New-York tribune., 1870-08-13
WtP TOPICS,

nocket Was last seen going home from
baptism of fire. Is supposed at Paris to be In
Metz; is supposed at Metz to be In Paris ; Is
supposed at other places to be in London.
Any information concerning him Will be re-
ceived with the greatest indifference by the
Corps L6gislatif.
The defective organization of the French
armies is az evident and as surprising as the
inferiority of French generalship. In the en-
gagement near Worth the soldiers of Mac
Mahon fought all day without food, and were
left in the heat of the battle without ammuni-
ton. Every circumstance which the French
bring to light by way of accounting for their
defeat shows how badly they were handled
and makes the possibility of their ultimate
success more remote.
Tile Army and Nary Journal states " posi-
lively and from personal knowledge that
early in our war, when prices were depressed,
an agent of Louis Napoleon came to Newly
and made large purchases of real estate in
Third-ave and other parts of the city. The
Imperial speculation has resulted fortunately,
and the time seems to be coming when the
Emperor will have reason to be thankful that
he has made this provision against a rainy
live on his Third-ave. property j fors in one
place and another he has put away very
pretty fortune.
The second Prussian line, behind the
Rhine is pushing toward the frontier, and will
probably be ready to throw itself upon French
territory long before the immense levies called
out by the authorities at Paris can be put into
marching order. The capture of Strasbourg
will leave the whole Prussian border of France
entirely open, and indeed even now King
William can march in wherever he pleases.
The last barrier against an invasion was
broken down when MacMahOn, driven out of
Saverne, abandoned the gateway of the
VOsges.
Gen. Trochu, urged to take the Ministry
of War, is said to have replied that he could
only do so at the bidding of the Corps L6gis
latif, which, for an officer of the personal
government" was very significant answer.
He is supposed to favor the Orleanists, and, for
all his brilliant reputation as q soldier, it is
not likely that he would have been allowed
to distinguish himself too much had not the
reverses on the Saar and the Lauter, and the
menaces of the populace at home, obliged
Napoleon to call him to the front. He had
the Cherbourg expedition. That enterprise,
doubtless, had more of political than mill
tary Importance, and would have yielded but
a small harvest of glory.
we notice a new medicine rather exten-
sively advertised in the newspapers. 1t is
called "The Emperor's Pill" and it promises
to do all that any pill ever did or can possi-
bly, do-tO "give power without reactiOn"-
" to give confidence to the timid and strength
"to the feeble.D "The debilitated all need it,
says the advertisement. Now, the Prussian
pills which the Emperor has lately been
taking do not seem to agree with His Majes-
ty; and we would therefore suggest the trans
mission to this gentleman in difficulties of
few boxes of the "Emperors Pill" A dose
of medicine, or the want of it, has sometimes
changed the whole course of historical events;
and who knows but these pills are precisely
what the Emperor needs "tO give power"
and to strengthen weakness
The Emperor of France has one enemy
more than he wots of, and that is the Rev.
Granville Moody, of Grace NJ. E. Church, New
port, Ohio. MIR. Moody has very distinct opin-
ions of the Bonaparte policy and so, a Sunday
or 80 since, he aired them unmistakably in his
prayer. He asked the Lord not to help g the
ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS Napoleon who
" strobe to arbitrary power over his broken
"vOws, and who is seeking the perpetuation
" OF his desPotism in the person of his son.
who Is also seeking the disintegration of
Protestant Prussia" Wherefore God was
besOught to put hook in the Imperial nose.'
May the smoke of his torment prayed Mr.
Moody, ascend from the battle fields of the
Rhine, and may his discontinue prove the
disaster of Poperyw About the disaster of
"POpery," we have only to say that recent
advices from Rome do not serve to show any
cordial feeling of His Holiness toward his
French champions. Perhaps the Rev. Mr..
Moody permits his Protestant preconceptions
to mislead him. but his political views, as ex-
pressed in his petition, atone for this tincture
of sectarian feeling. The Emperor is unques-
tionably ambitious He is equally "un-
scrupulous." He does "seek the perpetual
ton OF despotism in the person of his SON.
There Is no nose in Europe, in our opinion,
which so much needs hook as the somewhat
enormous proboscis of l.. N. b., and there is
no nose which will accommodate larger hook,
either. We may doubt the good taste of such
praying as MIR. MoOdy's, and we may say
Amen" to it, in spite of our doubt
Russell has at length been heard from.
lie has gone b the Seat of War via Kong
Kong and stopped a day or two in China. We
lind letter from him about "The Girl Mar
"ket" III Boston paper, which seems to have
engaged his services. We congratulate The