Litchfield enquirer., 1870-10-13
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.PATRIOTISMI IN PARIS.

In order to give an idea of the spirit what is passing in the hotel in which I am one, and it is not situated in a fashionable quarter. The proprietor, M.-, was, up to the equalization of Sedan, strong imperialist. He fully believed every word the official Journals told him respecting the successes of the French armies. He is Q good representative of, the Parisian bour- geois. He has now assumed the uniform of the national, and is now on duty for about eight hours every day. The two walters have joined the garde mobile. The cook, a most fiery patriot, is in the same battalion of the national guard as the land lord. The porter is a volunteer, and cleans my boots girt with sword. In the court yard of the hotel, mine host, when off du- ty, sits with few cronies, all national guards, who from time immemorial have dropped in here every day. Their talk is of war. As for rempereur, She is coward. " "Who ever heard of French army surren- dering?" ''The Emperor should have died in an attempt to cut his way out of Sedan, ''and as they talk they shake their fists at an i'm aginary Emperor, and swear to die rather than to surrender. Up stairs, in a little l room, madam sits with her maids, making lint; she has already arranged twenty five beds for the wounded, has laid in medical stores, and evidently thinks far more of l the national dishonor than of the ruin which is impending over her own head. She is pretty woman, and usually rather a coquette in her dress; she lives now in an 1 old dressing-gown, and from her appear ance should say has neither washed nor brushed her hair for the last five days
 Yesterday seven provincial gardes mobile were billeted on the hotel. They are allow. ed franc day for their food. but mon- sieur gives them his best, and tells them to keep the franc They are peasants from Brittany. They go to bed at 10 o'clock with an idea that they are keeping late hours, and get up at five in the morning.
 All day they are absent drilling. I gave them cigars this morning, and sat talking with them some time; they are honest, sim. pie souls, rather pleased to be in Paris, and quite ready to be shot down by the Prus- sians rather than to run away. Their only dread seems to be that, whilst they are here in Paris, the Prussians will murder their families in Brittany. have explained to them with the aid of a map that this is next to impossible. They tell me that they all voted ''oui" at the last plebisite, because they understood by doing so they were voting against war. They are not so indig- nant with the Emperor as monsieur; but father seem to pity him, to throw the fault of everything on ''the lot of greedy cour- tiers who lived on the people and deceived him." have done what could in the in- terest of the republic by telling these wor- thy fellows that all their misfortunes are dtfe to tho Emperor. I have also endeav- ored, Intellectually, to remove from their minds the notion that the Prus- sians are race of barbarians, who are in the habit of ravishing women, burning down undefended houses, and eating ba-
 bies The wise men of their village have
 told them that these are the habits of every Prussian, and. of course, against the asser- tion of these wise men I find it vain to argue. My friends tell me that they had ten days drill before they reached Paris. They arrived armed with percussion guns. Two of them have since received fustls c tobatiere, and saw this morning regi- ment of provincial mobiles march by armed with this weapon.- Correspondence of Lon- don Ne,cs.