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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15
The War Situation in France.

The French have learned nothing Of the
military art by their disastrous experience in
the present war. Prince Frederick Charles
has cut up the Army Of the Loire, just as the
Crown Prince cut off MacMahon at Wocrth and
outhanked him at Sedan. A hating opposi-
ton in front deceives the new generals of the
republic into the belief that the whole force of
Germany is being slowly driven back, when,
in fact, larger force is quietly moving for
their rear. They appear to be now as igao-
rant of the movements of their enemy as they
were when surprised at Weissenburg. They
have learned no new lesson Of vigilance or
strategy, and have forgotten no old ones OF
carelessness, bravery or heroic resistance.
The movement upon Havre continues stead
lily. A fight has occurred at Honheur, in
which the advance Of the Prussians was re-
PEELED, but the main body has arrived at
Bonneville, only sixteen miles distant from
Havre itself. Eighty batteries have been
| directed against the Cathedral of Notre Dame,
and the first shell Of series may drop into
the darkened aisles of the grand old churc al
any moment.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

DANIEL MANN AND JAMES DEACON, two
Canadians, were executed in Kingston yester-
day. The two were hanged together, but met
one another for the first time on their way to
the scaffsld, when very affecting scene took
place. They fell upon one another's necks
and wept, and although one Of them was then
TO undergo punishment for numbering his
wife by continued and persistent effort
20 poison her with strychnine in order
that he might live more satisfactorily with an
idiot paramour, and the other was
10 suffer for the crime of killing the guard of q
prison where he had been atoning in some
measure for life Of robbery and horse-thiev-
Ing. the two expressed themselves as sure Of .
happy home beyond the skies. We know that
the God of all is merciful, and that he saved q
dying thief upon the cross, but if all murderers
have such uniform and never-failing passports
10 heaven capital punishment should oe a00i-
lshed as penalty for murder.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

A QUESTION OF GArEwAYs,N AN exchange
thinks that because "a woman who can
properly preside over her house is fit to stand
in the gateway of heaven ITSELF" as the woman
suffrage folks declare, it is not to be taken as
proof OF her fitness to stand in the doorway
Of an engine house and peddle ballots on elec-
ton day. Some wicked politicians would
rather meet her in the latter gateway than
the former, believing the chances for making
their ''election sure" in one case better than in
the other
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

Tho Impending BOmbarduaont Of Paris.
Old King wilhelm, as 1t appears, getting
tired Of the starving out process, has resolved
on the bombardment Of Paris, and Monday,
the 10Th instant, is named as the day when
his siege batteries viii open fire upon the
doomed city, 1t has been the general i'm
preston that he has not so long refrained
from storm of shot and shell because of q
desire to avoid the destruction or dlsfgura-
ton Of the city, but because, from his lines
outside the circle of its protecting fortiica-
tons, he has no guns of sufficient range to do
any material damage to the city. 1t is re-
ported, however, that the German siege bat
teries command every point of Paris, and
that Notre Dame, in the very heart of the
city, presents as fair target as did the Stras-
bourg cathedral. If so, the Germans have
guns of range of six or seven miles, and
that they have such guns is very probable, for
1t will be remembered that in our late civil
war General Gilmore, from Cumming Point,
six miles below Charleston, pretty effectively
shelled the lower portion of the city.
If, then, the German siege batteries COM
mand the very heart of Paris, and If they are
to be opened upon the city on Monday next,
what will be the consequences? Will Paris
be reduced to a mutilated wreck, like Stras-
bourg, or be more than half destroyed by
confagration, like Thionville? Mo- we do
not appreheRd either destructive hammering
or burning to Paris. We are rather inclined
to think that when the Parisians find from
actual experience that they are at the mercy
of the German batteries there will be speedy
captulation on the part of General Trochu,
inasmuch as the two million beleaguered souls
under his care, soldiers and civilians, are
already reduced in the way of delicaces in
fresh meat, to rats, cats and dogs. We can
hardly suppose that Trochu will try another
sortie in the absence of any supporting force
outside, and when his half famished troops
and his horses not eaten up must be so far
starved as to be useless for the purposes of a
sortie. We conclude then, that the capitua-
ton of Paris will be no longer delayed when
the German shells begin to fall upon the
Tuileries and the Hotel de Vile.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15
The New Census.

