New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-16
LIFE IN PARIS.


dismal account Of tie spiritual lie # Frenonmen to.
day RI. gays that there il Low rs great an emgra-
ton to Germany IL search Of freedo n to think and
spesk. as there as from Gle many in 1880 and 1913
M.ns in Paris at the present tune, either the victim
Of DO ice surveillance or Of housekeeping. The
newspapersare mere adjurtsc to the police. II an
editor makes clip OF the pen--for original thought
has long since been utterly forbiddenhe is reminded
of bis duty Iext morn Ing b. comma.,que OF warned
BY an avrtssement to make slips OF tue pen,
on pain of Cayenne AID Mazas. On the on'iers, the
Dol ce prot, ct the country from foreign ideas, Near
every posted con mapd Of the Emperor stsods aspy,
to see that all the passrrs-by have sober faces when
they read the imperial literature. 10 the picture GAL
leries where the pictures Of the Frerch commander
hang eveJywherr, mouchards watch to see that his
bat il properly saluted Tells are now only mytho.
logic Al figures in France. Woe TO him Who shrugs bis
shoulders he reals the imperial literature oa the
corners Of the streets who he passes tho
picture Of the Emperor from that moment bis every
step is watched and if his sbrugs and sneers find
| words, he suddenly disappears
We were sitting in the sad circle Of Q good family,
speaking Of tie rotten peace" and the good people
| were speaking louder aud faster than usasl Tae
careful mother and shut the wndow-for the
walls opposite ard the windows above and below US
might have ears
In the streets spies strut by the thousand with and
without uniform. They walk about as if they heard
nothing, drink a, this or that bar, and wink at the
bar.keeper who is their accom- plice. You get into
rail.car or gu omnibus the conductors are spies;
courier takes letter to the post for you, and the
Government knows who you are, and to whom you
ae writing You take season ticket on q rs'lroa,,
the police must know where you live IN city aud
country, what you are doing, and Who you are in
company with. Thu Government takes charge Of
your whole being, what you do and suffer, what
you eat ana drink, what you hear and sss, what
GU read, and what is acted and sung before you it
takes away your spoLtaneity and gives you 10 re-
tuIn wideneo streets and bsauted city battles, and
renown at rencsfor this is the cost OF the Italian
Campaign to Frenchmen per head-and many feel thst
they ale well paid when they go out through the
Avenue de Plmperarrcs to the Bos de Boulogne
What stone and wood aud water and air and h)~ers
and shrubs and trees and architecture csRdo without
arc tat the Government offers to thefe6pe in these
| colossal thea,erdecorated streets an broad and
rectlinesr that there is room for six csnnons To
sweep them in OF need-thst is the imperial style
| of architecture.
And the watcbfuness Of the police extends even TO
| London and to the German wateriogplaccs Genial
Neighbours al toOto you " toi0 o"V"s D"o"-
parte on every steamer from Brighton to Diepp, or
from Dover to Calais Bouogne, is the omnipresent
| police il the shape Of an exquisite Russao jah
come from Siberia 1t IL thoussnd-,hrelded let in
which every idea spd thought must be caught. IL
only an ind vdual subjected to 1t nov and then,
it would be epdurable, but that the entire French
nation should suffer from it is great misfortune to
| the whole world.
Co aim
care for nothing else The Frenchmsn has remaining
Of his esprit only the esprit de useaage. If hitherto
they have lot been family men, now they are nothing
else. DULY in the most intimate circle Of the family
can en- read and speak as he will.
| The vorkingmans street.-the is at an end. For
the mot ordinary expressions Of French yiyaci.y the
police are upon him. and rect fights unheard Of in
Paris Tn. prohibition Of street-~aking to prostitutes
in mott Of the streets has mate rally essened the vice.
but has forced many of these women into commerce
with q single The very minute division OF labor
has not reduced cifizzns into prolearsns, but has
made Of citizens Of the most inspd and
indoent stamp. In all departments Of society men
are degraded into housekeeping animals, with which
servicesble beasts the Emperor do just wha! be
plesses.
But 10 Germany msn can think aloud; everywhere
speech il free ard untremmeled; there is sign
Of q spy. But in Ger many, a. 10 Paris, the nsus
which is in tie thought Of al is - Bonsparte." the
Republicans in Paris speak it with rage and with
curses the people the country With strange aston
i.tmsrt To them the Emperor is al god. Innocent
Germany is stricken speechless at the spectacle Of
,uch boupdless bss~ness. Were Germany fifty per
cent lees refined vrtuous would unite with all
those whose n,sres, it is TO free the earth of tai,
monster; bat, it is, che prefers cri,lcsing and
pbilosopbizrg sbou, the unity Of Germany, and
allowing bsrsef to b di.menbered, to throwing away
Law and philosophy for two months and helping her.
self.