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_ Deen five minutes Triomphal March of the German Throngh the Champs Elysees. THE REVIEW ON THE BOIS DE BOULUSNE, Tone of the English Reviews of the | German Oveupation, Another Colliery Explo-| sion in Wales. Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador to France, has preseuted his credentiais to the Preneh govern- ment, ‘ The Sub-Prefect of Havre, upon learning the con- clusion of peace, sent in ts resigaauion. A league is-beiug formed to prevent the return of German em- ployés to Havre. | The Cologne Gazetle says that the intervention of Pnglaud was directed wot only in favor of reducing the annexed ierritory, but also of lessening the in- demnity. , The Viceroy of Egypt has agreed to the mediation | Of Great Britain, which nad previously been ac- | Cepted by Spain, 2ud the didicuity which had arisen | between the two countries is looked upon as ter- | winated. The cattle placue has broken out in the French | Department of the Ain, introduced, at is said, by | herds which accompanied the Army of the Bast. H Tn one hamlet turty-vwo beasts died. Catue fairs | have been prohibited in the district. Marshal Bozaine has passed through Belgium from England. i{t is believed in Brussels that he has asked permission for the Euiperor Napoleon to fix his resieace in Pelgiuw, The administrative organization of Alsace and Lorraine 13 nearly completed. General post offices | are established at Strasbourg and Metz, and supe- rior umperial couria at Strasvourg, Colmar, Mul- house, Saverne, Meiz and Surreguemines. The berlin oficial sournals make no secret of } thelr delight that neither the Count de Chambord | nor the Orleanist princes have any chance of as cending the Freack throne. Mt is understood that the radical members of the Engiisb Parliament, led by Mr. Muadelia, will, ta Opposing the Increased army estimates, argue that the increase cannot be needed in time of peace, even | thougi it might have veen required if the war had Continued. It will be urzea that there can be no Good reason for spendisg more on our national defences than was thought suiiicient unis time last year. ‘The conditions of peace are variously discussed in Vienna, The orgaus of the German party say the | terias of peace are Not moderate, but such as must have been expected. fhe Hungarian ana Federal | papers protest loudly against the conditions of peace. the Zugus Presse suys a coaiiuon will be Sound necessary to curb Prussia. Austria’s turn will come next, Since the cessation of hostilities between France and Germany Britist exports to the Continent nave | largely increased. Dur ug the last few days the | customs ofielals have been working day and night | in order to get out of hand the tamense quantues of tea Wiiica have boon required. | ‘The manitesto of the Luceruational Society and the | Paris Workmen's Societies had the best elect m | preventing disturoances in Pasis. Whis protest de- Clared aguinst auy attack whatsvever and denicd that certain fadividuals who had been beading or- ganizations asdelezates for the International had | any authority froin that society, FRANCE. The Triumpial March Tarough the Champs Elysees. ‘The special correspondent of the London 7imes, after mentioulug the difcuities he had to overcome in order to get into the Champs Elysées, writes :— At last, at the bottom of the Avenue Irriediand, I Succeeded in passing the cuarmed iine, aud saw, Joommyg through the fox, tne Avo de PEtone; but f even belore we could distingaisi its outline tne dis- tant clicers oO. Lie German army reacned us, a Lon, continued, Habroken rowr, rising and faving like the Waves «f the ovean, and as interment it was impossible Lo doud! what those cneers meant. Thirty thousanl Germans Were marching in trinmph od. heath the arch on Wuich are cvhronicied German defeats, and omakng i rng wirn their shouts of victory. A le of German cragoons at the top of the avenue ayum barred our proves: these multiplied precautions bemg evideatly nece. sary to limit as much as possible the crowd wuieh Was attempting to gather. At this, mouient the lop Of the avenu of the Cham, ‘ysves tnd the open | space near ihe urch were ti wich troops Waiting: to pass (neougt 1, and a staal bub silent crowd was | Collected on its oUtskaT Suddenly we were | stared by & shot whic), apparenily, proceeded from the Germans, and cansed some fiitic emouon ; gmong ie bysianders. It was evidently fired | in we wir, and might, posstvly, have been an acciient, bub the — epised was not Teassuring. By degrees we reacied the arch itsell and Were Wiuiesses O1 2 spectacle Whica no one who present, be 06 reich, German or neutral, can ever jorget, The broken grouud be. neath Wie arco bad Leeu ievebod and a good road. Woy mace Lhrough It, wad el ug this passed infanuy, cavalry and arti @ laces Of tue men radient Wiih an axuitation Which 1 1s uvpe s For tits supreme hour they had eadured ana bled, | Dnt wow the dangers aod Uie hardships of tlie war had come to wi end. ‘Their laces were turned fast lo the Fatherland, and their first si homewards was tins male tie sign and piedze of their su % As the head of each pat- thon came under ine arch tke mouated oilicers leading it reined up tor a inoment, cast one look up ab the list of victories inserted ove: head, one glance Dack iy thew men, anu Luen, Waving their belnicis | high above thetr heads, gave tie al Jor arnging cheer, [ya sevona every helmet war in the air; the Horses, startied by the sudden roar, prauced and Yeared; ihetr riders, carried away by the excite- Ment, With icighteued coor aud fiashiag eyes, suil | waved their heimets, whe the ten strained their | throats with tuctr saowis OL triua pin It Was the only coca=ton upon which L have seen the Germans induige in puiltory glorification; they | fairly reveled in Whew triumpa, and if was cae more legitimate nuw, pecatse In entoring iney had gor ily rround the Arch, and because Wf ihere were nen present to witness tuely ows bunmuita: the Geriians, by choosing a very ecariy ine avenues, had doue their utmost to coufine the celebranon of their | triumph wo themsely there were, indeed, Dot above 390 or 4:0 people present, and these | were ghite of the lowest class. ' At exactly ten o'clock the procession came to an end. Phe last cheer had been given, the last heimet Wayed; the civalry pickets were heginaing to ctose Ip fiom the rear, Whea a ti ge and one horse contaming tree Geran onicers in untiorm, wio | Were cvivenliy nou-execulives, Qud pad allowed | themselves tu Ge lite, came up item a side ayenu 4M AN instané the med began vo close In upon theme Mid try fo Ir egien their Loree, So As It Possible to cut tiem on, yelling, hissing and peltiog (oem wich tiea, hour and closing up all dirt. The occupants of ie carriage Kept taeir temper adnurably, and beckoned — to tae dragoons to wait for them; in a mo. ment more they were ©, bot had they ter they would certamy nave been murdered, Lacor ad by this episode and by the to that toe tase dragon had hig turned to thom, Wie Mov Pushed ceough tne Whistling aud Rowang and closing in upon tie ret tiring pieKeis. Vinding themselves annouced, they