Eancaster Slntelligencer.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1870
The Hope for Self• Government in Europe.
When the war between France and
Prussia began King William solemnly
declared that his quarrel was with Na
poleon, and not with the French peo
ple. By that declaration he drew to
himself and his cause the sympathy of
the world. When Napoleon surrender
ed an almost universal expectation pre
vailed that the terrible sacrifice of life
would cease and peace be speedily re
stored. The new. born French Republic
has shown a disposition to make peace
on terms that must be regarded as hon
orable to Prussia and sufficiently hu
miliating to so proud people as those of
France. The proposition tendered by
M. Thiers in his interview with Earl
Granvilleembracedeompensationforthe
expenses entailed upon Prussia and am
ple guarantees for the future. England
refused to interfere as a mediator be
cause her rulers are not willing to recog
nize the French Republic, and King
William declines to treat with the only
government which has an existence in
France. His armies are now before the
gates of l'aris, summoning the city to
surrender.
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France stands alone, in this terrible
crisis of her history without receiving
any sympathy from the monarchical
governments of Europe. Every one of
the stronger powers is hostile to the new
Republic, and there is not a King among
them who would not gladly,see this last
experiment at self-government crushed
out. We can not wonder that it is so.
A Republic successfully established in
France would be a constant menace to
everyjmonareh in Europe, not through
armies, but through the grander march
of ideas. In the fearful struggle now
before the French people they must re
ceive the full and generous sympathy of
every friend of republican institutions,
110 matter what may be his nationality.
Every German who has imbibed the
true spirit of American liberty must
hesitate now before wishing that King
William may succeed in crushing out
the sacred principle of self-government
which Is embodied ill the French Re
public. France stands to-day as the
representation of republicanism in Eu
rope, and upon her fate depends the life
of liberal ideas. Should the Republic
which has been established be beaten
clown by the cannon balls of KingWil
limn, all hope that the people of any
State Inaurope will he allowed to choose
their own rulers will be crushed out,
and for many years to come kingly
power will be too firmly routed to be
overthrown.
That there is truth in the repiirts that
King William intends to restore the
Napoleonic dynasty, or to place one of
the Bourbon or Orleans princes on the
throne of France, his own words would
lead us to believe. Such would be a
natural deduction from the personal
opinions of the King on the subject of
government, lie announced by Lim in
all address delivered on the lath day of
October, Islll, the day before he was
crowned, in which he said :
"The rulers of Prussia receive their
crown Irmo To-nittrrew, tlierofere,
I shall take lin , crown listen t h e Lord's table
and place it tin illy heel. 'Phis is tile mean
lug or Ole King by the gracteit
lied, and thereto lies the ,ah,tity a the
crown, is int ittiable. -
And he fulfilled his promise. %.1 the
appointed hour, in the presence of those
who witnessed the veremony if coro
nation, he !dared the " golden round ot
sovereignty" upon his own head, with
the remark,." I wear this erown by tin
grace of lied, :mil of nobody e l se ." It is
not strange that France, clad in the
roles of freedom, should appeal ill vain
to the nionarelis of Eurolw for help or
sympathy in her luarrol with a ruler
who holds such sentiments. 'File sym
pathy i 4 kings is with kings, and it is
natural fur thew to Make venation cause
with each other against theluolle. It
is no wonder, tlitql`niri., lln a t the mon
archs: of Europe have entered into a
new Holy Alliance with the design of
crushing out republicanismi in France.
They may succeed in their deavor.—
If they should, the linger upon the dial
of the clerk of time will be set hack,
and the progress of mankind indefi
nitely &cloyed.
The Refuge of a Venal Editor.
It is an easy maker to tell when
Radical editor is completely worsted
an encounter, particularly one of tl
class which Horace Greeley . so aptly
4erilied us " those insignificant creature
whom ( ku.l in his inscrutable wistiol
permits to edit the eoutitryThewspapei
of the Republic:tit party." These fu
/OWS appear to have only ime resort.
Like the dirty little boys who play i
the gutters they make mouths at those
who (Arend them and call their oppon
ents ugly names. It is the very im
potence of malice, but it is all the most
of them can do.
The editor of the Expose, having
served a term in the penitentiary for an
infamous crime, has al last found a shel
ter. It is that place of refuge described
by Dr. Johnson when lie said, " patri
otism is the last resort of scoundrels."
If for patriotism we will only read loy
alty, we shall have the editor of the
Express located. lle undertakes to cover
up all his misdeeds by a cloak of loyalty.
When his rascality is exposed by us, lie
professes an intense love for Abraham
Lincoln, and charges us with hav
ing defamed the dead—just :is if
what we may have said of a for-
President or the Vnited States
.Inul anything to do with the disrepu
table praelieee of levying bluek mail
Ant candidates and selling out the votes
of members of the Legislature to :t can
didate for State Treasurer. Abraham
Lincoln was not always very parti(
about the company he kept, hut we im
agine he would summarily have kicked
the editor of the Rapre.q , out of his
presence, if he had known his character
as well as the best informed wen of his
own party in this city do. The man
who 41Jitually sells the editorial col
umns of his paper to the candi-
date'. who pays most money, and Nvlio
enters intoit combination Nvith (;corge
Brubaker to st,tirt• the nomination of
one of the rohheN (tithe lug
cuu hot 1 . 1/ Vl2 r up his villainy by crawl
ing under the funeral pall of Abraham
Lincoln. The people of Lancaster
county are beginning to understand the
true character or the Express. The fact
that it uses its influence for the purpose
of making money by the basest possible
means is no longer a secret. The cloak
of hypocrisy has been stripped from the
shoulders of the felon who controls its
:columns, and he stands before the com
munity convicted of practices which
ought to be made equally as punishable
as forgery or the obtaining of goods un
der false pretenses. Every honest man
4111 g t to dread pmts.? front a news
paper whose editorial columns are open
ly renognized as purchasable.
.1. henry Askln
J. Henry .ilsl;iii, the Democratic itomi-
nee fur Congress in the Chester and Del
aware District, has written n letter of
acceptance which should recommend
him very strongly to the voters who will
be called upon to decide between him
and the Radical candidate. Mr. Askin
is deservedly very popular, and lie will
be elected if the people can he induced
to lay aside party prejudice and to vote
tis their better judgment and their in
terests would dictate. Mr. Townsend,
the Radical candidate, has nothing to
recommend him except his radicalism.
Ile made no figure in Congress and re
tlects no oredit upon his constituency.
THERE is a rumor to the effect that
itjeneral Howard proposes to sue Fer
nando Wood for slander. Mr. Wood
defies him to do so. He would ho glad
to get a chance to have the conduct of
the saint of the Freedmen's Bureau in.
vestigated by a court of Justice. The
result then would differ widely from the
report made by the whitewashing Con
gressional Committee.
Why Many Good Republicans Are Dissat
isfied.
The editors of the Examiner seem to
be greatly exercised over the action of
the Democratic County Committee. The
adjournment of that body without call
ing for the immediate assembling of a
Democratic County Convention to nom
inate a straight-out Democratic Ticket,
has greatly disturbed the equanimity of
the gang of trading politicians who have
ruled the Republican party of Lancas
ter county for years by means of shrewd
trickery. There is a set of men in this
city who have lived upon the profits
derived from a distribution of offices
among their favorites. They have lived
fast and luxuriously, and some of the
more prudent have amassed considera
ble fortunes. Rings have been formed
for the manipulation of all nominations,
and aspirants for office have been forced
to accede to the requirements of the ring
masters.
Under the old delegate system the
management of nominating conven
tions was reduced to a science ; and at
one time the man who now holds the
office of District Attorney made himself
omnipotent by organizing a band of
sworn adherents in a large number of
the election districts. It thus came to
pass that n single individual, who was
utterly wanting in political integrity,
dictated the nominations of the Repub
lican party from year to year. The
Court House was tilled with his crea-
tures, the County Commissioners were
his tools, the Prison Inspectors chose the
man he named for Keeper, and the Au
ditors reported as he directed. No one
to whom he was opposed could be sent
to the Legislature. He ruled with a rod
of iron, and exacted tribute from every
one who obtained political position
through the instrumentality of the
band of Thugs, of whom he was chief.
So omnipotent did the power of this
single man become that a combination
of others who desired to profit by the
distribution of offices, was at length
formed against him, and the Republi
can masses, who had suffered and been
disgraced, were easily induced to vote
for the adoption of what is know❑ as
the Crawford County System. The
people fondly imagined that corrupt
rings could not maintain an existence
under a system where nominations
ISE=I
expected that better men would lie se
lected. How egregiously they were
loped, the record of the nominations
mule Limier the new plan will show.—
Me of Its very first fruits was the nom-
ation and election of the King of the
'hugs to the important office of Dis
rict Attorney ; and that in spite of his
:noun corruption, and in the face of his
itter unfitness for the position. The
' Prison Ring" 11.49 never been broken,
tint the Commissioners' office has contin 7
fed to be an object of grave suspicion up
0 the present day. 'Pule men sent to
he Legislature under the Crawford
system have nut been more able or hot
est than those chosen under the delegate
:ystem, and the Court House officials
lave in most instances been designated
y the political traders.
