Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-23

by Fesch, excepting that the number of cannons
is more considerable, and consequently the effect
would have been more terrible. d"
FieSchps machine had only single range OF
cannon. The present represents parallelogram,
the top of which has 26 cannon. Beneath and on
either side are two compartments, IN which are
lows of IL cannon each, making 4S cannon Tor
each department. In the centre of the bottom
from 80 to sc centimetres long. They are made IN
pasteboard, lined with metal. The compartments
strongly held together with screws. A sulphor-
ed match is so p,ced to be able to let off the
cannons at the same time. Thus the explosion
would be terrible and instantaneous.
have Just seen person who left the Var last
night; he states that conspiracy on large scale
exists on the frontier, the chiefs of which are Pied
montese and Ftench Socialists That the dema-
gogues in Piedmont, at given signal, intend eros
sing the frontiers, and, joined by the disconnected
in the Var and in the Centre departments, seize on
the whole of the South of France, and ultimately
march on Paris The Prince, am told, treats
lightly this conspiracy; but to save the inhabitants
of the frontieS several regiments have been sentto
Antilles and other towns IN the Var.
The internal machine was to have been placed in
the Rue'd Ais, near the trumphal arch, where the
Prince is to receive the keys of the city from the
Mayor. 1t IS narrow street, and the massacre
would have been dreadful.
The Paris Menteur of Sunday, Sept. ~, has the
following details
The Minister of General Police has for some time
past been on the trace of secret society OF which
the object became every day more manifest.
The construction of an internal machine having
been resolved on several of the members set 10
work and the machine was quickly completed. 1t
is divided into 2S compartments. These 2S pieces
were for greater prec auton deposited in % different
places until the moment suitable place could be
found 10 fix and put the machine together.
A locality was chosen, situate on the passage of
the President, being on the high road from AK
4 ha,,c h,rn,i &c
composed of two stories, with windows in front.
The internal mchine was to have been placed On
the first floor. 1t was seized on that spot.
The London Times, however, in the leading ar
ticle of Goth, inmates that this pretended plot IS
only another seine in the grand Democratic parade
got up in favor # the Presidents imperial plans.
| 1t says CEga E.'H..EEF
"Whether the internal machine be genuine
discovery of the Trench police, or mere inven-
ton or that ingenious body of public servants, it
cannot be denied hat this incident has been an
nounced TO the worl precisely at the moment when
it was likely to prohce the most salutaIy effect on
the fortunes of the imperial victim.
ain fact if the scheme had been altogether pre-
arranged, it couldn't have been divulged with n
! more punctual reard to convenience and effect
| at the very heighbf popular enthusiasm.
"Nothing can e more skilfully melo-dramatic
than such contrast, and though resources of this
| kind have sometimes been employed to give tlc-
titious interest ia POLITICAL PERFORMER we cannot
| affirm that the conspiracy was on this occasion un
zeal. - N .ff
ave confess, however, that the mode in which
this narrative is communicated by the Moniteur,
does not dispel our ilcreduiity. No doubt a for
| midable engine of destruction has been seized in
| house in Marseilles. r ..r-.-
"But nothing whaever is allowed 10 transpire as
to the names and CHARACTER of the authors Of this
desperate attempt. We know nothing of their mo-
tives their meansof action, and we must there
fore suspend out judgment as to their guilt until the
facts of the casare judicially proved. At present,
the whole stay wears suspicious appearance;
but, whether iy coincidence or by design, it will
evidently ser,e 10 promote the main purpose of
Louis Napoledi's journey
The Paris correspondent of the Times, of the
same date, add these further particulars:
"Those wlp would detach the plot altogether
from police aiency, and who express their belief
in the ex:tene of bona fide project for the des-
truction OF Ltais Napoleon, assert that the place
originally designed fol- carrying it into execution
was Lyons or foulon. But it is not forgotten that
amongst th, causes referred tn by the President as
rendering Inevitable the change from his present IT,
tie to a NOR pompous though really not more abso-
lutte one, wIuld he the future conduct OF the df-
ferent political parties. That condition was express
cd in the adres, on the opening of the Legislative
Corps at the "uileries, and there is no doubt that
the eaistence1f such plot as that discovered at
Marseilles one of the contingencies contem-
plated. 81 atlCi't aa. 30 .a...t.-a.u
"Under any circumstances there exists no doubt
of the establishment of the empire, but the Mar
settles projed comes just in time tie afford add
tional preted for the CHANGE" Hr