Were geiting bolder, when halt a dozen aragoons slowly Inced about, In an instant the elling Ratte Were tying tn all Atregitous, Irequires oniy iif a coven armed Gernuins to look at teur to Btrike terrur tutu the craven hearts, For abject cowardics combmed with retined cruelty the tas: forty-eight hours lave shown that a low Paris mob Cannot be matched, The Review of Rein ce Bonivgne. The German troops baving quitted Paris ine columns marched by different roads into the heart of the Vols du logne, Where tie Infantry hatred, Med arms, took off thew Kvapsacks and Jay down, meny of them to siecp., Some of the bands were playing, wih came the review, which is | grapuically a by a mulitary correspondent or | the London Pines, Tne troops were drawn up at first in two lines, each ine being jormed of battaiton #2 COL wan, Wheu the Linperor appeared on the ground | and approached “the troops hearty cheers broke Forth, bue when tie came close te them and tiey ree ceived Lhe oxder Lo present arms There Was silence among the men, aud ouiy a siused sound of Must, @8 Many vands at once pliyed the ans | tiem which we cail “God save the Queen.” From live the battutious broke into column and marched past in quick time. syst GamG the 1ieD= try of the Guard, for miantry always marcel past fist in Prussinu parades. fhe men were thickly Dearded, abd seenicd Warriors every ove of Une; ea Was Said OY Some One, Oi 4o MUCH Like Buldiers + the German Troops on the | | marched down towards th | Witte their gioow: | up the mi el nites with ey ! enmity N ea tothe war Was Tete tele amore duns ted, and their dress was newer and in betir trim than that of some regiments which marched past two days before, As each regimenial coor SSCA, in Hung ovt from its staf by the lgat weece, the (aan who, folowed 13 father’s exanipie, has steadily made aud Improved the German army always patientiy waiting for this moment, jong delayed, but come ai Jast, raised his hand and saloted the Imperal ensigis carrried by those who have won him his purple. An oficer remarked, “fhe King’—nhe is King still to all Prussians— OWS perlectiy well how to manage a parade, The Crown -Prince does not. He does nob love war.” ‘The infantry were succeeded by the Jigers, aud the Jagers by the “sehutzen" dat. talton, a body of riflemen peculiar to the Prussian Guard Corp: fue Schatizen lost nearty all their oitic in the battles before Metz. ter the Selil- ven battation marched tue pioncers, ine engimecrs: ot the German arnies—imen who work i si¢ze operations and beleagner fortresses, batid aud re- pair bridges, restore ronds and raiiways, Who KROW ail the acts of construction and destruction, aud are as ready to blow up a house as to build a barrack, ‘They show, perhaps, less of & martial, aut ae than the iniantey, bat contain a ur ranks some oi the clearest heads m Germany, Afier the Piongers came the landwebr of ce ‘Guard— men who have, most of them, wives and chidren Waiting and tonsing for them gt home, ‘The German oeers present could not he:p uttering their admira- on aloud, so mighty were the forms, so vold the bearmg of the picked houseiathers of the armed ua- fon, Next pasged the *Le1) regiment,’ the Prussian King’s Own, lgit only tu name, tor the Men composing it are by no means in- fortor in stature and strength te the rest of the | Prussian infantry. tier them the cavalry, mot in full regiments, but in detachments of eutrassiers, uhlans, Dragoons and Hussars, Weak im numoers, 80.05 nob to Cause the whole body assembied to amount to above & total of 36,000 men. The troupers looked Well, but were not so handsomeiy mounted as the cavalry Who were with the army of Prince Fred- erick Charies, ‘ne held artilery of tle Guard suc. ceeded the cavalry aud Was worse torsed. Last of all came the men of the steze artillery, few in’num- ber, being ouly brougnt tieve to represent a special arm which played @ great part in the latter part of the stege. Upou the whole th rapid inspection and th Bach ta stood fa review was simple—only a e march past im quick time, ne the Grand Stand, wiih ms back to Paris windmill, and then riers Ou the otier side ol the Seine, with wf Or any demonstration. Tie Emperor ttimnei to Versvities with bis son, the dream of lis lite beteg now accomptished, The Favis Press aad tae German Occnpa- tion, All the Paris journals reappeared on the 32 inst, after the deparvure of the Germans, The Débats says trance was absolutely powerless to continue the ydepite her patviousiz, desptie her passion. 0 ate oitachment to that umfortucate Alsace, which force from ter, and that poor mu hued Lorraine, which bas seep her pring! pal town or bulwark, Meiz— Pucelle, as it Was catied—pass under the yoke of Germany, inst Which it had so long protected us. No} whee Could Not Coutmne the war. It ts, above ell, the deputies of Paris who have spoken in the sense’ of war @ ovtrance, Was it weil! in them to giv such counsel? Parts, al, J8 OWL Of the discussion, The war continulug, lier resistance Was in any case annutled, since she had capitulated. It was in the provinces that the battle of France must henceforth have been tougitt; and’ the depu- tics of the provinces knew very — well when to leave off. But tue future belougs not to us. Ii we obeyed soldst aad personal sent ments We should bequeata to the generations wich Will follow us the moe @ordre of vengeance. Over tha: couch of pain on which sirangied France lies we should have for funeral oration to speak but three words—-“Silence;? “Patience; the third Woid—we lave ho rigit to pronotisce it. We have no right fo dispose of the bleod of those who will come alter us Our oly duty !s to render them capable of thinking ‘and of acting freely by themseives; and they themselves wilt’ Dave tue right of deciding one day whether they will satiate their vengeance for the biood oF thelr Lathe: dt is only tor us to leave thei a native land dismembered and dtsmantied, anda debt that wil weixh upon the children of heir children. Alas | we greatly fear that our popu- lation Wil be always the sume—with alt its faalts and with all its good qualities—a population essen: tally feminine; capabie of te most virtuous hero- ISIN, BS OL the Most profound weakness: passing from the extreme of resistance to the extrewe of surrender, und Knowing how to dic and to yield With equal facility, The Verié, speaking of the entry, say: Providence tas been cruel, It has granted to the Prusstan mnagubticont Weather for their entrance. country ts still enveloped m tne now of winter, 2 superb sum Ut i Avenue of tie Cuamps Elysees, Showing to tie Germans, in ali its splendor aad in all its priliane, 23h promenade in LULope. ‘The Sidote whites as follows:— This peace ts So onerous Lor Our country, and those Who have signed it hay Med Such A respousi- tiat We are obliged to adit, while waiting enlightenment o. Which we sti stand tn necd, that the 546 repre-entatives had no other possinte issue from (le crisis under which tue conntry la- bors. ‘They have undergone this peace, rather tian accepted tt. They have syurned it ioeatise they could do no otherwise. Among the light Conunissions nominated by te Assembly the: clouds and lu