The Charleston daily news. (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, August 13, 1870, Image 1

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VOLUME X.--NUMBER 1449. CHARLESTON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1870. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR. MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES. IN STATU QUO. MAXING BEADY FOB THE BATTLE. ROYALTY IN LODGINGS. ANOTHER WILD STORY ABOUT EUGENIE AND THE PB INCE. EM1NTST FRENCHMEN JOIN THE ARMY. SHERIDAN'S RIDE TO THE FRONT. Tho Bavarian Advance. * BERLIN, Angnst 12. The Bavarians passed through the Vosges mountains and bivouacked last night near Ssjur Louis. [This must mean Sarre Bourg.] General Sheridan has gone to the King or Prussia's headquarters. The Queen of Prussia announces that she will herself superintend the care of the wounded. Patting Napoleon on the Back. LONDON, August 12. The Examiner says that Napoleon adopts the course most worthy of his name and the gravity of the situation. Roused by storming blows, in the presence of unmistakable peril to himseli and bis family, and to the proud nation which lately reinvested him with king? ly power, be tells France of ber danger, and urges her peo ple to come to the rescue, not for bis, but Fr ance'a sake. The neices ol tbe Empress have left Paris. t'' Another Wild Story About Engenlc. PARIS, August 12. The Echo asserts, without qualilicatlon, that tbe Empress Eugenie and the Prince Imperial are in lodgings at St. John's Wood, London. Tbe London Weekly Register bas tbe same report, but cautious readers should not put too mach confidence in its truth. Good Feeling In Ute French Army-N o _ Danger of a Famine. PARIS, August 12-Night. \ Advices from tbe front represent that tbe beat understanding exists between Marshal Bazaine' and the other generals. Among tbe-prisoners taken by the French arc a, number of German landwehr, who have been six weeks in service, snowing that Prus? sia expected che war-long before lt was de? clared. The workmen at Lyons threatened the Ger? man employees. The late Minister of Instruction has joined thes?arde Mobile. "De Cassagnac, tbe editor of the F-js, ha? jolned<a regiment of Zouaves. - The appr?hension that the perils of famine might be added to the horrors of war is set at rest The crops this year exceed the average forty per conti ' -1'. MB. AX BEMAN ON GBOBGIA. Tv,.'; . ' ' ; ] WASHlNGtON, August 12. Attorney-General A kerman" s speech, deliv? ered" to-night, was strongly Republican. He said that ; the - Sooth was peaceful .and bad plenty,.although.lt had been predicted that ruin must follow the clothing ol the negroes with political rights. He attacked Mr. Stephens and his late work opon "The War between the 'States,;1 stating that the doctrines therein in? culcated were pernicious-. Though opposed to Bullock's policy, -h? de? fended him against the special charge of a corrupt exercise of the pardoning power. Analyzing' the Georgia Legislature, he claimed that only about twelve were legitimate ucarpet-baggers," and avoided tbe question ol the Georgia election this fall. ? THE COLO BED CADET. fa -- . WASHINGTON, August 12. The Court of Inquiry to investigate the al? leged iH-treatment of the colored cadet at W^st Point, report thai in the main he .was un? truthful, and recommend that both be and the cadet of whom be complains be court-martlal od. Secretary Belknap, however, bas dispos? ed of tbe case, by ordering that both the em? bryo soldiers be reprimanded. THE GEORGIA ELECTIONS. ATLANTA, August 12. .The motions for prolonging the terms of of? fice were finally defeated in the Legislature to day. An election is to be held this foll. There is great rejoicing among the National Republi? cans. / -WASHINGTON, August 12.; Attorney-General Ackerman has written. a letter to Colonel Farrow and others, taking strong grounds against prolongation. A new election this fail is now considered certain. THE VIRGINIA SEEING8. GRKENBRIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, > August 12. )" The masquerade ball last night, in aid of th? sufferers by the late railroad accident, was t brilliant affair. Among the prominent gentle? men present were: Ex-Senator Mason, Com? modore Maury, the Hon. A. H. H. Stuart General Lily, General Barringer, General Cling man, ex-Senator Caperton, W. W. Corcoran o: Washington, Hon. Duncan K. Mc Rae of Tennes see, General M. D. Corse, and General Mc Causland. About eight hundred persons wen present, and several hundred dollars will b( realized. THE GOLD A.ND ROND MARKET NEW YOBS, August 12. Money easy at 2a4 per cent. Sterling dui at 9?a9?. The gold markers firmer, opening at 174, advancing to 17$, and afterwards Jail? ing to 17?; during the afternoon it was active and firm, and advanced to 18f, closing at 18. Governments opened dull anc steady, and, during the afternoon, we? dull and weak, closing the same. Sixes, 1881, coupons 141; sixty-twos 11$; sixty fours Mi; sixty-fives 10|; new 9*; sixty-sevens D|; sixty-eights OJ; forties 7j. Southern secu ritles opened quiet and firm, aad continued sc throughout the day. Tennessees 62; new CIA Virginias 60; new 64. Louisianas 71; new 67 levee Bixes 67; eights 87. Alabama eights 93 flv68 70.' Georgia Bixes 83; sevens 91. Norti Carolinas &0g; new 30*. South Carolinas 80 new 70^, FARRAGUT DYING. CONCORD, N. H., August 12. Admiral Farragut is oy.ng. THINGS IN CLARENDON, Crop Prospects - Labor - A Mysterious Case-Tho Investigation. (FROH OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MANNING. August 