The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1872, Page 6

+ Ny o ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND AN Peer. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPER IFPOR. +-No. 33 oun Velume XXXVII... —_— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ST. JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Bi ok gal ‘wenty-eiguth street at road- OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux BauLeT Pane TOMIME OF Humpty Dumpry. AIMER'S OPERA BOUFF GANDS, , No. 720 Broadway.—Lxs * BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third st, i wee Cae "RE, Twenty. st., corner Sixth av. FIPTA AVENCE THGATRR, Pwenty-* i Tuy New Duava oy Divouc one ae GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay, and a #t— EUROPEAN HIPPOTHEATRICAL ComraNy, Matinee at 2. WOOD'S MUSLUM, Broaaway, corner sith st.—Perform- ances afternvon and evening,—O% HAND. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broad 1h aires, — SMAULAOK” TRE, Broadway an accent NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Pri Houston stroeis. —b1.ack CROOK. bigest BOWERY WURATRE, Bowery—CLan-NA-GAEL—BLAC Bro Susan. Neraaa! NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. Present Condition of France—What | Controlled it. This mild, modest, timid, well- History Teaches Us—M. Thiers and meaning Prince was content to patiently sit with half closed eyes—musing, dreaming, writing, smoking—while a gang of adventurers Is there really any future for France? | who had served him in his anxious days were The special despatches sent to us over | robbing the Treasury and sapping the founda- the cable by our special correspondents | tions of theempire. It was in a grand, imperial in Paris, and which we print this morn- | way, what we have seen in New York in the ing, give this question unusual importance. | downfall of Tammany, and what will always When we look at the history of this strange | be seen in the world so long as truth will people we find ourselves unable to apply to it | conquer falsehood. any of the conditions that have governed | ‘The misery of the present situation, so far other countries, In the last three hundred | gg France pts is that the overthrow years Russia, Prossia and England have risen | of Napoleon brought with it the invader. to greatness, Before then Russia was only Germany stands with her heel upon the throat known as a wild and savage nation, more | of France, Never was a nation so severely Asiatic than European, as far removed from | punished. Her country overrun ; two of her active sympathy with the current of modern | richest provinces taken away ; her finest cities thought and progress as Southern Mexico or | burned, bombarded or laid under contribu- Iceland is now removed from sympathy with the | tion; @ money tax imposed in the way of in- spirit of the present age. The great genius of demnity that will burden French industry and Petor bad not given Russia a life anda policy. | enterprise for fifty years and make dearer Tt is not two hundred years since England | every morsel of bread that enters the peasant’s was under tlie tutelage of the great Louis and | mouth ; ever was a conquest so thorough or English kings were pensioners upon Ver- a punishment so exemplary. Can France re- sailles, Two centuries ago Prussia was @| cover? So faras the money is concerned the emall German kingdom, scarcely more im-/| French to-day are the richest people in The Its His Troubles. Mexico the Sick Man of Americu—No Remedy but in Annexation. There are few people either in America or Europe who give any thought to the condition and destiny of Mexico that do not see annexa- tion to the United States is inevitable. All admit it is only a question of time. It is for the statesmen and leaders of public opinion in both countries, and especially inthe United States, to say when the time is ripe and an- nexation shall take place. Public opinion evi- dently is drifting strongly in that direction. In Mexico even the question is discussed, though the politicians and press there are cau- tious in their expressions, Never was the saying that “coming events cast their shadows before them” more applicable than in this matter. For our part we are convinced the time has come when the United States should close up the tragedy of disorders and farce of a government in Mexico and give both the Mexicans and the 1est of the world the bene- fit of the boundless latent wealth in that country. Among the movements having in view the annexation of Mexico we notice one in Con- gress from rather an unexpected source. perceive a very rapid flow of public opinioa in Mexican society towards annexation, and as anarchy becomes more prevalent and the pro- Brese of peace and good government becomes more hopeless this sentiment will increase, at present expressed only in suppressed tones, but ere long will be open-mouthed.” In another article, under the head of ‘‘anarchy,” this journal, after presenting the most fright- ful picture of the existing state of things and the prospect, sums up as follows :— If the United States should hearken to the de- Mands of the rest of the worid and intervene to re- store and secure permanent peace im the country the Mexicau people will be deprived of some of their dearest and “most sacred rights.’ They will no longer be allowed‘ to pronounce; they will be re- Strained irom revolution; all that sort of business Will be put an eud to, and these patriots Who are 80 efficient in disturbing ‘he wiil lose all their rights and ve compelled to adopt peaceful pursuits, however incompatible it may be to their tastes, ‘Lous will these unarchists entail upon the country the loss of their Liberties. But to judge trom their earnestness and tenacity it would seem that they are doomed; they “whom the gods intend to destroy they first make mad.’? While few witl deny the wretched and hope- less condition of Mexico, and that the salvation of that country depends only upon the inter- position of the United States, there are, doubt- less, some tintid, short-sighted and over-con- servative Americans who fear annexation or the friends of General Grant’s administration. The arguments adduced by Mr. Cox to the House are familiar to the readers of the Herarp, as they have mainly appeared in these columns. We do not agree with Mr. Cox in making the Syndicate transaction point of attack upon the administration. That gentleman, to use a legal phrase, belongs to that section of the democratic party which is trying to ‘file a bill of discovery” upom General Grant to find some cause for opposing him. And as the majority of Mr. Cox's friends have tired of the tavern scandals about relations and presents, as being a low | business and in all respects unworthy, this Syndicate has been a blessing to them. The mistake of Mr. Cox is in this—his Syndicate criticisms are partisan. The credit of the country is as much the care of the democracy as of the republicans. What we see in the Syndicate is simply a MBS. Ft. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN TusaTRe.— | portant than Hanover and Saxony. The Con- | Furope—singularly thrifty and industrious, | While the question of Cuban belligerency was would put it off to some future period. There | financial expedient to make money. The THEATRE: COMIQUE, pe Clann Tg tinent was under the control of Spain and | The Frenciman is so patriotic that he will give | before the House of Representatives on Mon- have always been such people when the | house which created it and accepted its bene- Tea, Nrako Aci weNBW ORR TS it Y°°4* | Prance and the Holy Roman Empire. Hol- | his money as promptly as he would give his life | day Mr. Brooks, of New York, submitted a acquisition of territory has been in question. | fits went into the speculation just as it went » Fourtesnth at, and Broad. UNION SQUAR! THEAT PRLESQUE, KALLKT, 40. Matinee, way.—Nruvo AcTS—bue STREET THEATRE, near Third ave- THIRTY-K nue, —V ARLES RTH NY TONY PASTIR'S OPERA HOUSE. No. 201 Bowery. — land disputed with England the mastery of the seas. Sofar as the eye could see France was the most powerful, certainly the most ostentatious nation in the world. Gradually the proportions have changed. for his country, which is a good deal more than many of our Americans could say in the day of our necessity, What France has not dis- played is the old military spirit. The only resolution as an amendment to the biil intro- duced by Mr. Voorhees, declaring ‘‘that in the interests of civilization, philanthropy and Christianity the interposition of the people of They raised bugbears and obstacles to the anuexation of Louisiana, Florida, Texas and California, Yet who now doubts the wisdom of these acquisitions? Some, perhaps, fear evil consequences from the incorporation into into the Emma Mine transaction. The Emma Mine was a stock company, formed to dispose of certain rich mining districts in Utah. We presume the deposits in these mines were N¥@RO ECorN1BIcITINS, BURLESQUES, 2, fighting in the last war that was worthy of the United States is demanded for pacification rich. They were rioh enough to sell and net ¥ t we ” this republic of such a large foreign population i Meenswnnaw imecaaeT The constantly recurring wars between Eng- | Wagram or Waterloo was shown by the Com- | among the people of Cuba and Mexico.” True, P 4 rs igo pop to keep, however, which makes a materiad dif- ABRTANT'S New ON ERA HOOSE, 34 st. between 6 | Jand and France ended in the discomfiture of | munisis in Paris. What we fear is that the | this is not a direct proposition to annex these | 9% that of Mexico. This is truly a bugbeur. | ference when we take a metaphysical or even ® SAN FRANCISCU MINSTREL H. me THE SAN FrANc!sco MINSTRELS, maaan ated PAVILION, No, 68% Broadway.