Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1873, Page 4

TIIE CHICAGO DAILY IRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1873. NEW YORK. The Ex-Prosident of Pacific Majl--= His Presont Finanoial Status, A Fiery Southernor Extingnished with Champagne--~Tho Fascination of Padded Calves, Meury S. Foote’s Shooting as Bad as His English---Edwin Booth {o Ap- + pear as King Joln, From Our Oion Corrcanondent, Ne:w Yous, Aug, 7, 1873, Will mon anxiona to mako monoy over loarn when thoy linve onough? I suspoct not; bo- cnugo, ns n rule, tho moro thoy got, the moroe they want, nud, by roaching out for immenso sums, thoy loso tho largo fortunos they have al- ready socured. ALDEN B, BTOORWELL appoara to bo ono of this sort. Only a fow yoars ngo, ho was, I boliove, tho propriotor of o livery-stable in Clovelnnd, O.; ond, Iater, was in command of o Potomno stonmboat during the War, In that position he bocamo scquainted with tho danghter of Elins Xowo, tho invontor of the wowing-machine, afterward mot hor in Europo, stel finally marriod hor. Boing the hus- bandof & wealthy heiress, and nover having had any monoy hoforoe, ho waasseized with o groat financinl ambition. o conceived that ho had & genius for spoculation, and was dotermined to prove it to tho world. Viall atreot is the nronn for Inrge pocuniary enterpriso; and into Wall Btreot ho wont. DBacked by hiw enpita, ho soon guined control of the Tacific Mail Company, eud, with the funds furnished by tho Bowing- Machine Company, ho entorod into heavy spoou- Intions of divers kinda, At tho end of o yenr, he hnd cloarod over 2,000,000 ; aud, sovon or eight months nago, ho was worth not loss than 6, 000,008, It i3 undoratood that ho might have rotired then with that amount, but ho wented to Yo worth five, or six, or oight, or ton times as mauch, Like so many boforohim,ho wasanxious to con- trol the streot ; Lo stand, measurod by the mon- stary scale, nbove Daniol Drow, Mosos Tnylor, or Jny Gould, and bo on a lovol, at least, with Cor- polius Vanderbilt. o reckonod withont his host, . The same corporation—Pacific Muil—that carriod bim up dragged in down, When the stock roso above par, last autumn, he agroed to tako a vast number of shares in two, throe, and four months' timo, at 80 and 90 ; nnd, long bo- fore the period of dolivery, tho stock was 25 to 30 por cont lowor. Ile. tried to compromiso; but, as ho was very wealthy, (ho con- tracting _parties hold ~ him to the coy- enant. Mo could not have mot Dbiy eugngemeonts had it wot boen for Jay Gould, who oxtended a holping haud. Stoclwoll paid up, though the paying up, in iho Iongungo of the stroot, protty nearly #cloaned him out.” His ill-fortuno ho takes very good-nnturedly ; and, ag he is atill vory youing, ambitions, and hopoful, ho expoots to ro- cover tho position ho hag lost, A small inde- endonco—somo $250,000 perhaps—in atill loft fm; but this scoms {o bo o misorable pitlanco to 4 men who, nan » fow months sinco, bad $6,000,000 fu_ hand, and wns panguine of swolling it to £60,000,000, Just now, bis offairs are particularly complicatod, Entirely out of tho Pacific Mail,—cortainly no disndvoatage,—~ho Lins, ns you know, entorod guit againat the Compony for ‘o deal moro monoy than it has auy presout meansof paying. Tho Pucific Mail is doomed, unloss all signs fuil, and Jikely to sinkout of sight. It appears odd enotigh that a corporation whoso shares sold roadily st 900 bofore tho War should now Lo galling at 57 to 88, with a fair prospeet of going 1o 0. SEA-SIDE JOKING. Soma of tho metropolitan jokors down at Lom Branch huve been pulting off joats upon Uufix J. Hastings, of the Commercial Advertiser, who 18 fond of waggory whon ho himeelf is not tho wvictim, The other duy, & lot of these merry fellowa swerp at Haustings’ cottage, when & Southorner, evidently tho wozse for potations, stopped attho door to ineke somo inquiry. Lauronce Joromo, always bubbling ovor with fun, csEying entor- tainment in the strangor, asked lim to come take & drink. Tho Southerner, Deing quite_garrmlous, mado it kuown thar ho was from Helenn, Ark, andtho editor of u uowspaper in that clasaio city. Sit down and drink a glues of champagno,” romarked Hastings; * wo're buying cditors horo. We've just bonght ono for §30 and a sil- vor watch ; and I sapposo wo might buy you for 30 without the silvor watoh." & Arkansns was tipsy enough to Do sonsitive, und to roprosent to the fullest tho dignity of Ais section. * Buy mo, sir?” ho questioned with Hoveroign indignation. Ry —! I'm a South- ernor and 8 goutloman, eir, aud Iwop% be in- pultod, sirt” < i Novor mind if you aro," chimod i Joromo ; “‘you needn't be afraid on that account. You can stay horo as Jong us you liko." v Afraid? i[—and d—! do you BUPPOO I'm afraia? I don't know what fear is, sir.” WOf conrso you dow’d,” rejoined Jorome “and you shouldn’t bo afraid Lore. ~Nobody will hurt you.” 4 ITurt " mo?” fairly roared the Arkanann, #Nobody can hurt me, I can rmlm mysolf, sir. And, it you doubt it flooking florcaly at Jemmo?, ‘Dl satisfy you on that poiut, sir,” “Ohl you mustn't quarrel with me,” said Jeromo; #I'm on your sido; I'm from Helens mysolf, ' But, sinca you talk of fighting, thora's my friovd, Hastings, who talked of buyibg you; lio ia ov full of fight ns an ogy is of ment. If bo has ivsulted you, ho'd like nothing botter than to [ out on the bonch and exchaugo shots,” + But,"—interrupted Hastings, who had no ppecinl fondness for being crowded iuto n ducl with & drankon man, moroly for o joka—* but let mo Bay———" “Yon must not interfore, Mr. Hastings,” . quoth Jerome ; “ you are ontirely in the hauds of your frienda. As I was about io remark, Capt. Tamrod—" *¢ I'm not Ramrod, sir ; my nsme is Col. Wag- staff, 1ato of tho Confederato army, sir.” © Col, Gnabag, thou—"" Wagataff, Wagstal! Iwill not bo Insulted by boivg calléd out of my name, sir, Il fight anybody. No man can question my courago with impunity " Bat I toll you, Col. Wagstafr," cantinued Jeromo, ** that you Lave not the shghiest causo for npproheusiou in this company.” ¢ Approhension! Do 1 lookasif I had any ap}vmr\ennlau P * “ Well, supposing you do; thoro is no ronson for your feoling any, Colonel; nnd, ny long oy my name s Muskotvurral, I will soo that no harm comos to you, I assure you [laying his hand on Wagstaf's shouldor], on the honor of & gontloman, thut you have not the slightest cause for nlarm," The Colonel of tho Iate Confodorate army lenpad to his foot, aud strugglod for more oxplo~ in and © tives; but hbo wan too full of cooktails and oxssperation for further uttorance, As ho was trying to eatch his breath, » glaas of champagno was placed in his band, and bio drained it, ~ ‘Chen anothor, und another, and suothor, until he forgot wll about hia origs Inanl‘levnncn, and slippod into » mood of up- ronrions hilarity, Tho lnat seon of Col. Wagatal, ho was trying, ot 8 2. m., to get iuton hack by climbing over the roof, und, tho last heard of him, Lo wus struggling to sing ** Dizio™ to tho air of ** Jobn Trawivs Body.” TIE AYMPATIY WITH JAWDDKT, Men who marry uctressos off the stago nsually do ko from sudden impulso. An excoption to this is the casoof o young follow who, threo yonrs ngo, bocame onmnorod of one of tho londe mombers of the Lydly Thompson troups while performing in this city, Hiy love was honorable in the sonso that it was conuubm:‘l! inclined, and ho proposod forthwith to the vinity of golden locks and abbroviated skivts, Bhe requested acortain timo for consideration, Toarning meanwhilo that thoe youth had otpeatations, but no money, sho doclined tho honor of the allisnee, and continued to displuy horaolf lnvishly in absurd burlesques, 1o amorous Rolando wus stoadfaut and loyal, 1o kopt up the most sentimantal correspondonco with hio charmor, and vivited Lior rogularly when #ho happened to bo in the wmotropolin, Ilo bo- sought his_grandfathor, who had promised to ramombor him in his will, to do somothing for hitn in the prosont, and so securo the oternal ratitude of two young and loving heurts; with Kuulrml bosh to an unlimited extont, Ko graudfathor, molted