he thought the United States permanently divided, it has come to a farce in spite of him, and much more promptly and swiftly than he had intended. The " chez nous " will be " chez eux " in la belle France before the New Year; and it is stated as a fact that Mexico will be put under a Yankee protectorate as a preliminary move to being joined to the States.
The Irish Fenians in their great hatred for la perfide Albion are extremely active, and this at the very moment when the United States are claiming damages from England for all the harm done their commerce during the war by the famous Alabama and her mates. This thorny question must be decided soon and favorably, else the English will have all the Fenians on their hands in Canada, backed by the bayonets of Ioo,ooo Yankee veterans. They would start to-morrow if the Government said the word.
But the United States have one very dangerous weak side; they are too much led by party spirit, and they go in " neck or nothing." If they are not careful this party spirit must bring them to anarchy, toward which the radicals seem to-day to be traveling in haste. Things are at such a point here that our deep thinkers are looking for another civil war, which may become more disastrous than the first; should that calamity take place, the Great Republic will take long strides toward the ruin which she has so barely es
caped. The radicals, without the least patriotism, are determined to risk everything, at any price, to maintain themselves in power. They are now working for the disfranchisement of all the conservatives opposed to their party, and to give votes to the recently enfranchised negroes who are still in a species of semi-barbarism, and to this end they
are employing the most tyrannical and unjust measures. In the city of St. Louis they wish to proscribe Io,ooo voters. If they succeed in erecting their infernal yoke, there are plenty of papers that proclaim that proscription of the Catholics will soon follow. We are already proscribed in