The 'Phug ring which was organized
.nd run by George Brubaker has given
dace to other agent•ies equally as cot'-
upt. Under the Crawford system all
he worst elements of the Republican
,arty are annually mustered at the
tills ; the bar-rooms are thrown open ;
nosey is scattered about in Lavish
WOIIISiIIII ; and in the midst of the most
lisgraceful exhibitions of drunkenness
ind debauchery the decrees of the ring
misters are carried out. The traders in
'Mee lix up a slate, and their minions
tut it through by ineans.of the basest
tgencies. So open and undisguised is
lie rascality practiced under the Craw
'ord system that those who tire posted
is to its practical workings do nut
.:le to declare that the result depends
von who gets control of the election
liu:u•ds. in numerous instances the
a rgt • has been openly made in Repub
lican newspapersof thiscity that certain
candidates have been counted out and
others counted in ; and the belief is al
most universally entertained that sonic
of the men who are now running on the
Republican ticket in this county were
not nominated by a vote of the people,
but foisted upon the party by forged
and fraudulent returns.
It is not strange that there should be
deep disgust and wide spread dissatisfac
tion in the ranks of the Republican party
of Lancaster county under such circum
stances. This feeling is not confined to
111011 w•Ito imagined that they have been
Wronged, or to their friends. It extends
deeper and reaches much farther. There
are very many honest Republicans in the
county who are disgusted at the course
of events; men who have no personal
stake in the coming election ; who have
never sought Mike and who du not
desire political preferment. Multitudes
of such men can be found, the very best
and most worthy of their party, who
would gladly administer a blow to the
corruption which prevails. All they
ask is that a proper method be provi
ded for the expression of their opinions
and feelings. tihould that be done, the
Examiner will bully and scold in vain.
Its vulgar adjectives Will fall on ears
which will heed them not, and its silly
attempts at ridicule will only make it a
laughing stock.
The Thirteenth District
Capt. C. 11. Brockway, editor of the
Bloomsburg Columbian, has been nomi
nated for Congress by the Democrats of
the Thirteenth District. Capt. Brock
way was a gallant soldier, and is an
able lawyer, a brilliant writer and an
eloquent speaker. He is a young man,
full of energy and well calculated to
rally the Democrats to the polls, and to
secure support from honest' and intelli
gent Republicans. He will go into the
fight determined to win, and his chances
of success are excellent. In I,S6S Ulysses
Mercur was only elected by a majority
of 311 votes, and last year the Demo
crate carried it for Packer by a majority
of GI votes over Geary. Mercur's pub
lic record is very vulnerable, and Capt.
Brockway will pierce the armor of his
opponent through every opening. We
expect to chronicle the triumph of this
young and gallant soldier in the coming
contest. We are sure we shall have the
pleasure of doing so if the Democracy
or the district poll their full vote.
Irish and hutch
Over in Schuylkill county a couple of
coal operators. have been making ar-
Fangonents to put Chinamen into the
inineH, in place of the white Irbil' amid
German w•or. men Jiow engaged there.
The workmen of course object, and we
here append the itympatliy, the Radical
organ of that county—the _liners' Jour
iml—gives them. It says:
" the Irish and the i;ertuans ore the
prominent opponents to the Chinese, and
aro osking Congress to prohibit the emi
gration entirely, we believe if any class of
emigrants aro to be prohibited by our
overn meld, the best interests of the
country demand that IriBh and German
cm/gm/ion instead of Chinese should be
prohibited. If the Chinamen aro Pagans
we may convert them to Christianity, and
mere Paganism cannot have a more de
moralizitig effect upon the country than
tile crime and pauperism of 1110 Irish and
Dutch."
There you have it, white wen—
est, hard-working Germans and Irish
men. Know•Nothingism sticks in the
Radical breast as virulent to-day as it
(lid in 1855, notwithstanding the billing
and cooing that has been going on be
tween leading Radicals and leading
foreign-born citizens in the last four or
live years.
TEN years akw ,the great cry of the
Radical party , W "redoend taxation."
Five years ago it was Use smue, This
fall the cry will be shouted louder titan
ever. We want to ask the fanner and
taxpayer how the party has kept its
promises in this respect, and if his tax
is not five times as high to-day as ten
ycars ago ? When a Radical talks to
you of ualticed taxation, show him your
tax receipts Lunt ask hint to tell you
where the Radical party has made a
reduction.
The Census of New York City
The citizens of New York city are
naturally astounded at the footing up
made by the census-takers, whose figures
seem to show that the great commercial
metropolis of this country has Increased
very little inpopulation during the last
ten years. The newspaper offices are
being filled with letters from persons
who have never been enumerated, and
in some instances hotels and boarding
houses containing numerous inmates
are shown to have been passed by.—
One case is mentioned by the New York
Herald where a boarding house occupied
by forty boarders was entirely overlook
ed, and whole blocks are said to have
been skipped in some parts of the city.
The selection of the heat of summer as
the time for taking the census, when it
is estimated that no less than two hun
dred thousand people are absent, Is also
very justly complained of. So palpably
incorrect are the returns of the census
takers that the Mayor of the city has.'
called upon the councils to order an
enumeration of the inhabitants in cer
tain districts to be made by the munici
pal authorities, The Federal officials
had an object which might readily have
induced them to make an imperfect, if
not a fraudulent enumeration. The
Radical newspapers have been constant
ly charging that more votes were cast
in certain districts than the population
warranted. To give the color of truth,
to such assertions the Federal officials,
who were all petty Radical politicians,
may, have made incorrect returns.—
There is much reason to believe that
they have done so. To show up their
supposed rascality, and to secure a cor
rect enumeration Is the object of Mayor
l's Message to the City Councils.
time was in this country when it
d not have been deemed possible
the , census-takers could have been
induced to make an incorrect enumera
tion for partizan purposes; but after
what has been done by the Mullettls in
the South and elsewhere, the people
will not be astonished at any new speei-
men of political rascality. There were
sufficient inducements for the Radical
enumerators to make a false return of
the population of New York city, and
it seems to be certain that they have
done so. The Philadelphia Lcdficr
complains that the enumeration of that
city Is also very imperfect, and calls for
action similar to that recommended by
the Mayor of New York.
The Tennessee Butler
At a meeting of the Radicals of
Greene county, Tennessee, held on the
sth inst., Roderick Random Butler was
renominated for Congress and the fol
lowing resolutions were unanimously
adopted :
lersol red, That this meeting recognize
he Hon. R. It. Butler, our present efficient
tepresontative in the Congress of the UM
ed States, as all II ON ear man and a faithful
mblie servant, worthy of the confidence of
he people, notwithstanding the loo• slan
lers and denunciations of his political mo
llies.
Resolved, that thedelegates appointed by
pia meeting are hereby requested and in-
trotted to east the vote of Greene county,
'or the Ilon. It. It. Butler, as our candidate
m the Republican ticket for Representative
n the next Congress of the United States,
to whom we plegde our hearty support.
The slanders and denunciations re
'erred to by the first resolution, all come
min the officers of the Pension Bureau
'Washington, and the men makit
them areas Radical in politics us Butler
or any of his negro or scalawag constit
uents. Butler was arrested on the charge
of forging pension papers for men not
entitled to the bounty of the govern
ment (a rebel soldier being among the
nuniberl, and for cheating certain wid
ows and orphans of union soldiers out
of the scanty pittance which they were
entitled to receive. The proof against
him is positive and overwhelming, and
he was arrested by the United States
Marshal and would have been in jail o
under heavy bail now, if a Radical
Judge of his district had not rescued
him front the hands of the Marshal, by
means of a writ of hab((u.l c oriuto and
summarily set hint free. He was proven
to be guilty of selling his cadetship, but
was saved from expulsion by a sharp
trick of iris Radical friends in Congress.
Such is the man whom the Radicals of
the First Congressional District of Ten-
nessee have declared to be ItoNEsT and
worthy of their support. What must
be thought of the men who compose the
Radical party in that. region': They
lust be as thoroughly corrupt IN the
'ongressinen who voted to shield Ilut•
er from the punishment justly due for
ilk sale of cadetships.
Preparing to Count
The Radicals have a majority of the
Board of Aldermen of Philadelphia, and
that majority does not hesitate to resort
to the most rascally expedients to influ
ence elections. The Registry Law very l i
improperly took away from the people
of Philadelphia the power of choosing
officers of election, and committed the
appointment of those officials to the
Board of Ahlermen, lly the law the
party in the minority in any elec
tion district is to have at least one
of the election ()niters, and an agree
merit was entered into by which
the Democratic members of the
Board were to be allowed to ma n e the
Democratic election officers in the dif
ferent districts. That would only have
been fair, and calculated to insure the
fair and honest conduct of elections;
but the Radical politicians of Philadel
phia do not want an honest and fair
election ; so the Radical Board of Al
dermen have decided to take the ap
pointment of all the election officers
exclusively into their hands. That will
enable them to put in creatures of their
own who will do as much cheating as
may be required of them. It is now
generally conceded that John W. Geary
was counted into office by Radical elec
tion officers in Philadelphia last fall,
and the Radicals are now preparing to
count in Congressmen and other officers.
Is it not high time for the adoption of a
system which would render such rascal
ity more ditlicult than it is at present?
Legislative Reform In Dauphin County.
