The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1871, Page 8

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NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourtosnth strest.—SORNRS LN tha RUNG, AvMOnALL, AC, Matluee at 2, TONY PASTOR'S OPE BIVaY LNTLETAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, Ins, NFGKO ACIS, Ao. "Matinee 2 201 Bowery.—Va- ah. Amie nome ‘Wednontas, April 5, atl 1871. CONTENTS OF “TO-DAV'S HERALD, Pack. wae b—Adver —Advertis: B—4uverivcen 4—Aaverusements, $—The Rouge Kevolt: eed Battles Aronnd Paris on Monday and Yesterday; Oficial Ke- rts of Victory by the V1 ilies "authorities; errible 4 of Insurgents; Counter: claims of Su by the Communists; Map of the Seeue uguter Around Parie—The it Cdeaer: ut—Npeclal Telegraphic Des- Paris: Vivid Accounts by the oudents of the Reign ot Ter. Upon Mi e Cuunp—Gert ‘Holy ng Suicide—sulc ide ofa Print ! Notes—Army Or New York City News—Atfatrs in ‘oroner Juckwnan, miuany Kepuliated by the Cail- Music aud the Drama— trage on Shipboard— tt Clubs aud Chal- LXcitement riher peve e Hoboken he sleepy Hollow Mas- ppments 10 the Buckhout tent of the tf ine United States— tng Soldiers of the War Kiuxing a Negro in Georgla— Smipe Shvoting 1 Maryland. B—Ediioriais: leading Ariicie, “The Connecticut and Viner Receat Electious—Another Lesson on the issues of the War—Amusement Aire nouncements, @ -Edit riais (coptinued from eighth Page)—The Siate Capital: imveresting Proceedings of the Legisiature—The Late Licctlons— Teiegrams— Business Notices, 40-Proceediags in the Courts—The Broadway Wiaenn: —Important Bal Popular Education—Gram New Town © r nicht to Commes ‘The Fir . ong Isian uy Handed, » the Confidence awken Murde m Linvo_the. Ww astom House—RKeal Esty Fight in Califoraia—a Pro- t Broken i'p—The Income eases In Brookiya—Finan- i Reports—Martiages aud Nan, all 12-News from Wasnington— W Shipping lntelligeuce—Ad A3—China vad Jupon: Ine tries—Be tree the News from Both 4 in a Chinese oks— Running Hein the 4—The Luglisti § 34— "ind Latest F Ur Governor English’s chances for the democratic nomination for the Presidency in 1872. Iv Pamanecraia t fine a man two hua- dred’ dollars for refusing to serve oa a jury with negroes, which is a very fancy price for @ sentiment. IN TUE New DomtsioN PARLIAMENT yester- day Mr. Carwwright moved an address to the Queen protesting against the withdrawal of troops from the Canadian provinces, in view of the biter and hostile sentiments enter- tained by the Fenians in the United States for the British empire. The New Dominion need not be alarmed so long as w2 have vigilant United States marshals on the frontier. If they insist upon those Fenian raid expenses, dgwever, they mast take care of thomselves, fae Larest Artewrr at BANK Rouseny.— ‘The details ef the attempt to rob the Central Park Savings Bank should warn the directors of similar fustitations to tuke special and con- tinua! precautions against such outra, Bold 0s at first sight it may seem for three villains to enter the bank in broad daylight, bolt thedoor, seize and gag the teller and prepare to break open and rob the eafe, it must be remem dered they had made sure that the teller wava feeble old man, thet be was alone in the bank, and nothing but the chance arrival of a director, who smasied the glasa of a window and thus frightened them away, prevented ge success of their weil planned attempt. nnecticnt ates Toar Wasa Sry Dons of the eopublicans in having depaty marshals at the polls on Monday last in o to spot New York repeaters, when no York rep was the ‘ ted St store were there to be spotted. It ‘Su jarpe ga " over again. Tne Demoorars in the Legislature found Viemselves enormously out of pocket yester- day, owing to the odds they insisted upon giving republican mom! the day previous fn their bets on the Connecticut election, Boss Tweed is said to have been the main cause of this severe blow to his country friends, He cead a despatch on Monday saying that Eog- Jieh was elected by fifteen hundred majority, aod upon this hint the raral members booked more bets than they will be able to pay, at the present rate of business Jn the Legislature, for two or three sessions, It is generally con- ceded that the Boss misled them unintention- ally; but the country members ought to rack their memories awhile and see if they haven't “gone back” on the Boss, sgme way ¢£ yiber, ggcently., NEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, Connecticat amd Other Recent Elec- tlens—Anocther on the Isence of the War. The result of the Qonnecticut cloction, although still domewhat doubtful, has taken the wind out of the sails of the lately jubilant democracy. They gave too large a construc- tion to their unexpected victory in New Hamp- shire, We told them next morning that as an election gone by default it was ‘‘a tempest in a teapot ;” but they could see in it nothing leas and nothing else than the inauguration of a sweeping political revolution. So they ex- pected to carry Connecticut as by a whirl- wind, and in their own expressive expres- sion, “they have come out of the little end of the horn.” And how do