New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-03


1IoSs FOR SUFFERERS PROM THs FRESnBT-sICK-
NRsg or THE FEMALE SINGER, THEREsA-M THOU
vRNK1's pgAru-THB PRINCESS CHARLOTTE
HEALTH OPP THE EMPEROR RoUBLoUs STATE OF
THINGS IN SPAIN.
From Our Special Correspondent.
PARIS, October l9, 1866
The skv is dull the weather drzzy, the streets dirty.
Go TO- lot this letter be doefu Sad themes are plenty
am aaid was mistaken in saying OF the september
foods this year that they not 30 disastrous as those
of 1856 Tho harm they have done has 81 this time been
well looked into and makes very ugly show Abe NATE
rial damage done is approximately estimated a. eiehy
millions francs. In cases tho soil has been washed
AWAY in other and moro cases. fertile acres have been
covered with thick of sterile sand and gravel In
the valley towns and villages the distress Of the inundated
poor washed out and shop isvery great Worldly
minded observers attribute the clearing away OF the hill
woodlands as the chief cause Of these terrible Hoods
Noteworthy facts opinions in support OF th view v""
will find quoted IN that entertaining olio MINIS r.
Marsh's 90 Man and Nature" The attention OF Govern
mont provoked by the foods Of 1885, has since been
specially turned to the rewooding Of the hill districts and
good deal Of planting work has been dono In the last ton
years But the ground to be covered is immense admin
isatye processes something slow and Dame Nature
with the proper spirit OF her sex will not even BY an En-
pcrors yengencc DO compelled grow her trees faster than
She likes In tho record OF old tmo. when the hill coun
tries were the great rvor of and their auonts had
their sources we'll wooded hardly of these eshets
were recorded 1t is only in the late centuries that we
hear Of them, at first at long intervals Dut the intervals
being befer the careless cutting has gone on, and
the inundaiions being and more harmul-notably
since tho division Of lands among the small eurVshG
proprieors after the Great Revolution Of 1889, Ct seq
Mention Of which eyentfu date reminds me to notice
that CERTAIN spiritually minded observers IN France habit
y attribute TO that Revolution ITS direct consequences
and cognacs all large sized material caames that bef
their fellow men, Thus, in pastoral iorm tue pen OF
the eminent and eloquent Bishop Of Orleans, NJ Dupan-
charity OF the well Of bis flock in favor of the poor
sufferers by the late eshes tho reader is assured that the
feshet was partly owing 10 a semiscienihc-terary-
socal-congrcs held at Liegc last year. TO the mispeor-
mances Of certain freemason lodges, aud "slcb' Inc
scouTgo OF grasshopper in Algeria the German war with
its bloodettng the cholera and continuous bad weather OF
the past Summer have all been accounted for in episcopal
pastoral and religious newspaper columns In similar
podsnapistic way. Highly intelligent, cultivated doubt
less sincere men, grave leaders OF fomidaby largo
poitco-sociar eligous party IN France, DO const0ny
preach and far they practice upon this podnap
sh hypothesis, that they know tho designs OF God are let
In advance into what are TO the rest Of morals, tho
secrets Of inscriptions providence" A wasting
army Of gaSshoppcrs sent TO consume the scan crops
of Thousands OF miserable Agcrians great food is sent
90 drench out of house and home thousands Of poor peas
and artisans 10 the Loire vaeyi the cholera Is sent
10 dispense death and greater misery in the wretched
lodgings of tho ed hawashed hali-aired poor OF the
great cities war with its horrors, is sent TO kill myradS
OF soldiers who driven to the tight Of which they
don't understand the causefor why Intelligent culii,
vaed rational that II is 20 punish the world
al large because quite other set than this suffering COM
mon mass living for the most part in comfortable enjoy.
ment of this worlds goods write naughty books, hold
fccmasons lodges, and above all, don't preserve the
Popos temporal throne And these intelligent, otherwise
rational and polite gentlemen, assert their Interpretation
OF tho mystery IL the worlds government with tone OF
which the confidence is only equaed W IT'S gross abusive
violence. 49, .