the AMiuing our resources from the miifiary point ef View. —Necessarly it must ve ade mitted That #8 tformation has no! been favorable to the copiianation of hostiittes; and vit, in decid- ing to pass under the Caudie Forks of Prissia, that deploraole choice has been deemed the wisest. We | sbail not be long m Knowing the exact truth on this crucical point. ENGLAND, Opinions of the English Weekly Reviews on tho Terms of Peace. The Solurday Review remarks tiat if judging the | terms of peace as outsid: may judge who, pro- tected by twenty miles of sea, are i very slight danger from France, and can think, not of our own tely, but of Lhe highest luterests of mankind, we | can only wish that the Germans had displayed a magnanim unparalled in history, aad had eiected to lake no French terriiery, except possibly Stras- burg—a ortress that has actaally laid a German town inashes—and bad been willing to abide the con- Sequences. They would not have had much chance of “eradicating hostinty by generosity.” Frenen, t€ we may judge by the whole history of France down to last year, wouid have made war on _Uhem as soon as they thought they had a. chance of miuking war snocesstuily, Germany would: have suffered for its magnanimity, but a mograninitty that counts the risks it rans is | the highest and most enobling of popular virtues, ‘The world would have been a better worid if Germany, relying on its own strength, nad retuse@adiilional guarantees for its seeurtly, The primary idea of tne Getmans m exii Was bof merely Lhe pocketing of a magnitc: t . itaiso 8a guarantee of safety to them. A very hea faxed nation shrimks trom war, and | France, for the p quarter of @ century will be Mist se y taxed in proportion to its resources popdiauion, — France Will be pound under the penalty of risking, national unkrnptey to keep the . peac towards Germany, while Germany, with two liu. dred milous to inake good its loss: nd enriched by the industey and commerce of Aisace, may count on Keeping atead im We race, and entering on a fucure war with a anole Sysiem and & more soild credit than #raace ean hope Tho Germans, Says the Speclator, have shown themvelves tard uiatsters, and, like most hard « ters, Very near-sigiitod statesmen. They nave ac like t aé Napoivon, aid a peace is to be siuned wuich sakes renewed preparation tor War a Frelici duty. The Economist says tt is certain that in claimmg Meia the Germans uve earued the haired ot France, aud Nearly certain tuas It they nad adhered to me line of the Vosges they wouid not have earned it. ‘The Freue no doabt would, as the Germans alway. say, have beon very bitter at their defeat: bat bitter esses ol Unit kind che away, as we Kuow irom the example oF Seotland and England, and Sagland and France, whitio all other hatreds to be eiilcacions require the provecation of fe; To@possession of te line of the Vosges would have been no menace to France. Tie possession of Metz is, Alsace might hay ind, but Meiz will be feared, and we hate tl fear. With Alsace Germany, tuough ber r deivuce, and, theretore, Jess ith cd by France, would have been but little better situated for olensive war, Wiuie France, left ie possession 0} her impregnable strougiold could kave stood on tite de quiet mind. Now, with te German ironter trust jorwaid funded lalies, with the strong. lortress In Burope garrisoned by its powerful army wthin is0 mites of her lice Will be perpetually auxious for her perpertaliy seekrig an opportauty perpetaally open wo anal fe her to gratify her hatred, @, in fa purchased the perpetual of France at the price of a fortress, and France, after ail her losses, is still a coun ef 86,000,000 of men addicted to military Iie, ferale tn military gentus, possessed of a siogulat power ot propagating thor tdeas, end with firm, though not nuinerous dilies 1a the Aisatinns aud the Poles, Auather Terrible Coliory ExplosionNine. tecu Men Killed and Bight’ Severciy Wounced. [From the Loadon Dally News, x A collisry explosion occurred on! Thursday even: ing at Vicvoria, near Kbow Vate, a Monmoatasiure, by whieh nineteen men and boys lost their iives, the No. i pit, the property ot ive Ebbw Vale Steel, Trea and Coal Company being the scene of the catastro- phe, About tive o'clock ou the evening in questeon, JUSL AS Lic aed Were about to leave the pit for nse Will a which Germans the day, a large quant ( gas ignited im tie No, tem Goud heacnag, wre AVON thirty hands were employed, fivee v1 the: ad left work and gol to the Lop Oc the shalt, Merchy saving themseies fron (be iate Wiitelk betel their telow workmen, Ot ihe eight Who were brougut out alive, Untee were alion, aller passing the mperor, who | @ Was one especially | The | oting te idem. | badly burnt, and are not likely to recover, ‘The colliery Was been at work for the last twenty hws daring which time it hay boen tolerably tree rom any serious accident, Tt has borne a good rept tation for venttiation and neral ood senna Ment; and on Thursday the draught ta the workidg places was considered ampig to prevent any acen- Mulation of vas. VYhe explosion was fortunaiely condaed to the No. 10 heading, where three hantiers with trains were standing, some acct deat having occured to prevent the fore Most proceeding, ‘Ta’s gives rise to the conjecture that a door through which the hauliers had .o pass was kept open an unusaal length of tune, so thar a quantity of gas accumu. laiod. The shock of Wie explosion was not felt ether at Ue cop or bottom of ihe suatt, the heading being nearly a inte mM the interior of the Workings Oue of the survivors said the fre did not extend far, as he was in the company of a number of the men when the explosion occurred, and they were actuaily so calm as to deliberate whether they should go out or seek to render assistance to those who ibgot have fallea Victiius. All those men, With one ar two exceptions, venturing (oo far, were suffocated hy Ge alter damp. ‘Three horses were also killed, ‘The cotuery consists O! A) wp-cast and a down-cast shaft, the hier belug the winding stait, and is about 200 yards deep. Both troa mine and coal are worked, ‘The colliery is under the management of Mr David Kvans, the mineralagent of the coupan, aud Mr, John Evans, averman. Efforts weve iname- diately made lo remove the bodies of those killed, and caring the night the whoie were brought Up. The followimg ave the names of the Killed:— Jouatian Price, John Price, Joseph ~ Hai door boy; George Willams, Frank Adams, George Tack, James George, Tuomas anes, Jolin Chap- | man’ James Tanner, Josepa Gallop, Charles Ford, don Galop, Thomas Mitchell, Samuc! Cook, Walt ; Ham Plumber, John Evans, Poiip Philips and ; David Paottilps, RUSSIA, The Aims of the (zar in the East. A Moscow letter states that the details of the great scheme by wich the Russiaus propose to restore the baluyce of their depressed Asiatic trade involve a fourfold purpose, vu The restoration of Sebastopol to tts natural posi- tou as the urst Of tue Black Sea trading parts, | The substiiutton of & direct comunmentton by j 82% vie the Suez canal, for the overland route to Ching thove of (he Baltic, a8 weilas with the greet com. meicial cenves of the