Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-07

the pretenders. This is humilitat;ng for
Missionary Williams, who doubtless i'm
agined himself to be the biggest humbur
of them all. The question "Haye we \
Bourbon among us, was proposed in Paris
the Other day; after moment s reflection,
the answer was returned that we have
not, for Louis Napoleon has exilcd them
all.
/ should not again have referred to the
appropriations neceSsitated for the Rue
de Rivoli, were it not for curious case
that has come up in the progress of the
negotiations. In the neighborhood of the
Cancdle Franchise is a cafe Of second
rank ofentertainment, of which was included
IN late list of impending demolitiops.
1t is at this cafe, that the head of the
claque of the Canadie, selects and enrolIs
his men every night. 1t is here that gen.
tlemen out of employ, and who have a
taste Tor the drama, assemble a; nightfall.
The chef happens in soon after, makes up
his brigade, and carries them off 10 their
seats under the chandelier. OF course,
these bargains and assemblages are ac-
companied with calls for beer and other
liquids, which produce, in the course of
year, pretty round sum to the proprie-
tor. So, when the city served a notice
upon him, he laid all these facts before the
jury, and in place of the city's contempti-
BILE offer of 5000 fir. indemnity, he claimed
Al ZOO: the jury allowed him 1900, and
were generous at that.
The staid Galignani has admitted an
advertisement into his columns which he
would certainly have rejected, had he
scanned it more closely. A gentleman
aged sixty, who has an annual income of
S4OO from place in ministry-that is,
If President Pierce does not turn him out
desires to marry a lady either spinster
or window; (whom else would he marry,
in Heavens namely She must be in the
receipt of at least S240 year, must have
a pleasing countenance, and must not be
over forty-one; apply to Mrs. Druast, Rue
Caumartin. l should have supposed from
the advertisement, that applications
would rather be made to Mr.. Druast, but
| think it likely that l have read wrong.
] do not care about re-reading the para
graph, either; but | cannot but admire
only asks for S240 a year, and expects to
support wife on that and his salary as
a clerk. However, he enjoys what none
of your better paid clerks at Washington
can lay claim to-a sense of durability,
and the consciousness that he will be re-
tanned in service as long as he discharges
his duty, and keeps his finger out OF the
till.
That inveterate illuminator, Dusantoy,
the Emperor's traitor, who goes into pyric
extacies, on all the national fctes and
whose joy becomes visible to the eye in
jets of gas and other luminous gushes,
has at last Illuminated too much. He has
fallen victim to his fancy for ignited
camphine. One Of the men who was
preparing the display, slipped, let tin
thing full of liquid gas fall, and set the
shop in blaze. 5000 fir. worth of pam
falcons lone pair that the Emperor was
to wear TO Diebbe,) perishcd in the con.
fagration. the question a. once
arises: VIII Louis Napoleon pay for the
damages out of his private purse, in his
inexhaustible solicitudefor the arts, or will
he take different view of the case. and
send Mr.. Dosantoy to Cayenne for burn
ing his trowSers!
We have had railroad accident here,
six miles from Paris, but of course not
on your pyramidal scale. Nobody was
killed, and only a few bones were broken.
Wewill probably be unable to understand
why the Minister of Public Works sent
all agent to look at the scene of the disas-
ter, and investigate the cause, ard why
the railroad company discharged a care
less servant, and ordered the erection of
new signal at a dangerous curve.
We have quantity of Arabs in Paris,
some Bou, or Sidi, or Mobey- y-eI-Dyna, and
his suite. The Khalifa has been presented
to the Emperor; the one was naturally
lost in admiration of Paris and the Sui
tan, while the other manifested high ap-
probation of Algeria and the Desert.
These gentlemen are going about consid-
erably, though one would think they must
have been lions enough at home. They
go through the streets in large carriage,
one of them occupying the valet'S seat
behind. His elegant burners and other
trapplngs which indicate his rank, forbid
you to suppose that he is the Sheds
servant, though certainly his position
suggests dependency. 1t seems that he
has discovered that the laqueys perch
commands better view of the streets and
than can be enjoyed from
within, and, as he has no false shame, ne
has unhesitatingly taken it. He passes
among the unobserving for an Arab, in
livery, but this he does not mind. He
wonders why it is that the savant has
the best seat, but as no one knows, no
one will be able to tell him. FRANCO.