moment is attracting here rather attention than Is
usually paid by the general public to specimens OF this
sort of literature partly because tho writer, who one OF
the most eminent OF French bishops for intellect and co
he
Than shown himself Of this century and not
Of the middle agcsand partly because there is no flesh
cngrossmg topic Of talk ~ hand As specimen and on
the whole favorable Of its kind II Is very well worth
than the passing attention OF such OF your readers
a. arc uatchfuly (0A0Wing study Of French manners
and customs aud Of the current Of Frnch history with
view OF discovering its drft so as not to DO taken ny
stupid surprise NJ iis next revolutionary "Lesh FOR,
whacytr hcrccal free thinking, grasshoppeT breeding
reader Of 1HB TRIBUNE may think Of the philosophy, or
the charity tho logic Of this pastoral letter. he should
consider ihat Al u.s. in all these respects ard in style but
.amplo and, snid favorable, e., the whole, an
unusually well-wriiten mild and acceptable sample OF
literature whose volume the bishops Of France the
editors II three Paris daily and numerous periodical jour
nails constantly contributing. And your waiehiny
pursuant student Is TO keep IN mndwhat for the rest
moments reflection will make evident to him-that TINS
constantly rolling volume OF such literature must nave
recipient multitude Of swalowcrs, ehe II must cease.
Supply can't continuously Overrun demand.
Now Podsnappcy, the Heayen-darng assumption OF
finite man land woman, exc editor To ooniound what IS
evident for the moment bis vision with a cOOred lthC-
grnph Of the Designs Of Providence IS alas no specially
I
tce Of it hero in France Is the specially Of disciplined
admirably pooed one-purposcd, rcigio-pohteo social
party, whose leaders furnish the proyidenia ARTICLE,
auihOntaYely patented stamped and ticketed 90 great
multitude Of French folks Who rejecting all limitations,
confdngy gauc end swallow il for their daily souls food
yrty scp.uce Is attributed TO Henry Heine, the
Of which 10 that Paris Is the brain Of France, and you
might well talA of the "opiniOn" q mans arms or
legs Of The French public opinion OF the promises Tho
paradox has sufficient element Of Truth 10 salt and keep
iis Nit Like most brief bits Of Wit IL is quito too
br to tue whole case but covers great error
Paris that talking, publicly writing Paris for the most
part laughs at Nonsegneur Dupanoups pastoral. -Four
hihs otthe Of Paris, 30 far as they look at such
things at all, don't laugh At IT, Nnetenths Of French
women so far they read Episcopal pastorals go 10
hear sermons at all don't laugh And those that do laugh
from the teeth outward breathe inVGTdly As general
rule children ND 10 the ago OF their first communion are
brought UP under vonanly and prestly influences.
From II TO 80 they cast them aside They are apt to
recur to them in advanced age. Nine "Votarians out
Of 90 many wife out Of cOnyentual school or out OF
secular one whose discipline Is modelled on tho convent
have thor children educated under phesty influence and
deathbed time ask for priest to light them out OF THIS
world through the church door.
Yery grave then in all ways and among others in the
political way is this church influence. IL holds and
greatly rules tho mass OF Frenchmen at the ends or
their lives holds most strongly outside Paris and tho
great cities
So far as tho Church party directly political party
il has an advantage Others similar TO that which tho
Southern party had Others in the United States be-
fore 1860 AS 10 details and processes II is variable hex
ibe, piable but holds with highest conslancy to one
purpose. The leaders have in turn adhered to and ac
claimed in turn, Bourbon royalty younger branch royalty
Republic, Empire. Yeoman's service they rendered for
assured recompense TO the reyoluuonzng Prince Presi
dent in l8552 without which the coup deta had been
failure, and the Empire impossible. Up 10 1859 the
alliance with great mutual benefit was preserved Since
the Italian campaign there has been less open
rupture In respect of other OF the many questions
for the solution Of which Napoeons great intelligence has
been put torture has his Maiesys brain power been
so hardly sluined as in respect 20 this: "How keep
step with the progress of this modern time and keep the
rerograde Church party with an auxiliary, but not
with divided commando
That is underlying all others, the crucial question