—Tae Vienwa Lavy On- the latter. The French flag was driven out of India and from North America. All we know of the French domination upon this Con- public spirit is broken, the pride and self- respect which have always marked the French character. Furthermore, the people have not countries, but no one can doubt that the in- terposition of the United States would lead to annexation, and that, undoubtedly, is what The forty millions of vigorous Americans of the European race would soon control the native Mexicans, and control them to the hap- financial view of the case. The mine was decorated with one or two members of Parlia- ment, a Senator of the United States and the eas -— tinent are the traditions that linger along the | been educated. The severest criticism made | Mr. Brooks contemplates. Mr. Brooks has piness of these unbappy people. The seven | American Ambassador, who called themselves pil PETER'S WALL, Went ‘fweutletd sreet—aw Even. | Mississippi; in Canada, where the language is | upon Napoleonism is ‘that it never trusied | always been one of the most conservative or eight millions of the peon p9pu- | directors. ‘The firm who did its business was NEW YORK CIR: TRE RING, AoronaT Fourteonta strect.—-SORNRS IN DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSFOM, 7 os ee ee ‘AL MUSFOM, 745 Broadway. NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— N TRIPLE New York, Friday, February 2, 1872. OF TO-DAYS HERALD, r Pacs. I— Advertisements, @—Adverisements, 3—The State Capital: Jaw and Law in the Legis- spoken in a rude way; in the far West, | France enough to educate the common people. where the Jesuits explored and preached. | The empire dreaded light and truth. Hugo Warren Hastings and Lord Clive anchored | was more of a menace than all the armies, English authority in India. Even in Syria | ana Rochefort’s graceful, brilliant and daring and Egypt, where French influence has always pen began what Sedan ended. Is the repub- been paramount, England divides power, | jig any stronger than the empire? M. Thiers and one of the legends of modern British | evidently does not think so. Heis Pres- diplomacy is that in time England must | ident of a republic which he fears, and take Egypt and control Syria. We have |-rules over a people in whom he places seen Spain, with her stupendous empire in| no faith, No man can govern France Europe and America, reduced to an who rests under the convictions expressed almost helpless government at home | by the French President the other day to M. and the insecure possession of a few colonies | Rothschild, and sent to us by our correspond- abroad. This once-powerful and proud em- | ent from Paris, M. Thiers does not see either pire bas lost its power, and only cherishes its members of Congress on questions relating to territorial expansion, filibustering or main- taining the national honor by enforcing the neutrality laws. He has had no filibustering tendencies. It is evident, therefore, that this gentleman is strongly impressed with the fact that there is no hope for Cuba and Mexico but in the interposition of the United States, and that to interpose is a duty this country owes to civilization and humanity. Mr. Brooks travelled lately over many countries of the world, and, in India and other parts of the East particularly, he saw the happy results of the active and progressive civilization of the lation are docile and easily governed under a strong and good government. They could be made industrious, too, and their labor would be a vast source of wealth both to Mexico and the United States. The development of the incalculable resources of Mexico would go far to restore our shipping, as it would vastly enlarge our local commerce over which we have a monopoly. Our railroads would be pushed into the heart of tue rich mining re- gion and to where the tropical prodacts flourish. The city of Mexico is nearer to New York than San Francisco, It is within six days of railroad travel. Who can doubt that within a few years, if annexation takes the firm which controlled the Syndicate. Both transactions were alike in characters The Emma Mine was sold for money, and the noted American names were written across its face to make it sell. The Syndicate bonds were sold for commissions, and the great government of the United States was merely used to make the earning of the commissions an easy matter. Public opinion did condema the Emma Mine, so far as the name of our Minister was concerned. If Mr. Cooke can induce Englishmen to purchase mining stocks he will do a good business, especially as it isa thing he could not very well tempt Americans. lature; Kintgration Matiers Frou an Albao! 