The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1871, Page 4

oe ore Stal 4 THE PARIS MASGRORE, | George Wilkes’ Review of the Situ- ation in France, The Commune and the Inter- nationals. Revolution of the Princes and the Prices THIERS’ JOB. Mf. A Piquant but Unsound Judgment of the Case. Panis, August 89, 1871. To Tim EpmTor oF THE HsRALD:— I bave not written of late, because I was will- ing to allow a brief lapse of time to test the opinions which I have expressed upon the momentous pro- biems, social and political, which are now working themselves out in France, In these opinions, and especially in my defeuce of the Communists, I have for the most part stood alone; but already the rapid Progress of the trun is vindicating the accuracy of my views, and bringing many supporters to my ~Th my last I traced the conspiracy which the mon- Qrchists of Europe, under the leadership of that crafty aud aceomplisued Jesuit, Monsieur Thiers, had concocted to take France captive in the hour of her agony, and cast her at the feet of the Bourbons | and the Church, ‘the plot was cunningly conceived, and the opportunity was such as had not been | offered to “Infallibility” and “Divine Right” since | both had been trodden in the dust by the first | French Revolution, To ordinary aspirants, plunged as France was into misfortunes which threaten the loss of her ex- istence, the key of this opportunity would not have been discernible; but that sleepless schemer for universal power, the Churen of Rome, undisturbed by the emotions which racked and distracted all other parties in the country, detected in the chaos which followed the surrender of Sedan the unex pected chance for which it had so long and wearily been waiting. The Second Empir> had never been its favorite. Distrusting from the first the aaventurer who was its founder, it had taken a bond against his deser+ tlon by placing him under the influence of a Span- ish wife; and even then it barely tolerated his throne, because forced to rely solely upon the mea- gre security of his pillow. His rum and the conse- i long been the only real support of Europe tureatened to aban caprice of anew French dem mercy of What had 1 dreaded apparition, TAR INTERNATIONALE. It was an opportunity whicn called for bold and compretensive action and Which prouised to tax to the utmost ail the genius atid resources of the most powerlul organization ever Kaown to the worla—to wit, the organized industry of religion as compacted for sixteen centuries under the subtle institutions of the Roman Church. [1 13 at this point of the French problem that we perceive M. Thiers cmerging from Us councils and entering upon the scene as a direct- lng figure. I have already related, under the caption of “Thiers and his Job,” the trip last winter of the Uttle French phuosopher among the crowned heads of Europe, to organize, in their interest as well as in the interest of uis clerical employers, a combined | resistance to a threatened French republic and the Internationale. His propositions were of as much interest to Prussia as to any other Power; so, after | he got through his work, we saw him permitted to re enter P rough the German lines and avail himself of full two months’ start in secretly mantpu- lating France for the general election, which was the necessary pretiminary to any treaty of pea It was, consequently, not until all this sly work naa been performed and that every Church candidate had made nimself ready for the canvass that an election for a National Assembly was proclaimed. The people were, of course, taken unprepared. Bat one cousideration animated every Lonest mind, and that was A SETTLEMENT WITH THE INVADER. Under the pressure of the public danger the ordt- ary scrutiny of mere political opimiens was vol tartly nuded and the trusting nation was gratt- fied to find, in return for its generous confidence, tnat as coon as the canvass Was proclaimed a host of persons sprang forward as candidates, who were | not omy of the highest apparent respectaulity, but who had latterly been very loud in the expression of most liveral opinions, Tis illusion was diss! to the pated, however, as soon as these candidates were | returned. A brief examination or the listexnibued the fact that nearly all of them were royalists, reac- tlonists and bigots, and it at once became manifest, asif by a flash of revelation, thatthe old enemy had stolen a march upon the people ana that the re- public haa once more been betrayed. The citizens of Paris, foremost always in patriotism and in courage, were tne first to take steps against the ob- vious Ueachery of the Assembly, AS soon as the treaty Was signed they asked for a resignation of the members in order that the sense of the country wight ve taken upon the terms of the capitulation through tue ordeal of a new election. Under any torm of constitutional government this reasonabie demand should bave been acceded to; buc it was datly refused, and the conclave, which had been the result of @ conspiracy, naturally ex. tended its existence by an act of usurpation. Afrald to confront the resolute INDEPENDENCE OF OF THE PAR they fled with the government to Versaiites, and left go doubt of their intentions to subjugate tue by oppoiuting @ mayor and other elect ers to rule over it in their n It was then (hat Paris, ieft to rule itself, and understanding the matter better than any portion of tue world which has been so ready to condemn ii, drew the sword in defence of municipal liberty, and appealed to the nation to unite with it in are ag tue surrender to rovaity, Which Was 60 plainiy meditated. The people of the provinces re- sponded to this appeal, aud sent deputations to M. Thiers wo express Weir apprevensions that his milt- tary measures to suppress te Parisian movemeut might prove fatal to the liberties of the Whuie cuun- try. His reply (0 these deputations in every case (a8 he subse iy admitted), was baat ‘no other form of gove: ossible iv France but that of a repubite aepartments, thus deceltfuily quieted illy aloof, and left tue Com- Mune to ve assassiuated, No souner Was Uus bloody triampb consummated than VERSAILLES TITKEW OFY THR MASK. Thiers made aspeech to (ue Assembiy (which may be regarded i the Jigit of a report to the crowned heads and the royalistic deputies in tie Chamber), io the course Of Whivti be apologized for the repubil- can assurances he liad made to tue departments, by saying Wat lis nouoNs of a revublic Were @ constl- tuuional monarchy ou the Hngush plan, and not on the plan of Washington. In this remarkable dls- course he significautly adved thatthe republic was the fact of to-day, but monarchy was to be the fact of tomorrow.’ At (his periideous declaration cheers greeted him, not only from four-filths of the Assembiy, but from every part of Europe; while the people of the United States, still pliant ‘vassals of the Engheb mind, re-echoed the oft-repeated English elander that the Freuch people were not goverment. now seemed to be at the top of its bveryihing had gone as it bad con- the extremest depiis of French un- eliet which liad peen steadily widens betief—an ur ing since livs—it had apparentiy recovered its em- pire at a single bound, and stood undispured master Over @ proue and heipiess country, which had ve- come & mere State of siireds aud patches, It is Dot to be Wondered at, there: toat, inflated with the establishment of tyat Rome, and intoxl- cated will Its recent victory over republican liberty | In Spain, the Courch regarded its miracuions reas. | cendeacy in Fraace as a direct manifestation by Heaven that 1 should resume its vicegereacy throughout the wovid over the aairs or men. [t was iD (his spirit entered Paris at the head of the army of \ersatiies, and p A MASSACKE gimply to punish it for veing heretic. ' That was the terrible logic Of the indiscriminate si@aghter of both triend and foe—ot not only women but o chil. dren—during We ruthiess stretch of five long days, Was the reason Why, during Liat orgie of ass jon, DO amnesty Was ever offered, no mercy ever shown, and also the reason why (he sanctuary itgelf was permiited to be violated by the massacre of 700 shrieking refugees at the altar of the Made- leine. No power but Kome would have dared to ventore that; no authority but that of the Cburch would Nave Gvandoned the priestly hostages to their mbayys Laie uy refusing, ws ii did, to agape the 08 fOr | fide. | | trayed, they nad, since 1193, | Was a constitauonal mouareny | | | loan, but by subscribiug tt twice over. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1871 exchange of the Archnishop and any three others of them for Blangul. Like the sanctuary, however, it felt that the hostages were i's own, todo with as it pleased, and it coldly consigned them to death and | tne doubtful solace of a place among the saints | rather than remit one murder from the ranks of the | Commune It is never a projenged instinct of human nature | | to butcher the defenceless; and had the subjugation | of the capital been leit solely to the soldiers of Ver- saiiles, they Would not have forgotten how bravely | Paris had sustained tor months the whole pressure | of the Prussian siege, nor denied the honorable rights of a belligerent to a heroism which for two mouths more Nad withstood the entire miliary | Weight of France—a belligerency which had always | respected the lives of its own captives, and which numbered more actual combatants th 11s cause than | could be mustered under the banner of Switzerland | or Denmark. But the religious bigot, of whatever faith, always prefers to move knee deep in blood, | and never re.axes the tury of bis blows while there | Temains anytning to kill, “ His inexorable hate does not stop even with the mortal death of his oppo nent, bat he sinks hts fangs ito his very memory, = disuls over iv the abundant poison of his defama- 100, T have now given you TUR TRUE THRORY OF THR MASSACRE which so turtiled (ne world, It was executed on an order secretly issued in cold blood, calling for 100,000 lives, The philosophy of the perpetration | was, that infldeliity needed an example; und, as I | have said before, Paris was butchered for the crime | of being heretic, Even yet the Church is cailing out for executions, aud the only journals in France | Which Will Hot hear of mercy tw the 30,000 politteal | | | prisoners sull untried are tuose Which are 1D eval- gelical employ. a sisted by thts insight, the public will now begin | to understaad the strange spectacle which broke upon it N AFTER THE VALL OF THE COMMUNE. Not onty was the world surprised to hear a call | made by tue new Assembly for ail branches of tie | old Bourbon lune to return and seek the throne, but it was puzzied to the last degree at the outcry. Which came pouring in from every | bishopric throughout the land demanding that | Frauce, renovated and regenerated in the faih, | should’ draw the sword for tie restoration of the Pope. A holy vertigo seemed to have seized upon tle victors In this singular campaign, Noth lug appeared too much Jor thew to hope; and, drunk Wuh the red steam which arose from every tene- mentin Parts, they rattled the old implements of torture aud actually threatened modern society with the reorganization of the Juguisition. This 13 no fancy sketch. Every reader of the journals of the day will recall to miud numerous tacts to verify the picture, and lew will forget that mos¢ singular incl- deat of ail, wien that abaudoned corruptor of the puolic morals, Dumas ji/s, who has lived by de- bauching the French mind for the last thirty years, came out to swell the common cry by proclaiming that the country merited its mistortunes lor being cbc in morality and deticient in religious faith, Tats estimable teacher had evidently nominated luimself as a worthy coadjutor in a restoration that Was expected to unite the exaltation of a St Louis With the virtue of a Pompadour. Encouraged by this strange state of aftaira, and a3 much misied by it as the priests, the monarehisis of Europe set up & Universal shout of rejoicing over the dead body of the Commune, and_ the various as- pirants to the throne of France few back to its | Shores. like birds of prey, to tear at the carcase of \ the fainting country, ‘Among these claimants M. ‘Thiers most favored the Orieantsts, but the priests promptly declared in favor of THE COUNT DB CHAMPORD, the legitimate descendant of tue elder Bourbon Itne. Ile had been nurtured in the bosom of the Church, had always accepied its mandates as superior to temporal authovity, and had never ceased to avow that the rulership of France inured to him and his lamily as a “divine right.’ ‘This was the very can- didace for the priests, Under him the Church could be restored to the possessions stripped from it in 1793, the scandal of popular elections would be | made to cease, the Inquisition could perhaps in due | ume be eilectively reconstituted, and all future heresy aud unbelief put down wita an tron haud, | The only other national election whieh was to be allowed . was that which had now be >me neces. sary to fill the vacancies made by recent troubles in the ranks of the Assembly, Aiicr that tue Assembly would remain sovereiga antl the cession O! the King, and then quietly siuk back 1119 & subservient councl, subject to bis will and pleasure. : iuis was the SS that was to supplement the massacre of Paris; and so quietly was 1t received by France that the Orleans Princes made @ bargain With the Cougtde Chainbord to the effect that the | royal heritage should pass from his chiidiess loins back iuto their equally legitimate but more fertle | Dranch. At this tame spectacie the wiseacres 01 the | World again shrieked out that France had once | More suuk back, contented, into despotism; and | that this was but anotner proof that the French, as | @ peopie, were utterly unfit to be entrusted witn seli- | government. Of course Americans, having the dis- Interested opinions of England—that devoted ad- mulrer of foreigners of every type—to guide them, were the loudest of all in echoing thts cry, and in reiterating that the French were too dickie for any instituuion but an empire. In the meantime the French people, who had been thoughtfaliy looking on, quietly prepared them- seives to Show that the contrary was the case—that though hemmed in by monarchsand repeatediy be- given imstauce after in- stauce (verified oy myriads of lives), that since that date, at least, they had always been STEADY TO LIBEMTY, PICKLE ONLY TO OPPRESSION. | Ald so, unless Lentirely misunderstand them, will \ they remain. ‘rhe task which they bad now before them was to make their comimeut upon the action Of the princes and the priests througa the medium of the polls fud through the subscription of the sum necessary to enable the goverumeut to buy the iuvader Irom the soi. | Was te cuormous guiount of two milllards of | | fraucs. ‘fo obtain Uus suin M, Thiers had ordered | aloan to be laid vefore the capitailsts of Europe | aud had InVited subscriptious by assuring them de | his famous spe that “Monarchy was the fact of to-motiow,” while he especially uckled | he English by declaring Uiat his noUon of a republic ke theirs, in the face of Unese deciarations, bowevor; in the face, moreover, of all tne plots and expectations of the princes and the priests, tue people of France calmly came togetuer On the 2d of July and almost unani- mously declared for the republic, by returning re- publican delegates to all, or nearly all, the places voted for, And then, most wonderful of all, disdain- ing ioreiga aid, they put thelr hands into their pri- ckets an staked their money upon the form of government they had thus solemnly deciared for, by subscribing not only for the entire amount of the And yet we are told by those who, througit the facility of a com- mon Janguage, still impose their hereditary preju- dices upon the American mind, that a people capa- bie of suca sublime act as tulsa, @ people suscepuple | of such an tnspired and Intellectual patriotism, are ; not equal to self-government! The truth is—aa | these facts and @ thonsand others show—that the French people are fit only for a state of liberty, and | are properiy better adapted to an advanced form of | & republic than any other people on this side of the | | AUaguc. They have no prejudices they are aot wil- ing to relinguish; no religion which may not be subordinated to political independence, The highest article of their faith 18 a profound love of country and France alone ts the divme head of their theology. It 18 true that, with all their passionate love of liberty, they