New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-07


late myself on the atmospheric Improvement.
another Frenchman got IN. 1t his cigar. ana
went al II All this was IN direct ard fragrant
violation of the rules posted up IN the car brt
when did smoker ever care for law or decency
will endeavor mex, time to find seat IN car
where women are fellow passengers and see
whether their presence : respected by The
devo,ees Of the nOxious weed have but amt
hope OF 1t
The Railroad from Paris 20 Chalons asses
through a generally level region, waiefed 10y
tributaries Of the Seine and OF the SaOne with
range OF gentle hills skirtIng the valleys. gener-
ally OF the night and sometimes on either hand
As in England the track Is never allowed to
cross carriage-roai on lis ewn level. but Is car
ned either under or over each TIE soil Is usu-
ally fertile and well cultivated, though not so
Skiilfully and thoroughly that of England
There are places. however, III which the cultlva-
ton could not easily be surpassed, but should
say that the average product would not be more
than two-thirds that of England, acre for acre
There are very few fences of any kind save slight
oneinclosng the Railway. beyond which the coun-
try stretches away as far as the eye can reach
without a visible landmark. the crops OF different
cultivators fairly touching each other and growing
square up 10 the narrow roads tha, traverse
them. You Will see for instance, first a strip OF
grass, perhaps ten rods wide ami running back
sixty or eighty rods from the Railroad then
narrower strip OF Wheat then one OF Grape
Vines then one of Beans then one OF Glover
then Wheat again. then Grass or Oats, and 80
on saw very little Rye. and If there were
Potatoes or Indian Com they were not up suh
ciently high to he distinguished The work
gong forward was the later Wedding with
the earlier Hay-making. and saw nearly
as many women as men working In the fields
The growing crops were generally kept pretty
clear Of weeds, and the grass was most faithful
Is hut very slowly cut. think one Yankee
would NOW over more ground in a day than two
Frenchmen but he would cut less hay to the acre
OF course. in a country devoid of fences and
half covered with small patches OF Grain there
could not be many cattle | saw no oxen, very
few COWS, and not many horses The hay-carts
were generally drawn by asses, or by horses so
small as not to be easily distinguished from
asses as we whlred rapidly by. The wagons
on the roads were generally drawn by small
industrious but not remarkably efficient, and that
tie women do the larger half of the work, house
work included The hay-cars were wretchedly
small. and the implements used looked generally
rude and primitive The dwellings are low,
small, steep-rooled cottages, for which hun
bred dollars each would be liberal offer OF
course, speak of the rural habltatlonS those IN
the villages are better though still mainly small,
steep-roofed, poor, and hudded together in the
most chaotic confusion. The stalls and pastures
for cattle were IN the m; n only visible to the eye
Of faith though cattle here must be and are
to DO the blowing and hauling. suspect they
are seldom turned loose IN summer, and that
there is not a cow to every third cottage hinh
| did not see a yoke of oxen throughout the vs.
ride OF 2i3 miles
i was again agreeaby disappointed In the
abundance of Trees Wood seems to be the peas
ants sole reliance for fuel and trees are planted
beside the roads. the streams the bitches, and of
ten IN rows or patches on some arabic portion OF
the peasants narrow domain. This planting Is
mainly confined TO two varleties-the Lombardy
Poplar and what took 10 be the Pollard, species
of Willow which displays very little foliage, and
is usually trimmed up so to have but mere
armful of leaves and branches at the top of a
trunk thirty to fifty feet high, and SIX to twelve
inches through. The Lombardy Poplar Is IN like
manner preferred as giving large amount Of
trunk to little shade, the limbs rarely extending
three feet from the trunk, while the growth Is
rapid. Such are the means employed to procure
fuel and timber with the least possible abstrac
ton OF soil from the uses OF cultivation. There
are some sde-hllls so rocky and sterile as 10 defy
human industry, and these were given up to
bush-wood which presume Is cut occasionally
and bound INTO faggots for fuel Some OF 1t may
struggle up. If permitted, into trees. but saw
little that would fairly Justify the designation OF
Forest OF Fruit trees save IN the villages,
there Is deporable scarcity throughout.
We passed through few villages and no town
of note but DION, the capital OF ancient Bur
gundy, where It's Parliament was held and where |
It's Dukes reigned and Were buried. Their Palace |
still stands, though they have passed away Dion |
Is 200 miles from Pans, and has $4,000 lnhablt-
ants. with manufactures OF Cotton, Wooden and |
SILK. Here and henceforth the Vine Is more ex- |
tersi,elv cultivated than further Northward.
We reached CHALoNs on the Saone (there
is another Chalons on the Mame) before ". VI.
or m about ten hours from Paris Here a steam |
boat was ready to take Us forthwith TO Lyons
but French management was too much Tor us.
Cur baggage was all taken from the car outside |
and carried piece by piece INTO the depot, where |
1t was very carefully arranged IN order according
to the numbers affixed to the several trunks, !
&c. IN Paris This consumed the better part !
Of hall an hour. though half as many Yam |
KEGS as were fussing over It would have
LnI r,hnfeh u the n,,ners INSIDE of