New-York tribune., 1874-05-06

love OF country means tne love vi e'"o $500
state with all its affections, which natlohai.'
alone can secure. Because dog defend' hiS
kennel and soldier his home by similar ma
teriaI methods, it does not follow that the
soldier is a dog or the dog soldier Inc
world is full of unpleasant experiences, anu
among them is that of war, but not the less %
GOOD to he educed from seeming evil, apd this
good we make pOrportonateiy greater the
more unwilling we are to fight and the reader
we are upon good reas0n to give up lighting.
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We can we'll imagine tho sensation created at
Nice according to recent letters, ny the speech OF
NJ. PIGEON, the member for the Department OF the
Maritime l.ps, at a banquet of French ana ltai'an
Sync in connection with the railway from Nice 10
Conf NJ. PIGEON said:
In presence OF dear italian countrymen my heart
with JOY and feel all my Old Italian asplra'ons
and sentiments revive. confident that before lon9
beautiful Nice heroic Iphgenla the victim Of itai
ian Independence will be restored 70 her True rue rest
aod those OF my bel9yed family: II when IgG 9%rea
day should not be here my SieGtnsd ia asnoS
will, am sure rise to rejoice in the general iee'
This is a sudden and unexpected revival OF the
annexation question: which seemed to be set at rest
some fourteen years ago by the cesson OF Nice ana
Savoy to France and the plebiscite by which the
inhabitants Of those provinces ratlhed the ahsier.
There was much bitter feeling in Italy on account
of it, and necessary as the act was, 1t somewhat
damaged even the popularity of Count Cayour. But
the excitement apparently died entirely away and
it seemed generally admitted that after all the
natural boundaries of the provinces rendered them
rather French than Italian. The proposal to restore
them once moro to Italy is indeed startling one,
especially when made with apparent dellberatlon by
a member of the French Assembly. 1t is possible
trfA lra.a nd
Lorraine ravished away from France. has induced
NJ. PIGEON to think that the slope OF the Maritime
Alps should be given back to italy, before Germany
can be denounced with proper fervor for the seizure
Of the provinces on the Rhine. With NJ. Teutsch IN
the Parliament at Berlin claiming to be still French,
and NJ. PIGEON at Versailles breathing out his as
pirations to be once more Italian it must be con-
fessed that the question of nationality Is becoming
every day more complicated.
The French Institute at its session OF the E2d
March elected the Hon. David A. Wells to the va
capcy in the list of foreign associates caused by the
death of John Stuart Mill Membership IN
the Academy is regarded in Europe as one
Of the very highest and most coveted literary
and scientific prizes and to be chosen to fill the chair
of John Stuart Mill is distinction in itself The Sec
ton of Political Economy to which Mr.. Wells has
been elected has but few foreign associates; and
very few Americans have ever enjoyed the honor OF
membership in any of the sections of the famous In
stitute. As we write, the names OF Dr. fraDkiln; !;
A. d. Bache the former head of our Coast Survey,
Count Rumford, and Morse the inventor OF the tee-
graph are the only ones that occur to us. Great
as is this compliment paid to Mr. Weiss
emnence as a political economist, it Is only the
natural sequence of the esteem in which his WIT
ings are held by the most eminent political scien-
lists of England and France. OF his reports on
Local Taxation, made to the Legislature of our
State. one hundred thousand copies have been
printed in England and distributed in different
States of Europe. Soon after the German war, the
French Legislature caused Mr.. Weiss report on
Taxation of 1863. and his New-York report of 1870
10 be translated and printed as public documents,
for the information of French thinkers and law
makers.
II ia to be hoped that the President in considering
the adyisablity of interfering in the Arkansas
wrange, will see the necessity of putting an imme-
date stop to the manufacture of Generals" in that
State. They were thick enough already, as every
traveller knows, but both Governors have been as
busy as bees since the outbreak making new Brig
aders or promoting old ones; and now. if any reli-
ance is to be placed on the dispatches
and the fact that somebody Is said
to have tried to assassnate the Associated Press
agent would indicate that there was considerable
truth in them--the only man in Arkansas who is
not a General, always excepting the clergymen, Is
the Colonel commanding the United States forces
Now that the supply of private citizens is exhausted
Brooks and Baxter will have to hold out inducements
to ablebodied immigrants or court-martial q
hundred Brigadiers or SO, just to ap-
point them over again. Artemus Ward
would have taken a soldierly pride In
these platoons and battalions and regiments
Of Generals marching and countermarching through
the commonplace streets of Little Rock, arranging
cartes for exchange of prisoners, who happened to
be out late and get captured, solemnly deploying
and maneuvering in all their titled magnifcence
issuing pompOus proclamation every twenty-four
hours, and keeping up everlasting rattle OF tele
grams to the President.
For remarkable instance Of superserviceable
legislation, commend US to Senate bill No. 72s " to
define gross of matches to provide for uniform
packages and for other purposes" 1t proposes to
ordain that all friction and lucfer matches and wax
tapers shall DO put up in boxes Of 100 each
or multiples thereof. The bill is intro,
duced upon the broad basis of q public
benefit, and in the accompanying petition the man.
ufacturers of matches accused Of short count in
the numbers furnished per box. 1t seems strange
that so absurd measure that proposed could
have moments consideration. Matches that are
put up in boxes are not and never sold by the
gross 1t is in no wise necessary that a gross
should be defined, either of matches or of
anything else, while as yet Webster's Dictionary
has not gone out of print. Matches in boxes arc