Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-28
OUR FOREIGN b CORES
f. PONDENCE.
Gay Paris in a Row.
Exciting Times-The Discon-
tented MOb-"A1l Aboard
for America.
Tothe Editors of the Union and American:

Tothe Editors of the Union and American:
LONDON, August 10, 1870, 10P. M
Thank God, l am out of Paris, and
France, for tits no good place to be now.
You have probably seen accounts of mat,
tiers there; It's the most panic-stricken
place ever was in. The defeats, of the
French army has made Paris wild The
city is upon mine; the past few days
has been much as 1915, during the
reign of terror. / dared not write
from there, as the military watch every
thug and every body. The officials kept
the news, or facts, from the people, which
enraged them, and the city was one vast
mob: thousands upon thousands would
march the streets at night, hallooing,
t'down with Olivier" 'fsend him to Cay
enne," etc, etc., because he would not
give them the news. They marched the
streets then, shouting '.La NouUeLLe, La
Nouvelle, 1--WE want news" Next
night the mob in tens of thousands
marched and shouted, " Chassepots, "
'NChassepots," (give US arms.) Yester-
day, as an experiment l presume to in
duce quiet, the Ministry all resigned.
This had the effect was told by C It'll
zen, to quiet and prevent last night rev.
olution. l can't describe the scenes; tits
impossible. The people could get no
news, and yesterday the London papers
were not allowed to come there. I'm
agine what was the feeling when they
had heard of several defeats. Emperor
telegraphed to hurry the defences of
Paris. Paris declared in state of seige,
and no other news. Then imagine two
and a-quarter millions of such impulsiye
fire-brands as the French people in that
stated A day or two before the Bourse
was surrounded by 30, 600 enraged crea-
lures; they tore up desks, etc, slung them
out of the windows, and broke things gen.
orally. Often the E'long rolf' of the drum
was sounded, which means clear the track.
At the third roll they shoot and such scat
tering Is that any good place TO be?
Meantime orders were issued that no one
could leave until he had permission from
the Government. First, passports must
have the wise of the American Consul be-
fore they would notice it. l proceeded
to the Consurs Office to have mine vised,
but found crowd there who said that no
officer but a niger, who was doing up
the Yises in rotation, was there. Most of
the customers stood about unconcened.
j could not quite take off my hat to do
courtesy to niger if he was acting Con-
sui or Consul's clerk, or what not. My
turn came and my passport got a wise. l
then went off to the Prefecture of the
Rolice, where took my place in the long
line and stood an hour in rain, q could
not afford to lose my place. At length
my turn came, and was let into the
Office and there saw line of at least a
hundred ahead of me. thought of Job.
BY and by was let up to the desk of
somebody who could neither understand
me nor l him; then to another officer;
then to row of Nos. /, 2, and 4; then
back where started; then the next took
down the color of my hair, eyes, ETC.,
and asked me where slept last night and
the night before, $50 man told me who
did ''verstay;'O then one stamped, anoth-
er punched, another signed, ETC., etc,
until finally one who could say that much,
said '..fniShe," and l was turned loose,
pr Eileged to leave France. | thought
what blessed privilege.
Remembering the trouble had on
arriving at Paris to find a hotel, l procur-
ed "commissaire" TO accompany me to
the depot this morning to get me off, for
no one at the depots speak low English.
Thanks to the ''commisseire" for getting
me ticket, registering my trunk, putting
me in car, taking eight francs Cheap,
then with q polite bow left me, and to-
night here l am, and with my brief ex-
perience am free to say to any one who
don't like America and the American
Government let him come over a while,
and my word for it he will go home Tx
ing his own Government if he never did
before.
A London paper, which | will send
you, will give you the best information
about the war, though it is impossible for
any one to imagine Paris at this time. No
language can describe it. My opinion is
that Napoleon's days as Emperor are
numbered and easily to count; yet every
Frenchman is ordered to the army. Many
think that all FrenChmen are favorable to
the war, but it is not so. There is a
strong force who oppose it, and will
speak out when the time comes that they
can speak. Heaven only knows what
will be the end of the excitement Their
army is whipped terribly so far.
It's a sad sight to see such an immense
people SO fearfully excited, and strange to
say, majority of themdon't know what
they are excited about, and one time yes
terday the "Blousers," wOrkingmen who
all wear blue cotton blouses, were out in
immense strength. l learned they are
the Republicans, and with all the noise,
shouting, ETC., they made, they were not
interrupted, but had possession; they
done little else but march in thousands,
sing, halloO, ETC., and all that in French.
Ny French being so imperfect, of course
| could not tell what they said or meant.
l saw occasionally some one whose French
was better developed than mine who
would hurriedly interpret to me. could
however understand sufficient French that
when saw crowd hurrying out of the
way of the bayonets of the gendarmes, to
hurry also and get out of the way; but
you should have seen j Eastland, Cliff
ton, and others run. ''Grey Eagle" could
not touch such lick. l concluded that
discretion was better than my speed,
so l kept in the hotel and preferred paying
charter for window (high up that
could look down in - upon the
moving oceans of-yes-humanlty. To
make the thing still more interesting the
women are in it thick as the men. l often
regretted that had not paid more atten-
ton to my French" for l would have
felt far more easy could have under
stood what was being said. Now,
after all this, don't you think this En-
r0peGa trip under exciting circumstances
But again, thank fortune, am out of
Paris, and here waiting for the Java to
sail, when l will start for country where
we all say 'Iet US have peace and Prussia
may lick France as much as she pleases,
for | think if she gets good licking
Europe will be quiet for fifty years any
how. ED.
The jackson Wing and Tribune of
the 9th inst. says On Tuesday morn
ing last 800 Chinese laborers passed
through this city, via the Mobile and
Ohio road, en- route to Central Alabama,
to engage in work upon railroads in that
| section in process of buildinU Whilst