interior, by lines carried froin oge to ihe ether bai r a series of cross % the great cea- MIWA. ‘The establishment of a closer mereantile con- tion With Turkey and the Levant. ius last measure, ir ts said, scems likels unexpectediy frthered by a scheme recently set on foov in Constantinople for the starting of & line of Turkish steamers on the Black Sea, in direct cor- respondence not only with these of the | Yrade and Navigation Company, which has ' eujoyed a kind of monopoly in those waters, j also with the Danube steamers of the Austrian Lloyd. - MISCELLANEO! to be FOREIGN ITEM: Clésinger, the great Frenca sculptor, has (nished } asplendid bust representing the French repubiie, | and presented it to the city of Bordeaux, where he | has taken up his residence, It is said that tho Dake de Noailies has refused the post of French Minister to St. Petersburg through the objections of his wife, whois @ Polish lady. ‘The Paris Journal Ami de la Prance gives ute fol- lowing story as coming from the hips of a@ foreign | prince: —When the news of the fall of Paris arrived in St. Petersburg the Emperor Alexander was ata banquet, He rose and gave as a toast the prosperity of Prussia, and although it was agamst custom Alexander himself passed the puhar,a kind of pitcher, to the Grand Hereditary Duke seated at his left, The Grand Duke kissed the hand of his father, gently placed the pitcher on the table, bowed to his Majesty and retired from ihe festive hall, followed by the Princess Dagmar, his courageous wife. ‘The Grand Puke and Duchess, it is said, love France and hold the Prussians in small este More Ratlra Slaughters in New Jersey— Denying a Dyiug Man’s Reauest, It has been noted during the pasi three years that one person on an average each day loses life or suffers injury on a Jersey raliroad. But yesterday two uniortunate men passed out of this world by {the agency of that tmpicment of death, | the locomotive. One of these, George Keai- | ney, has been for many years the gate tender on the New Jersey Railroad at Coles street, in Jersey City, aud it was on Nis pest that he met his | death, Owmeg to the fog on Friday night the ferry boats made fewer trips than usual. and the haif-past eleven train Jrom New York was forty-five minw | late in consequence. As soon as it had pas: | Kearney was pushing his gate a ; an toward bound train dasned) up and | he was struck by the locomouve. The wheels | passed over botl legs, and he suffered intense ihed r employé on the New ob fhe track about twe blocks from the depot, in Jersey City, y ay morning. he stepped on @ side track to an outgoing train that was He had bo sooner done so than he was struck ron over by the locomotive nsed for druling trergut cars at the depot. Both hls flegs were mangied in sucha shocking manner tit the sight was sicken- Ing. ‘The poor man th his agony asked to be taken to his wife and children betors he showed die; put, although his home was on hailroad avenue, only two blocks distant from the spot where he wes stricken down, the bystuaders and police concinded | to take him to ‘the City Hospital, where be died two hours afterward, Corouer buras will bold ap inquest | in both c | agony till yesterday affernoon, whea he bi | lus last at the City Hospital, Francts Osbeliar, 4 de erday void and TIE FO LEN 5 (LUM. wl E: th Av Matine | Proceeds of the § The special matince wi day Jast at Daly's Fifth Aveaue theatre for the _ benefit ot the Forndling Asylum resuilted quite favorably and the proceeds therefrom were most opportune, as they enable the good Sisters to meet a debt which they were obliged to pay on the very day the receipts were handed them. Mra, Jotun MeCurmick, through whose carnest exertions the matinée Was secured, has been promised a similar favor by Mr, Lester Wallack.. A special matinee will be given at Wallack’s on the lzth of April, at which Mr. Brougham and the entire company wilt appesr. "kite following will, no doubt, he duiy recorded where treasure is laid up beyond the react of moth, rust and Uileves ‘The Sisters of C! of the Pennul acknowledge the reeeipt of 44,500 frour y he net proceeds of the matin , Duy tor the asylum on the 1th ist, They also tender their most aincer for so generously exerting h Tum gratefally ‘8. Jolin MeCor- given ‘by Augnstin thanks to Mr, MeCor- (0 make the matinee s the track when { | | aMict them have all impressed me with the convic- 108, | the connecting of the Black Sea ports with | in the bowels of th | | ple durmg the past two months. Taetr patience im ' Noy Jts the tira coming towards him, | was given on Wednes- | | Clo: Rautecess; to Mr. Daiy tor so readily giving the nse of his hati; clso to the Woupe tuat gratuiivusly pervormed ou that | occasion, | ; | TH. 100% 8 | charies Perdue, the sitp burner, now confined in Ludlow street jail, awatling the carrying oat of the | extreme penalty of the law, was, upto tie Ume he went lo sea, & resident of Orange, N. J., where he * pursued ius catting as carpenter, aud where his near relacives Bow le. A br r of his started tor Washingion on Friday to crave the clemency of President Grant .in beait tu doomed nen. LIS Ireuds assert that Lerdue is te vicum of a foul conspiracy, the true particular Which must come to light sooner or later, Ot who now bold their Reads high are, It is cl the reaily guity ones, The slup Robert Li wardes: was, (hey say, Old aad rotten, ested parties desived her destruction. His ton”? bo Caps W yease Was, his friends de » Imade out of whole clot, and uttered by Perdue whue a ioaded pistol Was held at lis head, JEREY CITY FREE LIBKARY. The zealous and benevolent ladies who established ago are besturiag theiselves now to pus A course of four lectures yea forward the good work. will be given at the Court House, on the hill, on next Tuesday evening, and the three suceceding Tuesdays, ‘The lecturers engaged by tiese ladies ave men Whose Hames are SO InAny guarantees that there will be “crowded houses,” “while the subjecis ste ing. Th from De Cordov Wu Will mucoduce “Jealous Licte Ass Wiluams’? to the audience. EX-Mayor Sawyer will appear te following Tuesday and uscourse on “Secret Asso. clatious and Masonry.’ ‘The third lecture Will be tie career of Napoleon HL by Hdwin James, and there are Jew Kuglisumen living woo can say 80 much About tae listory of Napoleon as Mr. | Its Knowledge of the ex-Hmperor. The | ture us one weli Kaowi Lo ie PULLG, al ieasé iitle, “Phil Sheridan's Celebrated Riae,? by Lieutenant Governor Woodlord. NEWARK'S HIGH SOIIDDL AGONY OVER. | Stnee the resignation of Mir. Louis M. Johnson, | Principal of the Ligh school Of Newark, a great deal of anxiety has been felt in educational cireles as to who should succeed him, On Fridav nignt, at a Special meeting or the Board of Kducation, Mr. THE COAL MINERS, How They Live Under Ground and Over. The Hoebits of the Germans and Irish—Conver- tations With Miners and ‘iheir Familios— Trish and English the Greatest Suffer- ers—"“Do Contingent Pond” and How It is Used. ASHLAND, Pa., Mareh 17, 1871. The miners, hike all other people, show ther true Datures when overtaken by adversity, IT have beea Much interested tn ibese comparatively tsoleted peo- Suifering and disivess, thetr true manhood and un- complaining quiet demeanor under the eviis that Uon that iney are more sin agamst than sinning, If they Were engayed In constant broils and outrages; if they were complaining and fault finding, like other people placed in the same circumstances, it would not be surprising, relieved, as they are toa great exteni, from the obligations of citizens in more populous parts of the county, For some unaccountable reason public opimion is against them; an ontrage or murder is committed by one of their uumber—there are bad mea among them, 28 (here are in all classes of society—and the whole community is blamed for the affair, and this is the way pudlic opinion against them is strenghh- eneds Residents of cities read an account of an affair of more thao erdinary barbarity, and immediately the cry is raised against all the miners ta the coal regious. The great majority of miners I believe to be a peaceable law-abidiug people. They go to thetr work im Lhe morntog deep arth, and amid dengers not dreamed of by the more fortunate toulers above ground, where they pursue thetr hazardous occu. pation, ts There are extra gongs for night work. Some men prefer working at night—it makes no difference Whoiher they work by day or nigit it is ail the same; the little “flreny” attached to their caps to ight them on their dubious way is ao tore evectual ia the day time than at nighi, The blackuess ol darkness en- compasses them che year round, RPTURNING PROM AIS LAvOR, he stelps, and the good wie gives him @ scrubbing from heal to foot; every time he comes from the mine this. process is repeated. A little shanty at the back of hs jarger shanty, with atud full of hot water, awaits him on cach return from work, aad here he retires ia company with bis helpmate, and the scrubbing begins. Having been thoroughly cleaned he sits down with bis numevous faratty—and miners do Rave numerous families—the hampie Mieal iS partaken Of and the head of we family retires to enjoy Uiat special solace ol the niiner—a smoke trom his dudheen, or to talk polities or dis- Ouss tite Jacest mews Irvin the old cowtry. Ipaid a visit to & nuner’s shanty this morning. The man of tue house was no’ at home, but nts wile was, When lentered she was strugzuag through a rhyme in aw iccai paper abusive o1 Irish labor “Be gob, Md the Wweman, “Pil tell yes what Paddy irom Cork is wantin’: he’s wantin’ his rights; bad cess to the they" altner keepin’ the bread from oho ehilder’s Mout; they're——" “God save yoo, sir! Did you want Pathrick 9? she was Waxing very wroth over the *pome Wien { eutereu, and leoked up and saw me signding in the doorway and broke abruptly oi wita the above exciamation, “No, Ldou’s care particularly to see Patrick. 1 Mercly wish to sce how you are gettiug aloug dur- dug si ion.”? “Is iniughty poor we're gettin’ along, then; it’s hard umes, these, that’s on us. Sorra dito’ meat bas kem over the doorstep the last hwo weeks.” “How do you manage to liye 7? “Weel, we just straggie along the best we can. We're hopin’ cae ‘byes’ wilh go lo work soon; but they have been ide two mouths an? I’m tearn the thing is gettin’ worse, str.” “How many chudren bave you?? “Nine; an’ mebee we'll have more before spring. Yo's never can tell What'li happen, The Virgin only Knows, ae sine children and nothing to eat! No meat or our :” “Yea, we've had a serapin’ o' flour; but bless ye, sir, 1S just wnat 1 told you, over two Weeks since a rasher of bacon or pound of beef crossed = the ste we have a few petatees left, but thim’s most out. Did ye hear of tue three cbiider (nat was found by a docther hear Potisvilie ; NEARLY STARVED TO DEATH, and their mother, poor thing, lyin’ sick in the bed? tough, ‘Tae docther was culled In, and there is the threo bairns lookin’ like skeletons, ai’ they could the aocther they Lad been livin’ on some scrapins of meal (or gver tree Weeks. Heur that now, an’ reil me if ‘him didn’s sutfer. Ab Us mom her busband entered, and the good Wowwan mformed him tat Lwas louktag round to see how Une miners fared duriag the suspensic “Well, You ay believe me or not, but so tarde 98 Tin a livin’ mau those are the hara times. Do you think there is any sow for goin’ to work,’ gard tue tian of tho house, “fhat remains with yourselves, Neither you nor | the operators propose to give im to ove another, Until tis is done T don’t well see how you can | resume.” ‘Troth, that’s so; but mebbe they'li give up soon and we can resime work, Biddy, did ye ax ule gentleman to take a dhrop of wit have any, Won't ye, sir’ Well, L suppose every man | knows fwat he Wants best; not that (ma divinkin’ man myself, but [just Kape it on hand tor fear une cuilders or tue Ould woman might be tuk sick suddint.? { 4 u’t you get some store orders from your old | bosses (0 Keep YOU Out Lil (ue pressure Is over 2 “Store orders, Jid ye say. an’ from timmy Not a bit of i Some of tiuur are ught pushed them. sel Be gob, £ must tell ye # droll story that I hheerd at the ov nm’ tne day. Some of tie bosses, (naming Some o: thie leadiag operators here) told Sate. Bf the hotel, tat the. was goin’ to give hin their notes for their monty's be h “we Jasus, if you do,’ says Sinith, ‘Wil s in notes Up ior soup, an’ sce how ye’ll Lke it, Yell mot be alther waitla’ for ihe mates, wiil yez:? Phat settled the thing quick, 1 thought Barty G’shea would kill hisselt langhin’ whea f tug didi about it.” Durmg the time this dialogue was vetug carried on the HERALD reporter had ample time 1 notic that the jurniiure of Ui age looked rather sia; taut the dishes were thrown, rather than placed With @ regard to walioruity aud neatuess, 1p tie t, and everything within the house bore an an- InisceKable aur of carelessness, On the table were ome socks and @ pair of pantaloons that ofrs. “putnrick’s” wife was busily engaged in darning, that they might at least be whole A few handfuls of coal and = some hips were near the stove, apd a gaunt hungry looxing dog was st ed out near the hearin. What ne could tnd around that house to make it an inducement to board there Lcanoot imagine. — ‘The conuntrum is beyond my comp ion, and give lt ay, Not the first sign of that sure indication | oi an “frishman’s shanty,” a hog, cid Ts ny- where, neither did l see anything that resembled a chicken, The first two weeks of the suspension Lad suspended thei ‘y iad indeed 2 {CKESS G0. It cannot be denied ¢ there are times when | inners make very good w as high as six dol | lars pev day; ye these dines are generally Of short die ration: but for alt tiar the miners’ wives can t stand prosperity; Uley with ges thetr basbhand's money and | y every cont of it goods before — they elves spend most ater paying ther go down town and spend nea daney lor dresses and stop. sometime ol heir mentw’s silary—alway debis to the grocer ang butcher—for a nighvs or pk’s drank; bus these last cases srerare. ‘the ‘ally the disburser, Anythiug they ay HUY WiLONL any sf They are for the most part v Welsh and rinane are more al regard to pri improyident. The Saving; they ire queatiy save ehougi money to buy a house or fara | of their own; besides this they generativ nave