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hurled from power and gave place to
Louis Phiilipe. No man in France has
been so earnest, so eloquent and so consis
tent an advocate of republican principles
as Jules Favre. After the revolution of
1848 lie took office as the Secretary-Gen
end of the Minister of the Interior, but
resigned his place on being elected to the
Constituent Assembly. He opposed the
Iloman expedition of 1848, and refused to
unite in the vote of thanks to Cavaignac.
lie proposed a preamble to the French
Constitution, making it obligatory upon
the State to assist all workingmen who
had been thrown out of employment, and
were nimble to find other occupation.
From the clay of the coup d'etat he has
been at crce the most determined aad the
able t antagonist of the Emperor, and,
indeed, Lis. ppo* ition may be said to have
begun from the election ol Louis Napoleon
to the Presiuencv. Elected as a member
of the General Council of the Department
of the ‘Loire and Rhone, ho refused to take
the oath to support the new Constitution.
1 1 -1858 he excited the liveliest sensation
throughout France by his bold defence of
Orsim for his attempt on the life of the
Emperor, ir, which the intrepid advocate
i reclaimed his unalterable attachment to
free institutions.
In the same vear he became a member
ol Corps and soon af'ter
wa.iD, in April, 1859, he vehemently
< xpi sed the inconsistency ot the Imperial
Government in seeking to establish by the
w.ir with Austria that freedom lor Lom
bardy and Venice which had been over
thrown in France.
He attacked the Government in like
manner for seeling to erect an empire in
Mexico in 18G2, and has never lost an
opportunity of defending the liberties of
the French people against the despotic
measures of the ruler upon whose down
loll he has succeeded to the chief control of
affairs.
ISAAC ADOLPIIE CREMIEUX, MINISTER OF
JUSTICE.
M. Cremieux has ever been a staunch
Republican. He first came prominently
before the public ir; 1848, when he was
assigned the same place in the Ministry
that lie fills now. He is a profound law
yer, and one of the authors of the “Codes
<les Codes.” At the “coup d’etat” he
was arrested and imprisoned at Mazes.
On his liberation he retired from political
life. He is in the 75th year of his age.
LEON GAMBETTA, MINISTER OF THE IN
TERIOR.
Leon Gambetta is one of the most active,
energetic and irreconciliableof French L;b
erals; is quite a young man, being only
thirty-two year? of age. He is, as his
name implies, of Italian descent, and is by
profession a lawyer. He took active inter
est in political law-suits, and has consist
ently espoused the extreme Republican
princip es. He particularly distinguished
himself by his activity in the affair of the
liaudin monument in the Cemetery of
Montmartre. In 1869 he undertook the
defence of the “Emancipation” newspaper
in a political law suit, which brought him
great approval. In the general elections
he stood for office, both in Paris and Mar
seilles, as an opposition candidate, and was
returned for both places by immense ma
jorities, and elected to sit for Marseilles.
He is a man ot fiery, impressive eloquence,
and carries his hearers by the vivid sym
pathy he excites, as well as by Lis strong
appeals to their passions and instincts. As
a statesman or administrator he is, of
course, untried. M. Gambetta is Minister
of thn Interior.
I.OUIS JOSEPH ERNEST PICARD, MINISTER OF
FINANCE.
M. Picard, who has just been appointed
Minister of Finance, was born in Paris on
the 24th of December, 1821. He is a
strong Republican politician,and, like many
others of the Parisian politicians of the
French Capital, is a lawyer by profession,
being called to the bar in 1844. He was
elected a member of the Corps Legislat'd'
for the Fifth circonscription ot the De
partment of the Seine in 1858, since which
time he has been more or less actively en
gaged in politics.
JULES SIMON, MINISTER OF PUBLIC IN
STRUCTION.
Less a politician than any other of his
colleagues, M. Simon is eminently fitted to
fill the position to which he has been as
signed. lie is fifty-six years of age, and
spent liis early manhood as Professor of
History and Philosophy in the Normal
School at Paris. In the Revolution of
l s 4S he entered the Assembly, and subse
quently, for staunch Republicanism, was
suspended from the Sarbonne. He is the
author of several works on education.
GENERAL TROCHU MINISTER OF WAR.
General Troehu’s biography has recently
appeared in our columns. lie is the War
Minister of the Republic.
GARNIER PAGES.
Liu is Antoine Gamier Pages was born
in Marseilles on the 17th of July, 1803.
