Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-03-28

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, liamentary government, perhaps, wit
nominal responsibility Of ministers; 0
an abolition Of the regime Of warning
for the press, leaving it 10 the civil tribu
mails Of the country; or the app0iu.men
. of mayors always from among the electe'
municipal councils-something Of thi
sort, il Is said, would be a step forwar,
/, in the way Of progress 10 liberty. I an
not so sure about that; and if / were
Frenchman. should adhere 10 the party
of the " sileut-conteuted.' '
In the meantime this horrible tyran
Emperor is busy every day correcting
the proofs Of the second volume Of hu
history of Julius Cesar II was expected
to come out about the end Of this month
but the vexed question Of Alesia remains
still 10 besettIed: and the publication is de
laved until that can be definitely settled
/ This second volume deals with Caesar in
GauI. and is Co be enriched with thirty
maps of the various provinces Of Gaul,
prepared under the immediate direction
Of the Emperor himself. Now, every
( student Of Caesar must remember that
the most decisive struggle Of that age be-
. tween Roman civilization and Celtic
/ perhaps the most moment0us battlefield
! Of any century or any nati0n-Was at a
J place called Alesia, where Caesar attacked
and besieged strong works held by the
/ Auvergnathero Nercingetorix, and where
/ the Roman army was itself surrounded
/ bv 10000 men of the cOnfederated tribes
Of the Gauis, banded together for one
/ grand and supreme effort 10 crush the
J Roman. The staUggie was long and
deadly for there were no artillery dueis,
/ nor masked batteries in those days, nei-
/ ther did men " shell the woods, but hand
/ 10 hand the veteran mail-clad Roman,
with hisjavelin and his short doubie-edged
gIadius. encountered Aedin and Arverni,
not sheathed in steel, indeed, but
4 armed with the long, straight, Caulish
sword, which Is preserved 60 this day IN
: the straight sabre of the French cavalry.
I And the fate of the day was long doubt
/ ful: often the standard of Rome, with
its proud = P. Q. r., reeled, and wavered
and sunk before the rushing charge Of
the C0ufederatcs, and without Lieut.
Z Gen. La5ienus l. would have Jared i'll
that day with Cesar and his fortune. At
last the Gauls gave way, and abandoned
the field strewn with their dead, and
glittering with many q collar and cbainof
gold fit for the necbs Of kings. In the
meantime NerciDgeU0riX was shut up in
side the works with the smaller portion
Of the Celtic army. After the defeat Of
his friends outside, he surrendered him
self and the place on the condition that
be alone should be held q prisoner, and
that all his army should go free. The
hero Of Auvergue was sent TO q Roman
fortress. where he languished a year
and not dying so soon as was expected,
he was killed in prison. The Romans
never f0rgave a man who defended his
country against them.
1.-THE battle Of Alesia had gone the
other way, the history Of the modern
world would have been very different
Of course in the Emper0r's work special
attention Is bestowed upon this great
event. But, singular 10 say, although
Julius Caesar has miuUtely related iJ, and
although he IS generally clear and pre-
else in his tOpOgraphyCf the GaUlish war,
vet no man can at this day tell, within
hundred miles, lChCrs i |esiu ,HGS. For
long while it was supposed to be where
nov stands the village Of Alise, in Bur
gundy, upon a high, bare mOorland
country almost at the source Of the Seine,
OF one Of its upper tributaries, The I'M
perial historian was himself at one time
Of this mind, and some four years ago, 1
remember, be had severa! scores Of work
men digging about certain old mOats and
banks which exist on the moor, turning
Hp fragments Of pottery and ancient
arms, and himself several times examined
the place, 10 make sure Of the positions Of
the contending forces. Some time after,
however, some bold explorer showed that
10 was more probable, judging both from
Csesar's description, and from the
known object of Caesars march in
that campaign, that Alesia was at
point upon the western slopes Of the
Jura in Fr0HchG CgHits. For
time, this theory seemed 70 he the sc-
ceptcd one but about two months ago, a
learned gentleman proved that the grand
battle field was at the junction of the
Rh0Be with the Guier, and was IN fact
within the territory Of Savoy. Now no
two places could possibly be more unlike
TO one another than AliSe In Burgundy
and the spot now pointed out As the field
Of Alesia. the one is on a bare undulatiug
mO0rland, with only few tiny stream
lets stealing from the hills 10 make be-
ginning Of the young Seine; the other is
where the furious and potent river RhOne, (
whirling along between high cliffs, is /
met by the foaming Guer, that has torn its I
way through another profound raviue. !
