The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-12


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plshed, and in war and sieges such nicely is sell
dom required. The sharpshooter was taken in
triumph to Paris In a wagon occupied with
boughs and flags, presented to the commander of
the fort, from whom hc received gold watch,
the prize promised in such He was then
carted back and treated to tSte in the evening.
Appropo of the new Project of the Seine, it il in
teresting to enumerte the several individuals who
have held this Office since the division of France
into departments, and the establishment Of the
prefectures. Napoleon appointed Nicholas Fro
chot in 1904, who held his place till 1912; Joseph
Gaspard succeeded him, and continued on, under
the restoration, till $780, Under Louis Philippe,
Count Laborde, Odillon Barrot, and Count Bondy
were projects for short time each, till June,
1893; then Count Rambuteau came in, and re-
manned till the Oath of February, lS48. CARVER
Pajes and Armand Marrast, who remained in the
office month or two apiece, were called Mayors
Of Paris. Trouve- Channel, who came in in July,
remained till he was succeeded by Recount in Oc-
tober, and by Berger, finally, on the Goth Of De-
cember. And now, after five years administra-
ton of the Office, Berger gives way to Haussman
of La Gronde. 3 stI
1t is worth while to visit the yard in this city
where the telegraph poles are prepared for their
duties. Oak poles are preferred; but process
has been applied of late to cedars which renders
them quite as solid and durable as oak. They
are injected or embalmed with sulphate of copper,
which hardens and preserves the resin of the wood
Every pole that has been put up in France is either
natural or artificial oak. @
On Friday next the postage Gf prepaid) on let
tiers from one part of Paris to another is reduced
from three cents to two. Green stamps give way
on that occasion to bistre ones, which have thus
far enjoyed a very limited circulation, being en-
ployed solely, believe, to pay letters addressed
to soldiers ON duty, correspondence with whom
was cheaper than with private individuals; ex-
cept of course when they helped to compose
total only to be formed by a combination of
stamps. d.
You may be aware that St. Arnaud, during
his stay at Hyeres, cured of his ailments by
a homeopathic physician. The Emperor desired
to see this wonderful doctor, and sent for him to
Paris, promising to cause chaire of professorate
of homeopathy to be established at the Ecole de
Medicine. The doctor arrived in high state of
exhilaraton. But Paul Dubois, the Empresss
accoucheur, Valpean, Cloquett, &c., &c., waited
upon his majesty and offered their designations, to
take effect on the day when homeopathic prac-
titioner was admitted into the fraternity. The
Emperor was forced to recede, and the gentleman
from the seacoast has returned to his border eli
ents, damaged in purse, and terribly disappointed
in hope and ambition
Preparations have commenced, or rather plans,
ideas, projects, and suggestions have commenced,
for the national holiday of August Is. La ST.
Napoleon, NJ Vsconti, the architect Of the Lou
vre, has been appointed Director of the FESTIVE
ties No programme has yet been published; but
it is understood that there is to be bombardment
of Agiers, in which that foolish little craft, known
as the frigate Ecole, is to be the cannonading
party, and wooden construction on the bank,
the beleagured city. Something is said too about
colossal equestrian Napoleon, three hundred feet
high, in the middle of the Seine. Experiments are
making also with novel sort of balloon, intended
for embarkation on that day. You may remember
that last year M de Ravieu, Director of the
Beaux Arts was| the ordonnateur of the tste; and
that the wind and the rain reduced all his efforts
and arrangements to nought. He fell, in conse-
quence, into disgrace with the President. He
felt the loss of favor severely, and one of his
friends sent him a chocolate pistol to commit
suicide with
The mayor Of country town called for sealed
proposals for the building Of a school-house. The
price below which the offers should be made was
fixed Only two proposals were received; one offer
ing reduction of zero, and the other one of one fifth
Of a cent. The latter was accepted. The next day
the mayor, who thought there must be something
wrong, commenced an investigation, and found
inf that the fifth cent man had bribed all the
,ther builders of the locality to keep back, and
cave the field to him. He had signed an agree
nent to pay 500 francs to these gentlemen. He
was handed over to the imperial procureur.
A letter from Syria says that there is super
tition in that country to the effect that thunder
storms and flashes of lightning may be conjured
by discharges of rockets and Chinese crackers;
hat the fireworks of heaven, in fact, may be
warned off by fireworks from below, feeling pro-
bably that they cannot stand the competition and
contrast A threatening cloud was some time
ago lowering over a wooden church, which the
inhabitants of the village were drcadfully afraid
would be struck and consumed. They
ucntly got out all their fusees and commenced
One of the rockets lodged upon the
oof of the church, set it fire, and burned it to
he ground together with the parsons house next
oor. About the same moment that it caught
he clouds broke away and dispersed, without
aving fred single thunderbolt. imagine
hat there is superstition less in the world
han there was several weeks since.
The weather in France is extremely unfavora-
lie, and on all sides nothing is heard but COM
laints of the incessant rains and of the overflow
rivers and fears for the crop of breadstuffs and
he commoner sorts of wine. Prices are rising