sume money M bank for sudden e wergencies ke the pre | seut. Compared wit irish (hele sufferings tor | | the necessaries of life ure comparatively hghl, yet | that there 4 more absolute @ free public Wbrary on Jersey City Heights two | , ailare sudfering: me . from my experience tins far Tam led to conctade SUPE and English miners t Germans. Tam quite sar fering auoug the Germar lish have, 1 fe: ONG TRE URIS no ameng the Seotch and there 18 0 absolute suf. bat the lest and Eng , been rather improvident. What | they did not speud for whiskey or beer their wives have spent for fine clothes or other laxuries, for 9: Tuan bas her vanities here as weil as lu the cities, and sh vaniiy to tne last extremity. Ovvers again act very foolishly in ther domestic at rangements For 1 ace, & miners wife reconuly weirl to te Oflce of her husband's enipto: and asked jor five dollars, She got it, and weat to a grocery sto: and = purehased seven pounds of utter at sixty cents a porna, and this Whea she knew her husband was about io quit work Tor an indefinite period. Methinks tknow Women who Wout have mace ‘ius five doilars tell a different story. Yet wuis is but @ type of hue extrava- ance OF tie Wives Of miners, Whea the husband Urings in $190 or $200 as the HESULT OF THE MONTIVS WORK She thinks hat it will be simpiy impossible to spend IG The result is that ie monto’s wages last about @Week: the rest of the moat they are wiihont . Miutey, dud are forced to ges Weir provisions on | ctcdit nell the next pay day. Not so with a Ger. ‘an Woman, Lleed not say that sue helps to make instead of spend money. The fact ‘is epparent to every one Who has ever taken the least troupie to study the German characier, and tls 18 Ue reason the German miners are atways prepared for suspen- Eamund 0, Hovey, of Canandaigua, N.¥., Was chosen — sion and the consequences it eutatis. to tlil (ne place, Mur, Hovey is & Vermonter and a Rraduate of Madison Univereity. He comes to New: ark wisi the bighest cnoorsements as a teacher, i Gefore daybreak the imimer's wife arises, gets breakfist, and the man of the beuse, with Hts familv. site down and hurriediv culvs his ivagal and Winch should be dealt with ; and unless travellers are fully waraed yictims must BW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 19 1871—QUADKUPLE SHEET. Meal, attaches his lamp to hts cap and starta for the maine, and this 19 his dally practice tie year round NO HOVES FORK Vik POTURE, neither regrets nor yeartings for the past, but his Whole soul is iptent on acquiclog enough to keep body and sont togethe: and to tar rease and multiply the childvew of new: for if the ois auy one thing that delights a mine:'s heart above all others tt is CO have a nuowrous and eonstantiy inereasiue family, {tis & COMMON big 10 see LeR Culld) on La a miner's famity, To-day | have spent a number of hor German ms rs among the , Studying thelr habits at home aud in padhe and “learning what -T matt of their social characteristic, My — experi. ence ainc these people has not only beea lnsiructive has beea peculiariy jateresting. An air of nea 8, pleasing to bebuil in this doso- tate region, MmMpresees Heel! on a stranger mue- Wacely on entering Ure Lutuble abede of (he German miner, Everything seems fo be in its appropriate plave, and ev ig Abont the heuse i parutaily Clean, If it is possible Lor one to COnweive Of Sach am adourily, Yet there ts NOPIUNG CONSTRAINED OK BMMAREASSED about the cordial reception one meets at the hands of bite ocenpants of the cadin. Lwas very pleasnatly surprised af the welcome accorded me, & periect stranger, when, on knocking at the door of one of these houses this morning, # Germau woman an- swered my summons wit ‘Goot morning, sit; Wou't you come in? J wail eatl Haus.” es, than” you: Laropped in to hear the latest news of the snspension.’” Hans soon entered, and by the hearty laugh with Which lie greeted tay presence I knew he bad seen me before, Nor was Llovg in aoubt, 4 ha! How you was? You ts de reporter von deN YORK HeRALD. T saw you at de conveu- ton of the erat Councllat Mahanoy do oder’ day. Vell, vat the news is’? “J catied to find out, and tn tte absence of that, called to see how you were living through Ue sus- peusion; (hey teil tae you Germans hve about as well asever? “Phe children moost have some dings to eat, and Ihave A LITTLE MONEY LAID BY; Yaw. [knows about den strikes and always gets ready for ‘ou all de whules,”? T had an excelieut opportunity to survey the do- Mestic economy of the honest Duichman’s house, And Mist say Chat for real genuine comfor! and eon tent the old fellow was quiie as well ated as most people | Know of. About twelve ov’elock the chlidren came trooping in trom school, dine, healthy brevet miners as Ove Would Wish tos On asking how ii happened that miners tayariadly had such large families, 1 was told, “All de peoples ta New York complain that de coal ish fall ot state. Well, these boys useful for pickiug the slate from tie coal, aud every uiner tries bis bese .o have plenty + plexers in Ube lumily, 80 You can have clean coal In Sew York, Dou’t see, eh? “How is li,’ said Lto Har in regard to TH WORKINGMEN'S BEN SOCIATION; piers WHEN @ SUS- is ta progres: they do Whe Hot now; the (reas. y have any money, bre | 'Y 8 cleaned oul. The way twey | do with @ member Who applies for ald is Ww | give him a store order for irom one to tn | Goliars worth of goods, but tv must be asd bay They say itis oniy lent; ‘us very funny wt Make thatout, Who pays ‘em the mouey fire bat the mempers? And they only the niopey—im iilation fees (ten dollarsy and moathiy dues (hiro Gents per month)—that they may have iS whea they | need 1 most, “Yes: it is very funay; I caunot undersiand,* “Do Lunderstand that the treasury Is completey Tun dry ?'? “Yaw; dere 1s ‘bout tree hundred dollar iu Schuyl- Kull County district treasury; but how good ish dat for SiX orseved thousand men? Five cents ‘piece; ‘us do good; buy glass lager only.” “Whit has become of all the money? [ under. stuod the assoctation nad ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS about a mouth since.’ “1 donot kuow; T pays my share to the treasnrer Of the district: if 1 ask for littie stove order or litte bioney when Lam ip trouble they say to ie, ‘Hans, you ave store order, put YOU PAYS THIS BACK again waen you get it;’ that’s all | kuow.”? “What does your coustitution say in regard to as. Sisfauce i tine of need, either trough sickness or suspension of work? “Deve Wis; you real tb and gay how you like it! " “itis very fair: but it makes “no proviston for ex- traordiaury events: @ scrike or suspension, for In- siance.”” f “oh! [tells you about dat; you must know dere Is DECON NT UND, which article fifteen says:—'Tuere shall be a (und established by this association for the purpose of Daving in its pos ession tke ieaJdy means wuereby to mect ny extraordiuary or emergent expenses of tie association, puch fund to be cotlected irom the inembers by monthly coutributious of each mem. ber of tweuty-five cents.’"? “That is what Pur after. Can you tell me how mich of a fund the asseciation ever had on hand at aay one tue Y? : “Nu; [Know not; I only know they have nothing now.’