The indignation among the people of
.Dauphin county, which was excited by
the renomination of two men who dis
graced themselves and their constitu
ents, by their corrupt practices in the
last Legislature, is very great. It is well
known that the most infamous means
were employed to control the Republi
can County Convention, and the people,
without respect to party, seen) to be de
termined to defeat the purchased tools
of Simon Cameron. The Democrats
have nominated Mr. Joseph M. Lescan,
of Middletown, leaving one vacancy on
the Legislative Ticket to be filled by an
honest Republican. The movement
promises to be completely successful, as
it ought to be. The Telcgraph denounces
the arrangement, and tries to make
1 capital by the stupid device of styling
the ticket "a mule ticket." Such mean
ingless attempts p.t ridicule will not in
fluence honest and intelligetit voters.
Democratic Gains in New England
The gain on the popular vote in Maine
is about 16,000 with large gains in the
Senate and• House and a fair prospect of
upsetting Morrill for the United States
Senate, who always votes in the inter
ests of monopolists.
The Democratic gain in Vermont is
twenty in the House and one in the
Senate, and inrge gain in most of the
towns of the Witte,
Such gains, made in the very strong
holds of Radicalism, show how the cyir
rent is setting. Let the Democrats of
Pennsylvania take inspiration from
them. Let them buckle on their armor
and make a bold fight for Congressmen
and Members of the Legislature. Let
evpry Democrat remember that a full
poll of our yoto will bring us a glorious
victory on tits smug Tuesday of Octo
ber. •
.
A Sunday , paper of Baltimore reports
a defalcation by the Deputy Collector in
the Custom House of that city. The
amount is rumored to be from $14,000 to
$20,000.
Are You Registered ?
The Radical officials may neglect to
register Democrats. They are very apt
to forget whore they live, and to be
come perfectly oblivious of their exist
ence. The local editor of this paper
visited the polling place of his ward yes
terday and found that he was not regis
tered. Having moved into the ward
since the last election he did not think
so strangely of the omission, but in
looking for his next door neighbor,
who is an old residenter, he found
that he too was not registered. It
behooves every Democrat to see to
it for himself that his name is on the
list, and, if he is an employee, that he
is duly marked as slaves used to be up
on their collars in the olden days. This
registry law is one of the despicable de
vices of the Radicals, whereby they
hope to cheat many a working man out
of his vote. The only way laboring
men can, be sure of their rights on
election day is by looking at the
registration lists and seeing for
themselves that their names arc duly
recorded. Let there be no lack of
diligence at the coming election. The
thne is not far distant when the infam
ous enactments of the Radicals will be
repealed; but until that is done every
Democrat must keep a sharp eye upon
the registration lists. (Jo and see for
yourself! See whether your name is on
the list ; and then look to it that the
name of your Democratic neighbor is
not omitted !
The Honesty of the Express
The Express tries to be witty and sar
castic over the prevailing dissatisfaction
which exists in the Republican party of
this county, but, as usual, it only man
ages to make a characteristic display of
vulgarity and ill-temper. It does not
deny that ninny honest and intelligent
Republicans arc disgusted with the ras
cality and corruption of the managers
of the party in this county—it dare not
do that. It tries to east ridicule upon a
couple of prominent Republicans, and
seems to imagine that it can thus roll
back the tide of discontent.
We arc no admirer or Andy Arm
strong, but we are sure that he will
compare very favorably in political and
personal honesty with the editor of the
Express. We believe he was never con
victed of forgery, and nothing that he
ever did in the legislature could possibly
be more despicably mean than the con
. duct of a newspaper publisher who
habitually levies black mail upon his
party and takes bribes for supporting
candidates for ollice. That is a pro
fundity of mercenary meanness to which
even Andy Armstrong has never yet
descended.
The Expn.ss is, of course, perfectly
satisfied with the ticket, since Wiley is
likely to be rewarded for supporting
" the big steal," and " Little Boy Blue,'
sent back to make himself the laughing
stock of the House. There is a chance
to make money out of the election of a
State Treasurer, and the virtuous editor•
of the Express hopes to "get his hooks
in" again. If reports be true, he made
a good thing last year by selling out the
caucus candidate of his party, and he
will be early on hand again with his
rotten wares, if the Republicans should
have a majority in the next Legislature.
The editor of the Express is as deep in
the corruption which prevails among the
Radical leaders of Lancaster county as
any other man, and all the parade about
honesty which is made in his paper is a
pretentious and hypocritical sham, kept
up systematically for the sole purpose of
making money in the meanest manlier.
He pretends that his newspaper has
great influence, and thus manages to
''nerease the price which he exacts for
his mercenary support. His annual
blow about the influence of the Express
in securing the nomination of honest
candidates is the veriest fraud. For
years he has directed his attacks
against the corruption which exists
in the County Prison, and yet
has not succeeded in defeating the
thieving ring which controls that in
stitution. At the priinary election the
Erprcss supported I raham and Landis,
who got together 7,227 votes; while
Sprecher and Heist received 11,542.. That
vote was the true test of the influence
of the E.rp I , Sc. The truth is the Re
publicans of Lancaster county have
found out that it is a black-mailing con
cern, and are convinced that all its
parade of pretended honesty is the Iml
lowest kind of a sham, beneath which
Is covered up 1110 n mercenary meanness
than is to be found in the Examiner amid
the Inquirer combined.
Where the Proof Can Be Had
The Inquir, t, in commenting upon
our strictures in regard to the corrupt
usages practiced by the Radical leaders
under the Crawford System in this
county, after quoting a paragraph front
the INTEr.i.u;E:ceint, says :
Hero is a distinct statement, that it is
openly charged, that the returns of the
primary elections were altered to secure
the nomination of certain candidates. Let
us have the facts and the proof.
We are reliably informed that a well
known Republican politician from the
Millersville District stopped in front of
the laquirr r office the other day, and
boldly charged the editor, who was
standing in the door, with having driven
out from Lancaster the morning after
the election and helped to alter the re
turns of one or more pulls with his own
hands. The accuser did not mince
words, and, after heaping insulting
names upon the editor aforesaid, dared
him to step out into the street and
defend himself. The burly individual
who was chalenged did not dare
thus to meet his accuser ; the arms made
strong by wielding the blacksmith's
hammer swung listlessly at his side,
and he hung his head in shame and con
fusion. If the editor of the bujoicer
wants any proof in regard to the matter
alluded to, let him apply to the gentle
man from Millersville, who will no
doubt be happy to furnish it in any
shape that may be desired.
Who is Responsible for Revenue Frauds.
The Radical press is trying to make a
little political capital by a parade of fig
ures which seem to show that it cost
more to' collect the revenue under An
drew Johnson than it does under I rant.
The New York Tribune says:
It has cast less, under President Grant,
to called, under a reduced tariff, $294,725,-
139 21 of the custnis, than it did under
President Johnson to c011ect5251,973,7u9 19.
Andrew Johnson was nominated and
elected by the Radicals, and because
they could not use him just as they
wished, they bound bins hand and foot.
They deprived !din of the power to
remove corrupt and thieving offi
cials and appointing honest men in their
places. Thieving officials,soine of whom
have since been sent to prison, were
kept in office by the action of a Radical
Congress. Congress was run in the in
terests of the men who were plundering
the public treasury, and the President
whom the Radicals elected and then
fettered is charged with being responsi
ble fur frauds and wrongs which he was
prevented from checking by the action
of Cho Radicals themselves. Had An
drew Johnson been left free to make his
own appointment 4 he might have been
justly held responsible. Congress took
all the responsibility oil his shoulders,
and became answerable for what was
done. As the Radicals had a two-thirds
majority, the people can easily tell
which party is to blame for what occur
red.
Tyr: New York ,Sun boldly charges
that br4x,ry was used to prevent the
nomination of .iieraee Greeley, as Re
publican candidate for Governor of New
York. It professes to have the proof to
substantiate its allegations, and demands
that General Woodford resign and al
low some one else to be nominated in
his stead. It declares that Woodford is
" hopelessly beaten already and will
ztot resign anything of value." That is
a deb "grata pf affairs, truly, but it is
only of a pieca With liie general con
duct of the Radical leaderg; and tin)
country will not be astounded at it.
Radical Views of the French Republic.
The following extracts from leading
Republican newspapers will show how
strong is the feeling of sympathy in this
country with the new-born Republic of
France. Without attempting to simu
late any exaggerated admiration forßing
William every Democratic newspaper
in Pennsylvania condemned the actions
of Louis Napoleon, and wished well to
the German armies. When Napoleon
was defeated and a French Republio
proclaimed, every Democratic newspa
per in the country immediately cried
out lire la Republique ! Radical news
paper which had advocated the bitter
tenets of the Know-Nothing party were
very profuse in their expressions of
sympathy with Germany, but in all
this they were actuated by selfish mo
tives. :They speak out now in favor
of the French Republic because they
find the popular tide setting strongly in
that direction. The course of the Dem
ocratic press has been manly and hon
est throughout. The following extracts
show how Radical newspapers talk now:
[Front the Tribune.]