3 “a stable government” or “‘a stable public | West upon the effete populations of that part : to do—and to his credit, we must say, has era mints ee Oe ee Plared pride because of its ignorance. The Holy | opinion,” and dreads the retirement of the | of the globe. His mind has become enlarged place, our railroal system, already run- | never tried. What public opinion did con- a Limitea ‘time; Rapid Transit; Terwilliger’s Case; ‘he Capitol Job—A Railroad Holocaust: Horrible Accitent on the velugh Valley Railroad; Fight Persons Killed and Sixteen Wounded; ‘the Smashed Cars Take Fire—Mis- cellaneous ‘Teleg of Fisk at the Bar Again; Judge ingrah Denies the Motion to need the Incictnent; ‘The Coroner | Graga Jury Fully Sustained; Constitutionality of the Oyer and Yerminer Vindicated; Pleas in De- fence and Mittgation by Stokes—The Lave James Wisk; His Will Admitted to Probaic— Another Man Found with a Fractured Skull— College of the City of New York—Robbery on the Ratl—-Statement from the Tax Commis. sloners—iKuising of au Allar—Onm Newiound- lund: Toe Steamship City of Malifax Lockea m Seventy Ales of Ice; Seal Fisuing on the Ice—Poliical—Row in an Os Saloon. Roman Empire has dissolved. Austria has | Germans as the beginning of disorder. This an anomalous position in the economy of | forlorn opinion is furthermore strengthened Enrope, and in a generation or two will hold | by the remarkable despatch sent to us from her empire at the mercy of Russia and Ger- | Paris by a HERALD correspondent, and which many. Prussia, by a policy of sternness and | we print in another columa. The old states- harsh, unbending discipline and economy; by | man is very much in the position of President having no concern in European politics except | Buchanan before our own war. When the her own selfish aggrandigement ; by develop- | South came rolling up against Buchanan, and ing the art of war and insisting upon universal | the public opinion represented by such men as education, has made herself the greatest | Davis and Slidell was black and lowering, military empire in Europe—strong enough to | instead of resolutely facing incipient stand against any alliance. Russia bas ar- | treason and crushing the budding rebellion G—Procecdings in Corgress—Qui ruusit; Meet- rested her traditional designs in Europe to | with one stern blow, he quailed, threw up his junction. and his views expanded. He sees that the rich and fruitful territories of the earth can no longer be left in ruin and unproductive under the control of anarchical and decaying nations, ‘“‘Be fruitful and multiply and re- plenish the earth,” was the Divine injunction originally, and every large-minded statesman sees that it is the duty of civilized and pro- gressive nations in this age to enforce this in- The will of God accords with the voice of civilization and humanity. Decaying populations must be rejuvenated or swept away, as the wilderness is made to blossom by ning far into Texas and pointing to the city of the Montezumas aud Hidalgos, will penetrate those magnificent and rich tropical regions ? The annexation of Mexico would advance the United States in the way of progress and wealth a quarter of u century. The govern- ment at Washington has but to say the word, and itcan be done. What says General Grant? Will he take up this policy vigorously and at once, and add a great lustre to. his name and administration? i Congress YesterdayNo Vote on Amnesty or demn was the bringing the names of Ambas- sadors aud Senators and the Syndicate bankers into one group, merely to floata mining stock into the English market. The similarity of these transactions did not end with this odd grouping of famous names. The mine and the Syndicate went upon the London money market together. If there was any credit in funding the national -securities in the eyes of the Raglish capitalists that credit was reflected upou the mining speculation. And we have no doubt that, however well the Syndicate paid, the mine paid a great deal tug of the Committee of Ninety —Tue Alabama | strengihen herself in Asia, and is now com- | hands and confessed that he was powerless tn | strong and progressive nations. the Ciicago Relief Bill—The Syndicate | potter, There was no logal restriction as to” United Sites Vemands—the Hevolution im | peting with Great Britain for the mastery of | such a storm. Well, our republic had a | Mr. Brooks couples Cuba with Mexico in | ‘Traasaction Endorsed by the House. — | commissions. SeCaptated by” Dinz—Church ana | the interior nations of that vast Continent. strength which the President did not see, and | the resolution referred to, and, no doubt, the | ‘The bill to remove duties from the building | We dwell upon this circumstance, which Sot Gutity:? Last of the Jersey While Russia, Prussia and England have | in the end it triumphed. So, we profoundly | same argument applies generally to both coun- materials used and to be used in the restoration | does not seem to have occurred to Mr. Cox, Case—Two More ‘Thieves Caged in Roveken— Commercial Travellers—The Jersey Retorm | Movement—An Engineering ‘Tri umph—A Canine Combat Interrupted—Shock- ing Occurrence in Elizabeth, G—Editoriais: Leading Arucie, “The Present Con- dition of France—What Its History Teaches Us—M. Thiers and His Troubies’’—Amuse- ment Avnouncements, V—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)— Frauce: Hexatp Special Report trom Paris; President Thiers Despairs of the Permanency of the Republic; His First Hope of a Moderate Democracy and Present Disappointment; Parhawentary Deteat of the “Little Old Protectionist” and the Scenes Which Ensued; M, Magne’s Views of the Crisis; Royaltst aud Radical Movements for tbe Seizure of Power; Gambetia’s Kesolve of Kepudiation Towards Germany—Engiand: American Railroad