have occasionally been willing to accepta | master; but the explanation is that the master hay given ther for ther submission a large exchange of glory to lavish at the shrine of their ideal, So jealous are (hey of this inspired conception that they will not tolerate the title of King or Emperor of France, but only “of tie Frencd,” It ts logical, therefore, tuat a Pere pulmaved by such exalted ideas shonld re- a fall rd ali failures in the nation’s service as 4 sort of treason and stand ready to put unsuccessful gener- ais to death. Noone who has any true knowledge | of their charac vo such feeble will expect them to submit ong curities as now compose the ma- jority of the Assembly, or to remain content under ue control of defeated militacy meu who | shown that they are incapable of defending the country, the election of the 2d of July would go agatnst tie government, and why, aiter that election was over wud tue loau had veeo subscribed at Lome, I be- | Heved THE REPUBLIC WOULD PULL TitRoUGH. That 1s my opinion still, |” The electoral verdict was a thunderstroxe to the Teactionists in power at Versailles, wile the sub- scription showed a@ national seif-rellauce that ut- terly confounded Europe, ‘The kings and priests did | not know what to make of the two results together, and before they had recovered from their stupeface tion the municipal electioas of Paris, whicu toos place wirce weeks afer the national eleetion, éiartied them still more, Tue first verdict showed that Trance was republican at heart, and the next Tuese peuetrated even the duil ‘The priests tn- re upon Papal in- ain bord, demonstrated that ale Paris was Communist, two resuits together tervention; and the Couut de been receiving the homage of the vid nob | sort of court which he bad set up at Chantilly, folded his Uttie white fag and precipitately ran | number lesse, In & away, followed by the Princess of Orleans, it ts trug the priests remained, but the contemptuous laugh with which the people saluted the Church candidate betrayed their precarious cou- dition, and has had the effect of distinctly lowering their fone, Thiers also remained, but the litue gens tlemaa at once begaa to trim to the situation and to indicate a desire wo have bis i. ‘The old monarchist, NOW that the Kings was ready to Ue @ liberal again, pro- the republic Was reconstituted under his sand lic chosen as (he keystone of the new U the royalista and the priests, with whom M. | Thiers bag hituerto acted im concert, are not pieased With his new ambition has been made manifest tn Many Ways, ‘they oppose the prolongation of his | powers, and he has just been snubbed by the Pope, iu the flat refusal of canouteal investiture to the Opric of Ajaccio. Nevertheless, | presses has fortunes by tampering with the comuit- tees, aud frequently | THREATENS TO RRS | untess everything is con 7 By ard | by, when tle rigat ime comes, ght man will | ctediy rise, ANd ask him Why be does not ssembly by doing as ? This will be @ question excer almeuit nswer by & Man Who, since the late elec 4 has no real supporters in any part of the 1 | Like Ins government, he is entirely Incidental and provisional. He haa lost bis influence with the en threat royaisis by endeavoring to prolong Bis powers, | wiilio the radicals press that measure cliesy be- Cause it places him at their mercy on a dissolution | of whe Chamber, He, of course. with tne usual folly of ambition, beuleves that, once prolonged, he is xed as the Chief of State for life; but everything | Powis to the provabinty thats be will wot hold lus ‘The money needed for this latter purpose | have | ‘These are the reasons why I predic that | Who had | less | statement on this subject light of the | rovisional powers con- | Abbe d'istria, Whom he had nominated to the bieh- | gentieman | with the monster falsehood which made the execu- | {lon of 5,000 persons during that period lake the | dimensions of | present position for s1x months. Tn fact, the vote | for a republic, in face of his declarations for a mon- | archy, and the return of Gambetta by two promi- nent consutuencies, were distinct repudiauons, not to be mistaken, And now that we have glanced at THB COMPOSITION OF THB VERSAILLES GOVERN- MENT, with Its treacherous politicians, tts faded royalists, its beaten generals, its crafty monks, its gaudy | Yoluptuaries, ail crowding to the front, the masters of the hour, let ustarn for afew moments to the Communists and their mysterious allies, the Inter- nationale (who are the opposing forces in this bit- | terly coutested problem), and ascertain, If possible, what are their purposes aud who they are, TUE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MASSACRE OF PARIS. It is not popular to speak well of the Commune, or even to allude to the Iuternationale without an exe- cration. Iadeed, the worthy parties Who are classi- fled above have pronoun all of them to be thieves, atheists, adulterers and assassins; and tne world, charmed with such disinterested and unimpeach- able authority, has cheerfully accepted the ‘mis- creant” theory as a sensible elucidation of the Paris problem. The law of the proverb of “give a a @ bad name.” which merely implies a trick of imi- tation, has in this instance been largely overshot, for not only has the unthinking crowd delivered its passing kick with usual readiness, but the most ‘ro spectable’’ classes, and especially the High Church English clergy, have lost no opportunity to hound them, even from the pulpit, And with good reason, for the doctrines of the Commune and the Interna- tionale threaten to interfere largely with the “Iudus- try of Religion” in its business form; tuey threaten, likewise, to overthrow the infamous laud system of Great Britain; and not only that, but to burst and disrupt the entire aristocratic crust of Europe, $9 (hat those Who make the earth smile with lenty and cover it with pleasant dwellings may ve a due share of what their labor has created, ia here let me pause to say that in using the INDUSTRY OF RELIGION, I do not mean to speak with disrespect of the sweet aud simple faith which Jesus of Nazareth taught mankind when he had nowhere to lay his head, but of that organized conspiracy of acquisi- tion which has at times absorbed half the posses- sions of the world, which constantiy defames and misrepresents the beneficent character of God, and which earns its incomes and maintains its power by making women and children airaid to go to bed without alight. It is not the faith, but tne political practices of the Church, which those devout Cath- olics and Christians, Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel, Dr, Douinger, the Rey, Charles Voysey and others of like character uoshrinkingly condemn; and it is time that ailmen who have courage and love lib- erty should come to their support. It may be thought in the United States, where there is no con- nection between Church and State, that I make an invidious distinction against the ambition of the Church of Rome; but it will be observed that, while the various shades of Protestantism, which are in etfect the republicanism of Christianity, do not enter the field of politics in the United States at all, the Romish Church 18 constantly making political con- vel who hold their party positions by ostenta- tously attending mass, by money subsidies to Ca tholi¢ societies, and oy rigidly refraining from eat- ing meat on Fridays. nese things are true, and, in view of recent events which have happened in the City of New York, it 1s time they shouid be said. T have found it to be impossible, in attempting to explain the career and purposes ol the Cominune, to avoid making other reflections, or to excuse myself irom the task of ulimasking tho monarchical accord of the Papal hierarchy, and THE ENGLISH POLITICAL BIGN CuURCH. They are, in fact, the cnemy upon the other side, and it ts impossible to leave them out of the picture now before me, with any regard to truth, as it would. be to ignore the British and the Black Bran- swickers from the fleld of Waterloo, The Estab- lished Caurch in Europe, of every form of doctrine, even the Protestantism of Prussia, as well as the Greek Churcit of the great Northern Empire, assimt- lates itself nataraily with despotic power, aud con- stitutes itself, In a variety of ways (and