New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-04-19


him unwilling company and even thelr bipW,
shutting movement alarms the majority OF thas
retrOgrade conservative majority which IS ono OF
the essential bases of his power as heaVcndarhg'
What will be the upshOt of this Luxembourg nego-
tiatiOnf Your correspondent is not cognzant oI any
one element helpful to the solution of this quesu9h
that by the time this letter reaches you, VIII nor DC
as well known to anyntehgent MIR. Jones OF iowa, ie
10 the best well-nfOfmed Of newspaper or nlploan
letter writer's But not to abdicate my Once wiz
give an opinion as is an upinon-nOne the worse LOT
being nearly 800 years old, and for beng ergl'Iiy
uttered by high French diplomatic Pelsomae 90 III
respect of FTanco-Dutch negotiations t1lt came 70
failure IN 1884. Man proposes, but OOd alspoecs.
We frequently called on to observe ,haI 'niie'
have great variety of times ana tellh1 n uoltoys
[Since borrow this from one OF M; moiteys
works let me open n generous parenthesls mere 70
lend you some new solutions OF the question OF 10
is McCTdcktR?" But first suffer wOrd respectins
the extract from private letter from PARIS when
you were permitted to publish IN LIE llubSNE VI
March o. The writer of that letter whoever ne may
he does gross injustice to poor George oil limos
Primo this George Nee. was OF ILLINOIS; secuhuo,
though poor of purse and dirty Of shirt, by mistor-
tune, he showed no culpable poverty ct splIlt OF
diriness of soul sat at most h9sptaDle ana Wen
spread table the other evening, wheTeat sat peter
men, and among them an eminent, wise one. ana
there and then somewhere between the Here's ana
the Chateau something II forget the label but recol-
lect the bouquet what should come up IN talk as toul
est weeds in richest soil but the McCracken deIator
McCracken, JOhnson's court fool McCracken. Mot
lev McCracken. Whom the wise convive ut that table
whose name, if could write IT here, would carry
authority with it-declaTed, III his opinion, TO NC
amyth' The supports III favor Of this opinion are
numerous. Il prior, pOsteTiOr, internal, eXtrnsc
etc. note few OF them. as brought forward ny our
wise man. by DidsbuTy and others-noting them
here duly, without the wine No brutal, scoundrelly
infOmeT lost his profession requires, to all sen
respect would, in the case reeur at the close OF ms
deation 70 such dro n9iyete as to state snss
would not dO-if he were signing ms own name
to the document. Having written himself an
ass, as well as scoundre he naturally puts
fhp
There is no hopeless creature capable OF such foul
ness and sham simplicity nomed g. w Met VINO
is of New York" The books OF the Office clerk AZ
MeuTces Hotel where Andrews Ostepslble cOITes-
pondcnt OStensby dates his letter OF delatlon do not
contain any unsettled bill for board aud lodging
Cracken The letter signed G. w Nee. was probably
written in Amerca-certainly was not written ny
the degenerate offspring OF any MI ana MIS- NC
CraCken It's publication is q passing misfortune Tor
honest men bearing that name, one OF whom mas Iateiy
put an advertisement in Gaignani's newspaper TO
inform the world tat he repudiates any associations
of his person with that of correspondent ot me
President of the United States When opened TINS
parenthesis, had in mind TO summary reproduce
three of the apologetc explanations OF Mr.. Stewards
responsibility for the letter of his signing sent from
the Department of State to Mr. Motley at McCrack-
ems suggestion. But each one IL worse than the
other though all were kindly meant and are OF high
semo official authority. My sense Of the patriotic
takes precedence here Of my sense of duty as your
reporter. Let me blush IN silence.I
We in receiIt these four days OF the cable ee-
gram announcing the cesslon of Russian America 10
the United States have only to speak of IFS fleet
on French public opinion Inasmuch rs English folks
don't like IT, and are supposed TO be offended by II,
10 that degree it gratiies French folks. For the
fundamentaest of all international immoral laws is
hate your neighbor and like what he most does not.