If King William was sincere in his pro
fessions, what excuse is there for prolong
ing the struggle? Napoleon made unjust
war upon him; Napoleon is utterly discom
fited and his prisoner. We cannot see that
any ono is to blame for this but Napoleon
for undertaking to whip William, or Wil
liam for not letting him do it. They must
arrange it between them. Germany has no
right to make France her vassal, nor to sub
ject its capital and all its provinces to the
devastations inseparable from war. In
short, she ought either to propose or to ac
cept reasonable terms of peace. if she un
dertakes to replace the despot she has crush •
ed on the throne he has madly subverted, or
in any manner evinces a disposition to pro-
tract the war needlessly and with intent to
reduce the French to vassalage, the sympa
thies so bounteously extended to her by the
generous and liberty•toeing throughout
Christendom will be wholly withdraws, and
the names of Bismarck and William will
be exposed to the just execration of mankind.
(From the Sun.]
There seems to be an understanding be
tween the King of Prussia and Louis Na
poleon which bodes no good to the French,
republic. Who knows but that the gro
tesque spectacle may be reserved to the
world of seeing the Prussians, after having
vanquished the Bonaparte dynasty, employ
them for the purpose of vanquishing the
French republic? The Bonapartes are es
teemed by King William on account of their
tyrannical proclivities and their skill in
crushing republics. The Prussian oligarchy
dreads a republic more than Bonapartes.—
The distinguished consideration with which
the Emperor is treated by the Hohenzol
lern is highly suspicious, to say the least
of it.
t from the Boston Traveller.)
In this change of government the French
people will find compensation for their
losses by the war, and in the prospect of
increased liberty and more noble power
in the future they may forget the humilia
tion through which the exaltation comes.
The free people of America bid them Ciod
speed in the work of reconstruction, and will
hail with joy each 71.01' evidence that they arc
building wisely and weld fire la ItepubU
tine
[Prom the Chicago Tribune
Any dismemberment of Franco, now
that the Bonaparte tribe of despots is
gone, imperilism dead, and a government
of the people established. will be regarded
with intense disfavor throughout the civil
ized world; and in Germany itself a pow
ful reaction will :set in. The tires of '1;7;
aro not yet extinguished. The German
masses aro still republicans at heart; and
a war waged against the republicans of
France can never be a popular war with
republican Germans.
(From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
•
If the war continues, the French nation
struggling as a people against invasion,
the sympathy which many felt for Prussia
until the battle of Sedan will be changed
and incline in fitvor of the people struggling
ibr national right and national life. Tin'
tide of American feeling may entirely
change, and a current of approval set in 0
diyer.mt dircetionfront that to which it tend
ed Wore the 2d of September.
[From t h e Chicago Post.
Franco lots declared a republic ; the most
radical and most trusted loaders have been
called to the front; and they may be sure
of the benediction of America, to strengthen
their hearts and hands in the establishment
of a stable government of each for all and
all fur each.
[From the Butralo Express.]
All Americans joyfully hail her re-entry
into the ranks of republicanism, with a full
belief that her past experience will at
length enable her to stand lirm in that po
litical creed which she has again embraced.
[From the Boston Journal.]
Ilere is a great change—on the surface at
least—which may devolve n serious re
sponsibility on the Prussian government.
Hitherto it has had the sympathies of the
American people; hereafter we shall make
up our judgment according to the develop
ment of events. We aro as well disposed
toward the ' , roue!' people as toward the
Prussians, and we have a natural prefer
ence for their present form of government.
Front Ilia Chl,ngo I.l,publivan.l
Let us not go to shouting Hoch Konit;
Wilhelm' when that worthy old gentleman
is already higher than ho deserves to be.—
To the great German people, who have so
gloriously taken the imperial robber by
the collar, be all honor and credit. King
William has done no more to secure these
victories than King Cole. Lot us leave
such follies to court journals and palace
rats. . .
From the Cincinnati Times.]
France has proclaimed a republic in the
utmost decency and order. France will
now have the sympathy of mankind. There
is a power in Paris that hm authority to
treat. Propose your terms.
[From the Independent-I
Prussia thus far has had the syui paths of
- .
the United States. lint it is not possible
for Americans to refrain from wishing the
prosperity of the French republic. 11Prus
sia undertakes to prevent a republican gov
ernment in France, and to force upon the
French people the monarchic principle, all
liberal hearts throughout the world will
give their prayers for the tri-culor. ii Prus
sia goes to Paris,to strike the republic, we
trust the King's presumption will meet the
Emperor's fate.
j From the Providence .1 eurnal.]
At any rate, the sympathies, the hopes,
the prayers, of America are for a free, if it
may be for a republican, France. Popular
opinion, popular feeling with a singular
unanimity, has gone to the Prussian side of
the conflict. But hatred of Napoleon and
of Ciesarism, blame cast upon hint for
plunging two nations into causeless and
unrighteous war,
and not a heart alienated
front our ancient ally and friend, has been
the cause of this attitude of America. Let'
a republic stand in arms, contending with
undaunted heart for the presiervation of
France, change the object of the contest,
and soon the tido will turn.
[Front the Philadelphia Press.]
The American people sympathize with all
peoples struggling for liberty. France is
passing through a terrible - ordeal. She
needs kindly words and sound advice. She
will pay great deference to.any message
from the American government. We there
fore hope President Grant will not delay in
this important matter. We want the Re
public to be a success.
Front the Albany Journal.]
But, if the King of 'Prussia insists on
ighting the Republic as well as the empire,
ie will not fail to neutralize the generous
sympathies which have been awakened
everywhere, and to a large extent they will
bo transferred to the cause upheld by
Arago, Rochefort, and Victor Hugo.
[Front the Brooklyn Union. ,
The two republics clasp hand's. They
cannot be sundered in sympathy. We
would be ashamed of any American who
could wish the overthrow of the new gov
ernment in Paris. No king on the file() of
the earth, not William of Prussia, with
Bismarck andproltke as the pillars of his
throne, is so worthy of the respect of the
civilized world to-day, and particularly of
the American people, as the one-week-old
republic of France. The King of Prussia
has no moral right to attack the republic:ol
France. If he attempts to reseat an em
peror, whether Napoleon or some other
tyrant, on the royal chair of the Tuileries,
he will forfeit the good opinion of the civil
ized world. Ito lately called Europe to wit
ness that he did not war against the French
people, but only against the French dv
nasty.
From the yommervial Advertleer.l
The Ring of Prussia is a thorough be
liever in divine right, and has no confi
dence in the people. Tho traditions of his
royal house, for many a century, bolster
up and keep alive the monarchical princi
ple, and foster an utter disbelief in the
ability of the people to regulate their own
affairs. Twenty years ago the Prussians
signified their appreciation of the Demo
cratic principle, and sought to liberalize
their government, No more willing hunt
er after persecuted republicans was found
than the man who is now King William.
lfroin the
With 'Napoleon out of the way, 'the as
pects of the war will be henceforth greatly
altered. Bismarck launching his legions
against the Emperor who caused the war,
is one thing; Prussia trampling in the
dust the patriots of a French republic, will
be quite another.
Tip: St. Paul Free Press, the leading
Radical newspaper of Minnesota, has
taken the trouble of proving that John
W. Geary is a stupid and conceited po
litical charletan. The provocation for
this attack upon the foolish fellow who
occupies the Gubernatorial Chair of
Pennsylvania, is a silly letter which
Geary addressed to the National Labor
Union. If the Free Press knew Geary
as well as we know him, it would not
waste words upon him. He makes a
laughing stock of himself every time
he makes a speech or puts pen to paper.
His own party is ashamed of him, and
he only succeeded in securing a renom
ination by packing the convention with
the legislative roosters and pinchers
whose rascally schemes ho had sanc
tioned. He was not re-elected, but was
counted in by Covode.
The Through Railroad Freight..
' The convention of railroad managers,
representing three of the great trunk lines
to the West, that is the two New York roads
and the Pennsylvania road, which has been
in private session daring fast week at the
St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, finally ad
journed on Friday, without accomplishing
all tho objects in view. The New York
Express of Saturday evening says :
•The convention was called for the pur
pose of abolishing commissions on sales of
tickets, and doing away with the ruinous
competition between the different lines,
and also for the adoption of fall and winter
rates for the transportation of Western
freight, the present schedule, although re
cently advanced, being still considerably
below the usual winter prices. It was,
however, found impracticable to advance
the rates at present, owing to cheap prices
recently adopted by a rival line. This lino,
which cannot be controlled by the other
companies, is the Now England Company,
known as the 'National Dispatch,' and
shipments of goods and merchandise aro
made from Boston west to all important
points fully twenty-five per cent. cheaper
than can be shipped from Now York. The
contracts of this company aro made with
large shippers dating a year ahead. The
route by which shipments aro made is via
the Vermont Central and Grand Trunk
roads to Detroit, and thence by various
lines to the West and South.
It may be added that the Baltimore and
Ohio road, which it will bo seen takes no
part in this controversy, works on its own
independent tariff of rates, which by reason
of its very cheap fool, shorter line, .lat., no
other through route is likely to be able,
profitably and permanently, to underbid.
—Ba/lintore San.
We are glad to notice this instance of
independence on the part of the Balti
more and Ohio road. It is an admira
bly managed company, and deserves
great credit for keeping out of the pro
posed combination.