Caesar indeed was not 50 minute in local {
description as Napier OF Thiers; yet it Z
seems strange that be should leave such .
au account Of any place as to justify "a /
doubt whether be meant one or the other T.
of two such localities. At any rate, the I
Emperor Is conscientl0Usiv studying this I
point, while the Legislative Chambers |
is eagerly crying out for little more /
liberty.
The Emperor probably thinks that viii /
all blow over and pass away, but that I
Cesar and Csesarism are eternal
The Young Prince Imperial, 1t seems, I
viii be eleven years Old on the 18th Of I
.his month, and some of the lmperislist 4
papers, being affected by 50 touching .
are giving interesting an 4
scdotes of the dear child, who, beside, is /
just recovering from the measles. Some
OF his recorded bon HiOts remind one OF /
the witticisms which Spanish newspa-
pers, according 10 Goldsmith attrioulcd 4
90 the Duke Of Lerna. For example
the little Prince was WITH his father last
summer al a review, and on Che occasion
Of charge Of five thousand cavalry "
toayl he showed some signs OF nervous
ness. Don't be afraid, man e5ydu, "
said his father "I brought Won 10 the
review TO amuse yea So aud 10 instruct
There Is 20 oe, as usual promotions In The
Legion Of Honor on h.s birthday.
Representatives, Of the chief European
Powers including Russia and Turkey,
are 70 meet shortly ip this city % take
some ORDER about Boumania, that is
Moldo-N -Nalachia. Never poteutate fen
more easily than COwza, with So little
sympathy from anybody, and 90 litle
change in the country he governed. I
When he and the Princess drove the
other day out Of Bucharest, each with a |
cigar iu his apd her mouth, and crossed
the frontier into 1ransylyania, il mi5hf
have been said, almost ip tie words of 4
famous mot: There is nothing changed
.n RoGmania-there is only one Moldo-
Nalaque the lsss."
or all events external to France, how
ever, at this moment, the one With which
people occupy themselves most, is Presi-
dent Johns0n's 5 veto 20 the freedmen's
Bureau bill, and his speech 'afterward at
the White House. Almost the whole
French press applauds the veto, even
those who were most favorable TO the
50 radicals and the very Nccls and
AgeHir National remark with pleasure
that the public sentiment or the United I
States seems 10 sustain Mr.. Johnson on
this occasion. But the Opinion N0tiOnQle
viii not abandon its heroes, Sum
Der, Stevens and Phillips-for these
individual. incredible as il may
seem, are really heroes 10 some
people. So the QpHioa loudly denoun-
1es the "retrograde policy Of the Presi-
dent p and continues thus "The Steele
ieceives itself entirely in asserting that
Nh. Johnson has almost universal ap-
,roval and says that spontaneous ap-
3Iause was heard from all the galleries 4
whom The veto was announced showing
maj the majcrlty OF two-thirds neces-
5ary 10 overcome the veto had not been I
obtained. III was Kisses and not applause 4
which greeted that announcement, and !
hisses 81 persistant that Is vas found 4
needful TO clear the galleries All the 4
-rue patriots, far from grouping them-
selves around the President summed {
him: and the liberal journals have
severely CONDEMNED his conduct
so proceeds The QpiHi0R for about
column and q half And, IN fact, if Ste
vens and sumner had got a law passed
through both Houses to hang every
who fought IN the war, and
10 eondscate bis property ana al bis !