10. We have had ra'.n more or less almost every day for the last three weeks. The crops are doing very well, though the season is too wet for cotton to do as well as it would have done had there been less rain. I have never seen better prospects for good corn crops, and it 1B believed that Clarendon will, this year, make a sufficiency of corn lor her white population. The crops belonging to or under the exclusivo control of negroes are Inferior, and. Judging lrom present indications, this class of persons will not harvest corn enough, in the aggre? gate, to feed them until the ensuing christ? mas. This state of affairs Is due to the indo? lence and self-indulgent habits of the negroes who are working for themselves, as they aro frequently seen strolling Idly about, or lying up in the shade, when they should be in the fields at work. Of the negroes who have con? tracted to work with white men this year, I have heard but little complaint. They seem to be doing very well. A portion of the skeleton of a black man was recently discovered by a citizen, in tbe woods, some seven miles from this place, on the plantation of a Mr. Jennings. A jury orinquest was summoned by Coroner Gamble,and held an Inquest over the remains on last Saturday, coming to the conclusion that the remains were those of a colored mau named Isaac Fraser, and that he met his death from blows on the head Inflicted with some heavy Instru? ment. The Jury are continuing therr Investi? gations as to the person who committed the deed. The man Isaac Fraser was missed some two years ago, and a close search for him failed to discover his whereabouts. When found the remains were lying In the woods on the edge of a ?mall stream of water, within half a mile of the house of the deceased. Lying near were a portion of his clothing, hat and shoes, and one ol the pockets in his pants contained a stone Identified as belonging to the deceased, as he carried lt to -catch fire with by striking a piece ot steel against it. The bock part of his head appears to have been crushed in by an axe. his left am being also broken. The wife of the deceased testified : "That her husband left as usual to-go to his work after dinner, about 3 o'clock in the day, some two years ago, and that she has never seen him since." It seems singular that the dead body of the deceased should have lain undiscovered for over two years, in half a mlle of his own house.. I will advise you of such results as may be elicited by the jury when its investigations are closed. FRANZ. NEW COTTON. MONTGOMERY, August 12. The int bile ot new cotton waa receive! here on the 10th, and the second bale this morn i nj. Each, weighed abont 500 pounds. The second bile sold at 36? cents. THE NATHAN MURDER CASE. New YORK, August 12. The jury ol Inquest In the Nathan murder case have been discharged. No verdict was rendered. Tho coroner, in discharging the jury, said he might call them together at some future day to give their verdict. SPARKS ERO M THE WIRES. Philip R. Mertz, banker, of Pittsburg, com? mitted suicide. He left a letter to Iiis wife attributing the act to financial complications. B. B. French, an eminent Mason, is dead; aged 70. The revenue receipts yesterday were 2600,000. C. J. White has resigned as profeasor of thc Naval Academy. Go m rr odor e Boyle ls dead. The Orange anniversary celebration In New York yesterday passed off quietly. At Saratoga, yesterday, Lady Petry beat Felicity and Alta Vela-time, 1:24. Minnie Douglas beat Tasmania-time, 4:28*. AN INTERVIEW WITS NAPOLEON ITT. "An Englishman," writing from Paris July 23, to the London Telegraph, gives tho follow? ing account of an interview with Napoleon III : Experience bas warned mi that authorita? tive expressions of opinion emanating from the protagonists in a great political diam rarely find their way into foreign newspapers. It is with the purpose of enaoling your readers to form their own judgement upon the views now expressed by the Emperor Napoleon that I ven? ture to repeat the words which he yesterday employed while Bpeaking to a friend and to my self during an interview with which uehonortd us at the Tuileries. I must 'begin bv rt-m irk? ing tbat I have known the Emperor for many years, and have ueidom seen tum looking be ? ter. When last! spoke with him. five mouths ago, he looked careworn and haggard, with a complexion more than usually eallo v and aeb colored. Yesterday bis face looked fuller, bi9 eye bright, his cheek healthy. I wish in addi? tion to premise that, after he had spoken. 1 inquired whetbet we weru at liberty to repeat bis words ? haute wi*. He answered "I wish nothing better than that I should be represent? ed to the people of England as holding these views.*' The Em nero i', after streaking with his usual quiet kindliness upon some private mitters. turned suddenlv to the political situation of France and of Europe. He said, "Oac fort bight before the utterance of the Due de Gram mont in the Corps Legislitif-which utterance has as it seems to me. been eo unjustly re fleced upoD by the English press-I bad no notion that war was at band, nor am I, even at this moment, by any means prepared Io it. I trusted that, when the Due de Oramm mt bad set me straight with Frince by Bpeaking man? fully in public as to tbe Hobeuzolleru candida? ture, I should be able so to manip?late and handle the controversy as to make peace certain. But France bas slipped ont of my hand. 1 can? not rue uDless Head. ThiB is tba most national war that in my time France, has undertaken and I have no choice out to advance at tbe head of a public opinion which lean neither etem nor check. In addition. H d-Bismarck, although a very clever man. wants too much, and wants it t?o quickly. After the victorv o? Prussia in 1866 I reminded him that but * for the friendly and self-denying neutrality of France he could nevei have achieved HU ch marvels. I pointed oat to bim tb at I had u-.