at luas into plty for his npounay grandson, sottled upon him £5,000 o enr, With tho evidonco of this, Rolando flow 0 o Weslorn city, whero his inamornta wns kicking up hor satin garters to Offonbach's muslo, and porsuaded her, upon the pronontation ?l dflm undoniablo facts, to bogomo Mrs, lo- ando, Thoy who may miss hor' from tho boards and burlosques, noxt sonson, need not dospair. Ior engagomont with Ilynon may prove Lricf, Sho may roturn to dolight the oyos of onthusinstio aduirors in spanglod potticoats and symmotrical snwdust, . A VERY DAD SUOT, Tlonry B. Footo, an you kuow, In writing out, in vory’ vorboso_linglish, his ' political romiu- fsooncos, I doubt if ho will toll of hia ridiculous dnol with Soargont 8, Prontlys, noar Vicksburg, Miss. Ho hiad taken umbrago at Prentisa for gomothing or othor, and hnd sont him o chollonge, which tho Iatier, boleg o Northorn man, accoptod ; having mado n rosoln- tion to accommodsto down thoro, in that way, ovorybody who insistod o satisfaction. A num- bor of porsons had gono out from town to soo tho fight ; among them n_ small boy, who had olimbed into the top of n troo for the sake of having o botter viow, Footo alwaya was a notoriously-bad shot, and, at tho first ilre, his bullet flow vory wild of his antagoniat. While the seconds wore loading the Elstu s for n sacond fire, Prontlas, obsorving the oy in the tree, called out: **You'd bettor como down from thoro, my lnd! My friond and losrned cotleague i shooting very wildly this morning, and you may got hit up thore.” This produco so much morriment, and no much good-feoling, that, after tho next fire, Footo declered himself satisfied ; shook hands cordinlly with his adver- sary, and thoy roturnod to town tho bost of frionds, RALMAGUNDI, Tho Safo Deposit Companies have done so woll horo that sovoral more, it is snid. will bo chartored, aud go into operation, this and next spring. "The present rage is for Dairies—meaning res- taurants whero frosh milk, frosh butter, fruit, and farinncoous nrticles of food aro apacialtes. Bomo threo monthsago, one of thoso Dairica was oponod, and hnd such auccens that thirty or forty of them havo uiuce sprung up in difforont quarters of tho town. The indications aro, that the rivalry of tho two Italian Opera Companics next Octobor will bo both animatod and energotic, Strakosch-and 3Marotzolk will do their best to win the viclory, though, if thoy carry ont their programmos, Doth may sharo it. 1t is now eaid that A, T, Stowart, Cornolius Vandorbilt, and William B, Astor aro each worth £100,000,000, aud thnt thoir ostatos aro increns- iu[iiu value at tho rato of $10,000,000 por anuum. supposcd-to-be-German _bachelor diod, the othor day, in Hoboken, and flvo of his wives wont to the funeral. Xach one declared the ath- ers impostors ; but, as thoy all had marringo- certificatos, 1t would bo lurd to dotoimino which ong was tho least or the most marriad. Edwin Booth is_now reported to be sludying tho part of * King John,” which Macroady mado famous, with n view of bringing it out, with every historio acctiracy and splondor, at his own thoatre, some time next year. CorLsTOUN. DANBURY NEWSISM. ~ Cntching o flen. M=, Cobleigh, of Nolson stroot, bought threo hens Bturdsy night, and put them undor a box until ho eould build a coop. Sunday morning lio gaw ono of them in tho stroot, aud bestawing o Driof curse on the somebody who had overturned tho box and jeopanlized his praperty, he aturted out aftor it, to drive it into tho yard. Ittook fitteen minutes to cenvince'him that that hon could not bo drivon inw that yard, and thon ho attompted to cateh it. Taroo times ho rosoup with his hands full of featbors and his chin full of snud, but still the: Len eluded him. Onco be got it cornored, and thought suro ho bad it, but it flow straight up ovor his Lend, and fiappod its wings in his lico, and filled his oyes with dust, Oh, how mnad Mr, Cob- loigh wagl It wae Sunday morning. The bolly wero riuging, peoplo were starting to churcl, and there Lo was in the street, with ne cont or Lint on, and with nothing but slippers on his foct, aud every'once in & while one ot them would come off and ily through the nir, and his naked foot would come in contact with the cruel gravel, boforo he could stop himeelf. Then ho wWould ate to hop back on one foot for tlat slip- por, whilo tho hon_staod on_ tho walk and olo- cuted, and the littlo Sunday-school chiliron stopped aud laughed, aud thoir paronts roprov- od tliom, nnd Jaughod too. Finally the hon got wway from him, and startod down street ot o wondorful speed for & hon, and ho started aftor, hiis faco redder than over; and ovory timo he cloared & rod he would stop and lop Lack two aftor one of those slippors. When ho renchod the cornor of Essox stroot le umped out of both slippers at ouco; ut, instead of stopping to go back, ho picked upa stick of wood and kept on. Thon ag tho hen dodged into a gateway ho hurled tho stick and broke the leg of o strangoe dog, which added its piercing ** ki-yl” to the entertainmont. DBut Cobloigh didn't stop. Ho tore iuto the yard after bis property in his bare feet, and clused thotion into a wood-pilo and caught it just as tl:0 owuor of the promises camo out and wanted ib know what Cableigh was doing, was going to do with his hien, aud what ho wmeant, anyway, by gotting drunk and kicking up such o hullabalo in o peacoful neighborhood. Cobleigh first thought 1o would nock the man down with an axe, and what he could not oat of him bury under a barn ; but the now-comor succecdod in proving (o Cobleigh that tho lien way his, and then tho miserable man burst into tears, and limped back lll)uma, whoro he fouud tho threo hons under a 0X. Five Minutes for Refrcohmenty, When the train draws up st Stamford, fivo wminutos for refroshments, it i easy to distin- flxiuh the exporienced travolor from™ tho rest. o st alroady got out ou the platform, and is oithor at the bottom stop or close enough to it. Just a8 soon as tho speed of the train Locomes loss than ho can muke, he springs off and dashes ‘madly for the enloon door, through it aud up to tho counter, giving his ordor for coffce while moving, and_snatching up thoe right orticlo the first timo. o knows just Low much timo iy re- quired to mako five minutes, and when it iy ox- pired ho is out onthe plalform picking his tooth and tulking abonut real estate. Alas for tho inexperionced traveler, such i3 mnot his rocord. lleis inside the car whon it stops, with twonty persons sheud of him. o jumps down on tho platform in timo to wueo tho mass swrging into the door, and thon it suddenly strikes him that Lo may bo too lato, and undor this inepiration ho throws him- solf into the stmggling gang. o doean’t reach tho tablo. s und the othor inoxperiouced travelors form the outside lino, and shout their orders through thie opening, and receivo what iy banded them with thankiulnoss and what dox- tority thoy enn mustor. Such a man will spirc, and chioke, aud paw, and jaw during ontive fivo minutes, and in that time may got down two-thirds of n saudwich, one-third of a picce of custard-pie, and more or less of tho coffeo, and thon fiut out of the door just in time to oatél hold of tho car-rail, and thén he pulled on by tho brakeman, And whou ho has renched his soat and s soraping the rut of that pio from his boot, and is drawing cold air into his throat to allay tho pain of the scald, he will think up things about the keopor of that rostaurant that would make the Lair on a saw-Lorso stand straight on end. andling n Sanpping<Turtle by the Wrong End. A maau namod Gilsoy, who by strict oconomy and pevoro industry has succoetlod in gotting his family a littlo place, freo of incumbrance, was flslfug in Still River, near tho Boaver Brook Mills, on Sunday afiernvon,’ After sitting on the bank for o couplo of hours, without catehing anything, he was gratified to seo, on a_fiat btono in tho water, nunnpplut' turtlo sunning itsolf, 1'ho butt-oud of the turtlo was toward him, anl he thought ho would eapturo it ; but, while ho wis looking fora pluce tostep, the turtlo gravely turnod around