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The New York herald., 1871-01-01
The Movement ON Havre.

The recent operations of the German forces
in the neighborhood Of Rouen show that tho
capture Of Havre is contemplated. A few
days since our correspondent in that city fur
nished US with highly interesting account of
the battle of st. Roman, village but short
distance from Havre. The result of that
battle, while it secured for the Germans no
direct advantage, made them acquainted, in
a great measure with the force of the gar
rison of the city. That this knowledge will
be turned to account hereafter we feel satisfied.
During the early days of the present month a
force varying from forty-fve to sixty thou
sand men, well equipped but badly officered,
formed the garrison and were ready to defend
Havre. This force, or by far the greater
portion Of 1t, has since been drawn away, and
the defence of the city left in the hands of
an inefficient garrison-ineflcient because
limited in numbers and commanded by
inexperienced officers The events of the
past few days haYe shown that the
troops Of Havre not only can but will
fight. Late dispatches tell us that the
Germans are concentrating at the little
village of Bolbec, and that at Yvetet an
other force was also gathered. This, judging
from the past movements of thS Germans,
means an aggressive movement against the
seaport, and one which in all probability will
prove successful In the withdrawal of SO
large force as that moved away by General
BRAND we see a movement the wisdom Of
which is, to say the least, most question
able. With respectable force within the city,
provided that the defences to guard against
an attacking land force are in keeping with
the Notifications along the sea wall, the city
might be deemed impregnable against
German attack. As it is, we fear the garrison
has been 80 weakened by the withdrawal of
troops that the city stands in danger. The
occupancy Of Havre, however, would secure
to the Germans little beyond the stores in the
warehouses of the city. These, of course, are
considerable, provided they be not destroyed
when danger is at hand. The possession of
Havre would give them a seaport without the
advantages Of a seaport. The French cruisers
would effectually blockade the harbor and not
ship could enter. Hence supplies by sea
would be prevented. But Havre in the hands
Of the French, well guarded from attack from
land, would be Of the greatest advantage to
the republic. 1t could be made one Of the
great depots for supplies. When we think
that this important post has been weakened as
it is, we may well agree with the opinion of
our correspondent that the French troops are
badly Offered
The New York herald., 1871-01-01
TR Up l. Z SH EFT
New York, Sunday, January 1, 1871.
CONTENTS OF T0.DaY,S HERALD.

PAGE. 9~"~-0~'>eo'>NN~7~--
1-Adveriisements.
2-Advertisemenfs
S-ihe Secrets OF St Cloud: Imperial Documents
Kelating to the Present War In France The
Hohenzollern of the Spanish Crown; Mante-
nance OF french Honor; Sentiment IN France,
Empire Resolved on war; order TO Spread
Napoleon's Proclamation in Germany and
Swtzerland The Voice OF the TWO Countries:
Napoleon tneered on to His Ruin BY the
French People
1.-The War IN France-The Luxembourg oues.
tlon-Tne Eternal City: Causes which Led to
the Disturbances at the Natican-Germany:
Count Bismarck's sProccts-Mlscellaneous Fo-
reign ltems-Ship Property Ireland: Roman
Catnoic Sentiment Against Protestant Church
Disendowment-Botching the Bridge Business.
S-LiIe Upon Runners: Gliding Over Inc Sncw-
General Pleasanton a Banquet rendered and
Dechned-Moses II. Grinnell-Personal Notes
The firemens Holiday: Opening Of the Ly
ceum LDrary-The Tunnel "Frog"-The Eng
lIsh Stage-Muscal and Theatrical Notes
Blards-Finae OF the Gridley -Andrus Case.
6-EditorIals: Leading Article, 1.-The Dawn OF the
New Year"-Amusement Announcements.
7-Editorials continued from Sixth Pagel-
France: Opening OF the Bombardment OF
Feld-Europs: General Prm Recovering from
His neutrality-suspicious. Telegrams-New
Years Day What 1t Is and How II VIII be
Honored-yieys Of the Past-Presentation to
Superintendent kelso-The Republican Gen
eral committee Business Notices.
S-News from Cuba-The Tombs Scenes ana
Causes on the Jas last Day pay OF & the Year-EsgIous S W
TONS Orphans The Fair IS 1t Appeared Last
Nlght-The Commerce OF Detroit-A FrightfuI
Occurrence: Man Jumps INTO the Jaws OF
Death-New YORK Legislature-The Weather
at Mount Washington.
9-The Courts-0bituary NOTES.-The New Steam
ship Parthia Financial and CommercIal-The
Dry Goods Market-The Foundlings-The
Franklin Fund-Marrages and Deaths.
JO-Tne secrets OF st. Cloud Continued from Third
Pagel-News from Observation-Disclosures
Attack-Scrupulous Sabine-Shipping Intel.
gence-Adverusements.
11-Pater PatriG The Washington Monument: Its
History md Present Condition; Reasons Why
II Should Remain In It's Present Site: Offerings
OF States, Corporations, Societies, Schools, In
dvduals and Foreign NatIons-Jersey City
Finances-News from MeXlco-Arrest OF a
United States Express Robber-Philadelpha
Matters-Course OF Empire
12-The Fire Department: Record OF The Workings
During the Past Year-News from Japan
Brooklyn Water Board-Army and Naval In-
teigence-JournalisIic Notes-Book Note
Advertisements.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01
The Dawn Of New Year in Ireland.

