Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-08-15

A butterfly in a cannon's mouth-such now is
Paris. Fashion and carnage almost hand in hand.
imagine city OF twelve hundred thousand souls
oarrlcaded with skill that puts ancient mcdie-
val bullyship 10 the blush its inferority. Ina
ginewar trophies rom the time of Hugh Caput down,
as though honor lay alone in making hay of human
grass, almost before it was ready for Deaths SIC
ke. Imagine stern looking Casernes wherein dwell
whole communities OF armed men. Imagine these
armed men daily on duty, fringing along garden
alls, palaces, vaults, resonant squres, echoing
arcanes, with thousands OF musical instruments,
trained to work like huge inspired steam-engine
of Apollo. Imagine the best blood Of France Sc
lected for these men-at-arms. for French economy
picks out the choice human cattle, for slaughter,
and leaves the lame, halt, blind and stunted to keep
the breed; hence the military standard height has
| been lowered from, the utter impossbiny or find
ing even enough of the five feet two to file the
rust of glory. Imagine the heaviest and swiftest
horses Tor cavalry-nO only the horses that France
can supply, her equestrian fount having run dry,
but other countries. Imagine these troops, sus-
tanned by eighty thousand National Guards, and
themselves numbering actually one hundred and
fifty thousand, within Paris. Having done so, i'm
agne balls, parties, dancing gardens, fetes, thea
tres, operas, galleries Of art, prOmenades, drives
! such the world cannot show, and an agony of
1 moderateship co.working with frenzy Of Reac
tionary and Revolutionary hates, deficiencies, ter
rors, gullotinery, helbi iea,hings All this is here.
All the acts that go to make life generous and love-
y interwoven with signals of DISCRIMINATION. labor
| saving machines for eternity credit. Accompa-
| nv me to a grand review on the Champ dc Mars
The day is beautiful. Here shall have full op-
portunity Of seeing the great men Of Paris. Names
| Congratulations remain. President four years
! instead Of King for life, seeking alliances with
kings. And yet the president is so much like a
King that it would be difficult to tell the difference.
He is small pattern Of man, without dignity or
prescience. Had he read the handwriting on the
Republican walls Of France, and been grandly SIM
pie; it would have been difficult to have compas sed
the altitude of his renown or the eminence where.
on the people woula have placed him. Louis Ma.
pollen, however, rides well. He learned the
art in England, the home of fwebroken saddle -hor-
ses. He comes on the vast plain of the Champ de
Mars, whose architectural beauty is the famous
| Polytechnic school. He approaches us. Brillian
in his staff There is great Changarnier, the amia
he chief who is ready to throw hot shot and Con
| greve rockets, to dispense concrete Cruelties tt
which ordinary assassination out Of revenge is al
! angelic trait-all these pandimonium essences be
ing now bottled up to be distributed by the afore
SAID chief, if the men of February should dare t.
hold on the right of suffrage. On the ground al,
some British officers. The people do not cry ''Sa
ere les Anslais,' because the new faith has taugh
them better. Under Louis Philippe saw them a
review in the same place, execrate bery o
young SaNon-haired red-coats. The people receiv
the President without applause, and the soldiers il
dead silence.-Fry's Cor. n. 7. 7ritune.