without hin knowledgo, and when ho got within reaching distunce, and bent down to take liold of what naturo dosigned should bo taken hold of whils handling & suapping-turilo, that soclublo animal just roachsd out and took hold of Mr, Gilsey's hand with n grasp that loft no doubf of its sincority, The shricks of tho unfortunnte man arousad somo of tho neighbary, but whon thoy arrived it was too lute to Lo of uny benefiy to Lim, or even to themsolves, for they ‘just caught o glimpso of & bare-hended man tonring over tho lfill, Bwing- ing a small carpet-bag in one haud, and they ub onco concludod thot it was a narrow oseapo from Lighway robbory. Howovor, it was not » carpot- bug he wus uwiuqlng: it was that turtlo, and it alung to him until ho reached tho Whito street bridgo, whon it lot {m; but the frightonsd ms; did not slncken his gait until ho got homd, ‘When ho roached the house tho ludicrousness of tho affair burst upon him, aud whon hiy wife looked at hix pale faco, aud bare head, and dust- bogrimod olothos, and aukod what was the mat- tor, Lio said, “ Nofhing was tho mattor, only Lio was afraid fio would bo too lato for churob,” and nppng{ud to bo much rolieved to find that he wusn PARIS AND THE PARISIANS, What an American Editor Suys ol Then. An Amuriutn Woman at the Jordin Tabille, Mr. Eenry Wattoraon on Parls nud §ts People, Parto Corvespondencs of the Loufsuills Courfer Jowrnal, This is Paris. You know that it is Parls by tho sound of strango voices undor your, window § by the jinglo of horsc-bolls in the stroct; by curlous sign-boards ovor tha way; by long linos of high, crenm-hucd walls; by one boundloss contignity of Mannard roofs, You may know that it is Parls by tho groups of littlo rod-loggod soldiors mustoring and olustering horo aud thero. You may kuow that it is Parie by the oc- casionnl rattlo of koltlo-drums, and othor mar- tinl atrning, to sxy nothing of the froquont dis- play of tri-colorad flags, which strengthon atid loud o cortain pieturenquo suggostivonoss to tho markes of broil and battle that moot the eyo whorever it wandors through the town. It 1a Parig, and enrly morning. Thero aro protty bare-headed shop-girls flitting hithor and yon, and looking for all tho world like tho flgures which apponr on clina vasos, Tho whito muslin cap of tho conciergo and tho gnudy kerchiof of tho fruit-vondor bob whimsicelly among the throug of bluo smocks and black coats thatmnke anovor-onding procossion slong tho Ruo BE. Honoro, from tho Palais Royal to the broad open plnco in front of the Mndelaine, - The sun shines as it can only shino in Franco; and the stranger who hias noever been horo boforo begins to un- dorstuud ot onco the charm which has made Parly a sort of pinchibeck Paradito to good Amori- cans, y ¢ "Pho woman who Lins the best turned ankle in Tngland nssured mo only n fornight ago that the Fronel girls aro singalorly wanting In' statu- asquo attractions, and pointed with pride to o clump of British vestaln, onch ono of whom sho assured mo realizod Mogarth's line of boauty 8o porfectly that tho tapo- thab_measured Powors® Greok Slave or the Modicl Venus would serve them ng well. It may be wo. The Euglish girls oro o strapping sob. Tub when it comes down to the matter of countonanca ihoir. clnims upon one's admiration ave oxcoodingly indirect, The girls of Daris, on tho other liond, couceal wlntever deficionclos of figuro they may Lave julierited by costumes the most tasioful nnd naive, looking out at you in a swoot, bowitching way as if thoy mennt lo Thavo you beliovo that’ if Paris is Ieaven they nroits augals, Tho English girls, high or lov havo in than and about thom™ materialism redo- Tont of themonld above tho roso. The French girls nro ofhorializod, Thoy call up visious of dance and Provencal song, of moonlight and Danks of violets, snd aro rodolont of the roso above ths mould. A Frouch girl has only to clnp on afig-leaf and o bit of ribbou to apposr drossod in tho hight of tho fasbion, TForgivo theso familiaritics, It is Paris, and ono mast needs fool a littlo sinful, If it bo tho wickedest city in_Christendom, whichI take Teayo to dony, it is in ovory rospect tho least dis- gusting in” its wickoduces. If it bo_tho most aitificial, it is tho most brilliant and de- lightful. ‘The most boautiful woman that over I s, aud the woman who drossed most oxquis- itoly, was o'on o litt1o caroloss of horsolf ; por- Tinpd shio puid so_much attoution to her clothes thiat slio hiad no timo loft for her person ; ab all ovonts, boneath tho array of sillw and Incoy and linons, sho was a dirty baggago. That is Paris. It is ‘clean and gay to look upon; bub it now and thon smolls, and is the worse for the Inck of n littlo moro cold water. A city of fountains, it is not o city of mops and brooms. Yet onoe grows used to its dirt and ita odors, whicly, it must bo owned, sro chicfly hu- man, ' Tndeod, in spito of thoir frivolity and thelr Alth, tho Fronch aro moro honest and ploasin, than tho Euglish, in whoso vory bluntuess an brusquetio thoro aro.tho olomonts of duplicity, Tho French aro too transparont to deceivo. Thoir swindles aro small and comicnl. Thero is something fantastic in their larconios aud their lying, which ono is disposed to discount in favor of &lo noxt bottlo of claret. ‘his clarot tastes nowhere so woll as in Paria. Drink it ns you will, it is not tho sume fluid you mado wry faces at just acroas the channol. But it goos bost with tho filets and tho truftles, of which, thanks to 1 pigs of Porrixord, thoro are still pbundance. At tho Cafe Voisin, which 14 prosidod ovor by tho man who malkes tho bost Hn\‘m]fl in Europe, and who, for that reason, has Dbosn nickunmed Sultan Snladin (though' X do not know how many wives hie has or whether his porto bo renlly as sublimo us tho memorialist of gourmandizing hos roprosonted it)! At 4hio "Cafo Voigin they korve you on oinelotto with truflles in n miore satisfactory way than thoy do at tho Brovoort House, becauss thoy do not stint the truffies at tho Cafe Voisin, whereas thoy do t the Brovoort Houso! Sori- onsly, there is in_Amoericn but ona Drovoort Houso, whorons in Paris thoro aro two or threo, small bn sizo and not very improssive in nspoct, but full of invitations, Still it is o mistake that good food is got horo chonply. To Lo sure you 1uny get a diuner of sovoral cottracs for 8 franc ; but it will not bo & good dinvor. At the Voisin a good dinmor will cost_you 16 ar 20 froucs. At tho Cafe Anglaiso it will couw even more, You can live chiosper in Louisvillo than in Paris, 1t Phil. Gorman sticks to Rufer's pricos ho is serving oxcollent meals for = omo- balf what you will have to ay for no better in cuy of the first-class Fronch restaurants, Undoubtedly in mado dishes the French cooks nro_incomparable. ‘Choir scups cannot_ Lo surpassod. Tut when it comes to plalu cooking, to beof, birds, aud fowls commond mo to Jiniand Fronk, to Dauand Barroll. Gad-a-mercy ! all this was not what I was going to sny. I started out for a sounter along the Boulevards, aud horo I find myaelf lounging mear & kitchen daor. Let us resumo our prom- enade. Thero is A lino of troes oxtending from the Plnce do Dastile to the Ilaco do Ia Concord. “Thoroiwaline of flowors oxtonding from the gardon of the Tuilories to tho Arch of Stars, ‘Ihoro are overywhere undor the tracs nibbling ¢ sherbet, or near the flower- Lods ogling ono auother, loiterers with- out number. In Parlé thoy scom to do uo work. Yot they must have worked to build it. Whence theso massy milos of earved stono ? Whonce theso woll-liid, well-kopt, albeit not woll-ssvept, stroots 7 Vhoy sny tho gayaty of the Empiro is gove. Thoy say that Pavis is sombro in its To- publican dress, I confess I don't sooit. ''ho Inst timo I was Lere tho Empire was in itu primo. Dloney was plentiful. Tho court disported itsolf in g paluco, which is indeed in_ruing now. Tho Column Vendonio stood whoro at prosent you soo only an inclosuro of mdo planks, Tho Bois do_Boulogne had lost nono of ity trees. With thesa oxcoptions, lhowover, Paris #cens to bo ns glittoring and a8 rock- logs &8 ovor it was. It