Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-10-07
Miseellasreous Dguartmeu{.
ROUGE EFT NOIR.
"Couid I forget
What have been, might the better bear
What am destined To. I'm not the first


What am destined to. I'm not the first
That have been wrctched-but TO think how much
have been happier" SOUTHERN.
Never shall forget that accursed 9th Of September
1t is burnt in upon the tablet of my nory craven in let
tiers Of blood upon my heart. look back it with il
strangely compounded feeling of delight; flor
the black series of @retched lays and seeplcss night
OF which 1t was the fatal PRECURSOR of delight that pre-
vious Of tranquility and serespcct which il was
destined 10 terminate--alas, for evef.
On that day had been about fortnight in Paris and
passing through the garden the Paais ROYAL had
stopped admire the beautiful jetcau in its centre ON
which the sunbeams falling so rs to produce a small
rainbow, when was accosted by my old friend Major
=, Of the Fusileers. After first surprises and In
ations, he found that the procuring
HeHts and settling my family had prevented my seeing
many OF the Partisan lions he offered hmse my
proposing that should begin by making the circuit of the
building that surrounded With its history and the re-
markabe of which it had been the enc was al
ready conversan but oits detail and appropriations which,
as he assured constituted its sole interest eyes of
the Pafisians, was completely ignorant
After taking cursoy view of of the sights above
ground in this multfaous pile, conducted some of
its Subtenaneous wondeTstn the Cafe du Salvage where
man hired for six francs night TO personate that
racte by beating great drum with all the ginning rant
ing, and ravng of mailman; to the Cafe des Aveuges
whose orchestra is entirely composed of blind
and women and the Cafe DIES Varieties hose small
theatre, well its saloons and labyrnths haunted by
of Sirens less dangerous than nyrphs who
sailed Ulysses Emerging from these haun we found that
heavy shower was falling: and while paaded once
more the stone gallery my friend suddenly exclaimed as his
&c fell upon the numbers offhe houses"oue hundred and
fifty f, posvely going way without visiting
one Of TIC --' gaming houses the meaning Of the
term bs employed though he expressed by word that
the fashionable preacher mentioned to polite
II have never vet entered said "a PandBmonium of this
sort, aud will refrain from IT upon pfncplc;-
'Pdncpiis nh5ta" Of d. Johnsons temperamcntI
practise aDstincnce but temperance and every
body knows that prevention better than cure O you
remembcr,' replied =, "what The DR.. Johnson
said BOwclR'y dear sir, clear your mind Of can't
do not ask you to pay; but you have often read
when you were good little boy, that "Vice be hated
needs but SEEM and cannot have forgotten that the
Spaans sometimes made their slaves drunk, and showed
their children nculcae sobricty. Love Of yir-
m besides, of the world should see every
thing" "But it is disrepu'atlc' reJoncd. How
completely john Bullish" exclaimed E. "Disreputa-
ble why an going take you establishment rccog-
Missed, regulated, and taxed by the government TIE uphold
er Of religion and social order, vino annually derive s-
millions OF flames from this Of rcvenuc; and a p
the company promise you that you shall encounter mon
OF the inst repcctabiy, of all and parties for in
France every One gambCs at these saloonscxccpi the de-
voices aud they play al home" tie took my arm, aud
walked upstairs with him, merely circulating
ed the door-"Mind, dsn't plav.o
Entering 40 antcOon, received by two or three
servants, who took sticks and for which we recei-
ved tickets and by the number suspended around per-
ccIvcd that there toeraby numerous attendance
within Hoeffe the game TO which the first chamber
was dedicated In the middle Of long green table was
circular excavation, resembling large git basin in whose
centre rotafoy apparatus turning ivory in
groove which, after 5undry gyraous descended 10
tom Of the BASIN where there vas a round Of little num-
bered compartments pigeon-hoes, into which it
finally settled, when the number proclaimed aloud
Beside this apparatus there painted tho green baze