The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-19
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Excitement I'm France.

all other noises The sudden change in af-
fairs announced on Thursday last threw the
whole military world into confusion, and
I since then Paris is like besieged town. 1t
! Is beyond all doubt that the Emperor was
not prepared for SO sudden change of face
/ in Austria; but, happily, the two great
southern lines of railway enable him TO
throw his soldiers as rapidly as is required
/ to the seat of war, and thus what would
have been fifteen years ago dangerous sur
prise is now not dangerous at all. Never
! theless great activity was required, and this
has produced more or less confusion.
On Wednesday a majority of the French
! people were against the war; on Thursday
a majority were for it; TO day the whole ma
ton is willing to 60 to war, and after the
first bal lie is fought they will be enthusias-
tic for il; and if Austria is not beaten to the
gates of Vienna it will be because the entire
and united French nation cannot do it, The
French people, engaged as they are, even
down to domestics, in stock speculations,
have watched the progress OF the peace ne
| gotiations attentively, and it is evident to
every one that the Emperor has acted hon
orably and Loyalty as well toward his own
people as toward foreign governments, while
the conduct Of Austria can only be charac-
| teriZed as false and treacherous. The prin-
| ciple pre-occupation Of the French nation
| 10 day is, not the conduct of their Emperor,
| for on that point they are satisfied, but how
! best to chastise Immediately and energeti-
cally the insolenceand the hypocrisy of Aus
tria.
The excitement in Paris on Thursday
evening, when the news Of Austria's refusal
became generally known, was very great.
| The evening papers, which sell ordinarily at
I three sous, were scrambled for at eight sous
The circulation of the Patrie, evening min
isterial paper, suddenly ran up from twenty
FIVE to thirty thousand. Groups formed on the
| streets around each individual fortunate
enough to obtain an early copy, and, in the
excitement of the moment forgot that they
were not all acquaintance. People who
were subscribers to journals only got sight
at them after they had passed through the
hands OF their concierge, and his friends, the
domesticS of the house.
The soldiers who were ordered to leave
for Italy were given perfect liberty for the
short space of time that interviewed before
their departure, and the result may be easily
imagined. The town was full of drunken
soldiers, who took at once ua petit air de
conquerant, and went reeling through the
streets, shouting " Vtpe Itate r. Vivs
I EmpereH r II is hardly necessary to
state that they generally had their sweet
hearts on their arms, and that when the
hour Of parting came, the demonstrations of
French ecstacies were lively and affecting.
The station of the Lyons railway, from
which the soldiers starr, is the scene, from
morning to night, of perpetual ovation.-
In the evening, when the workmen are re-
leased from their shops, the crowd at the
station is numbered by thousands, and, as
the regiments arrive to take their places in
the long trains, the shouts, the yells, the
sobs of parting friends, make up scene Of
confusion quite unusual in this well regu-
lated city. As the trains 60 off the shril
trumpets of the band sound the charge. and
the soldiers shout in chorus: I" In dUant pour
I Italyi ViUe EmpcreurP'
So many railroads converge at Paris, that
from three-fourths of the Empire soldiers
can arrive soonest at the seat of war by
passing through the capital. Thus we can
form some idea of the number of men detail
ed for active sersice, and judging from these
imperfect data, it would seem that Napoleon
intends to make short work of it, for the
stream of soldiers through the city is con-
tinual, and yet the number of men on or
within the frontiers Of Italy must be more
than one hundred thousand. Within the
last half hour, three regiments of 5000 men
each have passed my window, on their way
from the Western Railway station to that of
Lyons on the other side of the town. The
bands were playing "Pdrtdnt pour Ia Syrie;'
the soldiers had their knapsacks and can
teens on their backs, and over these were
strapped their tent sticks, on end of which
they had placed the national flag They
were all in high spirits and were followed
and cheered by crowds of people. Many Of
fcers and soldiers had brothers, sisters, or
other relatives, who had waited to catch a
last adeu as they passed through the city,
walking by their sides from one railway
station to the other. Ii was only thus that
a parting could take place.
Several regiments of the Imperial Guard
left yesterday, and as each regiment stopped
at the Tuileries to receive its flag (all the
flags of the Guard are kept at the palace
when the regiments are not on duty, the
, Emperor, Empress, and Imperial Prince
came out to salute them. The Emperor
shook hands with the Colonels, babe them
,, God speed, and assured them that he would
soon join them on the plains of Italy. A
+, touching incident occurred on Saturday, as
one of the regiments of the Guard approach.