New-York tribune., 1867-08-17

part OF the shOp angrily bids them show the gentle
man the dTessing-gOwn instead OF the military coat
thev were lust urging yOu they present the dreS-
ing-gOwn with quick obedience ana declare u = the
same thing they have been reeOnnienHdIe & an aotG,
woman; agrees that there may be plhch somewhere;
but that il will pass witha httle wearing ana
does not amount TO much and IS sure to
be altered next time, and rs love OF IT.
and yOu become 1t so We'll Le rays mas
different. To drop the metaphor, III which am
getting much embarrassed, and come to an illus
trative fact For six months and more this journal
devoted itself to the abuse of the institutions of Bel
gium denied nationality other than French to its
France 1t followed this course of abuse and argl-
ment as II of Its own motion, not pretending 10 DC
inspired by Government but Government, syou OBJ
serve, got whatever benefit was TO be had by such
feeling of the public the question, and il was only
when 1t reached the yielding stage III the LuKeln-
bomg business that il took means TO stop this bny-
ing series of editorials One of the open means was
taTdy note, in the non-oifcial part of the MOneI,
deprccating the spirit of them.
fhe note in the official part of that sheet re-
ferred TO above is literally true; no one believes That
il is essentially true. Every one believes now, as
last week, that n communication of some sort from
the French Minister OF Foreign Affairs did reach the
Cabinet of Berlin To prevent the further evil effects
that belief and, IT possible INSPIRE Dehe1 IN Ihe
lshed another note this week denying in categorical,
but still technical, phrase many of the alarming
TumOrS in respect to French preparations for war.
The impression it would convey to an innocent
foreigner from the mOOn who read French but didnot
speak it. is that France is in peculiarly peaceful
preston il was intended TO convey 10 the penSve
public at home, and TO neighboTing foreign readers
The impression IT does leave ON the common French
mind is is much the as the impression IT found
there. France is prepared, and kept IN constant
preparation for warlke eventualtes, up TO the last
limits of its actual military organization. IL y quite
pOssible that the formal relations with Prussia
are of the formally friendly pattern; quite con-
cevablc that the Emperor desires 10 avoid war with
that Power quite polite that lie should give hlIn-
self the air of desiring 10 avoid it; but qnte certain
that France defeated at Sadowaa and feels ts de-
feat and does not easily put up Win IT. Inc LhNem-
burg business which also ended III defeat, was but
an accident The North Sceswig affair is but an oc-
casioR. IL may be settled by conference or other
wise as they NAV. The elementary fact remains,
that New Germany is growing into consolidated
Pussan Germany; that the new Prussan citizen
proudly swaggers, and that the stationary French
citizen fumes with humiliation That IS the open
raw. OF the next ten Frenchmen You meet nlne
to-day will in one form Of phrase or another eX-
press the same conYieuonIlhtlmate persuasion,
which they expressed before the publication OF the
MoRiteW'S pacific note, that the Emperor raw may
be skinned over but will never be soundly clca-
fried but by war cautery. Hence, il is common
saving with commercial and financial men, that they
had rather have and done with II this tall than
next SPRING anything preferable to this prolonged
uncertanty-ths tremuldus anxiety, that blocks en-
terpFise stops trade and locks up capital.
