The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-01

Tho FriGhtfal Condition Of Paris-The
Armed Intervention Of Germany . Me-
cessity % France.
Our latest advices from Paris fully justify
the conclusion that nothing but the armed in
PREVENTION Of Germany can save France from
civil war, Robespierrian Reign Of Terror,
and all the horrors of anarchy. The Com
munal Council of Paris are drifting rapidly
into the old red revolutionary programme Of
the original Jacobins. All documents from
the government at Versailles are forbidden
circulation in the insurgent capital. The old
Jacobin cry Of ''the Universal Republic" of
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, is revived
in flaming proclamations. Paris grows sadder
in its appearance from day to day. and it
would be something miraculous if it were
otherwise. One hundred and sixty thousand
citizens have left the city within the last ten
days. The mass of these emigrants are no
doubt people Of some means and of some
reputation for respectability, and they have
fed to save their lives.
Chaplains have been ordered to cease the
pious service of mass in the prisons. We may
next expect to hear that all the institutions Of
Christianity, including the Sabbath, have, as
once before by the same school Of reformers,
been abolished, and that the liberated citizens
have been called to worship woman Of the
town paraded through the streets on trium-
phal car as the Goddess of Reason" A
search has been made among the insurance
offices for the imperial jewels supposed to have
been left behind somewhere in the city by the
Empress Eugene, in her hasty departure last
September, with one shoe on and one shoe of,
through backdoor of the Tuileries. Forced
francs, have been levied upon the Bank Of
France, and larger demands will doubtless
follow upon that bank and upon the money
changers. pawnshops and jewelry stores, &C.;
for your Paris Jacobin holds to his dogmas
that money accumulated is robbery, and that
property is theft, and that all surplus funds
and means beyond the necessities of the day
belong to the State and to the people, on the
rule Of equality. NJ Blanqui, in the formation
Of the Paris Cabinet, has followed the example
Of Mazzini in his Cabinet of 1889 at Rome
visionary concern founded upon the idea Of
a universal republican brotherhood, looking
to the millennium in something like Fourierism
or the Oneida free love community.
1t is apprehended that struggle is close at
hand between the government forces from
Versailles and the Paris insurgents, and that
the conflict will be desperate and bloody. It
is probable that the insurgents if attacked by
the loyal French troops, will fight with the
desperation of pirates driven into a corner,
and it is possible, on the other hand, that
when brought to the pinch the government
troops win not fight the reds. This is the
opinion of the reds themselves and the sus-
picion Of NJ. Theirs. But the reds, with all
else, have still wholesome fear and pro-
found respect for the Germans. They actu-
ally propose to pay the German indemnity,
and they are celebrating upon the plan of
raising the money by selling Versailles to an
Anglo-American company for one milliard of
francs, st. Cloud for eight hundred millions to
German gambling proprietor, and Fontaine-
bleau for five hundred millions. Comp AIRED
with this communal establishm ent of Paris,
this grim burlesque, what blessed govern
ment was that Of the philosopher Sancho
Panza over his delectable island
But with all this hideous and perplexing
catalogue Of French red republican absurdties
and atrocities, the question still recurs, what
next2 Only q prophet or lunatic would I'M
dertake to answer. From all the facts before
us, sanguinary collision between the govern
ment forces of Versailles and the Paris insur-
gents is inevitable and cannot be many days
delayed. The government is stopping all
horses and cattle from entering Paris, and in
thus cutting off their supplies M. Theirs is
pursuing the right course to bring the insur-
gents out. The Commune is actively disarm-
ing the loyal National Guards, which means
that the Commune is preparing for the tug of
war. 1t means war and mo quarters" for
measures of prescription are secretly enforced
everywhere in the city, and the ominous word
''guillotine, though spoken only in whispers.
is in everybody's mouth. We can perceive
now that the Bonapartes were the proper doc
tors for these virulent revolutionary disorders
of Paris; but is M. Theirs equal to the appli-
cation Of their efficient remedy of cold iron ?
He may succeed in marching upon the insur-
gents; but he may fail, and If he should fail,
what then? The London Standard has o
despatch saying that the Germans will occupy
Paris Immediately on the downfall of the
Theirs government.
Has it, then, come to this, that the downfall
of the Theirs government is expected as the
result of an armed struggle between 1t and the
Paris insurgents2 If so, and If NJ. Theirs has
any doubts Of the issue of the sanguinary
contest for which he is preparing, why not
apply at once for the armed Intervention of