The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1871, Page 9

Ail able writer, & well known ‘novelist, himself ® man of sclence, feeling the force of Darwin, 4mplores his brother clergymen not to be led ‘Bway too easily from the old paths, and pointedly warns them that before giving up the old Book with its old and beautiful story, they should ask the men of science what makes tho ‘‘vibra- tions vibrate”’—what gives ‘‘physis” to the *fnnate tendencies” of the units—what puis “4nfinite order into the gemmules in place of infinite anarchy?” Judge Edmonds, of New York, represeniing many thousands who, having let go the old anchor, find themselvos at sea, tells us of a new religion and a new souroe of spiritual joy which he and his friends have discovered by means of taking imperti- nent liberties with the names of tho departed. On the whole, we are quite as much inclined to go in for Darwin and his tadpole as for Judge Edmonds and his ccatatic joys or delirium tremens. It is not our business to calm the troubled waters. It fs not for us to say how this chaos isto be shaped into another cosmos, Oar duty is to reflect the thoughts of the hour, When men of science are making discoveries, yet groping in the dark; when diviaes can do no beiter than make apologies and implore a suspension of judgment; when the temporali- ties of the Holy Father are scarcely more in danger than is the Christian religion itself, it is not for us to speak positively. This, how- ever, we will say—we do not despair, We shall continue to reflect the religious senti- ments of the times, In the long run the trith will prevail, and, unless we greatly mistake, it will be found that the “‘old pathways’ were at once wise and good. Iusidions’ Ivfidelity. The Church of God in all agea, whether Jewish or Christian, has had to contend against infidelity and scepticism in some form, but it has nevertheless prospered and outlived theassaults of many of the ablest thinkers and doubters of our race. It is not to be sup- posed that the Bible, which Christians accept as a revelation from God, wiil be so accepted by all men, nor that the doctrines which it teaches and the moral precepts and spiritual life which it enforces will be believed or, obeyed by all. Hence the necessity for the Church at all times to be ready to “give a rea- son to every man that asketh for the hope that is in us.” But the Church has not been always thus ready, and infidelity has some- times taken it unawares and by its criticisms and objections gained what seemed to be a victory. This was especially the case in the last and beginning of tne present century, when such men as Rousseau, Voltaire, Hume, Paine and others so tore and rent the sacred oracles that it seemed to many good Christians as if the foundations were being thrown down, and they wondered what the righteous would do. But they had not to wait long. The very ohjec- tioas raised against the Bible, and against the systems of relision based upon its divinity, awakened the Christian world to examine and re-exunine the evidecges upon which they rest, and the result was such an overwhelming refutation of the upponents’ arguinents as to silence for a time, if not forever, the bold and blatant deaunciations of Christianity by this class of infidels, Aud even some of those leaders named have left records behind which prove that they wrote, not as they thought, but as they hoped; or else that, after they had written against the Word, they had become convinced of its inspiration and truth, But infidelity did not die with those men, It lives to~day, a3 strong and more active than ever; and because it ia apparently meek and quiet it isthe more dangerous, It lives now rather within the Church than outside of it, It is insinvating rather than outspoken. It comes now as an anxious inquirer after truth, rather than as a fearless, brazen, unbelioving erific, and we can hardly refase to answer it, “Who is the Lord,” it asks, ‘“ihat we should save Him?” ‘“Wuere is born the King of the Jews, that we may come and worship Him also?” And the Christian Church must declare its knowledge of God, and state the nearer the beginning. And to emphasize the time Moses further declares that ‘‘the Earth was then