may bo & liltle onsfor to cross tho stroot in front of tho Giaud 1lotel, Dut it is summer, the dull season, and hundreds of thousands of poople are out of town. Asit is, coming hora from London, the piaca dazzlon ono with its splendor, and you arc not moved to shod any tears over tho doad Impiro. That Parin owes {t many of its flnories is truo, But Yaris was Paris beforo Napoleon and Paris ig Daris still. In thoday-timo, in the night-time, it is tho samo ; tho snime fondness for light and noite, the snmo fondness for shado and flowera, tho uamo_fondnoss for the opon nir. In tho Ohamps Llysocs, nlong tho boulovards thero iy nothing but eating aud drinking. Tho Lm- pire in gone, Vite la Republiqual Yestorduy it wag Thiors, to-day it is MacMuhon, to-morrow it may bo Gnmbetta. A little whilo ago, the wators of {ho Beino were tinged with blood. Thero aro only wine-stalns now. The Gorman is away. Tho debt is_nemrly paid. Houp-la! A man must live, and, in order to live, ho must not re- ine. Bo (ho Lrench sre jolly. They havo oarnoed by orying what it is to laugh; and thoy aro laughing, sud singing, and making love, ay thougl there wus never un invanion or a Com- muno, Iappy, Mght-hoartod poople! They will show tho Blinh & thing or two not dreamt of in the pages of Canepus or hinted ovon awmong tho Fables of Pilpay, An American Woman nt the Jurdin Mubilles Paris Correapondence of the St. Loufs Republican, Last night, terning off boyom the Llaco do la Concordo, the bluzing gs-Jots informed mo that tho fumaus Jardin Mabille was in full blast. The adminsion is five franck for a goentloman and on- Iy one for s lndy. A crowd of carriuges wore wotting down full-drossod damsels who eamo un- attonded, and, thinklug Pduce o litlle of the wrong sido of Pariy, 1 turnod into tha loaf-om- bowered walk leading to tho rolunda, Tho gar- don propor fs_magulficent, Roul trcos, woving botwoon gae-lights aud tho stars, mado tho #eone o fairy-land. Winding patis lod hore and there, nnd’ charming soats in quiot nooks suggostod lovers' talks and walks. Dub tho sontimontal sort of lovo hns little placg fu tho Nabillo, Its romoved nthn and lghted vistas woro nogloctod, whila ho crowd (n largo ono) gathorad-to the princi- pal attragtion, & splondld band of 100 piocos, playing in n mosque-like stand, “Around thiy orchiostra {n o hugo circlo of the asphaltum pavemont, n oiralo of neats, and ontsido not only real troes but bonutiful ‘artificial ones, hugo prims, bonrng multitudes of flowers, from onch of whfeh tho gas blazod, 1,600 glohon flltored n soft but atrong light upon this inclosure, Out- #ldo this rune o wide gravolod walk, and round and round promeundod tho mass of visitors, All nntions woro reprosontod nmnnF tha mon but the Ilady habitnes of tho placo wore ail Tronch womon, dressed in oxquisito tasto and in all prados of exponditnre. Iero a trim figuro _passed in o opotted bluo ecam- brig and a plnin Tiktle hat, with plonty of muslin frilla3 but bohind hor trailed an ambor satin, docoratod with Inco flonncos, aud dyed blonds hond, pilod up and_surmounted by o forost of flowers,—tho hugo fan held by & jowoelod hand, and the whole woman an oxi},aultlon of millinory nnd tho fluo arts. Hundreds and hundrods of thoso paintod and ologantly drossod oronluros floated about, wpesking with charming unre- straint to all the gentiomen, buf most pariicu- Inrly aminbly disposod toyward tho Amoricans, But there in no dancing. Tho promenndors go round and round aud tho musio plays Strauss waltzos and nud all that. Hero or there couples taka o fow stops nnd it down glddy. At last thoro s o crash of tho orchostrs, and tho poculiar straing that announco the can-can ordor of dancing aro hoard ; two or threo ringa of spectators form around two or threo quar- tettes of daucors—in all inatances hirod porform- ors, Ench st ia n duplicato of tho otnors, Thoro aro two miserablo shop-boy looking follows— nasty, disagreonble-facod croatures—nnd two ol- derly, tawdry-looking womon, ordinarily drossed in sitipad porcalo or biue dotfed cambrio. *Only in ono sot—tho one I nolected to overlook—was thoro any attompt ot dress, This girl was o tall, brazon-focod blondo, with a gray sillc ruflled skirt and apink gronadinesatinstripod polonalise, a rosc-colorod hat on hor mass of bloachod hair, and any amount of $ho Palais Royalo dinmonds in bor cars and on hor flugers. Tho danoing commoncod, aud consistad in bal- ancing to tho opposite courlo, and occasionally crossing ovor. 'Lhoro would be a grand balanco of tho wholo party, and then & singlo perform- anco by ono lady on one h% This stripod-pink- ‘polonafso Indy, up to the hour of my loaving (nenrly 2 &, m.), Was tho only porson who dis- tinguished hersolf as a kickist, Blio would, without a smilo, advanco to_tho contro, yringed Dby 500 pooplo, and lift her off leg ltko n musket o her shoulder, aud pranco about for a minuto. As sho woro & long-train dress and a multitnde of tarlotan potticonts, tho position dig- playod a mnass of drapory, out’ of which atuck » good deal of pink and . white striped milk stocking and n protty boot, slashed sncross tho top. Then the wholo party would truss their arms and balance, and medemoiselle would rush forward and do a solo 80 high that the ring would anlllllfl. 1 bave soon a thousand times bettor dancing in New Yorlt, and a hundred times more impropor dane- ing on tho atages of tha: Oporn-House, Niblo's, and_tho Olymple, and this was tho droadful Jardin Mabillo. The sacial-ovils are lady-liko and very ?:iut vory much bottor-bohaved ‘than thoso of London, who, on tho Btraud, halloo, and sliout, and mako abominablo - spacohos, aud mnkoe night hideous in Oxford: and: 1tegent stroots, The Closeau do Lilnes is much tho samo as tho Jurdin Mabille, except that thoro o lowor grade arsomble, and tho students from tho Latin quar- ter and their female frionds ocensionally do some of tho dancing. E T AMATEUR COOKERY. The Newest Notion of the Pretty, Girls of IRoston. From the Hoston <Post. Therois & Litchen millonnium npproaching, when tho occupation of domestic cronkors will bo gono, and thoy will liavo to soarch elsowhero for cuployment, beeanse tho quostion of sorvico ia to bo spoedily mettlod. *“What sball wo do with our daughtors " questions Mrs. Livormora of nearly every lycenm nudience in the country. “ Mako cooks of thom,” answors Mrs, Howo tri- umphantly, and she sots to work at onca on ber plan of roformation. It has bad o small boginning intho “@irl's Club." They moot overy Saturday during tho wintor. Whon it was time for tho meotings to conso for tho sonson thoy rosolved themaclves into & number of small clubs for work during tho summor. Thero was a Fronch class formod, an Italinn clnss, o claegs in montal philosophy, anothor in social analysis, and at DIrs, Howe's suggestion o cooking club. - Thin is by many the Inrgost closs of all, and de- cidedly the most onthusiostic. All manner of oxporimonts are tried; old family recipoes are hunted up that havo beon hiddon nway bocause thoy Liavo beon utterly useless, and yob wore kopt in tho family like & tradition. Fronch coolk books avo studied with moro esrncstness than was over givon to Fronch grammar. Tho reg- ulation cook looks on aghast, but ns yot says nothing. She is a trifle more supercilious ; sho i8 vory skoptical ; shio dpos not Doliove that this new enthusinem will last’; sbo doos not drenm that her scoptro is falling from hor hands to the dainty whito ones open to receive it. Isn't this the bogiuning of a social revolution ? . Eyory week u supper ordinner or a broakfast is given at the houso of ono of the membors, and overyone hns to contributo somothing to tho foast. Tho mystorious *something " comes in o hand-baskot_carofully pnoked, aud is given into tho hands of tho ones _who arrange the tablos, Then thero is such o flutter of auticipation and cagornoss until tho doora nro oponed into tho dining-room," when thoy all flock unpierly out, first to teat ench othor’s cooking. ‘‘ilow nico that bread looks, Whomado it ?" " Oh] those delicious almond cheoso calos, wheroe did they como from " T brought