, 1870-08-25

zood humor and good spirits, and q stranger T
snteting Paris iast night By the principal
bouleyards wonld have thought that the :
crowds who thfonged them had just receiys1
certain Intelligence OF glorious victory, ~
stead OF having just found themselves the
Victims Of cruel falsehood. Was myse7
have no doubt, had its counterpart IL numsr-
Gus other quarters Of the town. Where the
crowd On the bouley2rds Was thlckeat aud
noisiest. gentleman appeared At the wlndo"
OF restaurant, and commenced singing the
p" afarsolllaise!'' He hnd full, powerful
voice, and, the instant it made itself hoard,
a sudden lull came over tho crowd as il by
magic.
What an instant before had been CONFUSED
tumu1t Of volces became : solemn silence, uu-
broken by murmur, until the moment came
for the chorus, aad tho general burst into the
shouts and waving Of hats and handkerchiefs.
came with an effect that made tho pulse
bound and the blood rush tingling through ev-
cry vein. Soma Of the audience we're, without
exagge1ation, for the moment half mad with
excitement aaw one officer standing up In
an open carriage, waving his naked Sword in
fashion that threatened to be as dangerous
to friends as to foes. The scene lasted until
the ginger, after repeated eucores, wAs too
exhausted to make himself heard any longer,
and rs turned away dozen civil porfot1n-
ers, with equal enthusiasm but considerably
less vocal powers. were striving to succeed
him by shouting each other down.
It required but glance at the darcely agi-
tated faees and almost frenzied gestures Of
the c7owd-a crowd consisting Of all classes,
though chiefly Of the well-dresaed and respec-
table-to understand how easily in Paris rev
olutions are made and what an anxious task
the government has whose duty it il in mo-
ments Of excitement to preserve order and
keep popular manifestations within reasonable
bounds. I was scarcely surprised. as I went
down the bou1evarda to lind the street whlch
leads to n. Oliiviez's house protected from
the public BY = strong force Of gendrnes and
vicious or bent Oh mischief, but their excite
ment Was such that there was no saying what
v1o1ent vent = sudden ra1iy1ng cry and = bold
leader might net have have found fer it.
AS it WAS, hewever, they dispersed quietly
enough, and vent their several ways, still, OF
almost persuaded themselves, By neze dint OF
singing and shouting. that victory had really
been won, and that they would wake up next
morning to find it dnly announced IN the off,
ciA bulletins. {on already know By kilograms
how different the announcement was. Tread
it in the faces Of the first half dozen people I
met as went ont to- get my newspaper this
morning, and all day long have had tho sane
cad story thrust upon me- in every cafe. at
every corner where anxious groups formed to
DISCUSS the terrible LOWS. that the French
army which ,';a VAS to have ,.,,,1 hsen 50
atter defeat to take rotuge behind it's. own
|, fo1tresses, that tho hated Pruesians were On
Trench eoil, and that the government thought
the situation Of affairs 50 critical ~ tu- make
it necessary that Paris should be declared in a
state Of seige. The anxiety is rendered all the
greater by the fear that. though the official
bulletins have told much. in the way Of bad
Eews, they may be concea1ing even more. II.
Olhvler's house is HOW AGAIN protected, aud
more strongly than it was yesterday but
Was free accees to the open space in front ol
it, and this has been thsouged by crowds wild
for news and furious because mona was giveI
them. AZ I passed and tepassed tha place.
saF the came men waiting for lours together
sometimes in the heavy peltins rair, which
vain}y imploring that the latest bulletin,
] shon1d be announced to them.
Mingled with the cries tor Iews there were
many vehement demands for arms aud indig
nant murmurs at the government for delaying
| to put the mu6ket into the hands OF everI
than one threat that i! tho muskots are DO
very soon given they shall. be taken, and
half believe that there would have beon Al
| e71e1lte tonight If large bodies of gendnrmes
and National Guard had not been posted Al
intervals in the principal streets, and IN occa
Everything, however, has so. far passed Cd
very quietly, and the behavior OF the Pa
rieians has been on tho whole, admirable, and
well worthy of their name and fame. Thei,
anxious alarm is natural enough, but it has
taken no cowardly form. I believe that By
far the most general feeling is the desire t
so ont. and, II necessary, face the enemy
but, with the exception of one or two incura.
lily boastfu1 writers-such a II. De Csssasuat
the desire lsas not found vent in the vain
! glorious, Wanting utterances which hare oi
late been go Extensively common among the
Partisan bourgeoisie