without form and void ;" so that no human intellect can conceive, much less calculate, the probable distance of time between the creation and the present. But the inquirer hies him in imagination to some monntain top, and then waits for six revolu- tions of the Earth to bring forth the porfection and the beauty of creation which we now behold, forgetting at the same time that Moses declares the Earth to have existed without form, and, therefore, before it revolved at all. And chemistry shows us how it assumed its form by revolving around a central body, so that ‘God must be true though every man be a liar,” : The six days’ acts of creation, as generally understood, will, in this light, appear to be supplemental to the one grand Word of God, by which, through faith, we understand the worlds were framed and were absolutely ne- cessary to give form to that which had uone, and light and life and beauty to that which was void and dark, Asin the ancient days the world by wisdom knew not God, even so now do men—leaving the: inspired revelation, itself its own bost interpreter—wander off among the fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than godly cdifying, and are lost in the mists and wyths of ayes. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, Instead of approaching the sacred records with a sincere desire after the trath, they glance at it hastily aad reject it, or examine it only to criticise its grammar, its chronology or history, or its casual and in- cidental statements, as if they were the most complete details; and, having grouped their objections together and presented them to weak-minded persons, they overthrow thie faith of some. But the Word of God standeth sure, and that Word is written on the stars and on ‘the rocks as wellasin the Bible, dnd will re- main unshaken when the last infidel shall bave uttered his last objection, Our Religious Press Sable. grounds of ils faith inthe Lord Jesus Cirist. The great stumbling block now, however, is not the existence or personality of the Creator, or the divinity of the Saviour, but the Mosaic Listory of the creation. And tho infidel, as an anxious inquirer after truth, wants to know how God, being omnipotent, became fatigued with the work of creation and had to rest. Or why He, being able without any exertion of power, but merely by the operation of His will, should be compelled to accomplish a eeries of acts instead of creating the whole at once, But in these questions our critical ia- quirer tells much more of the state of his own mind than he expecis, He is puzzled here by a word of four letters, as many others have bee Defore him and-wiil be in the years to come. Toil and rest are set over against each other because the on? is the counterpart of ‘the other. But it is well known that rest does not always succeed labor, Men who never work at all rest as well as those who do; and to suppose (hat they rest because they are fatigued is hardly reasonable or logical. There is a rest which comes to men who have finished their task, and this is the rest which the Oveator took. “Aud on the seventh day Goa ended his work which He had mide; and He rested on the soventh day from all His work which He had made.” But infidelity is troubled, also, about tho time that God began to work and finished, and it {akes the Mosaic record and treats it as Vif it must be a detailed history of creatios, Just as Macaulay's history of England or Bin- crofl’s of the United States fs. There was manitestly no such idea in the writer's mind, sand the record ig the barest staton fact which stands patent to all men. The s@orign of the divine revelation is exprests4 at of a | The Lenten season ends next Sabbath, The present Leut has been a season of unusual grace. We gather from our religious ex- changes that revivals have prevalied all over the country, and that the granary of godli- ness has been well supplied. At the same time we are compelled to stata that the religious press has been lapsing ia the work of Christian evangelization. The Evangelist, for instance, leads off in what it calls the ‘‘Old, Old Story,” and remarks that “Paris is sti!l in a state of anarchy,” but stops to say a word about the “sop to the Baptists,” upon which