New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-01
THE FRENCH FETES.

PREDICTIONS or TIE ENEMIES OF TIE kt-
PUBLIC MISUNDERSTANDING OF TIE DAY
AND NIGHT--A RUMoR ABOUT MARSHAL MAC
MAnov-rHE PERFORMANCE AT THE OPERA
HOUSE RATHER TAME.
fFRON THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE
PARIS July 16.-The Fourteenth of July has iui-
filled all that il promised. 1t was brilliant IL was
popular. 1t cordial it was patriotic and II was
not dlsgraccd by faction fighting. At LongchamDs,
though sight-seers packed like sardlnes IN the
stand houses and TIE gravelicd spaces ID
front of them. nobody attempted 10 scale the
barriers of the Jockey Club tribune in order to ma
there rest for wearied limbs. 1t was locked up and
the proprietary rights of the club were respected
Its dogn-t he-mange churlishncss not the sub
iect of angry protest. This quite different from
what partiSans of Moral Order cabals affected
TO anticipate. An inSmrcctiOnary movement had
been predicted in which Rochelort. Jules Wales and
Felix Pga; were to take the lead, and followed by
the fighting faubourgs aud band Of petrOleuses. TO
carry by assault the Elys6e and the Palas Bourbon
am acquainted with nervous English ladies who
were frightened from Paris on the 14th by the
sinister provisions of the ReactOnary journals. They
feared that if they remained they would see the
heads OF Monarchists carried about the city pixies,
and the houses of the religious orders gwen over to
incendlaries. If they had remained and gone about
Paris they would have been agreeably sur
prised 10 see how malice and other evil
passions had been crowded out" by Joy and
festive humor. The taking of the Bistile was
celebrated as a deinitye victory, and not as a
battle hich was to be fought second time. There
was nothing aggressive nor angry in the demeanor
of the population. The Republic triumphant,
and gave itself mp to socabilIty and gladncss. Ii
there was danger of disturbance il was in another
quarter. Clerical agents sent about to excite
and stir up the people breaches of the peace But
their mission was impossible to accomplish Up
portunism not peg which to hang grlev-
ances. Had it not rescued France from the Reac-
tionary Assembly at Versailles Had it not bailled
MacMahoa and the "Dukery " of which he was the
tooll Had it not carried the Universal Exhibition
successfully through And if Rochefort back in
Paris and once more in his old editorial chair in the
Rue CrOiSSanS. to whom was tins result due 7 To
the chief Of the Opportunist school, So felt the
bourge0isie of Paris and the provincias who ac-
claimed Gambetta in the Bots de BoulOgne and so
the inhabitants of the East, busy end, acknowl-
edged when. on the evening Of the 14th. as he was
riding toward Belleville in open carriage they
gave him a series of hearty ovations
INCIDENTS REPORTED TO THE POLICE.
am personally acquainted with the Project of
Police, and have the reports sent il to him on
q the shadOwy side of the fete No convent was
menaced, no priest was insulted In the provinces
1t was Otherwise but NJ. Andrieux had nothing
to do with this. The Projects own carriage
was stopped in the Bcs de Boulogne by |
gendarmc, who. because his cOachman insisted on |
driving in an avenue open only to privileged |
vehicles, had him led off to COmmissariat of po-
lice NJ Andrieux forgot to provide his Jehu with |
carte dc circulation. which would have enabled him to
pass every wheTe. AS the Project is young the gen.
darme did not believe him when he told HIM who |
he In the Place de la Conc0rde multitude !
which was doing homage TO the statue OF Stras- |
burg recognized General Fare, and stopped him |
TO shake hands with him. He has made himself |
very popular since he accepted the Ministry of |
War. by the republican character of his admins
tration. The General has twice op-
posed the advancement of De Gallifet, |
who wanted to be made Governor OF Paris. and
when he could not obtain that high post to be sent
TO command at Chalons. He also placed military |
bands at the disposal of the Mayors OF Paris the
Saute Bastille" When the people were wringng
the hand of the War Minister sinisterOOking in
dividua came forward and invited them to cry
Vive Fare. YIve Flourens. He probably thought
the military men in the Generals suite would show
anger at the latter riuat They did not and nothing
came OF the incident beyond the report | mention.
On the margin the Project made minute inquiry if
the sinister individual might rot turn ont to be one
of Pi trs BOuSes BlaRobe and now in the pay of the
JerOmitc faction. Anotherreport stated that some of
The work shop delegations sent TO Longchnmps were
headed by women. Ono of these citoyennes tainted
ut the end of her march, and was carried to the am
bulance. where doctor looked after her.
The gravest feature of the police reports the
sheet devoted TO accidents caused by amateur py-
rotechncs, some of which have had fatal termi-
nation. The affair of the Princess de Beauvan
Craon's park did not come within the jurisdiction
of NJ. Andneux. but of NJ. Cazelles the Director of
Public Safety. The Chateau de Beauvan Craon is
outside the Barriere de Clichy; near ST.
Ouen Louis XVIII signed the char
ter there. Its present owner is old
maid of very eccentric habits and believer in ne
cromancy. astrology and metempsychosis. She has
four footed beasts living in the state rooms of her
mansion 1t being her settled conviction that their
bodies animated by the spirits of her deceased
ancestors. Her father. to whom she was warmly
attached. is ncarnate in a st. Bernard dog.
The grounds around her house are extensive but a
wilderness and when the walls enclosing them fall
to decay they are not repaired. Through an old
breach IN one of them crowd OF patriots entered,
and they cut down fine old elms which they wanted /
TO transform into trees of liberty the dngy streets
OF Chiefly -la-Garenne and st. Ouen. The Princess
became alarmed. and let loose her mastiffs, which
were knocked on the head with axes and bihOoks.
This incident has been exaggerated by the Moral |
Order press which seeks TO throw discredt on the
Republicans.
HAS MARSHAL IMAGINATION ATTEMPTED sUICIDEf
Marshal MacMahon was invited to the fete along
with Canrobert. He was asked to appear there in {
his military character But, though at first dis
posed to accept the invitation, he not present.
Nor did he quit France the occasion of la Sainte
Bastille 1t is reported that sick of existence
mented by duns and by the reproaches of political
and religious friends, who upbrad him for not /
having crushed the Republic when he was in power
the poor Marshal attempted to give himself his Q
Quietus ! have the news from English Catholic Z
who is well acquainted with the Mac
Mahons and attached to them. He looks upon the
Marshal as an ill-used man, who has ruined him e
self TO his friends and the cause of 9