The Dawn OF New Year in Ireland.
Our special correspondence by mail from
Ireland is dated in Dublin on the 14th OF
December The writer presents good cause
for the anticipation of the happy opening of
happy New Year for the inhabitants Of the
Green Isle. A very great, monster national
grievance, ceases to exist on this day, the 1st
of January, 1871. The disendowment of the
Protestant Church establishment by legisla-
tive enactment is completed this morning.
Tithing and 1.-THE gathering is obliterated and
conscience made completely free. Strange
to say, the prospect, as it is pictured by our
writer, is not pleasing for the future. ''The
curse is upon US, as was said by Moore, the
poet, in his day, for the Irish in Ireland still.
Land questions and landlord interests fresh
religious questions, as they are termed but very
appropriately, and new political combina-
tions, all loom up before the eyes of the states
men and public leaders. How is it Is Ire
land irreconcilable to England, or are the
Irish intractabe TO even the soothing. .fflflu-
ences of foreign rule? The questions are Of
interest to the world at large, but particularly
so to the Irish and their children in America.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

THE BENNETT MEDALS, which are intended
as testimonial to the member of the Fire
Department who shall have distinguished him
self by the most brave and worthy act within
the line of his fremans duty during the year,
were distributed at the opening of the Fire
mems Lyceum and Library on Wednesday last
The medal of 1869 was given to M. d. Tomp-
Company No. z, for the rescue of woman from
the fourth floor of the building No. 47S Broad
way, November IA, 1869. The medal of 1870
was presented to Benjamin A. Gicquel, fore
man Of Engine Company No. 8, who rescued
two women and two children from the burn
ing building No. 70 Montgomery street on the
night Of September 20, 1870.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

military skill the actual eruption Of the ORR
entail volcano usually styled the Eastern ques-
ton, and the sudden temperance Of Russia
as the ''cloud-compelling Jove,' who has
kindled the fame and is preparing to hurl the
thunderbolts that are to rend and overwhelm
the citadels of Mohammedan empire-lS70
rose to the dignity of an epoch-nay, Of an
era-remarkable and memorable to all pos
terity.
And what Of lS7l-the stranger just cross
ing the threshold of Time Present? Who
shall dare to answer so momentous an in
quiry? Is it to be the promised year-the
awful year that is utterly to dash in pieces
Those pagod things OF sabre sway,
With fronts Of brass and feet OF clay,
or is it to confirm the secret conspiracy Of
kings and kaisers, who, this day, amid the
smoke of bombarded cities and burning
homes, are plotting a compact of reaction
against the people and the peoples rights
wherever they seek refuge? All! we have
no fear of the worse answer. That Europe
shudders on the verge of vaster wars that
blood, devastation and mourning are to visit
wider boundaries there, ana that ihe wall of
millions more must yet ascend to heaven ere
the Spring be ripe is but too sadly evident a
truth but that the very excess of this agony
portends an early and complete deliverance
we are equally entitled to believe. There is
a rock of refuge left-a light shining steadily
and boldly out against the tempest-a stan
dard borne aloft, to which the nations turn
for encouragement and example. 1t is here,
on the soil of the great republic, in the
land of Washington. This is the
secret which the new year coming in may rem
der, ere we be aware, an active realization
rather than mere abstract faith. Men bound
in the torpor Of the past hesitate to think thus
but there are higher dispensations than those
Of man, and we are now to grappls with the
future. We may, indeed, then wish to all
happy, but would it be less worthy of the
hour to invoke glorious New Year, useful
beyond all precedent, to the spread of truth,
liberty and the peace and happiness of the
people? Such, we believe, will become the
exalted mission of 1871, and in that faith we
invite you this fair morning, gracious reader,
to hail with us ''the better time that is to be-
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

