Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-24
Interesting from FFaBce-COIoneI Free
mOnpa Arms-The Confederate Arms.

Interesting from FraBce-COIoneI Free
mOnrs Arms-The Confederate Arms.
A Paris correspondent of the New York
Times, writing under date of June 5, says
Colonel Fremont, who is going 10 take
home with him arms ammunition and ac-
couterments complete for ten thousand men,
is still detained by this negotiation. But
seeing the length Of time it requires to
equip men for the field at home, he feels that
he can prepare here for war more rapidly
than at homt. His contract reaches $780,
600 The first purchase be made reached
$4,000 and what is curious, they were
rifles, (Enheld) 6ombs, percussion caps and
other articles, belonging to the Pope. They
had been prepared on contract for the PapaI
army but on account of the defeat of Laino-
Tieiere, had never been delivered, nor, |
believe, paid for am now told, that If
the American Government will make di-
rect demand on the French Government,
through the American Minister here, for
aims from the French manufactures, it will
be granted
The greatest arm of modern warfare is the
smell rifed heid piece (sx and twelve
pounders) of the French army, mounted in
large proportion as Il 5ng artillery. 1t was
these that did most IN deciding the battles,
in the late Italian cam Raign, in favor of the
French; and they MIST decide any field
battle in favor Of th1 side that has most of
them. The Cover Lent ought, by all
meaDs, to ask the permission of the French
Government 10 buy from its shops hum
dIed of these guns-ffty for the Eastern,
and fifty for the Western Division of the
army.
A Colonel Henderson is the Sgent Of the
rebels in London for the purchase Of arms.
His bankers, Messrs. Peabody &fMorgan,
have, ! am told already paid out large sums
NJ mn N rnu nfa
There remains q small knot of Secessionsts
in Paris, OF whom Mr.. Thomas Butler King
and Ex.Consul Beverly Tucker are the most
prominent.
Mr.. Faulkner is travelling in England and
Scotland sight seeing.
/ The French papers have got hold of Judge
Rests name (Which they spell Prost how
ever) and they make this gentleman travel
about 10 all points of the compass, when, in
fact, he is resting quietly with his colleagues
| at the Westminster Hotel, at London. he
has made one voyage, however, to Paris and
back.
An aged Commodore of the United States
Navy, and Naval Captain have just arrived
here from Washington, on their way to
China, to take the China fleet out of the
hands of a Commodore, whose fidelity TO the
Stars and Stripes is suspected, and bring it
home. The mission is a secret one but by
the time this notice returns to Europe it can
do no harm, as the officers go by the English
Overland Mail route, and will soon be out Of
the way Of telegraphs.
Messrs. Fogg and Harvey, Ministers to
Switzerland and Portugal, have arrived at
Paris, ard are stopping for a week at the
Hotel du Louvre, before proceeding TO their
posts.
A gentleman informs me that he heard a
prayer by Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon, in his church
in London, on Sunday evening last, in favor
of President Lincoln and the cause of the
North, which he characterizes as the most
beautiful and powerful prayer he ever heard
in his life. The whole audience was moved
to tears and even sobbed aloud at the elo-
quent preachers appeals TO God and TO civ
ilized mankind in aid of so holy and so right
eous cause as that in which the North is
engaged.
Mr. Russelps first letter to the London
Times, since his return to New York from
the South, has thrown a wet cloth over the
spirits of the friends--the very few friends,
| ought to say-of jeff. Davis in England
| and France for, as drowning men cling to
stIaws, Mr.. Russells faint praise of the
South, while he remained there, sufficed for
the gentlemen above referred to, TO class him
among their friends.
| am informed. on good authority, that
two of Mr.. Russells first letters from the
| South were suppressed by the Times, because
| they were too much in favor OF the North
| it is a wonder they published this last one.
The Paris Honitear refers TO the irritation
| produced at London by the strange Lam
| guage" uttered at the Hotel du Louvre meet
| ing by certain American diplomats. But the
same article shows us that in the French
Ministry of the Interior (where the Aonitsur
is edited they perceive as well as any body
the fright which England is taking at the
threat that the tri color of France and the
stars and stripes of the United States may
| perhaps once more be allied against the
Union.jsok of England. The tone Of the
English Government and journals within
the last few days toward us is regarded here
as a regular break down.