Year: 1874

more successful in the eyes Of
the world than the third Empire
down to the eve of Sedan. What glories sur
rounded it-what achievements and hopes and
destinies English alliances and victories
over Russia and Austria; the union Of Italy
and the annexation of Nice and Savoy; one
enterprise in Mexico and another in China
Napoleon the arbiter of Europe, and anxious
to plant Latin empire upon the ruins of
Saxon Republicans there ever such
record? But the world, which
saw these victories and combinations
looking to victory, felt that there was always
over all, the miasma of the coup d'ftat
Banquo was ever present at the imperial feast
Blood would have blood and the logic of his
tory required that Sedan should complete the
Second of December. We do not know what
MacMahon may or may not do. He will hold
his power like soldier, and not permit it to
be tamely wrested from him. But he is too
good soldier to welcome street massacres,
and he must see that even the Empire of a
Napoleon cannot be cemented by civil war.


If MacMahon fails to govern with his
present Ministry or one that will represent
conservative tendencies he will, we are conf
dent, leave the Elys6e with his sword as
calmly as NJ. Theirs walked out with his
umbrella. The present crisis comes from the
resolution of the followers of the Count de
Chambord to vote against the present Cabinet
The legitimists seem to have been actuated by
two purposes-to obtain all the offices possible
f.o,. 1,o1 o,,I 10 lA III hat
could be done to paralyze and destroy
his government To them France, country,
order, security, liberty, peace, all are
subordinate to the idea that the crown be-
longs to God and Henry of Bourbon. NJ
Theirs kept them at peace by giving the
leaders offices, and, when they were especially
turbulent, by shooting q Communist, as
tribute to ''moral order and the 'safety OF So
ciety." But they overthrow him as soon as he
turned his face toward republic. Marshal
MacMahon has made every concession to
legitimacy except surrender; but the party
will not permit him to take any step
that does not lead to Frohsdorf The Bona
partists wish the Empire or chaos, and they
will vote for chaos in the hope that the En-
pire will come. even as the world came, out of
night. The republicans clamor for dissolu-
ton of government and Assembly, confident
that France would proclaim the Republic if
left to its destinies; SO that the new
crisis may result in an alliance that
will overthrow the Ministry. If this
Cabinet falls what will come? Mac
Mahon has exhausted parliamentary resources,
SO far as the Assembly is concerned, and we
have enough confidence in the conservatism Of
the republican party in France as now man
aged, to feel that dissolution will only be a
step towards a Republic-a Republic rich in
experience and effort-that will live and carry
the destiny of France to a useful splendor that
even it's extraordinary history will not par
allel.


Atmospheric Excesscs and the Comet.


Hurricanes and hailstorms are the order OF
the day, and of course the comet is respon-
sible. On the Fourth of July many worthy
citizens of this Republic who spend their
holidays and Sundays in the upper part of the
State Of New Jersey were persuaded that the
comet had come in collision with this little
planet of ours-had carromed on us, as it were,
and gone off to pocket itself in the illimitable
nowhere that bounds the universe. For some
minutes people in their homes or at clambakes
heard a startling noise like the rushing Of one
hundred and two railway trains on on uI
grade, and the experienced thought of torna-
does and whirligigs of that sort, while others
thought Of the comet switching around @
sharp turn and likely to "split our planet
with its playful tail, as boats are sometimes
the ice Rigorous scientific classification and
nomenclature require the designation of hail


stones for what might more properly be called
frozen snowballs of the largest size About 9
hundred thousand tons Of ice in this form


were distributed over the surface of Berger
county, and nearly everything is fiat up there


except the price Of glass Some days
ago the city of Lyons, in France. was


visited by storm of the same character. Or


the Fourth also the national capital was


visited by wind storm of extraordinary Sc


verify. Many more vagaries dependent upor


Cne eHectS OF temperature Oh atmospheric CIT


culation will be heard Of doubtless within 6


few days, and if this is the trouble we have te


apprehend from the disturbed equilibrium


consequent upon the coming into our solal


system of fellow like the comet we shall ge


off easily. Indeed, we may conclude there


upon that the solar system is well balanced


and in good working order. AS this comet is


perhaps, only bursted planet that, having


been caved in on one side and SO lost its bal


ance, has fallen out of its orbit and is con


suming itself on an eccentric run, we ough


to be civil and speak kindly of it; for, al


things go on with earthquakes and storms


there is no knowing when we may be


bursted planet ourselves.


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