topic the Heangelist dilates a3 as follows :— The acceptance of a gift of land from this city toa Charitable tustitation under the patronage of the Baptists has calied out many strong expressions 02 disapprobation, Even the members of that de- nomination are not agreed among themselves, The Baptists of this city are condenmued by thor brethren elsewhere, Tous the Watehman and Re Jecor of Rostou mourus over it as an epostacy to ‘Baptist principles. At the head of iis etlitorial col- unas, aud in double lead@l type, it places, wader the waralng title, “It Is Not Loo Late,” whieh of itself sounis like a call to repentance, ar strance which reads like a Jamentation of Jer the prophet. The Jeremiah on this occasion will certainly not b» Boss” Tweed, who not only gives to the Baptist, but to the Catholic, the Metho- dist, the Episcopal, the Universalist, the Swe- denborzian, all and all alike, If such an order were in existence in this city, as it once was in the ofl rezions, no doubt he should be in favor of a donation for the benefit of the “Church of the Holy Derrick.” One of ovr Hebrew contemporaries com- plains of our not noticing its: editorials, We do not plead ignorance of the Hebrew lan- guage; bat suppose the editor we refer (o puts his lucubrations in Greek, or “heathen Chinee,” or in Chociaw, or Pottawattamic, or in any language familiar to the common reader? How pleasant it would then be to teld the world how our friends the Israelites are advancing in the line of human and modern progress ! Tho Jewish Messenger has an article on the “Jow in Self-Defence,” and refers to a paper in the April Adlantic entitled ‘Castilian Days.” The Messenger damages its logic and spoils its grammar by the remark, ‘Such thoughtless expressions as this.” Where is Artemus Ward? or “why is this thus?” The AMbssenger refers to the Passover—the festival in commemoration of Israel's emancipation from Exypiian slavery-——which commences on Wednesday evening next, The Independent is very large, and has a word to say to the republican party, and comes to the conclusion that that pariy cannot live by mutual admiration. ‘To quote its own words:— The fact 13 not to be concealed that republicans cannot live by sel-gratulations, or simply on the credit of past success, They are confronted by a compact, desperate and weil organized minority, wate all their mistakes, ready to take adyan- tage of them, aad hoping to gatu possession of the goverament Ot the next Presidental ciection, The triumph of this minority, thougu noi probable, is very lar from belag impossivie. The Observer (Presbyterian organ) enlarges ‘ on Father Hyaciutho’s letter directed to the “Cotholic Bishops thronghout the * World.” Abont the Father the Observer says:— Father Hyactnthe claims his rignt as a Catholic Christian, having regard for Vie diguaity of his taita As Weil as the honesty of his priesuy profe Interrogaie the bishops, and he says they are “pound to answer without reliceuve or sabteriuge.’? it 4 will get nowiher gaswer, Hi ting the rerlorn hope of hw Absviute ecclemastival sysiont wad Uh yor the human aind ant conscience, He ait patiently, #8 Waa recommeaded by the y of Parid in the last ours ot the Conner he assured copviction that a tow of ti a Which will eventusliy sweep away uacils and they blasphemous dogmas, Suint Peter (Romain © lie napor of the highest clas") news fis Taplorations about recogrizing (he 17it wait with tile 14 comin aul 0 7ih of June—a Cathol’é aun’ vorsary 43 wel! as the anniversary of the ba tle of Bunker Lill, Sainé Peter pronounces THorace Greeley ‘‘an unnitigated red jatidel,” to which thé white-coat philosopher may pos- sibly and very caracteristically reply, ‘You by the Apostle:—"It is proiityble — fer “Aoctrine, for reproof, fF “Correctiogs for instruction ia righteousnoss that tn. man of God may bo perfuct, thor. lie! you villain, you lie!” The Gulden Age this week might b> called the “Leaden Ave,” It is so heavy aad dull, It oughly furnished (aot in astronomy, geology, \chomiatry, or any other physical science) but ‘unto all good works,” Neverthelass the invose ‘tigations of thoge sciences agree with the reve- lation as far as they have gone, though they have not yot reached its utmost