When the revolution of 1830 broke out
Gamier Pages played bis part, though an
unimportant one, in and around the barri
cades in the streets of Paris. When quiet
was r stored, and the machinery of govern
ment was pgain in running order in the
French Capital, Gamier Pages was re
turned as a deputy of the arrondissement
of Verneuil, and took his seat in the
Chamber on the Libera! side. He became
rne of the leaders of the organization
which was engaged in the getting up of
the banquets known as the reform ban
quets, which preceded the revolution of
IMS. Uis ability was at that time so
iccognlzed. that he was chosen Mayor of
the city of Palis, and discharged the duties
of the office with such marked ablity tha*
he was afterwards appointed Minister of
Finance under the Provisional Govern
ment. Iq this more del.cate position he
proved himseL equal to the task. He
introduced many important reforms, and
had also to deal with a financial crisi®.
The ability with which he bandied this
latter duty again won for him an enviable
confidence. A syiem of dock warrants
and bonded warehouses were among some
of the reforms he introduced while acting
in the capacity of Finance, Minister. In
1564 he was elected a member of the
Executive Commission and also of the
Legislative Aseemb’y. Though his career
as a politician has been an active on<\ ex
tending, at times through periods of wild
fxdtcmeot, ho has found time to devote
some attention to literature.. He lias
weir ten a “IP story of the Revolution of
1818.” a work of considerable merit.
HENRI ROCHEFORT.
The eireer of Henri Rochefort, formerly
editor of the “Lanterne,” and lately a
member of the Corps Legislatif, istoo.well
knowu to our readers to need repetition
here.
PIERRE MAGNE.
Pierre Magne is a lawyer by profession,
political economist and statist by choice,
lie is calm and temperate, as befits a man
of figures and facts. He has been in ad
ministrative employment since 1815. Ills
first accession to office was the result, of an
able memorial on the finances of Algeria,
exciting the attention of M. Bugaud. Since
1848 he has continued to occupy important
positions in the Finance Department, and
although he did not appear before the
public as a Minister, he was wtJl known to
have proposed and worked out most of the
measures intended to restore and strength
en the national credit. The great peace
loan was his plan, and it was crowned with
astonishing success. He was a prime
mover in the liberal schemes which dis
tinguish and the close of Napoleon lll.’s
reign-
ALEXANDRE GLAIS BIZION.
This statesman, one of the Government
of National Defence, was born at Quin
tin, Cotes du Nord.on March 9,1800. He wrs
admitted to the bar in 1822, and, at once
ei tering into political life, asscciaied him
self with the Liberals against the restora
tion. After the revolution of 1830 he was
appointed Councillor General ol his de
partment, and was subsequently elected a
deputy for the arrondissetuent of Londeao,
serving in this capacity until 1848. He
voted always with the extreme Left,
signed the Compte Rendue of 1832, and
was conspicuous for demand for the
complete appplication of the principles of
1879. lie took an active part in the re
form banquets, and aided in overthrowing
the of ministry of M Guizot. After the
revolution of 1848 he was elected to the
Assembly, and adhered to the extreme
Left. On Louis Napoleon’s election to
the Presidency he at once went into oppo
sition, and, being beaten for re-election, re
tired to private life! In 1863 he was re
turned to the Corps Legislatif as an oppo
sition member, and was re-elected in 1869.
M. Glais B.zoin is regarded as one of the
most radical of French Republicans.
EUGENE PEI.LETAN,
M. Pelletan, who is a distinguished
French writer and politician, was born at
Iloyan, Charente Inferieure, on the 26rh
of October, 1813. He studied law in
Paris, and was elected a member of the
Corps Legislatif in 1564. He is the
author ol several works, some of‘ which
have attained a good place in French li
terature.
Prussian Organization.
Dr. Russell, more familiarly known in
this country as “Bull Run Russell,” writes
to the Loudon Times the following account
of the thorough organization of every de
partment of the Prussian invading army.
The writer is a warm sympathizer with
the Prussian cause, and may give a little
too much coloring to his statements:
Everything is organized Lere. There is
even a corns of gravediggers—dead
buriers, ”todten graber ” they are called—
who are under command, and have to do
their duty hke every one else. From the
general to the gravedigger, there has been
work for every one to day; and, but for
the activity of the latter functionaries the
Spicheren heights and the plains besde
them would bo poisonous with miasma,
and the dead would be killing the living.
