The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-05

Corrsspondsnce Of the Republic.
''a ~ Pans, September 20. 1854 4
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There h famous Hve-act play in the French
language said to have been written solely to pre-
pare the way for . b,n nos placed in the mouth Of
the character whose closing sentence brings down
the curtain. The southern tour Of the President
might. in similar manner, be said to have been
undertaken merely that he might, upon fitting
occasions pronounce the significant paragraph just
quoted. Z Louis Napoleon uttered these words,
which viii become memorable, on the occasion Of
his reception at Nevees. We shall get nothing
more pat. more plump, more poe during the
whole excursion. We can want nothing more
clear or more decisive. Everybody, upon read
ing it, came to one and the same conclusion-that
1t was settler. To M. Oh. Dupin belongs
the credit Of having drawn the President out,
and Of having set at rest . long mooted question.
Louis Napoleon anticipated the general wish when
he executed the coup d'efGt because itwas matter
of public concern and national welfare; he will
wait for some sufficient manifestation Of the popu
lar inclination before declaring himself Emperor
step more nearly regarding himself, personally.
With the means at the governments disposal. It
was easy to produce, in the provinces, the show of
enthusiasm necessary before the words have cited
could be with propriey spoken. Priest and Project
united in the holy work, and we read from day to
day in the ministerial journals Of the phrensy that
their joint labors have produced. But the ma,
nouvre has been in one point transparent. The
unanimity Of the shouts Of Viue PEmpsreT IL too
remarkable not to have been done to order; the
concert too harmonious to be altogether spontane
Gus; the lire 10 oed too exactly not to suggest the
belief that the line 10 marked in chalk. Thefdri,
in short 10 conspicuous at every step, and the i'm
psral demonstration has just surely been cut to
measure az are boots and pantaloons. But this will
not prevent the empire from being declared at an
early day; and the public curiosity, satisfied that
the restoration 10 to take place, now anxously waits
for some hint az to the day that will be fixed for the
solemnity. Will il be this year or the nextl Will
Louis Napoleon carry his fondness for anniversa-
ries to the extent of again hallowng the I'd Of De-
cember; or will he wait for the month Of May,
when his uncle assumed the title of Napoleon l.,
Emperor Of the French? II is thought that the
Senate will be convoked to remodel the constitu-
tion soon after the termination of the journey.
have yet seen no one who imagines that Louis Ma
poleon will gain strength either within or without.
On the contrary, it 10 the prevalent idea that he
will lose consolidation in France and considera-
ton in Europe. S'~' '.'
The elections to supply the places Of Cavaignac
and Carnot are to take place in Paris next Sunday.
The government has not yet made known its Gun
didates, but they will probably be the gentlemen
who were defeated on the first trial. The Repub-
licans have had great difficulty in obtaining
name upon whom they could with any chance of
10 hair p,ofoo md
Carnot declined for obvious reasons to allow them
selves to be again considered candidates. Michelet,
the great historian, will probably be supported in
Cavaignacs places while the honors of the succession
of Carnot are thus fai equally divided between
Proudhon, and Goudchaux, Minister of Finance
during the first months Of the republic. should
not be surprised if Michelet victorious; but
much doubt the success of the 6nancier or the
former.
You remember the gas.pipe conspiracy OF the
Rue de Ia Refine Blanche, discovered in Juno last.
The trial of the prisoners has taken place; and in
order that the mountain may not be reduced to it's
true proportions Of mole hill, they have been
condemned to heavy fines and severe terms of i'm
prisonment. The condemned are thirteen in mum.
ber. Persons were found to swear that they had
been heard 10 say that they meant to fire on the
President and burn down the Place Vendome.
On the table of the court were the instruments
with which these thirteen men and women-for
there were three women in the party-intended to
consummate their horrible deaigns eight pieces of
gasp pipe, half yard long, which were to do duty
a. cannon, or as internal machines, no one knows
how; two muskets and one broken halberd; q
number of pamphlets and books, voluminous
parcels Of newspapers, boxes of charcoal, sui
phur, and saltpetre; one or two indecent en-
stn ,u;c If Offir in tho
navy! With this tremendous array Of tools and
properties the thirteen conspirators threatened
to uproot civilization. A chemist testified that
some Of the gunpowder was good, and gun
smith declared that the gas-ppes would make
very serviceable cannon. One of tho prisoners was
also proved to have called Louis Napoleon an ass;
and another had been seen to chew and swallow a
piece of paper at the moment of his arrest-doubt-
less an infammatory appeal to the brethren to be
ready when patriotism called or the last number of
Mazzini's bulletin for secret circulation. Nothing
could withstand such mass of evidence; and the
whole thirteen are booked for terms of sequestra-
ton varying from three years to fifteen months,
and for fines of different amounts, from 900 to
800 francs. have not noticed that society has slept
any sounder since this terrible dspensation Of JUS
tice. .,..
Tho Consiitutionnsl has been forced by its reduc.
ton OF price to dlminish propnrtionaoiy the sala-
ries of its editors. DR.. Vera has cut down the
whole staff to three sous line. instead of five, and
has declared his intention of submitting himself to
these onerous conditions. His own productions are
set up in type slightly larger than that allowed to
any of his collaborators, 30 that he makes more
than they out of given number of words. He has
also signified to them that upon The numbers de-
lvered to them gratuitously they must refund the
amount Of the stamp and the postage; that is, IS
francs year. They replied that they would pre-
fer to become regular subscribers at the rate of 81
francs per annum, the ruinous rate at which the
paper 10 served, in the hopes of killing off the
Pays, Presse, Steele Sc, &c. Thus far the inroad
of subscribers has not been fatterng, while those
that know state that the other journals have not
lost more than the average of their monthly losses
since the last law upon the press.
The Akhbdr, official journal Of Algiers, 10 using
alits influence against the release Of Add el