bound, Moses tates the fact that “in the beginning God orcated the Heaven and tho Barth,” and while eclence must acknowledge the fact of creation {i cannot even Teinotely conjecture when ‘ihe boginning” was, and it may muitiply its mil- lions by myriads of year aud yet not be! Ya, however, & first of April number, oy Liberal Christian is tae organ of the ai e. Rev, Henry W. Bellows bas just ia lariat, +45, Mr, Bellows Is among the come itseM. arian divines, Dr, Dowey ablest of our Um Se pulpit, bat Bellows was his superior im w w. Brains, how- might eclipse him as an of, m. The ever, will teil, and Bellows ha. sper, and Liberal Christian is a well printad be. circulites largely mong Unitariavas, i The Jewish nes as hooked a spdsire from the Middic Ages.” Are thore aot enoigy | a Is. there uot «| prey Specirea in our own age? “skeleton at every feast?” Our Jewish con- temporary enunciates:— A few isolated cases of conversion of Jews to Chrisuanity are falling out, and instead Onoristians fare embracing Judaism. In Anstria alone nearly & hundred conversions to Judaism were recorded last Year. Of course there 1s no effort made on the part of the Jews to make converts, Proselytuzing has never been thelr principle, aad it requires a strong moat incentive aud force to Induce @ man to jola the brotherhood of @ denomination 40 long under tie ban of contempt and yet suffering under a mountain load 0 prejudice, The New York Z'ablet (Roman Catholic organ) descantg upon the insurrection in Paris, and declares :— The wretched mob of Parlz are, like Victor #m- manuel and his myrmidons, but the puppets of the Italian Carbonari and the Frenen reds. The Paris msu:rection is a lesson that ought tomake men wise, ‘That it may have that eflect should be the prayer of all who jove justice and hate iniquity, Our religious contemporaries abroad men; tion bopeful revivals in various commuuities. The good work is spreading. Lot it extend. Tue Imports for the past weck at this port reached nearly twelve millions of dollars, The exact figares are, $11,980,286, Judge Edmonds on Spirit Judge Edmonds on spiritual manifestations grows more wonderful from year to year, At the Spiritualist Convention at Apollo Hall on Friday last his revelations were truly astound. ing. The spiritual rappings, he says, have gone out, which is good news, and now Spiritu- alism appeals to our hearts and our intellects, The condition ia the spirit life of Spiritualism he deseribes as perfectly glorions, “Oh,” ho exclaims, “liat you could behold that scene! Jis brilliant, yet mellow; ifs dazzling, but grateful light; its atmosphere of love, on which the high and holy spirits float, and the happiness which fills every heart with love and gratitude to God.” This is Judge Ed- monds’ religion, und in his enthusiasm he is hardly excelled by the early Christian martyrs, His rhapsodies are not of this world, but of the world invisible to mortal eyes, and what he sees Is positively stunning, We are told that in the delirium tremens the party offlicted sees, and sees distinctly, all sorts of the most horrible things ali around him. Gan it be that there is another morbid, or supernatural condi- tion of the human mind in which the party so favored sees ali sorts of the most beautiful things in the world of spirits? It must be so. Bat how are wo to account for such thins (are the doad to rest in their graves?) as the communication in writing from the spirit of James T. Brady to Judge Edmonds, read by the latter to his Spiritualist meeting ? We don’t know. Mow are we to account for the mystety that in all these spiritual revelations from dead men we have nothing new and nothing of any value ; NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1871.