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Correspondent cfMe POrtldnd Adverti
PARIS. Decemhsr IA. 1895.

PARIS, December IA, 1885.
Undoubtedly you would have put the ques
tiOu oI--what nus become OF your trouba.
dor editor, who has been for along while
piping for you, not only amid the cities
and the wIds ol our own new bright land,
but here also, 10 this old home Of the hu.
flan race.-musing over past; and con
lraslng the present and what he Imagines
must bs the future, with men and things
oflhe new world The last letter mailed
for you wus in Milan, over the Alps, you
know, now under the two headed eagle Of
Austria. The III omened look that the
Custom House Police on the borders Of
Austria gave she hieroglyphics in my wri
ting apparatus, and the tancied scruinz
ing investigation Of the Post Office in Mi
Ian Of SO large package as ! was frank
ing, admcuished me "to take care" tor !
was not IN England, or Switzerland, but
there where mans pen is clIpPea, his
mouth shu, and his writing desk invaded
whenever tyranny chooses TO order. Not
having any particular affection tor the
Austrian police, nor the ambition Tor
martVrdum, and wishing 10 write and
send thousand things which can never
70 safely through an Austrian or Italian
Post Office, | resolved, at Milan, not TO
discontinue writing, but cease trusting
wha, was written, to the investigation OF
the Post. See then the reason why J
have been still. All the particulars Of
cay Journey are written, and you snail
have them as soon as can arrange them
for you by The coming packet ships. Ct
this Journey then, need not only say
this for the information OF what few
friends may have seen ME working my
way through Lombary, Romagna, and
Southern 4laI, amid cholera, and what
is indefinitely worse, qnNrantnces and
corbens, in a country where the people,
though they live, as some one has said, a.
mid the carcasses Of empires, SO tremb'e
At the sound Of the trumpet Of death, even
altar of, that they not only resort to all
mauner of pompous prayers and process
siens in honor Of The Supreme Being, bu
then, as il doubling him Gcrli(y them
selves as much as possible, by the wors
of police regulations, cad Lazaretto:
which ii is death TO violate. Think Of tht
men amidst the august rains Of the Ro-
man empire, who are daily trembling O.
Ver The ashes Ot myriads Of their race
who see too in the now dirty Forum ant
tie towering Coliseum for example, ant
al 1ne,..,,.I tnE,als r. UntIno,
what even the CGsars and the Scipi
nov are think, say, of such cOwerIn!
before even the distant ruslling Of the pc
thence, and prosITae, almost with terr0
SO that they quite shut up, or most vexat
ously Obstrucl, all the avenues 0f thei
empire! | lodged, or underwent all lhei
wreichcd police regulations Lazere
10 except, the most diretui Of all, fancy
and While the Adriilic side Of Italy wa
3 free from chorela, traversed that, an
when it had fled from The Mediterranea
coast over toward the east, traverse
that-snd thus have heen able TO see al
the cities of Italy worth seeing, though tn
cholera was in nearly all Of northern IT.
y Iy during my journey, without meetin
with tie pestllence itself. or all thes
things, however, you will have enoug
IN the letters shall have quite ready f
you by tho next packet saips. This
lone, of itself, never should think of tro
bling you with but as introduction to II
few words that have now TO write fro
city upon which, at This moment, al
quite sure, the eyes oGall my countryme
must be turned and ! am not sorr,
therefore, that am here al moment
Interesting, If can bo of service to you
"The American war" is almost the s"
topic Of discussion in the political circle
/ here, and its comparison with what is CO
sIdered lis importance, the Poninsnlar q
fculues dwindIe into nslgnIGcance.
/ st once, know not how it is we are me
! morphoscd into first rate power, and
Petersburg, and Washington, and Il
Courts OF st. james and Versailles fgu
as among the prominent places of 4
world. Even tho English, the create
|. aud III ST Cnterprising Of oil the travelIe
of the earth, who know all about Mou
Slnai, the Pyramids. Siberia perhaps al
the lower Danube, the best talking gee
E raphers Of the pres Mt DAY, bpt W
\ yet with all their knowledge aro the m
\ SIP dly ignorant Of pc" pie who spc
h Their languag, S-wh1 border upon III
| possesslo .,s-who are tie great recipe
/ Of ,F.eir manulac'ues-evan the Ell
i.ilsh at last, ia spite of the TrollOPes,
Halls, and tho Hamiltons are waking
to but faint conception, however of
resources, which now have seen OF
coun'res, ihn W lobe among the very
Of The world second only to The mlstres
the ocean herself, with Oll her colon
her indies AMI her oil 20 back her.
cause of this sudden metamorPhoss OF
English press, and thus through it, Of