thern,” callsono, * and what a timo I had with thom. I didn't butter my tins euough and thoy broke drendfully whon I took them out ; Ik;::In_mudud overy ono, aud you never would aw," ““Parker Houeo rolls ! wonder 7" e blouds beauty of tho club acknowledged tho rolly, and hor sister, & young matron, lnid olaim to the brond, whilo the chickon croguiottos woro owned by s bright black-oyed girl, who, when hor dutios as anaclivo membor of tho Cook- ing Club permit Lor, translates biographics from the German aod wrilos proetty letters for tho papers. Of courso all theso girls aro vory caro- ful of criticism, and they praise ovorything that comes to tho tablo as thoy feol iu duty bound to do. But thore is beyond that a test by which ovorything I roally trlod. Aftor tho suppor is ovor o gonoral fulk on cooking onsues, aud ro- cipes sro oxchauged, If & recipe is not asked for, tho unfortunnto dish s nover again offered at that table. Ono of tho young ladics has al- roady dotormined on gathering togothor tho nicest reaipes, thoso that Lisve boen tested, and Yul:huhln s & cook book-n cook book for girls, 0 bo usod for all practical purponos by the com- ing cooks. It will bo designad for those young houseckocpers, too, who are going to bogin their domestic lifa in tho old fashioned way—that by aud by will bo tho new fashion—of cariug for thoir housos themsolves snd making thom roally homes. Vandalisni. Rome Correapondence of the New York Herald, It is to bo very much lamontod thut o spirit of hostility to the Churoh shonld occasionally mau- ifont Itself horo in Rome by acts of vaudalism which rocenily have not rospected oven Bt. Totor's mnjostio lcm{:}u. The alabaster carnico which ornuinonts tho baso of thd brouzo.statuo of 8t. Potor haa beon brokon off tho baso for a considorablo lougth on tho sido opposito tho Pa- pol altar. This must have boon oither the work of Homoe malicious dostroyer, out of hatred to ovorything ecclosinstienl, or of some unscrupulous doprodator, do- sirons of ocarrying away somo _tangi- Dblo souvenir from the gratdest church in the world, Whichover class of vandal the rufllan Lolongod to, ho is equally dotostablo, and the more #o a8 it was evidoutly not a solo cnso,—a sort of irresistiblo Idiosyncracy,~—for tho fingory of tho marblo angels who decorate nnd, as it woro, prositlo ovor the fonts of holy water on each sido of the 5rcut navo of 8t, Poter's, have boon recontly and barbarously knockedoff I Tiv- orybody who has soon aud admired theso colossal putti, tho slupendous ereation of Bormini's gonius, will Bhuddor at such a cold-blooded pro- fauation of art as well as rollgion, e T Proposod 0ll-Pipo to the Seabonrd, From the Plilidelphia Press, "Thero Is now au offort boing mado, and with* allogod succoes, to form & cumpany to pipe oil from tho petroloum regions to tho commorelnl warts on the seabonrd. Tho proposition is ono which will, of course, strike tho guneral reador with amazomont, and command tho worions at- tention of ciontfuts and mochianion ; but it must bo romamberod that this is tho age of wondors, 'io mon at tho hoad of tho piping schiomo ara shrowd and practicnl, Bomo of thowm aro idonti- fled with tho groatost of our materinl projocts, and understand pruclufll{ what they aro about, Thoy aro rosolved to put thls thing through, #o tlat in & fow yoars wo may oxpoct to seo pluge on the Dolawaro front from which ships will Lo londod_with the aily froight ruuning through pipoa diroot trom tho tunke on OLl Orook, Who is up to that, T e e e et ‘SWINDLING EXTRACRDINARY, Expose of the Renl EsIMp Oporations of C. M. Leslics«~Ehiladelplia _in a Yerment, Hundrods of Pcoplo Rulned--How the Swindlor Amassod a Million of Dollars.--Lestio a Fugitive, and OIf for Europo. Phladelphia (Aug. ©) Corresponencs of tha New York Terald, { It i3 soldom that the poople of thia oity have baon Bo oxoited as they woro last evoning ovor tho oxposo of tho groat frauds in tho offico of tho Rocordor of Doeds. It is n subjoct that affords food for intense alarm in overy oirclo to-day, and 1s vital to tho intorout of overy owner of roal os- tato throughout this groat city. Tho frauds hiave been porformoed go systomatically and in such o uurrrluln aud succesaful mnanor thot but fow indlviduals who hiavepurchnsed proporty of lato yoara can feol snfo until his or her titlo has boon searchod thoroughly by hands whoso intogrity i undoubtad, Tho rumors concorniug tho swindle wero so startling and uuul‘lloflufi lato at night that it was a mattor_of imposibility at tho timo whon the Herald's oxclusive account wag propatod for any ono to appronoh within hundrods of thousands of dollars tho ox- act figure which tho nlloged conspirator, Leslio, had succoedod in obtaining from his victima, Ab ono timo it was plaoed ab over 21,000,000, another moment it was $700,000, and flually it wes sot- tlod that his fraudulont transnctions amounted to §360,000, This morning thoso figures have beon considerably roducod, nnd it will bo wecks ot beforo tho wholo {8 made known, and ovon hon it mny faroxcood tho cploulations of thoso who aro now at work oxamining the records. ‘Tho Rocorder’s ofico in Chestnut etroot hns boon thronged throughout thedsy with anxious prop- erty-ownors who liave had donlings with Leslie. It was painful to watch their movoments. Somo hinye givon up in deupalr, sud o sottlod focling of -ruin sooms to abido with them. Thoy lavo lof- tored around In knoty of twos nnd throos, with tho title docds of thelr proporty in their hands, many of which have, 88 {s alloged, beon manipu- Intod disastrously for their Intorests by TLoslle, and disouss tho mattor ; others, mora excitable, rush frantienlly hero and there, vainly domaud- ing that Lesllo ba {;Ivun ovor to thom for sum- mary oxeontion, whilo dozons ily around the law oftices of Third and Fourth strects, consulting legal gentlomon ns to tho bost mesus for obtain- ing rodross, _One poor Gorman, who lost 34,000 through thoallogod misroprosonfations and fraud of Leslio, was so violont in his DENUNCIATION OF TUE SWINDLE that ho had to bo carried away by an oflicar, and wos evidently insnuno, Many Iadies were also ‘prosont, looking after their intorests, nnd wera eatly excited. In fact, itwnsnsortofn ‘ Black Friduy ” for property-ownors, and will long bo ro- ‘mombered in this city. O, M. Leslio, tho alloged originntor aud chiof worker in tho swindling sehomg, i8 a native of this city, snd is & man of {luo phy NXTU nnd splendid business qualificn- Hone, o Jans for yoars baon ono of tho largost doslers in real oatato of every doscription that Philadelphia has produced, aud his yearly salea havoe in times past roached hundreds of thou- sands of dollars, Exactly how and whon ho cominonced his nefarious business is at pros- ent unknown, but it is conjectured that ho Dogan threo years sgo. It is said that to suc- cossfully accomplish his designé it becamo mocossary for hin to form intimato relations with the'clerks of tho Recorder's offico. This waa during tho administration of Mr, Housman, Hia succoss in this reapoct was only too flattor- ing, na tho rosult proves. Hias previous sterling intogrity and uublomished roputation as s man of ionor gainod him the good will of not only the Recordor but tho scarch-clork, and, as ho was o frequent visitor to tho offico on business apportaining to his profossion, began to bo re- garded slinost 88 & fixture, and was renderod ovory facility in ¥ SEANCUING FOR TITLES OF INCUMDERED TROP- EITY. At last, having become involved henvily through unfortunate speculations, it is supposed that ho resorted to this bugo aud ingenious modn of ewindling a8 tho only means by whicl to oloar his indobtedness, nnd aftor he badbeen adjudgaed & banlrupt in the courts ho moro nssiduonsly cul~ tivated his acquaintance in the Recordor's oftico. His modo of oporatlons woro 80 nicoly plannod that no suspicions wore entortained of nnything boing wraufi, end the roarch-clerk, by boing food, a8 ia alloged, allowed him to make his own poarches for incumbrances on all properties, and, when ho had fixed thom to suit bimsolf, would sflix tho sonl of the