Se- curities in the Market; Public Canvass of the American Claims Before the Ge- neva Comrission—Russia: imperial De- steadily advanced for two centuries; while | trust, it will be with France. ‘I had sup- Austria, Holland and Spain have slowly re- | posed a republic possible,” says M. Thiers, ceded; France has had a checkered career. | ‘put now find out I was mistaken. The After Louis XIV. her power was shattered. | republic cannot exist, even with my aid, and Driven out of India, to a great extent from the | J shall be compelled to seek the happiness of shores of America; defeated by Marlborough | my country elsewhere.” Well, if France is in the Low Countries and by Frederick inGer- | in this condition, then the sooner Germany many, with a king and nobility whose only | annexes the whole nation, as it has annexed idea of authority was to trample the people | Alsace and Lorraine, the better for the peace under foot and tax them almost to starvation; | of the world. without respect at home, without power We should be sorry to share the opinions abroad—a gilded sepulohre, so it seemed, | o¢ yf Thiers. We confess that his republic rather than a monarchy—a careful observer does not impress us as a lasting contrivance. tries; but we deem the question of the annexa- tion of Mexico eminently a practical one just now, while the action our government has chosen to take with regard to Cuva and the complications involved make the immediate acquisition of that island more a question of the future. The destiny of Cuba to become a portion of this great republic some day is as evident as that Mexico will, and, we hope, as a preliminary step, the long-suffering and struggling Cubans will shake off the Spanish yoke; but the practical question that concerns us immediately is that of Mexico. of Chicago was taken up again yesterday in the Senate, discussed during the morning hour, and laid aside without action. Mr, Chandler, of Michigan, made his usual opposition to it in the interests of the lumbermen of his State, and even Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, while favor- ing the measure, wished to have the vote passing it reconsidered, so that the bill might be amended by specifying the exact articles to which it was to apply. Mr. Sherman must be aware that if that question be opened the relief proposed will amount to nothing ef- fectual, for every industry that is now pro- tected by the high tariff will protest against because it emphasizes the great danger ine curred by the Treasury when it commits its finances to the control of a company of inge- nious and enterprising brokers. We have no word to say against Mr. Cooke or his house. So far as we know he is a man of courage, enterprise and solvency. His business is to sell bonds, and, if he chooses, mining stocks. But with his good intentions and. business standing he was uot inherently strong enough to have carried the Syndicate. Nay, he ad- mitted as much, for his contract only com- pelled him to take ten millions, with the creo Appointing @ Minister to tue Univea would have prophesied for the kingdom a fate | N republic can be cemented with blood, | The Mexicans, themselves though seem- : : option of taking the remainder. This option Seer niet, Spain. Wales, ‘Cava and | as dismal and wretched as what has since and this President has slain more men than ingly unwilling to look the facts of their de- permitting a free trade competition with it, | was consummate in its sbrewdness, It put pm Imernational Rowing Match; Boek befallen Poland and Spain. Surely France were slain in the coup d'état, Furthermore, plorable condition in the face and to admitthe | evenfor such a benevolent object. Ifthe vote | the government at his mercy. Had there on the Schuyikill—The fy New York Yacht Club —Amusements—Prospect Park Colt Stake—The Charity Ball—Business Notices. S—The Custom House Committee's Investigation— The Last of tne Spirits: Evidence of Confirmed Spiritualists at Jefferson Market Police Court; The “Spirit Briae’’ Produced in Court, buat Not Exhibited—Great Cucking Main: The Feathered Giadtators of New York and Troy in Battle Array—Traducing Teachers—Seizure of Conkiin's Property—News from Texas—Peun- sylvanta Politics, 9—Connolly's Bail : Justification of the Bondsmen Before Judge Bartard; Tne Bond Approved and the Sheriff Discharged—Meeting of tne Chamber of Commerce—Alleged Juvenile Homicide—The Public Debt Statement—The Bowling Green Savings Bank ; A Manifesto from Henry Smith, the President—Brooklyn Affairs—Financial and Commercial Reports— Arrest of a Forger—Marriages and Deaths, 10—Washington: Senator Carpenter on Amnesty; Be Bungled Minority Synaicate Report; A lea for the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws and Chickavaws Against Land Grabbers; The President on Protection; Pennsylvania aud Pig Iron Moving En Masse on the Home Industry Question; Fish to Testify About the Fisheries—Shipping — Intelligence—Advertise- ments. Ai—The Courts: An Appeal and Reversal of Judg- ment in Bankruptcy; The Jumel Estate; Al- leged Fraudulent