The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-01-08


best means of protesting against its Legality.
To vote negatively would be to recognise the
Presidents right to put the question.
| understand from a private source. which
may be relied on, that Louis Napoleon has sent
invitations to all the liberated Representatives
to attend the sittings of the Consultative Com
mission. In no single instance have these inyi-
tations, so far as can learn, been accepted
On the 9th, M. Theirs received orders to quit
France. After a slight preparation for his
Journey and in very shattered state of health,
he was escorted out of his house between two
agents of the police, placed in q carriage. and
conveyed to the terminus of the Strasburg rail-
way. Here he was placed in a carriage apart,
with his two official attendants, who will not
leave him until they have seen him fairly over
the French frontier to Kehl, on the right bank
of the Rhine, opposite to Strasburg.
The ffty-one Representatives confined in
Mont alerian have been all liberated, except
ing Generals Oudinot and Lauriston, and twelve
members of the Mountain. Victor Hugo was
safe up to the 10th.
FEELING OF THE TROOPS.
Sunday morning, the 9TH, everything seemed
tranquil, says writer in The London Times,
the summary proceedings on the two previous
DAYS striking terror into not only the few men
who might be supposed to be rash enough to
brave an army now in Paris, amounting, it is
said. to 10000 men, all devoted TO Louis Ma
poleon, for the Empire or anything else the
President might think necessary to the triumph
of his policy.
The Patrie publishes the following votes of
the army:
Number of votes 65,2S9
Votes for Louis Napoleon 6l,456
Against 3,749
hstaiped 81
The battalion of the 18th regiment of the
line. in garrison at Perigweux, has voted for
the continuation of the powers of the Presi-
dent of the Republic. Out of822 soldiers, sol
have voted for 81 against.
The following is an extract from private
letter. dated Paris, December 8, 1851:
lone of our female servants is married to a
officer in one of the regiments |
of civic troops which are employed more espe-
cially in the arrests and executions now going I
on We learn from her that her husband was
engaged with. his company she s'>t'Ss day yes !
'e@iay in Masking ~ =. -. 81
how many hundred we're lodged by his COM
pany in the prisons. He says they are ordered
)ut to the Champs de Mars to-day to shoot
lumber-repOrted to be l56-of those con-
iemned by the Court Martial. From the Ian
suage used by the wife, we infer that the
soldiers at least ofthat regiment notwlthstand-
ing their enormous extra pay, are thoroughly
Disguised with their work. All the usual yo-
cabulary of abusive epthets is shOwered on the
President, such as brigdnd Scelsrdt;" &c.
The most important event of the 9th was the
ssue of the following decree:
IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE: The
President of the Republic, on the report of the
Minister of Public Instruction and Worship:
'eeing the law of April 40 1871 seeing the
decree of Feb. 20, 1906 seeing the ordinance
If Dec - 1921; seeing the ordinance of Aug.
,6, 1890
DEGREES that the former church of st. Gen
,vieve is restored for the purposes of worship,
to the intention of its founder.
lnder the invocation of Sainte Genevieve, the
patron Saint of PaGs.
Measures will be eventually taken to estab-
ish the regular exercises Of public worship in
he church. according to the Catholic forms, &c.
LOUIS NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE.
II FORToUL,
Minister Of Public Instruction and Worship.
Our readers are aware that this decree re-
ers to the Pantheon. This magnificent build
ng. which since 1880 has been considered
imply az splendid monument to the brave
men who fell in the Revolution of that year.
whose names are inscribed in golden letters
lpon its walls, was commenced in 1857, by the,
rider of Louis XIV. In 1871, the Constituent
Assembly, in the spirit of the Revolution,
hanged the character and name Of the edifce,
alling it "Le Pantheon Francois" In 1922
was again restored as church, and conse-
rated az such in the name of Sainte Genevieve,
by the Archbishop of Paris. But in 1880 1t
again became the Pantheon and now, by u
fourth transformation, is once more church
Ii is said that Montalembert demanded this
last change Us part Of the price OF his adhe-
sion, and that of the Jesuits generally, to tho
cause of Louis Napoleon.
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.
1t will be very long before any complete and
truthful history can be compiled of what has
passed in the Departments since the eventtul
I'd Of December. The press of Paris is ami
hilated the telegraph works only under the
orders or by the permission of the Government
every country newspaper attempting to convey
any unofficial intelligence is instantly seized,
and all letters addressed from the Provinces to
Representatives and other distinguished per-
sons are either opened or detained at the post
Office By what slow degrees the truth oOzes
out will therefore be readily conceived. Thus
much however is now certain--that in very
many parts of France, and more particularly
in the central and southern Provinces, the news
of the coup detdt was the signal for the out
break of civil war, which lasted for several
days, and has been attended with frightful loss
of life.
That the risngs are everywhere put down,
we are now informed by the same authority
that three or four days ago would have had it
believed that enthusiastic demonstrations of
JOY were the only exceptions to the unrufled
tranquility of the country 1t is also asserted
that the resistance has in every instance been
the work of anarchist" demagogues" So
cialists," OF cred republicans" bent only upon
pilage, violation, and murder 1t may be 10.
But the same thing has been said with regard
to the resistance in Paris; and yet we all
know that the splendid houses on either SIDE u
the Boulevards, extending for the length OF an
English mile between the Maison Doree and
the Port St Denis, which may now DE seeD
rddled with the bullets of the soldicry from
the ground floor to the fifth story, are NJ, H..
habited by persons of that description
1t is however. clear not only from the ii.
missions, but from the conduct, of the G0,s,,-
ment, that the tranquility said 10 ~ ssa.
lshed IN Of the most hollow dcscriptss. k,s,2
day fresh Department il declared ~ - "a I,
state Of siege. Martial Law is sr.As-ssy ,.Jst
to become the common law M t,aAs.a no
news Yesterday wss tia, bSasa..r 49, .,
quiet that the sts.e II s.sys pas e. ;r-a so,s
luxury, which sD1ld M haze ,>sy l.sa.,,,l
but for s1me ACCIDENTAL Al>seneA Il a .5,. a,se.
tionary. In ,o-iAys Uondsuy, tarss,.r = ~
pears that the prefscs n he Gr11ls W
Haussmann ayailng himsrf II iif ss&st =
siege, has thought d, nses~eary ., deeft+ ,hss