The Portland daily press., 1869-07-09
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND. ~
Friday Morning, July 8, 1869.
Republican Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR t1sd
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN,
OF BRUNSWICK. ssHf-isi-
Letter from Paris.
OF BRUNSWICK. saa

the Emperor. sst 1r sf l.e
This city is assuming its normal state of
monotonous agitation, but spite. of the nom
inal calm the outspeaking Of the elections; tho
efervescence of the riots, the real gain Of
democracy, ard the license of the streets, has
truly generated change. The tension of
parties has been greatly increased. Should
Napoleon's frmness degenerate into obstina-
cY and the liberals with such leaders as Gam
batta and Raspail strain their canse. there
seems every reason to believe that reaction
and revolution will once more rush to the
breach.
Last Sunday listened to discourse de-
liyerei by NJ. de Pressensie, a French preach
er of the Independent Protestant Church.
This gentleman is something of the Henry
Ward Beecher type inasmuch as his faith has
baptised him into belief of reasonably un-
trammelled horizon for thought and action.
He exhorted his hearers from a text of Da-
vid's "not to be as the horse or as the mule,
which have no understanding, whose mouth
must be held in by bit and bridle," and all
through his very vigorous discourse there was
an undercurrent of sparkling life seeking with
almost turbulent persistency an unchecked
flow for himself and others. .a,-,..,.
The conflict between labor and capital, one
of the great problems of the day--which in
the department of the Louvre has long been
threatening to be bloody issue you perceive
has terminated in the soldiery, exasperated
by the crowd and worn out with fatigue firing
on the rioters at Ricamarie near st. Etienne.
The shot fell so rapidly that some of the mi-
ners were found in attitudes so familiar, that
it seemed as though Death with its rigid lines
could not have done its work one man being
found with his hands in his pockets, not hav-
ing time to draw them out and one woman
kneeling as she was, ,imploring that her son who
was taken prisoner might be returned to her.
The corpses remained as they were made by
the shot, from Wednesday, three and a half
o'clock, till the following day, Thursday at
five O'Clock in the morning, because not one
of the inhabitants wished to raise them from
the ground, and finally, it was the soldiery
who carried them to the hospital, where the
Sisters of Charity gave them some OF the last
cares they would ever receive from humanity
NJ. Leon Heckiss of the Menilent, who was
on the spot gives touching details of the
scenes. When the miners saw that COM
mon cart belonging to the railroad was co be
used to carry tho coffins which they refused
to take to the cemetery, their Indignation
was unbounded. NJ Heckiss joined with the
authorities to bring about peace, implored
them to take the cofins themselves and Of
fered himself to assist in the duty. These
beautiful words spoken in season, acted like
the dew of heaven on their fiery parchet
hearts. The coffins were removed from the
cart, end respectfully eerries thu -minars
preceded by the clergy; but more than onct
some touching detail nearly brought on &
conflict, the crowd being deeply moved wher
| the twelve coffins one after another were pul
into the ground, and when some woman
| asked for her son, or sister asked in heart
rending tones what had her brother done
that he should be shota Iii a very sad af
fair that has helped darken the spring o
1869. f'esf mQaI
Elegant society is giving an episode to mod
srn life. In the civil court Mile. Valentino
de Chimay, a Princess, with an old name
and an enormous dot, who married in 1861
the Prince do Baufremont, "a relative of the
Empress who indeed good naturedly assisted
to form the alliance-has petitioned to sepa
rate from the Prince, and have her rights a
before the fatal VOW, returned to her. Tn
Ia no,,ff oh 1f
ron of the sixth regiment of Hussars at The
time of the marriage. He appears to ha7
been hungry and thirsty after promotion-n
uncommon feature in military life, and Mad
anne the Princess to be of proud, exactine
nature with intellectual taste, and an ex
tremely delicate organization. She seems al
so to be cursed with sort of Byronic tenn
perament. In one of her letters-read in tbs
court-she writes 81 'ennui for myself ant
for those whom / love gives me the effect Q
the plague; it is IN my opinion great mals
dy followed invariably with serious conse
quences." 1t seems that neither the path O
glory the Prince was decorated for his SCI
vices in Mexico nor all the gilded details {
grandeur-the concerts of the Tuilleries oH
ing to the heat of the salon only gave Mad
anne an atroce enuede dermit-could preven
this disease from gaining ground. An enol
nous love for solitude, an increasing dislik
for the details Of Lille, especially fer the .fou,
geoisie life of the mtnage, preyed upon Mao
anne, while the Prince in turn was immensel
bored with the still recurring sacrifices to tn
Penates and Lares.
This Prince de Baufremont who is nov
by this SUIT discussed in all the salons an
cafes of Paris, is brother to the Duke, who's
name was conspicuous in the poisoned bor
bon affair of last winter. Notoriety seems
have special affinity for some families, an
like Melancholy she marks them for her owl
The ladies still continue to wear paniers Q
pufs behind, and to wear double skirts mac
betrimmed Low shoes with high heels an
stockings both of the same shade as the dres
are in vogue. Wreaths and sprays OF flower
make perpetual spring on the hats the ladie
wear, though now and then summer and au
tumn are represented in flower and fruit.
The weather has been so rainy and col
that fears have been entertained for the crops
but yet the sun must shine somewhere ex
cepting for the croakers. s