The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-01
lIF { IN PARIS.
PARIS. June 10. 1853,

IAklS, June ~, 1000.
The Wdsm Heather in Paris-Napoleon for
hJying the Thiileries-D Discovery of another
Plot to Assassinate the Emperor Continu
alton Of the Crisis and its Effects on the
Bourse- General Espina. se's Proposition
to sell the Real Estates belonging to The PUB
Tic BeneUolent Institutions, by acay of doub
ling their Income. and to till the Public
Treasury 10Th Cdsh-ArriOat IF Los Grin
Cos in Paris-Prince Napoleon Lieutenant
General of Algiers.
To the Editor Of the National Era:
Until the latter part of the past month, the
air continued as cold and chilling as in the au-
tumn, when all at once the thermometer rose
from IS to 85 degrees Fahrenheit, and some few
days it even went up as high as Sc, which is
an. uncommonly warm temperature for Paris
at any period of the summer. The season.
thus far, seems only profitable to tailors and
dressmakers; the lghtest and most transpa.
rent white dotted muslins being now much in
vogue, mantillas and bonnets are made of the
same as the dress. Gentlemen's beavsrs are
laid aside for the cool Panama and large straw
hats.
Scarcely had the Court left Paris for Fon.
tainebleau with the Queen of Holland, when,
to the grief and establishment of all Paris, a
legion of workmen invaded the Tuileries gar
dens, and barricaded them, to make an entire
change in a great portion Of that old and fa-
vorite public resort for men, women, and chill
dren. The people are kept in entire ignorance
of the Emperor's object in so doing, as we'll as
of the plan adopted. Some persons say that
his Majesty wishes to enlarge the private gar
den, that he and his Imperial progeny may
freely exercise in the open air, undisturbed
and beyond the reach of bomb-shells, revolv-
ers, and poignards. Others pretend that his
intention is to fortify that old edfce on that
side, to make of it and the Louvre formidable
fortress in the very heart of this great city-a
fort large enough to accommodate thousands
and thousands of troops.
1t has also been reported, for the past eight
days, that the Emperor's life was again ieop.
arded in the forest of Fontainebleau, By some
Italians or Frenchmen, and that the bombs
we're manufactured in Paris; but the means
resorted to and the persons arrested are 80 va.
riously reported, that nothing can be depended
upon. Bygood authority have been assured,
however, that this Government was notified.
some twelve or fifteen days ago, by the police
of London, that q number of very suspicious
and desperate individuals had left that CITY for
Paris. A legion of the secret police was at
once put on the alert, and they arrested two
persons. armed to the teeth with Colts revolv
ers, q dirk, and various other deadly arms.
That rumor, the deprecated state of stocks,
and the stsgration in trade, cause an excited
and feverish state of uncertainty, which the
Government authorities strove to calm, BY put
ting up bills, informing the public that all
originators of false reports run the risk of
three months imprisonment. The funds are
nevertheless going down lower and lower, and
the once famous Credit Mobilier, which stood
at nearly 1000 francs, two short years past, is
to day quoted at SCI, and threatens to continue
declining till it reaches zero.
The railroad stocks are falling in the same
ratio, and the owners Of all such papers are
kept 10 the painful anticipation of general
smash.
Not longer back than the autumn of the past
and memorable year of misfortune, Napoleon
Ill boldly declared such an idea as a crisis in
France preposterous, when in fact the epidemic
had then already invaded it. A sufficient dose
of narcotic having in time been judiciously ad.
ministered to stimulate and keep the patient
alive by extraordinary means, her doom was
retarded but the skill of the doctor can no
longer save the patient, and expire she must
Indeed, the crisis is still raging; manufacturers
are without an outlet for their merchandise
the depressed state of stocks, and the uneasy
state Of the public mind, has shaken the conf.
deuce of moueyed men.