The sanitary and spiritual columns give
almost a rel'gious aspect to the warlike
procession, which, as it moves away
the hills, looks here and there, when the
red crosses of the Krahentrager and the
Mack and white dresses of the Krakentra
yer Schicestern strike the eye more like a
procession of pilgrims approaching the
holy shrine than of soldiers invading a
hostile coun ry. Os the Krahentrager ,
some are men of the Landwehr, wearing
uniforms, others are students from the
hospitals or universities, in plain clothes
All exhibit the red cross worked or
stamped on a white cloth, which is tied
around the left arm. Besides the Sis
ters in black and white, there is a corps of
Sisters who wear dark slate colored dresses
and white hoods with butterfly wings, and,
like the Krakentciyer , display round the
left arm the red cross, on a white ground.
These admirable women have already done
excellent service. They were on the field
of battid, On the bight of the 6th, before
the firing had cease*!, and this morning as
the clock struck five, I saw a party of
l them welkiog through the streets on their
f wsy toward Firbach. beyond which town
MSB IS ©J USES
there will soon be more work fir them to
do All the Sisters march on foot, each
little company proceeded by a priest or
a pastor.”
The same correspondent, in visiting a
battle field was struck by the signt of a
number of sticks standing about the
ground. He adds:
“These are not sticks, however, they
are needle-guns. Where these five needle
guns are planted in the earth (with bay
onets lbr roots) five Prussian soldiers have
fallen. The men are buried, but their
arms, for this day at least, are to be left
here. A few yards ahead there are three
more ot these needle-plants; then nine,
then a dozen ; then close to a ridge, where
the Prussian assailants had thought they
would find over, but failed. to do so.
twenty-seven. Passing, this ridge, and
climbing, not without difficulty, up the
steep ascent, I find knapsacks lying torn
open on the ground, broken accoutrements,
battered helmets, blood stained clothe?,
and bodies rigid in the convulsions of
death. Prussians alone are to be seen
here, and looking down into ;he \ lain I
observe three different ascent
marked, as if to show how uifficult they
were, with needle-guns stuck 't; the turf.
Every man who owned one ot these mus
kefct either died close to where his weapon
stands as a sign, or at least, fell unab:e
ary longer to use it.”
General Trothu.
Paris, August 19. —Her. Trcchu, re
plying to the criticisms provoked by the
passage in the proclamation, which I yes
terday noticed as objectionable, lias ad
dressed the following letter to the Temps :
Paris, August 19.- -While appreciating
with a friendliness, for which I thank you,
the document by which in the night of my
return from the army I put myself in com
munication with the people of Paris, you
appear to desire explanations on the sub
ject of the following passage in my pro
clamation :
“I appeal to men of all parties, belong
ing myself as is well known in the array to
no party but that of the country. I ap
peal to their devotedness to restrain by
moral authority those ardent spirits who
cannot restrain themselves, and to do jus
tice with their own hands on those men .of
the party who see in the public calamity
only an occasion to satisfy their detestable
appetites. ”
I have all iny life been for free discus
sion, and to the explanation you call for I
will add my profession ot faith. The
error of all the Governmentswhich I have
known lias been to consider force as the
ultima ratio of power. All, without ex
ception, have more or less relegated to the
background that true force, the only force
which is efficacious, at all times the only
decisive force when the difficult problems
which agitate civilization are to be re
solved-moral force. All these Govern
ments have been more or less personal,
not perceiving that impersonal power
which considers itself but as the delega
tion of the nation —which thinks and acts
but in the interest of the nation, and never
for its own interest—which submits
cheerfully to all the control which it may
please the nation \m require—which is
loyal, sincere, ardent for the public good,
and ever guided by principles of public
honesty—is alone in possession of that
moral force the power of which 1 have de
fined. It is in this spirit that I addressed
the population of Paris; it is in this spirit
that I have lived, and that in the measure
of my ability and my position I have strug
gled against those errors which have
brought the country to the state ofmourn
ing in which she is. I have asked for the
assistance of men of. all parties, offering
mine gratuitously, without reserve, and
as I have said, and 1 could not say more,
with all my he*rt, and this is what I un
derstand by the purely moral assist
ance which 1 ask for. The idea of main
taining order in Paris, now a prey to
most legitimate anguish and consequent
imitation, tills me with horror and disgust.
