New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-06

NoW every body Knows that II Prince Napoleon were
10 challenge the Dukc dAumalc tle challenge NOui"
be accepted; but nobody believes ,lat Prhce NaPo'
leon viii challenge the Duke d'Auma'eIhehce .he
popular Ergo which for the rest IL based back 10 inc
Crimeaa war. and Prince Dyison-Gen. Napoeons
and bowel complaints there-ergo,
the Prince il Q. Z. ID. Nobody with money
enough to buy substitute is forced to be solder
" Mas, pOge. coaS, Monsieur, French prince who
is ,oify0n ! S6cre nom de -, &c nest pas fran
eeis ca Z" So said TO me a shOp-keeping Parslan
burceos of my acquaintance ten days after the pub
LEGATION of the pamphlet-a thOrOugi-gong Ma
pole0nist fr the rest and a mere shop-keeper now
though in the time he carried musket into thlck
fight and would shoulder il tomorrow if needs must.
He is not singular, he is moi representative oil q
party be is the representative Of the nation.
After ali it is possible that Plon PlOn is physl-
cally brave man; but defy you TO find three
Trencbmcn who think so. The soldiers IN me
Crmea, testing with characteristic vivaclly IN the
midst of death, posted in the trenches a nouce OF
a Handsome reward to any one who would as
- cover Prince Napoleon in the trenches"
Where is the truth and where the falsity OF inc
numberess stories and Of the variations on lleln
now in popular circulation, cannot say Du. sei'i'
pies of them are worth citing as elninentiy charac-
trrstic if not true: Sc non fefo OeR uoe"'O'
saws the Italian prOycrb.
That D'Aumale communicated the manuscript OF
his letter 10 the Prince three weeks before puphca-
ton was currently reported and has been ofiicaig
denied; that DAumalc let the Prince kno" mat lie
DAumale) was lat the orders OF the lnnce
anywhere on Swiss or other neutral ground; tnat
the Prince was told by the Emperor that nothing
was left for him but TO fight; that the Prince had
demanded the EmpcrOr's permission to night, ana
has been refused, and 50 on ANA 80 or. The uni
versal resultant comment upon all OF which is that
the Prince viii not fight. lt is furthermore SAID
that the Prince requested tie Emperor 10 leu the
publication Of DAmalc's pamphlet be free: that
he requested that the seizure should not he followed
by persecution before the tribunals OF publisher ana
printer; that the Emperor refused these demands;
that the Prince, aided by clever and scrviceable
fellows, has prepared a response to DAumae's
letter into which he has raked, Ont Of the public
Libraries ont q, the more or less imperfect records oil
the death of the Prince of Condo, and OF all that
darb affair of Madame Feuchtrcs, an enormous
mass Of dit 10 throw at past and living members 0i
the Orleans family; that this response Is 90 be pup
lished 10 lust SO great number OF copies as ID Al
males lctterarycG at before seizure; that etc., ETC.
II promises to be q sort of " skunk and rattle
snake fight " ~ which your correspondent, as spec
tator aud reporter, VIII take lively interest with
out the slightest pr0yocatOn To- take sides
But how came such n pamphlet as Tins oil
D'Aumales 10 get printed ard published IN France,
under the regime Of laws on the Press, when, ac-
cordine TO your own correspondent, are oppressive
supprcssyC and oppressive 10 the last degree severe
and iniqutous asks the general reader OF The
well-iDlo1ued TRIBUNE. al, my dear General the
laws being lust as me TRIBUNE : Own has stated,
OPP, re and suppressive to the last degree, aud
having behind the letter n thoroughly organized
IeyfIr.hicaI admin strative fprce-intcrlinked from
lowest nclcemin 10 supreme departmental project
TO practically execute them, here is Just " the
hmnor Of it..
and so We come to the manner and extent Of the
publication Of his pamphlet, Published according
- to the laws of the country ~ spite Ol, against
over and through ihe laws. Understand that, to
baein with no one can print without Government
license for printing: DO one can publish without
such license: pamphlets, previous 20 printing, must
be submitted 10 The local preiectOral authority TO
receive their mprim0tUr. Now, observe that out
1t st. German, small town ten or fifteen miles
from Paris there is licensed printer; observe that
immediately aud IN obscure remocness behind this
worthy man are persons who secure him against
al pecunaTv loss by fire or otherwise, and mdem-
nifty him for all suffering by imprisOnnent' Print
" this and here is 100 900 francs, say TO cover eX-
I .penses and rsas." But the prelectoral imPrimG-
. mr. Exactly If. Y. presents a Ms. 10 the pre-
iectoTal guardian o The political purity Of the press,
the tile of which il "a Letter on the History Of
Fnnce"--a sort of general dissertation, you see,
ON French History for the nee Of schools and the
uninstructed public Not worth the bother Of read
ing through in MS, certainly not TO be printed, Of
course. And so il got printed then folded and
stitched to great number Of thousands, somewhere
about Thursday or FRIDAY last Now, ST. Gcrmain
connects by railroad direct with Paris, and Paris
connects direct by railroad with nearly every city,
large town ard even important village OF France.
All the packages being now made up and addressed,
package containing three thousand was thrown
into Paris on Saturday and numerous other smaller
packages were running to al points of France con-
temp0rancOusly. DmuncIay, publisher, who IL
paid iOr running the risk, published the pamphlet as
/ said about noon. \ number or two of it reached
the Place de la BOurse presently after and read
aloud 10 compact circle of listeners the steps
Of the Exchange there. Within an hour thereafter
Monsieur lumncray and his clerk were hard pat TO
il 10 tell their right Land from their left, so con-
ioundedly busy were both in handing pamphlets
and taking In francs over the counter. About five
O'Clock, the solemn Government official who knows
the way 10 NJ. Dinninerays shop, came aud seized
there three OF four residuary copies.
But This was only the beginning Of it. circulation
Let len ont of twenty instances, that have come
without my seeking, to my knowledge, illustrate
the case Monday evening / dned, as usual, with
Herr X, a Galliczed German. On rising
from the table, he told me hc shOuld dine at the
restaurant the morrow, being invited to dinner
end sequent numerous sOree IL one OF his friends.
On Tuesday evening he came in, oil the game but
in a brcsfhlcss hurry. He had spent five francs
and an hour aud half in running post remise haste
t0 IA distant quarter Of the town, 10 the apartment
OF a friend who was the lucky pOSScss0r OF copy OF
the Letter tu borrow il OF HIM. Too late for the for
nal dinner at his other friends he stopped TO take
bite, but nust BE- of again to reach that friend and
his company of hiyty persons, who we're specially
assembled 10 listen TO the reading Oh the Letter.
The reading was an immense success, SO Herr
\. told me ON "wednesday. Here is the other Illus