay city. They have batteries
erected at Meudon, Bellevue, Carrieres, St.
Denis, and other commanding points about
the city, from which, with guns of such calibre
as our aruiy used in many instances during the
war of the rebellion, they can send shells
shrieking along the Rue d'Enfer or splintering
through the walls of the Hotel des Invalides.
Inside, the people, while impatiently waiting
the succor which the provinces should give
them, are busy rendering their position as im
pregnable as possible. They claim to have
plenty of provisions to last until January, and
they are fortifying, casting additional cannon
and making new enrolments into the National
Guards continually. At least one theatre has
reopened, playing generally for the benefit of
the wounded, and the people, worn out with
the tedium of the siege, attend joyfully. The
theatre and a general jollification act, no
doubt, like a safety valve on the surcharged
feelings of &e Parisians. With the impending
doom of the bombardment hanging over them
they display a courage, a firmness, a belief in
the republic that is enough to abatne the
monthing leaders of the government at Tours
into casting themselves bodily in the breach
and seeking in heroic deaths at ,the front some
relief from the shame that ought to over
whelm them for their frivolous failuro to
relieve the city.
TUe Kcw Bit'.lion i.tiw?Important De
cision.
In another column will be found the opinion
of the United States Circuit Court of this dis
trict?Judges Woodruff and Blatchford on the
bench?on the constitutionality of the hew
Election law of Congress, the question of
which was raised upon the arraignment of
Terence Quinn, indicted for fraudulent regis
tration in this city. The opinion was de
livered extemporaneously aud with consider
able emphasis by the learned Judge. The
accused, it is charged, was not only a non
resident of the district where be registered,
but was disqualified as a voter, inasmuch as
he was a convicted and unpardoned felon. It
was not, however, in actual defence of the
accused in this case that the ablest connsel in
the city were employed, nor was it to secure
his conviction that that great constitutional
lawyer, Mr. Caleb Cushing, was im
ported into the State and yesterday
sworn in as Assistant District Attorney to
take part in the controversy. It was a test
question, upon which the constitutionality ef
the act itself was at issue. We gave in yes
terday's Hekald the debates of counsel pro
and and this morning we present to our
readers the opinion of Judge Woodruff in
exttmo?Judge Blatchford concurring?sus
taining the constitutionality of the act of Con
gress which has given rise to the discussion,
one of if not the moat important that has en
gaged the attention of tbe federal courts in
this district for many years past. Judge Wood
ruff, in dealing with tbe constitutional aspect
of tbe case from tbe judicial standpoint, did not
ignore tbe points raised by counsel and tbe
antborities quoted by them in support of their
theory, but has gone over the whole grouq^ (
of argument, and in a most elaborate Rvlew of
all that was advanced agafusE and all that his
own judicial research presented in favor, sus
tained by bis opinion tbe constitutionality of,
the law. Of courseit will still remain a vexed
question outside the courts; but to the well
disposed and all who deslro Information on a
mooted point the opinion of Judge WoodrufiF
will, and deserves to be, an interesting study at
this time. We therefore recommend its peru
sal to all our readers, so that at least they may
be able to argue understanding^ whichever
side of the question they may take.
Hail Coldmbiis Delauo has fully entered
upon his duties as Secretary of the Interior,
?ice Cox, beheaded. It is astonishing how
much Mr. Delano's popularity, which was not
very great before, has increased since bis ele
vation.
A Republican Meeting of mixed colors
at Norfolk, Va., which wus being addresfced
by Secretary Robeson, was broken up by a
violent disturbance on Tuesday night, u
number of persons being iojured and oue
negro killed. Pistols were freely used. The
very worst argument conservative Virginia
can resort to now is the pistol. She needs the
hoo and the spade and the plough, and after
her four years' unhappy use of firearms should
be contented to avoid pistuUiug iu poluivsa
altogether
Nprdiil Telegrams from the Sett of Wur?
'ike Hiluulion in lWotx anil Paris.