they. account for their unexpected defeat? They say that it is due to tho new eloment of the colored vote and to the vigorous work of republican repeaters, Bat, although the colored vote was 80 much clear gain to the republicana, it does not meet the case. As for the repeaters, thot isa’ game in which the democrats are supposed to be as expert as their adversaries. The poets of the Hvening Post say that “Governor English was defeated because he was too closely allied with Mr. Twoed and the Tammany ring,” and that the success, of the republicans in electing three Congressmen is due to the fact that their candidates were known as revenue and civil service reformers ; but what this classification signifles we do not clearly understand. Another evenipg contemporary, the Commer- cial Advertiser, says that this Connecticut electioa shows that ‘*the democratic reaction has less reality than was claimed for it ;” that “thore was loud republican thunder on Mon- day all round the sky,” froma State election in Michigan; from municipal elections in Evansville, Indiana; Danville and Harrods-. burg, Kentucky; Annapolis and Towsantown, Maryland; avd from. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Wooster and Akron, Ohio, all of which went republican; and that these elec‘ioas ‘dispel the doiusion that Grant is dividing the repnb- lican pariy, and that he is forcing a St. Domingo job on the people;” that ‘‘ the very opposition of Mr. Sumner has proved advantageous,” aad that ‘the verdict is against him, aud he passeg out of the cass.” These elections justify this view of the subject, and yet they do not cover. the ground, Nor do any of the explanations we have recited touch what we believe to be the main cause of this apparent general waking up of the republicans since their New Hampshire defeat. » As the disastrous results of ‘the first battle of Bull run first astounded and then roused up the dormant energies of the North, so this republican defeat in New Hampshire appears to have operated upon this party. But their New Hampshire defeat would have hardly served to divert the rank and file of the repub- licans from their petty personal quarrels and factious cross purposes, had not the rejoicing Norikgrn democracy, encouraged by their loud crowing the old Southern school of fire- eaters and the Ku Klnx Klans, with their out- rageous doings, to come to the front. It is no- torious that since the New Hampshire election the so-called Southern Ku Kiux Klans have been bolder in their lawless operations than they were before. We have evidence of this in the appeal of the Governor of South Carolina to the President for military assistance, and in the proclamation and message of Gen- eral Grant on the subject, and in ‘the message of Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, to his Legislature, calling for authority to employ the militia and to levy taxes upon any county afflicted with Ku Klux atrocities requiring the militia to sup- press them. These things, together with the outspoken repudiation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments by Southern fire-eating journals and orators, have told upon Connecti- cut and in all the widely-scattered elections elsewhere of Monday last. The old issues of the war being revived again, the republicans, sinking all side issues, have come up to the work on the main question. On Sunday night two weeks ago Mr. Jeffer- son Davis arrived at Selma, Ala., from Montgomery. The Selma Presa, in describing his reception, says that, after alevde at his hotel, which was largely attended, and a sero- nade enlivened with the old music of the Southern confederacy, Mr. Davis was called out upon the balcony and addressed the crowd for about ton minutes, In the course of his speech he declared, ‘tin an exultant tone,” that “State sovereignty, although defeated in tho late struggle, will ultimately triumph.” give his life for his people, and now if any Yankee power wanted his blood to atone for any action of the Southern people they could take it.” ‘‘He never had asked pardon. for what he had done, and he never would, for be felt that he had done no wrong.” The Selma Press attributes the hopeful State sovereignty tone ofthis speech to the inspiration of the New Hampsbire election, and commends its consideration ‘‘to that portion of the Nortaern press and people which has been Icd to belicve that the cause of the rebellion is a dead issue in the minds of leading men at the South.” This speech from Jefferson Davis was perfectly natural under the circumstances, and of. itself it means nothing. But hore is the difficulty, Davis and mos: of -his Sonthern confederates look to the demoeracy of the North to restoro them their State sovereignty, with its right of secession, | and the Northern democracy are encouraging their old Soutbera allies in this idea, that the isaues settled by the war will be upset with the election of a democratic Presidegt and Congress. Do the democracy desire another battle upon these issues? beyond redemption, Their only course of safety and their only way to success lies through a frank ackuowledgement that they