The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-05
tFrom the rar. Correspondent of the N Evening ros


The heavens have opened their windows, and kept
them open during the past few days. TO pour down upon
Paris and It's vicinity all the ted and cholera tainted
ram, the dregs OF the summer. The climate OF England
could scarcely produce such dsagreeabe days as, with
their rain and Trolling omnlbusses, numbering dill
gence, and mud splashng estafees the last four have
proved themselves There is no capital in this world
speak OF the Cis-Atlantic wprd-whch can bear any
comparison with this city in the depth and quantity of its
mud. What fortunes London dust contractor would
build here That IS If the dust OF Paris thnk OF their
calling those great heaps of coarse earth dust val
liable London dirt and fortune increases in proper
ton TO the bushels OF dust the contractor gets One
get more dust here than in London; for in London the
lhickly scattered lines Of rail, which make towns and viii
lagos thirty and forty miles from the overgrown meopo
lis, its suburbs, in greater degree than Camberwe
tel Londoner Camberwel is a suburb OF London, how
he would stare fifteen years ago, destroy coach and
omnibus lines, and with them Their loads OF mud.
Ii is not so in Paris From No Rue de Rivoli and
dozen other points in Paris, dIgences diligence
nibuses and omnlbuses start every minute for Neullly
SevTes Marty Passy, Fonainbleau, Maisons Abort
Chantlly Corvei, Grenelle, Monimorency Ruei, Saint
Denis Nanterre, Rambouiet, ST. Cloud, Saint German
Vincennes, Meudon, bringing back with them the mud
OF half a-dozen departments al least Who shall count
the that carry fat shop keepers and wives and
families to small way places set down on no
map except those published by the War Office on the
scale OF inches the mile. hid away from the intru
sve eyes OF all foreigners by some kind hill where the
humber classes enjoy themselves at suitable cost II
there dust contractors in Paris should be tempted
to hint suspicion that they in league with all
coach builders in France. What ud-edrryng wheels
they do make for their coaches They to have at
tanned that peculiar form which will take up the greatest
quantity Of mud and transport IT farthest with safety
You them at times with not only the tires and
rim, but the spokes filled with coating two
three inches thick, looking for all the world il they
were Just from one OF the deep holes whose bottom has
dropped out" sometimes TO be found in the United
States.
Now whom does this serve bu, the dust contractor
Il tires the horses overloaded already with fifteen or
twenty passengers dsigures the coach and as for the
effect upon the streets OF Paris, will not undertake TO
describe. You know the wicked young men they have
in Paris, and may be they would not let slip by
coalition which might afford them much pleasure, and
that they bound by the most solemn treaty OF aty
nd alliance with the coachmakers and the coachdryers
Wicked boys know the shape OF every ankle Of every
face you meet in Paris they tell you the defects OF
the leg OF every one, no matter how pretty the face may
be, the eye sparkle, or how cherryred the lips OF It's
owner; nay more, they know the length Of the stocking
and the material OF every garter Poor ladies' they have
to draw up their little rocks high TO escape the
and coacSdryers wicked bows OF Paris and selfish dust
spread over the streets OF your fair city
Women and wine naturally associated in the mind
Of man. and i can be no sudden transition to speak OF
wine fear these torrents Of rain may prove very pre-
judicial TO the vintage, II they widely extended and
last till next Sunday, as the weaherwse predict they
will The barometer is sill very low, and no signs aP
pear In the sky that the clouds are about breaking Al
ter this shall have cold weather. the first breathings
Of the icy breath Of winter, with all its pleasures, ex
elements, crowds, and misery and suffering.
As many other ambitious engineers the generals IN
command OF the Roman expedition have been hoised by
their own petard which now threatens to blow up the
executive which planted it. The fate which befe
General Oudinot, has befaen General Rostoan he has
been recalled from command, and third commander in
chief has gone TO try his fortune in the critical spot
The Tarpean rock seems TO be the capital as OF
old, and the incense Of the Holy, the only Catholic
church, as fatal TO the statesmen the miasma Of their
Pontne marshes TO man. The broad bottomed cabinet
reels under its deadly influence the army OF France
used to hardships OF every cline and SOIL gfumbe at its
deleterious QUALITIES II awakens in Louis Napoleons
mind his younger days. and impressions made on his hot
blooded youth by the tyranny Of Gregory XVI. He
recoects them wildly and TO his "dear Ney' he enun
cstes, IN the plain, candid language OF private let
ter, the bases which the only fabric be erected
which will preserve Roman liberties from priesily OPP
pressiona general amnesty, secularizaton OF the adj
mnstraton, code Napoleon, and liberal government"
Rome {" when the banners of the church found on
the side Of the people ~ is the last thing in the thoughts
of his Holiness, and the Monsgnior OF the Sacred Col
lege the task is more easily proposed than performed.
Every obstacle that the tried ingenuity OF the Jesuit
suggest or Italian assimilation fame-priescraft and
sacred tradition moved TO prevent the consummaton
Of 30 admirable design. The Holy Catholic Church
stops the way,
eAhi Constantine, of how much III was cause
Not thy conversion, but those rich domains
That the first wealthy Pope received OF thee"
But the dreaded thunder Of the Vatican is dis
armed Of Its fatal shaft accommodations furnish matter
lot laughter and may be hoped that French bayones
some freedom may be borne into the Sacred College itself
there - no retrng now from the uiimatum OF general
amnesty secularizatlon OF the government Code Napo
leon, and liberal government "and all despite OF my
The letter Of the Presiden, has been received with
marked favor from every press, well in England as in