New-York tribune., 1870-05-26

that the French Government il sending reinforce
ments to Rome. Meanwhile, the Joundl des 1tpe
Maitimes reports that two regiments Of infantry and
one of cavalry arrived at ToulOn Saturday and en-
barked for Rome.
The Corps Legislatif has adopted an amendment
TO the Press law, which proposed by the opposi-
ton The Ministers resisted the passage OF the
amendment, but without avail.
At a trial of English and American mowers at
Bourges yesterday, the English machines were pro-
nOunced the best by the Judges
THE DAY OF THE vOTING-SCENES IN PARIS
THE PLOT.
TPROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, May 9.-The French method Of voting IS
simple and complete. II is not the system which
stands in need Of much reform; it s the officials
who avail themselves Of it, who orght to be
reformed and improved off the face Of the earth
Even to them it does not offer many facilities foi
cheating in the cities. 1t is IN the small villages
where the bulk of the vote is east, and where the
mayor reigns supreme that those astounding frahds
were committed which were exposed IN the leglsia'
tive inquiries. The completion of the voting IN 8
single day. at least prevents the mayors from carry
ing home the ballot-boxes and replacing overnight
the opposition ballots by those of the Government.
In PARIS as elsewhere, the polls are open from in
the morning till at night. In each of the % dis
tricts of the Department Of the Seine lof which
Paris includes all but two there several voting
places. Each marie is one, and there always seems
to be going on there naturally enough, than al
the other places. There is crowd everywhere, bri
no appearance of excitement still less Of disturbance
went good deal about in the course Of the day
One place was very much like another. About
the entrance, a group of men distributing
votes, five or six of whom offered you Oui and
one or two Non. The National Guards are lounglne
about in uniform. A few policemen helped them il
keeping the peace which nobody broke. At the door
of the room in which the urns were placed there
were always guards. Nobody could enter who did
not produce evidence of his right to vote There is
a registry on which every citizen is inscribed. He
who wishes to vote goes either before the day
of election to the Registry Office, gives his name and
address and if registered receives electoral card
which is the official certificate Of his right to vote
This he presents at the entrance Of the yotlngroom
and is admitted. He presents it again TO the lnspec
tors who conduct the election. The President then
takes the ballot generally folded, from the eector
removes the cover from the urn slips in the ballot
and recloses the opening with its thin cover OF
wood. The name of the elector is inscribed on the
register; the President cuts off corner from the
certificate to show that the eector whose name II
bears has voted and to prevent the same certificate
from being twice used. then returns il, and the cit
zen goes on his way rejoicing.
Between s and in the evening, Huntington
and walked up the Boulevards from the Made
leine to the Porte st. Martin The Madeleine was
comparatively deserted and there was nothing like
crowd till we came to the further corner OF the
Place de LOpera and the Boulevard. There is
kiosque the corner whose enterprising occupant
had got the first Of the evening papers, the Pdrt
Journal, with few scattering returns from various
districts in the city. This she was retailing at Il
cents the number-the price is sand at least
hundred people were competing for the privilege OF
buyng it, Along the Boulevard des Itaens there
was no more than the usual throng. The center OF
disturbance if any, likely to be the Boulevard
Montmartre. AS we approached the angle, il began
TO be difficult to get on, and the rising ground
flooded with the great glare of light from the tier OF
cats on the left showed us the sidewalks and street
filed with compact but still moving and perfectly
quiet and orderly crowd There was, in fact no Scrt
of reason to apprehend disturbance except that NJ
Pietri had issued a proclamation. Now NJ. Pi6tri's
proclamations of peace have too often proved the
signal for his policemen in blOuses to start riot
Moreover NJ Paul de Cassagnac had announced il
the Pays that there grave reasons to apprehenc
trouble in the evening. ltwas known that the Re.
publcans did not to STIR On the contrary, the
MarseiUaise and Rdppel had printed the most ener
getic appeals to their friends to observe absolute
II,
The Government knew that no demonstration was
intended by its opponents, but seems to have aban
doned with the greatest reluctance and only at the
last moment its purpose to repeat the scandalon'
performance Of last June. The troops in the city
were consigned to their barmcks-that is were held
in readiness TO be launched at any moment. Be
tween and in the morning from all the garris0ns
for ten leagues about regiments of infantry, cavalry
and artillery were ordered into the capital. Six bat
teries of artillery took part on the Champs
de-Mars The 1th Hussars, the Lanccrs the Sd and
10th Chasseurs the I'd Grenadiers, and others
stretch along the quays. At the Tueres, the usua
guards were reinforced by 600 GTenaders and three
battalons of Noltigueurs, and the EmpreSss regl
ment of Dragons stationed in the Cour Caulain
court of the Louvre. Gen Canrobert, commanding
the garrison of Paris-the Marshal Rrrran" OF
the Victor Nor funerals all day at the Tuileries
with the Emperor. The Prefect of Police is there
Did the Emperor think of another day when two
other of his friends and tools, Flcury and Morny
consulted with him through the day and through
the night not in the Tuieries, but in the Elysee
Canrobert leaves him at g. but Pi6tri, who has been
coming and going during the day, announces that
his arrangements are made, the last orders given.
and he quits the Emperors side no more till mid
night is past. Yet nothing came OF 1t all, nothing
came even when the police who early III the day had
been distributed through their sections ordered
10 concentrate on the central post of each arron-
basement equally ready TO put down not or tn
make one. The police whom We saw in our evening
promenade were seldom in uniform; it is the agents
i'm blouses whom NJ Petri finds most useful on such
occasions Beyond the Boulevard Montmarte the
mass of people thinned. When we returned, be-
tween II aud H. there were more people than ever,
but there WAS no other sound than the dull murmur
of miuglng voices and the sleepy cry of the coach
men whose carriages came every moment to dead
stop in the middle of the street lhaye seen dozen
Paris the streets were almost