Recorder to the same, asif ho, the clork, had.personally mado the oxaminntion. In this manner Loslio {a alloged to hinve disposed of hundreds of lots of ground that woro bheavily incumbored to partics, aud, roducing & ‘‘cloar cortificato,”” under the Rccomor'u seal, dinposed of thom at ‘‘great profit to himsolf.” Ho had made bhimsclf such ou authority on ronl estato incumbrances and trausfor mattors that his oxporicnee and advico woro sought by people of every grado. Dur- ing tho past threo years ho was o heavy oporator 88 & buildor, and orected on speculation largo rowsof city residences, somo of which hovo created & groat donl of attontion by their beautiful locations and superb designs. Among the proportios ho thus speculated in was ong known as “St. Albane.” The ground on which it was orected was takon up by him at o prico of nosrly a quartor of o million of dollars, for which ko gave heavy purchaso money mort- goges, ond then subdivided the ground into numerous lots, By A BERIES OF 1IOKUS-POKUS CONVEYANCING throngh “ dummios,” & ground ront, having a Princlpnl of $2,600, was saddled Lo each of them, This part nicely fixed, sud having placed the oporation in the usual mauner of ‘‘bonus” building traneactions, ho ia alloged to hiave laid his first groat base-work for fraud. ‘To make succoss doubly sure, ho put a second cucum- branco on &l of tho lots named, and just hero the samo “dummy " which had beou ncting as ground landlord “turned up, this time,.hiow- ever, nppoaring in tho role of mortgagco to tha amount of 32,500 to §3,500 on cach prop- orty. Liko the firnnnd-xunm. the mortgages wore presumably without consideration and no moncy passed. 'Thug the oncumbrances on the propor- ion excecded their valua, Conkequently ho aithor gold them outright at o honvy discount, or tho ground routs, boing reul estate, wero thom- golves mortgaged or thie mortgages placed out ag collateral for loans. \Vismml,v still furthor to in- cronse tho usofuluess of tho lots, ho raised-addi~ tional “collnterals” on tho smmo by gotting + clear cortificatos " from the Recorder's oflice as ho lind dono hundredsof timos boforo, and nons but he was the wiser, with tho possiblo oxcoption of tho clork, whoso duty it was to do tho soarch- luF, aud for whicli thio Rocordor is allowed a cor- tain foo by law. To make the swindlo tho moro cmnglotn and plausiblo to tho dupo it was requi- sito that tho oxistonce of ono sot of those elaims agninst tho propertios should bo concenled and senrchos clear of wecond oncumbrancos be pro- sonted in propor shapo and accoptod by tho lend- ors and the monoey on the third lions paid over, Buch was’ THE SYSTEM FRACTICED DY LESLIE, No doubt the head of wmanya family will awnken oro the waok closos to the knowledgo that the homostead for which o has wrought bas boon incumberod for far more than its in- trinsic value by a hoartleas knave who is to-du; s wanderor on'tho faco of ~tho earth, with a loa: of sin rosting on hiu soul that nono but a flond incarnato could carry, At Inut, ug in almout every case of fraud, the whole long string of kunavery was brought to light by thae Sheriff, who advertised somo of the proporty thus manipulatod by Loslio for salo, Caroful'scarchos wero mado { mortgagees at this time, and tho rounit was tho groat tumult and o tumbling in roul ostate. Tho presont in- oumbont, Mr. Walton, was called upon by the Herald roprosontutive this morning, ‘who, after waiting somo timo for the rush to wsubsido, = wns omabled to bhave o ghort talk with lim a8 regards tho frauds, The Racorder appeared to Lo por- foctly astoundod at tho altogethior sudden and unexpected denouoment, Au for Leslio, ho con- sidored him o very shrowd inan, but he novor on- [ tortained tho Idon that ho was tho acoundral thnt it would appoar ho is. 1o could give no defluito ostimato oy to tho amount of the frands, but said it way large, All of this had beon carried on pro- vious to his alection to oflae, and ho thought it strango indoed that kfs predacessor could have boen #o blindad to the roal situation us to permit & tuan, It made no difforence how respoctable ho was, to make his own sonrches {n the oflice, write thoem out bimself, and have tho seal of the ofiico attaohed without tho Recorder looking over them, 8inco hie bad boon In the ofico Lo said that Tioalio had approached him, sud mada prop- onltions to tho effect that if sllowod to muake hig own searchos ho would muke 1t all right, To this proponition an answor was given him in tho nogative, and Lenlio loft woomingly in n angry mood, It would requiro weeku yot bo- ore, THE PULL AMOUNT OF THE SWINDLE would bo made publio, Tho wholo affair looked lind, and he folt seriously for tho good nawme of tho' oity, e 3t wa ho Intonded using ovory facility in _his power toward giving information to _tho public coucorniufi the mattor, In hig judgment tho responsibility undoubtodly rested with ox-Rocordor Housman, 1o might not have Doon_nwaro of_ the frauds_boing practiced, yob tho Rocorder, as a sworn officer of tho cit, vacmmoPt oould bo suad and _mado responai~ blo fornil lossos. It i now undoratood that monsuren _to that ond aro bolng propsred, and Mr. Honsman may bo notifled at any momont. Alrendy J. If. Btovonson, counsol for ono of Lioslie's viotims, proposen to tost this quostion at once, aud has alrendy oponed legal nogatin- tlons with Mr, Houswan's counsal, Mr. J. N. rown, Tho Blioriff on Monday nold soventy-five lata of Loslio's ot low prices. During tho day theoity hing boen eoured in ovory divection ror%Xr. Lox- lio, but it now transpiroy that ho has sailed for Turopo, but in all probability will bo intorcopteil ot Liverpool, Ifo loft this city with 8350 in gold, and many who aro intimately acquaintod with him aro of the opinion that Lis mind is do- rangod, umbors of porsons ‘' TAKEN IN AND DONE ¥OR ' nro mombers of the loan and bullding asaocla- tions throughout tho oity, and they avo ralsing & gront outery. On every hand snd hourly frosh viotims aro turning up, and the cry in ¢ Btill thoy como!” Tho offoct on tho roal sstate mar- kot has beon disnstrous, as poople desiring Lo purchage proporty ara holding back untilthe wholo thing Is cloarod np. Businous mon look upon tho swindle with alarm, a8 tho wholesalo tamporing with tho rocords and the aon! is n mattor that s almost boyond their comprohonsion, It appears by tho rocord that Lesllo L roalized within n fow Joors past somothing Jike o million of dollars by ia transactions in real estato, and it is 'nob known what ho bas down with this lnrgo amount. Hig family aro still in this eity, and appear to feol deeply the humilintion caused by tho expose. Tho olerk’in tho Recorder's office, with whom Loslio was go intimato, is on hand, but doclarcs ho i innocont of any collusion with tho alloged swindlor, and profossos a willingness to vindicato Lhis innoconce whenoyer roquired. It is a ouri- fous caso on the whalo, and it remaina to bo saon what disposition will bo made of it by tho Legal Doparimont of tho city. —_——— HONOR IS SATISFIED. From the London Saturday Review, It in difficult to writo ueriously of thae duel ba- twoon MM. Paulde Cassagnac and Rane, Modern Fronch duecls aro hardly over mortal, unless gomo blundoror happous to bo involved in n quarrel, ns was tho_case whon an Englishman named Dillon ws killed & fow yoars ago. Ho hind nover hird any lesson in foncing uutil aftor ihio chiatlengo had been given and accoptod ; and it was snid that his master taught him only ono thing—namoly, tho guard which is technically called tierce. " It has Leon ofton sald that a slight knowlodgo of tho use of tho sword is worso than norio, and that tho boat chance for a novice ia to'| £o in'rosolutoly at his unm‘fnnm by tho light of naturo, Irishmen succeed In this plan innovels, ‘but the odds wonld be hoavily against thom in an ootun! oncounter, appily the com- bataots of Monday last ~ had _ hnd long practico, and ~ noither was likely eithor to kill his aniagonist or to bo himaelt killod. 1t would have been safo to bot on this ronult, aud porhaps tho priucipal object of tho duol was to obtain notoricty for the performors. 