The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-28


of the principal streets of the city. 1t is but
just to add here that the day came and went
very much as we expected No one who
knows the Emperor Napoleon could for a
moment imagine that he would give his
enemies the shadow OF a chance to triumph
over him. In spite of French ''reds" aud
European democrats and American detractors,
there is no ruler of the present day in whom
the great public have more faith than they
have in the Emperor Napoleon. His fall
would, politically and financially, convulse
not France alone, not Europe only, but the
world. Yet the threatened demonstration of
Tuesday had not the slightest effect on
Change. The announcement of the Empe-
rors death would create a panic in every
financial centre in the world. threat
ened outbreak disturbs no one. So long as
Louis Napoleon lives, his clear intellect and
his strong will remaining he will continue to
be the trusted ruler of France. violent
revolution SO long as he holds the reins is
simply impossible. 1t is impossible to refuse
to admit-and most men will make the admis.
sion heartily-tbat the peaceful victory of
Tuesday will greatly increase the Emperor's
popularity with the French people, while it
cannot fail to enhance his great reputation all
the world over. The world has not seen so
skilful ruler in many generations. He has
not the brilliancy of his great uncle; but if
h1srel8n has shed less lustre upon French arms,
1t has occasioned less misery to the French
people. If history cannot speak of him as
the julius Caesar of France, it will not refuse
to grant him the place and honors of Au-
gustus.
Although, however, Napoleon has once
again come off victorious, we cannot close
our eyes to the fact that the current of events
and growing public sentiment are rather
against than with him. His personal inhu-
ence is great; but it cannot be said that he
has been successful in establishing a form of
government which could work well without
him. The French Government machine is
not yet like that of Great Britain and that of
the United States, self-acting. 1t needs the
hand OF skill to direct and control it, and it is
difficult to see where that hand could be found
If the Emperor were no more. 1t may seem
bold saying, but it is truth--the future of the
Bonaparte dynasty is as uncertain to-day as it
was twenty years ago. Napoleon gone, we
see the factions again in conflict, and q re-
public or a restoration seems even more GER
tain than the reign of Napoleon the Fourth
The death of the Emperor will be the signal
for an uprising in Europe which his life and
his success only postpone, With him will
pass away a vigorous upholder of law and
order; and if the fercer spirits Of democracy
shall rejoice in his death as they would at the
fall of tyrant the dynastes will have good
reason to lament the loss of their greatest
II,
peace on this occasion has been preserved;
it is well that the Emperor remains master of
the situation; but it is well also to bear in
mind that the struggle is only postponed.
The spirit of liberty is unconquerable.
AIISMANAGEMENT IN THE NAVY DE-
PARTMENT.
From the ~ Y. Sun.
Last spring, when the Narragansett was
fitted out and sent to Cuba to protect our
countrymen, she went with couple of thirty
two Founders and one other gun too small
to be remembered. She is fair-sized sloop-
of-war, and ought to have carried battery
four times as heavy. The Americans in Ha-
vana laughed loud and long at this wonder
full castle of defense to which their lives and
property were to be intrusted. The chief of
the bureau that furnishes the ordnance to
men, of-war said he could not give her more
guns, because the bureau that supplies the
men was unable to provide the crew to man
them. So rigid was the economy which the
system of retrenchment demanded Yet,
shortly afterwards, the Sabine sheeted home
for Europe, carrying three or four hundred
sailors, every man of whom was needed to
protect our people in the West Indies.
What was it that they were sent to Europe
for? To give pleasure cruise to eighty
midshipmen, graduates of the Naval School
| at Annapolis!
There is a pressing need of midshipmen
in the navy. Formerly they waited years and
years for promotion, but now they remain
midshipmen for only O twelvemonth, or at
most two years, before rising to the next
rank. Hence, to put the graduating class of
the Naval School into single ship is not
only to deprive the navy of their services, but
themselves of that experience in a junior
grade so necessary to their preparation for
the duties of a higher one. There is reason
to fear that, just as the late withdrawal of
midshipmen from the decks of most of ouI
war vessels has already produced damaging
effect upon discipline and efficiency among
their crews, so also a want of practical know
ledge of a midshipmans duty will be found
among the members of these picnic parties
when an increase of rank shall hereafter in.
trust to them the deck, and with it the super
vision and direction of subordinates. Instead
of putting them on board the Sabine, they
should have been distributed TO all our men.
of-war, where they might have been employed
not only in keeping sailors up to sailors duty
but also in learning their own.
The secret of bad management in the navy
lies in the monstrosity of two-heade(
authority, of duplex administration, of
double -back-acting machinery, of power be
hind the naval throne. If the Presiden
really desires Vice-Admiral Porter to bt
Secretary, he can easily take the lawful step
to accomplish his wish. But two Secretaries
one real, the other nominal; one responsible
the other without responsibility; one Robe
son, the other Porter; one subect'to publi
scrutiny for every act, the other working a
secretly and imperceptibly as the living
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