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FRANCE.
General Sdsaafioa FreHoh L0rs Of D..iaci0H. Scosa
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fstness . Misery approaching. Rome Austria.
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PARIS, sept %, 1872
Asssgs. Grssley 8 McE6aA'
The Cholera and the political Typhus seem TO
decline little in Paris, though not in the Prov
iucss The daily number OF victims OF the one
diminishes; the other seems to gain little tone
| Fear and terocily are less convuslvs IN their
movements, aud the friends OF order only starile
now and then in their daily aud nightly perambu-
lations Of the Capital A few noisy people are
here and there disturbed in their banquet meet
ngs bat most Of them SET at liberty the follow
ing day. and few Of them are detained more than
a fortnight before they are uncaged without cere-
mony and without Interrogation. As they have
m srey been the victims Of false alarm, nothing
more is said about 1t. They might have been con-
spirators aud Socialists, and therefore the Police
IS justified 10 experimenting them, to show the
good people of Paris that no pains are spared to
seize conspiraors and irishten from the city even
the ghost of agitation. few letters of protestaton
ia the journals form a matter OF small importance
compared with the ercessirs vigilance OF the Po-
lice, and the determination of the Government to
crash the seed of Revolution.
The Republicans Of Paris are beginning to be
accustomed to this sort OF political regime, as tie
Ash womans eels were used to being skinned
She said they did not mind it, because they were
a ,custom.d to it, and the French authorities say
that NsPoleon-the Napoleon, who is great Po-
liticsl authority In Frsnce-slways maintained
that the French people were not made for liberty
that they did not want it. All they want IS hssor
and distinction They will face death for badge
Of honor, a cross and red ribbon. They cannot
face ridicule for the love Of principle.
have no doubt that Napoleon was night in bis
opinion. with regard to the French people OF hs
day They are much improved, | think, sinos
then, however, but the love of individual honors
and distinctions is still very grest defect IN
the French character. AS long as man is rot
ashamed Of being stepped IN wealth and glory,
while millions Of bis fellow beings and hundreds Of
thousands OF his fellow countrymen piRing in
misery ssd degradation, there is moral vacuum
in bis nature which makes him an empty being
This emptiness is very prevalent in France. Red
ribbons have nearly IS much influence in sedacing
the minds Of men as other col0red ribbons have
in undermining the morals of women. rich
ssoundre has great power for doing evil in bo.h
cases.
Wealthy scsundrelsm Is the moral mals1y o.
Europe, and, fear, OF some other quarters OF tie
globe. Not that there is sny deArth OF poor seoun-
areism, but one has much less influence than the
other. Nobody will listen to poor scOundrsl, Or
initiate his silly vanity. bat wealthy cunning snd
| rapacity have many dazzling attractions.
The human race, 1t strikes me, Is poor silly
swarm OF mites running in all directions over the
globe, like their microscopic prototypes, tumbiing
over each other in the rankness of q cheese In
both cases, the deepest corruption seems to De