Tho series of special telegrams from Europe
wbicb appears in our columns this morning
supplies an ample, varied and quite interest
ing report of the condition of affairs existing
in the siege lines near Paris, inside the city
and at Metz. These despatches convey enough
of exciting incident, some few very melan
choly facts, camp and regimental news, details
of executive and logal progress, but nothing
very fixed or definite as to the coming issue of
the war?the when and the wherefore of this
great struggle between France and Prussia.
From Metz we have special details of the
surrender of the fortress. The trophies or
spoils of war which fell into the hands of the
Prussians were of the most valuable descrip
tion, particularly when in possession of a
great war-making Power. The French pri
soners were numerous to a degree. Their case
was regulated at once under tho active,
prompt and decisive rules of the Prussian War
Office. Civilians had a code of law proclaimed
for tbeir future guidance. Engineers went
into the fortress and neutralized the French
mines; so, as will be seen from our
advices, the vaBt stronghold of Metz has
passed away. It will no longer frown
on the people?no mora terrorize
over citizen France or free Germany.
The terms of the treaty ef capitulation agreed
to at Metz are given seriatim. Theyge to con
firm our news of the consequences. Prussia
takes good care that there shall be no French
reaction in or around Metz?the (rim reality
of martial law standing forth to the view of the
civilian inhabitants alongside of the army
courtesies, if we may so term them, of the
new treaty. Marshal Bazaine retired quietly.
He had, it is alleged, need of precaution
against personal danger at the hands of his own
men. General Bourbaki has, it is said, re
signed his command in the French army.
Prussia remains irritated against England on
account of her position as a neutral?the Berlin
cabinet adhering, apparently, to the severe
text of the Bernstoff circular to Earl Gran
ville, which was given in extenso in our col
umns a few days since. The Germans in
Europe are angered against the English not
only on their own account, but also by reason of
the utterance of Eaglish remarks on the war
feeling which has been exhibited by the Ger
mans in the United Slates.
Our special telegraph writers enumerate the
names of many of the Americans who have
arrived in London from Paris through the
Prussian lines. It will be seen that the libera
tion of our countrymen from the besieged city
was effected only after considerable trouble
and by the firm exertion of Minister Wash
burne. The United States Ambassador was
compelled, indeed, to bring M. Jules Favre
squarely t# the'mark, as will be seen from our
verbatim report of his address, before the
Americans were liberated. Minister Wash
burne was brief, courteous and decided in his
words, and consequently successful. It is to
be hoped that his action will iaangurate a new
era in the history of our foreign diplomacy.
The members of the government of the
French republic, the men who smote down the
power of the empire in "freedom's name," are
not by any nfeans tolerant towards the free
expression of an independent journalism.
This is evidenced by the action which was
taken in the case of M. Portalis, editor of
Jja Veritc, who was arrested and submitted
to magisterial interrogation for having
published news of the proclamation of the
"reds" at Lyons. The judicial course which
was observed towards the journalist was of
the most stringent kind, And almost according
to the British routine in similar cases
in the days of Junius; so that it
appeared likely for a moment that h?
would be * dealt with severely. At this
crisis came forward the Chevalier Wikoff, of
New York, who owned the authorAiip of the
utterances in the manly letter which we print.
Wikoff had bad the facts which Portalis
published from members of the Cabinet.
His publication fell "like a bombshell"
in the ministerial ranks. M Portalis was
visited in secret and finally liberated by an
executive which appears to have been com
pletely frightened by the simple issue of his
journal. Straws thrown up indicate the course
of the wind. So after the Portalis arrest
exhibition we are not surprised at the conclud
ing portion of our special telegraph letter from
Paris, wuich enumerates the particulars of
a confused and unsuccessful sortie on the
Prussians, an undecided and indecisive council
of war, and the existence of a gloomy state
of affairs generally among the defenders.
Two Journalists in the Field.?George
Wilkes, of the Sprint- of the, Times, has been
nominated as the republican candidate for
Congress from the Eighth district. James
Brooks, of the Express, is the Tammany can
didate. In 18G8 Mr. Brooks had between
eleven aud twelve thousand majority. There
fore the friends of Mr, vyill have to woik
hard to secure his election. One thing, how
ever, must be said in favor of Mr. W tikes?thaj
{be triumphant vindication of his personal
character in the ic6-.*nt libel suit against the
editors of the Turf, Field and Farm places
him in a deservedly worthy position before the
people of bis district. This peaceful contest
between two champions of the quill is a far
more pleasant spectacle than shooting blunder
busses at each other, or than being obliged to
carry on suits at law to sustain one's charac
ter against unjust imputations.