aceept and will abide by the fourteenth aod fifteenth amerdwents, Let these issues of the war be, in fact, reduced to dead issues, and the democracy, on the money question, in all its phases of tariffs, internal taxes, bonds, banks, &c., will have the vantage ground in the coming contest. There can be no doubt upon this point, con- sidering the opposing cliques and factions into which the republican party is divided in and out of Congress upon all these questions. General Graut has wisely resolved to silence Sumner and Schurz on $t. Domingo by post- ponlog fy pf wore convenient Avason that “He had always been willing to” If they do they are | demoralizing project of annexation. It will be perceived, tco, that in holding Congress together for the express purpose of somo special legislation for the suppression of the Southera Ku Klux Klans General Grant has hit upon a good Northern electioneering movement, It revives the issues of the war, and upon these, #80 long as the democracy consent ‘to fight them, théy can be held as still Aghting the old bat- tles of the rebellion, Absutd, too, as the association may appear, the shocking atrocities of the Paris Jacobins are reacting here to the Prejudice of the democratic party in connec- tion with’ these Southern Ku Klux Klans. We have contended, and still contend, that ® general amnesty to the South would do more for law and order and for the administration in that section than all the pains and penal- ties that could be crowded into a dozen coercive measures, Should Congress fall upon this point the democrats, in accepting the ‘constitution as it is,” can still gain all the South and much of the North upon the platform of » universal Southera amnesty. Again, if this Congress shall fail, as we expect it will fail, to make any material roduction in our gencral burden of taxations, the democratic party will have another opening for the popu- lar side of this impoftant question. The late elections do dispel the idea that the New Hampshire republican defeat was the begin- ning of aepolitical revolution; but they do not settle the question of the next Presidency. They leave it opsn, with a choice to fhe demo- crats of the weakest or strongest positions in the fiold, Wno Kiev tas Conneoriovr Cock Rosin ?—Had Tammany anything to do with it? The Troubles In aod Arouad Paris—Hope for M. Thiers and the Republic, The news which we print this morning regarding the situation in and around Paris is sufficiently alarming. in the hands of the insurgents; but outside of Paris the government of M. Thiers seems to be in favor and in power. The fire from Fort Mont Valcrien on the Communists has given tothe *‘ Rouge” rebellion a new character, and is, we think, a new point of departure. Our special has it that the fire from Mont Valérien was to the’ insurgents. a completo surprise and a complete defeat. - Bergeret was firat defeated with fifteen thousand men. The cable reports add that the forces of Bergerct and Flonrens formed a junction, and that the strategy of the governinent has placed tho united forces almost hors de combat. Another report has it that Flourens has actually reache@ Versailles. It 1s manifest that the destructive fire from Valcrien was not so decisive as first reports taught us to believe. Colonel Burgoin telegraphed to the Commune that Bergerst and Flourens had formed a junction; that they were marching on Versailles, and that success was certain. 4n contradiction to all this it is said that General Flourens has been kiiled, and that the insurgents, demoralized, are finding their way back to Paris as best they can, M. Thiers, in a proclamation addressed to the prefects of departments, claims that the insurgents were completely routed. On the other hand, a Communist newspaper iu Paris claims that the forces of the Commune gained a victory. ~ No reference is made by M. Thies to any fighting south of Paris, but insurgent reports speak of positions having been conquered and maintained at Le Bas *Meudon, while an unofficial despatch from Versailles announces the capture’of a redoubt at Chatillon held by the insurgents. This affair took place yesterday and was a complete success for the government forces, which took two thofsand prisoners, including General Henry, previously reported as killed. General Duval, the principal military leader of the insurgents, is aiso reported shot. Another report has it that Marshal Mac- Mabon has been appointed Commander-in- Chief of the French forces by the Versaiiles government. The presumption in such a case is that all the soldiers of the imperial army, till now German prisoners, are to be placed under MacMahon’s leadership. This report while we write has not been confirmed. If true it promises to give order to France, A we have said again and. again, what France wants is a military leader—a man who commands the confidence of the army. MacMahon is the only imperial officer who has come out of the war unstained. Bazaine, Le Beeuf, Trochu and others are rightly or wrongly snapected and distrusted. All the world knows MacMahon bled for France ; but no one dare say he betrayed his country or his