The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-25
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lFR0A OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
PARIS May Z.
The hardest worked public servants at the
present moment are the detectives and law
officers of the crown. In the daily casting Of
their net the police catch exactly what they
want. By this time there ought not to be a
conspirator in Paris. Brutus is at large-the
Gracchl in Leicester square, but the woud-be
Casca is in the Mazasprson. There is good
deal of the gamin In the Partisan character,
and much of the blageur. Here is the Internal
! plot, revealed by the confessions of the consp-
| rators themselves, and supported by documen-
tary 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 represslng them. 1t is natural, per-
haps, after all. When on accomplice "blows" on
his companions, he is called moucaard, as
pickpockets, when closely pursued, cry ''stop
thief,"to distract a crowd. Considering the
excitement to which many weak minds have
Ebeen subjected to by incendiary orators and
| writer's, the wonder rather would be that there
was no conspiracy.
The Opposition Journals taunted ministers
with having no evidence of plot. The Off
clal journal supplies the evidences Of three or
four. and convokes the High Court to try
them. Yet the same journals blame the Cabi-
net for Its sage conduct in satisfying gene
raj demand to know "whcre are we now"
The case for the prosecution is stated-there
can be no doubt of the plots; judgment must
be suspended tn the accused explain. In all
the conspiracies which have taken place un-
der the Second Empire, they have been marked
by q great simplicity. Some disc6atented men
meet-plan assasslnations = without ever
thinking what government Is to succeed, un-
til one Of the party, having fears about his
head, visits the minister of police In the case
of FlOurcns, he Is man well educated, and
yet he addresses the deserter; Beaudry, as his
dear Harmodius, as he would Mon cher Louvel
or Ravaillac, and signs "Gustave." However,
In all criminal trials there are traces of lmpru-
not commit. 1t Is his visiting card, whereon
ho wrote, Starting for England" and sent 1t
TO the chief of police as a piece Of malice at
not being able to arrest him for his playing at
insurrectlon In February last; that will identify
his letter Of Instructions to Beaudry to kill Ma
poleon.
The life of Napoleon Is still a necessity for
1
him on his escape from the plots in question
have not been very temonstratlve, they do not
the less heartily eXiS France does not under
stand the utility Of indignation meetings" as
yet. This latest outrage proves the revolu-
Lionary party to be utterly demoralized. There
can be no hesitation in taking sides, where
politics rest upon the dagger, the revolver and
shop window, q collection of the Red heroes
of 1893 and 1870, and was struck by common
expression of ooildneSS aud determined reck-
lessness among them oil. One paper gives
series of articles, popularizing the preparation
of gun-cotton, Greek fire, shells aud such fire.
works for the use Of patriots; another pub
fishes the autograph letters of eminent eXiles,
&C., on the situation. AS usual, Victor Hugo
is amusing and Garlbaldi absurd.
In all these turmolls OF excitement the poor
Plebiscite is likely to be forgotten, or so tortur-
cd and twisted as not to be understood. The
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 rea-
sons for saying mo-" but wind up by recon-
mending to vote ''yes;" and many leading men
are like coquettes, "ofl and ofIing," 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 government for
the severity Of the measure, but among that
gentleman's circle Of friends. He was Repub-
fican, but not socialist In giving 200,0 900
francs to the Irreconcilable camp, to carry on
the negative vote, his fault was not likely to be
contagious, living as we do in a world of mil
lioHaires. The best proof is, that no one has
initiated it. He ought to be allowed to return,
on condition that he would not give away a
like sum, before the mass vote was taken. On
the morning Of his departure, he wrote to the
Home Minister that he Vas leaving, as order
oil Epop bf1t hot ho bo5 in
capable Of bearing long and sudden Journeys
Of new climates, and begged the minister to
give ''Tato" the benefit Of naturalization, ex-
tended to French dogs-by placing him in the
Jardin d'Acclimation.
Fortunately, continental politics arc not eX-
citing. The next move is generally expected
from Spain, where the mutism OF Prim is the
subject Of general observation. II is generally
believed he is going to make dash Tor being
q Saviour Of Society,"" Political ampooning
is carried on to great extent, very publicly
too, and at the marshals expense, at Madrid.
The dons may laugh, but by and by he viii
make them like Cardinal Mazarin and the
French, pay for the music.
Apart from the shoal of political pamphlets,
the only new event in literature is ''live
journal brought out in the Japanese language,
not by the natives resident here, but by the
professor Of that language in the College of
France. it will not have the widest circula-
ton in the world"
The 9Th instant being the forly-ninth ami
versary of the death of the First Napoleon, in
nsen,oriana masses were celebrated in several
chapels, notably at the Tpieries in presence
of the Imperial family There was a time when
this epoch served also to display the national
hate against the great mans ''jailerT-sir Hud-
son Low-whose name became the synonym
for persecution, and whose "cruelties," real or
imagined. found expression in moving drs-
ma or screaming farce. In England, Sir
Hudson was accused OF the Lilliputian aInuse-
ment of
g. sticking pins
And needles in the great mans breeches."
Five days before his death Napoleon was
seized with shiyering fit, and nothing could
restore the natural warmth Of the body. The