Marshal Sharpe is about to commence ope-
rations Immediately on the new census. His
deputies will, of course, have to undertake
their duties under considerable difficulties.
People, being little Disguised with the
annoyance of the last census taking, will be
naturally careless about furnishing any more
information. If the original census taking
had been properly conducted there would be
no necessity for harassing the public again
with the stupid routine of visit to every
house by ignorant census marshals, catechising
every householder and worrying the inmates
of every mans dwelling. But as the census
has undoubtedly been incorrectly taken it be-
comes necessary to 60 over the ground again,
in order that the great metropolis should be
put right upon the record as regards popula-
ton and material wealth. The Indignation so
widely expressed by our citizens at the imper-
feet manner in which the late census was taken
induced, or rather compelled, the govern
ment to order that a new census should be
taken. We hope that all persons will give the
marshals all the information in their power
cheerfully and help them along in the per-
Torrance of their duties. By this means we
may possibly get fair return Of the actual
population of the city. g
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

SECRETARY BOUTWELL, is now said to be at
loggerheads with the President on the Motley
question, and intends to resign. Motley does
not strike us as the sort of man about whom
there need be 50 much contention. 1t is
thought that Secretary Delano will succeed
Boutwell,, and Judge Agnew, of Pennsylvania,
will succeed DelanO. The only dread we have
at present over the prospect of Boutwells
retirement is that Pennsylvania will again be-
come unduly agitated about her place in the
Cabinet.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15
L RIPL E S III E E L
New York. Thursday, December Is, 1870.
CONTENTS OF TO-DAY,s HERALD.

PAGE.
1-AdverlisementS
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
3-France The Army of the Lore in Full Retreat
Upon Tours Hayre Determined Upon Vigo-
rous Resistance; The Prlssians Sixteen Miles
nom the City; German Batteries Commanding
Every Part OF Paris; Surrender OF the Fort
ress OF Phalsbourg- German In
vason and Occupation lmlnnent-RusSia and
the Eastern Qucstlon-News from Washing
ton-Ierrible Calamity: Explosion and Loss OF
Five Liyes-A Protectisnist Feed-JapaIese
Goods.
4-Congress: New York Matters Before the Senate:
Fenton 0verhauIing the Custom House, The
Tax on the Forty-lpe Millions OF New Y ork
Central scrip; Buffers Disability Bill-The
River Thief Murder-The New England
Soclety-The City OF Ragusa-Brooklyn's
Water SUPPLEMENTARY the Counterfeiter-
The Gallows: Execution OF TWO Murderers at
Kingston Canada-opening of the Great
Poultry Exhbltlon-"A Whisky Fraud
Gortchakons Circular IN Turkey. Austria
Prussia and Great Brliain-American ana In
ciation-The Public Parks-The Papacy
Great Catholic Meeting in fremont Temple,
Boston; "Crusade' 10 Free Rome from
Italian Usurpation-Laying OF the Corner
Stone OF the Temple "Ahawath Chesedn-
Detective Young-rhe Case OF Admiral Porter.
6-Editorlals Leading Arslcle, prussia and
Russia-The New Governing Powers OF
Europe"-Amusement Announcements.
7-Edirorlas Continued rom SiXtn Pagel-Per.
Parts of the Word-Obitu Upwards OF the
Naron-Clty RESPONSIBILITIES BENEVOLENT SO.
ciety and Home for Aged liebrews-News from
Observation-Disclosures Notices.
S-Tne Murder Mania: Trial OF Lawrence Sullivan
for the Murder OF Johu 0'Brien: Jerry Dunn
Convicted or Mansaughter in the Third De-
gree-A Pocket OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of the
Peope-Another Check at the Post Ofnce-Pro-
ceedlngs In the COurts-The Public Health
The Fishery Question.
O-Monevideo The Existing Revolution and
Reason Therefor-Miss Lottie Fowler. the
Clarvoyant. Again In Tribulat ion-The Bane
of Rches-The Cuban Bond Robbery--Naval
Intelligence-Financia and Commercial Re
ports-Marrlages ana Deatbs-Adyertise-
mentS.
1O-New York City News-That Fierce Frog
Fignt-Horse Understanding In Bridgeport,
Conn.-Amusements-New Territory for
Brooklyn-Art Notes. Army Intelllgence-The
Crlsplns rike-Meteorological Report
Disastrous Fire in Newark Shipping intelli
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
acknowledgements.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