master, While we write the news is chaotic. The presumption, however, is that the Tiers gov- ernment will win, and that in some modified form the republic will be established. The grand assurance of the establishmentof order uader M, Thiers is to be found in Prince Bis- marck, who, like a wallof iron, towers up, bidding deflauce to all Commanism and all levelling. With Bismarck at his back, with MacMahon as a possibie helper and with France outside of Poris more or less on his side, M. rs has a fie!) before him which is not without promise of tinal success. Tr 13 Srarep that a ‘al “stamp” was put upon a New Ileven democratic politi- cian just before the elecuov, That was a bad way of siampiog out an opponent, ve Tox Spreon of Ben Bi tler on the Ku Klux bill in the House yesterday is the ablest so fir made on that subject in either house, It is not generally known that Butler can grasp a subject in-all its fulness, and analyze and dis- sect it with the skill of « surgeon, and expound it with the, acumen of a chancellor, when he bends his mind to it, but he can, and did yes- terday. He made the poiut that the demo- crats of the North build no schoolhouses in the South, and that the school teachers and the school ‘‘marms” who teach the “atygers” are Yankee republicans. There is no denying these facts, and the way Mr. Bu'ler puts them leaves the very strong inference that demo- cracy, as expounded to-day, profits more in the dark Ku Kiuxism of ignorance thav in the enlightenment of learning. “Tost Laven Best Wao Lavan Last,” is an old adage, It seems to have beou ap- prociated by Boas Tweed when he stated he had bad his langh before the fiaal returns frow Gonnecticus were reccived, Paris is unmistakably” APRIL 5, 1871—QUADKUPLE SHKKT. The Ging of Spain and the Now Spanish Parliament. His Majesty Amadeus has met the new Parliament of Spain, The members of the Cortes who were returned to serve in the legis- lative body at the general election which has just been held in the kingdom have assembled in session in Madrid. The King went down to the Cortes hall im state. Ho was woll recolved by the populace out of doors, and enjoyed a respectful, cordial greeting from the legislators inside, as will bo seén from the cable telegram ‘in which we report the scene and circumstances of the occasion, This was really and in truth the first Introduction which Amadeus has had to the Spaniards, according to the theory of constitutional mon- archical governments. The Parliament speaks for the people, and this Parliament, having been just elected by a tree citizen vote, brings the popular national aspect of Spain face to {face with the Crown. The meeting, 80 far as we are enabled to judge by the present despatches, has been of an agreea- ble character. .We have been already in- formed, indoed, by cable telograms from Spain, that a solid, sensible working majority of this present Parliament will support the measures of the King’s government. Amadeus appreciates the opportunity. He is likely to utilize it favorably for his dynasty. His throne speech presented three most essential points for future legislation and government negotiation, viz.:—The pacification of Cuba, political and financial reforms and the resump- tion of administrative relations with the Pope. If the King of Spain should be able to elaho- rate these threa points and reduce them to Parliamentary shape and practical application he will have secured a measure of Magna Charta for his adopted country. Hoe appears well intentioned aud “plucky,” at all events, and not much, if at all, tainted with the enfeebling ministerial domoralizations of the parent stock in Florence. Let King Amadcus have a fair chance, “Watt Done, Conngotiovr!"—Cry the re- publicans, ‘Done brown,” say the demo- crats, dismally. Marshal MacMahon and the Soldiers of the : Empire. The republican government of France has done well by appointing Marshal MacMahon Commander-in-Chief of the French forces, This is a wise proceeding on the part of the Thiers government, and will, we think, strongthen it considerably. Within a short time the armies of France, the disciplined soldiers of the empire, who were taken prisoners by the Germans, will all be returned to France. They have learned obedience to law, are disciplined, and know that their services belong to the government of France, irrespective of its complexion, Whether that government be republican or imperial, it is all the same tothem. Their duty is the soldier's duty, and that is obedience to the established government of the nation. Wiha leader such as Marshal MacMahon as their com- mander-in-chief they would have every conf. dence in the future, and would serve the republic with the same zeal with which they devoted themselves to the empire. With the French people, moreover, the Duke of Magenta is popular, and the appoiniment of the brave old soldier to the position he now occupies is one which cannot fail to give satisfaction throughout the whole extent of the Frenth nation. He issued from the late disastrous campaign with a character as stainless as that with which he entered it, and this fact is not