Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-04-15

PARIS, March "a, 1880.
Parisians are now enjoying the luxury
Of cheap telsgraphio rates to the United
States. Since Sunday. dispatches 70
New York cost 60 confines, or ~ cents
q word. instead Of 75 cents . word a.
formerly. The cause Q. this considsra-
BILE decrease In price is the opening Of
the new "P Q" French Atlantic cable.
the charges ovsr which were announced
to be 60 confines . word. Az soon as
the Anglo American Company found
that it, rival was prepared 10 transmit
messages At that low price. Il immsdi.
ately reduced Its scale Of charges. 90
that messages may now DO sent by either
line at the uniform rate Of 60 confines O
word. It II not probable that this lux.
ury Of cheap tslegrapby will be Of long
duration, -, already. the French COM
pany IL reported TO be trying TO make
arrangements with it, English rival to
satablish the old tariff Of 70 cents per
word.
Sooner or later Il Is thought the two
companies must a~maleamate, aud prices
be put back to their previous high rate.
One Of the reasons likely to bring this
fusion about II that one Of tho cables Of
the Anglo.Amsrican Company 10 known
BY experts TO DO In an extremely precs-
rious condition from end 10 end. The
full average life OF an Atlantic cable IL
taken at eight years, and this cable has
lasted over eleven years. Should q
breakags take place the entire length
will probably be abandoned as worth.
less, and In such case the French line
will not have been laid altogether In
vain. The smalgamstion Of the compa.
mics, will. OF course, and with some
show OF justice, then DO described as q
matter Of necessity. and the public
mulctsd In the costs by . return to per.
hsps even higher rates than those now
prevalent.
We Z at present In . caldron Of boil.
ing water, and We may be on the ' Of
the gravest events Of our age. Perhaps
not, for there 10 nowadays . certain
lsssituds In oil European communities
which preserves them from violence.
When the powder 10 dry there 10 NO
match, and when the match 10 lighted
the powder IL wet. But still no q can
deny the dangers Of the situation. Pc.
litically II may be asserted that the
French nation Il eight.tsnths, at least.
republican. Il has been steadily coming
to this for nearly ninety years. and has
never been turned save by the vain
trickeries Of military glory. The two
remaining tsnths are OF four or Ave DIFF.
iersnt shades OF feeling. and therefore
do not count. But morally . fair half
OF France may be regarded as clerical.
whilst the other half II composed Of
men and women who. n and all reject
olsricalism and have o positive horror OF
Jssuits. There can be no greater mis-.
take than to regard France a. an atheist.
iesl or i%rreligious country. There are
far fewer pure materialists In France
than In Germany or England. French
people are passing through period Of
soepticism and doubt, and have been 30
for the last ten or fifteen years. They
doubt Darwin - much a. the gospel,
and they arc oven moro eager to search
than they are ready to disbelievs. Here
has been the genuine mistake Of the
Ultramontsnes; because they said faith
was wanting, they have tried TO supply
Ito place by Q gross pantomime work
OF miracles. The greatest wonder OF our
time has been the spectacle Of Q so.callsd
intelligent community relapsing into
practices hardly admissible even In the
darkest middle ages. Louu.