New-York tribune., 1870-08-24
WEEK OF EXCITEMENT IN PARIS.


tiful France.
WEEK OF EXCITEMENT IN PARIS.
NOTHING BUT VICTORY CAN INSPIRE CONF
DENCE-INsULTs TO THE DYNAsTY-WHAT
THE COMMON PEOPLE THINK OF THE FRENCH
GENEgALS-THE SOLDIERS HAVE TO FAST
THE OVERTHROW OF THE MINISTER'S CHE
ATEs NO EXCITEMENT - THE ORLEANS
PRINCES. 1Es.,, ou, owv co0,vspo,nv,r,
PARIS, Aug. 12.-After week OF excitement
such az have not experienced since the dark and bloody
davs of our own war We are beginning to be little
self and cam and to look at our losses with
some manness. But it will take decided victory, In
the battle that everybody is now looking for daily TO In
spire any real confidence the minds OF the people Of
Paris am not that anything will ever again give
them confidence in the Emperor. Now that the truth
begins to be known and the people see, without In the
least comprehending, that this war; which some time
since was proven to have been sprung upon the world
without any provocation, also undertaken when
France herself unprepared for It, when there were
neither guns enough food enough the puDc Wrath
has Justly boiled over And 1t shows an astonishing
forbearance on the part Of the people that, Know
ing the Emperor to be the one chiefly 10 Diane
for the unprepared state OF the army ana
for theosses and defeats that have resulted from this
insufciency, they spare him as they do In fact in
these days no one mentions his otherwise than In
cdenally he has not for some time, signed DISPATCH
and the Empress guards equal silence The troops at
Dns the other day bunty refused to respond to the
CRY OF :" Vire PEnpereur" crying Vtre Ia Nation d"
instead. On Tuesday at Metz, the Emperor returning
from visit to Fauquemont passed before cafe In an
open yoiture and a person who him says that he
could not bear the silence OF the persons assembled but
had to turn his head away the other day, copy
of the Emperors proclamation to the army, which s
headed thus "L'Empereur a PArmee," and which is
posted up every blank wall in Paris defaced by scrb
bling out the words "d PArmSe and substituting Tor
them alarnG" This of the pillars that sup
port the arcade the rue dc Rvoli and on the
corner of the Iue Castgone public and as "respect
able" a place as is in Paris In peaceabe times such
an insult small as 1t seems would not have been allowed
to remain hour, but the policeman whose post Is
always that corner, did not seem TO have noticed it,
and ts only this morning that the broadsheet covered
up by another with the law relative TO enstnents
Think too the speech made by Jules Fayre in the
House demanding that the Emperor resign the chlef
command and that he come back to Paris! 1t passed
almost without notice, and yet that such question
should even have been mooted in the Chamber, much
more that the orator should have allowed to finish
his speech without interruption shows something OF the
temper of the House. something of the change that has
come over affairs. OF the Empress, personally we near
nothing lately, Of her son. Contradictory ruinors
have aoat that the boy still at Metz that he
here in Paris that friends Of the Empress had pre-
pared for her flight and for that OF her son. Finally
paragraph in that welinformed paper, The Pdi[MaH
Gazette, says that it believes what it thinks good
authority, that the Prince Imperial Is In London
that arriving he drove at once to the French Embassy
and that he brought jewels and vauables belonging
to his mother and father. You may be sure that here
nothing is known by the public about the movements of
this child. The Empress fears the people, there is
love lost between them and her During the stormy
sion OF Tuesday all OF the approaches to the Tuieres
strongly guarded the passage OF the gardens was
fOrb nd wa Ne
planted in the socaed private garden that strip Of
the grounds fronting the palace and only open to the
public in the absence OF the Court or course If things
go badly, the Empress will run away; there is
why she should stay
The air has been full of rumors these last days and it
has been not little curious to hear what tha
people have had to say. I talked with my charcoal
woman, and found her mind made up that Marshal Le
bGuf had sent plans Of the French defenses and large
stock Of useful information to the Prussans In vain
came to the defense of the Marshal: he a
traitor, and not the only either. thought Of the
pebsci and of the Marshas severity to the soldiers
who showed opposition TO the Marshals master! The
former Minister Of War is to know how it feels to
have iron hand come down himself. For his in
capacity, his most culpable oarelessness seems uni
versally believed in, and there will be mercy shown
him. Count Kerarys motion to bring the Marshal to the
OF the Chamber failed for the present only
because every feels that this is not the time for it,
But the carelessness is shocking Ihave already given
you three instances of the way in which the troops are
let hungry. Here are two Yesterday, says the
Temps OF Thursday, battalion Of the 2Sth OF the line
which made part Of the troops set to guard the Cham
ber entered its barracks at O'Clock at night, haping
eatenI nothing since morning! The Temps adds, "why
should anyone be astonshed after hearing this that
the Army of the Rhine there regiments which
remained tDO days without eatng" Again,
ave assured that the II line which
left the Department Of the Loire for Paris arrived yeser
day morning at O'Clock. Itwas stationed in the bar
racks of the Zouaves in the fauboug Porssonnere On
starting the received, each, fr 25 centimes and
loaf of bread On reaching Paris there nothing pro-
yided for them eat and they hours without
eating anything Seeing that they to get nothing
they the guards the slip and to forage OF
course they found people enough to give them food Yes
terday, in the cars, heard gentleman who had at his
buttonhoe the red ribbon Of the Legion OF Honor de-
clare that he had received letter from his who ia at
Chaons, which says that the have guns and go
through their exercises with broomsck that when
men come they cry out: " Here come more sheen
for slaughter"
But IL wonld be giving wrong impression
II 1 allowed you to think the people are as
insufficient as the authorities. This is far from
being the case. Never have more courage
more devotion pure patriotism. There is something
very eevang in this devotion of the whole population
to their country If this people had been well governed
il they had been educated politically II they had leaders
now either in arms or In politics they would make
defeat impossible. don't know how much endurance
they have but now they stick at nothing. They
generous people; they love money and part
with 1t with difficulty; but money is poured out like
water And they don't spare their bodies either nor
seek TO shy the pers and tolls of service There are
societies for mutual protection from the conscrpon
such as We had in plenty in war but they not
popular and the volunteers very numerous-no that
not the word they not to be counted But there
sad impression that they useless and that France
to be saved she must be saved by the drilled army she
has already-these raw recruits. whom there Is |