Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-07-24
France Afmipg,

All Europe seems 10 DC Houpltu attAr my
ierious movements OF the French Emperor
Hs'is arming France on The gIahiesi scale. a
though for great war, and nobody can di
vine tile enemy whom he means TO fall upon
' Troops have been recalled rom Algeria, re
serves have been called out. and six hundreG
thousand men put on the war footing. Store.
OF all sorts have been collected as though
there were another Russian campaign like
that Of 1912 TO be undertaken. CheTbsprg i
fortified so as 10 make il an European Seyas'
topoli and connected By railways wiihnll the
military points Of the whole kingdom, and ia
It's capacisrs ha'hbt large fleet OF war steam.
er is collected, and conseripnon has added
seventy thousand sailors TO the imi,ehs- navy
which France has beeh pteraring with So
much diligence, and forty new steamers have
been ordered TO be built.
This looks ike war, and war with a mari
time power whose navy is first TO be over
whelmed TO make invasion easy. The mon.
.ier preparations make oil the neighboring
Governments uneasy, for there is nothing in
the political relations OF France towards any
one Of them which gives assurance that the
lowering storm may not break there as wellas
upon any other. War by land and sea, war
on the most gigantic scale, is menaced by
France, at time, TOO, when her finances nre
IN deplombe condition, and her treasury hns
scarcely emerged from the peril Of national
bankruptcy, and is almost palsied in its iunc-
tuns by huge annually increasing defic'ts.-
For purpose Of internal repression, the mere
military maintenance Of despotic power, this
force is TOO la.ge, and the immense and costly
naval preparations urr tnsuilcd and unneces.
sary. Ships Of the line and war steamers are
foreign, not domestic purposesi but the dues
ton constantly reenrs, for what is Napoleon
Ill, straining his resources in getting such n
gigantic navy ready for immediate service, at
the same time that he is iortifying her whole
coast and marshalling gigantic urmy9
The En-. lish people, as the most exposed to
sudden attack, are naturally most sensitive.
The Government, indeed, officially announces
in Parlapent that the late misunderstanding
have all been satisfactorily adjusted. and that
entire concert exists with the Government OF
France. But, on the theory that there is no
harm IN being prepared against the rgaslble
hostility of the best Of allies, the Government
has been making great preparations to be reu-
dy to repel sudden assault, has put all the
dockyards and navy yards into activity in get
ting the whole navy ready for sea, and
strengthened the coast deienrrs. Still. there
is large body of the press and of the people
who seem to think that these preparations are
not sufficiently decided, but that extraordinary
evies should be maF Immediately to put the
kingdom into state 10 be able to resist a sud-
den invasion by mighty French army; and
that the French Emperor should be called up.
on, directly, for an immediate explanation of
what his purposes are in collecting this formi.
dablc war force in Il time Of perfect peace
They believe the taciturn sehemer who gov.
erns France is revolving, and capable Of at
tempting, by any perlidy. grand eoup to OBJ
literate the memory of the Nile and TO avenge
Waterloo.
The suspicion is Vefy exravagant one,
but scarcely less so than the other explanation,
that there is secret alliance, which is soon to
be developed, between France and Russia to
dictate new laws for Europe, or that other
idea, which is favored by some SPECTATORS,
that he means to reconquer st. Domingoi oc-
cupy or assume proertorate over Central
and establish French supfeitiacy in
the West Indies, the Gulf Of Mexico, and
over the transit routes
To all these conjeciures there is one com
mon answer, that they are highly improbable,
and one common consent, that il iseimpossible
to Judge Of the intentions Of the French EN-.
peror from anything he permits himself to
say, or to pronounce anything impossible to be
undertaken by him, merely because improbable
from their extravaganza or their perfdious
character. Still the great mystery for Eu-
rope is, for what is the French Emperor put
ting on this armor and so long MS it is not
solved, the uneasness will be great all over
Europe. Perhaps it may not be lessencd
when it is.-N o. Pic.
SLAVERY IN TExAs-The Galveston 'Ci.
villain scouts at the idea, which has been ex-
ensively propagated, that there is danger of
'ree.soil feeling growing up in Texas from the
alledged preponderance IN portions of the
State Of European emigrants, and the increas-
ng numbers which are coming in. The 'Ci-
'ilan' replies BY quoting the statistics ofpopua-
ion, showing that in 1850, with the exception
IF persons of Mexican parents, born in Texas,
the entire population Of foreign birth in the
State was only twelve thousand, or lively, and
one-haf per cent of the people of the State.
Since then the immigration from Europe has
not exceeded five hundred per unuum, inclu-
cludng men, women and children. The
deaths among the original number are estima-
ted to have equaled the arrivals. and it is pro.
nounced to be doubtful whether the number oi
persons Of foreign birth in the State is now as
great as it was ten years ago, while the in
crease in her population from immigration from
other States of the Union has been at least
four hundred per cent. 1t is said. in addition,
lha; the foreig born population have never
shown any disposition to change the policy Of
the State in regard TO slavery.
There has been, on this showing, very
fear generated out of very scanty