Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-20
FRoM QUIZ EuRoPEAN coRRESPoNpENT:
Paris, AucvsT 10, 1915.
RANDOM NOTES.

known 10 His Majesty LOUIS PHuLIprE, that the
General has become President Of HAYri, and con
firms the appointment Of JosEpH GEoRcEs and Az
ersrE Ellie as ENJOYS Extraordinary and Ministers
Plenipoicntary Of the Republic Of HaytiS TO the
Court OF France 'g.s
Some OF the French departments propose the es-
adjustment of corps Of agricultural engineers 10
Be educated specially in he way Of the engineers
for the mines. They would be afterwards distri-
buted throughout France for the superintendent or
aid Of improvements in tillage and husbandry.
OF four recent elections TO the Chamber OF Depu-
ties three accrue to the Ministerial party. The
License law has considerably diminished the num-
Der Of legal voters in Paris, who have never exceed
ed twenty -three thousand.
RIsLEY e SANDS, called the Americans are again
The marvels Of Paris, with their supple children. We
may wonder at the exercises Of the latter, but cannot
respect the fathers who have thus trained and FASH
Toned them. Il is awretched trade.-Thc Ojbbe-
way Indians advertised as having succeeded the
Ioway in Mr.. CATLIN's rooms. Their denomina-
ton in the French papers is, Ojib-be-Jfds.
The French mortgage system (sysfsDe hNpothe-
c0ire Is in the hands Of able committee OF inqni
ry appointed BY the Minister Of Justice. 1t abo,nds
with nveterate and oppressive abuses and anomalies.
LucIAN BoNAPARTE's Narrative Of the Revolution
Of me 1871 Brunsdire, recently published by his
family, is much criticised in the Journals There
are striking contradictions between this narrative
and NAPOLEON ssaccount Of the same event, in the
Memoirs dictated al ST. Helena.
Ithaving been affirmed in the Opposition papers
that punishments of peculiar and very cruel de-
scription were inflicted on the French soliery in
Algeria, Marshal BUoEAuD has sent a report on the
subject to the Department Of War, in which he ac-
knowledges that modes Of torture bearing certain
ncknames were employed for refractory .delin-
quents but exceptionally he admits besides, that
in the marches and expeditions, the grottoes, and
the siioes, or Arab excavations for burying grain,
were used for imprisonment, there being no ordina-
ny dungeons or jals. He tells the Minister Of
War: !" After all, punishments are very rare with
us this, though contrary to received ideas in
France, and eUen 10 your 0lcn language an The
Chamber Of Peers, is not the less the strict truth
Orders have been issued to the French expeditions
TO kill only combatants and to make as many pri-
soners as possible. BuGEAuD says, in late des-
patch: q Even should Abd-e-kader and his adhe-
rents abandon the struggle, there will be nsurrec-
tons from time to-time.''
The Directors Of the Theatre Fraacais claim
forty thousand dollars damages from Mademoiselle
Pussy, charming actress, for accepting an engage
ment at st. Petersburg, in violation or her engage
nenis at homo. The Manager Of the Italian Opera
in Paris has obtained six thousand francs damages
from Madame GRIsI for refusing a part allotted to
and a full benefit
The French journal called athe Algeria states
that the Emperor Of Morocco withheld the ereq,a-
fnr from Mr.. CARR, the Agent Of the United States
for Tangers, but consented to his landing as sim
pie individual. We may doubt concerning the re-
fusal Of the cregudftr.
Acircular Of the Archbishop of Paris, dated 18th
instant directs public prayers for favorable change
of weather. in reference to the fruits Of the Garth
al posfuln,dam 2ris sercnitdfcm. AS yet the
same sscold and humid spell, I which the circular
laments prevails in this meridian. The London
Standard, ofsame date, nformedu us that the weather
N France was erceedingly fine!
Six recent convictions for parental incest are re-
corded in the Department Of the Seine; no one OF
them, however, so atrocous as the recent case of a
clergyman in England. Last week was concluded,
at our Court of Assizes, the trial of band Of thirty
men, women, and boys, associated for as hideous
and disgusting profigacy as human nature can per-
petrate. Combinations of thieves and burglar,
more or less numerous each, have been likewise
under trial and sentence. Men and females Of re-
spectacle exterior and in respectable spheres Of life
often form part Of the very worst of these associa-
tons for debauchery and rapine. y
The Courier Francois reports from official do
cuments that the agricultural population (Europcan)
Of all Algeria docs not amount TO seven thousand
souls that the colony is far from raising enough for
its subsistence; that in 1874 an importation from
abroad of 700 hectolitrcs Of grain and Of more
than thrty-6ve millions pounds of flour was neccs-
sary; that in theevent Of maritime war; the colony
and troops would be starved; that Marshal BU-
GEAuD has expended in the five years past FIVE hun
dred millions of francs and that the e1ecfiUc OF his
armies has been less than eighty thousand men,
The central official committee on steam engines
appointed the chief engineer Of the mines to pur-
sue experiments for determining mode Of obviat-
ing or curing the smoke Of boilers and engines. II
is stated in the Moniteur that he has entirely sue
ceedcd. The operation was on Belgian coal, which
emits the most smoke. The smoke is consumed
(burnt) by means Of the abundant introduction Of
air. Hereafter steam factories win not be uncom-
Portable neighbors the black and thick smoke gives
place to a light and whitish vapor. London may;
rejoice. The great boilers in the royal manufac-I
tories Of tobacco are 10 be subjected 10 new cxpe-
rimcnts. Government will soon publish practi.
cal manual FOR the service Of iron and other factories
in which coal is used Nh
Versailles is now the rendezvous Of many hum
dreds Of the present years contingent Of conscrpts
These groups have always fixed my attention, so
many Of them seeming mere boys--al raw, rustic,
or clownish in tho extreme degree. The condition
of the peasantry and the classes on whom the con-
scription chiefly preys, in this department Of Seine
and Disc, far better than that Of number OF the
other departments. Yet have, within The fortnight
past, seen files Of conscripts--a hundred and fifty
or more togethcr-arriving in their crude stale,
whose attire, gait, whole aspect and march, were at
least as wretched as those Of any gang Of negroes
whom ever beheId under any circumstances in the
United States; and was sufficiently familiar with
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