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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 43, 7 April 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

whether it ■» the truth or not, that all the conspirators have escaped, and thatthe Government are m a state df great alarm. As for the Purisians, they are, from the Arch of Triumph to the Barrieiedu Tnine, and from Montmartre to the B«r---riereon Mmne. c.dling to uviud the clairvoyartte's predicti'in thai a terrible catastrophe is to occur iinout the en«ls of the decade which c(»miiTenced with the destruction of the Republic. 1 know several persons whom all this talk has so alarmed that they will not go to see the pa.cant which is to come off on the 7th December, lest they should meet with a -stray projectile. The excitement..' adds the writer, ''is deep m certain "circles." From the Daily ATeiDs we learn the followi:!? . — TYavelh-rs arrivi'ijr from Paris state that nothing is talked of there but the plot, of which our correspondent gave the first public intimation a few days ago. Foreigners and others anxious to see the .'Cmperor at Oumpiegne are informed t.hdt at present all audienct s are suspended. Paris is full ot spies, and the wildest rumors are m circulation. A gentleman who wan m that capital on M >nday writes to us. — ' Resiles the boulevard Prince Kugene plot, afirn'j.st every one you meet inquires, • Have you not /ie«rd of the Kinperor being shot af, down ut -Cornpicgne ?' A man assu.-ed me solemnly on .Vfondu y Ihat one of the Cent Gardes was kiJJed nt Compe'iirne by a ball intended fer the K'tiperor, unij r hat the iiss -i--stu w<« executed on tliespt! In or./er lo enforce the truth «f t'le miecdotp, he assured me ihat he had seen a Indv who had seen a sister of the slaughtered Cent Garde m dee/ mourning for liim ! Moreover, he said (hut th<> bullet was ot a particular description." and madeoM purpose te peuelrate the coal wf mai wlitcn fie Kinperor wear*. The iwiprohabftiry o' such an affair being hushed up is. however, s" irre.it that me cannot swud w it. But it is ver. v curious r hat so muwy tules of plols and assassinations should be. m the air. Tlier. isnodi'Ubt nl all about the increased ac'ivity if the secr<4 police, an.! the terror am- ng the i-lasd nf political suspect--. The Paris correspondent of the Gunrdi-an, a"ler r'-lalifiir U,, w ( .|, e „pefii:ig of Die houl.-v.irl of Prince Kugene was suddenly postponed, writes : — "" Pot or no plot, I am wholly uuaolo to tell what may he I lie trulh ar talselmo 1 of the ru yors m circulation; l»i,t as to the sodden adjournment of the inauguration I can entertain no doubt, both tr m infonnah »i I'.ioui direct sou-ce-;, and also BTom the evidence of com mo i sense. The que<tion i-. « Inn i>a< been ihe inotiv7 of the step taken, and of the cijivgi »uslv awkward fi'i respei'iiiiir it, per|>cir.it.ed by th« Alimiteur? Arrests are said to tuive (alien place, and I taliansaru ul-o s .i 1 to be amongst ihe num»er. One story has it that a pore-mo .naif lo>t m kii omnibus, ami examinxl by tht) police, Ii st reve.ilud tricos of a plot air.-iirisi the lit'- of the Kmoeror, to be carried out by a inacliiiie. alo >g the intended line of mute on SaI ur'liiy. Another report- s&ys tnat so'nP'hing uu-jjlt!ii-ant of the Hnd bad alr-.idv occurred at<.'O'iipiegne. 1 know not, if i here be any foundaiioii or wstigeoftruth m these ilyiiig ru-nors ; but it is ijuile rertitiu that a public cere.o'iiv bus been aoruptly jtostponed, that it woul I not have neon flo posiporpl » ifhout r"ii-i>n. and that (he Kmpppor ■is n t t ! hp m .to hrti'o alldwed sa h a thing to he done vatboa serious and sullicieut consideration, j Of course •■ >t a \vhis|>e<* of I hose mailers has boeu suffered to find its wav into the public press.

RxTRAOROfXART STORT. —A M PI'TAT'ON OF A Lady's Ico. — The Editor ot t tie Lancet v. inches tor the truth ol the following statement '• — Late one evening, a person came into our olhVe ami asked to see the Kdiior ot the Lancet. On heiiijj introduced to our sauclutn, he filaced a bundle on our table, from which be proceeded to extinct a very fair and svinm.-tricnl lower cMremfty, which had evidently heli*njed to a, mmnn. "There!" said he. "is there any t'ling the matter «ilh that. h'ij ? Did you ever see a haudsoiuer ? AVhat ou-_ r ht to be Hone with ihe man who cut it off?" <hi having Ihp meanin_ r ol tbe<c .nicrroja'or-cs put before us. we found thai it was the 'eg of th • wife of our eveiiiiii- visitor. He had been accus'om«'d to admire the lailv's leg and foot, of the pertection of whicii Nliewas.it appears fully conscious. A tew days before he had excited lieran<;er, and they had ipMiTelied violently, upon which she lclt the home declaring she »ouH he revenged on him, and (hat he would ni-ver see the objects of lii-* a- 1miration a<:ain. 'Ihe next thing he heard of her was tint »he was a patient m Hnspstal, and h:rf her le^ amputated. She hod declared to the Miriieons that sli'-sud'cred intolerable jiain m the knee, and hedged to h ive the lim'i removed — a petition the surgeons complied wilh, and thus became the instrument' of herabs'ird and scJf-lor-meutin<j revenue upon her husband. — Era, November 23.

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