Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-25
How Will 1t End ?

4C may seem premature, ana 8 counting of Prussian chickens before they are matched, to reckon Paris and the war lost to France; but so utterly unprepared does the Empire prove to be for the war it has provoked, that something near miracle will be necessary to avert such result. Supposing Bismarck in Paris, and Napole- on in exile, what are to be the terms exact ed? It is reported that the abdication of Napoleon and the establishment of an Or leans dynasty will be the first conditions of peace. France paying "costs of suit" and damages" in the form of cession of her Upper Rhine provinces to North Germany.
 We should be sorry to suppose that Prussia could be unwise enough to require either of the three conditions of peace in- dicated above. The first is unnecessary, the second unwise, and the third impos- sible.
 Any attempt to force the abdication of Napoleon would not make his overthrow any the more certain; it would only render the restoration of his dynasty possible, upon the plea that it's overthrow had been effected in 1870, as in 1915, by foreign con- quest. So grave political mistake will hardly be made by the able men who ad- minister the affairs of North Germany.
 For similar reason, any dynasty forced on the weakness of France, would be sure of overthrow with the return of her strength, as was the case in 1880. The Or leanists might hope for success by assist. ance from within, but assistance from with out would render them as odious as it did the elder branch of the Bourbons.
 The attempt to dismember provinces from France which have been held fol centuries. would change a dynastic into a national war. Bismark would be sure to find in the end that fighting Napolean III. and fighting the French nation, were en |. tirely different matters. Imbecils leader ship may bring temporary defeat on a brave nation, but the ground lost under Napoleon, would surely be retrieved under an abler administration, though perhaps at the cost of hundreds of thousands oi lives.
 Any harsh use of victory would be sure to turn the popular sympathy which now goes with Prussia, against her. The un provoked assault of Napoleon cannot fair. ly be charged against the French people His dynasty is now to all intents and pur poses at an end. Prussia has only to be generous, and she can consolidate Germa ny, without embittering France. Anv oth. or course will lead to wars on wars, ending perhaps, with Holy Alliance against th. Hohenzollerns.
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 THE CENSUS. Tt is of little use guessing at results which few weeks will settle de anitiyely. Some facts, however, may eve. now be considered certain. The censu will show positive decline in New Hamp shire, and probably in Vermont. Tn gains which we have been anticipating ii OOAAuCCsAcut W1Al uVt US E0allZeUs Tn 60.000 claimed for New Haven, has dwin dled to 51,O00; the 45.OOO for Hartford, t S9.0OO. Middletown, Meriden and No, walk show the largest per centage of in crease thus far reported. We look for positive decline in Litchfeld, Holland an Windham Counties The largest oa;n expected in Fairfield County. In the Stat there will probably be an increase. br nothing like the twenty or thirty per cen heretofore claimed.
 Throughout the country, the large ii crease claimed for the cities, inyariabI falls below the estimates. The Census R, reau now estimate 40, ,OOO. 900 as the prob, ble total population. and we shall be aere, ably disappointed if that number is reacl cd. The drain of the war was much hea fer then has been usually reckoned; n, % much from actual loss by wounds from the comparative infrequency of ma riages and births, shown hy the statistics fhe years of the war.