Mk New York Tribune' cannot ap
prove of the course pursued by the See
retary of the Treasury. It says:
'rho acting Secretary again reports a
"coin balance" of $00,251,082 and a "curren
cy balance" of $34,274,521 in the Federal
Treasury. Deduct $21,317,000 from the coin
to balance Treasury Certificates outstand
ing, and there is a clear balance in the
Treasury of over $112,000,000. If there is
any possible reason for keeping this vast
sum, or the half thereof, why will not some
ono propound it? Tho interest thereon ex
ceeds six millions of coin per annum. We
want to save that six millions to the peo
ple by using every dollar in the Treasury
to buy up and cancel some sort of Public
Debt. Don't try to move the "little joker"
from ono thimble to another so quickly
that wo can't see it, but use every dollar in
the Treasury to extinguish sonic sort—any
sort—of Government liability, and wo will
cry out, "Well done!" At present, wo
cannot.
Text for a brewer—He-brews XX.
The hat finishers at East Orange, N.
J., arc on a strike for higher wages.
Richmond, Va., complains of the
drought, having had no rain for 7 . 2 days.
It is estimated that $21,000,000 is an
nually spent for beer in the I:nited
States.
Colorado will apply at the next ses
sion of Congress for admission to the
Union.
A Newark man and his wife, aged SO
and 70 years respectively, were arrested
the other night for fighting.
There is great excitement at Prescott,
Arizona, because of rich gold discover
ies in Bradshaw Mountain.
According to private despatches from
Havana there were 500 deaths from yel
low fever in that city last week.
The Democrats of the Seventh Ten
nessee District have nominated I tobert
P. Caldwell for Congress.
The Democrats of the Second Minne
sota District have nominated Ignatius
Donnelly for Congress.
During July of this year the revenue
from spirits and fermented liquors was
$1,287,28.5 greater than during J uly, 1869.
The White Stocking Base Ball Club
at Chicago on Saturday beat the Forest
City, of Cleveland, by a score of 9 to 7.
At Richmond, Va., on Friday, Bever
ly Boon, a prominent citizen of Boute
tourt county, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat.
At Nashville, the Government In
spectors have decided that there was no
cause for the seizure of ex-detective
Stacy's whiskey.
Joseph Rodman, of Benton county,
lowa, got in a rage at something the
other day, began to swear, and sudden
ly fell dead.
In New Orleans there were lifty-two
deaths from yellow fever during the
week ending at 6 P. AL, on Sunday.
The fever is not declared epidemic.
An investigation into the affairs of
the California Building and Loan So
ciety at San Francisco, reveals a dell
ciency of about $50,000.
There were 267 deaths In Philadelphia
last week—the same as during the week
preceding. Five deaths from "typhus
icterodes " were reported.
Staunton, Va., on Saturday voted
:$50,000 to the Valley Railroad. This
makes a total subscription Of $3,000,000
for the completion of the road.
Baron Henry De Itiviere, who some
time since figured extensively in this
country, was killed recently at Metz.—
He commanded a French regiment.
The American Pharmaceutical Associ
ation after a three days session at Balti
more, has adjourned to meet at St. Louis,
in September, 1571.
At Terre Haute, on Tuesday night,
burglars entered the store of Austin,
Sherrir & Co., and carried off a large
quantity of pistols and hardware.
A. Philadelphia paper finds that the
city ate nine thousand more beeves than
last year, but mentions a " dropping off
a little on hogs."
Several yellow fever vessels, from
Cuban ports, are now at the New York
quarantine, among them the steamship
Bienville, from Havana.
A pert little girl boasted to one of her
ttle friends that her father kept a car-
riage. " Ah! but my father drives an
omnibus!" was the triumphant reply.
A writer in Lippincott - sets it down
as an axiom that a man will fight for his
dog who will not risk his person for his
religion, property or government.
In New York the Board of Supervi
sors have fixed the rate of taxation for
the current year at $OO 50 per sloon,
which is 20 cents per thousand less than
the rate last year.
The brig Rolerzon, Capt. Mays, from
Boston for Philadelphia, got on the
Breakwater, at Lewes, last night, and
will be a total loss. 'Wreckers were
stripping her yesterday.
A San Francisco despatch says that
Professor Collins' measurement of the
altitude of - lount Hood substantiates
that of Colonel Williams, making it
11,21 S feet.
Two men were arrested at Cincinnati,
on 'Wednesday night, and taken to Chi-
cago, on the charge of having iibtainet
from Bowen & of the latter city,
$l5OO in gold im a deposit of galvanized
lead.
At \Vinontt, NVetlnemlay
Le boilert4 Laird, Norton tit Co.'sstean
saw-mill exploded, killing Miehae
Burns, the Fireman, and seriously in
juring three other men. The lose o
property is $15,000.
Mayor Ellyson, of Richmond, Va.,
left that city last night for a tour of the
.principal Northern cities, to examine
the public school system with reference
to its application to the new system at
Richmond.
A magazine of Use Lake Shore itro
Glycerine Company, at Fairport, Ohio
which contained 3,000 pounds of nitro
glycerine, exploded on Sunday evening
No lives were lost. Incendiarismis sus
peeled.
Arizona ativices of Sept. lOth state
that (tovernorlThrd has taken the
field with a volunteer force against the
Indians in the southern part of the
Territory, and '• a war of extermination
has commenced."
The Republicans of the Third Con
gressional District of Maryland have
divided, and nominated two candidates
for Congress, K. Stockett Matthews and
General Adam E. King. Both have
accepted the nomination.
It is reported that three counties of
Illinois, Sangamon, Morgan and Ma
coupin, there are over 300,000 acres
planted in corn, which, according to the
estimate of good judges, will yield 150,-
000,000 bushels-50 bushels to the acre.
The Oregon Legislature met yester
day. James 1). Fray was elected Presi
dent of the Senate, and Benjamin Hay
den Speaker of the House. All the
officers are Democrats. The Governor
is to be inaugurated to-day.
The California Building and Loan
Society, at San Francisco suspended
payment yesterday. Thomas Mooney,
its President, disappeared several days
ago, and an examination of its affairs
shows a deficiency of about $'200,00 0 .
Dr. Russell, the Secretary of the Board
of Health of New Orleans, publishes a
card denying that there is any danger
in visiting that city, and asserting that
its mortality since July Ist has been less
than that of any other city of the United
States in proportion to population.
The State Pdr, %t, Pittsburgh, was for
mally opened by' Govelmor Hoary, yes
terday. Previous to the opening, the
' Governor, accompanied by General Pre
vost, of this city, reviewed three battal
ions of the Eighteenth Division Penn
sylvania National Guard.
THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.
Immense Military Pageant In Paris—
Probable Occupation of Rome
Paris Desires Peace—Large Forces En
rolled for the Defenes—All the Bridges
North, South and East, Around Paris
Destroyed—lrish Aid to France—Paris
Surrrounded on Three Sides—The At
tack Commenced—The Straits of the
Parisians—Reported Alliance Against
Prussia—Russia, Austria and Italy--
Great Complications Expected--Attalm
In Rome—Attempt to Assassinate Na
poleon.
Pints, Sept. immense military
pageant has been witnessed to-day. The
occasion was the review of the troops of
the garrison of Paris. The avonues con
tiguous to the Seine were overpoweringly
crowded with spectators. The troopS wero
in position upon the Ruo do Riven from
the Place de la Bastile to the de Tri
umph°, and were composell,o6f citizen
soldiery, the Garde Nationale Sedentaire,
Garde Mobile and the detached volunteer
corps.
Tho troops displayed admirable disci
pline. Gen. Trochu, with a brilliant staff
of military, and accompanied by the min
istry, reviewed the troops in defiling be
fore the Tuiliories. Afterwards, accom
panied by his staff, ho rode along the lino
and personally inspected the condition of
the soldiery. The Grand Avenue Rivoli
was ono mass of soldiers, whose numbers
were computed at 200,0(X), who maintained
martial bearing and were splendidly arm
ed. General Trochu was lionized by the
soldiers and saluted by enthusiastic vivas,
and wero everywhere received warmly.
The review was a success.
M. Rochefort has been appointed to the
command of the troops upon the barricades,
his powerful influence being exerted solely
for the defence of the city.
- -
LON DON, Thursday, September hi, 11,70,
Italian unity seems to be nearly accont
plished. The sympathy of the people is
almost entirely with Italy. A despatch has
been received from Florence, dated yester
day, announcing that the Papal garrison
had been captured. lieut.-Oen. Angolot
ti's division should now be before, if not in
Rome. Civita Vecchia has declared for
Italian unity. On the approach of the Italian
troops at liracciano, the inhabitants came
out and displayed the Italian colors. [Brae
ciano is only 17 miles northwest of Rome.]
. -
The Florence opinion denies that there
have been any diplomatic difficulties in
the Bray} of the occupation of Rome.
tins Ifoliness, the Pope, has received a let
ter front King Victor Eunnanuel, in which
the latter explains the course ho has lately
taken. Any delay on his part, he says,
would have occasioned the proclamation o?
the Republic in, every Italian city, and his
army would not have fought the Republic,
which would have been fatal to Papacy.—
As it is, Republicanism is so rampant that
it may prove irrepressible.