The idea of maintaining order by the as
cendency of patriotism freely expressing
itself, and by the feeling of honor amidst
the manifest perils of the nation inspires
me with hope and serenity. But the
problem is an arduous one. I cannot solve
it alone. I can only solve it by the help
of ail those who have the same faith and
belief that I have. This is what I meau
by naval force. But a moment may come
when Paris, menaced throughout the
whole extent of her perimeter, and suffer
ing from the trials of a siege, will be to a
certain extent given over to that special
class ot scoundrels ( gicdius ), who see in
the public calamity only an occasion to sat
isfy their detestable appetites. These are
the men who go about the alarmed city
crying we are betrayed, break into houses
and pillage them. It is such men only
that 1 recommend all honest people to
seize by the collar in the absence of the
public futoe which will be on the ramparts
l meant nothing more. I beg you, Mr.
Editor, to receive the assurance of my dis
tinguished consideration.
(Jen. Trociiu.
The Tempi is greatly pleased with the
explanation, and more so with the general
tone of the Dictator’s letter; but it sug
gests that since thieves only were meant in
the original proclamation to be designated
as the objects of the people’s summary
justice, it would greatly simplify matters
if the discharged convicts who must be
known to the police were to be sent away.
NEW ORLEANS (LA) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
New Orleans, Sept., Ist, 1870.
Editors Banner of the South:
In connection with the history of the
glorious Vatican Council, the most fear
ful incident yet recorded was the one
announced in last Sunday’s Mornings
Star of this city—to wit; that the onco
deeply revered Archbishop of St. Louis
had left Rome without obtaining the
necessary official permission. What a
contrast, in comparison with the noble
conduct of the youtl ful Bishop of Little
Rock. This young prolate ccnrogeously
maintained bis honest but mistaken
opinions to the last, and was not afraid
to stand up and boldly record his vote,
even in opposition to the almost unani
mous sentiment of the assembled piety
and wisdom of the world. As soon how
ever as he saw that his majority were
acting “as seemed good to the Holy
Spirit,” he instantly and unhesitatirgly
flung aside his own previously held
false opinion and subscribed to their
Faith.
On the other hand, alas! the feeble,
gray haired Patriarch seems, in his old
days to have lost his former courage,
and to have become so alarmed at the
s ladow ot h s false position that he tried
to escape its presence by running away
—somewhat like a frightened school-boy,
unable to tace the penalties incurred by
bis errors. Let us hope that this ven
erable Pastor will yet correct his record,
and place himself right before his flick
and the world.
Ihe Prusso-Frencji war is having a
■< liastioas influence on our commerce.
Exchanges are unsettled, all mercantile
values are comparatively nominal, and
the new crop of our great staple is
beginning to arrive upon a stagnant and
most unpromising market. Carondelet
street is in quasi mourning, and even
the gay and careless Canal street can
barely force a smile for appearance sake;
the only real excitement being around
the Bulletin-boards of the various news
paper offices, and iu those coffee-house
and saloons whose chief custom is either
Gallic or Teutonic. In these, the war
is carried on most energetically in words’,
ahd it is a real pity these folk cannot
enforce their views, for there is scarcely
one in a score ol them but is, iu his owu
opinion, “able to end the war in three
weeks if he had his way.” Are they
dreaming of “Stonewall Jackson’s way?”
Or perhaps they are imitating the W.
H. Seward “sixty-day prophesies, which
were punctually fulfilled to the very day,
after adding the trifle of five years for
good measure!. The Celts also are much
interested in the war movements. So
far however they take no particular side,
their only principle being to reserve
their sympathies, for whichever power
England—their hereditary enemy and
tyrant —may oppose. But as England
has not yet spoken in favor of either of
the powerful barbarians of the N< rth, or
of the veteran Southern Champion of
Christianity and civilization, the Fenians
of course keep their own Counsel and
“bide their time.” And that time
may be much nearer than any of us
imagine.
The very elements seem inclined to ;
open a little war of’ their own at this mo- I
ment. August went out with a hail
storm, and September has set in with an
easterly, heavy rain, and all the indica
tions of an approaching equinoxal gule
which will of course blow away all the
summer heat and dust, and bring us,
instead, the mild delights of antuma
Plums and figs are already lorg forgot
ten; melons and peaches are just vanish
ing; while socos muscadines and scup
pernongs are now at full tide, with a
flush of pecans and Yankee apples in the
offing, all to be crowned off with’our own
golden oranges. Thus, although each
passing season bears away its special
crop of good things, yet the ever coming
ones are just as beneficent as the past; and
no reasonable mind can ever have just
cause to regret the flight of Time with
its ever renewed blessings.