Mr.. McCresry, Of Kentucky, made great
mistake when he ventured on a eulogy Of tho
chief Of the rebel armies in the Senate, and
ne shocked the sentiment Of every Union man
in the nation when he proposed to remove the
bones OF the Union dead at Arlington in order
to return, in its original beauty and complete-
ness, the old family estate of Lee to his widow
To have ventured on so untimely and obnox-
ious a proposition shows degree of rasb-
ness on the part of McCreery that evidentlv
units him fer the calm deliberations OF tho
Senate chamber. It can be accounted for
only on the conviction that Mr.. McCreery, a
thrifty Kentucky farmer, born and bred in
the pro-slavery notions of that State, be-
lieved all he said about the dead chieftain.
The action of his democratic colleagues,
Davis, Bayard and Saulsbury-all as strongly
pronounced democrats as himself-indicates
that they are not prepared to 60 80 far in tho
matter nor to make the removal of Union dead
from Southern cemeteries democratic de-
mand at present The vivid remembrance
of that letter of Frank Blair, Jr., ut
the Fourth Of July Convention in this
city in 1868, wherein he somewhat
enthusiastically endorsed the rebel lead
ers, and thereby secured, in great measure,
his defeat for the Vice Presidency, warns ex-
perienced party men like Davis and Bayard
that they must be reticent on such subjects.
McCreery, who is already disappointed as a
politician, probably did not care. His success
sor in the Senate is already chosen, and he
takes no more interest in it, beyond the desire
to leave some name behind him and come out
of his short term with flying colors.
AS for the radical invectives that exploded
SO suddenly. and probably unexpectedly,
over poor McCreery's head like a shower OF
aerolites on his Green river farm they were in
little better taste than the suggestion which
drew them forth. We all know that Lee was
a rebel, and an unsuccessful rebel is a traitor
all the world over, and anywhere but in
this country, and in any time, but this
century, he would have been hanged as a
rebel or would have been exceedingly happy
to compromise with the confiscation OF his
property. 1t does not require the united radi-
calism of the Senate to tell us that but doing
so, gives the subject an air OF Importance
that it would not otherwise have attained. Bet
ter to have let the rocket, McCreery, shoot
himself off and fall to the ground naturally,
like stick, than to have sent up two or three
dozen corruscations after him.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

EUROPEAN FEELING ON THE EASTERN
QUESTION I'm another page Of the HERALD
this morning we publish a number of extracts
from the European press, as well as letter
from our correspondent in Constantinople, by
a perusal of which our readers can form an
idea Of how Europe is agitated on the Eastern
question. In Vienna, as in Constantinople !;
in Berlin, as in London or in st. Petersburg,
the subject is now one of perplexing anxiety.
Statesmen and publicists and journalists are
all occupied in the consideration Of the posi-
ton of Russia, which, it must be conceded, is
manly, honest and determined. Turkey is
evidently uneasy, Austria divided, England
cautious, Russia alone taking stand unmis-
takably firm and with conscious reliance in
the business of the position assumed by the
Gear.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