0'Conngll begnn his polifical carcor by a duel, but ho fought with tho pistol, which is much less manegenblo than the sword, and he killed bis man, A report, apparontly published on author- ity in tho Gaulois, tells un that this duol had ‘boon oxpected for six or soven yoars. The per~ formers had doubtless carefully rehoarsod thoir party, and wero leapnrud to * ntisty honor” nt ‘moderato exponditure of blood. Tho same sort of thing used to be dono in & less protontious way among oursclves. An extant handbillof the year 1700 contains a challongo and accoptanco to meet aud oxercise at sword and dagger and othor weapons, Jamos Harris, maator of tho noble ncionco of dofense, who formorly rid in tho Horso Guurds, andhad fought for o hundred nnd ton prizes, and nover loft tho stago to any man, declaros that ho will not fail, God williug, to moot the braye and bold inviter Georgo Gray, at the timoand placo appointed, desiring sharp awords, aud from him no favor. We by no moans suggest that this was a ' put-up thing” ‘batwoen Messrs, Gray and Harrls ; but live and lot live is s wholesomo maxim in all trades, Thoro would be much threatening, gosture, and clashing of steel, the spectators would feol that thoy had thoir monoy's worth, and Mossra. Gray and Harris would live to fight avother day. Romotimes nrrangements woro made beforchand, o8 appoars from o lotter in tho Spee- alor stating that tho writer ovorhoard two mastors of tho sword in .an nlohouso agresing to quarrel on the noxt opkmr- tunity. The following dislogue engued : ** Will you givo cuts or rocaivo?" “Recofvo,” *Aro You a passionato mon #” *No, provided you cut 1o more nor deopor than wo agroo.” All this may havo been kaid, and whon not sald it was implied ; and if you chango the wespon to tho rnriur and tho scone to the cafo, 2‘0!\ will ot o tol ornf)ly correct iden of the sort_of tacit under-~ standinis on which duels among Fronch journsl- ists are now conducted.” ‘Tho roportor says that ¢ tho slightest mistake would imporil tho life of him who committed it;" and 'no doubt this is true, but the por- formers had beon practicing for six or seven yours in ordor that thoy might not commit mis- takes. We know nothing of the source to which they may have applied for instruction, but wo do know that tho art of fighting duely without gerious rosults is taught in” Paris, and we also Inow that if & party of two principals aud fonr seconds go out to fight in tho carly morning, proparation for breakfast for six is usually mado at an adjoining tavern. An ominent member of the Euglish prizo-ring was onco heard to say that he was never 8o much injured in a fight but that Lo could do n good deal of larm ton boof- stoalk within twenty-four hours_after tho battlo. If two strong men untrained und boory light with fists, one of them may kil tho othor, Liut & fatal rosult hardly over cusues from o kciontific prize-fight. It is much tho samo with the bullios of the I'rouch pross. Ouo account ropresouts that M. Gambottn was confidont that his friend M, Rano would Lill M, de OCas- eagnac. Wo should have folt tolerably coufldent that ho would not. Tho ouly redeming fonturo of these political ducls would bo the onsibility of occasionally getting rid of ono of e ‘partios to thom. But this possibility is vory romoto. 'The space coverod by the movoments of tho combatants was only eighteon yards, and thero is a tradition thnt " two !oucl“l}g-mlfltorfl bogan a duol at ono of tho gatos of Hydo Park and finished at tho othor, Somo of ‘the besb doscriptions evor writton of ducls with tho sword are to bo found in Scott’s novols. The fonta of horsomanship which ho makes his horoes Eor- form nro astonishing and _incrediblo, bub thoir porformancos with the sword are like picturos from actual life. One feols inclined toquote the duol in Peveril of the Peak in referonce to 1. Tano and his friend M, Qawbotte. Julian Y'overil runs Long 'Tom Jouking, the Duke of Buckingham'sman-of-nil-worlk, through the body, and tho Duko, inquiring into the particulars of the combat, i8 informed that tho hostile sword fortunately avoided the vitals " of Long Tom Jenkinn, to which the Duko answera ' Damn Lis vitala 1" That combat was fought in o stroct of London in a ring formed by watermon. The rocont duol, in which algo tho vitals of the com- battants wers nvoided, appoars to havo been fought on turf, which is by no monns suitable for s doplay of eciontilic foncing. It would linve been more convontont alike to_performers and spectators, if o Eub)io room with a nicoly- boarded tloor could have boon engaged for the urposo. The arcangoment for the noutraliza- qu of Luxemburg was lMolF montionad by Mr, Gladstous a8 croditable to tho diplomstio talont of Lord Dorby, The suthors of that srrango- ment will doultless bo gratified to lenn that thoy bLuve provided 'an arous for tho glodintorinl oxorcines of TFronch journal- s, Weo do mot quito undorstand wh the performers took tha trouble to travol to suc » distant theatro, unloss it was to givo groator eclnt to tho porformauco, ‘The prosont Giovern- mount of I'rance (lo)'mmln, according to tho doe- laration of its chief, upon_diviuo snd military powor for its support ; and wo quostion whothor oithor of thoso powors nesd fool obliged to intor- foro with & duol betweon MM do Cassagnac and Rane, ovou if tho intorosting evout should bo announced Lo ho *¢ braugm oft " ou Fronch soil. Tt must bo ownod that the journulista of Parly Thavo not always avoided serious consequonces in their duols, Dujarier was kitled by Deauvallon, and it was gnid that Lola Montoz, who was to bo marriad to Dujavior, olforad Lo take her lovor's placo, and would have fought Bowvallon with Bithor mword or phistol, 1f sho bad been permitted. Bho was mintrossof bor wonpons as woll s of much also; whilo Dujarior could wield ouly tho peu. In tho trinl which avoso out of this duol Dumus appearod a4 & witnous, and, reforring ta his own Qrtmetio writings, rocoived from thio Prosidont of tho Court tho rotort which Las become pro- vorbial: “I1 y& dos dogros.” Duniag stated that Dujarier’ camo to his houpo and told him that ho was golng to Oght a duel, and (nkm% up a sword which lay in the room, Bumay sy that Bo did not know how to hold it. Tlo advised Dujarior to chooso pistold ; but afferward loarn- iug that Bonuvollon way to bo tho ollpouont ro- traotud this nadvice, his motlve bolng that, as Donuyallon was au export swordsmun, he would orceive Dujarior's incapacity and disurm him, Tluhrlmmtu ly Dujarior bucumo awara of Duwnas' motive, znd, thinking his honor concernod sgistod on piatols, — Thero was mnox an attempt to inyite the iutorposition of Qrivior, who was ome of the firat foncing-mnatora of tho day, but this failed (olx; }:Ll"} BaMo mnn?n. lgun;‘un,t ml’l sont l)ujm'lfir with his own son to n shooting-gallery, whore ho mado sliockingly bud praotice, 1t was' 1ih Irst duel and Lig lnst. Duinna was askoed at the trinl whother a swordsman of roputed skill conld lions orably oxorclso that skill upon a novics, and ho ovadad the quostion by romarking that thore aro *dnrk"” swordumen tho practiso olsewhoro than in public rooms. Bolng promsed furthor, ho an- gwored that, when you gobupon theground, questions of gonerosity nnd delicacy, wiiich ara vory fine questions, dlenl[: onr bofore the quen- tlon of existonco. The bistory of French duel- ing would furnish many amusing chaptorn, Gon. Ornano was so good a shot that aftor the first firo ho addrossod his antagonint, Gon, Donnot, with tho quostion, *‘What, sir, aro you not dond 7" It apposrod that tho ball had hoon turnod by a five-frano pioco in Bonmot's pocket, on which Ornauno romarked, *' Vous avez blon B‘MD votre argont."” An important branch of the usinoss of tho old fonciug-mastorn was tho tonching to a pupil somo secrot coup bf' which au opponont might bo disabled. 