Rutland County Herald

The Boston Atlas gives the following- among others- as one of the incidents connected with the progress of affairs in Paris

Alexander Dumas made several stump speeches as a candidate at St. Germain, at one of which he read a letter from Lamartine complimenting him in the highest terms

The people know you, wrote the poet. You have instructed and charmed them by your romances and your dramas. Your genius has already shown itself to them patriotic, always untrammeled. I thank it then unnecessary for me to interpose between you and them, the man who flatters you, when instead of the applause they have so often lavished on you, you ask their vote and their confidence with your eloquence that rebuilds that republic which your father in heroic times, so valiantly defended with the sword. Before the speech in which this letter was read Dumas had been expressing a voluble harangue justifying Liberty. Not relying long discourses, a journal to Paris chateau with a te boh Cmpauoh, atd which he returned h Counl them rather intoxicated. Strong j s at sae large pictures in his drawing rom of thohate Toul family Who dd he there tad-eapovhoIa bot dare refuse thegn citizen answree Ith matre dhotel, tar it wat demanded by Malamgielln Liberty, the young lady wit the red waden car Oh Liberty ail Iuas what etrutsato cotntitted in ti Lasie : 3 s1 t yrce "..it,r. 100000 papet and rezeived n reuth fiand. .1