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. hc wierd Herald ‘special Report Via Havana. Opposition to Jnarez—Civil War or Impeachment. ernennnnapnnninn ‘The New Cabinet---Congros- sional Proceedings. Critical Condition of Affairs in the Interior. TELEORAM TO THE NEW YORX HERALD. Crry oF Mrxi00, March 25, Via Havana, Mareh 31, 1871. The two parties combined against the re- election of Juarez are willing to prevent it either by impeachmont or civil war, Nothing has yet beon done in the maiter of impeach- ment.” The press of the capital is daily dis- cussing the critical condition of the country, and civil war is generally predicted. Pending the discussions by Congress of tho Tenure of Office bill a new bill has been introduced to control the appoiutment of Cabinet Minis- ters. The new Juarez Cabiact is as fol- lows :— feflor Ignacio Mariscal, Secretary Foreign Relations. Sefor Savedra, -Seeretary State, Seflor Castillo, erelary Justice, Seflor Velaseo. . ‘etary Government. Seflor Romero, Secretary Treasury. Sefor Ignacio Mejia Secretary Wareand Marine, Seilor Balcarcel.. Secretary Interior, The first three nomed are new members, It ig rumored that Sefior Romero. will ulti- mately go to Washington as Minister and re- turn, Sefior Mariscal is anxiously expected on the 23d. ‘ The Electoral Liberty bill has passed Con- gress, the parties combined against Juarez Negrete pub- lished a card denounciag any union of interest with Lerdo, Affairs in Jalisco are critical. General Guadarrama sustains the Governor appointed by the Legislature, who is also sanctioned by working together as before. no light upon any unsettled question; nothing | Ju*re% while the majority of Coagress sus- but trash and twaddle? We cannot tell. The spirits of the great departed in their confl- dences with these Spiritualists in the body, wo do know, have never told us of any importaat event in human affairs until we bayve had the news by telegraph, by mail or by some man escaped from the spirits in a shipwreck, or from the savages in s9mo general massacre, This is what bothers us and leads us always to the same conclusion—that Spirfuslism, so- called, is a convincing hallucination or a transparent feaud—a disease or an imposture, Upoa this theory only of a convincing hallu- cination can we reconetle the Sy Judge Edmonds with his admirable character as a learned, intellizent, clear-headed and honest man. But can Judge Eidmonds tell whether Dr. Livingstone is dead or alive? No; not till he hears through the HreraLp from the living Professor Murchison, Tue Fisnery Question 1N THe Dominion | coastwise trade, PantiaMent.—In the House of Commons at Ottawa yesterday Dr, Tupper moved to take up certain resolations jroviding for certain amend- ments to the Dominion Fishery law ageinst Yankee interlopers, the special object being to authorize the Dominion police of its Atlantic coast to take intrading Yankee fishing vessels captured into some other than the nearest port, Mr. Holton thought it injadicious to meddle with this busioess whils it is under considera- tion of the Joint High Commission; but Dr. Tapper prevailed, and his bill was brought forward and read the first time. Those Cana- Van provingials wis it to be undorstood that the Joint Mich Commission must mind their p’s and q's on this colisi qaeation, or that the Ottawa Parliament will upset the whole busi- ness, and we hasten to lay this important information before the High Joint diplomats in view of its immediate consideratign, with the wine and walnuts, at thelr next regular Lenten dint is Ku Kvcxxs in Mississirrt.—A_ significant comment upon the recent denial by several Congresamen of the existence of bands of armed masked marauders in the South is the message yesterd sy of Governor Alcorn to the Lezisiature of Mississippi, asking authority to | Governor ¢ organize and call into the field a regiment of cavalry for operating against the Govern Alcorn is a very tive republican, informed President Grant that the 3 ate authorities were amply sufficient to preserve order aud execute the laws anywhere in Mis- sissippi. The necessity for resorting to such extraordinary measures as are proposed by the Governor shows the exist nce & most melancholy state of aff and that the ordinary powers of the government are insal- ficent to ssenre peace and protect citizeas in al conservas Oa, the enjoyment of law Person Intelligeie.. tary Bontwell, after being envelope t in the ad, Ch { atmosphere of the “Hab,” ts fast sweets of Gotham at tne Fifth Ave ~ Getors! James 5. Neglsy is at toe St, Nicholas : Juige J, M. Tibbits, wv W gion, in the city upon business connect sd with the afaira of the Southera Pactic Railroad, is stopping at Ue Nicholas. Marquis Ch guests