Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

ANOTHER AMERICAN IMPRISONED IN FRANCE.
A Paris letter relates the following of Mr. Goodyear, the New York India Rubber manufacturer, who has been spending some time, and money, too, it appears at the late French Exhibition:
The day that Mr. Goodyear received his decoration he was seized for debt and thrown into Clichy. The law of France in the matter of debt is unjustly severe on foreigners. Mr. Goodyear has been three times in Clichy during his short residence in France. Last year he employed a carriage maker of Paris to make him a carriage of the most elegant and costly form, complete in vulcanized India rubber. Mr. Goodyear was to furnish the material, and was to pay for the job large sum of money. The material was partly furnished, and about the time the job was commenced the manufacturer sued Mr. Goodyear for the whole sum. Mr. Goodyear refused to pay, and as no warning is here given to foreigner, he was seized, thrown into prison, and only obtained his liberty by paying the whole sum he agreed to pay for the carriage. The contract remains unfinished.
In the present instance, Mr. Goodyear engaged a machine to perform a certain kind of work in the India rubber manufacture, which, on delivery, was found, like most European attempts at following American models, to be imperfect, and entirely incompetent to perform the labor required. He refused its acceptance, and in a few hours afterwards found himself in prison. Indignant at such treatment, he declared his intention not to pay the debt, and on Saturday gave a big dinner in prison to his friends. But his family paid the sum, (twenty-five thousand francs,) and he was compelled to come out. He will now have to collect the money by a writ.