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Show A St.NSlBLE OITICR. Kos-el, tho latest (.ieneral of the Taris C'ouiiuuui.-is, i:ives evidence ot beim a ,-en-iMe, pracUcal olliccr. He is dissati-ti d wiili it body that deliber ales so liuieli and does so htlle. lie. says Kort Is-y was troubled with "talk-; in it, olVuvrs instead of lighting oi.es." ' This has been the trouble with the men who have thiust themselves most proiuiinMi'.iy lorw.irj in France since last Septembe; ; and recalls the reply reported to ha' O been made to a windy ( crater, who in the midst of a sounding declamation, a.-ked, "Why are the great men of France i-ileir,'.'' ' and was answered by a voice from his audience: "Because they are east in breeze!" Speech auer speech, proclamation on proclamation, and speeches piled; on proclamations that might have 1 reached UisU as o'd O yiupu-: these have been the weapons most freely used to drive the invader from the i-oil of France, the levers to raise a humil-: ia ted nation and give it a free govern-, ment embracing the blessing of cotisti-1 tulional liberty. 1 If "fried froth" and oratorical wind could Lave euished tho Gercuans created crea-ted a stable republic aud made France the uiistrvs of u.uions, all would have beeu acvvuip'.ished months aw; but the wild and impracticable thcoiists that would rather bury their country in a heap of ruins than yield their untested un-tested theories appear to have as much ooiitidenoe in harangues, decrees, eoai-munat eoai-munat fu'.uituaticns a :d prociatuatiens as in armed hosts and weapons cf svar. auihave Kcn freely using l oth forsime time, lighting their countrymen aui making the environs of Farts a vast cemetery. General Ta.issc! appears to be a uau of action, just the man France has needed for months, ifhj has tta? ati'.i-tary ati'.i-tary genius that makes a great general. The best otSeers of the YersaU'.ist ar-laies ar-laies had ni'K drea.i of his abilities, energy and chances of sueeess, when he was appelate ! to the ch ef comm. too. than of either Ght-ccer. l--.:btvw--k;. Bergeret. or a-.y of the ethers ho.o.nig high cvmmani in the Corrcmuna! :"er-ces. :"er-ces. But the redaction of Farts seems a foregone eonc'usioa. and the dcrei; of the Commune necessary for the safety of France: and is haru'y likely th.it Kossel will bo able w rwl back the torrent ei war, or continue moco b'l-jrer b'l-jrer so terrible and n-.al a struggle as that cow raging. |