KING WILLIAM MAKING THE MosT OF LITTLE
VICTORIES. The German Kaiser is reduced
to the necessity of making great deal of
small victories II is not as it used to be in
the wonderfully successful battles at the OPEN
ing Of the war, when the imperial armies,
numbering hundreds of thousands, surren-
dered. II was something to telegraph Queen
Augusta of such astounding victories But
to telegraph that the small fort of Mcnt Avron
was taken and four men killed was coming
down to little affairs. In fact it looks as if
the French had leisurely evacuated Mont
Avron, for it is said they had removed their
guns. The Prince of Saxony reports that
when he entered the fort he found the works
deserted and the guns removed to Noisy.
Evidently the aspect Of the war is changed
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. annual
report of this Board will show that the re-
$2, 7S4, ,o49, out of which all but bal
ance now in the hands Of the City Cham
berlain of lite over fifty dollars has been
expended. From these expenditures the
teachers Of ward schools received l,679, 59l. j.
Teachers as a general rule are very poorly
paid for their arduous labors, and we should
ike to see larger item in that part of the
account, if pos ib,e. 1t appears that the
Normal College admitted over one thousand
pupils, all by competitive written examination,
ninety-seven Of whom graduated last July,
leaving now re ister,d on ihe roll eight hun
dTed and ff.y-ior pupils.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

Two NEW YEAR DAYs-As il was with
Christmas, SO we shall have with the New
Year-two days this time for its recognition !;
this day for the church services and the reli-
for its social receptions and hospitalities.
This division Of the honors is 50 appropriate
and acceptable that we almost wish it could be
made the established usage from year to year.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

THE New YEAR IN WAsHINGToN.-It is
given out that in consequence Of the recent
death of Mrs. Belknap, wife of the Secretary
Of War, and in respect to her memory, the
usual social New Year receptions at the White
House and at the residences of the several
members of the Cabinet, will not be held to-
morrow. This is right and proper; but it will
cut off the best half of the Washington New
Year celebration--the official forenoon. de-
voted by citizens and strangers, officials and
non-oficials, and especially by the ladies, to a
round of calls, upon the President, the mem
bers of bis Cabinet, foreign Ministers, members
Of Congress- &c. We presume, however, that
the hospitaities of the day among the citizens
Of Washington generally will not be suspended
or abated.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

A GOVERNMENT STEAMER MISSING. -Four
months ago the United States steamer Sara
nae left the Sandwich Islands for the newly
discovered Midway Islands, some two thou
sand miles distant, in the track of the Cali
fornia and China steamers. Since her de-
parture from Honolulu nothing has been heard
from her, and great anxiety is felt concerning
her fate. The mail steamer Japan, which
sailed from San Francisco for China yester-
day, has orders to search for the Saranac, or to
sscertain what has become of here
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

A WA2SING IN REGARD TO SUSPENSION
BRIDGEs-In the fire the other day al the
west end of the suspension bridge over the
Allegheny river at Franklin, Pa, whereby
the flames were communicated to the bridge
and the cables, soon becoming red hot, parted
from their anchorage, precipitating the bridge
into the river
The New York herald., 1871-01-01
TIE War in France-Thc Boriburt,nen:
Commenced.