Johnn/e Green says he is certain of carry
ing ilia district for t.lie Assembly against the
nephew of that extensive corporation, the
Big Judge?unless?hero comes llio bother?
unless be is "couoted out." "You know how
it is yourself, Captain."
Tna Danish West India. Islands stand
a very fair chance of being brought
into closer communion with each other
than at. any time in their past history,
j The rejection of the ccstlon of bt. Thomas
and St.. John by tbo United Stales has in
j a measure produced that result. The people
j ol those Islands have become alivo to the
| necessity of reforms and the good to be effected
I by retrenohnu n.s?a wise resolve ou their
i part, and oue which will produce good results,
j Submarine telegraph cables will bo laid und
? glean) communication between the islands will
i |j.. established. VV t wish the people of t!ic
I Danish West Indies a sincere God speed in tho
wa.r/iuii' out of their olaua,.
Tbr Italian PritpMhlan to the Pope,
Our special correspondent al Homo sends to
ub, under dute of November 1, the proposi
tion in detail which tbo Italian government
makes to the Papal See in view of the change
wrought in its relations to the Church by the
abolition of the temporal power. It will bo
Been that the spiritual jurisdiction of his Holi
ness will be by no means lessened, buL rather
fortified and increased, by his acceptance of
the terms proposed. These are, in brief, that
the Pope shall contiuue to enjoy all the honors
and attributes of sovereignty; that all prelates,
bishopa and functionaries of ecclesiastical
orders shall enjoy eutiro immunity from civil
authority at the place of residence of the head
of the Church; that special postal and tele
graphic facilities will be placed wholly at the
disposal of the Papal court; that representa
tives of foreign Powers will have the same
prerogatives as at other sovereign courts, and
that, in fact, the Popo shall be considered and
treatod as a sovereign for whoBe expenditures
Italy shall make a liberal provision, and whose
debts already inourred Italy shall assume and
pay.
This proposition would appear to contain all
the principles of a fair and equitable adjust
ment of the delicate and difficult question
which the abolition of the Pope's temporal
power has evoked; but it is by no means
likely that it will satisfy the Holy Father or
his counsellors. Victor Emanuel expresses
his desire to prove to Europe that Italy
respects the sovereignty of the Pope, while at
the same time it conforms to the modern
principle of a free Church iu a free State; but
it is exactly that principle which the Pope
> refuses to sanction, and which is rather classed
among the errors of modern society. It will
be seen by the protest of Cardinal Antonelli,
which we also print in connection with our
special despatch from Rome, that his Holiness
remonstrates in the most indignant terms
against the sacrilegious spoliation of his
dominions, and declares the Italian King and
government responsible for all the mischiefs
that have resulted or may result from such
violent spoliation. It is not likely that his
pious wrath can be turned aside and assuaged
by such terms as Victor Emanuel now offers,
although our correspondent intimates that he
accepts the situation.
In the meantime, Austria has notiflod the
Italian government that she will not interfere
in the Roman question, and suggests that a
conference of the Powers bo asked to adjust
the guarantees to be offered to the Pope. That,
we presume, will be the form which the matter
will eventually take, and we doubt not that
the result will be to the advantage of the
Church and to the greater gl jry of God.
The Trap Gnu Cue.
The Recorder's decision has put this case in
its proper light. In ignoring the verdict of
the coroner's jury which censured Mr. Agos
tino, and in thereby releasing that gen
tleman from custody, Recorder Hackett
pronounced the law in the case, which,
we presume, every sensible citizen will
admit to be correct, to bo that a man has
a right to protect his property against felonious
attacks, whether he defends it by the use of a
gun in his own hands if he happens to be on
the premises when th9 burglar attempts to
force an entrance, or whether he places an in
strument of destruction in such a manner
that it shall act, in his absence, as a guardian
to his premises. The facts in this case show
that this latter was the mode adopted. That
it produced a fatal effect is, as the Recorder
very properly says, the result of the bur
glar's felonious act. He meant to rob the
gunsmith's shop?that is evident; but
he met his death in the felonious intent.
