The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-10-08

We have been favored with the following extract of a
letter addressed 10 gentleman in Washington:
Ertrac Of letter from uery intelligent american, dated
PARIS September 49, 1917
Our pride should be that we are not Europeans We
ought to refer American superiority and prosperity
to institutions than to race, which is frequently ind
Gated. We are all the beer-al the surer-fOr the mix
ture of breeds in the United States national character
will result above that OF the simple Anglo Saxon, any
one OF the several European stocks. Royalty, arstocra
cy, privilege monopoly, the chief causes of the gene
raj wretchedness of the European These have
been treated slaves children; and yet have lacked
the interested and personal supervision which ale
vate the bondage of the American negroes They have
been neglected. except for purposes OF Tapacity and OPP
presson their habit of looking for everything to the
government, has, nevertheless been nveterate self re-
Lance, though advancing, is still The recent search
~ far from being altogether the fault of the heavens
The earth The French have this proverb: tant uam
Phomme, fant ca la erre: what the man is worth the
soil is worth The free republican cltzen with you
the security against famine against sanguinary revou-
tons and an blind demolition and vage You will po
three millions of the Irish received, at time, graui
tous reliei-sarylng, paupers Since the beginning OF
the high prices here, the municipality of Paris have
expended nearly nine millions of francs in bread, publicly
distributed to the INDECENT Baron Charles Dupn stated,
few days ago. in lecture TO charitable society," that
more than hundred thousand of the rural working
classes to the capital TO share in the distribution
that the hospitals, civil and military support sixty thou
sand inmates; and that the number OF individuals too
needy mprovident have laid up any savings, and
who consequently depended the municipality for bread
was four hundred thousand out of population rather
less than million Throughout Europe, the grain vege.
table, and fruit crops less abundant but the
potato rot appears extensively it pervades number of
the provinces of France. We have circular of the
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce TO the projects,
which he nstrucs them to endeavor to persuade the pro-
prieors and cuvaors, within their respective depart
ments dig mp and their potatoes without delay The
fall in the price OF bread is slow and not considerable
Aduenon continues, and is great evil. 1t comprises
every species of food susceptible of it.
An American might be struck with the purport of a
memoir read the Goth June last to the British Scien-
c Assoc aton by Colonel Sykes vice president of the
Royal Society His object to show that, in OF
dearh in Great Britain, her inhabitants might look, with
confidence, TO India, for supply of breadstus He said
India having the advantage of its principal crops rpen-
ing in January and February the moment the failure of
the crops in England should be perceived in August
ers for India supplies could be sent and these landed in
England, by the route of the Cape of Good Hope
two three months before the rpenng of the British
crops There are many Indian grains highly nutritive,
which do not appear in the prcests Your southern
gentlemen cannot have overlooked the proceedings and
calculations in England in regard to India cotton. indie.
pendence the United States for that staple is the fond
d %a opeSS 4 n work
to exhibit the natural advantages of both places for emf
grafton, that death blow might be given to Amer-
By S White labor IN Australia Patience will be e' ne.
cessary for these phanhropsts The recent bankrupt
cics in Great Britain, chiefly in branch of trade,
States Of Union We may opne that the assets will
not quite equal even those Of Mississippi Florida and
Michigan The birth of an eleventh grandchld to Louis
Philippe is, with us, signal domestic event-Henry-
pold-Phip-Mary Duke de Guise. This name, con
sidered historical, is not of the best omen. The
British world must be deeply moved by the prowess and
skill Of Prince Albert in the Highlands. 1t is mnutey
and exutngy related that he brought down stationary
| owt on the fourth shot
You have enough of politics in the newspapers. The
French government is TREMBLINGLY alive to the popular
excitement and instructions in Italy, and to the mpend
ing civil in Switzerland; and is much and critical
ly engaged with the phases of the Spanish drama.
1t has fine army to set in motion, but its finances are
sadly involved The instances OF official
rupon and many bunders in domestic management, daily
increase its discredit with the nation. No trusts the