largely by dis- couraging popular education), the Vigilant protector of the s‘atus yuo, Tne Church of Rome, particularly having arrived at universal empire under the Popes‘ in the eleventh century, when all other forms of human government were uncertain and distracted, became the first great model for all the subsequent selfish conservatism of the world. Obeying this in- stinct, if hag steadily opposed Itself to all advance- ment in popular education, except where it con- trois; all development in science that threatens to = its errors; and all progress in civil and religious liberty which may enable man to deal more directly with his Maker and set up an under- standing forhimsell. It matters not how much It may, in republican couniries, appear to yield to the enerous flow of national and domestic liberty; it 3 at all times the subtle and deadly foe of true democratic development, and | need point to no stronger illustration ot this fact than the present political condition of the city of New York. There under its influence, the native population has sunk to the condition’ of a conquered race; there, the elective iranchise and republican institutions are ractically dead; and there public and private liperty, security of property and justice in the courts are subverted under the debauched and Tuitian rule of an eee iien A of the gutter. It was not much worse in France previous to tho Revyolation of 1793, That was the ume when THE OLD CRUST OF EUROPEAN DESPOTISM, which had been laid over the world tor nearly 51x teen centuries by the princes and the priests, broke into pieces, and the previously unseen apparition of the people swarmed through the crevices, and for the first time came to the front. ‘That was tue date of the creation of the Commune, and of the lnaugura- lion o1 a fraternal spirit, which 1p these latter days has become the Internationale. The first act of the revolution was (he constitution of municipal liberty, fs te preiminary aud necessary globule to the or- ganization of national liberty; and the present In- ternationale 13 simply the extension of the principle of national fraternity to an unlimited brotherhood ofall the world, It 18 organized chiefly in the tn- terest of those who work, though it does not meditate the invasion of any of the honestly acquired rights of (hose who don’t; while the Commune is purely a locai compact, established to secure domestic liberty and @ reasonable local independence. !’revious to the Revolution of 1793, which may be regarded a3 the date of the new birth of manu. Kind, 80 adrvitly lad society been organized by privilege and power, that everywhere the masaes Of mankind were mere swarms of laboring ants, While in France, as we are told by M. Thiers 1 his capacity as a historian, cleven-twelfis of the eutire substance of the people, or, in otlier words, of the annual product of the country, was absorbea jointly by the Church, the nobies and the crown, ‘The other twelfth was cnurlisnly left to those who produced the whole. Here was a fine constitution of “society” by Messrs, The Cuurch, The Novies & The Crown. But this was not ail Tne laborer, who was allowed only one-twelfth of his earnings, received even less than one-twelfth of personal Tespect from his oppressors. He was subjected to Dumerous diMiculues in the cultivation of the land, His crops were always liable to be trampled and Falloped over when the three estates went out to hunt. He was, in ceriain seasons, forbidden to manure tho earth, as that process was thought to impair the flavor of young bode es. When the lady of the manor was in childbed ali the peasantry near by were deprived of sleep aad turned into the flelits to beat the rushes, that the nolse of the fr might not distarb her slumbers. When palaces were to be built, or the public roads repaired, they Were conscripted er masse, and worked like cattle under the yoke and whip, And lastly, it was pro- | vided by the law (made, be tt borne 1i mind, when | the Church was at the zenith of its power), that be- fore the vluslung girl could go to the arms of the betrouied youth Whose heart was in her bosom the | lord of the manor had the right of first taking ner | to his bed. It was against this ignomintous slavery that the people of France revoited in 1703, and by teir determined spirls let gut aud liberty ia upon the world, | It 1s said that they were guilty of very great ex- césses; tat they confiscated the property of the nobles and of the clergy; that they plundered the churenes, Killed the king, set up the gulliotine and | even had so poor an opinion of the priests, who bad been parties to their degradation, that they threw off their teacning altogether and setup a religion of their own. DOUBTLESS THEY COMMITTED GREAT EXCESSRS, for they had been greatly wronged, and were, for the most part, very ignorant; nevertheless, we know | they have been infamousiy ied about, for, even tak- lug the reports of their detractors at the worst, wo find that the whole of the public executions during | the so-called “Reign of Terror,” throughout tue en- ure of France, did not amount in naimber to one- | sixth of the victlins who were recently butchered | by the present Church government of Versaiues in | the “Massacre of Paris.” The executions of the | Reigu of Terror were, for Paris, only 2,800, and for | ail France together, not bearing ont the much. | trumpeted horrors of La Vendée and noyades of the Loire, less than @ total of five thousand, while the | murders perpetrated in this capital vetween the 22d and the 27th of May, on a merciless order, issued | atthe instance of an exasperated priestuood, “to | kill everything tn heretic Paris that could be found | alive,’ Were, according to the last accounis, not than forty thousand. This latter figure 1 optain from. a most responsible French source. The London Times has set the down at 60,000, and {ts latest which I haye not seen contradicted) 18 that the total number of citizens of Paris killed and wounded tn this shuddering tragedy | was 100,000. Thus the Reign of Terror—that mouster | horror of history, which has been the unceasing theme for the execrations of English literature and for tne denunciations of ail the puipits of the world—sinks into comparative insignisicance pefore the orthodox assassination of the Commune, which, | under the saine system of misrepresentation, is still eilclting the world’s appiause, The secret of this | latter demonstration is that the dreaded spectre of democracy ies underpeatn the veil of the Commune, | as 1b did in the drama of 1798; and suck part of it a | cannot be murdered outright is to ve put to death by defamation, rough sources which are com | monly recoguized by men as “most respectable, | Turning again to the Keign of Terror, by way of testing the accuracy of these so-called “respectable” autborities, we find everything distorted in keeping @ Million. THB AROUSED PEOPLE | were designated as a rabble of Uuevea, aticists and | assassins; the Women, Who naturally enough focked | to the scene of execution with tie rest of the popa- | Jauioa, were depicted as fends and turies such as | were begotton of no Other land, aud every repuvil- | can cuiel was distorted into some monstrous con- | tradi¢tion of What he ought to be or what he really was, Thins Danton, Who died invoking the name of | Lis beautiful and beloved wife, Was characterized 64 an abandoned debauchee; Rovespierre, whio, | though controlling tho revenues of Frauce, lived econonucally and died Pag epee | poor, was represented as a flagrant pianderer Of We public moneys; while Murat Was wasparingly represented @3 a creature of detestable (ituiness of person, who, aa he appeared upou to strects with matted eyes, looked*rather like a wild beast issuing from his lair than the rational philosopher it was his ambition to appear. mpi history, subsequently written by an honest hand, has re- corded, however, that he was assassinated in his both, ‘by Charlotte Corday, where she had made sure to find him, because that refined in- Adee tlwart real sogcepy ita etre BOT] ways treading 80 deeply into of Taigenodd that am disposed to doubt whether the famous orgies to the Goadess of Reason which have been made to figure so prominently as the spe- celal scandal of that period were not the casual freak of