The Portland daily press., 1868-07-10
Terms $500 per- amnuns, S,. odrance.

for the Frenchman's blood,-he writes. I'VE
were right when we said some time ago. 1t ia
no longer perpetual peace which has become
chimera, it is the present peaceP'
1t is curious to watch the ferment of French
Jealousy with regard to Prussia, jealousy ex
cited by national vanity, and augmented by
Ditter newspaper articles and money specula-
tors. only a short time ago il was reported
tnat some OF the most skllful wOrkmen in the
SILK factories of Lyons and Lombaix, etc, had
been " lied away by Prussia gold, that Prussia
was stealing the secrets Of French industry !:
full details were given, to be contra 1icted O
few days after from headquarters, the factories
themselves.
By the way Admiral Farragut with several
of his officers has been visiting in Prussia at
Essen, the celebrated establishment of nj
Krepp, who has manufactured some wonder
ful destructive engines.
Last Friday, 10Th of June, about six hundred
persons availed themselves of the right of re-
union, the laws permitting the assemblage of
persons, under certain restrictions, having
been promulgated about eight days before,
Among the six hundred could be seen o few
"SNASh anu oOhlo 1H6 eCOuOmlSL,
Nj. Coignet, was there, and NJ. Massol, one of
the editors of that little sheet, Morale I.dspen-
dante, paper that attracted the attention of
Rev. Mr.. Longfellow when he was in Europe
and since then has been narrowly watched and
bitterly assailed by raving representative
men" AT this meeting only three newspapers
sent representatives; La Liberts, the principal
paper OF Lyons, and La Presse published at
vienna. No fracas or tumult occurred; bien
enteadu a government officer was present, in
case OF storm OF departure in the debates from
the authorized oI der of the day, fully prepared
to break up the assembly.
La Morale Independante Of which have inst
spoken is a weekly sheet issued for the first
time in the autumn of 1866. M. Niassol one
of the editors. was formerly professor at Mar
seille; another principal contributor is Mad
anne Coguet wife of the economist, and well
known in America for her efforts in behalf of
the Freedmen. The idea of this paper. is that
religious faith in France being extinct and
philosophical systems always eating each other
up, great moral laws must be sustained to save
nation from becoming Sodomized Cannot
this moral law they require be built on founda-
tons that neither sectarian belief, or philo-
sophical skepticism can disturb? They cut
themselves loose from all sects and preach the
law Of the conscience. When one thinks of
the vagaries of some mems consciences and
how cruelty people often act under the in
huence of what they style "their own highest
conscience" one does not feel great assurance
that the little craft of La Morale Ipdependante
viii do much for humanity until she sails in
to the harbor OF religious faith. Nevertheless
it undoubtedly is an advance on Positiv-
ism which takes such melancholy hold on
French communities. But the columns of a
newspaper are hardly the place to discuss
philosophical themes.
We have been suffering from exceptional
heat. The vegetables and the fruit have been
crying out for moisture.
This spring Paris has been overrun with de-
licious strawberries; carts in the street TEEN
with them, the green grocer's window is
adorned with baskets of them, the markest are
redolent with them in every state from crispy
freshness to dreary decomposition. On the
left side of the Seine delicious strawberries
have been offered for four cents poundl
There is vast deal of difference in the cost
OF living in Paris according to the quarter in
which you strike your tent. A modest apart
ment can be secured in the Latin quarter for
one third the cost of the same sort of apart
ment in the neighborhood of Champs Elysees.
For this reason students and persons who
come to Paris for literary or scientific pur-
poses almost always choose the Latin quarter,
where they secure the proximity of colleges,
lecture-rooms, frequent modest, cheap restau-
rants, and stand better chance for hearing
the French language than in what are called
the American and English quarters. Servants,
too, in the Latin quarter are apt to be a little
less exacting and TO be more simple in their
habits, but this matter of service is curious
affair on the continent and one of these days
shall tell the readers Of the Press some bellies
histories connected with this branch of human
lfe
A good many of the Americans in Paris are
waiting over the Fourth hoping to get bette
chance than they had last year to air their
Star-Spangled Banner emotions.
Last Fourth of july some Americans
thought it proper to tie Grape ON the standard.
of the "Flag of the Free" because of Maximili-
ans death; "other some" cried out that they
did not see the thing in that light and even re-
marked, that in case no national jubilation was
to be had on F-ench soil they would like
again to see the color of their twenty francs
which they had paid for a ticket to the festival
To this remonstiance and what the French
call reclamation for all redress, they got bit
of chicken and moral homily on the judi
cious way to behave on foreign SOIL Being
convinced against their will they were of the
same opinion still. WANDERER.