sale tn Bankrup on Shipboard; Special Notice to the Bar; De- cisions—ihe Uuca Murderess: Her Case in Court; Insanity to be Set Up for ter erence; All the Details of Her Life tobe Brought Ont o& the Trial—Memories of the Mayfower— The Garroting Game Kevived- Alleged * pocket Arrested—Ronbery in the Bowery ‘Actor in frouble—Robbery in a Railroad Burgiars Caught in the’ Act--The Board of Mutiny Audit; First Meeting of the doard; ‘The List of Claims Not Yet Completed— Ad vestisements, 22—Advertisements. i. Jar Raiwroap Accipent Yesrenpay, of qhich we publish to-day the most complete particulars to be had up to the time of this issue, is another of those appalling disasters, ending in loss of life and great injuries, for which po one seems to be responsible. A was never more ignoble, never so little the opinion seems to be general throughout worthy of respect, as under the Regency, cae, # = France that M. Thiers is the candidate of the reign of the worthless Louls XV., | Bismarck, or, in other words, the only French with his licentiousness, and the foolish | statesman who can have attentive audience Louis XVI, with his bigotry and his | + Berlin, And although M. Thiers loves ignorance. Yet there came, as it were in | prance with the fervid patriotism of a true a night, that extraordinary revolation, with | citizen and has served his country with a {ts upheaval of national character and Intel- | devotion thatdoes him all honor, he can never. lect, almost volcanic in its way, appalling the | 1.14 France in hand so long as he is world with ite suddenness and its extravagance, | srraiq of the people. Like our own only to compel the world’s admiration by its trembling Buchanan, he is, we fear, too terrible power and splendor. Mankind has | q14 for the activity and vexation of his never fully seen the importance, the blessing, trying place. The world regards him, and, even the beauty of that revolution, which no doubt, he regards himself, as only a began with the pen of Voltaire and ended | p,oyisional President, trying to do the best with the sword of Napoleon. What a mass of | ¢.. nis country. What of the future? Will it be bigotry, superstition, oppression, feudalism, | ., Oyieans Prince? This seems to be the shame, corruption, mendacity and immorality | weaning of his announcement. That will was burned out of France, even as with the | ),, simply M. Thiers over again in the lava and consuming flames! And when at person of a younger man. Will it be Henry length France arose and saw before her com- V.? That will be an attempt to engraft the bined Europe, ready to subdae her with fire | ¢.4alage upon the nineteenth century. No and sword, snd, invoking the spirit of | (14 Bourbon wine will last long in these new Liberty, threw the head of a king revolutionary bottles. Will it be Napoleon? for wager of battle at the feet of Only by a mutiny, an intrigue or a coup @ état. kings and rushed upon them, never ceasing | propaply Gambetta! And if Gambetta will her march until she had planted her flag upon | bring with him something of the spirit of 1798 the palaces of every European capital but | prance may again disturb the peace of the London, the world saw that France had that world; but she will show that she-is still the within her that gave her the right to be called | france of Louis XIV. and of Napoleon, the Grand Nation. If she had fallen to the and worthy to be called the Grand Nation. level of the Regency she had risea to the lofti- Notbing will surprise us in France, except ness of Napoleon. that it should permit good, anxious old Well, France fell again, mainly throngh the | Grandfather Thiers to sit trembling in Ver- inevitable destiny of their country, are greatly exercised upon the subject of annexation. While some of them appear to argue against it from a feeling of national pride, their argu - ments are really in favor. We have before us, for example, a curious article from the Two Republics, a journal published in English in the city of Mexico. Commenting on the hopeful expressions of the Diario Oficial that the exhausting ard crush- ing civil strife would end within a year, this journal says that it ‘‘can see nothing in that sanguine and hopeful article that the anarchy will end before another year.” Then it adds:—‘‘In the meantime the people—we mean those that follow honest and industrial pursuits, those who have property and great interests in the country, those who have fami- lies to support and desire to raise them de- cently in society, those who aspire to the civilized advancement of the country—will turn with disgust and dismay from the pros- pect. Already are intelligent and respectable Mexicans beginning to ask leading questions. What is to become of the country? Will it not bring about annexation? When are the Yankees coming?” Then the Mexican organ, while pretending to be opposed to annexation, which is evi- dently a mere pretence with a view of feeling the public puls@ ar of gratifying the national vanity, makes =o. argument for it. This is what ys the Yankees would eos will inaugurate new political, social and in- be reconsidered, therefore, and the subject reopened, it may be regarded as tantamount to a defeat of the whole measure; for it cer- tainly will amount to nothing, practically, after running the gauntlet of the lumber inter- ests of Michigan, the iron and steel interests of Pennsylvania and the tin and lead interests of Missouri. The protectionists could cer- tainly pursue no more suicidal policy than in opposing this Chicago Relief bill, thus direct- ing public attention more directly and specially to their odious system of taxing the whole people for the benefit of the few. The Amnesty bill was also taken up yester- day in the Senate, and speeches made upon it by Mr. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Garrett Davis, of Kentucky. The former questioned, in a very silly manner, the endorsement of amnesty by the people of the North unless Sumner’s monstrosity in the shape of the supplemental Civil Rights bill was tacked on to it, He may make his mind easy on that score. The people of the North are as anxious as those of the South are to have all political disabilities wiped out and every bar- rier to a restoration of kindly feeling between the two sections’ removed; and as for the right of colored people to occupy palace cars, and to set at hotel tables with them, they have no particular desire to see that whim gratified by virtue of an act of Congress. They think they can get along just as well without such legislation. Among the miscellaneous matters which were introduced in the Senate yesterday was been the least storm in the financial heavens; had we any trouble with Spain, or had the credit uf the country been affected by any of the twenty causes that might have tumbled bonds tea per cent, be was perfectly safe. He had merely to decline his option and the Treasury would have been in the disastrous position of having tendered its bonds for in- vestment and been refused. The administra tion would have had to carry all the odium, We do net know what bargain was made with the owners of the Emma Mine,. but if it was marked with anything like the sagacity shown in this Syndicate scheme it must have been of great advantage. As Mr. Cox says, the Syndicate is dead. The Emma Mine negotiation was a misfor- tune to the administration. It virtually closed’ the career of General Schenck. It threw a taint upon our whole diplomatic service. It subjected the State Department to criti- cisms that must have cruelly wounded as sen= sitive and honorable a man as Hamilton Fish, So with the Syndicate. It has blurred the administration of General Grant. It showed that Mr. Boutwell was capable of being outma- neeuvred by @ combination of shrewd brokers. It showed that it was possible for. one housa to bave a monopoly of national bonds and mining stocks and to place them side by side before the English public. The President cannot afford to run the risk of such a combi’ natiou; for, however meritorious any mining stocks may be, the agent of the government should give a gaarantee that he will not sell train left Pittston, on the Lehigh Valley Rail- | vanity and recklessness of the extraordinary | gailles, mourning over the absence of a stable dustrial systems; that “revolutions” aad pronuncia- road, about seven o'clock yesterday morning, | Captain who had led ber to triumph, Why and when it had proceeded to within sixty-four | dwell upon this chapter? Had Napoleon been mentos would be made by law ielonies, and the ac- tors would be hunted down until the last one 1s cap- tured, aud all who sarvived would be consigned to public opinion and regretting the departure of the Germans because he is afraid of the riages successfully across the dangerous spot ment forty feet deep on to a river, resulting in the death of eight persons and severe injuries miles of Easton the engine leaped across | as wise as Washington, or as temperate as 8 broken piece of rail and dragged two car- | Grant; bad he learned the value of discretion; had he been content with conquering the pos- with it, but the remaining two slid off the | sibleand not bidding defiance to the impossi- ‘track and were precipitated down an embank- | ble; had be felt that, after all, he was a man, and no robes, no jewelled crowns, no incense, French. Tue Pusiio Dest has been reduced since New Year's Day by the further sum of five millions of dollars. This is not doing as well asthe average; but Secretary Boutwell to about sixteen others. We give the names ‘of all that could be ascertained who were no flattery, no success, however startling and | always slows up when Congress is sitting, in enchanting, could make him a god—had he | order that he may not excite Congress into remembered the fall of Cwsar as well as he | thinking that he is progressing too fast and studied his life, France to-day might be the | arouse legislation probibiting bis high pres- the penitenuary, Enterprises would be piaced upon a footing of more activity, and those who cannot conform io the new spirit will go down, and onl those who have energy .o Keep