-ver moved a French soldier near to tbe Rhine fro'itii-r daring tbe continuance of the Genusa war 1 quoted to bim from his own letter in which he thanked me for my abstinence, and said that be bad left neither a Prasaiau gun nor a Prussian soldier upon thc Bhi??, but bad thrown Praseia.'e whole a .d undivided strengt!: ag linst Austria uudher allies. I told him tait, as ome slight return tor my friendly inactivi? ty. I thought that he m gilt suirender Las. an b" nm:, and oce or two omer little towns which gravely menace our frontier, to .France "1 ?ided th nt m this way be would, by a tufiiog sacrifice easiiy forgotten by Fin^sia, in view of ber enormous successes and acquis! ions pacify tbe French nation, whose jealousies it was so ?aey ta arouse, eu difficult io disarm. "M. de Bismarck replied to me, after some delay, 'Not ono toot- ot territory, waetber Prus s i an or neutral, ?"an I resign. Bat, perhaps, if 1 were to make some further acquisitions, I rou ki mai'0 some conce-t-iou-?. H <w, for in? stance, if 1 were to toko Holland ? What would France want HS a ?op for Mol?an.i ?' "1 replied " sai i the Emperor "that if he at? tempted to take Hollaad it meant war wub Franco; and tuero the conversation, in which M. de Bis arck a:td M. de Benedetta were the interlocutors, came to an en<l.n 1 bave repeated this conversation as near'y as possible in the Emperor's words. While we wero speakius thu une d9Ti?vme brought ;i dispatch to ?iB "Jsjeetv wh:cn ibo lattnr read and which wa? to ihr effect that "the E eveu'b. Capitol tho Prussian ana? were ai toat mo? ment trooping luto Ti ?ves." I bave little sir io add to thiB n caouulati n. t'bese words, wbicu 1 haveiaiihfuly endeavored to interpret, mUct speak fer themeelve-. THE RALLY AT METZ. RATTLE MOMENTARILY EXPECTED. THE ORLEANS PRINCES OFFER THEIR SWORDS TO FRANCE. LOUIS NOT IN' LONDON. ;' THE EMPIRE IS ENDED-A I EPUBL1C IS INEVITABLE.'' The Great Battle. ANTWERP, August 12-Noon. Adrices from the seat ol war state that a great battle la momentarily expected. Captive Frenchmen. BERLIN, August 12. Two thousand two hundred and sixty-five French, included wounded, have arrived here. The wounded will be sent to Spandau. Louts not in London-The Capture of Strasbourg Easy. LONDON, August 12. The Duke de Chartres, (grandson of King Louis Philippe) has asked permission to serve in the French army, claiming thc right as a Frenchman. The Telegraph is authorized to contradict the report that the Prince Imperial of France is in London. The garrison of Strasbourg is one regiment of foot and a small loree of tba National Guard. Supplies in the place are in proportion to the garrison. The capture of Strasbourg will be easy. The First Prussian Corps is al Phllllpsburg. The London Times, of this morning, says the pride of France is wounded and her pres? tige dimmed. Whoever brought this on her must suffer for it. Napoleon's Blunder?- Y Republic Inevi , table. PARIS, August 12. La Liberte says the Orleans princes have volunteered to serve ia thc French army. The Gaulois says Palikao has prepared a decree for submission to the Emperor, order? ing all Germans from French soil within twelve hours. Correspondents returning from the front say they were in the greatest danger of being hanged by the people, who take all foreigners for Prussians. The Pays publishes a letter from Desmoullns, at Nancy, denouncing Napoleon's bad general hip. Atter declaring the Prussian triumphs, he says: "The people are desperate. The soldiers believe themselves betrayed and clamor ior a leader." Thiers ls reported to have said the Empire is ended. A Republic ls inevitable. The Neutrality of Luxembourg-A Novel Proposition. LONDON, August 12. The Great Powers agree that the existing guarantees tor the neutrality o? Luxembourg are sufficient. The Berlin correspondent of the London Times says that England declines Von Beast's proposition to guarantee the powers at war against loss of territory, because the league could not save the North German Confedera? tion in case of Prussia's defeat. IttcIUahon's Official Report-The Army Concentrating at Metz-The Prepara? tions In Paris. PARIS, August 12. The Journal of Metz publishes Marshal McMahon's report to the Emperor upon the battles of Saturday last. The report says : The enemy, in greatly superior force, began the attack at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning. The first attack was repulsed. About noon the enemy reopened the contest, throwing forward numerous sharpshooters, who were protected by six guns in a commanding posi? tion. Masses of infantry were then brought up, and at 4 o'clock McMahon was forced to order a retreat, which he effected in good or? der. The enemy's pursuit being without vigor, was by no means troublesome. The Marshal was able to send only a partial list ot the killed and wounded. A dispatch from Metz, dated 8:15 P. M. on Thursday, says: "It bas rained all day. The army is concentrated around the place, and ls being revictualled and reinforced. The retreat of McMahon has been fully accomplished in ex? cellent order. Marshal Bazaine ls engnged in visiting and inspecting the troops." The report that