? And THIS 18 THE GENERAL COMPLAINT from miners everywhere. They say their applica tions for help are answered with the reply that the treasury ts depleted, but how depleted they are not iutormed, The Germans, as a general rule, are not sullering; their frugality and saving habits gen- erally protects them against crises like the preseat, some of them are prepared to remain idie a year if need be. THE GOLD GAZ. Three Card Monte Gatdene—Unpaid Frelght— A Bowsus Expressman—Hold On to Your Greeubacks. The desire to get money quick, and plenty of it, invented the three card monte, thimble rigging, the sweat cloth, keno, &c. Of late years travellers have ya victimized heavily by three card monte mea, Fuil particulars of that game have been pabdlished | in the newspapers, as ave also the particulars relating to @ swindling poker game played on all Tailroads—a gaine where (he victim always Loids a Smislier and thad the swindler. There is, however, a new game being practised, summarily. “There 1s no gambling connected with it, It 4s simply robe bery, Ib Is callvd the “gold game.” Ji has just Come into operation‘on the isudson River Railroac be numerous. It is operated as follows:—Upon reaching a station you find yourself seated alone in @ seat when amiddie-aged man, neatly attired, perhaps wearing also a white neckerchief, euters the car und politely asks you if that seat is engaged. Receiving ® negative’ respou-e he sits | down veside you, linmeditely another man ente the car. He probably wears glasses, aud has a lead | peneii behind his ear dod & memorapdum Hook tn his mand. He walks rapidty gtony, looking first at | one seat and then at anotier, till he comes to the + ou occupy, when 13 eyes brighten when he who sits beside you. ‘then something the following will occur: MAN (WIth peucil)—15 this Mr. Jones, of Jones- ville SYRANGER (beside you)—That’s my name, sir, MAN—Ail your expressed stiul 13 Jetained at this station for charges. SrRANGER—Well, mark tt “collect on detivery.’? Man—We can't do (but, sir; our orders are to Hold it here till paid for. : STRANGER—Weill, [can’t pay the charges now; I've got nothing bus gold, aud Laim’t going vo lose the preminm on that; how much 1s the bili? MAN—$120, AL ibis juuciure the stranger turns to you and In- quires if yon have $i20 in greenback. Upon fevertaining that you have,. ho requests the loan of the same, and overs ou Six twenty dolar gold ob for secucity, with the andersianding that ween you reach New York you are to allow him to redeem them at par. Tne transaction is closed, a MAN goes ous with the $120 1 hans; Lie train moves ou 4 Serene, Soon after, the stra his seat with the avowed smoke forward, bat wieu't siation He vets of, aud pretty soon you begin to Wonder Where lig is. When you get ready to leave Te train you again Wonder, aud (uen inquire, No- houy knows. You approach the condueror and relave the circumstabces to bim, when ue latter asks to see your gold. You snow {6 aud it is ab ouce pronounced Loges. ‘There ts no re@ress, you have shupiy deca sWindied, and probably wile you are grieving over the business avotber victim is. Hong trough tue same course of spre iwo Within tea days been swin gut of ins game on the Hadeon River fattroad, vluers Baye also been swindled on the Now York Central 1 the bogus treignt greenbacks in his i everyting seems ey beside you | litention of ing a cars stop atthe next then i A&G Mistake in Newark—The Death of Mattlias Sutter fully Expinined. In New yesterday an inquest was held by Coroner Clase touching the death of Matthias Bute & German brewer, who dled @ few days ago tn Ute German Hospital under circumstances cousid- ered at the time exceedingly .mysterw It ape pears that deceased and one Charles Gross wer employed in a brewery together, and that in a quar. Fel the latier beat ue fon Jd Was subsegueatly arrested, = Stac then, 6 Tuesday morping est, about buli-past ten o'clock, Sutter was found lying ig a yard adjoimug te brewery ina perrectiy Lcip@ss continion. He was removed to ine hosplwi, wh 6 Was ascertained Uiat ius skull Was fractured, aad bis body injured, but whetuer gevideataby or hy foul plav could nos then be doctors Inaced, If Was strongly suspected that ne “Grose”-1¥ attacked and beaten, bite county phy siciaa oruered an iuquest and the Coroner AL ONCE tsSued bis Warrant Lor the arrest of Gross on a rac of Mansiangnter. The testimony 3 esterday i tet that of Dr. Dodd, the couaty physica, Charles Woehr, & boarding house keeper, Conrad Void and several others, aud fatied to show anything: Against Gross. After & full ravestigation tie cas Wes submitted to tue jury, It did not take tuem Joug to seree on a verdict that deceased eamie to fy death from canses unknown, The prevailing’ oy JOU ts, however, thab Sutter, Who was much given fo (ribk, fell off & stoop and susiained ule myuries Which cagsed 1s deat, Grogs was at once dis charged irom custody, ¥ IW + With a deep fon, | beco: RAN en Triumph of Beauty on the Bridgeq Before the Capital, The Prussians Conqnored—A Glauce at the Fashions of tho Parisiennes — Queen of Spein’s Ball Dress. 8, Feb. 25, 1871. A daya ago und all the region before Party was shrouded in darkness and 1 blood. Frost bound the carth wich tts cold gray and white fetters, Gloom was on every face, Spring and peace, thosa two fair vistons thatevery heart loves, every poeq sings, seemed equally distant, Nigit brought mo cessation to the heavy cannon roar. Meu drew, breaih with fear and trembling. The dark shadow of death darkened the very air, Now 6he tirst suns beams of spring sparkle on the waters of the Seine, irs! sWeet breathings of spring Mood refreshingly Weary brows, aud whtaper of violets and prum. roses, revdy to took ont im shady nooks whera there are none to trample them under foot, The hope of peace—sweeter, brighter, more wele come than the spring heraelf—hegias slowly, trem. blingly, to dawn 1 every heart. REVIVING PARIS. The long-imprisoued Parisians come out; they es cort their ladies to different points of view, whence the modern rains can be seen; they survey what remains of St. Cloud—so often the seene of thetr bright summer rejolciugs’—now a blackened build- ing—corpse—a shuddering sight. Yet the Parisians have one comfort here—they destroyed it them. selves, They say—"cr sont done nos ernone, (ul ont acoonpli cela | cest merveiiions t En eget tes canon ters Pru stans wont rien Jas de pare! So tab 13 a consolation certainly, THE BRIDGE Throughout the armistice there has been a gradnal accumwMation of people and things on the Prussian side, all anxious to get into Paris, but stopped by that inexorable Medes and Persians’ styie, ot divinity «called orders, But at length permission ne forall who Itked = to enter Pars, but for Do one to return over the bridgea at Sévres, lily, &e., without a pass, Immedi. sely there Wes ® grand descent of all the aforemen- ‘eed goeemmlation towards Paris, while the oes om the Preneh side of the ges mastered »feer, }-oking eagerly at their foes beyoud, ~ \) Seong the carnival days there was a tremen- ~ oraeh Gpom the bridge of Neulily. Carringes om corplages, borsemen, fooumon, footwomen