Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-08-27


l. frogs, is to talk some language at them
IS no matter it is Choctaw, so that you tai
e it at them as loud and fast as they tall
e for they will be sure to tell you that yo,
! are too late for the train to Paris, if yo'
h ask them in their own language. Ever.
: man for himself in such melee, SO 20,
y tell hackman to take your trunk ant
8 drive like Jehu for the Paris depot. 1
1 he slackens his speed, YOU may be SURE
| that he intends to have you there too late
: for he gets small premium for taking
: you to some hotel in the place; but the
: French are people Of vigorous gesticula
tions and animated speech, interlarded
, with grimaces, and Struggling up of the
: shoulders, and if you are tame or modest,
!; you will be the loser by it, so you must
, threaten the hackman. Choctaw will do
T if you are opposed to swearing in French,
provided that you give him plenty of it.
When you have put him through, by
working your passage in this way, if he
asks you two or three prices, (Which he
will do if YOU are stranger,) just point
him to the number of his hack, and look
around for one of the gems d'arms, and he
will be satisfied to get the lawful price.
| had just such an adventure at Dieppe
the midnight arrived there, and I got to
the depot for Paris just in the nick of
time by this process,
But by the bright light of the moon,
you almost think that you are flying along
through an enchanted garden. You see
no fences except rose bushes and flowers,
and you almost think that the smoke of
the locomotive is burnt incense. But my
limited space will not permit me to give
you any particulars of the country at
present. At Paris, l had the advantage
of the company of a Partisan who was my
room mate in crossing the Atlantic. He
came by Havre from Liverpool, but we
met at Roucn, (where the two railways
connect) and his uncle, jolly old coal
merchant, met us at the depot in Paris,
and bore US off in his old fashioned cabri-
olet, to his house near his coal yards, by
the Seine. Twas at home at once with
the hospitable old coal merchant and his
family, and every day he drove us out in
his cabriolet to see the curiosities of the
city. He was a very Jehu to drive, but
in passing, he would point out to us the
places where the barricades were made, ,and
where the battles were fought, in the rev.
olution of 1S4S The far-famed Boule-
wards are long, elevated walks, bordered
with trees, and mostly in the middle of
the street, but at present you see 10 large
or old looking trees along the Boulevards
or in the streets; they were all cut down
for barricades in the revolution of June,
and it is not unlikely that there will be
just such another revolution in less than a
year from this time. Guizot caused the
last revolution, and Louis Napoleon is
pursuing the same course in the suppress
ion OF republican journals and pamphlets,
and the assembling of the clubs. Many
of the departments here in the south west
of France are now under military govern
ment, owing to their republican sentiments,
and but the other day in this place, some
young men were forced by the gems d'arms
to put out of sight the red caps they
chose to appear in. The people are re-
publican, and the alliance of the people is
fora terrible vindication of their
rights, and especially for vindication of
suffrage, which has been taken
from them since the establishment of the
republic. The priests and their adherents
are Bourbonists, Orleansists, or Bonapar-
fine, any thing that will take the
power from the people, for absolutism is
The soul of their own system ; but the
people will never again resign the right
# selfgovcrnmcnt. Republicanism, the
'ast and profound unity, is growing grad
,ally; the powerful union of forces is fast s
aking a body that even the standing
lrmy of 100000 men can not overthrow
The people everywhere are at last discov-
ring their rights, and the same heart c
,eats in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Il
nd England. From the Vistula to the P
iaudelquiver, and from Caledonia to the '
hores Of the Black Sea, the same thought 4
mites the people. Il
But Paris There is life there, and D
lear sky, when compared with London. C.
| triple riband of gay, animated, and n
heerful people carelessly crowd along the II
;oulevards and sidewalks, whilst in Lon e.
on every body either hurries along in D
ate of breathless anxiety, as ifrunning to "
fire, or else stalks along like a sullen
host envcloped in fog. In Paris, the b
,ops look like the people, full Of bagatel- N
g. everything to please for moment, D,