the Prussians occupy Nancy is false. A circular from the Minister of the Interior requires the prefects of the various depart? ments to encourage the formation of compa panlcs of National Guards, Volunteers and Franctlreurs to take the field at once. They will receive arms as soon as possible, but in the meanwhile should assemble at the chief towns ol their department to organize and drill. They will be paid from the date of en? listment. The Journal Officiel says that the Minister of War and the Interior, on assuming control of their departments, immediately took the most energetic measures to insure the effi? ciency of the various branches of the service. The Minister of War bas Issued very stringent orders in regard to provisioning the army, and In regard to ordnance and quartermaster stores. A Republican Manifesto. MADRID, August 12. ? A manifesto has been issued by the leaders of the Republican party demanding the convo? cation of the Cortes, and the revision of the monarchical clause of the constitution. Thc manifesto counsels calmness and subordina? tion as the only guarantees of success. Cause of LcBceuf's Removal-The Inca? pacity of iVupolcon-\'o Fu - her Prus? sian Movements- Why McMahon was Defeated. LONDON, August 9. Letters from Metz speak in the most undis? guised way of the calamitous incapacity ot' the Emperor. Marshal LeBoii? and all the mili? tary dandles composing the military staff of the army, utterly lost tho confidence of thc army, and the change in the command was an absolute necessity to prevent mutiny. All this while there ts no official news what? ever ol the whereabouts ot'the Prussian army, and, nuder the circumstances, "no news ls bad news." His stated that General McMahon wanted, some days before the battle, to fire the forests in his front, through which tue Germaus came down unexpectedly upou tho French, but the Emperor declined to authorize the step. Le Favre, editor of the Soir, who hus just ar? rived in Paris from Forbach, says he witnessed the entire destruction of General Frolssard's corps, and claims to spoak for thirty thousand French soldiers, who were cut to pieces by the fault of their leaders, and who lamented with their latest cry that they fell uselessly. The universal cry of the armyv M. Favre says, is, give us generals that wc tan trust. The Soir was hitherto a government paper, but lt now attacks the Ministers for clinging to power, and augmenting thc garrison of Paris when every soldier is wanted at the frontier. It further says : "Every soldier now here is an Insult to ns. If you are incapable of saving your country, the country must save itself." It was rumored in Paris to-day that the Em? peror is expected at St. Cloud incognito. Recall of thc Baltic Expedition-Every Available Mau to the Front. PARIS, August 9. I The troops intended for the Baltic expedi? tionary corps have been recalled, and the en? terprise has been abandoned. I The marines and the infantry corps designed to participate in the expedition, will arrive In Paris to-night by rail, and will be immediately ! sent to the seat o? war. The Doings In thc Corps L?gislatif Which Lid to the Resignation or the Ministry. PARIS, August 9. The session of the Corps L?gislatif opened at two o'clock this afternoon, Schneider pre? siding. As soon as the formalities of the open? ing were over, M. Ollivler addressed the House as follows: "Afessieurs-The Emperor In his proclama? tion told you that if circumstances should prove unfavorable that the Empress would call you to her. We have waited until the situation was compromised before calling yon." [Inter? ruptions.] Favre exclaimed, "This is too audacious." Ollivler continued. We call you at the first sign ol trouble. Some ol" our troops have met with reverses, but the greater portion remain unvanquished. Our citadels, our natural de? fences, and our monitors are Intact. We ask you to aid us In organizing the National Guard. Deputy Piere. All sacrifice, without you. Ollivler resumed. We are all prepared: we can arm 450,000 men. Paris and the depart ments which are threatened are in a state of elege. Prussia hopes to add tojier own advan? tage by our intestine trouble.Cbut her expec? tations will not be realized. We shall defend ourselves. Order ls safely now. Messieurs, one word. It were unpatriotic at such a time to dwell upon personalities. Aconsc us, doubt us, we ?hall not answer personalities, except to defend measures we intend to propose. If the Chamber is not with us, (Ironical laughs and interruptions,) lt ls wantings the perioi mance of Its first duty. Let us not lose time in discussion; this I beg, as perhaps now ls the last time I shall mount this tribune. Make no more speeches; send us away if you deem it best. [Shouts from the Left of "Yes, yes.7*] Deputy Dumoulin interrupted, proposing that thc presidency of the council of ministers be conferred on General Trochu. Jules Favre demanded that the Chambers should at once assume the direction of public affairs. * Paul de Cassagnac said that if he ware a minister he would send before a council of war men sustaining such propositions. A scene of great violence here ensued be? tween members, Picard asking that the Cham? bers pronounce a vote of censure against min? isters, and members of the Left continually de? manding calls to order*. *? Cassagnac, temporarily presiding, refused to accede to these demands, saying that violence on one part would only produce violence on the other. Finally Olli vier, alter Orgreat effort to make himself heard In the confusion, said: Some of my colleagues ask me if I would have them shot ? Duke de Grammen'. e.