New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-07
AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.
From our own Correspondent.


meeting. The Rev. Mr.. McClntock aud another
sand lew wOrds, and then the Subscription be-
1an; III twenty minutes about 10000 francs WIRE
subscribed. The largest subscriptions, perhaps,
were those of our three American painters here,
Cranch, Dana, aud May, who each SIT IA, H.
selves down Tor 500 frapc picture. Mir. san
ford, our Minister to Belgium, lays out hs hrst
years salary in art,llrry-a very apt d'chaiee
of his dury as Danbury man. Mr. Swan, ol
Philadelphia, has also, am told, bought g"n
or two, the best panarea for our Intestinal
troubles. The informal improved meeting "i
last Friday wus noticed IN brief neAr Paia-
graph of next days Gaiigndni wnefeulon
- me- Southern Shareholders have chosen to
take oG-nsr at any mention of such meeting at
all ana had the pre-unltion to inslrt on n sour-
| rlous aud lbtlmis r.crimlnati"n beng Inserted
in that strictly neutral newspaper" The II cr'-
minarion, thus qualified by Father P'oGt," IN
lis Parls correspondence with The London Gobt,
vas refused iD,ert0n by GdtgHdm. but got to
! print, III translation, III lie Pays, the organ ol
! the Slave Power. 1t is signed DE Leon, late Con-
.ul oi the United States in Egypt. The Iote Con-
sul in the Land of Egypt hs recrImiration is more
foolish tam scurrluus-not but what IT IL sour
rlous. He declares such meetings as thai ~
Mr. SaniOIds paIlOr, 10 be- in bad taste, not 10 say
Illegal ~ held IN disregard Of the neutral position Oi
France; but De Leon tells that quite small portion oi
the world that reads lie Pays, the South Americans
! wouli hold Just such meeting Ia bu! guns here, II
/ they were not all gone or gnlng home va! Oi
/ New-YoIk ! to Use guns the guns that "erc g be-
! lpp gotten and 'protccted'-ih- South Carohnlan
| ana Georgian patos Tor stOen-a icw months ago
! Ihs unique French Pro-Slayrry organ, Le Pays,
! emulatcs any of our home Southern papers as a
nursery Tor the progeny oi the Papa OF Falsrhoods
! IL a Founding Hospital, lnian'-School and Insane
! R,tieat, all III Since IT Is sold of hired "u' at
Sci ator BenlamI's suggestion Ia the Southern IN
/ trIcst, II has, with lis new master, got brw
/ man. one Girard, who beats poor Monsieur Paul
! Reguet du Belief all hollow Paul, tD bo sure.
! Was not ol tie soidesf, nor even III The sli2bt"st
danger oi going mad with too much learning. hut
| Pau was honest and his wish To become the L. =.
| As Miuiser Ia the French Court an eIcu.abe
weakncss. 1t il not worth the while to lumber YOU
with long extracts fr"m NJ. GIrard's artlclrs tins
! exemplary tId-bt from his lasi, written Hit'r re-
| ceipt of American news to May 4 viii suffice:
1.-The warlkc zeal OF the New -Lnglaud Abolition
d" tsts 10 subsidng. The treatment their soldiers
"mrt with at Baltimore has contributed to this
result" lie Pays stcadly ignore, us a part Of
the loyal United States the little district lying west
| OF the Hudson. Such is the only Southern organ III
| France II its Southern employers give nythllg
better than Mississippi bonds for It's music, they
pay their piper dear.
Mr. Seward letter to Mr.. Dayton is the theme
| Of general comment here, as we'll as IN England.
| Ii puts IA III right pOsltOn-recoyerr, III SORT,
| with European Governments and peoples the POSI-
| ton that our Government see'a,d to them month
ago to be- losing not TO sny voluntarily r,lnqulsh'
1 iuu iut tle have Ot this l,ttr must De
acted up TO- and that speedily, or they will pass Tor
| mere words Of American stump rhetOrc-not
merely With the mass, but with the rulers OF Eu-
| rope Their sympathies are with our principles,
but their opinions aud practical action are, and
| must be- shaped on facts. ASH Power among the
| Great Powers, as n Government, the United States
had sunk lumcniably within the past six months IN
| European estimation. II the accidental aEd colstI
tutloI.al embarrassment, aud checks that hamper
| ed our Presidents vigorous action were almost lost
| sight OF Tor u moment by your New-forkers,
how can il be expected thnt foreigners 10 make
due allowance tor them J They do not, Cannot,
must not be- asked TO understand the theory Oi our
Constitution. Within fortnight have Heard my
sell one vi the first o living Engsh statesmen, the
| first perhaps Of advanced liberal EEglish statesmen
Mr. iticlaId Golden, who knows something oi our
country by reading and y persora observation us Il
| Traveller there, whose ~ npathcs are nll with the
| North talk about the actual political - situation
| of America in terms which Massachusetts boy
Of ten years old would be, aud proper riy, spanked
| for uttcring-nOt N the Boston boys ease be-
| cause oi their incirisni, but because VI tie guo-
rance Oi our Constitution that they betrayed, III ex
cusable even ut his tender 6ge. IL il no ohcnsc Oi
the laws oi social inlcrcOursc-tho least pardonnble
| OF all 0henses not punished by the tIDuhals Oi
| iustIce-tO mention this. For Mr.. Golden asks
! openly everywhere without reference Vr care Tor
involuntary by ISLANDERS euIs, with the sincerity oi
| dOctrinhirc, and III the innocence oi ghoiance,
| such aue stions us these: What is tho GOSriE-
| '' ment of the United States fighting iOri Why
did not your President recognize ut the outset the
Independence Of the seeding States
No; explanations OF the theory and lawful prnctice
of nations constitution; the gbiest and soundcst
possible O published instructions 10 foreign resident
Ministers; nIeiutablo argument and proof On the
ethical sue, won't practically do now. The United
States lag floating iIee ut Harper Ferry, GOspoit
Navy ard, ana hIcbnOnd wlii do and alone will
do. The world aLd ts rulers JOnh smith and Lord
John Russell, Louis DuIaLd OF jacques BonhOnme
and Louis Napol, OIL, will, DO, ana nu,t Judge irOni
facts, and net accordingly.
Louis Napoleon long ugo, Like sensible man ns
he 49, seat Al. BIrTOt aud o.her " "shrewd observers
to the United States Their reports will weigh
quite as much with him as any representations oi
our Minister near his Court. Be sure Of that
They Will report iacts. His Majesty Is IN no hurry
10 acknowledge the e.. y. A. as a noa born nation
He has not gone open,y, quite as lar AS England in
this directions it depends upon us that he speedily
does not 90 as lar. II jeff. Dayis's concern L. 5.
A. ~ Co., can keep it's sgn up SIX months longer,
if it has next November single port whence II eau
send under its own flag pound oi cotton, or where
it can receive under any flag, pound OF powder,
the firm will be- practically recognized as doing
living business by the European establishments
BE sure of this History is the guaranty OF my
yfnu