forgotten. The elevation of Marshal MacMahon we regard favorably, and it will prove an ac- quisition of strength to the French republic. Tar Democrats gave heavy odds on the election of English. ‘*Vere's the odds so long as you're ‘appy ?” Our Correspondence from Paris. We publish in another part of the Hzratp this morning a budget of interesting letters from our correspondents in the city of Paris, The letters treat on the events which occurred on the 17th of March—that dreadful day when the insurgents, following their own bloody instincts, committed, the outrages which have since then rendered them execrable in the minds of all peace, law and order-loving men. The murders of Generals Lecomte and Thomas, the indignities offered to General Chanzy, the flerce and brutal cries for the heads of Thiers and of Favre, the killing of innocent persons regardless of age, condition or sex, the opening of the gates of. the prisons and the liberation of the criminals confined therein, and the reign of terror which prevails throughout the capital of France, are occurrences which for years to come will staih the reputation of this grand city, which Jad it in its power to become grander, greater and more glorious than ever until the insurrection which now deais’ death and destruction with lavish hand destroyed all chance of sucha position being realized. Our letters from Paris give details of events down to the latest mails, aud contain much that will interest the readers of the Hxratp on this side of the Atlantic. Sav will soon begin to run up Connecticut river, The democrats have commenced ruu- ning down. Tok Drpate IN THE SENATE yesterday on the Ku Kiux bill was about as animated as it is possible for a debate to become on so well worn a subject. Mr. Morton: arraigned the democratic Legislatures North, notably the New York Legislature, as being worse than black and tan carpet-bag Legislatures South, and instanced Tammany, the controller of the democratic party throughout the country, as a specimen of the “unfathomable corruption of the party in general. At this Mr, Casserly, a prominent democratic Senator from Culi- fornia, rose up and said in defence, not that Tammany was not corrupt, but that he was astonished to hear any one say seriously that Tammany was the controlling democratic party of the country. Here's a ruction! Is Tammany the- democratic Tycoon of the Western Continent or not? She made the Western men and the Pendleton guards think so in 1868, when she nominated Seymour; but are they rebelling now? Let Casserly be read out at once! “Tan Cororen Troops Fovamr Nosry"— Repnbliean refrain in the election in Con. neoticut, ‘ Scan, Maz. Among Our Mugantes. The report recently ventilated in a Cincin- nati paper about Washington and the Posey family reminds us that, as a nation, we are becoming sacrilegiously inclined. We no longer revere our honored dead as we should. The youth of America, from the very first cradleful of youth that America bore as a free republic, have accepted that story of the hatchet and the cherry tree, and have felt considerable pride in the fact that the young George had pluck enough to out down a cherry tree when he liked and was not too much afraid of the old man to tell him of it. But to link the revered Washington's name with the Posey scandal is revolting to the young American estimate of our greatest hero. We have a special claim on the-pater- nity of Washington, and the great republic cannot admit that the Father of his Couatry was the father of anything olse. But the sacrilegious spirit of tho age does not stop with the memory of Washington, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster have been dreadfully maligned, and many of our living statesinen are the objects either of suspicion or direct charges. We need not mentton Bowen. He can speak for himself. Even if he cannot, three or four wives have spoken for him already, and many places where he for- merly lived are yet to be canvassed. There are numerous others, members of Congress especially, of whom we shall ‘hear scandal as soon as they make a little more noise in the world ‘or excite the enmity of some colleague. It is a fact that many vf our Reprosentatives and Senators spend a good deal of the people's time. in hunting up disastrous evidence of this sort against inconvenient personal enemies on the same committee, not always for immediate use, but os regerve ammunition in case of any serious affront or opposition. It cannot be said to be a fair thing, of course, for one member to disprove another's assertion that the Ku Klux outrages are all bosh by intimating that bis honorable colleague has deserted his wife, or to demolish the attempts of a gentleman on the opposite side of the House to filibuster a land grant out of exist- ence, by prgducing sworn affidavits showing that the gentleman on the opposite s:de of the House has one or two more wives than the Gentile law allows. “It is. outside the province of parliamentary assemblages, and is not fair, hut it is done, Some time ago two members of the Recon- struction Committee had a deadly quarrel, which in the good old days of