\claimed,tliey all ought to be. At this expression, Deputy Estancelln rush? ed toward tbe Duke de Grammont, shaking his fist In his face. Deputy Ferry also leaves his seat and threat? ens Duke de Grammont, and members ot the Right rush lrom their seats and interpose to restore order. The president puts on his hat, and, In the midst ol the confusion. "the-sesslon was temporarily suspended. * Resignation of the Mi ni st ry. Jules Favre, on resumption of the s usions, demanded tbe immediate consideration of his proposal, but it was refnsed, by a vole of 190 to 58. Clement Duvernois then proposed the order of the day, declaring the Chambers desirous of insuring energy in the national defence. Olli ver refused to accept the order of the day, aDd rested I he rite of the ministry on its pas? sage. Order was adopted, and at the request of Olliver a recess was taken that he might withdraw and consult with his colleagues. Olliver returning after a briet absence, aud mounting the tribune, said : "In the presence of the vote of the Chambers the ministry has given its collective resignation to tbe Empress, jthe regent, who has accepted it. I am instruct? ed to declare that General Palikao has been chat ged with tbe duty of forming the new min? istry." [Applause.] "As far as we eau we shall continue to do whatever our country demands of us, and from thc present moment our successors, whatever misfortune they may encounter, will have onr support." After this declaration the Chambers separat? ed in great agitation. In tho Senate tbs resignation of the minis? ters was also announced. Thc French Conspiracy. BLOIS, Aucust 9. The High Court nf Ju?I ice has pronounced judgment o.i the conspirators, who have been on trial here. Alegy ie sentenced to twenty years' imprison? ment at bard labor; Beaury to twenty years' C')ntinemeot in a fortress; Petan, Moliin. Go dinot and P?lerin to five years' imprisonment; Grenier and .ireffier to fifteen vears' confine? ment in a foi tress; Letoufe andLerenard to five yean-; Ballot, in favor of whom extenuating circumstances .vere introduced, to five yoars' imprisoumeut; Gromi ;r to five yeirs. Vordier. who turned Slate's eviden?, was. discharged, and all the other accused acquitted. ENGLAND AND THE WAR. A Cure ful Statement of the Situation The Surprise and Consternation In England at the Declaration-Attitude of Foreign Powers-Temper of thc English Cabinet-Prospects of Media, lion. The London correspondent ot the New York Times, who ls vouched for by that paper as one of tbe best known and best informed among English political writers, writes under date of July 24: SUDDENNESS OF Tf?E WAR. Perhaps no war of so tremendous a nature ever took tho civilized world more completely by surprise. But of all nations certaiuly the most thunder-struck was the English. I doubt whether at any period of her history England ever was plunged in such a tool's paradise. Everything, moreover, at the present moment, tended to heighten the illusion. The final and overwhelming supremacy of that Liberal party whose every tradition la Interwoven wi h the doctrines ut peace and the humanitarian theo? ries of thu economical school, the mere fact of Mr. Gladstone's premiership and Mr. Bright's place in the cabiuet, the splendid surpluses of .ur. Lowe, the marked and substantial revival of trade, the almost universal rise, and, in many cases, unprecedented Inflation in tue quo? tations of the stock aud share list, the almost universal belief that some now or other wc were only :it the beginning ol' another decen? nial period ol' glorious prosperity-und the strong impression that both Napoleon and Bismarck were on their last legs, tottering with every support ol' medical science at the close of their ambitions careers to a peaceful grave, whenauy complications that might arise in Frunce would ''aller al! be spewd.ly settled" -all i hese various Illusions and delusions firmly rooted in the public mind, made the very idea ol' war seem ridiculous. I myself, by no means a slave to theory, scouted the bare nol^a of European complications, aud all my atteuilon, IU eoinmuu with other men? was concentrated upouihe effect of the Prus? sian candidature, not on the politics of Europe, but on the politics of cSpaln. (Where are Spanish politics now?) Nevertheless, I bad a strange iustlncl, which told me that somehow or other In the midst ol' all this profound bellefin peace, things were not as Wey were. I determined to emancipate iny seli from the thraldom ol English op'.niou. and set off to Paris on Sunday week last to for myself. I had Intended remaining Li four hours; I stayed the whole week; myself thoroughly acquainted with the ii outs of the Parisian press; fr?quente Bourse and the Chambers, and heard t rious rumors discussed by the most ei ened critics in Paris. I mean the ?ni circle of the late M.'dc Forcade. As this belongs to the- mo3t eminent section < peace party In Paris, I had a most exe means ol gauging the true sentiments ( nation. FEELING IS FRANCE AND GE UM ANT. I was soon able to ascertain that the party In France, however much and ho justly distinguished, is so small as to be, f present, at all events, practically micros lt ls no exaggeration to say that from bottom of the social scale, France, as one accepts this war, or rather, I ought tr at that, is the exact word j umps at lt. Thc E: papers, particularly the Times and Daily '. endeavored at first (who can blame them strengthen the chances of