The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-10-15
LOUIS NAPOLEON.

from Paris TO the editor OF the Ne" o''eo'''
Bee, and bv him published on the french s'oe
&c ,,,o, r,ner. The writer, it will be seem
makes a great cutlery on accouhto' ''ie HIT"
who were banished to Cayenne. For our own
mart, We have not q tear TO shed. lhey were
che men who might have saved France, and
who ruined her. 1t was the thrusting forward,
and acting upon their vile ismS, that produced
tho s.ote of anarchy, of which Louis Napo-
leon took advantage. They ruined their coun-
trv. under the pretence Of being her best
friends We applaud Louis Napoleon, for
sending them. intriguers and public plumber
ers as they were, to some place where they
could DO no more mischief.
correspondence Of the Bee.
"PARIs, 18th Aug.
"The Moniteur has just published decree
of amnesty, with regard to fourteen exiles' who
had committed 10 other crime than that OF not
having hailed the outrage ofthe I'd December
with enthusiasm. For two months the minis
terial Journals have been harping upon this ia
nous decree, which was destined to open the
gates Of their country TO so many prescribed
persons. This comp ehenSire amnesty. an
pounced with such a flourish OF trumpets, ex-
tends to exactly fourteen persons, amongst
whom are NJ. Nj. Theirs, de Remusat, DIVER
eier de Hauranne, Jules de Lastevrle, Cretor'
Chambolle, Antoine Thouret, Jolly, &c. Thus
far and 10 further, has the clemency oil
Augustuus extended, towards persons entirely
innocent, Of the same time that three Oh four
thousand of the prescribed, dying Of hunger in
a foreign land, lament their eternal separation
from their wives, their children, all that they
hold dear. And whOsoever does not bow down
before the firman of Bonaparte, and cry, GLORY
to Caesar is treated by the subsidized press as
a bad citizen, and is far from being sure OF
sleeping in his own bed that night.
"Paris, at this moment, presents spectacle
surprisingly strange. The Capitalsof France
resembles city under adjudication. On every
side, in every street, in all the public squares,
are seen legions of uorkmen, who remove the
pavement, pull down houses, and build public
edfices. The government Of Bonapa rte has
its national workshops he knows that he
must, if he would live, employ the class OF me-
chanics and he accordingly employs them in
building one day, and pulling down their work
the next, and in getting up colossal teteS
which cost millions. The days of the Lower
Empire, panem ct circeuses But who is TO
pay the enormous bill, when Rabelais, quarter
of an hour, shall have arrived 1t is said, and
beyond all doubt, truly, that the government
is already very seriously embarrassed, with re-
gard to the finances. Never did any other
government spend as much in six years as this
has squandered in six months
"The elections for Councillors Of TIE De
partments and ACCOMPLISHMENTS, are just over.
And such elections! !! 1t was agreed that the
government should leave the electors perfectly
free. Ii was only when candidate, not pa
tronised by the government, dared to enter the
lists, that the Project stopped him, caused him
to be seized and thrust him out cf the Depart
ment, provided he had the smallest chance Of
succeeding. This actually occurred in the |
Erure, in the Drome, in the Lot, in the Vosges |
and in many other departments. Never did |
Pachas act, as the Sc Projects OF NJ. Bonaparte |
have done! Even those who attempted to say |
temporarily incarceraled. Seeing these things,
the electors declined running so great a risk,
by taking part in elections conducted under re-
straint, and the number of absentees was so |
great, that it is doubtful whether at the end of |
the first day, there was one election in ten COM
plete. At Rouen, where the electors number |
$4,000, only $50 presented themselves at the |
polls. At Lyons, it was still worse. Absen- |
teeism was everywhere, and on mighty scale |
As the law requires that at least third of the |
electors shall vote the first day, in order 10 |
make the election valid, the greater number Of |
the elections were adjourned to the next Sun
pay, on which day, they were to be considered |
valid, no matter what the number of votes
poled. Would you believe, that in spite of |
gems d'armes, rural guards, projects, magis-
trates, functionaries, who had been vaporing |
for month with the hope Of intmidating the |
electors, and forcing them to vote for the ad- |
mnstra,ion candidates, considerable num-
Der of Republicans were returned! For in |
stance, in the Department Of the Loire, Nj. |
Sam, who is the very head and front of the |
Mountain at Rouen, NJ. Deschamps, one of |
Ledru Rollins commissaries General at Lv- |
ons' Jules Favre, elected, also, from Etienne.-
In The Herault, out of TWENTY-FIVE councillors, |
fourteen belonging to the opposition, were cho. |
sen. The public laughs, as you may we'll i'm |
agine' Power makes grimaces, and the minis |
,etiai papers cry out that anarchy is again
hitting Its head. 1t is something worse than
anarchy, which, fortunately, relieves itself. 1t
lSpublc contempt, which, sooner or later, will
Kill this wretched government.
u wish you knew TO what arguments the
government ofBonaparte resorted in order to
explain the absence Of those million Of electors.
1T proves so he makes his scrlbes saw. chm,
the people, trusting in the power of the Prince
no longer care to exercise their political rights
Yes, the Mountebanks actually ventured to
make this assertion though thew knew ,ar.