Worcester daily spy., 1871-08-15

The PARTISAN PRINT SHOPs.-Water color
drawings of the representative characters
among the insurgents are offered for sale in the
best shops. The Petrolouse, wretched object
half monster, half lunatic, and with diaboli-
cal grin on her withered face, stands with one
hand in her pocket, and petroleum bottle in
the other; while under the generic title of the
Barrcade, collection of male Wretches are de-
picted, whose appearance marks them as objects
to be arrested and Shot, or there is no truth in
physiognomy. These pictures are beautifully
executed are full of artistic merit and one hun.
dred francs each are asked for them. They are
for the portfolios of the rcih, for the tourists
who will flock through Paris as usual this sum-
mer and they have already met with a ready
sale.
The next print shop on the Boulevards at.
tracts a crowd which extends half way across
the pavement. Two drawings, each five feet
high, and handsomely framed, are the objects
of attraction here. In one beautiful young
woman, who is displaying rather more leg and
bust than is customary in polite society, is be
ing led forward by figure whom it would be
profanity to name in this connection. The wo-
man has the word Liberty" inscribed upon her
cap, and there is halo of glory on the other
head. She is erect, courageous, strong, and the
wreck of empires, crowns thrones, and
monarchs is being crushed beneath her
feet. This young lady is intended for regen-
Grated and republican France. The companion
repulsiye hypocrite, in an ermine cloak, aud
with heavy white moustache, kneeling devout-
ly to the theatrical Mephistopheles who is crown
ing him. This elderly gentleman is the emperor
of Germany, depicted as ruling by satanic arts
and if our popular conceptions of Mawworm,
Mr.. Pecksnitf Joseph Surface and Mrs. Brown
rigg could be fused, the result would be very
like what is here given as Kaiser Wilhelm
These are serious productions, as is the photo
graph labeled "Sedan," which hangs close by.
Here the dethroned Emperor Napoleon, the late
elect of the people, is portrayed. A bluff gen.
tleman, in robust health, lounges at his ease in
a luxurious open carriage, smoking cigarette.
His mien and bearing indicate a luXuriously
selfish nature, profoundly satisfied that its own
comforts are secure. The chariot containing
him is drawn by eight spirited horses, ridden by
positions in the imperial livery, and its road is
over the dead and dying on the field of battle
Awful figures with heads bandaged, as if with
grave-clothes, rise from the ground to shake
their clenched hands menacingly. Manned sol
diers implore that they may be spared and that
the hoofs of the horses and the chariot wheels
may be directed elsewhere than over their
are tending them shrink in horror, OF
utter curses loud and deep at the only reply
vouchsafed For the postillions beat back the
wounded with their long whips, and urge the
horses over their prostrate bodies at a furious
pace, while the smoker puffs away, as calmly
home. Following the carriage is a troop OF
Prussan cavalry-more as protection than a
guard-and the whole is given as veracious
representation of what followed the capitula-
tion of Sedan. 1t is horrid picture. You can
almost hear the groans and shrieks of the
wounded soldiers, whose agonies are being
wantonly increased; while the active brutality
of the menials on horseback, the iron indiffer-
ence of the occupant of the carriage, and of the
foreign troopers who follow in his wake, and
with their horses hoofs give the torture final
stroke, are so wildly rendered that it is impos-
sible to contemplate them without a shudder.
| The Emperor Napoleon is caricatured in every
| attitude of ignominy--as a shoe-black at work
on the boots of William; as mendicant with
| pockets tnrned inside out to attract pity as
| thief making off with millions OF the nations
money; as a traitor handing France over to
murderers for pay; all these, and scores OF
| others in the same vein, were produced without
hesitation, whenever the shopkeeper had any OF
them remaining in stock
The caricatures of the siege time were, we
found, much in the same vein. M. Jules Favre
| weeping eopiously, and at the very same
moment pocketing Bismarck's gold; M. Theirs
| negotiating at foreign courts on behalf of the
committee of national defence and slyly offer
ing for sale a crown, for which the Orleans
princess and the Count de Chambord are bid
ding; Gen. Vinoy suppressing half dozen
journals, and being bribed by the editors o
Others TO let them alone; Gen. Trochu studying
his plan, and handing a large metal key oyei
the walls of Paris to figure in a PrussiaT
helmet in exchange for bag of gold-are speci
! mems OF the tone and taste of the comi(