The Recorder's judgment, therefore, must be
sustained. It is wise and just. It is only to
be regretted that more Buch traps are not laid
for burglars. There is nothing so terrifying to
a cowardly criminal?and nil burglars are
cowards?as a mysterious and unseen dan
ger. The circumstance of the sudden death
of this burglar will probably have more
effect in deterring that dangerous fraternity
from the practice of their prolession than all
the vigilance of the police.
The Comptrolleeship Question?Me.
O'Conor's Legal Opinion.?A question hav
ing arisen as to whether there is to be a
vacancy in the office of Comptroller of the
cRy of New York which should be provided
for at the election next Tuesday, the opinion
of Mr. Charles O'Conor was sough 1, and has
been given in a very exhaustive and elaborate
document. The opiuion, though terse and
clear, as all Mr. O'Conor's arguments are, is
of too technical a character to interest the
general reader, and therefore we do not pub
lish it; but the result arrived at is that Mr.
Connolly, the present occupant of the office, is
entitled to hold it for four years from the 1st
oi January, 1871, the date of his appointment;
that there is not even color for drawing his
right in question, and that consequently the
office cannot be voted for j>t th^ap^ro^liiflg
election.
The Revolution in Uruguay is not yet
ended. By the latest reports it was progress
ing, and the rebel loaders were more defiant
than over on account of the successes which
they had met with. It is most unhappy that
the people of those little States in South
America cannot live quietly and contentedly
and avoid those disas'rons conflicts which so
often occur. Every revolution retards the
progress of republican institutions in South
America. It Uruguay is not very careful she
may meet with the same fate as Paraguay?be
taken under the protection of Brazil, and
what that means it is hardly necessary to
explaia.
A Good Sign.?The personal vituperation
that marked the outset of the gubernatorial
campaign in this Slate has, we are glad to see,
almost entirely subsided, and everything, to
the exterior view, at least, soems to bo con
ducted in a high-toned and gentlemanly way.
This is a good sign, and speaks well lor the
naturally amiable and urbane qualities of both
candidates tor the chief office in the State.
And now wo have two more reverends
participating in the Fulton-TiUon schism.
They hack Fulton. Cannot a respectabie
preacher take bis quiot glass or lager beer
without constraining the press of tho country
and the telegraph, und even the pulpit, to
lum ?
Refablteui ?f tlo?i?ekt?ifhe Altitedo
Kuaalat.
Oar despatches from Europo agaiu mention
the great diplomatic and military activity ?<
the Russian government. Early last spring,
oro theio was a sign of trouble directly between
Franco and Prussia, we repeatedly eallod
attention to the manoeuvres of armies going <St
throughout the latter kingdom, and that, too,
while the remainder of the press, British and
American, Beemed to ignore them. We now
remark the very peculiar attitude of Russia,
and find in it growing symptoms of a far wider
catastrophe than lia? already taken Europe by
surprise.
The well known Russian organ L? Nord
bus distinctly intimated that the equilibrium
of the Continent, endangered by tho culpable
ambition of ono Power and by the blind
obstinacy of another, must be seonred by
the intervention of a State sufficiently strong to
make itself respected by both parties, and yet
not liable to be suspected of sympathy for the
passions or the projects of one or the other.
This is plain and pointed talk, and, to back it,
we boar of the Czar concentrating neatly fire
hundred thousand of his best drilled troops
toward his western frontiers and summoning
his terrible Cossack riders to the Held. Com
mon sense tells us that this master 1b not made
for the protection of his Prussian neighbor,
since the utmost that France oould hope to do,
for the present, would be to raise the siege ef
Paris. It is not to shield Russia itself from
Prussian invasion, since the Northern winter,
which no foroign foe would dare to brave, in
at the door, and, moreover, Prussia has not
completed the heavy task that she is unwisely
enlarging In France. The political wisdom ot
Prussia, disguise it as she may attempt to do,
has beeu alarmed, and a rumor came weeks
ago from Berlin that in order to secure tho
Czar's consent to the dismemberment ot
France she was willing to give that potentate
the two duchies of Mecklenburg, and to
compensate the ruler of these minor princi
palities by forming the conquered provinces
of Alsace and Lorraine into one grand duchy
under his immediate control, as governor or
viceroy. Bat there is another solution to all
this imbroglio, and it it comparatively close at
band. The secret of that solution will be
found in the memorable words of the Great
Napoleon, which we do freely into English
from the exact text of his Memorial, written at
St. Helena:?