Inc war Ver9in& ON tne sen COaSIs
We all remember when General Sherman
presented Savannah to President Lincoln as q
Christmas box, and demonstrated the fact that
safe line of communication was not the vital
necessity to an army that the generals Of the
old school had all along considered it. It
seems probable that General Manteuffel, who
has dreadfully suggestive name for maraud-
ing soldier, will present Havre to King Will
liam as Christmas present, and possibly
some one else may cap it with Cherbourg and
Brest, and Prince Frederick Charles may be
in time for the imperial coronation of the old
King with present of Bordeaux and Nantes,
until the imperial boudoir will glitter with
presents of seaport towns like brides table
with silver.
The old idea Of secured communications Is
entirely ignored by these German generals
marching to the sea coast, as it was by Sher-
man. They believe in base of supplies, but
they carry it with them. Their lines do not
extend further than a foraging party can ride
in the camping intervals of the march. There
seems to be no doubt that Havre, Cherbourg
and all the great seaport towns of France will
fall eventually and the navy of France, which
has been really the only enemy that Prussia
felt unequal to in her own element, may be
literally starved out, as Metz was. With no
port of France in its possession the navy will
present the extraordinary anomaly Of feet
without country, and naturally without
credit, and the result may be that it will have
to captulate for want of those sinews Of war
that are required even by iron walls afoat.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

WHY He STRUCK HIS CoLoEs. The COM
munity will be glad to be informed that the
course of the True Georgian in striking the
Grant flag and hosting that OF Hoffman for
President was not occasioAed by any personal
hostility the editor entertained toward General
Grant! It would be curious to learn what
considerations influenced our contemporary in
30 inportant q matter.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

ITALY AND HER New CAPITAL. The
committee of the Italian Parliament on the bill
for the transfer Of the national capital to
Rome have recommended that the transfer
take effect before the LIST of April, 1871. Why
not now? What is the use Of delay? Before
the LIST Of April European conference may
take the matter out of Victor Emmanuels
hands. If the King Of Italy, from lack Of de-
cision, loses his opportunity to make Rome the
capital Of Italy, he may find that he has placed
his crown in serious peril. Faint hearts are
not suited to these go-ahead times.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

SENATOR MoCREERY, of Kentucky, as demo-
crat, is not sufficiently reconstructed to under
stand the true policy Of the democratic party
for 1872, and the wiser men who control its
councils should take care to keep all such
glorifers of ''the lost cause" as McCreery in
the background.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

THE FALL OF MARACAIBo.-The national
party in Venezuela has experienced a severe
check by the fall of Maracaibo, which was
forces of Guzman Blanco. General Her
nandez, the commander of the national forces,
is reported killed, and Pulgar, one of Blanco's
generals, was shot through the heart in Mara
caibo shortly after the fall of the city.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

GARIBALDI GIVES IT Up.-Garibaldi, it
seems, has come to his senses at last. Ac-
cording to report he has resigned his COM
mand of the Army of the Vosges and is about
to return to Italy. The reason assigned is the
uufriendly spirit manifested by the French
population. Very few persons will regret
Garibaldi's wise resolution. Many of his
friends regret that such resolution was ever
necessary. In his day Garibaldi has done the
world good service. But he has outlived his
usefulness and his fame. The patriot and
hero has become laundering filibuster- It
would have been better for Garibaldis future
fame if he had died younger man.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

THE WEST AND THE PRESIDENTIAL Wash
ington correspondent Of the Kansas City ono. }
Journal Of Commerce says the rallying point
Of the republicans in the West for the next
Presidency must be General Grant and his
administration" That is very good point to
start from. But suppose by the variableness
of Congress the ship Of State should steer for
'sPoint-no- Point, where would the commander
bring UPON the Point of Rocks?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

stated that the names of twelve hundred CO.
lored men are on the books of the New Jersey
Colonization Society for passage to Liberia;
but they can't be sent for want Of funds.
Would it not be a good idea for Tammany to
supply the necessary cash and thereby get rid
of twelve hundred radical voters1 1t might
secure New Jersey for the democratic party in
1870
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

A SOUTH AMERICAN IMITATION OF PARIS
Montevideo under siege, reduced, from scarcity
of food, almost to famine. But if they must
have such things in enlightened Europe, they
will follow the fashion in South America. 1t
is only such rude barbarians as Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail that can be made to understand
the folly Of war;
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

THE TENNESSEE BUTLER has resumed his
seat in Congress, and in the caucus yesterday
objected to the general removal of disabilities
Mr.. Butler should be more considerate He
may have to ask pardon himself some day if
the Pension Bureau really holds those charges
against him that we heard of last summer.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

