Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-04

entire confidence Of his party and may add the respect
Of his enemies This act of the Emperor might gain al
most any other in France it win not gain Barbes
We shall soon see him conspirng against the Empire
expect see him end his most troubled and
life at Cayenne The following letters will tell you the
history Of this bold and generous but advsed Of the
Imperial cemency:
ST. CLOUD, OCTOBER g.
"Monseur LIE MINIsrRE The following extract of q
letter from Barbes has been communicated to me. A
prisoner who preserves in spite of long suffering such
patriotic sentiments cannot under my reign remain in
prison. Cause him to be set at liberty immediately and
without conditions Whereupon pray God to have you
in his holy keepingl NAPOLEON"
Extract Of a Letter from Barbes.
"PRIsos DE BELLE SEPT Is.
am happy also, to find you expressing the sentiments
you do Ii you affected with Chauvnsm because you
not form wishes for the Russians still Chauyin
than you, for ambitious victories Frenchmen
Yes let them thrash the Cossacks WELL and it will be
much gained for the Of civilization and the world
Like could have wished that had but since
the sword has been drawn that shall not be
sheahed without glory This glory will profit the nation
which has need Of il than person Since Waterloo
the vanqushed Of Europe and do any thing good
even at home think it is we'll to show Foreigners that
eat gunpowder que nanger de la poude
pity party If there any belonging to it who think diff
fereny Alas after having los much else there remain
ed nothing more for us to lose but the moral sense
The Moneuf then states that in conformity with the
expressed will Of the Emperor the order to place Barbes
at liberty without conditions Immediately transmit
ted to Belle Isle through the electric telegraph Most of
your readers will perhaps be at loss to know what
actly is meant by the terms chauvn and chaupiaism,
of which Barbes dares to incur the opprobrum if any
should be disposed to apply them to him. because of the
sentiments expressed In the above letter. The words in
fact not found in any of the dictionaries. Here
the origin of them: The story goes that upon the dis
banding of the army Of the Loire in 1916 there was
found to belong to it good many individuals all
less closely related to each other and having the
family name Chauun The Chauvins, old soldiers Of the
Empire, having participated, some or other of
them in all its Victories felt themselves identified with
the glores Of the Empire They regretted the fall of
Napoleon and worshipped ihis memory. Dsbanded,
turned to their homes the Chauvns wherever they ap
peared, distinguished themselves by Ignorant blind
ridiculous admiration Of Napoleon Nothing, during the
Restoration under Louis Philippe could be all COM
pared to what of the kind and done under
the Emperor They oil had and religously preserved
button Of their regmentals bearing the imperial eagle
coarse thograph Of the Emperor hung up the
their pockets. The famous dramatic writer Scribe has
well hit off this amusing specimen of French character in
his play called lie Soldat Laboureu Of which the prn
cipal character reoices in the cognoen Cha and the
pencil of Charet has familiarized it to the eye BY
extension of the phrase chauvinism" is now used in
discriminatory to designate ignorant fanatic, excu
sive extravagant attachment to any political party
socialist doctrine.
Paris has declined to such extent that it viii
longer publish bulletins. The number Of new cases in
the hospitals during the last week did not average
than five per day. and Of these the majority
the patients already in the hospitals for other maladies
In the departments with the exception of the Arege the
cholera has almost ceased
A letter from Vienna, in Belgian JOURNAL says:
"You probably aware of the accident which hap
pened to the yacht the Eagle on board Of which the
Emperor and Empress of Austria their return from
Linz to Vienna. That vessel struck rocky shoal
near Srude and sank rapidly that the lives of their
Majesties were in absolute danger. The Empress was
much agtated by this accident and in the interesting
state in which she is apprehensions enter
tanned for her health"
From Spain we learn that tumutuous scenes have taken
place at Borgos the capital of Old CASTLE:
Son the 9th utmo band Of mnleacors committed
excesses under the pretex Of the dearness of AL
though the captangenera and the second in command
were absent the municipal authorities with the aid Of
the national guard and the corps which are at the dspo
sal of the tribunals repressed the disturbance The band
with bludgeons entered the premises Of Nicholas
Rico dealer and Of another tradesman and stole
1900 piastres The respectable inhabitants who inter-
fered insulted and beaten the authorities them
selves treated with contempt and for hours
the band master of the town. The national guard
however, assembled, and the riot put down The
civil governor displayed the greatest energy, and fire.
quenty exposed his life in attempting to restore order
Tranquility was happily reesabshed after the procla-
nation of the state Of siege"
! The Diario has account which says:.
L stores
and set them on fire. and they threw into the flames the
furniture which they found in the houses Of the
The national guard behaved WELL but the fury of the
rioters excessive and their number great that it
necessary to call out the troops of the line who
in the town. The price Of wheat is much lower than it
was for the which at the beginning the
year cost 54 reals now costs only 34 reals"
During these disturbances five houses were piaged
and burnt down. amidst cries Of Down with the specu
ators Death to the holders of corn ~ Two persons
were killed. several wounded and fifty, or according
accounts seventy prisoners taken. The Cla
Publico says that list of eighteen houses be pill
ged and burnt down found in the possession of some
Of the prisoners. t@.
We have also had telegaphic reports Of riots at Ma
ga of which the journals give details. The Diario
says, however, that they "lamentabe," but
pu down by the energy of the authorities the national
it adds tranquility completely re-established.
" The disturbances at Burgos, Malaga, Logono, and
Santandar says the Clamor Pubico confirm the exist
ence of niquitous plan for preventing the elections
and the assembling of the Constituent Cortes To judge
from Appearances the enemies Of the revolution Of June
and July have formed themselves into parties against
it. The pure democrats wish to overthrow the monarchy
though they sign manesoes in which they speak Of the
preservation of the throne Of Isabella H. The parsans
Of the Ranzares family and the ancien regime conspr-
ing avenge themselves and plunge into all the hor
of civil The chiefs Of the Utramontaue school,
who fear to themselves in minority in the Cortes
wish to get possession of power by coup de main The
Carst party is secretly omentng the spirit of sedtion
Under such circumstances the duty of the Governments is
to show itself strong and energeticay to resist oil these
parties"
Some disorders had taken place at Corunna owing to
the fear that troops who had arrived from Andausa
might bring in the cholera.
The Duke de Ia Victoria to be brought forward as
candidate in not fewer than foryfve districts and his
election considered certain in a least sixteen The
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