The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-06

tV'C SentuTleS.
Monsieur About and the Pamphleteers'
Under the Empire of Louis NAPOLEON
new department has been added to the gov
ernment-a corps OF pamphleteers, who &C.
cupy the position and perform the duties Of
pioneers in the grand march of Peace, or Of
the Empire, which LOUIS NAPOLEON says is
the same thing. The Emperor himself is the
chief of this corps-a post for which he is bet
ter fitted by nature and education than for
That of Generalssimo of the forces, which he
occupied without much detriment to the Aus
Trians in Italy. Second in command of the
corps of pamphleteers is Monsieur +. ABOUT,
an active and brilliant little Frenchman, who
seems TO be all pen and pencil, and who is al
WAYS about, making surveys of the continent
of Europe, popping in, in the most unexpected
manner, at the front doors of princes and po-
tentates, and very Ieisurely unpacking his in
struments, and coolly surveying and measur-
ing off the country, with view of rectitying
the complicated ZigZags and strengthening
the fantastic lines, which give such stray
CLING AID confused appearance to the bound
aries of European Empires.
AS soon as he has made these surveys, it is
the custom of Monsieur ABOUT to publish a
pamphlet and map, the frs: of which shows
that nothing can be done for the Interests of
European geography whilst Kingdoms and
duchies are twisted in and out in such tor
tuous and unmeaning manner, and the last
displays the continent with a new clear face
beautiful in unity and strong in consolida-
sion, whilst the frontiers Of la belle France are
slightly advanced in order TO round off the
harmony Of its huge proportions. 1t is but
few mon tbs since M. ABOUT deprived the Pope
of all his poral possessions, except the city
of Rome. We are not sure that he allows his
holiness any real estate but the house he oc-
cupies and the grounds attached. Whether
the pen is mightier than the sword or not, is a
mooted question; but it is welded more
easily, and in the haTds Of a French imperial
pamphleteer, it raises up and puts down pow
ers and potentates With as great ease as palaces
are built aud destroyed in the Arabian Nights,
just by rubbing the finger against magic
lamp. In the French staff of ready writers
the per and the sword travel in companythe
former a little ahead, citing as the pilot fish
to the shark.
The "Monsieur ToNsoN'' of the French
r,amphleteers has lately come ont in another
pamphlet, "La Praise en- 1861" in which he
utters most discoEsolate lamen tations over
the divisions of Germany. He speaks of "the
swarm of petty Princes, who buy aud sell
their subjects as they would their fiocks,'' and
talks about Germany as "a depiorable multi
tude of governments" The geography of the
country is absurd. Suppose Ohio to run into
the centre of Virginia, and thea to be itself
divided by Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan ;
suppose Massachusetts and Connectlcut to
stretch westward between New York and
Albany; suppose the boundary of each Stale
of the Union to look as if it We're laid out by
an eel, we have some faint idea of the involu-
tions and CT ookednesses which the single
minded Monsieur ABOUT desires to disentan-
gle, to simplify aud consolidate. There is
quite a number Of these German principal
ties which man might gallop over in a morn
ings ride before breakfast, each Of them gov
erned by a magnificent German potentate
with pedigree dating long before ADAM, and
a name almost as long as his pedigree. Now,
it is evident, that ii Prussia would embrace
annex, or, what is a better word, absorb the
duchies of Muhlenburg, Schwerin and Sire
litz Hanover, Oldenburg and Bruins wick, the
petty States comprised under the general head
of SAKE, with the Hesses and Nassau, there
would then be a very great compact and pow
erful German kingdom, which could easily
give mp certain Rhenish provinces to France
Such is the feasible and admirable plan of
German unity, propounded by NJ. ABOUT, and
which was followed by the famous meeting o.
the French Emperor and the Prince Regent of
Prussia, at Baden. But the Prince Regent
was alarmed and although he metNAPoLEoN
he took care TO invite the little German Prin-
cipalities and Powers to be present, and each
one Of the majestic Tom THUMBS took care to
accept tine invitation--so that the party, which
was intended to consist of only two, was
quite multitudinous affair and very happy
and harmonious, it is said, this assembly Of
honest gentlemen was. They had an elegan
breakfast and grand dinner, and the wonder
tul old genealoges. with ten miles square of
territory, graciously condescended to hobnob
with the new man, whose dynasty is not three
score aud ten years old, and whose empire
could swallow up the whole congeries of pet.
~ States in Germany, as an anaconda could
absorb string Of Bolo gne sausages without
feeling that 1t had broken its fast. The En-.
ropean journals assure us that 1t was a most
delightful family party, and that the peace of
Europe is now assured. In the romance Of
Martin Caszzls~it, if the reader has time to
look 1t up, he will find just such another
gathering OF dear friends in the neighborhood
of a rich relative, near his last moments. each
of them overrunning with sweetness and sin.
certify, and all of Them in their secret hearts
ready to scratch each others eyes ont. The
French organs hope that, after the assurances
Louis NAPOLEON has now given, no one will
be wicked enough 70 question the disint erest.
edness OF his views. Certainly not, of course,
the Empire is Peace, and Louis NAPOLEON its
Apostle. such musical, engaging, robin
rsdbreast OF pacific, innocent. gay-hearted
or att.ra k.nf.
nest. IF ever man combined within hlmss,f
all the mild qualities Of the lamb with con.
siderable touch Of the dove, and not a dash OF
tue crocodile. or the least possible suggestion
II Is LOUIS NAPols)N
ID We regret that We could MT accep, the