chivalry would have led to pistols and Bladensburg, two moist bodies, dead or wounded, on the ground, or two frightened bodies shaking bands in reconcilia- tion over their smoking pistols unhurt, and there wotld have beon an end of it, But it is otherwise now. Qne of the parties to the deadly quarrel we speak of immediately put detectives on the track of the olher, bad him shadowed until he was shown to be no better than he should be, and then trium. phantly waved documentary proofs of his immorality over his head, Can there bea more complete triumph than this—a more crushing vindication on one side ora more overwhelming conviction on tie other? It may well be supposed that the cornered member of the committee, seeing the force of the argument at once, kept very shady and followed the bid of his leader very meekly after that; but he did not despair. Hoe fought the Devil with fire. He in turn had his enemy shadowed, and, it is reported, found the same derelictions on his part and shook similar weighty documents in* his face. Thus the ‘wager of battle was made equal again, and the fight now,goes on for moro documentary evidence. Thus detectives and scan. mags. have become potent weapons of legislative warfare, and the fate of many an important bill is likely to be settled by the preponderance of scandal heaped on its friends or enemies, This style of wirepulling will’ eventually extend to lobbymen. It is already used with great sucecss in the caucuses. When Mr. Buller, for instance, requests his friends in caucus to support a. certain bill, and intimates to members who object that he has copies of telegrams in his pocket which would seriously affect their moral character, what can they doe but acquiesce? If a polished and suave lobbyman requests a rigid Presbyterian member to vote for a certain land grant bill or patent claim, and insinuates at fhe same time that he would be very sorry indeed to let the Presbyte- rian’s family know about that Ilttle unorthodox scrape of his, how can the Presbyterian resist? The highwayman’s pistol and the money bags of Erie are not such potent arguments as these. The railroad cor- porations of Pennsylvania and the immense monopolies of New York aro weak persuaders in comparison. There can be only one remedy. Legislation must go to the deucg or we must elect strictly moral men, who not only have a certified character of that sort, but who can be re relied upon to keep moral, Bap Pract 10 Emigrare From—The tax office in this city into a Senatorial district in Connecticut. Tae Brooxiys Witarrage Bri, which was intended to reduce the exorbitant charges of the pier and wharf owners in our neighboring city, was taken out of the Assembly yester- day by the request of the Senate that it be returned to that body, which originally passed it. This defeats it, The Senate will never let the Assembly hear of it again, It isa queer sort of logislaiion at the best ; but when | a bill is reiurned to the Senate on requestit is at least fair to expect it back again when the Senate is through | with it. “A Jnwetr, oF IMprov RD Lrsrig—The newly elected Governor of Connecticut. Asotuer Goop —Tie bill incor- porating the Knickerbocker Loan and Trust Company authorized it to do a mercantile, safe deposit, banking and pawnbrokers’ busi- ness. Such monstrous powers have very properly caused Governor Hoffman to veto the bill, In this insfance, as in more than ohe which has lately called for a veto, the caso is clear. But framers of legislative bills have, like the “heathen Chinee,” so many “ways that are dark” as to justify the Gov- ernor in following the safe old rule in whist— whenever in doubt take the trick, Looxep For wit Interrst.—The forth- coming first aunual reppris of the different city departments undor the new Charter, . Tee Future of Frances From whatever point we view the future of France gloomy prospects confront us. Tho war which has just endod left a legacy of misery sufficient tovoverweight even France's @reat reouperative powers. Had peace and order been allowed to repair the havoc of war @ few years would havo enabled her'to put on again the appearance of prosperity, Now, however, that civil strife has come in all its ‘monstrous shapes to aggravate the wounds inflicted by foreign swords, all hope of pros- perity-must be indefluitely postponed. It ig difficult to conceive how those engaged in the present tumults can pretend to better the con- dition of France by stopping the development of her material resources, Trade and agriqul- ture may flourish while a nation wages a foreign war, but civil strife ever disorganizes society 80 thoroughly that enterprise is paralyzed and industry suspended. This is certain to happen where social animosities are added to political antagonism, and perhaps the gravest feature of the movemout progressing in France is the possible conflict of classes. Once let a struggle be engaged in between the, social republicans and the upholders of the rights of property, and there can come but one result—a reign of murder before which the scenes of '93 will pale. Such an issue to the present struggle is far from impossible. On