The Digby child-stealer lias been dis
covered, and the stolen ehild restored to
its distracted parents; but the motive
for the abduction is still shrowded in
mystery. Whether it was stolen in or
der to punish the parents for some sup
posed wrong committed by them, or
whether to supply an heir to some va
cant estate, or for some criminal purpose,
the police have not yet discovered; but
with the ramified investigation now on
foot, there is little doubt that all will
shortly be revealed. “A consummation
most devoutly to be wished.”
While driving out to the rear of the
city the other day, I passed near some of
the public dumping- grounds and had
a sudden revelation of “what becomes of
an the oondensed-milk-cans.’* There
there they lay, covering the ground by the
acre! A little army of chiffoniers care
fully cull every rag, every bone and
every scrap of useful metal, but these
bright and glittering yaukee caskets
seery despised of all a. and are left there
to rust and rot, instead of being turned to
some useful aecouut. This waste would not
be permitted were it known in Massachu
setts; and I must beg you, in the name
of Progress, to send a marked copy of
this information to the great metal-lov
ing representation of that state that he
may cast a saving-eye upon these un
protected shining cups
Per C. Veer.
STONEWALL JACKSON MEMORIAL AS
SOCIATION-
AN APPEAL TO THE TUBLIC.
The admirers of the exalted virtues of
the late Lieutenant General T. J. Jack
son are now endeavoring to raise the
requisite funds to erect a suitable Memo
rial to this great and good man.
For this purpose agencies are now be
ing employed, by the formati on of auxi
liary Memorial Associations in the seve
ial States, through which contribu
tions arc solicited in aid of the noble
work.
The scheme contemplates the erection
of a Memorial Chapel at the Virginia
Military Institute, Lexington, Va., with
which institution General Jackson was
connected fourteen years as a Protessor,
and near to which his remains now lie.
It is believed that such a Memorial
would be most iu harmony with the
character of this renowned Christian
hero.
It is proposed to place within this
Memorial Chapel a Statue, in bronze or
marble, to transmit to coming genera
tions the features, form and expression
of one whose name and virtues are alike
known and honored throughout the
civilized world, and who was a bright
exemplar of whatever was true and
noble and of good report among men.
It is estimated that 850,000 will be
required for these purposes. We invoke
contributions from all who will unite with
us in paying this tribute to the memory
of Stonewall Jackson.
No local or sectional views restrict the
scheme. It is national in its design.
The North has cordially responded to
the appeal. The East and the West are
moving in it, while the followers of
Jackson in the field and on the march
throughout the South are sending for
ward their tributes to the memory of their
noble Chieftain.
The funds, as the}" are collected, may
be forwarded by check or by express to
the undersigned, Lexington, Virginia,
who, as President of the Board of Visi
tors of the Virginia Military Institute,
has been designated by the Central
Memorial Association in Pennsylvania
as Treasurer of the Memorial Fund.
John Letcher,
Treasurer of the Jackson Memorial
Fund.
Lexington Va., February 2*2, 1870.
A singular affair took place in Schenec
tady a few days since. Asa cat story, it
goes ahead of anything of the kind we
have heard. The father of a family, just
before retiring late at night, heard groans
in the room occupied by a daughter, a girl
twelve years of age. Upon going to the
room, he found a cat upon the breast of
the child, with its lore legs around the
child’s neck and its mouth in the child's
mouth. It was with some difficulty that
the cat was removed. The child K ad evi
dently been asleep, and when found, was
so much exhausted by her breath having
been obstructed, that she had not strength
enough to force the cat away. We have
heard of cats causing the death of infants
in this way, but never before heard of’
such an inc.dent in connection with a girl
twelve jears of age. The facts were re
ported by the lather himself. The girl has
since been troubled in breathing.
Mr. John H. Reinhardt, Company K,
24th Alabama, joined the war August 13th,
1861. Residence, Columbians, Alabama,
county of Shelby. A member of the M.
R. Church, Columbiana, Alabamba.
Borned, year of the Lord, 1834, April
11th, Shelby county, Alabama. Should I
fall while fat from home and loved ones,
the above will show ray home, residence,
etc. John Hampton Reinhardt.
The above was found in a haversack left
at the residence of Capt. T. J. Perry,
during the war. The haversack contains
varous interesting and valuable relies.
Relatives of John H. Reinhardt can ob
tain the haversack by writing to Capt.
Perry, at this plac e.—Jiome Daily.
There is good sense in the following mot
to for merchants, to whom we commend
it :
‘•Early to bed and early to rise
Never gtt tight, and advertise.”
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