Inasmuch as iseems to indicate real relations
between Russia and the United States bearing hrst
Oh the Eastern, and then on other European and
world questions, il is regarded as another III the
series of Louis Napoeons ill-uck-as another proof
of his erroneous foreign policy Considered In this
sense the treaty of cesson connects pretty directly
with Napoleon's primary and most fecund Of all hrs
bungles that false starting OF ms on the onglhal
false assumption that the United States must go 10
pieces under the blows of our civil wal, which begat
the Mexican policy and its not yet all delivered pro.
geny of abortions, and with his IDLE diplomatic
interference verbally in favor Of practically 10 the
harsher treatment of, the insuTgent Poles. IL ~
looked on as proof and consequence of his twofold
mistake in alternating the two natural political allies
of France-Russa and the United States-and throw
ing them into each Others arms
Per contra. So far as this Russo-AmeTican treaty
of territorial bargain and sale Is manifestation of
Ourpatriotic socaed) greed for more land and power
Of the immoral policy OF absorbing all America That
is, of gobblng all weak neighbors II furnishes en-
cOuragement and strength 10 the favonte Ma
poleonic Pr0vidential doctrine of "aggOmeration"
The two persons in Europe who should be best con
tent with Mr. Stewards treaty are Herr bismarck
and Louis Napoleon. The two peoples who should
be saddest over il are the free peoples Of Swift
zerland and Belgium You at home viii laugh
when you learn that some here are counting on
Senates rejection of the treaty on the ground
that the waste square miles and the sixty Thousand
inhabitants who know not their night hand from
their left and much cattle, of Russian America, will
not be held worth theseven million dollars, as though
we cared for millions; as though patriotism would
approve voting twice the sum Tor q quarter az much
territory measured off in the desert of Sahara Is it
not size greatness! Is il not national debt ditto
blessngf Are we not very great and blessed I'M
CommOn-and yet TO grow in greenbacks and grace J
For the first time since the coup 6tat, drama of
Victor Hugos is suffered TO be brought on the stage.
Hermann is TO be put in rehearsal at the Francois 30
soon as overseeing friends named by the absent
author can decide upon the distribution OF the parts
first. Of hat first
Of the world, all of whom are as ambitious as
confident of their ability to fill the best parts as our
old friend Bottom. Under the new permission for
performing the dramas of the greatest dramatic
French poet the manageT OF several other theateis
are preparing to revive other Of HugOs plays. This
looks like liberalism and though seeming at first to
touch the theatcrs and their public only is not to be
overlooked III the hopefully growing catalogue OF re-
cent concessions 10 liberty"
On the other hand-and your correspondent re-
porter is not answerable for the cOntradction-per
mission 10 perform a drama entitled La GUeH
d4meqae or late Girl Hdrl has Just been refused by
the censOrship not because of the of liberal
sentiments set forth therein-for these have been
prudently pruned down nor yet because one Of its
authors IS journalist who energetic constant
partisan Of our right, and consequently eminently
dsagTeeabe to Government and its inspired journal
lists partsans of the rebellion throughout tho war.
o no. certainly not that. You maySgueSs from now
till late n6xt Autumn, and the close of the Uni.
yersal Exhibition, without stumbling on the reason
by the Celsors for theiI refusal. Here ISIS: 1Pe
whole sentiment of the drama being favorable to the
turned, and with which it triumphed, might be Of
fensive to many of our foreign guests, who will be
here to go to theater during the Exhibition this year
l assure you solemnly that this, and
this only is the reason which the Government cen
sorshp gives for its refusal.
The iOurneymen taors have been on strike since
last Monday noon was at their meeting on Sunday,
where they decided on this measure by a nearly
unanimous vote, after considerable discussion The
meeting was a very large one, two thousand strong,
about nearly ~ could Judge, by painstaking APP
pcation Of various tests. The loose estimate of five
or six thousand which you Will find i'll the news
ia aha aVfra vha1v yha