Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-12-19
The French SPY SystcHt.

The politician police of Paris consists
Of $40 agents, from all countries and o.
both sexes. Many of then are Corsicans,
the inhabitants of the little isle develop
ing q remarkable talent for intriguing
in lolitics. The cordial hatred which
every Partisan chcrshes for this profess
sion makes it rather necessary that
foreigners shOLld be encouraged to enter
into 1T. Their chief is the Count de l..
Grange, who himself is subject to the
orders of Pictre, Il willy, gracious and
treacherous man of the world, OF course,
of immense value TO the maintenance OF
any empire. Members OF the RPS arc
disseminated as thoroughly over the
globes lace as the Jesuits used to be, and
are as minute and faithful in Their re-
ports. They send in at regular inter
walls accounts of tn opinions and uOings
OF political refugees, and o. diplomas,
north, sou h. east and west. In Pdr.s
no quur.et is without at least Il dozen Il.
all hours of the day an night, ana
under The g Use o. friendship, they often
TO dece We and have him arrested if ne
cessaly to Their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, or
the governments -ancie1 security.
-Four o'clock III the morning is tae pO-
pular hour with these gentlemen for
.heir calls. They open your bed cur
tains, Command you to put Oh your
c.OUucs an go with them, aud you may
nave been locked up month before you
know that you were arrested fJr some
trivial remark Ill store or hotel. The
pay OF the slUaltern5 Is 81 ))m )lJhly in
aoid, either i'll France or abroad. When
the emperor has decided u on leaving
for any point outside of Pans or his en-
pirc, Il uumb + of tnes1 a gents are sent
ahead to manufacture Op.niOn, and to
pre- are the way for demonstrations Of
en- nus asm. Iu such cases, all their cX
ira expenses are paid by the govern
ment. so it is no wonder that all G
items of one OF Napoeon's journeys foot
up round sum.
About fifty of these mOuchards are
stationed ut New York and Was ington
and some OF them have access to the be It
houses in the metropolis and the capital
lhe COrsicans are soi-disant italian mu-
sic teachers or linguistic professors. And
these intrude for their thievish purposes
almost everywhere they wish. They
usually have II wife in almost every city
they have inhabited, and are as ire
deenlably vicious rs men can be. Now
and thea one has entered the business
after -Ong course of crime ia his own
country. France is the European re-
huge for all such rubbish, and turns it to
tne best account.
When the Paris exhibition opened in
1867, about a dozen of these mOuchards
We're recalled fiOm New York to watch
the Americansi in the French capt. Land
TO sometimes kindly warn tn IN if they
expressed too loudly their opinions.
Napoleon did not fancy arrestin many
American sovelelgns. But the poor
eiot (, nt' Innl cd nj 4
hardly the slightest provocation. TO
praise Bismark even, or malign the
treach reputation for military bearing,
was TO introduce ones self to Gallo
mOuchard. One Prussian who cOu. ID not
speak word Of French was locked up
Tor several days, simply because he jOsJ-
led Il French army officer who would not
move OIt OF his way. He co. Id get no
| interpreters near him to make an eX-
PLANTATION, an his case seemed hopeless,
Until he? as at last brought before court
and dismissed, because " he was so stu
pld rs not to speak French"
During one IT the visits Of the EN-
peror to the eXhio ,tioh, an agent of Il
foreign firm had occasion to eXh. bit to
Napoleon, through the chief of the poll
&c dc surete, Nj. Elroy, a Remington
shot cane. ~ few days later the few
Were bought by NJ. Pietri, an one OF
HIS special agents asked the foreigner 20
order one hundred and siXly-iiv- OF
them, with which to arm the Empe-
ror's civilian corps AS those arms, as
well as smI pocket pistols, are proni-
pired to enter France, the for ,ign
agen. inquired ii the spec4a had an
order to allow the arms To enter Paris.
HeeXhib.t I'd IL police Carl, and sal they
should enter irae OF duty. But when
! they c, me To the custom house they
Were selzed there, conf Cat I'd, and the
unlucky foreigner was fined, and paid Il
large sum Tor breaking the customs laws
besides losing the cost OF the canes, five
hun Ifed dollars. lac conriscltlol was
doubtless u ciev .rdJJge OF NJ. Pietri's to
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