The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-08-01
VOL. ~.

TO and fro before the gate for an hour or two "a
vanced suddenly to the sentinel, and requested 70
be taken into custody, as he intended to kin tn
President. His request was complied with
subsequent examination has proved him 10 ~
quite insane The case Is only interesting 40 !,
shows the tendency q insanity to take IL bns
from the prescriptions and anxetes Of the nnr
ular mind Sefelsge at Berlin, Robert Psts :,
London, and Walker at Paris, are diseased ora
purulent secretons of the social body, and throw
to the surface by quickened circulation. Il i.
worthy Of remark, that the Governmental nrass
does not seek to make political capital out Of this
caprice Of insanity.
The great conspiracy of Oran, in Algiers !,
now admitted by the Government journals then
selves never TO have existed They Announce
that nearly all the prisoners have been dis.
charged and those retained in custody are opIv
held to answer TO charge Of having been con.
nected with reunions not permitted by law. The
whole affair was, as asserted in my letter Of las,
week, nothing but the explosion OF an old iealopsv
between the military and civil governor of the
Province Of Orsn. Ii has been pressed into ser
vice by the Minister Of War, who now declares
it impossible to change the military government
of Aleiers That 6ne colony is therefore docca,.,,
to longer term of the blighting rule of gentle.
men in epaulettes. Twenty years of this rule
have resulted in the dissipation of several hun
dred millions, in the destruction of the whole sys
tenn Of education among the Arabs, in the demo-
lition Of the agricultural and commercial prosper
ity Of the country, and in the increased hostility
of the natives. All the efforts of the French
Government-its premiums for settlers, its dona-
tions of land cattle, and farming utensils it's free
passages from France, its supplies of provisions
for year-haye succeeded in placing in Algiers
French population of less than thirty thousand
which must be protected by an army of three
times that number.
General Febrier intends TO renew his demand
for the liberation Of Abd-el. Kader, who has been
in prison since the winter Of 1878. Your read
ers remember that this heroic chieftain surren
dered only on condition Of being sent to Egypt and
liberated there. Instead of performing this con.
dition, Louis Philippe treated him as the United
States did the Indian chief Osceola-shut him up
in prison. He has remained there up to this day,
through all the vicissitudes of the revolution, and
there he will probably remain until, as Osceola
and Toussaipt L'ouverture, his spirit shall throy
OF the 6cSyS" '", -}s-.It n
"As vile fetter,
Broken and cast away
The repeated defeats of the Ministry on the
preliminary questions Of the biif 81 the mayors
have not destroyed its hopes. A paper demand,
ing the reinstatement Of this bill among those
to be acted ON Immediately, is in circulation
among the members of the Right. About eighty
signatures have already been obtained, and as
soon as the number shall have reached three
hundred, the demand is to be laid before the AS
sembly
The new lists of voters have been made out
What the number of the eliminated may be in
the departments will be known in q week or two ;
that at Paris is already known. The whole nun.
Der of adult male citizens at Paris is about $50 900
The old electoral law, by its requirements
of residence and it's disqualifcatious of bank
ruptcy and crime, left of these 244,000 voters
This number has been reduced by the new law
to $4,000. Thus there are more than $50, 900
citizens deprived, on one pretext or another, of
the right of suffrage. la the publication of the
lists, the opposition has, of course, suffered all
that the Administration could make il suffer I'M.
der the law. Spite of this the Reaction party is
far from being contented with the results Some
of their presses assert that the majority of the
$4,000 voters on the new list are socialists This
is doubtful, but the general discomfort Of the
royalist parties with the result shows that they
are by no means treasured as to the result of the
next election at Paris. The strength of the Repub-
lican or as 1t is here called, the Socialist party
principally among the commercial and manufac-
turing classes, who are by principle and interestop
But these are the very classes which are most
steadily domiciled in the same place The Roy
alists, on the contrary, have many of them their
permanent residences in the country, and change
their town one to suit their convenience during
tho winter NO ;nennsid~rahla number nf them
are young men, of good families perhaps, but
without professions, attached TO the pleasures OF
the capital but having a permanent abode NO
where These, together with large numbers of
priests and domestics, have been excluded from
the lists, and represent a large loss suffered by
the Royalist parties 1t must be said in honor
Of the mayors Oh .rged with the preparation Of
the list in Paris, that most of them have per
formed their duties with impartiality. The As.
sensblee Rationale makes this the subject Of fufi.
Gus article in its last Mondays number 1t says
that "under pretext of Judicial execution Of
the text Of the law, the public functionaries, the
majority Of whom are red or mixed repulse with
smile on their lips oil the voters Of the mod
crate party who did not satisfy literally the con
ditions Of the lawn "Things have reached such
pass that with the new law we are in verify
marching blndfoldn "The great error of the
present day is that, under pretext Of impartial
ity, men strike their friends as well as their enc
mics They say that the laws, being made for
all, are obligatory for all In peaceable times
this Is true but in the heat Of contest men
should philosophize less after Montesquieus fash.
ion, and accomplish a little more salutary re.
preston. When the question is to save society
the good grain must be distinguished from the
bad This parable is as old as the Scriptures
The unblushing depravity Of this article has
not met with the blame Of a single one of the
royalist presses.
GERMANY.
The most important news from Germany is
that treaty of peace is concluded between Prus-
sin and Denmark. The treaty is to be signed by
all the German Powers. II is almost certain that
several Of them will REFUGE to sign itfor instance,
Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtembere,. and
Hanover. But as none of these will send any
troops to assist the Duchies of Schleswig- Hol-
stein, their refusal, intended to injure Prussia,
will be of no Importance; for under protocol
which accompanies the treaty, the Prussian troops
are all TO evacuate the Duchies and leave them to
struggle against Denmark as they best may This
Is the termination which, in writing from Berlin,
six months ago, indicated as the only one posi-
BILE. II seems the fate of Prussia TO abandon all
ts allies, and fail in all its plans The treaty
leaves open door to the Intervention Of Russia
IN favor Of Denmark, so that the Duchies have
little hope. They have good army, however,
md will fight manfully. Hostilities are expected
10 commence in few days.
The effects Of the Congress at Warsaw con-
Inue 10 DC seen IN GermAny. ne luke vi
Mecklenbourg-Schw w erin has dismissed his Cham
bers and abolished the electoral law with stroSe
If his pen. The liberal ministry at Hanover hiss
vice given in its resignation, which hiss not yet
been accepted. The liberal ministry Of W artem,
berg has been replsced by an absclutist one, and
he Chambers have been dissolved. In Hesse
Darmstadt, the last liberal minister has been
forced TO resign, and his place given TO an abso,
utist Everywhere in Germany the Princes ana
Kings are returning TO the state of things when
existed prior to ls4s
The existence Of the Prussian Union has been
prolonged for three months by a decree OF the
College Of Princes bat the probabilities are now
stronger than ever, that it will be abandoned.
'ircular has been sent to the different Govern
nents party to it, demanding final decision