pace with the raph march of Yankee ideas would prosper. The liberal ideas on the subject of religion that would be intro- duced from the North would cause chagrin and dis- appointment to those who do nottolerate the iree- dom of religious exercise. ‘The Yankees will orin| with (hem an absolute toleration on the subject o religion; Protestants, Catholics, Jews and infdeis, all will be on an equaiity. The Baptists will have the privilege of public baptisms in the adjolning lakes, the Methodists their camp meotings, the Episcopalians their rituals, the Catholics their feasts and religious houses, ‘The tolerance em- braced in the American tdea of free worshi bgt had ve le master of Europe, and a Bonaparte prince Seoretary Bourwei's Gueat VioToRY | ould hold court in the Tuileries. But he fell, on the Syodicate, in the ‘caged of Represent- | . 14 with him the prodigious military power of atives yesterday, shows that if the democrats | ponce, The present Emperor made France choose to fight over the Syndicate as a party rich, but he enervated it. He mistook show question they cap bave It so. for strength. So long as Paris was attractive, Gr himeeif | and he could build boulevards and sway the f home indostry | peasantry by the magic of his name and the -o het pcre @ Europe.” This liberality of his bounty, he felt he could carry will fetob Pennsylvania; but nothing short of | out the plans of his house, But for ibn the marrow bones of the Custom House will | years France has been leading a false life. fring down Mr. Greeley from his ‘‘one-term ‘Wessee now what a shell this empire was; how principle.” iuch cbicanery sad timidity and falsehood a ccsinamheieatincecsonctie Gunarat Grayt strongly expresses , whick will be antagonistic Montcan idea of religious proscription, and will be the source of much unhappiness. The peace of tne country Will be maintained, and the vaads of rob- bers that now infest every road and threaten the safety of every hacienda will be hunted down and thelr members hung, or they will be driven to wake refuge in the walks of peaceful industry, This will ja to tht se8 of dissausfaction, and there will be one general exclamation throughout tue laud against the rapacity and tyranny of the Yankees. Again, this philosopher, while appareatly advising both countries against annexation, writes thus of Mexico:—‘‘The lands and cli- mate are unequalled; the richoess and extent of the mines unmatched by any other country inthe world.” Then be goes on to sav:i—'‘We sure payment of the public debt. But when Congress is out of the way he rakes in the taxes mercilessly and pays off his ten or twelve millions a month, A Soutm Carotixa Know Notniva.—The Comptroller General of South Carolina says he does not know how much money will be needed to pay the interest on the State debt, because he does not know how many of the State bonds are out. If there is a man, living or dead, who does know, let him come forth and enlighten the shavers of Wall street, a bill givmg to the American and East India Telegraph Company the exclusive right, for twenty-one years, to construct, land and main- tain submarine cables between the United States and Asia, anda bill to distribute one hundred and ninety thousand dollars by way of prize money among the officers and crew of the Kearsarge at the time of the destruction of the privateer Alabama. The Senate after- wards adjourned till Monday, The House spent most of the day in the discussion of the report of the Committee of Ways and Means exonerating the Secretary of the Treasury from all blame in convection with the Syndicate negotiation. After two days’ debate the course of the Secretary was sustained by a strict party vote—110 to 86. So much for the influence of party politics, which cannot see in a purely financial matter anything to commend or anything to condemn except as seen from a partisan point of view. When the trade of politics reduces men to 80 low a point in the standard of intellect and judgment it must stand condemned in the minds of all independent thinking veople, them from the same desk as the national bonds, Let us continue the work of funding onr loan, but let the new Syndicate be open to all the world. If we are to place our bonds at the control of any house or any, union of houses, let us be sure that the bonds will not be thrown back. This is not a question of politics, but of na- tional integrity. We are well out of thia transaction, and Mr. Boutwell deserves the credit of having succeeded, although success came at a fearful risk. Venturesome men have crossed Niagara Falls on a tight rope, but common prudence would suggest that it is safer to go over on the bridge. Let us have no more tight-rope performances with bonds and mining stocks, but take the ordi- nary and natural precautions for safety. Tue EvrorgaN DEMAND FoR AMERIOAR Raitway Bonps has been a foror the paet six months. It is estimated that hardly less than fifty millions of dollars of old and new railway mortgages has been taken by foreiga capitalists and investors gince the olose of tha