Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-26
rzn ImpnRIAL REIGN oFernRRoR.


We have received letter which shows in
most painful but most convincing way, the rue
character Of the frightlul period through which
France has lust passed and s even still passing.
The letter was Addressed % a lady OF igli fank
ID Paris and the writer, whose name > IN gar
possession, was physician oil hignr elsI5see ~.
and Fapute in q provincial town. he nan not
taken the slightest part in political affairs LOT
many wears and was actively engaged IN the
prosecution OF his professional duties But ne
has been seized, subjected to the most norm is
fortunes and exiled 70 stAFVe IN AgeFia, for no
other reason whatever fhnn because one oiiieiai
suggested 70 another that man 80 hard-work-
ing and so popular must have influence, ana an
influence was dangerous. Il Is also clear that
cases likehis were the rule, not the exception
His companions were 50 far removed rom tue
eInss rho are said to be given to plots and TO
Evor The Vaccinations Of secret societies, that
ont of fifty.siX only four were wOrkmeT-- Tue
object Of the Government was not to remove
dangerous persons, but TO strike terror 70 make
Quiet respectable and orderly persons leel that
the iron heel was upon them; th9i tne aN.iall
power of the empire would strike them even IN
the security OF their homes, and OF their imam
bilious ineffensIVe innocence. This letter IS
terrible revelation, and we give transiatlcn Of
/ IL without any other alteration than Inat OF
emitting Names which might lead 70 the tdentl-
/ hcation Of the writeT;-'ora1, April Q. Mad
I AMI am at length permitted TO write 70 you,
and to speak to you of all the events wnlen nave
! occurred TO iDe-events so unforeseen that think
! / am vet dreaming when endeayor 70 account
| to myself for them. In the night OF the 25tn
IF February about three o'clock n M, heard
stems Feeling certain that they were those Of
1 sick persons went down in hurry, when
was ut once arrested, and carried of 10 post
/ cbaise. without being able to give informa-
nation of the event to my relations or any one
else. was imprisoned IN the goal OF -,
and was placed ar secret during twenty-eight
4 DAYS without being able either to read or write,
| without communication with any one, being
lkept an Seeret in the most absolute manner
l;Ten DAYS after my incarceration, the Secretary,
| General of the Prefecture came TO me, and said
| to me as follows IT repeat what he said word for
word) I'VE know that you are very wen
known. very highly thought of, and very iniu-
entail You could, IN case oil necessity ana NJ
spite of Yourself be flag round which people
would rally We do not want that; It IS on tnat
l account YOU will be exiled, we know that no
| secret society exists at yonr house. and that yon
have never been member ofany such society
| said. lyon havs appointed me physician oil
the poor, and tits not surprising therefore mat
/ have been greater iavourite than DINERS
i ait is true" be replied, that it is annoying;
hut YOU must co. Since that visit have seen
no one but have learned that, petition nav
| ing been got up after my departure, II was SAID
at the prefecture chat II had not Oeen aIreSteu
that would have been reason for my being so.
I hive also learnt that the mayor Of D.
had said to the mayor of P, long time
since that was too Influential not to be daf'-
/ 0erous They all know that ever since my re"
! turn have never once, even for single instant
occupied myself with politics, that have hvea
! isolated seeing no one. Besides TINS declare
! tn YOU. Madam that all the erftes whom was
able 10 see at Marseilles and elsewhere, are nom
| orable men, calm, peaceAblc, well 20 do IN their
own country. most Of them fathers OF ianliiiesi
and baDished simply because they were esteem
ed and known. Amer twentY.elgnt days OF very
N
i IKE myself was oeteHW, and who had also
been kept an seeT6t, without our ever having been
nertnitted to commnnite with one another. was
| placed With me in cellular carriage oil the
| most frightful description, one OF the WORT Vi
all Inventions reserved for galley slaves. Ihcre
| wos n Iittle cOmDartmenU OF 10 inches square
I for each. strongly barred, with just enough OF
mir not to choke, and there were twelve OF Us IN
Il earh carriage After three days and two nights
of absolute immortality, we arrived almost
dead at MaIseilles. To travel in this way IS the
most fT1ghtful torture that can be invented
4 We were afterwards deposited in the easeHlates
II Of Fort St Nicholas at Marseiies, where we
4 slept on the flags covered with Vermin, ana
; where we were only allowed to eat out oil a
MATTER On Monday, the LIST April, to the
i humber of Hfty-six, we were embarked for Dram.
The passage was bad one, but at last, on Eas-
ter-day. we were imprisoned at MeTsel-Beoln
i There we were barracked like soldiers: and at
length the place of our. 'iestnaton MAS insl'na-
ted 10 EACH OF MS NeSteFoi.ys anu p" = ~
mission TO 90 TO Oran to procure the meaus OF
transport / must be at the place OF my exile
on Friday What is TO become OF me IN that
poor little placer Already there are three ex-
lied physicians in the same place. who 9. are una
6le TO find occupation. Our convoy OF 90 CON
tanned three physicians, two drORes, eight advo-
Gates, merchants, head clerks Of establishments
and only four ouuriers They were Of all ages.
from % TO 70 years IF the Ministers could
themselves see who are the persons persscnted'
they would be ashamed of their acts Within
the last few days an employe of the Minister Of
War. whoiis on a mission here, suppose, after
having seen all the.exiled persons, could not
help expressing his establishment and even his
Immigration. "A Government must be absolutely
mad TO makeiuse Of such unjust means, and to
make themselves the instruments of such blind
local haffeds / win candidlY say to you, mad
am that il had not old parents whose eyes
had hoped to close, united family. and nnmer-
Gus and poor patients Whom Il was my mission
to comfort for a long lime past, should not
lhave minded quitting our country to live at q
distance; but, alas, am in Algeria, to live and
perhaps die there
A NJ. fIr,rr - a .specilnen Of a new coin Of