PREPosTERoUs DIsrRESs-The distress OF
the New York Observer touching the move
ments of certain Catholic democrats Of this
city in behalf of the temporal rights OF the
Pope. Let our alarmed anti-Papist. Contempt
rary be assured that there is nofgreat danger
from these ''Papist demonstra. tions," and no
cause to fear the downfall tof the American
eagle or the prostration Of our liberties under
the foot Of the Pope.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

THE NAVIGATION OF THE ELBE is impeded by
ice, and drift ice has been flowing down the
Seine. In the opening Of the winter this is con-
siderably ahead Of New York; but we may yet
overhaul them before New Years day.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

THE HOUSE WAS EXCITED yesterday over q
proposition to hold national exhibition in
Philadelphia on the centenary of the Declare
ton of independence. They let the spread
eagle fly around as if the affair were coming
off next week. They need not be SO hurried.
They have five years before them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

Know NoTHINGIsM IN CANADA.-A project
has been started in Canada to organize a
society to which none but natives are to be
admitted, the objects being similar to those OF
our exploded Know Nothing movement OF
some years ago. 1t will probably meet a
similar fate
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15
11-AdVertIseTnellIS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

ttSETTING A SPRAT TO CAToH MACK
TRRL"-The present pretended disruption in
the republican family preparatory to the grand
Presidential Union catch in 1872, with Grant
as the principal angler.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

SURPRISING A CAsE.-Should General Schenck,
60 as our Ambassador to England will he be
prepared to attend as witness when his
friends contest the seat of Lew Campbell in
the next Congress- Perhaps Schenck would
rather be in Congress than in the uncertain
position of Minister to Great Britain. Nous
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

PRIZE FIGHTING IN RHODE ISLAND RE-
ferring to the Associated Press despatch from
Hartford, Conn, announcing prize fight be-
tween two bruisers in Rhode Island, the Pr0vi-
dence Or. H. Uerdld SAYS
II this despatch Is correct the matter was con-
Quoted IN remarkably quiet manner, for no one ia
this vicinity seems To nave heard word about H..
This appears to be q matter in which tina
jurisdiction of the two States is more or less
concerned Will it lead to another Dorr war
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

THE PRESIDENT declines to hold out an
olive branch to Senator Schurz, and the
breach between him and the Missouri republi-
cans is not likely to be healed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

GAMBETTA is more of lawyer than SOL
der, and his continued presence with General
Chauzy's line and its consequent disasters
suggest that it be called in future the Line Of
The LAWYER.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

s'SoLITARY AND ALONE" Senator Tom Benton
set in motion the ball for expunging from the
United States Senate the record against Gene
raj jackson. SOLITARY and alone" almost
Senator McCreery sets in motion a ball for the
restoration Of the Arlington estate to the Lee
family.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

LET THE DEAD REsT'-As well the
mingled bones Of the buried Union and Con-
federate soldiers at Arlington as these OF the
chief Of the latter. Robert ,. Lee,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

SAVING GEAcE.-It is reported the Prussians
are moving on Havre de Grace. Where is the
Duchesse dOrleans? We mean the fast old
American packet of that name.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

WALL STREET measures the more uneasy
situation of the Eastern and Luxembourg
questions in Europe by slight advance in
gold, the price of which yesterday touched
liz, as against HOY the day previous.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

REIGN or IGNORANCE ~ TENNESSEE.
prospects Tor the education of the rising gene
ration In Tennessee are very gloomy. Ihe
Nashville Runner states that the common
schools are closed that tho people do nos
know what 10 do, aud that tho children are
growing up without even the rudmcnts of an
English education. Here is fine field for
the exercise OF tho talents OF that peculiar
and important class known as ''New Englsnd
school marms.' II will not DO for some pnrs-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

How LONG WILL GAMBETTA be allowed to
gamble little on the London Stock Exchange
to the prejudice of American interests?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

BUTLER's DISABILITY REMOVAL BILL has o
list Of ten exceptions, but the people take
more exceptions than that to the bill itself.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

''HARD-A-LEE THE discussion in thu
United States Senate on the Arlington restora
ton.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-15

THE ECLIPSE OF THE TWENTY SECOND
VIII i. be Witnessed in GeQEgias