a few abandoned characters, who, upon some exceptional occasion, hau got temporary pos- session of the Church of Notre Dame. I {vei strong. ly jusuded im leaning vo this view by THE BQUAL SLANDER which has just veen disseminated by the royalist and Church journals of this cliy against a republi- can sere which took place last week at Lyons The main feature of the demonstration was a procession of school children, who went to a picnic, acpompe nied in largo part by their teachers and their chil- dren. It was ch “i in these journals that, among other indecenctes of ‘the occasion, the children were made drunk, and whue in this swinish .state were required to sing atheistic and obscene songs, Of course such @ scene as this was utterly impossible and never could have been permitted, mucn less pa- tronized, by parents and teachers in any age of the world; but it was not too gross a conception for the monkish mind against godless deio- crats, and though all Lyons has refuted the calumny with @ burst of indignation, al- most attended with @ rush to arms, the story will probably go down to posterity among iiiuminated chronicles, and be treshiy uttered by the most “respectable” authority, when the testt- mony of the fathers and mothers and honest citizens of Lyons has evaporated from the current of events, It is necessary to bear in mind this constant ten- dency to falsenood on the part of those who hate and fear the people, and whose every interest in liie consists in making it appear that they are base by pani and unilt to be trusted to their own con- trol hatr and savage THE CITY OF PARIS, as the main theatre of events during the great revo- lution, proiited most rapidly by the ripening eifects of liberty, and soon became the acknowledged, life. inspiring central orb in the new planetary system of democracy. While shaping the nation to the form ofarepublic sbe organized herself into a seli-de- Pending Commune; and though obliged to assume a sort of leadership, from the very necessity of her position, she e,tended her municipal plan to all the cities ofthe country. In this way Marseilles, Lyons, Bordeaux, Metz and other places of cor responding rank became the great centres of intelligence and auction, and France, from that date, fell into the habit of looking to them for political direction, The siruggies which Paris has since gone through to maintata this relative inde- endence, and also to recover republican liberty rom the repeated betrayals of monarchical and moukish Influences, are familiar to every reauer of French history, The great thing to be regretted in this connection 1s, that Americans have not read what the English call ‘French fickleness” arignt, and given a due credit to that nobie spirit of unrest which never will be satlsfled wiih anything short of the largest independence, ‘This was the state of feeling in which Paris founa liself when THIERS AND HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS, after the treaty with victorious Prussia, meditated the still more inglorious surrender of the nation to tue hands of a Ee Assembly and @ monkish candidate. The whole state of affairs was the re- sult of a Church plot, from the elections of Fevruary to the proposed disarming o! the capital; and when the unmistakable signs were given that it was the intention of the Assembly not only to degrade Paris trom being any longer the seat of government. but to deprive it of its elective charter, there was nothing left lor its citizens to do but fight. Every friend of France will recollect how heart- sickening was the news, jast as that bleeding coun- try Was most in need of rest, that Paris, with what seemed to be @ demoniac rage, had plunged the country into THE FRESH HORRORS OF A CIVIL WAR. The world was out of patience wih what seemed to be a wanton and paricidal act, and readily adopted all the slanders which the conspirators made haste to spread against it, Paris, in the meantime, had no leisure to correct these calumnies. She knew them to be a part of the common war that is always levied by oppresston, and the most she could do waa to address herself to arms. Her patriotic citizens knew, as Well as any others of the inhabitants of France, the necessity of the union of all classes to ‘withstand the weight of the invader; but they knew, at the same time, that the Versaiilaise government, with its secret monarchical alilances, its Prussian “understandings” and its Romish sympathies, was the deadliest enemy with which those who had re- publican liberty at heart could join. In this dilemma every portion of the Parisian horizon was black, A Jealousy .had been craftily circulated among the other cittes against the ambition of the captial, while a further calumay was circulated tn the provinces, {hat Paris was but mitiating a comb‘nation by which the cities were to do ail the thinking and voting for the rural districts, On the outer line of this dark Picture there was a cordon of frowning monarchies, allanimated by a single wish for the triumph ot Versailles, 1n order that by the restoration of the Bourbons royalty might again become uniform in Europe. Notwithstandlug this gloomy outlook, there was still in the heavy sky one point of bope— one sign which encouraged it with the promise of anally whose power excensled, not only over France, hay, not only over the whole European Continent, but honeycombed even the power of Prussia itself, ‘This was the weight ol the banded workmen of the workd—the Internationale, Paris, therefore, again accepted the perilous duty which deaiuny has con- signed to her, and drew the sword, not so much With the hope of conquering the superior army of Versailles as to hold out long enough against its ots y TO BNABLR FRANCE TO THINK, first, France, and then her Commuiist brothers of the Continent. It was a rational, worthy, well-con- ceived design. Paris had every reason to beueve that her sister cities, aud even large portions of the army of Versailles, would soon come to her sup- ports and that upon this success the fire might take eyond the nation’s borders, as it nad ip 1793 and again in 1843. 1b was upon the basis of this later expectation that she appealed (o Europe on the 16ta of May, by casting down the Column of Venddme, while In pursuance of the previous hope she was constantly sending deputatious to Lyons and Mar- sellies, asking tiem to co-operate with her in the armed protest sie had raised. Unfortunately the republican leaders tn those cities and provinces had been affected by the suspicions circutaied against Parisian ambition, and tne couniry people, veng actively worked on by the priests, were induced to trust to the false assurances of Theirs. These were, as it will be recollected, that Paris should be justly dealt with, aud, that they might rematn content, no form of government but that of @ republic was contemplated by Versailles. Under these perfidtous assurances republican departments then held their nands; and the outside leaders of the Internationale, ignorant of the opportunity they had lost, remained dormant to the crisis, and gave no sign. ‘Thus was abandoued to destruction, and to @ Villification too monstrous to be chvracterized, one of the noblest bodics of meu who ever oilered themselves as a sacriitce to liberty, THBIR CAUSE, HOWEVER, IS NOT LOST. Tuough 40,000 of them have perisved in a massacre which has no parallel in history, the manner of their deatb bas put the world in thought; and presently we shall see the blossoms of their sacrifice Appear, Already the republicans of the country per- ccive the sad error they committed, and when the time for vengeance shall arrive the movement against the murderers will be inward froin the de- partments, and not within disarmed and decimated Paris, That movement may be imaugarated at any moment; ahd when tt sets in there will be biooaShed inaugurated on the part of tuose who have heretofore been preaching only fraternity, hiumanity and peace. fhere are many who beiteve that the fatal error of ali repablican revolutions in France since 1793 has been that the philosophers at the head of them have always abstained froin taxing life, except in the direct way of battle; but it ta be- lieved, now that these idealists have the massacre of Paris to reflect upon, they will, on the next ocea- sion, adopt