Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-08-25

walks, arm and arm, are two men the ha
of one, elaborately adjusted is very mucl
bent down before and behind, and turned
up in almost equal proportion at the sides
his walstcoat is peculiar and very long hi
trowsers large about the hips and lightning
at the foot; he wears long spurs, immens
mustaches, and brandishes cane, spits AM
swaogers. The other as insignificant in ap
peafance, as his friend is offensive, wear
a light round hat, plain spotted summe
waistcoat, light grey trowsers, and thu
stick. which he rather trails than Aourishes
The inoffensive gentleman looks at nothing
doubtless sees lt)-the staggering gen
tleman looks at every thing-the inoffen'
sive gentleman plays at whist and creeps
into society-the staggering gentleman
lives 1t the theatres and drives about an
actress. But there comes another man, tall
dark. with an air in which ferceness and
dignity intermingle. He walks alone
sometimes he shuts his eyes sometimes he
fold his arms variety of occasions on
which he lost a variety ofchances by which
he might have gained, give every now and
then convulsiye twist to his overhanging
eye-brows--he meets ared-nosed gentleman
of sleek and comely aspect, who steps upon
his toes the two turn into by-path and
enter handsome but retired building hav-
ing for a sign the Royal Tiger. Turn your
ewes to that bench fronting the principal
entry and see billing and cooling, two sex
agenarien lovers. They are going through
ali the forms of courtship, which it is not
presumed they can carry any further, on
Sawney's maxim. "I'll scratch you, ifyou
scratch me-" But am pursuing Enghien
too closely, let US change the scene TO Mont
morency. -,
Montmorency is situated on a high hill,
but one that gradually rises and commands
fine view of the surrounding country,
which is studded with well cultivated farms,
comfortable country residences and cheer
full villages. 1t was near this town, at a
house called the Hermitage, that Jean-Jac-
cues Rosseau resided two years, during
which time he composed his noureHe He
loise. Every thing there speaks to you OF
him. You see. the monument erected to
his memory before his death, by Madame
d 'Epinay. You see those things that he saw.
You touch those thing that he touched
You know those things that pleased him
here is his bed-there the table on which
he wrote part Of the Heloise-all around
the furniture that he used. In the garden
YOU see the trees and flowers that he plant
ed-the rose-bush and its offspring that in
spired the music of that romance SO well
known, "Ie Tai plante, je Pai en- taitre."--
Every thing about the establishment during
his residence has been religiously preserv-
ed, though many persons have since occu-
pied the house, among whom were Reg
nault de St. d'argety and Robespierre.-
The day we visited the forest of Montmo-
rency, according to the usage OF the neigh
borhood we mounted a couple Of Donkeys.
AS the weather was unsettled we envelop-
ed ourselves in long gutta-percha overcoats,
and sported slouched hats. Our little DON
KEYS were so low that our feet almost touch.
ed the ground and as we logged along with
our flowing black robes and broad brimmed
hats, we looked very much like two pilgrim
monks. After travelling some hours, oc-
casionally halting to admire from some IA
vorable eminence the distant scenery, we
stopped near a, spring issuing from large
rock by the y-side-unstrapped our port
manteaus, turned the donkeys out to Craze
and prepared for dinner. Our lunch was Q
good one, but neither anchovies, smoked
meat and champaign, as an Engllsman
would have had it, nor strawberries and
cream, according to the French taste, nor
bread, apple butter, cheese, and cold tea,
as a German would have provided, but a
regular South Pyrenes affair.". A young
rabbit stewed with onions, garlic, and red
pepper, few crackers, handful ofprunes,
a little sausage and bottle Of the pure
Juice Of the grape and we, added to this
stock basket Of cherries bought from a
party of girls who had gathered them from
trees in the forest, and who came to the
spring with an old man and several boys to
eat their dinner and pass the heat Of the
day. We were not long IN becoming pref
ty social with the crowd and by mutual
consent we iolned our provision to theirs,
BY which we got brown bread, cold kid and
green cheese and we dined en- famille.-
have never enjoyed few hours more
pleasantly than those passed with these
simple rustics, We were sitting orlying upon
the grass, under the shade of the trees, far
away from the bustling magnifcence of
omnibusses and high life, enjoying the SOL
itude of the country-its fresh and invlso-
rating air, and the society of as lively and
primitive set of young ounces as have
met for many long day. Though living
within twenty miles Of Paris, the majority
of them had never been TO the city. Most
of them looked forward with the utmost
pleasure to the time when they should be-
hold its splendors, but one boy in the
crowd, not more than fourteen years OF age,
said be should never 60, which quite sur
prised us. Upon enquiring, his only reason
was, that every body went and therefore
he would not This is what is called in
some countries an early show of promise
youthful exhibition of manly independ-
ance. They would scarcely believe we
were Americans, and enfuired with the
utmost innocence If the Americans were
not all negroes. After spending the day IN
the forest we returned to Enghien, snd as
four days had passed away, we took the
evening train to St. Denis
Saint Denis is celebrated for its Abbey,
the chosen burial place of the kings of
France and the Maison Natlonale d'educa-
tion de la Legion d d'Honneur. 1t is twelve
miles from Paris in the great plain of St.
Denis which like all plains is dull and mo-
rotonous. It's stillnes is never broken ex-
cept during the hunting season, when the
Parisians resort to it in large numbers ac-
cording to immemorial usage, dressed in
the costume of sporting generations long
- bur Tbounb tho oldest inhabitant