New-York tribune., 1870-09-27

| cd committee was sitting showed them INC 'is =.
and demanded their authority Their ony M had n
ask pcrmission 10 see the telegram ana a ,as
! % -, 90 ,,scd 10 return IL, ana salu IL was
a. a.. ,, th 1,t ~ names was made up ana 'nc 'o'"e
! must begin. ,o.,o,,s weather at AK, !
bpt the day appointed for TINS hie NV y, ~, 49,, 1
s r,fortupatoly very diSagreeape u no' O'U'o w,
from the south. filling the square with CLOUDS
! =, d,st and whiriing leaves. The people asSehpeu
sIouIv and seemed to take merely curious n'elo' "
what was going on There were no ""u''''
| r.rcrtlv and nobody among the peas
| orts had the least idea how to begin. Oi
reo n was natural that initiative should be taken
by the young men who had little teaching, knew now
10 read and write, furnished with brass enough
and knew what they themselves wanted Accord
ingy il was these who managed the whole Affair." Inc
few members Of the wcltO-do bourgeose class VINO
deigncd to have anything to do with the matter
were gathered in knots of two and three ana
laughed and snecred at the proceedings in the most
approved wOuld-be arstocratic fashion AS walked
down to square, the chief cook Of the great pension
next the lodge in left his roast and boiled ana
came ont his white cap and apron to discuss the mat
ter with the two chambermads, who had left their WORK
likewise to what going on. Willie they were dis
cussing the proceedings in most animated way, the
mistress of the house, drawn, no doubt by more lofty
motive than cooks and chambermaids can know, leit
whatever she had been doing and came out TO sec wa
the others were looking at. When she saw the square
bakers candeshcl-makers, pOrters walters, and, in
| short the whole wOrkingclass Of AK, she turned
proudly on her noble heel, shifted, and said CdnGiHe "
and went back her house again. She type Of her
class Ono and all have stood by and shifted and sneered'
and let the people have it all their way And as the
better class just ignorant of everything con-
nccted with politics, true liberty, and good gov
| ernment as the lower class, L don't know that
! things will go worse without them than they
| would with them.
| Meantime while we were waiting for the men
in the chamber upstairs TO finish making out their
| lists of candidates. l wandered about among the
people, and talked with some, and listened TO others.
Two young men, clerks in apOthccary's shop, were
discussing the possibility Of the proceedings being pre-
mature. "Are quite that this news about tho
| Emperor is truel" Taking with Them found that,
though intelligent, wemannered young men of nineteen
twenty they had neither of them been enough inter
ested in affairs TO read newspaper, and knew nothing
of what had been passing in the last few days but from
the Gcbes the walls An DID, white haired venerable
looking gentleman, roaming about with large par
Gel Of books and newspapers under his arm. He pres
emily got into lively discussion with some peasants
from the faubOurg but could not get enough TO
hear what said Just then one of the Garde
Mobile surrounded by group Of gardes, women, and
boys, to whom he was reading from paper The
group broke up, and lie toward me,
asked him for it, 1t proved to be of those rhapsod
zeal addresses which, in France at election times,
body who will put out his hand to take them. As began
to read il, market woman a buXOm lass OF two and
twedy took hold Of one corner of the paper and without
saying by your leave, began read it aloud for my in
strucOn and that Of the crowd that made circle
about she read very we with good accent and good
discretion, hut obliged to stop several times for gig
Cling of which, indeed the nonsense very proyoca
tive. The address announced God and a new
religion which TO do away with the old wOrn-Out
ones The God was woman and the religion the love OF
Woman and we blunty Told that Woman was the
only Creator and consequently owed her everything
life, duty, worship, &C., &C. Oh" said my fair
mentator "the devil take him" and turning with
| horselaugh to companion 81 say, Jeanette, we are
Gods ehi AS she finished the reading she looked about
her and suddenly pointing to the venerable whtehaed,
old gentleman, had been setting down prefect at
least she sad There he is that's the fellow that wrote
it' His name. afterward learned, is Bertrand, he
is match for NJ Gagne OF Paris, and is well known here
for his vagaries
At last the signal was given from one of the windows
that the town ceT should beat his drum and bring the
crowd to order Then a young man appeared at the
I window, and with gesture as If he were smoothing
down the crowds hair appealed for order, colme and
pas dc crfs. He would read list of thrtytwo names,
out Of which they to choose nine Where the list
from he didn't say and Of course, nobody asked.
He would read all the first and then, separately.
When they read separately the people were to vote
by holding up their hands if they approved, and them
again, by holding up their hands &; they didn't Then he
read the list and, he read the people shouted and
cheered, while the shifting bourgeois on the out
side shifted and laughed to hear their butchers,
and BAKERS names set mp for town officers.
They, evidently, thought it quite a joke.
When the list had been read once, think the young
doctor who had Ociaed thus far thought he had done
enough, for he left the window, and presently table
was brought from the polce-oice, and another
young maD connected with the gasworks here mounted
1t and began to read the names, by one, for the
crowd to vote upon. As they were given out the in
stTuctiOns we're Tcpeaed: Those who approve this
will hold up their hands then viii read it again.
and those who dis1pprOye will hold up theirs" Tne
reader surrounded by about 100 men, who,
in crowd of twice that number, did all the
voting. They were the who had been consulted as
to the to 90 upon the the list and they voted with
beautiful unannity the hundred hands shooting up
the air each called and hands at all
shooting up in contradiction, that the voting all
over in less than 10 minues names put at the
head of the list by the cunning Petit and his feOw-nan
ayers elected without opposition. And the joke is
that the poor Mayor who signed the call condition
that his should be put the list and his election
secured, left completely in the cold his name
stuck down at The furthest end and much
az called out But everybody to think he was
well served. al mGHge le pe'pie dAir," sad every
hack-drlver to-day; "He has devoured the people of
AK and nobody is sorry for him."
have told you this story at length because, from all
can hear, tits good type of the way in which things
being managed everywhere is true that the results
always of piece with the beginning Thus at Cham
L6ry, recciIt Of order from the Government at
Paris the six sayi0rs of their country Immediately
signed their power into the hands Of named by the
Government, NJ EIgene Gutter who was Prcfect Of the
Department some time ago, and who has always been
Republican Dr. Petit too, is well liked here by the peo-
PIE and there no disposition TO judge him harshy for
what he has done In fact the free and easy style of
doing things seems TO have offended uObOdy-at least