1t i stll possi- siblo to impart mystorios, or to protond to do so; but ono Parisian fencing-inaster would hardly undertako to show to anothor n now thing, Tho rosources of o scionce which is necessarily finito must linve boun oxhausted long ago. ‘Tho really formidablo foncers arc those who do common thinga with suporior quickness and forco, It is difficult for the most sccomplished votoran to contend against tho lifo and agility of youth. This was woll scon du tho year = 1851, whon Pons and Provost, two of the bost mon of their timo, came to Loudon as an essontial part of an oxhibition of the results of clvilizn- tion, Tons had carried a lanco in tho campaign of NMoacow, and was thereforo considorably over 50 yonrs of age, whilo Irovost was in tho primo of lifo. Thoro las not boon so good s match soon in London sinco; but as it cannot bo doubted after this wook's ux‘pnrloncu that ho eword is an fmportant agont in modorn soclety, wo shall oxpact that tho best French artists in dueling will Lo invited to tho Iuterontional Ex- | hibition, Wo obsorve with rogrot that the literary sido of modern dueling has boon in- adoquatoly doveloped. ‘'ho writor in tho Gaulois isa poor hand, Ho should take for his model tho columns of Bell's Life during tho palmy days of prizo-fightivg. Lvery movement of overy round was pictured, so that the instructed roader could sue the mion ns if ho wore on the ground. This atyle has now becomo obsoloto, nnd porhaps” tho chiof mastors of it have beon cugaged ns spocial correspond- onts of tho daily nowspapors, and have brought thoir powoer of “closo observation and aceurate doscription to bear upon the movemonts of Kings and Emperors, “The duol had lasted fourteon minutos.” This statomont of the Gaulois is rathor too much In the style of Fal- stall’s ** wholo hour by Shrowsbury clock.” The writor could hardly bo ignorant that a combat with sworda could not bo maintained with vigor and without pougo for anything liko that time. Tho combatants camo up um(lmE, Just like tho pugilistic horoes of Bell's Life, but the picture of their movements is .o mere daub. It is im~ opsiblo to judgo whethor the porformers in his, which is to our eoyes o grotosquo procoeding, will obtain applauso or ridi- cule from Parisian socioty. We think that it Fronchmon cannot do without duols, thoy might at logst fight upon their own noil, Lusx- omburge xists undor o sort of arrangemomont of thv Great Powors of Europe, who may thus Yo rogardod as kaopors of ropos and stakes for tho convenience of French giadiators. Porhaps Mr. Richard, or some othor member of the Poaco patly, would movo an address to tha Crown on tho subjoct of applying arbitration ta the quarrels of Tronch journalists, Lord Gran- ville might bo instructod to write n dispatch on the improprioty of turning Luxemburg intoa cockpit. —_—— LITERARY NOTES. Shepard & Gill announce ‘' The Danbury Man's Almanac” for 1874, —It is rumorod that the Shah's diary of his Westorn travels is to be published in London. —Afr. Jofforson Davia ia still ongaged at inter- vnls on his * History of tho Confoderate Statos,” though suifering from defective sight. —Seribner, Armstroog & Co. aunounce Henri Rachefort's forbidden novel, “Cos Dopraves,” in an English transiation. —Seribnor, Welford & Armstrong aro #oon to .hiavo * Cnlinta,” A skotch of tho third contury, by John Honry Nowman. —Bret Morte's skotchos have Leon translated into German by W. Hertzberg, under tho titlo ¢ Qaliforniacho Novellen.” -—Didlor, Paris, bas published, in two vol- umos, 8vo,, Chaignot's ~* Pytiagoras and the Pythagorean Philosophy,” » work which was crowned by the Academy of Moral Sciencos. —* Kaiser Wilholin and His Cotomporarics is tha titlo of Louiso Mublbach's now histor!- cal romanco. Tho first part consists of four volumos, has appoared, and. many moro aro to follow. —Mr. R, H. Btoddard is proparing s scrics of articles on ‘‘ Authors: their Personal Char- actorlatics, Home Life, ete," for Seribner's AMonllly. —Amorican newspapers and magszincs pub- lished in German have beon forbiddon by tho German Goyernment to bo sold in that country. —Hermann Grimm has gone to Florence to propnro a now edition of his **Lifo ,of Michael Aungelo,” and s continuation of his book on “ Taphaol.” —l!)r. Bamuel Ironmus Primo is to publish, through Mosurs, Raudolph & Co., & fresh buok of travols, entitled ‘‘'The Alhambra aud tho Kromlin: A Journey from Bladrid to Moscow, with Bliotchios of Finland, Norway, Bweden, aud Doumark.” —MMr. John Wiee, bofore ho bids good-by to Amoerica on his ndventirous trans-Atlantic Lal- 1oon voyago, will issuo, through tho Phuladelphia “To-Day Publishing Company,” anow edition of Lis-book on ballooning, nnder tho titlo of #Through tho Air : A Narrative of Forty Yoars® Experionco as an Aoronaut.” “Iu tho Bath Archivos,” just published in London, aro soveral highly curious letters of TFrancts Jackson's (British Minister to the United Btates sixty ybars ago), in which Lo gives an in- torosting picturo of the nowly-iledged Republic, Thoro aro many dotails of tho roughness of mau- ners at tho Prosidont’s house, and in Washing- ton generally, of the femiuino bickering botwoon Mra. Morry and_Mra, Madinon, and of the love affair botwoon Mr. Oakloy and Mme. Patterson Bouaparte. ~1'hio Marvellous Country; or, Throo Yeara in Arizona,” is the title of a hoak, by J. J. Coz- zene, glyhig an account of tho ruis of Aztee citios that are found in Arizona, and much about the Apsoho Indians. Shopard & Gill bave tho work in course of proparation. —Mr, Ruskin is vory fastidious in his ideas ubout the shapoe in which books aro published. The vory stylo of binding—rich purplo ealt with gilt edgou—is dictated by him, and no copy is to go forth to tho world in'any other shkape; while tho varioties of type, and color of the iuk, hava oll boon subjects of the most woighty cousider- ation, —Of Mr. Joachin Millor's “Songs of the Sunlands,” recontly published in London, the Dall Mall_Gazelte snya: *All thess pocms ara worth roading, but wo do not know thut thoro is ono of thow which is likely to take a strong Liold of tho rendor. The strongth and originality of Mr. Millor are unquostionable. What ho lacky is oulture,” —Jnmes Miller is to bring_out, vory shorlly, a now, cularged, and revised edition of Gris- wold's # Famalo Paots of Amorica.” Thia edition brings down the subject from 1818, when the anthor's edition closed, to the Jvrmmut timo, tho rovigion and enlarging being done by Mr. Richard 11, Stoddard, —T'ho American Bookscllers' Guide says that boolks in Ohina aro not dear, snd all tho slnndurd historios and_sohoolbooks are very chiep. 'The wholo of thio Confucian clussics el at from thirty cents to #1.60, according to tho quality of tho papor, whilo tho Chiucso primor, containing 1,086 oharnctors, solls from ononnd t-half to two conts & copy. Tho Chinoso nover lay dutios on books, —At tho rocont Literary Fund dinner in Lon- don, Mr. Tom Taylor, tho dramatist, said ihet during Liis twonty-two vonrs of ofileial lifo, his litoravy work was chieily done “in the inval- uablo {hrun hiours _bofora breakfast." Lo thia {t may bo added that Qoeorgo Lliot's favorito time for composition is trom 6 in tho morning till 5 and Mr. Anthouy Trollopo ¢ bronks the Dack of tho day,” as 8ir Walter Scott has it, Ly improving thokamo shiving hours. —A Fronch writor, in ostimuting tho future of sclonco, points out that in fift, or a hundrod yours' Hiwo the English languago will in all prabnbility bo spokon by cight Tundred and Bixty milllons of Iudividunls, whilo tho (ermnan willbo tho language of 120,000,000, snd tho Fronch of 69,000,000 only, nnd_that In conso- quonca selonco is likoly to sook English ohannola of publication, selontific booke hnving ut hoxt o Timiited valo, and necosgnvily sooking tho wideat sudionco, D —Mv, ITonrl van Taun, translutor of Taino's “istory of Euglish Litoraturo,” huu under- takon to proparo & new_trunslation of Moliers's works, and to quote 1 it all the passages which Tuglish playwrights, liko Foote, have atolon Trom the Fronch comudian, s woll as thoso which Molioro himsolf atolo from other writers; for Instance, thoso In “L'Avarg,” from the S Aulularin.” Tho edition will Lo llustrated with original etchings, anil with coples of tle printa o? his charaotors thut wore producod in olloro'a Lifotime,—Athenaun.