at the Homan House, ficney Gad, who is from Porto Rico, and has ceased for a time “gadding’ abour tic world, 13 at the Fith Avenue, General P. 8, Stoerton, of New Jersey, ant O. He Hoyt and J. ©. Mevoy, United States Aruny, ace fate arrivals at the St, James. Among the most prominent of the sojourners at the Horan House tare General MH. A. Barnum, of Syracuse; Colonel W. He nolds, of Providence, Ry hy and J. A. Van Antwerp, of Albany. Cownels S A. Bauraiam, of Metmond, Va, and PB J. Meroney, of Novih Carolina; Major J. © Rainey, is among the , " of New Origuns, and Judges 0. J, Wilson, of Onto, } auiP,d. Avery, of Sew York, are stopping at the Uraad Central. ‘Tho Fifta Avenue is temporarily the tenement of | ry, of Sydney, + Jacob Hotaer, of Cincinnath; J. 8. vstratia; J. C. Walkeley, of Connecticut; J. H. Hume 4, of Albany, aud Charies blair, of Obie, and a short time since | ost, and the I tain Gomez Cuerro. Both have troops and a conflict is hourly expected. The government controls the telegraph anil water news from that district. Consequently we may bo with- out information from that quarier for somo time, The birthday of Juarez occurred on the 21st inst. It was celebrated by a banquet and great display of Mexican, American and G: man bunting. The election of Romero for Governor of itualismof | Puebla will be contested, he being a Lerdo partisan, The Mexican authorities refuse to surrender the murderers of Americans in Arizona, A decree has been issued making the Bay of Magdalena a port of entry for forefn and » Abraham Plata and Juan Garcia, formerly liberal officers, have been sentenced to im- prisonment in the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, Mr. Schlosser, the Prussian Minister, leaves by the next Brilish steamer for Berlin, where, it is said, he will receive instructions and return to Washington a3 Minister of the Ger- » in place of Baron Gerolt, man empil Tho Moexiean Conar: n Deadork~The Scheme of the FuriovistaeThe Jalisco Qvarrel--Arvival of the May Fiower at Veva Cruz, Crvy oF Mexico, March 24, via HAVANA, April i, 1871. an Congress is a deadiock. The oppos!- jority of twelve, but are unable to accomplish thefr aim, because the Juarez deputies leaye the hall and prevent the necessary quorum, ‘The forcible attendance of the members is prohibited by the constituuion, The scheme of tae fuuentsts has been partly de- feated and the chances of Jusrez are consequenuy strengthened. General Negrete repudiates the fu- sionists, Several of the Diaz clubs will also proba- bly Join Juarez. The attempt of the fusioniata to send the army from ‘he capital revnited im the army adhering to Suarez unavimousty, The Jalisco quarrel is unimportant. The Corona government goneraily favors the Legisiature, Ex- aerroo ron away tothe captai after an armed encounter between both factions, Cuerro The Me tioa have a Ku Kinxes. | has petitioned Congress to pass & law withdrawing the ps. The Presilent’s birthday was" cele peror William's on cau fags were displayed. ywov arcive! at Vera Craz males to Une first reading a bill the batiot by Uhirty-four German and Any The man-ol-war May on the 20th from Coats Congress has passe: tranting freedom of i | Olio Tver, ab Mevall’s majorily. FEARPUL DISiSTER LV Oma, on of an Diwithry Boiler ln Brown ty—six Persons Killed and Seven Se Injured Efivets of a Dranken Boat. ati, April 1, 1871. ‘5 distillery, on tie landing, Boown county, exploded ye Isy, great Kuling six perac two of Whom have se. Tue botter tn Urtah Net Unio, i. sand wounding se uled, ‘ine } buudisg and i | nine others, killed averJoln Mccoy, Jn, & member of the fim, fie fiamilton, @nio; D. R. Severs, R. A. Junes+ Lite, GC. Pownal, & D gon, ii, J. Kimualt. The wounded, yet live dergon, severely scalded; C. Ro ly hurt im the aodomen; J. R. Pollard, hip : 3. Elia, ghuly scalded; L. Watson, jefe tuigh broken; J. Unity, aevevely bart; W. Knox, serfously liart, ‘he loss on the buiiding is about | $15,000, he cause of the disaster ts not ascertained, Among the rumors 13 o4e Uiat a nw r of hands have been in @ dranken staie for two days. Tho distillery had been runing doy aud night, Suaday excepted. WILLIAMSBUNG FERTY REFORM. Organizations for the parpose of taking concerted