and footehtidren, foo; an indeseribabie mediey, pressing on in an excifed confusion towards the newly opened capital, “choked every roaring gate.” The Ublans and the landwehr lufantry Keeplng order on the Prussian side bad by no means an easy time of it. Now avd then the passengers became so ob- streperous that the ublan swords gleamed out Meuacingly aud “descended flauings” on the back of the obstr eperous Frenchman, LONGING LOOKS. At was a strange scene—the Prussian, soldiers on the one bank in charge of the busy French throng, witile many of their ofl cers stood gazing curiously across, themselves forbidden to pass the pridge; on the other side the French crowd peering anxtously at the Prussian nightmare, which had so long haunted thew dreams, broken their stambers and brought terrer and destruction into thelr homes, LIEUTENANT OF THE DAY, The one Prussian on the French side waa the Licutenant of the day, charged with examining the passes ana letting Lo one go by wiinout one—no easy mission, Every now aud then a pass-provided person appears, The pass is examined and the privileged one continues his way, followed by the en- vious glances of many Who wouid tain do the same, but have not dequot On the Parisian side oraer Js maintained, or supposed to be maintamed, by wd cavairy oMicers and some Gacdes Movites; but, gene eraiy Speaking, @isorder ts maintained by the Duswing, jostling crowd, Without auy assiétanc Whatever, ‘The contaston ts something indescribs bie. The passengers crowd upon each otner, knock each other about, tread npon each opher’s toes: horses run over the foot passengers, ana carmages over boLh, ttl What With the crushing ana the shoute ing and the quarrelling of tae coachinen. there is dim turvance enough to Hil all the lunatic asylums ip Europe, 1 18 too much! realty too inven | And the Lieutenant of the Day goes glittering across the brage in the sanshime, aud gives an order that the bridge svould be closed for tive minutes, for thie desperate disorder of the mighty mass ts cov great @ vexution lor his precise miliary soul, StL] people keep preseuting themselves without passes to go across out of Paris, and are met with & stern refusal. But somehow this stern refusal be- Kins Lo get a little too mueb for the leutenant; it is easy enough When you have a man to deal with, or even solmetning uninteresting im Lae femate line, but tines--oll! sometinies the femaic element is @ Wo interestiug! ‘This busy ollicer is doubiess @ brave man, but, like Achilles, Xe has one valuer> able polit, and Uitt not ia his heel, but in his heart lis great dilleulty 1s rerusiug the youug Ladi H they come out looking so charuubg im their hide Tetlled skirts aad coqueitisi bonnets OF bats, as Lhe ease Uiy be; and that glance at iim—so tmploring } and then they gather up their duinty skuis just ® litte out of the horrid dis! ud then they show h bewildertag li boos and Ligh heels thatthe jan olicér Is now Look at bim now, Closing his bridge, Keeping hundreds waiting, while he 1s standmg cock of Wie Walk, His appearance 18 military, apenetrable, mov to’ say invulnerable; but @ hight step approaches him, a litle haplorit Voice Says “Monsieur.” In any case waat ean do but turn rouna? Jf {3 a clurmtog young lady, Who bas @ greal wish to cross the bridge for an hour=ouly one little hour. She has, to be sure, no pa but that is ouly her misfortune, you know. can he do? she looks up he meets tue bright, besecching eyes; if he looks straigtt, details of & bewitshing Lite toilet force themscives on his ate tention; af he looks down, there ig the pretuest Little foot aud boot alt tmpavience to tread the for- biuden ground. Weil, 1 guess she went over, don't you! Then the poor fellow finds preseatly another lady at his elbow—older, distinguished looxings rlecily dressed, quite ab her ease—quite certain “ce Monster wil lef her go over ihe bridge; he has a rendezvous om the other sie; she realiy Tiist go.” .she really ts so deltghiiul looking, “dressed to kil,” he Winst resign hime slie 11 ts Mo good, you see, orders cannot si these coqnettish cusiumes and glances and little persuasions, The ’rus-ians Can beat the Paristal but the Parisiennes can overcome the Prussians, “Leurs amis les ennemts” tna it hard work to ges the better of them. WALKING COSTUMES. But T am forgetting in the ates the busmess of my letter—viz., ihe costumes—and icust at once direci the fair readers’ attention to a dainty Walke lug dress of violet gros grain petiicoat trimmed Russian piatling, and above thas a band of biack velvet, edged with white lace & (une of Violet suk, trimmed with & black verve baad, edge basque and bodice triomed white face; violet i pluie. Anothe Sik petticoat, stripet @ pearl gray tante, val, dud edged with dress is a p horlzontaily with blue vervel; trimmed to mare the perit fringe; bedic nit basque te maten; Nat of peart velvet with biue plu Boil hese costumes a very qutet and very elega..t appearence, In pail dresses we may Select the following 28 ¥ ingi—A white tale dress, trimine i ua front en tabler, with pours of white tulle, alternating Wiih rows of deep pink triage. ‘tals ascends ia front aimest to the waist, Chatelaine borice Cf pink jaille, witha deep basque, wareh dw civsely round to the hips and is ocuauiented towards the back With White rose 8 and long green grasses, ‘The berthe 18 composed of funge ond bouquet de corsage, and shoulder Kaets consist of Wiute Lose buds and grasses; & Jong sash of pink wtih escapes from beueaih tie basque, Another evening toilet in qiusite taste consists of & tran SKIFLOL pearl gray silk, bordered With & poait of red 4 edged with Vglenciennes inca, r n peracoat utmmed WIth cross bauds of Tose Sik ailernately with Valenciennes tace, tunic e-colored Ha crdye, bordered with vands of ik dou ¢dged wita Valenaennes lace. 1 p18 looped up with gray mbbop, and a coyuillo oi Valencicines lace and ribbon im cenire; bodice and basyue OF pearl gray sik, Wummied wilh cross baw Of tose sik dad’ Valeucicnues lace; acauas and biaek velvet in the fare. A preity evemiag dress for the coming sp: While tallatan petticoat, ornamented to the W Wild Sigil platted Mounces of vrigittest ereeit tan; tr ut of whire iariatan, wit aceep founes oF green tariatan, Gded with Honiton 1 eo green kros grain tunic aud bodice, belt cruamen’ With Honfton iace, the tunic up wi buuches of water ly buds ou Seedb Qnd coral; bouyuet de corsage sisthtg of the same flowers. tn te hh one targe water’ lly and green reeds, fasicned | witll Bpray of coral. Twit! conciade wii a dese cag Of a ball dress wora by t of spats just * Tore {lag out on ner jouw iets rupted by her dangerous ih Me ektiy, the particular shade KNOWN 28 Ese: do with pink cave flounce edged with, yu with & triage of rose | ooped up ab ene side ouly, had ai the, ef b with exquisite roses, T Dasque ai cae wat ‘ et oud te ae) bordered With & fruit mae et Was crossed over the bedi ve Were YOLs quet roses’ On Uh sity rs ‘Tho ornaments Were Uuazalcent powtisaRd mameuds. 4 diatkewod o.ronet (orued the Lewddiress. ot tule conad basyu HO UIA 8O OVER © ER, REVIVING PARIS, -.

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