The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-11

| OF funds, IL Is now however finished, anC
promises TO make profitable return. we'll aired
single room may be had at prices varying from
! Sl2 to $40 year, and the married workman
may have two good rooms, with a small room at
tached, fitted up kitchen, for 1907 per annum
being little more than lie charged in London for q
single room to unmarried workman The
building in the Rue RochechouArt is intended for
five hundred dodgers, and when complete there
will be wash houses. baths, and large room for
the use of the dodgers in common There is also
another feature in the Paris establishment which ID
worthy of notice. II is not only lodging house,
but it has also several shops in which they their
wives can carry on trade, so that the workman
may become at the same time the bourgeois, and
cease, by belonging to that class, to regard il
with dislike jealousy. The Cite Ouvrere, or, as
it is more generally called the Cite Napoleon, from
the laudable encouragement given to the enter
prise by Louis Napoleon, is not yet fully inhabited;
there are, however, already two hundred and fifty
inmates, and their conduct is spoken of as most
exemplary.
You will remember that during Last summers
session the Chamber, on the proposition of the Pre-
sdent, voted large credit for the purpose of ex-
tending the Rue de Rvoli TO the Hotel de Vile
During the past months the architects of the
government have been drawing their plans and
whole blocks of houses buildings STOPPING with the
weight of centuries, three, four five and six
stories high-have been condemned as cumberng
the ground. The municipal council of the Seine
has been also for several months engaged in de cid
ing upon the sums proper To offer for the land and
buildings thus appropriated. The owners and
landlords have, on their side, been equally busy in
settling on the sums proper to demand, The jury
named by the two parties has just completed its
award, and has decided that the city shall pay TO
the individuals dspossessed the of y 1896 $50.
The city had already offered Sll43,600, while the
owners had demanded S2.l40,350 The award Of
the jury was therefore twenty-tw per cent. above
the offer made, and thirty-two per cent below the
sum demanded. The work progressing fast, and,
upon the various parts of the route where ground
has been broken, quite an army of workmen is EN-
ployed. II with view to keep he la
boring class in work during the rigorous season.
than for any other object, that the President pre-
scented this project to the Assembly.
An order has also been given to the various cabi-
net makers establishments in the Fauburg ST. An
tome for furniture for the Palais dc Justice or
court house, TO the amount OF 500 900. This comes
OPPORTUNITY, for, us said in my last, we are at
the threshold of an unusually severe season. Ev-
cry thing betokens long and hard winter
The mint Of Paris coined, from the Let of Janu.
airy to the Goth Of November of this year tie value
of SOL 200 900 in gold and S 900 900 in silver
Besides this, il has coined for the Swiss Confede-
racy 100000 in silver.
You will have heard by preceding steamers Of
the drawing of the great lottery Sunday last
Spite of the numerous pretended claimants of the
master prize of $4,000, / believe that the tickets
winning the fourteen first prizes have of them
yet been presented at the office of the lottery; but
al dov brin IN Eorht r. F do
spar, or some abuse of confidence, resulting from
disappointment and i'll luck in this wreched affair
coach driver was yesterday found dead in his
bed, sufocated by the fumes of charcoal. The fol-
lowing words were found scrawled upon a piece of
brown paper:
81 goi married, and thought myself well settIed.
But have not been happy; my wife had the fool
ishness to let herself be courted by domestic in
the same house, and one fine morning che ran off
with him. Left alone, turned coachman But
sorrow devoured me, and l was MORALLY tired of
everything. One day, when was more low than
common, went into an office of the lottery Of the
golden ingots, and bought five tickets. From that
moment felt hope spring up again. thought
more of my wife; | dreamed of the monster
prize, and was no longer down in the mouth. But
since the lottery has been drawn, and have found
that have won nothing, wearness has took hold OF
me again. think all day Of my wife. That's
why don't want to live To those who have
known me, adeu!"
IL is certainly somewhat doubtful in this caee,
whether it was because Tilted by fortune, or Tilted
by wife, that the lonely coachman suffocated him
self but still, if any lottery can decide man to
take his own life, who had only partially pondered
before, the whole system must be set down
immoral and pernicous, and ought to be once for
all abolished, even for benevolent purposes, and
when under the patronage of the government.
have heard, however, of one instance in which
the blind goddess, distributing heravors in the lot
terry seemed to have taken the banda from hereyes
and bestowed the gift with discretion aforethought.
A young man, cutters apprentice, in love
with young girl, who, on her side, viewed him
with favorable eye But her parents had inter
posed their veto, as the young man had nothing
but his two arms TO depend upon, and no credit in
the savings bank. lie bought fifteen tickets in
the golden ingots, and three days before the draw
ing, his lady love sent him sixteenth. He had
the good luck TO win two prizes of 900 francs
each, and one with the sixteenth of his guardian
angel. The wedding takes place in three weeks,
as Of course the scruples Of the old people
totally removed
The Chariudri has from the first opposed this
echemc, both bad in principle and bad in its OBJ
ject-that of transporting five thousand aborers to
California. 1t publishes the following letter, sup
posed to be written by workman, and which
perence
"MEssRs EpiToRs: The drawing of the great lot
terry has taken place, and two hundred and TWEEN
four ticket holders have been favored by chance;
but, for this small number of happy persons, how
many have been rendered discontinued. | am
workman, gentlemen, and at first took five tickets
only. need not say that have gained nothing.
ought TO have expected it. Five tickets, at franc
piece, do not cost large sum, and felt that
could risk it without endangering my past econo-
mics. TO tell the truth, only took these five tick
cts as conscientious duty; for did not wish TO let
a chance, however slight, escape of making my
fortune, especially at 30 little expense. / said to
myself, my tickets once bought, will lock them up
in my bureau, and think no more OF them till the
day of the drawing arrive. If gain nothing as
probably shall not, tickets, drawing, lottery and in
gots will all be forgotten half an hour afterwards
'tThngs went well at the commencement. ]
worked as usual, and, when any thing was said in
the shop of this unhappy lottery, Tested about it
like my comrades
conc day, however the idea occurred to me
that, with even the small chance that my five tick
cts offered, there was no positive impossibity of
me drawing prize of at least thousand francs.
''fhis idea seemed at first go extravagant, that
! laughed outright But it soon returned TO my
mind-I chased it away, but it came back; was
soon beset by it. Ii was longer matter of
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