The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-04-14

i ouest;on .pBe assured the Napoieons, When
thav do act. will follow the maxims OF their
founder. and will strike quickly and strong.
These reiinions are becoming serious.
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION
will be raised in the Senate in few days
namely, that Of prohibiting the agents OF
the Government from distributing the
voting papers to the electors: upwards OF
$50 town councils have petitioned to nave
the authorities abstain from interfering
with the exercise Of the electors vote.
HOLY WEEK
forced politics into suspension OF hostlli-
ties. Bismarck has gone to cit under his
own vine and fg-tree for o week, and prim
has retired to his property at Toledo for o
little hunting. But already the hurly
bnr,v has recommended. The semi-oficial
nress ia putting in its say in the angry
pewsnaper quarrel raging between Vienna
and Berlin. Prussia is told that it is only
her own ambition, her own faithlessness
to carry out binding treaties, that would
force France, Italy, and Austria, 70 enter
into holy alliance.
FROM SWITZERLAND
light comes to-day. The Canton OF Aurlcn
was not in harmony with it's council, and
the latter has declared that it will for the
future be only o legislative commission
win nrepare and discuss the laws, but WILL
submit them for ratification to the popular
vote. Thus we are coming back to the age OF
Athenian politics. In Geneva matters are less
patriarchal. The printers strike LOT ne"
tariff continues, and under the influence OF
the International Trades Association, which
sits a. London, declines to discuss the mat
tiers in dispute with the masters. Some
printers who believed the proposition OF
the EMPLOYERS fair have been threatened
with Sheffield pains and penalties. The
L" association - adopts the motto, :" One for
all and all for one," but the masters are
about acting on the devise. When two per-
sons are at loggerheads it is not bad step
towards an arrangement to let them have a
good talk together.
TURKEY.
The temporary Minister of Foreign Al
fairs Of Turkey has addressed circular
note to the Porte's Ambassadors on the sub
iect of the Principalities' intention to &C
credit political agents to foreign courts.
The Sultan, flushed from his Grecian VIC
tory, will no longer tolerate any reflection
on his authority, and thus gives notice to
all whom it may concern.
THE WORKING CLASSES.
The Emperor, in his abolition Of the
workman's book (Liuret d. Ouurier), has
given fresh proof of his desire to enfran-
chise the working classes from every relic
of social inequality. Anterior to the first
Revolution every artisan was bound to keep
parchment book, in which his working
life" was recorded, his engagements with
employers, etc. In the absence of this ne
had no locus standi in court Of law in
case of dispute with his employer. He
was bound to provide himself with this
passport" at the police office under a
penalty of fine and imprisonment, and was
at all times bound to produce it for police
inspection. lis true the Emperor, at a
time when he pronounced the terrible
words at is necessary to make the wicked
tremble to assure the good" decreed that
servants, walters, bar girls, and shopmen
and women, should take out this book. But
autres temps, dutres nlGurS. He has now
abolished the grievance by his own i'm
pulse. Don't look the gift-horse in the
mouth.
THE SPRING CATTLE SHOW
passed off well. The French are pleased
that the first prize was carried off by an
OK of o native breed from Burgundy, 90 the
"Durhams had hitherto monopoly OF
glory. Dead stock was exhibited along
with live stock, and of the thousands OF
butchers in Paris there were few who could
not boast of being the happy pcssessor of a
prize bullock.
On Friday group of gentlemen were
discussing, about midnight, the date of a GER
tain event which took place in the Low
Countries. In memory of the day it was
agreed that there should be no "play u
that night. One of the gentlemen, not long
married, an inveterate gambler, and who
passed his nights at the club, soon found
himself alone, and decided to return home
and look up the disputed date. Letting
himself in, he proceeded direct to his
library, and mounted ladder to take down
a Dictionary of Dates. The library opened
on his wife's bedroom, over the door Of
which was q small window. Through this
window the husband found Don Juan in
company with his wife. The Don escaped,
his name was given up, and duel be-
tween the outraged husband and his wifes
anaoroso was to come off in Belgium to-day
NAPoLEoNIC RELICS.
The Princess Bacciochi bequeathed seve.
raj most interesting relics of the First Ma
poleon to the Prince Imperial. These were
conveyed to the Tuileries few days age
for the Emperor's inspection, and comprised
the celebrated gray top-coat worn by the
exile of Saint Helena favorite double
barrelled fowling- piece; the tri-colored
scarf worn on the occasion of Napoleon'e
visit to the plague striker soldiers at Jaffs
the spurs worn at the battle Of the Pyra-
mids, and on which doubtless several CEN
turtles looked down upon a snutf-box that
Louis the Eighteenth left on his writing.
desk in the hurry to get out Of his rivals
way; several annotated books; the Voy.
age of Anacharsis Telemachus Bossuet'G
Orations, Mirabeau's Speeches, etc. After
the inspection, the Emperor directed them
to be handed over to their owner.
REAL FRENCH STORY.
During the week two individuals, well
dressed and very presentable, patronized
one of the first restaurants for supper, in
which the whole strength of the establish
ment employed was to get up regardless Of
expense. The gentlemen were accompanied
by two handsome and elegantly dressed Ia.
dies. The proprietor evidently believed
he had an affair with the expected Nabot
who desired to rent the whole of the Grand
Hotel, or with some of the "Lone Stars >
that Bismarck has knocked out of the roya,
armament of Fatherland. Supper finished
the ladies were seen to their carriage with