The Papal army is formed of volunteers
from different nations as well as of citizens
of the Papal States. It is maintained at an
annual cost of about $2,112.5,000, and last year
numbered very nearly 10,000 men, com
posed as follows:
INFANTRY. SEN.
One regiment of the line, t 1,550
One battalion "Catielatorl - in/than:if
One bannlioll ZOIRtVeS l Froll,lo 730
One battalion Uarlanierl lSwissl 1i,50
One battalion troops or St. Patrick. 1,10
One battalion garrison troops 0)0
One legion of genstiarmes 0-W
Total oi Infantry
Two squadrons gonsdarmes :;420
Aso squadrons dragoons (partly forelgod
Total of ego - nlry .......
A RTI V, A:C.
One regiment artillgry
One compmly engmeers
Staff
According to an official statement the
Papal army was commanded, in the Sum
mer of last year, by S generals and 704 of
ficers of inferior degree, who were divided
as follows in regard to nationality; 401 na
tives of Italy, 125 of France, 50 of Switzer
land, 20 of Belgium, of Germany, oof
the Netherlands, and 4 of England and Ire
land.
Tho Pontifical navy at the commence
ment of 1800 consisted of 13 vessels of var
ious dimensions, carrying :'SO men. The
largest vessel is the yacht. Immaculate
Coneeziono, a screw steamer, termed a
corvette, built in England, and carrying
engines of 150-horse power, and eight guns.
The interior is fitted up for temporary oc
cupation by the Pope. Next in size are
the steamers San Pietro, 10-horse power,
two guns; San tluiseppe and Blasco, cacti
30-horse power, two mortars; and seven
sailing coast guard vessels.
The territory of the Popo, previous to
1850, embraced an area of 17,1'28 square
miles, with 3,124,668 inhabitants; but it has
since been reduced by the annexation of
the greater part of it to the kingdom or
Italy, to 4,001 square miles, with 692,106 in
habitants. Of the former 40 " legations "
and "delegations" into which the territory
was divided, only live remain, namely :
Rome and the Comarea, with :2ii,5e9;
Viterbo, with 12,8,324; Civita V(B;ehia, with
20,701; Velletri, with 02,013; and Frosinone,
with 15-1,559 inhabitants.
The ability of Rome to resist a siege was .
tested in 15444 by the French expeditionary
force. Gen. Oudinot, on that occasion, di
rected his attack against Mount danieulum,
which commanded the city. The siege
commenced on the 4th of .1 min. On the
about 70 yards had been gaineden the
ramparts, and six breaching batteries were
ready to tire on the city. But before pro-
seeding to that extremity lien. Oudinot ap
pealed to the President of the I As
sembly to surrender the city. This request
sells rejected, and the batteries opened on
the 22d, at night, and on the 30th a general
assault took place, resulting in the surren
der of the city on the same day.
LoNoos, Sept. 17.—A despatch just re
ceived in the city from Marienhourg states
that the Calais railroad and telegraph lines
to Paris are cut, and all further communi
cation with the besieged city severed.
Count Itismarek telegraphs from Berlin
a contradiction uC rurnorm (mare nog
tiations.
Touns,France,Sept. 17.—The fort at Vi
venues was blown up and destroyed yester
day by the French, the position being un
tenable. It is understood there wore see
veral minor engagements outside the forti
fications of Paris this morning. The news
paper journals have all been removed to
Tours and (;ftiigoni's Messenger is
an
nounced to stop, in a few days, front want
of paper.
Bordeaux telegrams state that great ac
tivity exists there. The Committee of De
fense is enrolling a largo force collected
there, and in the surrounding departments.
IlunLis, Sept. 17.—Considerable excite
ment is manifested at the discovery that
arms and amunition, from Ireland, have
been sold to France Silloo the war com
menced. This is regarded by the Prus
sians as an offense of considerable aggra
vation.
LoNnoN, Sept. 17.—The llorlin corres
pondent of one of the London journals says
the blowing up of the citadel of Laon after
the capitulation was worthy of the Fenians,
but not of men of honor. . .
The StandurcP s correspondent, Writing
from Berlin, gives the substance of a con
versation recently held with Bismarck, in
which the latter affirmed that Prussia
would prosecute the war indefinitely rather
than abandon the idea of territorial aggran
dizement.
"There are new before Strasburg eigh
teen batteries or mortars and rifled cannon.
These lire collectively more than seven
thousand shots into the city every day.—
Thirty car loads of munitions of - war in
cluding eight thousand quintals of iron, aro
thus consumed daily." This shows bow
immense must be the expense of besieging
Paris.
PARIS, Sept. 17.—The (inn/nix of tl
morning gives a list of twenty bridges
the east of Paris which have been destroy
by the French to prevent the approach
the Prussians.
PA ITS, Sept. The Northern Railway,
leading from Orleans to Paris, has been cut
between Ablon atel uvisy, about eight
miles south of Paris. At the latter place
the Germans have planted a battery. Sharp
lighting occurred at His, a small tuw n on
the Orleans Railway, where the line has
been tut.
The Prussians are still numerous near
Fillaneuve, Dammartim Plessis.—
A force of :S,OOO has occupied Villers-Cot
terets, soil there are Itymo at Nantenil.
It is still believed the Prussian line of
attack wilt be from the east by way of Vi
emotes, six miles direct east of the Paris
fortification..
LONDON, Sept. Is.—The attack bali begun
and the Prussian forces are sweeping
around to Vie north of the city.
Heavy tiring has been heard in the direc
tion of Veen nes all day, and it is thought
a battle was in progress. No details are
received.
will be seen by the above accounts that
the Prussian position around Paris is in
two .soma-circles, an inner and outer one—
the inner circle stretching from Ihtnernar
-110,00 the l'aris and Rheims railroad,on the
north, through VieeIITICS, tin VlllOllll%,
MI the south, and the outer circle stretching
from Laon, on the northeast of Paris,
through Islet's, to Juvisy—eight miles
south of Paris. All the bridges over the
Marne and South Seine have been destroy-
ed, to prevent their approach.
LONDON, Sept 17.---(Special to the New
York Worid.l—There is great excitement
in diplomatic circles here to-night Over a
report that an alliance between Austria, It
aly and Russia had been completed, the
object of which is to be a diviAion of the
Turkish Empire, the annexation of Prus
sian-Poland by . Aussie, the annexation of
Prussian-Silesia to Austria, and the annex
tion of Italian-Tyrol to Italy.
This extraordinary story, coupled with
the news that a Prussian demand upon
Belgium has been met by a sharp refusal
and with the official declaration front Bel
gium that King William will positively re
cognize no government in Franco but that
of Emperor Napoleon and the Regency,
arouses the greatest alarm.
It is believed that Europe is on the eve
of complications more formidable and ex
tenstve than any ono had dreamed of a few
weeks ago. - • •
Advices at Rouen send word of a sharp
engagement yesterday on the line of the
()dean railway, near Corbel', between the
advance of the Vrussian loft wing and the
Garde Mobile and PranesTirours, sup-
ported by a detachment of the army of
Paris.
The Prussian cavalry were defeated on
Thursday afternoon near Gingnes, and
driven back on Melan, on the Paris and
Lyons railway, that town having been oc
cupied in force on Wednesday by infantry
and artillery,; •
Yesterday morning a cohlmn of three
arms advanced from Melun upon Cor
bell, fourteen miles from Paris, with the
object of destroying the flour mills and
seizing the granaries at that point, and
throw forward a party to cut the direct
line of the Orleans railway at Invisy.—
The second object was attained, but the
Prussians having pushed on three miles
further, to Albon, wore attacked by a
superior force, and . after a severe con
flict were routed and compelled to ro
treat upon intronchments which they
had thrown up on a hill at Invisy, com
manding the passage of thoOrge, the bridge
over which river had been blown up some
days since by the French. At the same
time the Prussians at Corbiel, who estab
lished themselves in the hamlet of His, wero
attacked by the French force advancing
from Long Jumeau and Estampes who suc
ceeded in maintaining positions, and dur
ing the action the extensive mills wore set
on tire and burned to the ground, with the
contents that had not been previously re
moved to Paris.
In the action at Ablon many villas and
private residences were sot on tire, and an
ancient Protestant church, one of the few
exempted by the revocation of the edict of
Nantes, was seriously damaged.
The latest advicos from Charla , s says
that a column of troops aro moving out to
renew the attack upon the Prussians at
Invisy,
Calais and the whole Pas de Calais was
this morning declared to bo in a state of
siege and put under martial law.
Communications by rail and telegraph
between Paris and Calais was cut yesterday.
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A detachment of Prussian cavalry attacked
the station at Longneau, three miles from
Amiens, capturing a train cooling from
Brussels and burnt the buildings at the
station. Communication between Amiens
and Rouen is still open.
Humors aro afloat that a force under Can
robert on Wednesday attacked and defeated
the Prussians near St. Quentin, and that on
Thursday an action was going on near
Tergnier. It is believed that Caurobort has
former a junction with the troops from
Lille, Valenciennes and Arras and is threat
ening the right wing of the Prussians before
Paris at CouvieFne.
