The Portland daily press., 1868-02-01
DAILY PRESS,
Saturday Morning, February J. 1869.
.a,e Doing. Of the French ..dren.aser.
PORTLAND.

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Late Doings of the French Adventures
Napo con gets along nicely. He has jus
"bottled up" ten Liberal editors tor telling tn
truth, and got his army bill through the legis
latiye chambers. In tle C0rps Le0isIafii
the popular branch, tThiers, Eayre, Picsrt
and other Liberals made great speeches i,
opposition to the bill, giving the craft,
Rouher, Minister of State, and the coneil
lating u. Schneider, the presiding officer
mhch concern by their unseasona blenes'
| but When The vote came, the Ministry had 1t
revenge, for the result was more than thret
70 one In favor OF the Reorganization.
Reorganization means the whole male pop
ulation of France in the army; 100000 mer
as q regular standing army on peace loot
ing, 100000 more as a reserve, aud still an.
| other 100000 as aaNational Guard ,-granC
total, 100000. When the blu passed to the
Senate il was all plain sailing, for aM. Bona
parte,'' as glofioas old Victor Hugo calls ths
Emperor, makes Senators. So the army Is
to be reorganized, and the last of the Cor.
sicans is 10 have twelve hundred thousand
men, armed With rifle that kills more surely
than the needle gun. .....-...
All is well with the kmpeioF. He has
made the streets of Paris straight and wide.
There are two advantages in this; artillery
can be made very effective In straight boule-
yard, and wide streets have not the soil from
which bsrricades grow Ike mushrooms IN p
single night e iti1 ha9uieua. f3fa.0 eas
81 Yes, The Emperor Is really building himself
uI'. Prussia has most Unexpectedly indorsed
his Roman policy. It surprised everybody,
al first, that Bismark should be coquettiBg
with the Pope, disregarding his Italian ally
of 1885 But the cable explains II The
North German Confederation has among its
subjects a lew million Catholics-not too loyal.
They must be conciliated by promising to
keep the Pope in the Vatican. Poor Carl
baidi! Many good people wish him well, but
everyone helps France keep him out CT Rome,
even the man his own arm made king of Italy.
England is sentimental about him, but gives
him nothing but words. Some selfish inter-
est stands in the way of his getting help froni
any quarter. The American consul at Rome,
unless rumor has slandered him most wick
edly, Joined the Zouaves and fred into the
fed-shirts at Montana.
So the world goes, and NJ. Bonaparte pros
pers and enlarges his borders. Heaven help
us. how long viii the brigand live? till the
little Prince Imperial is old enough to feel
the Bonapafte blood, aud gets frmness
enough to sweep the streets OF Paris with
grape-shot, as the first and third lNapoleons
have done? Hang the man, be is only sixty
in April, and when ne is three score and ten,
If the Fate that holds the shears does not cut
the thread of his life before that time, "Napo-
leon ~" will be almost as old as. Napoleon I
was when he drove the Austrians out of
ltaly.ve-r O., sa,,ss .sy. ,.-., AFR
. But there is some hope. Prince Napoleon,
the Emperors cousin, isa democrat. He has
recently written review ot the European
situation so fun OF republican heresy. that the
servie press OF Paris dare not publish it,
There is a little speck OF rebellion. Again,
the projects of the departments mention in
their returns to the Emperor that the passage
Of the army bill is regarded all over Fraace
with great disfavor. Who wonders? The
peasantry are starving, and the monster. OF
Bonaparte takes the whole industrial popula-
ton OF the country, and makes it subseryient
to the interests of his own ambition.
2 There was a runor IN New York, on We'd
nesiay last, that the Emperor was dead. II
was net credited by many, but that most SEN
siti7e OF material substances, gold, fell the
warmth a little and rose accordingly. Had It
been trlie-Tbat then? A little incident took
place IN Paris a e " weeks ago, that indicates
tie psal,abla result. A-s-roITrt men rs-sTs
f555 Lad q t11ia+s to sulIse themSelyes by slid
ing. The police had a mind to iaterfeFe.- n
French crowd is as inhsmmable as gunpow-
der in certain states ofthe moral atmosphere.
This crowd was in that dangerous condition.
"Down with the Popem they cried; "Down
with the Chassepotsw ~ "Down with the Army
BiIl!' And 1T last came the Frire la Repyb-
Nque! and the MarseillaIse, ever terrible to
imperial ears. 1t was only when forty arrests
had been made by the police aided by the
soldery that the tunult was quieted.