The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-29
INTERESTING LETTER FROM PARIS. .

FhOM fARlS.
We are indebted to the politeness of friend in
this city for the following interesting extract from
recent private letter II gives, from the very
best authority some of the circumstances attending
the attempt to assassinate LOUIS NAPOLEON, which
have never yet been published. Erchange. 3
81 had very long and interesting conversation
with the Prince de - the other day. He thinks
the EMPERoR's head was affected BY the ORsISt
affair, and to that he ascribes the whole series of
blunders that have been since committed He is of
opinion that if anything should happen to NAPo-
LEON, the measures that have been taken-prncipaly
the nomination of the five Marshals to separate
military divisions-would ensure public safety and
prevent revolution. He at the Opera the
night of the dHentat, inside, in loge with two
ladies. 1t was known that some conspiracy was on
foot, but the EMPEROR persisted in going, and
when the first explosion was heard inside
to quiet the audience, he and several others
declared that it was an explosion of gas
After the second explosion he went out of
the loge, but could get no further than the
grande sale ddttente where the crowd was immense;
people from the inside rushing out to know what
had happened, and people from the street rushing
in to avoid the missiles. What is very surprising
is that the whole details of the conspiracy were
known beforehand that is, that bombs were to be ex-
poded to create disturbance and that the EMPEROR
was to be dispatched with daggers. Although Or
SIM had been month in Paris, riding every day in
the Bois de Boalogne, and had been Signale by the
Belgian Police to the French he was allowed perfect
freedom, and no extraordinary precautions ta-
ken on that night. The coachman did his duty admir-
ably, for, though Of the horses desperate
ly wounded as to be hardly able to stand, he con-
trived, by vigorous effort, to land the carriage at
the private entrance, where both horses fell. The
whole carriage being shattered, the EMPEROR was
trying to open the door alone, for both footmen
had been wounded and had fallen off, when a man
covered with blood, holding a sword between his
teeth rushed to the carriage door, Now, the EN-
PRESS knew that the bombs were merely a sham
and that the dagger was to end the business, and
thinking that this man one of the conspirators
she felt under the carriage seats for pistols that
usually placed there, but fortunately did moi
find them. She then threw herself, with the true
nobleness of woman, between the EMPEROR and his
supposed assassin. 1t turned out, however, that the
man Sergent de Vile who had been wounded
himself, but had rushed forward to extricate the
Imperial pair from their perilous position The
Prince de - went into the EMPERoR'S box to con-
graduate him. NAPOLEON perfectly calm, but
his face bore marks of the violent agitation he had
undergone. When PIETRI, the then Project Of
Police, came in to offer his congratulations, and
spoke of the interposition of Providence, the EN-
PERoR cried out before everybody 'Eh, Monsieur
La Providence que je rois pas proege, ct rort
police que js uois sans cesse ne fat rien y