peace by repr lng the war spirit in France as confined army and the riff-raff. But, believe me I doubt not you are already persuaded ( such ls not the case. Frunce never, ii long annals entered more unanimously, enthusiastically, or with a closer, more slonate, personal feeling into any wai she bas now done Into this war against Pr To be sure, she cherished the hope thai war would be waged against Prussia and that the South German States i be. If not active allies o? France, a events secret Mends. This hope has bee pelled. Germany sprang to her feet as i mously as France, and even the Germi guns of Vienna, to the.great disgust o: French, are as strongly in favor of Pms if they were writtenfn Berlin. The concl is plain. Tills Is a national war betweei two chief nations of Continental Europ which every single man on each side that lie ls fighting In the great struggle ol century ior the final pre-eminence ot' his The very merchants and bankeis, on sides, who refused at first to believe li war, say, now that lt has come, tor Hea sake fight lt ont; exhaust the question;] have no hollow make-shifts; we are devc with doubt: wc are crushed by annamer you do not settle the matter now, confie! hereafter will be hopeless: therefore, sol once for all. Whether such a settlcmenl tween two nationalities can be effected In war, may be questioned. But one* thli clear, this ls not a war to be settled In battle, or two, nor perchance a dozen. ATTITirDE OF rOKEIGN POWERS. Moreover, lt is difficult to see how the ( powers can long remain neutral. Throus the reticence of the English Cabinet, a p clear intention ls visible to fight for Belt nnd even Luxembourg. The growing f? of all classes seems to be that Belgium certainly be drawn into the vontex,~and Belgium, England. The order was act given to send English troops to Antwerp, the excuse given for not sending them at was that not less than thirty thousand o to be sent"; and they were not ready. I this information from a very good anthe Then, again, Austria may be.'sald to be ai lng at the supreme decision ol' her own whether she fights, or whether she stains. If France is victorious, bette have been on th?; French side and rec the reward of her services. If Pn conquers. Austria will have sunk to level ol' a third-rate power, her Ger population being either absorbed, or foi Imperial purposes paralyzed. It is airead certalBcd that the Austrian Governmen sires io join r rance, and that, the Hungai and Czechs are prepared to go to war. Count Beast lins a difficult team to drive, his orly hope of getting the Cern?an hon move, Austrian hatred ol' the Prussian, se to have lolled him at the eleventh hour, sian ?ympathy lor Prussia ls not disgulsei spite ol profuse attention iavlshed, or sal be lavished, by the Russian Court on Ger Fleury. But Russia knows m sentiment, simply watches her Interest. So long as balance of power remains what lt ls, knows that she cannot hope to get any ne the apple orlier eye-Constantinople. " On France ls paralyzed can she expect to n another step-and the first step no di would be the incorporation of Callida the Roumanian Provinces. England alone ci not prevent Russia from taking Const* nople, and if France were exhausted and < many willing, the thing could be done, united Germany, with Denmark, Holland, the Dutch colonies, would be quite powe enough to allow Russia to lake Constantino and tue incorporation ol'Denmark and Holl with the Southern States of Germany, and German possessions of Austria would no dc be the price required. It is true that these only speculations. But they are speculatl which occupy the mind of every polltlclai Europe. Italy has given her uncondltlt adhesion to France, which means, without expressed conditions regarding Rome, il ls quite evident that ii the Emperor of French is successful, the unexpressed < dltlon will be fulfilled, and he will wlthd his troops from Rome, partly as a reward the alliance of Italy, partly because success will make him Independent the priest party, whom he loathes ' wltl unique loathing, but uses, as Indian J glers use their snakes, for livelihood. On other hand, if the Emperor fails, the c requires no discussion, for evidently he wo then be compelled to withdraw his troops, follows that the conduct of Italy is a pollt necessity, admitting ol' no doubt. Spain hr secret alliance with France, offensive and fenslve, and received from the Bank of Frai twenty millions the very day war was declar This is not generally known, but I believe li be true. You may think lt a page of polit! GU Blas. Yet here lt ls. Neve-'hcless I pretty certain that Prim was innocent of storm he has raised. He has written priv letters expressing the deepest despair at unexpected result of his action, and the m unfeigned friendship and devotion to the E peror of the French. And there is really mystery In the matter. Instead of his intr ulog and outwitting Napoleon, Napoleon trlgued and outwitted him. Prim had his o difficulties to overcome. So completely had I Emperor's Illnesses and ailments and prof slons lulled Europe, that Prim never drea of war, and thought he was doing a mig! clever thing in proposing a candidate who n related to the Emperor as a Murat, and lo t Prussian King as a Hohenzollern. He tbou(< he was satisfying both and damning the Ci lists and Alphouslatsand Isabelilnus, and, abo all, the Montpenslerlsts, Irretrievably. On t other hand, the French Emperor, having ma a tool of him for his purpose, waves the Spa ish matter aside, and is as friendly and patrc izlng ns if