Cologne, May 13. We draw our readers’ attention to the recent 
issues of the Kélnische Zeitung, in particular to today’s issue, that of 
Sunday, May 13. . 

Probably never before has the “most vulgar artlessness’ gone so 
closely hand in hand with venal baseness as in the latest leading articles 
and reports of our admirable contemporary. 

Only a few days ago, at the congress of the Rhenish municipal 
councils, we saw the owner of the Kélnische Zeitung, Herr Joseph 
Dumont, hastily rising to support the decisions adopted there. Today 
we see the same man, through his henchman Brüggemann, 
expressing in every line the most brutal pleasure at the failure of the 
revolts which were precisely the consequence of those decisions of 
the Rhenish municipal councils. | 

In return, however, the Kélnische Zeitung has also the good fortune 
to be imposed on the Rhenish towns, together with the state of siege, 
as their sole newspaper. 

Truly, what is being simultaneously imposed on these towns is 
blood and— dirt!