"Ere fifty years shall have passed," said the
imperial political soothsayer, "France will be
republican or Cossack. Then, if my bod be
alivo, he will be called to the throne amid the
aoclamations of the people. If he be no more
France will again become republican, since no
other hand would dare to grasp the sceptre
that be could not uphold.
"The Orleans branch, although acceptable,
is too feeble ; it partakes too much of the other
Bourbons and it will meet with the same fate,
should its members not prefer to live the life
of simple citizens, no matter what changes
may intervene. Once again France wiil ba
republican, and the other countries will follow
her example. Germans, Prussians, Poles
Italians, Danes, Swedes and Russians will
unite with her in a crusade in favor of liberty.
They will take up arms against their sove
reigns, who will hasten to make concessions to
them so as to retain a part of their old
authority; they will call themselves constitu
tional kiDgs with limited powers. Thus will
the feudal system receive its death blow; like
fog in the midst of the ocean it will vanish at
the first rays of the sun of liberty.
"But things will not remain there; the wheel
of revolution will not stop at that point; its
impetuosity will multiply fivefold, and its
rapidity will increase in like proportion. When
a people has regained a part of its rights it
becomes enthusiastically inspired by victory,
and, having tasted the sweets of liberty, it
grows the more enterprising in order to obtain
the more. The States of Europe will for some
years, perhaps, be in a state of continual agi
tation, like the soil at the moment which pre
cedes an earthquake; but at last the lava
will burst forth and the explosion wiil term!
nate everything.
"The bankruptcy of England will be the lava
which is to shake the world and swallow up
the kings and the aristocracies, but will cement
the interests of the democracy by its eruption.
Believe me, Las CasaB, in like manner as tha
vines that cover the foot of Etna and of Vesu
vius produce the most delicious vintages, so
will the tree of liberty become fixed and not
to be cast down when it shall have its roots
planted in that revolutionary lava which will
have overflowed all the monarchies. May it
bloom and flourish for ages! These may
seem strange sentiments for you to hear
from ray lips; however, they are really
mine. 1 was bora a republican; but destiny
and the opposition of Europe have made me
an emperor ^^UJ^ur^ ?
Sucl^ttfas the impressive language, in many
places attaining the grandeur of prophecy, in
which Napoleon, from the calm heights of
contemplation, after having held the fate of
Europe in the hollow of bis hand, announced
the inevitable changes visible to him from the
summit_of his political Pisgah. The fifty years
have rolled away; a nephew (not a son) of
the Emperor sat for eighteen years upon the,
throne of France, and has fallen from it.
France is again republican; the nations of
Europe are preparing to follow her example;
the lava of revolution begins to grow hot be
neath the feet of Prussia and to throw its
warmth into the palace of the Russian Czar.
The Cossacks are summoned to extinguish it.
Henoe the armaments, hence the diplomatio
agitation, hence the hurrying to and fro, on
every road and iron rail from the Black Sea
to the Neva, and from the Neva toward the
Danube. The hour is coming; the supreme
conflict is no longer distant. Republican or
Cossack??which shall wiu?
Titk Advantage of Having a Good Rbp^
kesentativk.?If the ineastiro introduced into
the last Legislature by Representative Jacobs,
of Kings county, proposing to abolish the
registry system throughout the State, had
b.%en passed, as it might have been, what &
deal of trouble would have been saved the
voting population of New York city, as well as
expense and bother and needless alarm to tho
federal authorities, inconsequence our fellow
citizens in the growing suburb of Brooklyn
have this year been saved tho annoyance ol
running around to find some out of the way