New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-10

voters; and though it's avewed desire that political
questions should not enter into these local elections w"s
by means universally answered to by the people
especially by those of the larger cOnmunesat used nt
unfair influence to enforce the fulment Of that desire
many the officially proposed lists Of candidates
contained nsmes of persons belonging to the :" old
parties :" in some communes no official lists we're pro
posed and instances were comparatively raEe "ho'e
Projects and other high officials exercised any otner
pressure than hat Is admissb.e-or at least @om'eo
for officials 10 exercise in all countries where popular
elections are held. Add to this that some veiatiocs
, restrictions respecting the printing and issuing Oh
ballots were not insisted on.
Tn fine the conduct of Government lenes some color
OF reason to the hopeful who interpret 1t as SIN
cere attempt at An experiment Of further concessions
10 liberty" In preceding election under the new
Empre have the voters been left much TO themselves
To be sure here only municipal, local elections
but the exercise Of the electoral right in application 70
local material and other interests with which the eeos
OTIS are well acquainted is the very best school for lite
intelligent exercise in national political interests and
is a good beginning Of decentralization which Is
needed TO make the French people really politically
free So much TO the credit of the Government
To the credit of the people it is to lie said that cleo
ton day passed of without note anywhere. In Mar
settles and some other towns there was good deal OF
excitement but no serions breach peace no dis
turbances so grave as occurred at many places In En-.
gland on occasion of the important parliamentary
elections there few days agonO occasion for calling
out the always ready troops anywhere. True they
were always ready In many Of the towns Opposition
lists were formed often composed Of coalition of Re-
pubcans Orleanists and Legitimists. and many OF
these were wholly in part successful at the polls
have often spoken of the remarkable triumphs OF
the opposition in the halfdozen special elections held
to fill vacancies made by death Of government mem
bers within the past eighteen months, Of deputies to
the Corps Legisat and noted especially the latest OF
these where the Liberal candidate was chosen by
large majority of the voters Of the district OF the late
Duke de Morny, who two years before. had poled
within 300 of unanimous vote. 1t is certainly CON
cevabe and the new manner in which Government
acted aud RETAINED from action last Sunday helps out
the conceit that Napoleon has learned good lesson
from those special elections and Is disposed to let up
electors who have shown themselves so difficult to DO
kept down. This concet or at best hopeful theory
sustained as yet by little than priori argument,
meets with certain growing acceptance. 1nasmuch
as he took with him to Plombieres Springs the best
working members of his private cabinet and is known
to spend several hours day in hard work there
Madame Rumor. catching mp whir OF other light
wnd.strsws by the way. loves to report that he is
busted with devisng devices for considerable changes
Of his domestic policy in liberal sense.
The "big thing OF the week in the city Ia the
cess Of the new city loan of 2J0000OOo francs. Its
conditions of emission such as to make it little
better than five per cent stock with certain aleatory
attractions in the shape of four annual lottery draw
ings. The subscription was announced for Tuesday.
Iovfr
been made with the Credit Mobier for the taking at
certain of any OF the 100000 bonds not taken BY
the public BY Tuesday night 900 900 bonds had been
subscribed for AMI than 10000 900 francs paid In
to cover the first instanent in all and to pay in
advance future installmepts in SO you
Jay Cookery ia not peculiar relish OF country.
There is element in the French DISH that those OF
us who don't thing. permanent debt permanent
blessing in any disguise would like TO in ours this
loan BIZ virtue of its essential constitution will be all
paid Oft in sixty years-the burden growing surely
lighter every year like Esop's bread sack But with
YOU with whom the increase by s75.00oOoO Of nom
inally seven really ten per cent loan, makes
no material difference in debt If 3 600 coo 900 or
thersabout this little element Of solution must
quite Insignificant
Was our old national TO have for iis
two most distinctive traits calculation and jealousy OF
our hbertes-a caricature, mythical drawings or have
we lost like foolish virgins turned out Of service' In
spite flow Of petroleum in our lamps and the garng
brilliance Of gas panes Of all sorts. we hardly
shine like wise ones at this distance seeing the easy
way we regard or disregard the ominousy swelling
debt and he high fantasies Of Mr. Secretary Stanton
whose undsturbed imperum in npeio or rather super
imperum ioutng all empire Of law, strikes some Of us
here the most remarkable phenomenon yet shown in
our remarkable country.
That the four years pressure not removed and the
first heh.pres excitement following on Mr.. Lin.
coins assassination saperadded we should have con
sented to waive our right trial by jury when assent
ing to trial by an abnormal unegal tribunal Of the
wretched accompces OF the assassin was natural II
not reasonable But that now, when have had time
to cool whom the is three months gone past when
10 one is in arms or boast dare arm against rs
that st now the freest and most enlightened and the
rest of people on esrh-not to say in the universe up
10 Orion and the Dog Star-submt 10 military law
to the absence Of law the ncgaion OF law is to onr
credit much as an indefinitely growing DEBT is. One
would think 1t was high time that every poorest Amer
lean man Of u.s. of the meanest shanty to-day
possessor of his bare life and right to live to-day should
consider that his rights to either Of those posses
sions ia intimately related to Mr. Ford's right
TO his theater and to Mr.. Davis's right TO
Jury trial May i quote again from the best
writer on the best national Constitution next to our
own; 1T isan unhappy consequence Of all deviation
from the even course Of law that the forced acts of
over ruling necessity come to be distorted into prece
dents to serve the purposes Of arbitrary power And
again Hallam says we'll covering our present ana
lust past case: There may indeed DO times OF press
ing danger. when the conservation Of all demands
the sacrifice of the legal rights Of few there may be