nothing bad happened. So mu for Austria, Russia. Italy and Spain. As 1 Denmark, Holland. Belgium and Luxembout they are simply waiting the dismal hour their dissolution. It may not come, but tl halter is round their neck. ENGLISH OPINION. The first emotion of the English mind ? the declaration of war was a feeling of rage tlic breaking up of ail the dreams of growiD prosperity, and a disposition to treat the Et peror of the French as an imperial scoundr of the basest and most hateful type. This fee ing translated itself at ouce and with perfei fidelity in an article of the Loudon Times i last Saturday week, so fierce and bitter tb the French Ambassador remarked the nea day to a lriend that -'stich an article was ? good as a'declaration of war.'' In the House i Commons all tue soldiers side with France, bi the bulk ol'the Liberal party side with Pru sin, and are of opinion that the Emperor < the French has wantonly, for his own persoi al ends, thrust ibis war' upon two uuwi ling countries. This waa the prevalei feeling during the first few days, and lt -.7a reflected ia the Times as the organ ol'tbe-niei camile middle classes, and in ibe Dally N-w as the organ of the Ortcanist Liberals. Th Standard-and iu this matter being a Libers myself, ?is you know, I tun quite Impartial was the only paper that gave a true and states manlike view ol' the situation. With ??rea moderation it showed that, ulthougn it wa true Hutt the Emperor ol' the French hiv chosen Li's own tune to declare war, am placed himself formally, in the wrong by drlv lug matters ut once to extremities, yet tim he did not. create the war, still less thrust i upon unwilling natious; Dint ic was, in the full est sense of the word, a national war beiweei two peoples righting for-supremacy; that i has been slowly preparing siuce 18?G that its outbreak, sooner or later, wot a matter of political certainty, aud thal in his choice of tne moment, all iht Emperor of the French oould be accusei of was of having accepted tue perquisite o bis position, and chosen the hour must uselu to himself and most likely to favor Freuet success. To this opinion most reasonable mei are slowly inclining, still there cannot oe a doubt that English sympathy ls, in the main, ns completely with Prussia as Irish sympathy ls with France. And the policy adopted by tho Time3 is to represent the war as entirely due to the Emperor, and to show that, 5f he can be got rid o?. France will at once return into the paths ot' peace. After what I have said,! need not add how thoroughly unfouud cd thteview appears to be. . PROSPECTS OF PEACE. I cannot at present see any. Whatever may happen seems equally adverse. For either France will gain the first battle, .and lt ls idle to expect Germany to surrender after one de? feat. The German papers talk quite calmly of the French taking Berlin, and promise to fight on for all that Or Prussia will win the first encounter, and France will be converted into a cage of yelling tigers. Or, thirdly, the first campaign may be a drawn one. In which case both nations will cry aloud in God's name to go on and settle it. Of course the Emperor may die. But this ls a national, not merely an lm-* perlai war, and the army will rally around the Empress Regent, and the country suoport the war. and settle its accounts with the Empress atterward at leisure. The Empress Is at present intensely unpopular. But if the Emperor were to die and his generals conduct the war to a satisfactory issue, it is quite pos? sible that France would accept the Empress' Regency and seat Napoleon's son on the throne. Whatever betide, the only thing clear, upon the most careful and reasonable survey of all the clements In this disastrous war, is that It is a luodamental war, that it touches the deepest springs ol' European politics, that lt points to the envenomed struggle for su-, premacy and existence of the leading forces In Europe, and that the wisest men and the cool? est heads are unable to forecast the conse? quences. . TEMPER OF TUE ENGLISH .CABINET. The.bla* of.the English Cabinet Is not easy to discover. If you want an indication, I can tell you for certain that the clerks In the war office have been warned against divulging anything relating to their office. This unprecedented proceeding speaks for itself. The Cabinet is composed of, politically speaking, young men, able administrators, lull of vigor, pride and capacity. Mr. Gladstone has just thrown over the Dissenters, and. with a too fatal facility, stepped Into Lord Palmerston's shoes, flirting with the Tories. What the effect may be ulti? mately, on his own career, I cannot say. He owes his present supremacy entirely to the Dissenters. They have done everything for "him. They carried hls'amendinents io Mr. Disraeli's Reform bil!. They carried him to power. They carried his Irish Church bill. And when he was firmly seated In power by them, with a practi? cal majority of a hundred votes, he pricked them in the apple of the eye by handing over the country schools, in the Elementary Edu? cation bill, body and soul to the church. Then, with u lofty waive of the hand and a heat of demonstration very agreeable to the Conser? vatives, he bade them in God's name take their support where they pleased,'for he want? ed them no longer. Of course the baseness of this treachery will be remembered hereafter both by friends and foes. Last night, at the Cobden Club dinner, (where, by the by, Hon. John Bigelow, I ara sorry to?say, made rather an exhibition of himself, ) Mr. Gladstone tried to soothe the