The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-03

not remain silent when q subordinate officer
was, in his opinion, unjustly prejudged. Gen
eral Grant, too, in these things has always
tempered his justice with generosity, and in
that delicate way which has never failed of the
happiest results, as General Meade, General
Sherman, General Warren and a host of other
distinguished officers can testify. In oil the
numerous qualifications of the model soldier
the world has furnished but few examples to
compare with General Grant
The Last New Discovery-Magnetic Storms
In tho Ascendant.
An ingenious theory has been concocted by
the Britishers to account for their last failure
TO lay an Atlantic cable. II was not another
piece of wire thrust into the gutta percha. nor
any flaw in the cable itself, that caused the ac-
cident. Nothing Of the kind. Professor Airy
and the big wigs Of the Greenwich Observe
tory have discovered that the loss Of insulation
was the result simply and solely. Of mag
netic storm. The idea is 30 good We wonder
it did not occur to somebody before. Now we
come to think it over, it is surprising how inn
portant a part magnetic storms play, not only
in the success of cables, but in the fate Of en-
pires.
A magnetic storm of considerable violence
seems just now to be raging in Prussia. The
pig-headed King and his obstinate bench
man are troubled by sudden loss of conduc-
tvlty. The Prussan Chambers strangely re-
fuse to respond to the signals from the throne.
The most powerful Bismarck batteries have no
effect upon them. They won't pass the esti-
mates without knowing what they are for.
They won't let the King have his own way
with the army. They won't give up their no
tons of increased constitutional liberty. In
fact, complete loss of insulation is apparent.
There are magnetic currents circulating in
Austria. The traditional policy of half CEN
fury and more has been changed in few days.
The Metternichian plan Of Commanding all the
ten or twelve nationalities included in the
Austrian empire has been suddenly aban-
doned. 1t is no longer the impe-
rial policy to trample out every spark
of patriotism in Hungarian, Pole or Sclave.
Wiser and more liberal counsels have been
adopted and a constitutional reform Of the
Austrian empire has been commenced just in
time to save it from utter bankruptcy and
ruin.
A magnetic storm has long occupied the
wires in Mexico. The goOd-humored, we'll
meaning Archduke, whom French bayonets
hoisted into the Halls OF the Montezumas, finds
himself in worse plight than his brother, the
Kaiser. What little conductivity there was
between himself and the people he was thrust
upon to govern has been lost by his rupture
with the Pope; and the complete severance Of
the FrancO-Mexican cable may be daily ex-
pected.
There are strong magnetic currents at pre-
sent in France, where similar phenomena have
often been experienced. The French people
are beginning to learn that when they changed
King Log for Emperor Stork they did not very
much mend their position. The slightest move
| ment sets the electric needle Oscillatng If the
Emperor catches a cold in his head violent de-
Elections ensue; and q rumor that the Prince
Imperial has got the measles is sufficient to
bring down rentes with run.
Electric currents of dangerous power are
quivering through the length and breadth of
Spain. Prim Espartero and other liberal
leaders are directing a movement which will
shake to the foundations dynasty built up
upon bigotry, foreign Intervention and the ira
ditions of the past
| England has had a shock or two of the uni
| versal storm The British aristocracy have woke
! up to the fact that the "bubble democracy
about which they were so fond of prating has
not burst. They find the republic at whose
obsequies they hoped to assist, and the institu-
tons whose downfall they heralded, more
vigorous and powerful than before. Their
dreams are troubled by phantom Alabamas
and Shenandoahs. Their waking hours are
perplexed by demands for reform and demo-
cratic institutions. Canada lies heavy upon
them as q nightmare, and confronting them
they see great country whose friendship they
secuted with sham neutrality, and whose in
tegrity they did their utmost to destroy. The
effect of the electric current on the rebel sym.
| pathizing press has been singularly eccentric
The London Times has changed its r5le, and in
stead of sneering at and misrepresenting us
now belards its criticisms with fulsome praise
Even the London Saturday Reuiew, hitherto the
| coarsest and most INSCRIPTIONS enemy Of
America, next to the tory Herald, now finds il
expedient to praise American craftsmanship
The papers that have yielded timid support ia
our cause daily grow holder. The London
Examiner, one of the ablest Of the lot, in re-
cent issue strongly condemned the decision o.
the English Chancery Court in the case of the
rebel cotton, and declared the case TO be, what
it really was, q barefaced attempt to obtain
payment for the rebel cotton bonds.
Thus all over Europe the magnetic current
has been felt in greater or less degree. But its
full power has yet to be experienced. When
President johnson has got through with the re-
construction Of the South, when Macmillan has
retired quietly from Mexico, and Canada has