The closing sessions of the Senate were marked
with UNUSUAL interest ny the Iea9ung @ oy DuAv reI CT
sgny of most carefully prepared written essay on
the constitutional responsibility OF the Emperor Ii
is very remarkable and much remarked ON for sev-
eral reasons. In the first place, being thorough
going discussion of certain vital points of the Con-
stitnfon II Is n direct violation of the letter and
spirit OF the SeRGtRS ConSaiiam OF last year. WhlGh
strictly fOrlids discussion OF that instrument III
the next place, the gst of the readng-Oators argu
ment was that the Emperor is not solely re-
spOnsible though no conceivable combination oi
To- and i$ Of tie Constitution hccage Fiat hes. The
authority of the arguments two-fold the orator was
himself one Of the consulting COMMISSION hy Whom,
under the then President OF the Republic foI ten years,
the Constitution was drawn up he has always been,
as other man IN present high political estate has
been, in old evil report as zeal0uSly and frankly as
in actual good report. an unsWeyhg deNotee o. IA
pOleonism and the Empire. His argument was by ITS
own necessity, an attack-at least hard bow siap
III the face, Teproach, and hardy-yalled lHsrJ 10
Minister Rouher and his colleagues That gentleman
and four Of his colleagues sat on the mlm Sclal
benches, listening III silence throughout and answer
ing no word at the close Of tins long discourse Inns
fact and certain curiOuSly melancholy notes inter-
snersed Am the discourse have caused some Ingenious
readers to suspect that the Emperor has IN sort
cast off his faithful PcISIQny and ~ sot Or his
Majesty viii permit mel III hls ways which Pcrsgny
walls over swanlkc, as downward and dyLastIcally
mortal
Meantime, II. VI. and Her Majesty are going next
week in sIieteSt inCOg 10 meet Tdnz josef at SZ-
burg and perhaps from there To the pleasant Wen.
nese Saratoga Ischl i'll the beautiful lake and hill
country of the SalZkammergut 10 cOndOle with ana
console the Austrian Emperor on the untimoIy end
Of brother Max. . .
To change the subject. II was an agreeable relief
to escaps from the close summer iayOrs OF Pans
streets-impremated as they have been tins season
with Czars, Siamese, ShOddy, and all sorts oI
strangers and their baCgage-out TO the broad pam
of Yineennes last Tuesday, nnder pretex OF witness
ing an adjourned and final trial OF the reaplng ma
chimes on exhibition at the Champs de Mars. The day
was beautiful; the crop was oats-ralher heavy
than battle-ground smooth, batting dram that ran
fairly across all the lots, IN al OF which aiso,
of French fields hereabOutsl was impartial.
The first machine started was Woods sWcep-rake
reaper, cutting low clean, and laying OH the gaEts
with beautiful, neat continuance for the binder.
Time SO minutes. IshOuldhaye SAID before that the
plots were about twO-thirds OF an acre eaeh WOOL
10,
in % minutes, and u Canadian maker, Massey
CWOOds patent), III y minutes All these machines
were driven was on the point OF WrltIng inspired;
by Mr.. Clarke Chase of Rhode Island no one heed
tell me that there not electric ainlues symPa,
thetic relations between that nervous concentrated
person and the machines and horses; he surely mas
some occult unfcent quality in hn. Yivifying almost
the dead material OF the ingenious instrument
and bringing. it and the lower animals INTO
subseryient harmony with his Will never
more than lambently tickled the horses Win ms
whip, nor condemned their immortal parts, nor
spoke loud during all the three tups; but sincerely
believe he would have bit of the finger OF any one
like buzz-saw, who had ventured 10 put II IN MS
way while he was doing his work seymour 0 Aiol-
gans reaper did its work in 32 minutes; ilowalds IN
"a or, as some watches Tun IN "a. lieTe SouI Lc-
porter would observe TINT he is not ready to KISS te
book as to the minutes and half minutes OF me times
and that he has noticed several instances Oh tne cuI
Gus Topographic fact that an exhibitor tlme-Piece
will actively sylnpathize WITH ms own lhaclllG, lhacl,
while it is slow o'clock for his rivals Inc awards
of the iuTy have been told, are as follows: Inc god
(rst medal 10 McCormicll the silver and bronze TO
Wood. Samuelson Seymour d Morgan lsomc two OF
the threel, and honorable mention to Howard ana
Pelter -.
While this agricultural strife was going on our ears
were constantly saluted by the sharp pill pan Ol
rihemen from the Vincennes garrison, VINO We're
practising at the butts another part OF the PLAIN
should have had pretty paragraph on the contrast
between their shoOtng-irons and WOODS maGhhe,
with an apt and ornamental quotation from Mr. Long
fellow, introducing the reaper, Death but
brother corresnondent of q New-YOrk paper, 10y ex-
cellenf friend N having pitchoda sOusf usulIect