a different line of tactics, When they move in this practical way the time will lave ar- fb the lauded aristocracy to be upon their nard, have but one or two more things to say, now that I Gnd my subject will run beyond the limits of the present lotier, an’ one of these things ts to ddd, in connection with What Ihave said avove, that 1 shall be able to show in my next that the Com munists, INSTEAD OF BEING THE WOLFISH MISCREANTS they have been deacribed, Included peg Sang the worthiest and most intellectual people of Paris, and comprised ia (heir ranks nearly the whole of the population of the cliy. That their rule Was characterized by moderation, order and justice; that they were the guardians of the public morals; respecters of religion; protectors of public a3 Well as private property, and that during their entire term of power they did not piunder a single institution, clerical or civil, or perpetrate a single execullon, More chan this, that they did not, In the last Lours ot their fearful trial, fire one building that Was not necessary to their military defence, and that the report that there were men, women and chil- dren engaged during these last hours in scattering | avout petroleam with the view of purning up tue city, Was aud is an utter falsendod, without a grain of trath for its foundation. There were only four private houses burned, and they were situated at strategic points, and I deliberately affirm that there Was not such a thing a8 4 petrojeuse or petroleum thrower, man or Woman, during the whole term of sack aud conflagration, ‘That, like the story of the Communist firemen pumping petroieum on the fires in order to increase the Hames, was a faoricas tion of Versatlies, invented purely for the purpose of justifylig the murder of the city. THE INTERNATIONALE. Of the Internationale | have only time to say that it is the secret organization of the laboring Billions of Ail countries, who are the source of tie material progress of the world; that while it proceeds upon the conviction that society must. be remodelled to meet the neces- sities Of We present and the future of mankind, i does nol, 48 18 erroneously cuargedl, meditate any invaston Ot the honesuy acquired rights of property, any interferferenco with religious beliefs or any disturbance Of the soctal or family relations depen- dvut on the marriage te. 1t 1s slinply an organiza tion of labor to protect the rights of labor, but, to this end, it Alms vo overthrow al! the despotism of tue carta, that ail power may be restored to the direct f entalives of the peopie, Sreanenty and freely chosen from among Wiemselves. This mighty them to crawl about Among thetr riches like tie pia. ales that they were, wile man came forward @¢ by one sudden fash of revelation, in nis noblest labar- ing and creative attitude, which 1s God. GEORGE WILKES. GOLDSMITH MAID’S TIME AT MILWAUKEE, {From the spirit of the Times, September 16.) A-great deal of discussion and some dispuie have arisen in trotting circies concerning the reputed performance of Goldsmith Malad at Milwaukee, where her tline was set down in the race against Lucy as 2:17 We do not see any grouud upon which tofound.a reasonable doubt that she went round the track in 2:17, or thereabouts, and we think it will tend to the satisfaction of our readers and serve the true interests of the turf if we review the circumstances of this notable case and point Out the bearing of the rules upon it, There is no reason to believe that the judges did not keep the time and render it in good faith, and this being 80, it isto be accepted as an unquestionable fact that from her start co her return to the score she was 2:17. But there are some other things to be considered, as we shall presently if this is @ performance unwortoy Pt under the rules enacted upon general principles we shail so declare. ‘this 18 a duty imantifest and impera- tive upon all journals which give @ prominent place to trotting news, and most imperative of all upon this, A great deal has been sald by some people which leads us to belleve that they think this a sort of issue between Goldsmith Matd and Dexter. We do not so regard it. The rights and fame of other horses are involved, Lady Thorn has a record second only to that of Dexter himself, American Girl has trotted in 2:19 and George Palmer in 2:19. Moreover, the rights of tne already famous horses Henry, Jay Gould, ‘thomas Jefferson, Judge Fuller. ton, &C., Ought not to be compromised, and their possible future performances forestalled, by any re- puted mile not made according to the rules. Since the news of this performance reached New York some of the most wary and able men we know have contidently pronounced 18, in their own expressive language, “a put up job.” We shall now state facts which are admitted, Saying nothing for the present about some things which have given rise to grave suspicions. Tne Cold Spring Course, upon which ‘this race took place, is such that it aifords an oppor- tunity for drivers, acting in collusion with each other, to deceive the judges in a mannor not possi- ble upon any other course. A quarter of a mile of it on the backstretch 13 totally obscared from thetr sigit, running beaind buses and woods, and we are informed by those who Know it well that it ts utterly impossible fer the judges in the stand to tell whether the horses ran or trot that part of the ground. Now, we will apply this state of things to the existing rules. The ‘rotting Convention, for the furtherance of justice and fair play and for the hindrance of trickery and. imposition, enacted as follows:—"NO heat shall be trotted when it13 60 dark that the horses cannot be plainly seen by the judges from tne stand,” &o What iy the reason for this ruley What 1s the object of i? The reason for it is that no confidence whatever can be placed 1n the doings of drivers aud horses when they are out of sight of the judges. The object of it is to prevent all trotung under circumstances which make 1t impossible 1or the judges to come to a just and true judgment from their own observations, Lhereiore the reason of this rule and the spirit of it are suMcient to invall- date all time upon the slilwaukee course, except as & bar against the horses reported to have made it, No heat shall be trotted when “the boraes cannot be pany seen by the juages irom the stand.” Well, they can never be seen Jor one-fourth of the mile upon this Cold Spring Course, and this fact, in the light and sprit of the rules, extinguishes the value of Goldsmith Maid’s heat as a time perform- ance, ‘There is no escape from this conclusion. The decision of the judges is good so far as they had the means of coming to @ fair and accurate judg- ment, and no further, This principle has not only been enacted by tae Trotting Con- vention but also laid down by one of the highest courts of law in Christendom. In the case of Sadler against Kelley, tried in England before the Judges of the Exchequer, the suit was to recover Sadler’s money in a boat race match on the Thaines, tue referee having ordered Kelley to row over the course alone, upon the ground that Sadler had refused to start, and the stakes having been paid to Kelley. In giving judgment the Chief Baron sald, in substance, as a Wise and disciminating judge, “wuere aieferee in a race decides in good faith, after having had an opportunity to witness the facts upon which his decision ought to rest, the courts of tls country Will not set it aside, but sus tain it. Buc where, in the very nature of things, it was impossible that the reteree could have wit- hessed the transaction upon which his judgment is alleged to have been founded the courts will not re- gard his finding as final.” This is good law, and is founded upon good reason, as good law always 1s. Let itbe applied to this case, The transaction to be wituessed, necessary to the final establish- ment of the time, Was what the mare trotied a mile. In the very nature of things 15 wag tmpossible for the judges to witness this be- cause she was out of their sight one-fourth of the way, The first Trotting Convention established this principle, neyer knowiug that the Chief Baron of the English Exchequer Chamber had also laid it down, wad we have merely applied it, But there ts another fact in connecuon with this course to be