Adv ices from Paris state that the &cc-
tions for constitutional assembly have been
ordered for the 2d instead or the 1. - ith of 0e-
PA 111 S, Sept. 17-1 I'. \l.—A ine,isenger
,s just in from am front and the King's
headquarters, and roperLs that Bismarck
and the King insist upon the permanent
occupation by the Prussians of Metz and
Strasbourg. Indemnity ismot indeed a
question, but thoother conditions absolute.
'rho Prussians intend beleaguering Paris
and delaying operations, relying upon an
insurrection against t h e Provisional gov
ernment.
A correspondent writing from Rheims m
September 12th, says : " I had another eon
vorsation with Bismarck to-day. Ito saii
positively, that the Prussian liiivernmen
will not treat with an v government not re
eoganized as de jur', and that the only
government of that kind in France know:
to Prussia, is the I iovernment of Napolern
or the Itegen7 acting ill his absence. "We
do not know," ho added, " whether the
whole or France will recognize the republie.
How can we treat on so serious a matter with
a provisional government which may be
disavowed to-morrow 7 " I asked whether
any English diplomatist had arrivedat head
quarters to try intervention, and his reply
,1.4—"1 have seen no diplomats. - lle rout -
'nested sharply on the French treachery at
I.aon, saying the place had capitulated, and
the Prussians had entered without any op
position, and then a French artilleryman
blew up the magazine, killing himself, -ti
Prussian Jagers, and more than 300 of the
Garde Mobile. Shortly afterwards 1 met
Count Vonkendall, Bismarck's Councillor,
who expressed great anxiety concerning
the attitude of the United States, now that
the French had proclaimed a republic, say
ing "We are anxious to have American
sympathy on our side, but we cannot treat
with such a republic as this."
A correspondent writes from Paris on
Friday that he has gathered the following
from a conversation withFavre Fevre
has
„thus far carefully avoided offending the
monarchial Governments, but should he
fail to indueo them to support France, he
will throw himself unreservedly into the
hands of the republicans, and call all Eu
rope, no matter of what nationality, to aid
him in a crusade against monarchial insti
tutions.
FLORE:seu, Sept. 18.—A n official dospateh
front the headquarters of the Italian army
of occupation in Roman territory, at Monte
Rotondo, (label! on Sept. 17th, says that Ba
ron Von Arneel (site to Gen. Cadorno's
quarters by authorization of the Pope, to
explain that the foreign military forces, tier
the moment, ruled the city of Route, and
his Holiness was unable to prevent resist
ance to the entrance of the Italian troops.
lie wished to know what course General
Cadorno intended to take. Thu Geneattl
replied that his purpose was fully sot forth
in the royal proclamation. The King
Italy had shown great patience, but the but
that foreigners attempted to delbnd the city
and rule the Pope tried that patient,'
severely.
Baron Von Amen' hogged for a delay of
wenty-four hours, that he might firing ad
littoral influence to bear on the Popo.
ten. (adorn,' so far yielded as to SUSpell,
he attack on Rotor for twenty-four hours
tut reserved the right to roueeoure hi
moors, which now encircle the city.
Le lON, Sept. 15.-Thu latest advice
rota Rome state that the Popo and Ir plo
Italic Corps have taken refuge in the Cast"
tf St. Angelo, and that the capitulation o
hat city is hourly expected.
l'Ants, Sept. 17.—[Special to the No
York Herald.l—Prossions !met, been set
In Trout of; Coltnar and :%1 ulhouse, maro
big towards Lyons. The Prussians crossed
the Seine last night near Athis, but were
driven back. Cannonading is now heard
near Iticetre. The King of Prussia refuses
o recognize the Provisional (i ON" (3 rIII nent,
and will only recognize the Emperor or
liazaine. A committee of Borman work
men have made a protest against the war.
Victor lingo's address to France to-day is
exciting all classes to oppose the return of
Napoleon. The cattle plague has attacked
the cattle of the Prussian army. The Am
bassadors of England, Austria, Italy and
Turkey have left Paris. A balloon has ar
rived from Metz with letters. Paris is
calmly awaiting the enemy.
Iltdifis, Sept. 17.—Considerable excite
ment was occasioned at V, it
eently, by an attempt to assassinate the
French Emperor by a Berman apprentice.
lio was arrested before he could accomplish
his purpose. A loaded pistol way found on
his person, and ho boldly declared that the
bullet was designed fur Napoleon.
'routes, Sept. Pi—Evening.—The Foreign
Ministers left Paris yesterday, in haste,
having keen informed that a serious attack
was to he made. There WILY hard lighting
yesterday and to-day around Paris.
LoNuoN, Sept. IS.—A gentleman arrived
from Douldin to-day, says that a large
number of Fenians are leaving for France,
to serve in the army against the Prussians.
LoNtiox, Sep. 19, (Midnight.)—The ad
vance guard of the American volunteers
now being raised in America have arrived
in Paris, and were received with great en
thusiasm.
La Libera, of Paris, says the Prussian
movements against Paris have been at
tended with no extraordinary celerity. It
has taken them two weeks to get their guns
before the city, and meanwhile .a new
French army ill,l been raised, of sufficient
strength to attack the besiegers.
The Prussian cavalry are concentrating
very strongly before Soissons. Amiens is
threatened both from the direction of
Soissons and Croil. The enemy may , at-
- -
tempt a movement beyond the Oise.
The red republicans hold'soveral meetings
when strong appeals were made against
restoration of the monarchy. The leaders
proposed to organize popular protestations
against peace:mil its negotiation ; to arrest
Imperialist commissaries of police and to
divest of authority and confiscate the es
tates of the Bonapartist agents. The infer
ence is that they are dissatisfied with the
presence in the ministry of Neratry and
Trimhu on the grounds that they are not
sufficiently republican. It is supposed that
powerful efforts Will be Mali° to remove
them.
• .
A correspondent of the /lin", writes front
Berlin that ho hasstruck a rue to the K ing's
action in ignoring the present government
of France. It is in order to inform political
parties and expectant candidates to the
throne of France that Prussia will recog
nize that government which accepts the
terms Prussia pr o poses. Therefore, as the
republic ignores Prussia's terms, Prussia
ignores the republic.
Reports from the Prussian headquarters
detail the successful In , reod urn of the in
vestment of Paris.
This evening Earl Granville received a
reply from Berlin in the affirmative. This
favorable answer was iuunediately colll
munirated to M. Fav re, and he expressed
his warm thanks for England's interposi
tion. The interview is expected to take
place at King William's headquarters, at
Rheims, on NVednesday.
TOURS, September 19. Yesterday a
courier from the English cabinet reached
Rouen, carrying IMportant dispatches to
Lord Lyons. The railways were cut and
the courier was obliged to go forward on
foot. There has been continued lighting
around Paris.
REams, September 19.--The Surd
'Mach Zeit any, a semi-official journal,
says that Prussia will treat with whirh
ever French government accepts its terms
and is able to carry out the treaty.
MADRID, September 19.—The Spanish
government has decreed its official ratifi
cation of recognition of the French Repub
lic by Senor Olozaga, the Spanish ambassa
dor at I'aris.l
The Prussians Ire still concentrated in
heavy force in the Vicipity of Villenave,
Georgeas and Bundy. The French gun
boats on the Seine are daily engaged in re
cennoitering the Prussian position near
Charenton.
LONDON, Sept, 19.—[Hpecial to New York
7'ribune.l—Advices from headquarters to
the foreign Wilco have been communicated
to the American Minister that Fevre, with
out waiting for the result of Granville's
stops to procure him an interview with
Bismarck, applied to Bismarck directly,
and received prompt permission for a con
ference immediately.
The game correspondent writes, the 15th,
that Bismarck is busy at Rheims settling
various diplomatic matters. It is agreed
that the Italians may occupy Wino and
Nice.
The re-organisation of Germany was also
considered. The details have boon postpon
ed for the present, hut it is understood that
a common constitution will ho given all the
States north and south of the Main alike.
Rims, Sept. 19.—The Officicl Journal of
the Republic yesterday contained a circular
of 7ules Fevre to the representatives of
France in other countries, of which the fol
lowing aro the chief points:
Ho'explainod why the elections for mem
bers of the Constitnent:Assembly had been
fixed at an earlier date than was at first pro-
posed. Objection had boon made that the
present Provisional Government at Paris
was not regular—a fact that we wore forced
to admit. Fho urgency of the MO is also
presented in strong language. It was the
tirst duty of the Government to defend the
soil and preserve its honor, and then return
tho delegated powers of the people without
violence. Nothing is to be expected from
Prussia. Her supreme will andaixaltation
at success aro irreconcilable with calm im
partiality and statesmanship. Two hun
dred thousand victims have already been
sacrificed to her ambition, in this impious
war, and it is certain she will dictate to
Franco conditions that this momentary and
incompetent Government should not ac
cept. Hence wo convoke an Assembly
freely chosen to decide.
What we ask now is, only to give the
country our hearts and our blood. Then
lot France decide not our transient autho
rity, but immortal France, raising itself to
confront Prussia. France, released tr a it
the winding sheet of Empire ; France, fret
and generous, is ready LO 1111111011d° itself
for right and liberty. liisavowing all those
exalted political ideas I.f the old Govern
menl, France has now no higher ambition
than to remain mistress or herself, in order
to develop her moral and material resour
ces, and labor fraternally with her neigh
bors in the development of civilization.
