The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-11-05

ked allegorical figures in white marble, at whose
feet the water is gushing out.
In external morality also, there is some i'm
provement; public gambling houses no longer
exist, and here are fewer Of these uncleanly nu-
sances which Addison calls the lesser morals
The police have had orders to suppress them on
the Boulevards and the public squares. The Pa
rslans are, however, the same gay people as ever,
and as easily amused as when saw them last
They crowd in as great numbers 10 the opera
and the theatres; the Boulevards, though better
paid, are the same lively places; the guingettes
are as thronged; the public gardens are as full
of dancers. Here, as at the New Tivoli, lately
opened at Chateau Refuge, in the suburbs, a
broad space made smooth for the purpose is left
between tents, where the young grisettes of Par
is, married and unmarried, or in that equivoca
state which lies somewhere between, dance on
Sunday evening till midnight.
At an earlier hour on the same day, as well
as on other days, at old Franconi's Hippodrome,
among the trees, Just beyond the trumphal arch
of Neuily, limitations of the steeple chase, with
female riders, who leap over hedges, and of the
ancient chariot races, with charioteers helmeted
and mantled, and standing in guilt tubs on
wheels, are performed in vast amphheatre, to
crowd that could SCARCELY have been contain
ed in the Coliseum of Rome.
have heard two or three people complain of
the physical degeneracy of the Parisans. One
of them quoted saying from report of Marshal
Soult, that the Partisan recruits for the army Of
late years were neither men nor soldiers. This
seems TO imply a moral as we'll as physical de.
Iterioration. 'They are growing smallerand small
er in stature,' said the gentleman who made
this quotation, sand it is difficult to find among
them men who are of the proper height to serve
MS soldiers. The cause is to be found in the pre-
vailing licentiousness. Among that class who
make the greater part of the population of Paris
the women of the finest persons rarely become
mothers" Whatever may be the cause, wit
messed remarkable example Of the smalness o
the Partisan stature on the day of my arrival
which was the last of the three days kept in com
memoration of the revolution in July. wen
immediately to the Champs EIysees, to see the
people engaged in their amusements. Some
twenty boys, not fully grown, as it seemed to me
at first, were dancing and capering with grea
agility, to the music of an instrument. Looking
at them nearer, saw that those who had seem
ed to me boys of fourteen or fifteen, were ma
ture young men, some of them with very fierce
mustaChlOs.
Since my arrival have seen the picture whcl
Vanderlyn is painting for the rotunda at Wash
ington. 1t represents the landing of Columbu
on the shores of the New World. The great dis
coverer, accompanied by his lieutenant and 9th
ers is represented as taking possession of th
newly found country. Some Of the crew areseel
scrambing for what they imagine TO be gold dus
in the sands of the shore, and at little distance
among the trees are the naked natives, in att
tudes of wonder and worship The grouping i
happy, the expression and action skifully varie
the coIoring, so far as could Judge in tn
present state of the picture, agreeable. 1t vii
prove, think, meritorious picture. "Eight o
ten weeks hard work. said the artist, "wil com
plete it," 1t is Vanderlyn's intention to finish il
and take it to the United States in the cours
of the autumn.