considered, and it 1s vital to the performance in re- gard to it as a record of time. This Cold Spring course 13 eighteen feet short of a mile, according to their own measurements and showing. All the tracks of the National Association are required to be ® mile, measured three feet from the pole. The language of the article is, “measured just three feet from the pole—that is to say, the inside fence or ditch.” Now, Mr. Dobie, Mr. Hickok and the City Surveyor of Milwaukee Mad no power Lo repeal this saw the day alter the trot and set up another Method of measurement, in order Co make a sliort track elgnteen feet long All thei fine theories avout measurements by the revolutions of a sulky wheel, instead of by the Chain, aud their pro found dictum about how near a horse can trot to the fence, are of no more value than the nostrums advertised by swindliag quacks 8s panaceas for making old ‘men young again. The ‘roving Con- vention happeas tu have decided these questions herorehand, and to have tacorporated ihe ruies ior measurement into fis laws. ‘Just three feet rom the pole? Do you know what that means, block- heads? Now, What consequences eusue when It 1s found that alleged time was made upon a short track? Simply these: it remains operative as a bar against the horse making it, but is a nullity for any adirmative purpose in his or her favor, Tius, rule 28 of tie betting rules gays, “When @ horse makes time on @ short track it shall not constitute @ record for tue decision of bets.’ uy rule was adopted with the hearty as- sent of every member of the committee appointed by the first Trotting Convention, viz., Captain Ryn- ders, Join L, Cassady, Wiliam Shaw, Frank Do B. G. Brace aud Charles J. Foster. Its Justice an propriety were never impeached, and the committee appointed by the last Trotling Convention reaf- firmed it, What follows from ail this is so plain that @ waylaring man, though @ fool, may see it. It 1s Goldsmith Maid’s misfortune that this reputed ume was in a heat where the judges in the stand could not see the horses for & quarter of a mile, and overa track which 1s admitted co be short when measured according to the established rules, But this wiil not prevent her from making it on some track which 18 @ iull mile, and under the observa- tion of the judges all the way, if she can do it without running. ‘There 1s one thing more we fecl compelled to notice, It has been stated by many newspapers that Goldsmih Maid and Lucy are owned by the same map, Tne Philadelphia “ress afiirms this twice in a long arti- cle concerning Goldsmith Maid’s performance and its townsman, Dobie, who drove her, These popers, inciuding the New York World and the Philadelphia Press, seem to thins it all right that one man should be the owner of two horses trotting races of heats, ostensibly against each other, although the tatrer paper qualifies it by adding that no pools are sold where ihey trot together. “This last is not true, and it it were true it Would be nothing to the purpose. If the owner of Goldamith Maid owns Lucy, or any interest in_her, every occasion upon which they go in a race of heats together is a gross breach of the ruies, a farce and a swindle, BASE BALL MATTERS, Owing to the severe storm which prevailed all day yesterday the game which was announced to take place between the Putnams, of Troy, and the Amitys, of South Brooklyn, did not come of This 1s the second time the elements have interposed to prevent a meeung of these two iamious junior or- ganizations, To-day the return game between the Fiyaways, of this city, and the Putnaims, of Troy, will be played on the lower diamond at the Capitotine, The Atiantics and Stars also play a return game to-day, this to take place on the upper grounds, Next Tuesday tne Mutuais, of Wasuingtou, D. 0, (juniors), & club which 1s said to be composed of really flac material, will arrive m this city aud will play the Flyaways in the aiternoon. They are also engaged to play the Amitys ou the 20th and the Montauks on the 21st inst. Yesterday moraing 4 large party of gentiomen as- sembled at Johnson's, corer of Twenty-eiguth Street and Broadway, Where pools were being sold on the Kockford-Cleveland game, which took piace pesteraay morning, at hall-past ten o'clock, on the ‘air Ground near Cleveland, Pools will aiso be sold at the same place tina afternoon on the Mutual-Los- ton game, Which takes place thls afternoon in Bos ton. POLIUE PEOULIARITILS, Mr, Crooker, clerk in a drag store on Use corner of Ninth avenue and Sixty-third street, brought a charge against Policeman Keating, of the Twenty. secoud precinct, before the Police Commissioners yesterday morning, He said that he left the store to go into a lager beer salooa, some distance down the Diock. Im the saloon he met some men who asked him to take @ second glass of beer, He aid 80, bub remarked that the party were noisy. AS he was leaving (he satvon one of the crowd said he would kill every Dutehinan in the country; aud another one struck him in the face. He called upon Keating to arress the asgail- aut, butthe officer took iim into custody Insiead. ‘The clerk expostulated with the policeman, but to Ho purpose. ‘the blue coat conveyed hin to the station house, Crookers employer then came out organization, which now extends ‘hroughout ail countries, the United States as well as hurupe, and which makes monarchs as weil a8 presidents tremble on their thrones, is the creation, mainly of the last twenty years, 1 owes its or.gin directly to tho roat Oxhibitions Known a8 ‘he Works Fairs, the st of wiich Was Held 1 london in 1861 and the last In Paris In 1867. These great celebrations of iuventive genius made, the Kings who assisted at A TEMPLE OF MAMMON. Opening To-Day of the Renovated Stock Exchange, The'Changes that Have Been Made—Appoarance of the New Board Room—The Most Splen- «id Commercial Hall in the Wocld, Tho altered and renovated Stock Exchange, fim ished yesterday afternoon, will be opened to-day with appropriate speeches, and on Monday will echo again to the shonts and yells of buils and bears. It 4s Dow the most splendid and most beautiful hall of the kind in the wide world, {ts walls, splendid with the dull flash of goid and bright with hangings and decorations of crimson and yellow and gold, seem, indeed, altogether too gaudy a framework to enclose the struggling crowd who make the howling pandemonium at the open boara. One cannot, also, help reilecting bow excruciatingly Polgnant will be the pangs of some ruined game- ster, a8 he stands, with pale face and dry lips and throbbing, terror-stricken heart, in the midst of all this obtrusive magnificence. How exquisitely bitter will be the contrast between this mutely eloquent flnery aud his empty purse! Happy for him uf it shall be merely ill luck that presses him back into the ranks of veggary! Many and many a miserable wretch, in like case, has been forced to contem- plate, with the mind’s eye, as a hideous and un- avoidable future, the cell of the felon or the solitary chamber of the suicide. Ay, and many and many ane other dreary tragedy of the same terrible species, and tnged with the same dreadful tints of crime and avarice and treachery, will work out its dreadfal course in this new and splendid temple that will be thrown open again On Mouday for the daily wor- ship of Mammon. Itis wonderful that the gentlemen to whom the charge of the alterations has been confided should have succeeded so well and so completely in the limited time that was allowed them for the task, Tne work was only begun in June, and much in- deed has been done, On the New street side the building, with its two floors, has been change into a single hall, fifty feet in height. Peruaps, on entering, there seems to be some lack of proportion between this great height and the Jength and width of the room, It 13 only 52 feet by 72, and it has a height, therefore, just abous equal to its wiith, However, the architect has done his best by skillul use of the little gallery for strane gers and the seat of the President to impart as much 8 possible on air of Just proportion, He hag also Overcome the more serious difliculty of the irre; larity of shape of the room. As it stands now a Visie tor would at once pronounce 1% reciangular, Where+ as the fact is that the tines of the wall