action in favor of cheap fe rlage and quick trausit between Williamsburg and New York are betng per- ; fected in the different w Brooklyn, ue Fiiteeath already thoroughly organ * ; jug HEXtA Mass meeting at Tura Hell, ta calied for, and a gr atdejnopsiration 1s 2 call for the meeting ts surned bye rer el Kelvideisel, Siguuund Kousmaun aud other pe meat citizens. domaging the | THE FRENCH ANARCHY. Insurgent Apprehensions of an Attack on Paris. Loyal Officers Arrested and | Tfeld as Hostages. wtwnneenrnm Officers of the Communal Coun- cil Elected. MANY STREETS OF PARIS DESERTED. A Note from Bismarck on Insurrection. the Thiers Asked to State When It Can be Suppressed, Conflicting Reports of Troops and Insur- gents Draternizing. THE ROUGE REPUBLIC. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD Prepweing for an Attack—More Frateraizz- tion of Soldiers and Insurgeuts—The Rouse Acwivistration~Election of Ofiicers for the National Guards Offivers of the Commu Bismurck and the Parts Garricou—The Red Flas—ochefort Recovered—The Postal Sere viceMiscellanvous Luteligence. Loypon, April J, 1871. Ihave received the following tntelligence from Paris aud Versailles, dated yesterday, and torward the same for publication fn the New Yore HeEnap:— ; PREPARING FOR AN ATTACK. Arumor "aving arisen that a body of troops in- tended for an attack ou Parts had reached Neuiliy and St, Cloud, all the western gates of Paria were closed, and»several officers of the orderly Eighth battulion of the National Guard were arrested, ‘The compiete isolation of Paris is momentarily expected, MORE FRATERNIZATION, “A special despatch from Paris to the London Tele- greph says the Thiricenth regiment of the line, alter reconnoitring the bridge at Sevres and fading it deserted, entered Paris In a body, where they were received entiusiastically, and frateruized with the National Guards, Fugitives trom Paris are tne creasing in numbers, “ THE ADMINISTRATION—EPUCATION COMPULSORY. Ten commissions have beea appointed by the Commune w take charge of affairs, as foliows:— Executive, Military Subsistence, Financial, Justice, Puoile Security, Works, Trade, Public Service, Foreign Affairs and Education, Tt has been deci that education shall be gratuitous, compuisury aad entirely secuiar, ELECTIONS FOR OFFICERS OF TNE NATIONALS, A Gespateh from Paris says the Sut-Ceutral Com- mlttee has ordered new elections for military oMl- cers, at tho same ume remindkng the Natloual Guards that they have the rigat to remove all officers in whom they have lost confidence. The Commune has sclzed al the offices for the collection of taxes. OFFICERS OF THE COMMUNE, At ao silting of the Commune yesterday M, Le “Franyais wasappoinied President; M. Kigault Ferray, -y, aad MM, Bergeret and Dava!, Judges. VOMMUNICATION ESTABLISHED, plde communication has been established between the Minisiry, tue mairies and the public buildings general 1 M. Delescluze has demanded that the sittincs of the Commune be made public. The proposition is approved by the Rappel aud other journala. BISMARCK AND THE PAWS GARRISON, Tho Mot WOrdre saya that M. Bistaarck has con- se ried to the modification of article three of the imiaaries Of poace, and allowed the angmentation of we Paris army to eiguty thousand inen, A PRUDENT REFUSAL. The Commune has summoned Colonel Cholleton, who surrendered Fort Mont Vaterien to the Pius. sana, lo appear for trial, bué he refuses to obey tha ovder, LICITY DEMANDED, ror The Comminne has det sentatives to the various States of Eusope, and es- pectally to Prussia, as soon as their future attitude 18s knowl. EMBA, ermine 4. io despaten repre- THE RED FLAG. The flag of the Commune wil be that of the aut- versal repablic. ‘The red My has been hoisted on the Tuileries and 1 JPRS Cf The Rappré publis Louvres es a letter from Genera) Luliier complaining of Ue treatment We hus received from the Central Commitee, ROCHBPORT RECOVERED, Tae Vere says M. Rochefort has recovercd, aud LAINT. is comming to Paris direct, ‘The Mot aordre coutrms the statomeat, THE POSTAL SeRVICR Communication between Paris and Versatiles t Interrupt No jetters or papers passed betweou the two cities on Friday, A mceting of merchants Was held for tie purpose of demanding