New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-27
PARIS COKREsPONDENCE.


Tho Peliee-TAe Censpirstors-Nape-
leon,s Popularity-The Plebiscite-
The Italian. Cernuschi.
PARIS. May 7, 1870.
The hardest worked public servants at
the present moment are the detectives and
law officers of the crown. In the daily csst-
ing of their net, the police catch exactly
what they want. By this time there ought
not 70 be conspirator in Paris. BrutuA is
1t large-the Gracchi in Leicester Square,
but the would-be Csses, is in the MaEas
prison. There is good deal Of the garRin
in the Partisan character, and much of fbs
blageur. Here is the internal plot revea led
by the confessions of the conspirators the m.
selves, and supported by document4ry
proof, and yet several look upon the whole
thing as the work Of the police. The police
are thus well employed, organizing plots
and then depressing them. 1t is natural,
perhaps, after all. When an accomplice
"blows" on his companions, he is called
nsouchdrd, as pick-pockets. when closely
pursued, cry "stoe thief" to distract a
crowd. Conridering the excitement to
which many weak minds have been sub.
jected to by incendiarv orators and writers,
the wonder rather would be, that there was
no conspiracy.
The opposition journals tainted ministers
with having no evidence of plot. The
official journal supplies the evidences Of
three or four, and convokes the High Court
to try them. Yet the same journals blame
the cabinet for its sage conduct in satisfy
ing general demand to know "where are
we now" The case for the prosecution is
stated-there can be no doubt of the plots;
judgments must be suspended till the &C
cused explain. Elm all the conspiracies
which have taken place under the second
Empire, they have been marked by great
simplicity. Some discontented men meet
plan neutrality-suspicious. ever thinking
of what government is to succeed, until
one of the party. having fears about his
head, visits the Minister of Police. In the
case Of Florens, he is man well educated,
and yet he addresses the deserter, Beaudry,
o. his dear Harmodius, as he would Moncher
Lauvel or Ravaillac, and signs "Gustave.
However, in all criminal trials, there are
traces Of imprudence that child of three
years old would not commit 1t Ia his Wis.
iting card, wherein he wrote, starting
for England" and sent 1t to the Chief of
the Police as q piece of malice, at not being
able to arrest him for his playing at insur-
rection in February last, that Will identify
his letter of instructions to BeaHdry to kill
Napoleon.
The life of Napoleon is still necessity for
France. If the congratulations received by
him on his escape from the plots in ques
hov hoo matt thopI
do not the less heartily exist. France does
not understand the utility of indignation
meetings " as yet. This latest outrage
proves the revolutionary party to be utterly |
demoralized. There can be no hesitation |
in taking sides, where politics rest upon the |
dagger, the revolver, and bombs. yester-
day stopped to look at, in shop window. a |
collection of the red heroes of 1893 and 1870, |
and was struck by q common expression OF |
,cildness and determined recklessness |
among them all. One paper gives series |
of articles popularizing the preparation of
gun-cotton, Greek fire, Shells and such fire.
works for the use of patriots; another pub
exiles, ETC., on the situation. As usual,
Victor Hugo is amusing, and Garfibaidi
absurd.
In all these turmoils of excitement the
poor plebiscite is likely to be forgotten, or
90 tortured and twisted, as not to be under.
STOOD. Inc Issue Is Simply. not Will you
have the empire, but will you have it as it
was in 1852, or as it is in 1870? Some papers
give . thousand reasons for saying "No,"
but wind up by recommending to vote
Eyes" and many leading men, are like
coquettes, ''off and ofing," but will not
state their opinion.
The expulsion of the italian, Cernuschi,
has caused an expression of much regret,
not only among the well wishers of the gov
eminent for the severity of the measure, but
among that gentleman's circle of friends.
He was q Republican, but not Socialist. |
In giving zoe, 900 francs to the irreconcilable |
camp, to carry on the negative vote. his
fault wss not likely to be contagious living
% We do in world even of millionaires.
The best proof is that no one has initiated
1t. he ought to be allowed to return on
condition that he would not give away
like sum before the mass vote was taken.
On the morning of his departure, he wrote
to the Home Minister that he was leaving,
- ordered France, but that he had little
dog incapable of bearing long and sudden
Journeys, or new climates, and begged the
Minister to give soto" the benefit Of natur-
alization, extended to French dogs, by
placing him in the Jardin discrimination.
ORLEANS.