The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
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THE GOVERNMENT PROHIBITS TfaE
CELEBRATION or THE HETE
or TIME EsAaTrHE.
The Prince Imperial ANA HIS gVoOing@
Ths Ming off Denmark Refuses
Him Epr q sBnsiu-EaW.

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Him for q sBuHiu-Law.
| Especial Correspondence OF the Dsmoerat.l
| PARIS July IS, 1878.
| Who has not heard Of
| THE BAsTIIE,
| that tomb for victims Of State intrigue. royal
| snEnity and religious persecution? Voltaire
| himself was one OF its inmates and his expe=
| risncs may have served to sound those
| trumpet notes which afterward reused the
people to d knowledge Of their rights, an ap-
| probation of their power
| Under the king the Bastie was o veritab1e
| castle Of oppression. Its victims hove fur
| nished many theme to French literature, its
| name an incentive to resistance against any
monopoly Of absolute authority.
Here is d man who has been dragged from
his family by force, and lodged Ia one OF its
| narrow cells. Why2 Neither he nor any one
| else, except his enemy. could render O reason.
He has neither pen, ink, paper nor books.
The sound OF q human voice, save that OF his
iailer, to whom he is completely subject, Is q
thing unknown. The narrow barred window
Of his cell admits no more light or Dir than
do the ten-fest thick walls permit d ray Of
| ated. He exists only as No.
He 10 as completely buried hs II the crum-
bling earth had already fallen on his coffin
lid. His friends will seek In vain or posterl-
ty ransack contemporary records for IL clue
10 his fht5, 6 Try Vi Hit
aseends unheard. No. - Is blotted from the
catalogue Of the living.
A prisoner in the Bastile in the days Of
Louis XIV spent his time In
STRANGE DIVERSIONS.
One day his iailer presented himself ct the
customary hour, with the USUAL allowance Of
bread-mouldy and hnrd-watsr impure and
sekening, that formed part Of the prison
fare. 'stay n moment, Z" said No. 49,. have
Il remarkable thing to show you"
Seated on his solitary chair, In the semi
obsurity, he uttered Il word. The jatler
watched. A spider, obedientto the call, cam
running towards the prisoner. At another
word 1t was up on his knee, at another on his
hand. After several svoutions, In obedience
to the master, who had relieved the tedinm
of long, unoecupied hours In training his
dumb friend, the spider dropped to the floor,
No. - looked up into the face Of the iaiIer
with smile Of appreciation on his own. His
expression may have said "did you ever see
anything more Intelligent p For answer.
the iailer, who had lost all humanity by daily
contact with inhumhnity, rhised his brutal
foot and crushed out the one sunbeam In the
life of his felow-mau, by crushing ott the life
of u harmless insect.
Probabably he boasted Of this ignoble act,
for it reached the ears Of Louis, who released
the prisoner, but never abated by @ little the
misery OF others, whose wretehed isolation
have driven them to the companionship Of q
spider.
The incident ie historic. but it is typical OF
the power, capricions either for good or evil.
that was overtbroWn when the people, In their
transportation, destroyed In five hours thnt
castle OF oppression that had existed for nsar-
ly five centuries. This was July H. 1889. The
morning saw it towering dark and grim, and
secret us ever. The night witnessed the Dop-
ulace assembled for Il festival, to be held on
its ruins, over which ! fioated the famous
words, "Here we tlanceP'
A stranger in Paris will SEQ no trace OF this
formidable fortress prison Of the past, but he
will look long and attsntiveiy at the, COhonne
de Jatsttet Column OF july, q corinthian pill
lar 154 feet high by u il diameter, that marks
the place that will know it no more. On it
hs will read, "17o the glory Of the French cti-
zens who armed themselves and fought for
the defense Of public liberties, during the
memorable days of July 81, %, 20, 1890" fI'he
K and his people, which ended III the banish-
ment Of the forner.l Charles was not q posi-
lively violent or wicked man in himself, al
though one may see the window at the
his ministers, leaving him TO pursue his love
of the ladies and the hunt, tried to reinaugl-
rate the ancten regime OF lnattention to the
popular voice.
Charles K Louis Philippe and Bonaparte
LII have each esSayed the re-enfettering Of
the people, and have paid the penalty. The
third republic asserts itself, let us hope, to
endure. She would fain have celebrated with
great eclat
THE ANNIVERSARY or THE TAKING OF THE
BAsTILE,
July IA, 1878, had not the government ordered
otherwise, fearing that any outbreaks liable
to occur on Oh occasion of public demonstr,-
ton might be- attributed To the Republican
party. and 80 injure it.
Notwithstanding this order, meetings were
held and speeches. intensely national, were
nude, One woman spoke on the occasion,
much to the horror Of the Inconsistent
French, who invest woman with license In
their own sense Of the word, but give them
little liberty In an American sense.
RumOrs were adoat from time to time OF
THE MARRIAGE or Ex-pRtNcE LOUIS NAPo-
LEON B0NAPARTE
with Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter Of
the Queen. These reports had no founda-
tion It appears the prince Is making sort
Of matrimonial tour, just while every one
else is making an Exposition tour The |
daughters Of the King Of Denmark are the
poorest in Europe, rs far as dowry is con-
cerned, but they are all rich in beauty--a re-
mark that cannot be made OF many prin- |
cesses. It may have been this fact tha5 in-
duced Louis to bend his steps Denmarkward |
to demand formally the hand of the sister of
the Princess of Wales. He met with II very
cool reception, II not q decided refusal. 4 |
royal papa Is. much like any other papa; he
likes to understand the prospects Of the |
young man who asks his daughters hand. |
This young mans prospects must be consid-
erabiy damaged by the
UGLY FAMILY SECRETS |
Victor Hugo is publishing In his History Of |
@ Crime" That too truthful and popular |
publication, Just now, must be q sore blow to |
Eugenies ambition, for, If there be truth In
the theory OF inheritance, she Is ambitious
ALI Paris knows the mother of the ex-empress
intrigued us much to marry her daughter to |
the emperor as the emperor intrigued for his
title. They both got what they wanted, and
lost 1t, too.