It is this France, recovering its in, n.
on, that now asks fi.r. n ve,.atit,i,
war. But she gi 11 prefer a thousand-fold
disasters to dishonor. The very 0110,4 who
11W0k0 the Stollll now falsely say the coun
try is willing to yield. This may
mis
lead abroad, but 110 t, here. I rnure wishes
prosperity, commerce and civilizaliuu , but
prefers disaster to dishonor. It is the duly
or Franco to repair its far ns possible the
evils of the past Government. The oteetio,,,
last year Were illu,ice. FI . IIII, lloVer voto.l
for scar with Prussia. Ni 11011,4 III:111 ill
Europa thinks so.
Tic tlio power 'law seek crash us Nyt•
mist oppose a desperate resist:woe, mild
he nation bi able to speak through the
'onstituent Assembly, freely chosen.
'Make the Powers understand this'," adds
'11V1"0, "nt:utkiud lIIIISt admire, but pity
ho speetaide of Paris, without looking to
he right or left or backwards, but with its
, yes fixed on the great and simple duty no
lefending its firesides and its freedom.-
It 41 11111 l ger to the rape..
--nCtililoll% far Ititsitlit'w A ttttt tide.
The Vienna correspondent of the Easlci
Budget says, writing tin the lilth ult. :
'Cho Austrian nationalities cannot get
over their fear of Itussia. Hitherto they
have feared her ps an enemy ; now they
Pear her as a friend. The supposition that
t'ount journey front St.
l'etersburg to Vienna, Seas undertal:iin Ilir
some other object than change of air has
put the ltungarians in it h r sent tit alarm.
'l'llo INisthcr• i.'ars some negotiat ions
are in progress which might, lead to an al
lianco with ltussia. Hitch :in alliance, it
says, could only he OffeCted it 1'5.14`11,1•
oC the and it Serums the im•-
ernment against the ronsoq artier. of its
.supposed Until lately, it proceeds,
the Poles had the best prospect or obt.it,-
ing an extensive autonomy, Mit a sudden
change has 1101 . 1:111 en place in the inten
tions of the Government, uu,l Count Po,
at the moment. NN 11011 the \Civil, Id
his countrymen wore to be real i/.1,1, Mai I,
tains an impenetrable reserve. 'rho alarm
ing reports are also produced by the I.;or •
man Organs, but they de this, apparently.
less front liar of Prussia, sir love for the
Poles, with whoin they have us yot shown
but little sympathy, than from a certain
weakness for l'russia. As yet, however,
there has been no trustworthy synitenis mf
such a cluing,' in the relations lie.ween the
Prussian and :\uslriau lovorittitent,
That it was considered possible, is only
shown Ily the belief of our national
politicians that the force of events might
lead to rfrprtorlterrierit, though !they aro
unable to Inward any ciinjocturi, as to
errs ion, sugar, OC Odirill of it. TiliS
duo , itt n Brent meto,tiro to the igtoirititoo
which prevails here an m the real State of
things in l'russia. Those who observe and
understand the Prussian affairs
cuuuut doubt ler a moment that the India
tire of a friendly arrangement, nets' not
proceed from the .kustrian t liivernment.--
If people did not undervalue the power
which public maiden has obtained in Prus
sia during the last few years, they ‘volibt
per icive that the attempt to elfect a rap
prochement is not. based on now nhsoluusl
projects, but simply on the identity Mll,
interests of the tiro dinars in the presence cif
the dangerous aggrandizement of Prus
sia. We have seen that :it the beginning
or the war tine Ittinsisii iit/Ver111111•11t seas
strongly disposed to take sides with Prus
sia, anti that it Sea only when the national
organs mulniineusly ;minted to the danger
caused to ltussia by the iningermanist idea
that a chango oven rill!, and the government
entered en a loath hi which „Austria could
nut but meet it. To call this a diplomatic
conspiraey against the frOOsiiilll 111 the Eu
ropean pemiles is uhr iuualy absurd. A,
for the l'oles, it is a stereotyped ai•elleatitni
against the government that it wishes to
throw:them as a bait to 141,0411. The de
gllltrlllltell that tile Palish 1111,0011 raunot
limy be so easily Ihr so quickly revised, and
she 110011 nog
the extent of the concessions which are to
be given to I ialicia. \Vlletlier it would be
advisable, u a 1110111ellt when this autonomy
of Austria herself has to lio
against l'russia, to give the Poles a inni
ciently large iiiitominly to enable them to
attack Russia, is a ipoistion which it Is goy
tile Austrian Government alone to
II Itt I,nnlnn• In E< Ile--110%% he r/1000,
CBE=
PA RIM, NVedlleitilly,
r•nrrespoedeut writes as follows:
Emperor at enjoys entire
freedom of action: walks or rides as ht.
111 P.Lsos. Ilis chief companions are friars
:%loskowa :old Prince NI mat. lie disre
gards the stare of the r•urinus 110/.1110 whom
1111 encounters outside of the gates, It is
said lie looks 30 years older than he did in
1005, when the writer Sale him. 114 , is new
billitlllS and yellow. His eyes are
faint, tired and expressionless, his ineie
ments are slow, awkward and inechanival,
and his 11.-t, at,,,uitit,iy devoid of expres
sion. "Apathy •' describes his appearance
In nine word. Ile retires tutu and rises ear
ly. Ills chamber windows are lighted Lill
long after midnight, mini at .1:30 in the
the piercing the Emperor is Seell wullang
ill the garden. Ile dresses plainly iwlllnick,
and sinuses himself it great deal by -
ing to the Hideout children, who gather
around to see him.
A Bride on ller Wedding 'four flee g
Last evening there was a new ly wedded
couple at the Island House whose story is
sad inches!. One week ago yesterday, a
young man, happy in the glowing prospect
before liiin, proceeded to Reston fur the
purpose of marrying a beautiful and intel
ligent lady of that place, to whom he ,111.1
betrothed. The happy union took place at
the residence of the bride. The marriage
being over, after a brief visit among 80Ine
hifirllatt) friends they started via this city
for the home of the groom, Iu Sioux City.
During their brief detention in this city
they seemed perfectly happy. On yesterday
afternoon who should present himself ilt
Island House but this same young husband,
sad and dejected. this bride was with hint,
but there was loaning!! and 1111111101ra' Man
nar about her. And no sooner had the hus
band procured a seat for her than she look
ed wildly at the guests and commenced
shouting and singing. The strange eroatut,
was insane. The husband informed a friend,
to whom we ore indebted for these particu
lars, that during the night of Tuesday,
while ho was pr,WeNling to Chicago, his
wile einnineneell tic show signs ,if ine•null
derangement in her conversation. 'ro his
dismay her strange conduct continued to
grow more alarming hourly. (Hi reaching
Chicago, he stopped over one day, hoping
that a change might take place. But his
hopes were fruitless, 111111 at the hilViVe Of a
physician he gave up thepairney, and turn
ed back to Weston. While they were wail
ing for the departure of the Dayton train
last evening, the unfortunate lady contin
ued to sing and shout and talk strangely.
and it is feast that her condition is
hopeless.--From the Toledo Sept. Y.
Fire 111 a Catholic Orphan Any lam
On Tuesday evening,about seven o'elttek,
a fire was discovered in the upper floors of
the Orphan Asylum of St. Vincent de Paul,
West Thirty-ninth street, New York. At
the time, about two hundred children were
in the building, but by preserving order
and keeping strangers back, the police and
those in charge of the building wore ens
bled to remove the children safely from the
burning edifice, and Sergeant Lowery us
carted them to the Asylum of the Sisters
of Morey, between Eighth and Ninth ave
nues. The two upper stories are destroyed.
The damage to the building is estfinated at
PO,OOO. It is supposed the lire originated
front an explosion of gas. The building
was six stories high, the two upper stories
being in the Mansard roof and not easily
reached by the streams from the streets.
Nest York TinteN.
A Rentarknbic DlNeovery
By many it has been held us a theory that
Mt -Yuma desert was mice an ocean fits'.
At intervals pools of salt water have stood
fur awhile In the midst of the surrounding
waste of sand, disappearing only to rise
again in the some or other localities. A
short time niece one of these saline' lithr
disappeared, and u party of fildianit report.
ed the discovery of a "big ship" lett by
the receding waters. A party of Allied,
cans at once proceeded to the spot anti
found imbedded in the sands the wreck of
a largo vessel. Nearly one-third of the
forward part of the ship or bark is plainly
visible. The stump of the bowsprit re
mains, and portions of the timbers of teak
are perfect. The wreck is located forty
miles north of the Sun Bernardino and
Fort Yuma road, and thirty miles west of
Los Palmos, a well-known watering place
on the desert. 'rho road across the desert
has been travelled for more than ono hun
dred years. The history of the
vessel curl of course Dover be known, but
the discovery of its decaying timbers ill
the midst of what has long been a tlesort
will furnish savor's with food for discus
sion, and may perhaps furnish important
aid in the elucidation of questions of science.
—Los .. ; Ingelos News, Sept. 9.
The woods near Steven's Pond, N. H.
were set on fire on Friday, and several
hundred acres of young trees were de
stroyed. Eight hundred cords of wood
and 50,000 feet of lumber were also con
sumed. •