the contrary the triumph gained by the social- ista at the .ballot box in the election of the Commune may encourage them to advance further pretensions which in turn would be followed by other steps toward the social and democratic republic, as understood by the citizens of Belleville and Montmartre, by the rouge men and the socialists, as they have been reported in our columns during the past few days, and as they are to-day. So long as the socialists are content to theorize on the justice of a general division of property the strife of classes may be averted; but should they attempt to put their tage doc- trines ito practice by force a conflict becomes inovitable. It is by no means certain tha? law and order would triumph; indeed, the chances are the other way. . The mags of the population in France, holding no property, would regard a division of wealth, by which those who have nothing might gain something, without any special repugnance, Even the moderately well-disposed, ruined hy the cossa- tion of industry and deprived of their means of living, would be thrown by the sympathy of suffsring into the arms of the anarchists, Add- to this that the hostility of the ouvrier class to capitalists is widespread and deep, while the principles which rule the relations between employer and employed are more studied and better understood among the workmen than can be well imagined, That branch of politi- cal economy which treats of the relations of labor and capital forms the staple conversa- — tions of the faubourgs and is directly the cause of many of the revolu- tionary agitations which, at a distance, seem wholly political. In the minds of the igaorant ouvriers and their half-informed lead. ers the destruction of capital is the perfect cure for all humanills, Capital, they argue, has for many centuries oppressed us; let us now revenge ourselves by crushing and de stroying capiial; and instead of directing their efforts to the improvement of the relations between labor and capital they waste time and energy in preaching a crusade against capital, which, could it be successful, would reduce the world to ignorance and barbarism, resolving society into its original elements. To such ag admire “savage grandeur,” scant dinners, and have tailors in abhorrence doubtless the change would be pleasant and welcome; but as these compose only a ‘small percentage of the world’s population we fear the change would not be generally regarded with favor. The disordered dreams of the socialists offer the greatest obstacle to the development of rational liberty in Europe and rendcr the name of republic odious, This striving after a Utopia prevents the growth of moderate republicanism, which, equally separated from tyranny and licenses, slone can guarantee liberty with order. After the fall of Paris the moderate republic was established by the consent of all pariies as the only form of government which could prevent civil war. The feebleness of M. Thiers and his copart- ners in powér have beirayed the moderate republic to the Red factions, who impose an unbearable tyranny in the name of liberty, Unless France can be saved from the “‘patriotism” of this faction she must inevitably descend to the pdéuly tion of a Enropean ‘Mexico, torn by internal divisions and # prey to ambitious adventurers. What form the governmont which shail establish order and maintain i¢ may assume it would be impossible at this moment to decide; but whatever its form it must fulfil the requisite of being strong, Only force, wisely employed, can save France from the armed rufflavism which to-day proclaims’ eae equality and fraternity, while maa. | ng defenceless citizens. The ultimate trinamph of what is called red republioanism is impossible, because its docirines are opposed to the most sacred feclings of maakind. Mon who desire the destruction of the family ties can never obtain a firm bold on thé reason or the affections of a people. For a moment the waves of insanity may. sweep over a nation and incline men to the doctruction of those ties which give to life half its charms, and deprived of which this earth of ours would indeed become a “vale of tears;” but the reaciion is sure to come with cooler thoughts when the fever of passion has abated. The triumpl of the party of disorder can theréfore be only temporary, and must in the nature of things be succeeded by some form of government more in keeping with the general consclence of mankind. If. society be overthrown-and anarchy permitted to” run riot generations must elapse before’ France can reconqner her old position. But if ® man bold and wigo should arise and, sub- ordinating his ambition to the welfaro of hia country, accept in good faith the mode- rate republic so organized as to secure liberty while maintaining order, there Is one policy upon which it is possible ta unite the whole of France. Empire or republic, the future organization of France!’ to be secure, must be based upon the policy of vongeance—vengeance upon Gor- many for the humiliations she has heaped upon France, The red republic cannot secure the future of France; it oau nolther give peace,