The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-03-26
Correspondence Of the Gate City.
PANS. March 3. 1861

Correspondence Of the Gate City.
PARIS, March 3, 1868.
If appearances were to be trusted, the
state Of France at the present moment, re
yeals peace abroad, and no dissatisfaction at
home. The journals would appear, for the
last month at least, to confne this serenity.
and The conversations OF the clubs, cafes
and salons, to support it. As elsewhere,
Paris dances on q volcano. The want OF
bread is felt severely throughout the country;
the agricultural population abandons its fields
for the town, where industry is at a stand
still, declining, and financial mat
tiers nearly at a dead lock, while the caves of
the Bank are full 0 that money which ought
to find its way into the business channels of
the country. In utter silence the nation has
submitted TO the new army bill, which al
most goes to make every man an active SOL
dier-for The lesson Of Sadowa, had made
the Emperor a convert TO the doctrine, that
q large peace army constitutes q country's
real strength and greatness, and not success
full industry and prosperous trade. There
are lev questions of European importance.
th.t France has not in them, an object to pro-
mote or an interest to guard. Her relations
with Russia are daily becoming colder, as tina,
poset urges on the Instruction in Crete, or
fosters discomfort in Bulgaria. With Prussia
she would desireso live in amity, at all events
fer the moment, until the crisis
in Italy shall be terminated and
the Turkish Empire galvanized for an
other ten years existence. France looked
on With helpless astonishmens at the unifca.
tion Of Northern Germany, and she mus, re-
gard with no small delight the growing resis-
lance that Bismark meets with IN tue petty
States which he has inco rporatei. Ihe
French are always on the point Of leaving
Rome, but somehow get no further than CT
vita Yecchia, and then, back to the Eternal
City. The fac. is, the Revolution, which is
imminent in Italy, owing to the Kings ina>
biiity and the intrigue aud insineerity of bis
Il is better to stamp revolution out, therefore,
at Rome. than TO court q three days ca,as,
trophei in Paris. These political diseases
spread so rapidly. On the 2lst Of February,
ls48, there were only to be counted l44 Re
publicans in France. Before three days ex-
pired all the country was enthusiastically Re-
publican. The Emperor can in q few weeks
bring into the field one million and a quarter
OF trained soldiers. Night and day the arse
mails are at work-displaying a Crimean &C
tivity. At st. Etienne, the Imperial factory
turns out, BY means ofits u, 900 artisans, 900
chessepots daily, and NJ. Noell's extraordi-
nary cannon is about being adopted. Great
countries cannot nurse great armies long in
idleness, and when giants rush to the COM
bat, all giants sooner or later become in
volYed.
The Kerveguen affair is likely to last as long
As the Trojan war. A Jury of Honor, on it's
"soul and conscience" declared the charge
OF certain Of the Paris papers, notably the
Steele and Opinion Rationale, having re-
ceiyed money from Foreign Ministers, to be
false and calumnious. The proprietors Of
these papers, are, like their aceuser-M. de
hergeguen-Deputies, and as the accusation
was made in the Corps Legislatif, and wen,
forth to the country through its proceedings,
1t was natural that the accused should endea.
vor to adopt the same means to refute it.
But when NJ. Hayin, of lie Steele, ascended
the Tribune, to read thcverdict to the Jury of
Honor-the Emperor himself being the FIRST to
congratulate the accused on their honorable
acquittal-a frightful scene ensued. Every
Kind OF interruption was resorted to by the
Deputies, and finally they rushed out of the
Chamber, leaving the President under the
impression that a Fire - had been An.
nounced, and NJ. Hayin stood transtixed in
the Tribune, looking into his hat, and sip
ping the historic glass Of sugar and water.
The President soon retired, without formally
closing the sitting, and the gas,men reminded
NJ. Havin, it was time for turning off,
yesterday another stormy scene took place,
under the presidency of NJ. du Miral. arising
out OF the same incident, and which only
showed how deep aud personal political feel
ing runs in France, and how cruelty intel -
ant can be to each other, the children of the
Revolution.
1t was generally believed, tina. with The
finding OF the Jury of Honor in the Keryepu.
en- affair, the charge of corruption aeains,
the rarlsian press would end. Not so; a
government journal, lie Pays, solemnlv an
nounces, that it holds the written document.
signed ~ Ministers of several Fore:-n rs.rts
incnipating live or six Of its contemnorar;e.
with having received either money or dsoo...
tons, and invites those journals. all AL,
named, for liberty to publish these dozen.
ments. Some treat the affair with SOVEREIGN
contempt, others grant the permission de-.
manded, and two have taken an action for
defamation. 1t IS a pretty quarrel as j tstands
NJ La 'arrene, left important papers, d.
ase'ing them to be burned afler his death.
inese papers, containing confidential l~.,,a,.
from distinguished public men and thai, de.,.
inss Win the French press, were o,der.d !.
the 1uoge to be opened and exam;ned-n.r
tieularly bundle No. 6-by the Jnrv ofuarA
upon the promise not to divulee their con-
tents. Il i believed that the PAY. h., -,
nold OF some ofthese papers. AT ali ev.n,.
autographed copies of the principal le,t.r.
me celebrated bundle, sre being daily sent
~ as msmoers Of the Corps Legislatif.
inese unfortunate events-des,ined "a, 10
make : great sensasion-occur - -
opportune moment, when the a.. ae ~
frsss-bM hangs in the balance. tn, Fna.
Tor IS undoubtedly anxious to give .on. Ehss
to the press, but the Deputies q. a..s.
mined % thvart him. Whateyer fo,m ~.
nov iav may take, it viii not be- less Dnco-
mn snan the present. II does cert.;nl,,.-
some OF the heavy fsters that v.;.h
oa.us p,sss, but in telling the Hb.r.,.S =
march the new law surrounds i. 49, ".a
: ssr'': Of DAnocie.' swords. tn as1 r. .''a
press desires 70 be perfectly f. lsnn
Paras 7, haze IL paper, 4 red ali. $50 q
taxed, but certainly not the new 49, m
king tho metropolitan journals nav ,.a.,a:a.
higher stamp duty. and the same milo = -
way OF penalties than the provincial n.ns..
imprisonment aud finer win be m.inta;n.d
ioF sann'ng editon, and the s~uapendins of !.
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