The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-05-06

| lery to gallery, from street to street, sweep
| ing in q curve round the corners, and warned
of the approach of other cars like our
| own, by the shrill tones of a horn. Every
minute the air grows more Jelly cold; then
more and more moist and damp. The four
men behind urge us on at run, never
seeming to tire; they do not pause even
when their feet splash ankle-deep in water
and the air becomes clammy and noxious,
while the walls glisten with streaming
moisture and mould. We have reached
the beginning of the old sewers But the
noisome horrors of these recking abysses
we will leave to ADLER pens than ours to
paint. Back again we go to the region of
the more modern egouts Now we roll
through moist, warm cloud of mist; we
are passing beneath favorite vapor-bath.
Then mild, pleasant odor, as if of scented
soap, fills our nostrils. Overhead great
mandatory of perfumeries is in operation,
Not sign ofrats do we meet anywhere
Half of Paris underground is traversed in
this way. At last 6. fresh network of gal
leries, straight and winding, crossing each
fother in every direction, is reached We
leave the car, and a few steps bring us in
to a lofty, spacious cupola, on the edge of
Ia broad canal. This is the main subter-
lranean river, or, in the grandiloquent
phrase of the metropolis" "Le teuoe difni-
ltU gu ra1tte tous ces currents, Ia supreme syn
these de toate la 0ie Parisienae-le grand Col
lecteur! :" Here boat, with square ends
and massive frame, receives us, in which
we make the passage of the Styx of these in
lfernal regions, and arrive at our journeys
end. NJ
One peculiar feature of these subterra-
mean canals, however, and the one especi-
lally on account of which we have asked
our readers to accompany us in our sub
Partisan explorations we have not yet men
ationed. From time to time, as our car
hurried along over its track, the narrow
gallery which we were trayersing would
widen suddenly, and open out into q spa
lcious vaulted room, not so long, indeed,
as the "grand Collecteur," but of even
lgreater width. These are the underground
military stations, each corresponding with
one of the principal points of defence in
THE city above, which, in case of need, are
ito afford the means of secretly concentra-
ting in masses the troops of the empire, to
suppress or resist, in any particular locality
an outbreak of popular violence or attack
''sf hostile forces.
Certainly no precautions have been omit
tied which may serve to secure to the gov
eminent the possession of its capital. The
defences are complete, and almost impreg-
nable to every thing save treachery, Strong
Notifications are very satisfactory to the
general within their walls but, once with
out the gates himself, and the strongholds
in the hands of the enemy, he finds out,
to his own cost, the strength of his former
bulwarks. Az long as the emperor can re-
ly upon the army to hold his lines of de-
fence, he has little present cause to fear the
efforts of agitators and malcontents. An
army alone, however, is but an unsatisfac
tory safeguard for the permanent security
of a throne, and that Louis Napoleon him
self is convinced of this fact is indicated
by the late change in his policy of govern
ment, while the wisdom of that change
and the soundness of his present policy
seem to be amply indicated by the result
of the recent disturbances in Paris.--Ap-
pletOns J0Uin0l