The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-17

may rely gu the States taking good care Of IL
This i&tfuIy An odd way Of protecting the fam.
lily institution and encouraging parents to take
care of'their offspring,
Flo has also established intelligence Offices for
teachers, cooks, Wallets, coachmen, clerks, gov
ernesses, aud employees generally. Those for
the bakers, and one or two other classes, are al
ready in operation, and the others are to be so
before long. All employees are y be registered
and a record is to be kept Of their conduct, the
names aud business Of the persons whom they
may serve, the date Of the beginning and end Of
each service, and all other details throwing light
On the. character and caps ,ity. To provide an
effectua cheek against irregularity, the Prussian
system of serpice cardx des ,ribed in one of my
letters from Berlin, il to be adopted. NJ. earlier
hopes in this way promptly to supply employ
ment to all who wish il.
An association has been organized, at the
suggestion Of the Archbishop OF Paris and under
his patronage, for the purpose Of furnishing
cheap bread, first to this city, and afterwards to
all France. The grain is to be bought Of the
farmer unless the farmers who ARE members
choose TO exchange grain for more shares of
stock it is to be ground, bolted, and the -four
baked into bread by the association. No profit
is paid by the consumer, except that OF the far
mer, and a small one to the society furnish ing
the bread An excellent patent for baking
ovens and the baking process has already l,een
purchased, and the association has opene'l its
headquarters on Rue Richer Its stock ca pital
is two millions, which is divided into hares
VARYING from ten to one hundred frames Every
stockhoder is to have voice in the direc ton Of
affairs A large part Of the stock has Tread
ko.,, aud thnra M 1ouht TINT m ousr,
citation will be, for awhile, at least, fearful
competition to the bakeries. II has com menced
by selling bread, at reduction of twenty five
per cent on the old price
One consequence of the great number of as
sociations is the circulation of paper promises 10
pay in goods. These are confined TO the associ-
ations themselves, and are used in t'heir trading
with each other For instance, he united
cooks wish TO get a number o. mats of the
"unted hatters;" they do 80 by giving the lat
ter a number of tickets good for so many din
ners. have seen sume of this new money is-
sued by one of the tailor's unions
Under the administration Of Louis Philippe,
the Fourierites conceived the de sign of found
ing colony in Algiers. A plan was devised
and presented to the king, who granted char
ter to the colonization company, and took a
good number of shares for himself His inter-
est did not stop with the pecrlniary aid: he sent
over one of~he best engineers Of the Poytech
ME graduates to select a favorable site for the
projected colony. Captain Hondel reported in
favor of tract of rich aluyial land, about twelve
leagues from the sea coast, and the king assigned
two leagues square of it to the company. Nearly
all the capital paid in by tho stockholders has
been expended in making preparations to re-
ceive the colonsts, in putting up houses, clear
ing fields, and getting them under cultivation.
Fifty of the most devoted Fourierites are to
meet ut the colony in about two weeks. | men,
ton this colony of the Lig," as it is called,
effort of the French Fourierites to reduce their
theories to practice. One of the causes of this
inactivity is that these persons are found chiefly
among the unproduetve classes among specu-
latve army officers, POLITICALLY inclined ladies
and persons tinctured with the mysticisms Of
Svedenborgiansm. They converts, admirably
about "the present subrersire condition OF
things" but are wofully lacking in The spirit of
seli-sacritice. So far as can judge, heir school
has made no progress among practic VI men and
the working classes.
Two new stars have been discover ed in the
imaginative world. NJ. Iamartne d iscovered
one of them and revealed its existence to the
fashionable circles of Paris. Refine Ga ride was
cook in some town in South France when she
sent manuscript copy of her poems to Lamar
tine, who, charmed with the grace and natural
ness of the kitchen muse, lauded her in one of
his critical essays The paper contain ng the
unexpected eulogy reached her village and
Refine Garde found hersefa celebrity. She has
co ne up to Paris and gone into service in
rich family. During the day, she prepares the
meals of her employers and makes her appear
ance in the evening at the most aristocratic re-
unions, where she rectes her poems. For the
moment she is a 'lioness" of the first magni-
tude. Invitations shower on her from every
side, and she is in imminent danger of having
her head turned with fattery
Her co-star has also been found in the lower
region of the horizon. II is one NJ Clesse,
Belgian gunsmith who has spent his life hither-
to in little shop in Mons. The merit of his
poetry is acknowledged by the reviewers. He
has been the subject of a most extraordinary
Grafton. About eighty of the lterati united,
last week, to invite him to accept dinner in bis
honor, and to give his numerous admirers in
Paris an opportunity to become acquainted with
him. He came down accordingly and has been
spending few days here, the object of the most
natterng attentions. 1t is probable he will CON-
mence business in Paris gunsmth. for he
Is said to be as clever at making pistols poet
ry If he should, may he be as fortunate as Mon
tesquieu whose book on the esprit of Laws"
brought him great many orders from England
for wine of his raising he remarks pleasantly, in
one of his letters "1'he success which my book
has had in that country, contributes, it appears,
to the success of my wine"