explanu- tions from the Commune, whereupon one of the delegates thereto responded that M. Rampont, who has had charge of the general post orice, has fed, With all the staf and materials. The service wili be reorgunt ed speedily by the commune, DEFUNCY AND SEIZED NAWSCAPERS. wre have teur Li The journals Frangais and £ ceased to aopear in Paria, The Constitutronnel was seized yesterday, SIRERTS OF PARIS DESKATED. ‘The iahabitauts continue to Le of We streets already luok deserte MISCELLANEOUS ITAMS The Commune proposes to admit joreigners to the | mewbersktp of the Couuell. The Cri du deuple seys & cowmiitec will leave the Hotel de Ville for Luxembourg. Tae members of tie Commune now administer the aifairs of their respective arrondissements, MM, Valegrave aud bisson are still in prison. It fastated that letters to journals outside of Paris have been s!opped. THE VERSAILLES GOVERN- MENT. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YONK SERNLD. A Report Devied=—Biswarck and the Ioeurrece tion—Thiers Asked to Name the Yime for Its War, ludemuity—Tae and many Suppresstor—The Ttulian Minister, ‘Lonpox, April 1, 1371. Tam enabled to report the folowing for tie inior. mation of tue New York Herato:— A REVORT DENIED. A Versailles despaten of to-day pronounces ulterly false (he report.already telegraphed that the Thit+ tee regiment of the tine had entered Paris and fraternized with the National Guarda, BISMARCK AND TILE INSCARBCTION. M. Bismarck, m his note, asked M, Thiers to define the time in Witch he would accoraplish the suppres- sion of thein-urrection In Paris, M, Thiers resisted the demand by the expression of the hope that he Would succoed in lus efforts of couoliation, and Wy 9 asserting the right to jndge when other measu-oe are necessary, GERMAN AUD TO PRANCE A despatch from Berlin, says the Kreuz Zing Of to-day, aunounces that the proposal of the Freuca government to Germany for an increase of the num- ber of French troops tn Paris, tn convequence of the ist iirbayees in that city, hus been agreed to, The German government bas also promied, in case of the spree@ of tlre disturbances beyond Parts, to Place depagBuents oceupio! by German troops ta @ state of siege, according to French laws. The num- ber and disposition of the Goi man torces tn Fraace are not to be changed, FRENCH TROOPS EN ROUTY FOR HOM. A despatci from Itvehioe, Deninars, anaounces the arrival at Ginckstatt, the capital of the Duchy Of Holsieia, of 1,009 French soidiers, reigased from captivity in Germany. A similar number is expectet this evenlag. Trans ports are in waltiag at Ginekstatt to carry them to France. THE WAR INDEMNITY. The London Times” special despatch from Ver- sailles says M. Thiers pays five hundred millions of francs to the Prasstaus on Fevlay evening, aud tha French government will then be allowed to receive remforceiments from the North. THE MINISTER YROM AND TO [TSLY, A deapatch tror Flore ice, March 41, says Viseount Harcourt has been appointed Freuch Ambassador to Rome, and Count Prasiin Cholseul comes to Florence ta ao stuatlar capacity. GERMANY. Prinoy Bismarck on tie Ru'ea of Ter f'orlal Ac. quisitioa—Compeniation in Als co and Lorraine. ! TELEGHAM TOT C HETALO, Lonpon, April 1, 187f. Tam enabled t) communteate to the HERALD, by cable telegram, tie fact that a despatch has been re ceived iu Unis city from Strasburg which says that Prince Hisinarek has written to the Chamber of Commerce of Strasburg that “Goimany wll com- pensate the Inhabitan's of Alsace gud Lorretve at the same rate that was accorded to the iniabtiants of those Provinces witen they were auoexed uader suallar circumstances Lo Fra tee.” A Potout: Hovildst. Wreseapen, April 1, 1871. The Duke of Nasvau bts beeu quite dl, vue wags Partially recove BELGIUM. Ministerial Visit from the Empire of Japan. TELEGRAM 70 THE HEW YORK HERALD. Bavasers, Apri 1, 1871. T have Jnst been informed for the use of the MsRaLb that his Exceiloucy the Japynese Ambaasa dor, lis Nutsimo Mya, and jis suite have arrived in the city, accompanied by Baron Sigvoid and ao luterpreter, EUROPEAN MARKETS. Loypon MONRY Mank April 11:30 PB, M.--Conaois closed at Ny and 228 wg fF he account. 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