Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-12-09
FRIGHTFUL CONDITION of THINGS
IN PARIS.

A Paris letter to the Cincinnati Gazette,
of Nov. 6, sent from the city by balloon,
says:
The bouleyards now resemble the
streets of Italy. They are obsructed by
dealers in every imaginable species of
sorts and varieties of antics, concerts
and amusements. Caricatures, prints
and books of the grossest obscenity are
exposed for sale, and cried aloud by
boys and girls, old men and young wo-
men. The flthier they are the better
they sell You see well dressed and de-
cent appearing young women handing
these atrOcious publications to young
men for purchase, or reading them with
merry relish as they walk along the
street. One of these brochures is called
Lord Jerome Napoleon, his Mistresses
and Debaucheries. - Another, entitled
"The Female Bonaparte, is so loathe-
some and abhorrent that I am sure it
would not be tolerated in the streets of
any heather city. The boldest mendaci-
ty of Italian or Spanish license is out
done. Indeed, this feature of this most
extraordinary situation is at last attract
ing the attention Of the press. Even the
loosest of these newspapers, the Figaro,
urges the government to interfere. In
short, the city is in a most deplorable
and ominous condition. No man rises
sbove If =
As soon as the word armistice was
spoken, the few remaining sparks of
Partisan valor went out. and now that
we are disappointed in this hope, it is
dismally difficult to rezindIe the ex-
tinguished fire. Alas alas It is an in
expressibly saddening and disgusting
spectacle. We that are loollers-on pass
continually from pity to contempt and
from contempt to pity.
never expected to see this spectacle
There is a nightmare on this people
Fools and blind that they should bubble
over the matter Of revictualing But it
is all right. The end will come the
sooner for the suicide. Suicide it is, ap-
( palling to witness. God has not hard
ened the heart, but softened the head of
this people. The very atmosphere is
/ infected with pusillanimity and un1nan-
| illness. We breathe it. 1t costs even
me, a spectator, a struggle to recall and
reflect the glorious old Saxon pluck and
heroism of my forefathers, whose faith
removed mountains and won battles,
and whose manly high endurance
braved suns and SHOWS and oceans in
+ the rescue of a continent from barbarism
and sterility. Oh, it is appalling, sick
I ening and disgusting to look upon this
/ spectacle But I can only give it in
outline now. My four grammes weight
is filed. hope to complete the picture
at some future time. We hear of Amer
ican sympathy for this people. Fudge
and stuff! There is nothing here de
+ serving of sympathy or admiration.
Another correspondent says that in
some quarters of the city rat diet has
been resorted to, and that the principal
supply of rats is obtained from the
sewers by meaDs of jars filed with
! glucose siruP, of which rats are very
fond and plunge headlong in. Then
necks are then wrung, and they arc
ready for the stewpan. The newspapers
contain amusing articles, denouncing
and ridiculing all fat people, and ex-
tOlling lean ones, and characterizing i
as an inseparabIe adjunct of virtue, O.
patriotism. SParrows are selling at ter
cents each. The correspondent adds
II now get meat every day. I tried {
horse 'beefsteak' yesterday, but it made
me sick. My butcher now supplies me
with sleeps brains once a week for four
teen cents -