Commenced.
The bombardment of Paris has actually
begun bat it does not, so far, seem to have
been so fearful a visitation as the world gene
rally seems to have expected. 1t was the
popular impression that solid iron shot and
bursting shell would be poured upon the
heads of the devoted Parisians as they fell
upon the Strasbourgers and in our war upon
the people of Petersburg and Vicksburg So
far one or two solitary shells have been
projected as far as the suburbs
of Villette and Belevlle, mere out
skirts of the city, barely inside the encsinte
or inner line Of works, and no more Paris
proper than Hoboken is New York Indeed,
boiler explosion in Williamsburg is vista
tion of more fearful import to the citizens of
Fifth avenue than the German bombardment
of Belleville or Viilette is to the Frenchmen on
the inner boulevards. Our special despatch
states that the Germans intend to throw shells
steadily into these suburbs and also into the
Faubourg st. Antoine. The latter is fairly
? part of the city prope.. 1t is
the quarter where the rabbe live,
the people of the lower classes,
those fierce fighting moblots who tore down
the Bastile years ago, overthrow the dynasties
of Louis XVI. and beheaded him and his
queen, Marie Antoinette petted the guillo-
tine and frightened the leaders of the revola-
ton of 1892 into the strict and rigid perform
ance of those fearful orgies Of blood that gave
the revolution the name of "The Reign of
Terror" st. Antoine is eminently the most
desirable part of Paris TO shell, but it is yet
doubtful if the Prussian guns can reach
even so far into the city. The side upon
which the bombardment has commenced
is that side upon which the Germans, by their
heavy assault recently, secured Fort Mont
Avron and proportionately advanced their
lines of investment. They are therefore most
probably nearer Paris on that side than upon
any other, and if they can scarcely reach the
edges of the city proper from their advanced
positions ii is not probable that the more mag
niiicent quarters on the south and west,
or the grand palaces and churches
and bouleyards nearer the centre need
apprehend any serious hail of iron.
The bombardment at the present stage is the
merest faSco, and serves rather to disclose the
futility Of Prussian threats than TO frighen the
people of Paris into surrender. An average
citizen in the Faubourg St. Antoine can very
easily sleep all through it. What the bonn
bardmoat may become hereafter depends on
the success of the attack which the Prussians
contemplate making on the heavy forts in the
outer line Of defences.
The main feature of the war news outside
Paris at present is the indignant uprising of
the people against the extortions practised
upon them by the Prussian troops garrisoning
the captured towns. A national war, wherein
the citizens aud priests, and even the women
and children take up arms in stealth and
secrecy against an enemy, is horrible thing,
but it has been known before in France, and
the spirit of La Vendce still thoroughly per-
vades her people.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

LET Our New YEAR be welcomed with
thanksgiving, prayer and praise to-day, and
with becoming social festivities, visits and
welcomes tomorrow, not forgetting the noise
less little Offices Of honest charity.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

MASSACHUSETTS MANUFACTURES flourish in
spite of the slringency OF the money market
and general depression of business. Tie
closing of the past six months accounts Of the
Lowell cotton mills shows better condition
than was anticipated even by the most san
fuine
The New York herald., 1871-01-01
The Street Car Homicide i'm Brooklyn.

The Street Car Homicide in Brooklyn.
A most righteous verdict was that rendered
by the Coroner's jury in the case of the killing
Of the rowdy, John Rourke, who was shot in
a street car by Mr.. Hall several nights ago in
Brooklyn. The jury declared the homicide
justifiable, and the accused was discharged.
The facts are fresh in the public memory and
need not be recited The facts are simply
that gang of ruffians, who had some pique
against the young man Hall, lay in wait for
him near one of the Brooklyn ferries and pur-
sued him into street car, where they beat
him most brutally, and would probably have
killed him had he not been fortunate enough
to have pistol about him, which, in the ex-
tremity Of his agony-as he lay on the floor of
the car, bruised and beaten by six ruffians-he
discharged, and killed one of his assailants.
What verdict could the jury find than justi-
fable homicide under such circumstances
The result ought to be a warning to the rowdy
classes that they must take the consequences
on the spot when they make an assault upon
man, endangering his life, and that the law
will not protect them nor avenge them when
they suffer for their evil doings.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

THE PRUssIAN SIEGE GUNS, it is reported,
have been throwing their shells from dis
tance of seven thousand yards, or four miles,
into Paris. This is no great achievement ;
for General Gilmore, from the island below
Fort Sumter, during our late Southern rebel
lion, almost destroyed with his shells the
lower portion of Charleston, at distance
from his batteries Of six miles.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

GENERAL PLEAsoNToN.- will be seen in
another part Of the paper, General Pleasonton
has declined the entertainment rendered lin
by the officers Of the Thirty-sccond Internal
Revenue district He will assume tbe duties
of Commissioner of Internal Revenue on
Tuesday next
The New York herald., 1871-01-01
Report of the Com missioners of Charities
and Correction.

