The New York herald., 1871-03-26
Our Latest Advicos from Paris-What
will Follow In Fraucee


The cable telegram reports, special to the
HERALD and from other sources, which
reached us yesterday to late hour last night,
are not by any means reassuring to the cause
Of law and order in France. The intelligence
is, on the contrary, discouraging to the peace
of the Old World civilizations as they are in
aEenced in the present, and may be eventu-
ally inoculated to taint and gangrene from
France. Paris runs riot in the demoraliza
tions of an unreasoning, ignorant demo-
cracy. Law has been trampled under
foot order, affrighted, covers in the presence
of public tumult, the first result of
disorder triumphant. The kilograms state that
tho republican authorities had made many at
tempts to obtain quiet by the application of
force. The efforts were Intellectual The mob
many points. The mob attempted to govern
in the name of the people, and the people
the men who represent industry and its fruits
endeavored to strangle the mob before it laid
hands on their wealth, made a division of the
spoils, and thus emaciated the nation to the
condition of general leprosy of COM
munism. France appear to have attained
the ''gloom of her glory" in Paris,
as it was prophesied by the great
Napoleon that she would, with the. genius of
true liberty hidden away in her rural valleys.
Marseilles, Lyons and Bordeaux reel and
surge to change hourly, the popular fluctua-
tions marking time" not as do citizen
soldiers in the ranks, but to the apparently
inebriated signals which are given from Paris.
The Francs-ireurs have attempted to rob the
to realize for themselves the enjoyment of
that bygone earthly paradise of the moment
Of the city soup kitchens, of food without
labor, no one greater than the other, and
s'heavens first law" trampled in the dust or
rolled in street cutters running with blood. An
authorities from the execution of their duty; so
that Paris insurrection goes on, as we look at
it, to change its color and skin every night,
and thus to appear on each succeeding morn
ing still more unrecognizable as the representa-
tive of true democracy and still more repul-
sive to the classes who have anything in the
way Of property to lose. The Mayors of Paris
have represented officially to the National
Assembly in Versailles that they dread the
advent of the ''horrors of civil war" inside
the city. There are 'Ioyal" and "disloyal"
French >battalions. Italian carbonarism has
been invoked by the insurgents. Menotti
Garibaldi has assumed the command of
the demoralized populace, his foreign
nationality-his Misunderstanding overlooked
by these Frenchmen, perhaps in the
hope that he may bring forth a still more
effectual recipe for violence and pillage from
the repertoire OF his father, and in accordance
with his practice in Rome and Naples. The
Paris insurgents have an artillery, and the
Montmartrites stop all railway trains bound to
Versailles and seize all the ammunition found
in the cars. The rule of the Paris Commune
has been established in Marsailles, where, as
we are told, the Mayor and General Prefect
have been made prisoners by the people. The
authorities at Versailles and in Havre called
for army volunteers to march to Paris to at
tempt to restore order, but the response was
very feeble at the moment when our dispatches
were forwarded. The Southern cities of
France are reported as being completely dis
affected, and the nuclei of petty. selfish, local
organizations are apparent on every side.
Such was the condition Of France, such the
situation in Paris, yesterday.
Europe is alarmed. A man cannot continue
to look on at his neighbor's house when in
flames and not feel excited for the safety of his
own dwelling. Switzerland has placed her
soldiers under arms and despatched heavy
army force to guard her frontier line against
outrage by those who have attempted to parody
the republic in France.
France has three sources of consolation
open for Paris and the French nation. They
present in NJ. Theirs, in the return of the
Prussians, in Bonaparte restoration.
Two of these have been accomplished. M.
Theirs is in power in Versailles. Fecamps
has been reoccupied by force of six hundred
ton has been halted in the country.
NJ. Theirs is an ornamental statesman
too much so for the present crisis. He can
theorize-p -philosophize- the science of gov
crnment; but he is unable to deal practically
and effectually with mobs. His government
is too weak. His system has been discounted
beforehand by the French his influence and
moral force authority in the crisis are lost.
M. Theirs is not able to act vigorously in an
executive capacity; he cannot seize ''the
daadlv aap" of ciiv riot in sta atea1 OIovod
hand" and thus smother it. The s'reds" can
overpower him, and thus become, if possible,
still worse by victory over education and
the honors of age and virtue. The ven-
erable statesman does not comprehend
rowdyism; he has not studied the philo-
sophy Of suppressing insurrections not
withstanding all he has written and seen