stray couside Tabiy from a periect oblong. On each side four pilasters—that is to say, four- teen pliasters in all—have been carried up to sup. port the new roof. In technical plirase, the room bas been “treated with grouped asters.” The Pilasters are built of brick, faced with stucco ani Git with a pecultar dull gold, which gives an alr of Suostantial magnificence that is singularly 1mposiny nd impressive. The pilasters, however, are not yerfeculy solid; through the centre of each a tue Tus up to the roof, which has been utilized for pur- poses of venulation. ‘The pilasters have composite capitals. Supported by these pilasters, a vanited ceiling, With a ground of blue, relieved by various forms of decorative tracery, encloses the hall and forms @ nobie and appropriate roof for this handsome build- lug. The ceiling 1s panelied with deeply recessed and enriched panels, With ornamental ribs springing from the capitals of each column, Nothmg could pe more effective, especially in the admirable light which foods the room through the windows facing on New street. Round the base of the room 13 @ pedestal course, with a base and cornice of tron, Great atteution has been patd to perfectly ventil- ating and heaung the room, any of Our most imposing modern structures are planned with shametul neglect of these great considerations, But the new Stock Exchange will be admirably provided for in these particulars; and tts atmoi phere, in spite of the vast multitude that will con- stantly crowd its narrow area, Will be as pure and sweet and iresh as il the buying and selling of the accumulated wealth of this great Continent were being carried on under tho wide arch of heaven, This will, indeed, Le a great boon to the brokel especially as defects in this regard were the greal drawbacks of the old chamber. Besides the hues in the pilasters, which constantly carry up the vitiated air to the roof, there is a fan and a cold air chimney. Tre heating 1s efected underneath the floor of the Board room by means of steam coils, and it 1s introducea into the hall through the per+ jorations of the wainscol. The lighting 1s done by means of asunhght in the roof, and the arrange- ments for sncreasing or lessening the pressure of gas 1s very periect, s ‘The gencrai decorations of the hall may perhaps be regarded by purists as somewhat over florid and extravagant. The lower windows are surrounded by a crimson cloth, With folds, Agatnst the goid ot the pilasters, the crimson comes out with singular! good efect. The furniture of the room 1s iu «a colored wood, The President’s desk 13 @ masst Piece of woodwork, and 1s very Chastely carved. AWay up over it 13 the shield of the United Stated and te inscription “New York Stock Exchange.” In front of the President's desk is a little sort of amphitheatre, with four steps, and an oval counter 1p the centre. In this will stand the bidding bullg and beurs. On either side of the desk are hat aud wasiiug rooms, Which will be uader the charge of clerks especially appointed for such duries, Tie strangers’ gallery 1s at the end farthest from the President, and, with a slender ratling of delicately traced fron work, lias a singularly graceful and airy Q@ppearance. It may be doubled, though, whethcr Visitors Will have at such a distance any falr chance of hearing distinctly the bids, But who but a broker’ can ever hear anything at the open board, except it be cat-calis and Lhe sercam of roosters, and, per haps, now and then, a stanza of “Up in a balioon,’? or some equally humorous and popular song of the day? ‘The entire Exchange has also been thoroughly overhauled, The government room has Leen ene larged, and now presents, with its rows of solemn looking chairs, even @ more impressive demeanor thaa of yore, New sets of water closets have alsa been introduced, and the corridors and passages thoroughly furbished up and renovated, A FOOLISH YOUNG WIFE. She Elepes, the Second Day After Her Mam riage, With n Young New York Rascal--ffe Kobs Her of $1,009 aud Leavos Her to Her Fate. (From the Kansas Clty (Mo.) Times, Sept, 6.) Soon after the arrival of the cleven o’ciock Hannt- bal and St. Joseph train on Monday night the ratl- road “ous” deposited at one of our principal hotels # young and beautiful girl, about nineteen years of age. She had no baggage, and was apparenily in great disiress, It was with a trembling and choked Voice that she gave her name to the night clerk and desired to be shown to a room, In the mornti the landiady of the hotel waited upon her, and, aiter considerable dificulty, elicited the following history of her trouble: lier bame she gave as Etha. Adams. She had teft her parents’ home, near Lima, Sandusky county, Onto, one week ago, the restiess, dissatisfied bride of a young farmer, who had been given to her as her husband. They had been school- mates together in childhood, but of late years they had been separated, she attending scnool at Obere jin, he working on his father’s farm. The marriage was not objectionable to her, neither was it her choice, The young couple were married and took the train at Norwalk for Cleveland, where they took passage via tue lakes for Chicago, intending, a3 she states, to visit some friends of her husbaia near The steamer was crowded with a gay and festive: cosmopolitan crowd, Woluding preachers, iamblers, farmers, traders, tourista# and ‘“sechoolmarma.” The evenings were long and pleasant and the coin- pany sociavle, In the party on board were a party from Buffalo, among Whorn Wad @ good lo “Kin U well dressed youth, uot more than twenty- two years of age, to whom the youn Wife was introduced. “George D. Rakin an Mrs. Adams” soon became very friendly, and to pass tho evenings away Mrs, Adama, who had been nurtured in the jap of free-loveism, proposed a gang of “Pianchette.”” The mysterious board Was pro-~ duced, and, as she says, “it worked to a charm,’ "rney played with tne trinket every evening upon. the cabin tabie, and from it sho learned that Mr, Rankin was her trae husband, and that noviing, should intervene 10 keep them separate. ‘Throughe the mischievous “Planehetre’ Rankin planned a elopeiuent at Milwaukee, and a fight to his trend iu Uolorado, The stolid young farmer, busy wt the fast youths on the forecastle and deck, notice nothing Unusual im the Close intimacy between nds Etta and the young New Yorker, nor did he suspect anything When she asked aad obtained from hint his well fillea pocketbook. The New Yorker and Mrs, Adams took @ short walk whilo the steamer touched at Milwaukee and of course forgot to te- turn, Atast night train carried them to chicago, and then on to Quincy, Where they tarried In conceal. ment to wateh for and elude pursuit. Wate there Rankin obtained possession of her money, amounting to nearly $1,000, and exchanged a Worthless gut ring for a vaiuable diamond one—a gilt from her mother. They continned their journey on Monday, aud all went well unul they readhed Cameron, wher f her “adimty,” Rankin, lef her, as he said, “tor few minutes to take a’smoke Ina forward car.” fe did not return; the train moved on but he came “aot, Mrs, Adams became anxious; she called the cor luc. tor; he had © note for her, written on one of, Ran- Kin’s own cards. It read:— DAR GINL--i nim called suddenly away from ‘von, Re turn fo your “hubby” at bigin until Feall for you. Au revotr, ‘ALORGE, ‘The train brought the shame-stric’.en wife to Kansas Cicy Wiibout baggage or me: ms to return home, Her dream of love was Su juenly broken, her cop oi joy dashed aside, and 846 now rowlizes and explaied to (ue policeman that he ought to have arrested the oiher may. Tins only infuriated the dignified limb of the law, and je aiso took in the roprietor, HNL thinking bevter Of it as he went to the ocK-up he allowed the proprietor to go home. The oliceman put ina poor Gomplaint, bub tt is more an probaple the Comyaissiouers Will teach him vO Cisgricnsnare betior in futuro im Whe exerqase Of lis uly. the Orst bitier lesson of human “epravity and the folly ot “Piaucheite.”’ i; fortonately sve rememberes, that her mother had friends living in the city, an’, yesterday, by the ald of the police, fyund one of “em tn Mr. D. P. Jaint gon, proprietor of a railroad boarding house tn the Bottom. There she wil, remain uuul ber husvaud calla or sends for Ler,