and Correction.
This Board in their forthcoming annual re-
port will make favorable statement of their
labors for the relief Of the poor, the unfortunate
and the criminal of the community who are
entrusted to their care. The Commissioners
have charge OF no less than twenty-one insti-
tutons-a pretty heavy charge for one board
to look after, considering that it includes the
City Prison, the Penitentiary and other penal
establishments, as well as the hospitals,
orphan asylums, lunatic asylums chiIdren's
schools and many other retreats for the sick,
the pauper and the criminal. They report
that all these establishments contain in the
aggregate over seven thousand inmates. For
the support of these Institutions in the year
1871 it is estimated that the sum of one million
four hundred thousand dollars will be required,
the expenditures of the present year being
some two hundred thousand dollars less than
this amount. The Commissioners under the
new regime have been very active in The per-
formance Of their duties, and, according to
their own statements, the institutions under
their care are in very healthy condition.
They demand a large amount for the expen-
ditures of the coming year. and it will be
expected that they shall be as economical in
its disbursement as may be consistent with
the conscientious performance of their multi
farous duties.
One institution in charge of this Board is the
schoolship Mercury, where vagrant boys are
trained to seamanship. We are glad to see
that the young tars have been sent into practi-
cal service on the ocean. The Mercury, with
her juvenile crew, sailed about two weeks ago
on voyage to the mouth of the Amazon, from
which she will proceed to the coast Of Africa,
making cruise altogether of about six months.
This will give the young nautical students a
good idea of life before the mast, and may
probably make good sailors Ga much needed
commodity out of many of them.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

THE RIGHT KIND OF RECONSTRUCTION
During the last year the manufactures OF
Richmond, Va, increased five million dollars
over those Of 1869.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

THIS DAY One SHORT YEAR AGO Napoleon,
the Napoleonic empire, France and Paris were
In all their glory. Where are they now? And
what high and mirhty ruler, capital or nation
comes next? Ii the interval to next New
Year, perhaps, this question may be answered
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

THE MAN WHO WOULD Nor BE INTER,
yIEwED.-The Rev. Mr.. Sabine declined to
crafty the appetite Of the public in the matter
of the funeral of the late George Holland. He
prefers to be silent and keep his own counsel,
thinking that the public have nothing to do
with his conscientious views upon this or any
other question regarding the discipline Of his
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

GLOBE THEATRE. rs Broadway.-vAR1rry ENTER.
TAINMENT, &c Matinee al =
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. Twen,yfourth street,
SARATOGA Matinee at g
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, corner sosh st-Perform.
ances every afternoon evening.
The New York herald., 1871-01-01
Axu0xsxTs ru-9uaauw AFTERNOON AND EVENING,

OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-THs PANroAIxr OF
WEI WILLIE WrNKIr
The New York herald., 1871-01-01

BowERy THhATRE, Bowery.-HEART OF 0oLD-OUR
WIFE-PRoTRUs fRRsoNIrIED, DO Matinee at ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-10-14
A western Corn Grower

found near Grinnell, Ia, the man i have
long been looking fOr-he who grows nearly or
quite one hundred bushels of shellei Indian
corn per acre on a large area year after wear.
His name is Wallace Clark, and he has grown
corn Tor the last tive years SUCCESSFULLY on the
zane hundred acres on which / found not less
than nine thousand bushels fully ripe whereof
enough had been gathered to determine the
average yield. OF course, Mr.. Clark sells little
of Il a. grain, but turns il into pork and beef
and 30 keeps up the fertility Of his soil He in,
formed me that, BY blowing each year an inch
deeper than the preceding, he cotld, in his black
prairie mold, averaging more than two feet Deep
maintain the yield of corn without manure
which he mainly applied to his grass. He had
had thlrty-three acres planted in day BY one
man, running planter that planted two rows at
once, and having change of teams i under
stood him TO say that he had les acres planted.
titled, and harvested by one man, using two
spans of horses alternately. On reflection. be-
heye the man did not gather all this crop, though
a. the harvesting may continue from sometime
IN August, when the grain is in the milk To near
the end of winter, that would not have been inn
possible. Swine pastured on clover through
spring and early summer, have corn cut I'D and
thrown TO them a. soon as the ears have filled
and henceforth till they are ripe for market
Many farmers feed 20 long as they have corn 70
spare, thus converting their greats entirely
into beef and pork, 80 that IL will bear transpor.
tation TO distant markets--HOrace Greeley.