Litchfield enquirer., 1872-05-02

0G. have been watching the proceedings from behind q curtain. and chuckling to him. self that it was merciful, though myste- rious dispensation of Providence, that the people, Tn performing revolutions, should Then he pictured M Jobus, reading of the execution of Louis XVI. in the lfoniteur J5aieersel, looking on from his window at the flight of Charles K, figuring as spec tator at the downfall of Louis Philippe. raising his hat to the Empress Eugenie on her way to the railway station on the 4th September, 1870, and repeating to himself, after each of these catastrophes, s'It is certainly great comfort that should be permanent and irresponsible
 He imagined that the sentry who salut- ed him, eyed him askant, as if refecting, You're poor creature" A black dog perhaps M. Jobus's dog-sitting on his hind quarters in the yard, beside grey dog, set up bark at his approach, and appeared to be saying, s"rhat is the man who thought to uproot M. Jopus ;-' at which the gray dog was seized with pro- longed fit of hilarity. He wrote a lengthy and dejected letter to Mime. de Claire, confessing all his troubles, his deceptions, his despondency. He explained that he had done violence to his nature to seem other than he was, to be puritanical and unbending, and that it had all broken down. He thought of the taisman ''Prit- chard, which he used to wear on his lock- ct, and felt it would be wise to have new locket, emblazoned with that same motto. What, indeed, did discussion or worry on political matters lead to? Government and policy were always the same, for Gov ernment and policy were M. Jobus.
 She answered, "Persevere but there is no need for puritanism, Be yourself. Re- suits are not attained in day and, as for M. Jobus, suppose he will yield to Time, like other crumbling monuments.
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 So M. de Ris preserved, not by attack tug M. Jobus, but but by letting him alone. The great parsonage had given him to understand that the shortest cut towards abolishing M Jobus would be to found an enlightened republic; so he devoted his energies to the enlightened republic, devising by day and night how such an institution might best be raised. The time for oppening the session was fast approaching; and the large political papers, as already observed, had not as- sailed the Cochin-C China minister on the clerk question, from not knowing &ccur- ately, as yet, to which party he belonged. They were waiting. If he turned out 8 Monarchist, Republicans would lead the assault by taking the part of the poor ill., paid clerks, whom it had been sought to turn out of house and home without in- demnity, whilst bloated, over-paid off cials G. e., himselD revelled in anti-dem- ocratic splendor, &c., &c. If, on the oth- CT hand, he proved a Republican, then the Monarchists would open their batter ies upon him by lamentations over NJ. Jobus, who was an institution of the past, and had been persecuted solely on that account.
 The count resolved to embody his views i'll the form of programme or constitu- tion, which he should submit to his friends iH the cabinet, and then advocate publicly, whenever he had a chance, in order that no doubt whatever might remain as to what his sentiments were.
 This project of constitution began to absorb all his leisure. He read treatises of political philosophy,-Plato, Stuart Mill, and essays in the Revue des DeaGc Mondes. He took in English periodicals, he sought out Englishmen and Americans in society, and sounded them as sto the charters of their respective liberties. MT. Washburne procured him copy of the United States Consultation; Lord Lyons presented him with Hallam and @ fac-sina- le of Magma Charta. The clerks in his office began ta breathe. The terrific spell of work that had fallen upon them when that direful tabular list was being drawn up, loomed backwards in the distance like forgotten nightmare. They found %<r T klo 1e 1~s. play pitch and toss, and crack walnuts during office hours, as in the good old days and save that they continued to be civil to the public, nothing yas changed from what 1t had heen of yore. The collar and with the double eye-glass was even re-instated in his cane-bottom chair and his emolumemts, on expressing con- triton for the past, and promising not to put his tongue in his cheek for the future. The count had never been brusque with with his subordinates, even when the re- forming fever was most strongly on him. He was always courteous and unassuming; but he now fell preceptibly into his old manner of letting things drift as they list ed, and judging them all with smile He bought new locket, with the name ''Pritchard" embossed rather larger than before, and in rubies, to be more conspic- uous; the use of it was to keep his tenn per within bounds whenever he held in- terviews with M. Jobus. That gentleman continued to rule and be useful, as in his palmiest days. To be sure, when there was an appointment to be filled up, the count endeavored to select the best man that he knew but he had sent his hobby, Puritan, to its stable, and was determined not to risk quarrels with lady or other friends for the empty satisfaction being treated by everybody as Jack in office. Thus, his school conrad, M. de Pleu- meauvent, obtained the governorslHp he wanted Mime. de Rosecroix was promis- ed post for her brother and when 8 mi- nor vacancy arose for which he new of no eligible person, he abandoned the nomi- nation to M. Johus, who always knew of somebody. Needless to add, that water melons began to travel once again through the streets under the custody of dragons, and that cork-soles, heaps of newspaper, and novels were dispached about the country with the government frank, as if nothing had ever happened to check the practice. ...s.4..-.,. .ae
 In this way time flew by until the open ing of the session, day or two after which M. de Rls completed his plan Of a constitution and had it neatly copied out on foolscap by his secretary, skilled in I.precis writing. It was a bright Decem- Der morning when with the document in his official portfolio, the Cochin-C China minister went to attend the cabinet coun- c1 where he intended producing it.
 There was to be a question put to the 1 Cochin China minister that afternoon, by an honorable member of the right, who wished to know whether it were true that post of dignity in Cochin-China had been bestowed upon convict who had escaped from the hulks Ge. to 8 repub- ican who had been transported to Cay enne for his opinions under the second empire, and had fled thence).a As the count would have to yindicate his appoint ment, he had concieved that no opportu- nity could be more fitting for public pro- fession of his new faith ; and he explained this to his astenished colleagues, who, not