Dissenters by protuse reference to "Christian principle."' ''Christian brother? hood." ' the Gospel ol' Christ,'" and other political claptrap-one man remarking au? dibly, that Mr. Gladstone had evident? ly, 'brought his pulpit with him. But the Dissenters are old birds, not caught with chaff, least of all by the chaff of a man whom they have used, and who now thinks he can fling them over, to pander to his aristocratic and clerical instincts. Still,-for the time, there he ls, hand and glove with the Conservatives, and, like Lord Palmerston, who he hated, de? spised and secretly undermined, ruling his party by means of his enemies. But, like Lord Palmerston, he may make a very good War Minister. Be sum of this, what he under? takes he will do thoroughly. He is very pug? nacious, and, as soon as he has adjusted the focus of the Gospel to the requirements ol war. you may trust him not to leave any gun unfired. Woe betide his enemies, and, as soon as his -enemies- -are disponed of -hia-frlends, His epitaph is already written for him: "Here lies the most brilliant of English statesmen, who served every cause, van? quished every foe, and betrayed every friend." ft is hard, however, not to sympa v thize with him In his present difficulties. As a Cobdenite and party to the French treaty, he is strongly beholden to the French Emperor. As the Queen's Premier, his cour tler-llke blas-and it ls not weak-is In iavoi of the Prussians. As a peace-party man he is bound to let Belgium go. As a secret ally ol the Conservatives, he ls bound to fight for Bel? gium. Between all these conflicting tenden? cies, no wonder if he ls distracted. The gos? sip ol' London is that "Gladstone and Childers are both ill with fear" at finding themselves caught by a European war unawares. That they have been caught is certain. But that they will sit down in the trap is not <o easy tc affirm. This government is a government ol splendid capacity-not easy to be trifled with and If they fight, they will not fight by halves, ! Will they fight? I think they will. Three Cabinet meetings have already been held, al which the Belgian question has been most anxiously discussed, and the result has been the expressed determination to send troops tc Belgium on the slightest indication of danger. 1 MONDAV, July 25, 1870. Tt is hard *o keep pace with ihe telegraph You know already that the Times this morn . ing has published a secret treaty betweec France and Prussia, offered twice by the for? mer to the latter power, and twice rejected. The sensation produced by this document h 1 profound, and the general feeling is that foi ? all practical purposes we might as well be al i war already. Coupled by a most undesigned coincidence, with a letter in the Telegraph, describing, with the French Emperor's per mission, Bismarck's offer to buy Holland, everj Englishman feels that England was living be? tween two schemers, who, in the midst ot th? fairest professions, were ready to rifle hei pockets, and li the worst came to the worst, to garrote her between them in the oper street. EFFECT ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. Probably the late panic on the Stock Ex? change will have equalled in severity the worsi In our records. Almost every stock was at lu highest point. At 93 English Consols wen relatively at a fancy price. Five-twenties wen at par and in a strange country. Illinois were at 112 and loudly declared by authoritative Judges to be going to 150. Turkish live pei cents, had had a rise ol' 10 per ceHt., and t Greek rig had blown the bubble to the extreme limit of endurance. Immense bull account! were open for the rise in almost every con celvable security. The recoil bas been mos . disastrous. Already several failures have beei declared. But these are believed to bi only as the precursory drops that intro duce a storm. The anxiety on the Stocl Exchange is compressed but intense. Herol? efforts are made to sustain markets and enabh weak holders to get out with the skin of theil teeth. But in three more days the dreadei settlement will have come, and every man ii scanning his neighbor's face to see if his owr ruin ls not written in Its line3. PROSPECTS OF MEDIATION". These are small. If Prussia ls beaten sh< will not surrender. It France should fall a first .she will light again. Tne wiseBt critic; are at a loss to determine which has the bette army. On the whole, there seems nothing fo it but to await the natural solution ol' time and to give up barren forecasts. TUE STOCK MARKET. NEW YORK, August 12. The reaction'.u tho stock mailcet is attrib uted to the hall-monthly settlement and titi indecisive character of the war news. -The Fenians, who liave been assumed U be French sympathizers from the public de monstrallons in Ireland and the talk ot* th< Irish in ibis country, now declare in an officia document-official as l'a-r as anything emana ting iruin that disintegrated and distractei brotherhood can be official-that they do no pronounce tor either France or Prussia, "al our movements," they say, "must depend 01 those ot" England. Uutll she is involved wi cannot become engaged. Until lt is clea which side she will take, we shall not pro nouuee tor either France or Prussia. Whei ever she shall be lound, we shall be on thi side of her antagonist. But, in any case, w have no anti-German feeling. We desire th liberty and uulty ot' Germany, and svinpali-izi with all who love her. Our quarrel le no with Prussia, but with England, and t?nglant only." 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