The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-09

hundred and eighty-two days. The ef6gy Of
Louis Napoleon graced one side Of it, and the
date and the value, in raised letters, tho other
The dog has recovered his usual gaicty and elias
ITCHY Of spirits, and his master keeps the coin Al
a pocket-piece. @ Is iM
You remember the gas-pipe plot, in which
pieces of pipe with holes bored at one end were
expected To do military service and to 60 of like
cannon, It seems that an explosion of very
deadly nature may be improvised in this way, fol-
an old man has Just committed suicide by means Of
piece Of stove-pipc. He was overcome with griei
at the drafting ofhs son into the army. He stopped
up one end, bored touch-hole, filed the long
end with gunpowder and bullets, fastened the
pipe in a vice, and with q piece of red-hot wire
fred the charges a4g0ss4 III
\, The American residents Of Paris are fairly scat
tered to the four winds, of Heaven. Indeed, !
the correspondents, who never expect holiday,
and as they never get one, never disappointed.
Some are sea-bathing at Dieppe, and dancing in
gas-lighted ball rooms on Wednesday and Satur-
day nights; some have retired to country houses
among the meadows, and are recruiting their win
ter-worn energies in digging in tho, mould and
lifting heavy watering pots; some, those who
really have affections to euro and disorders to
move, have contracted for three months at the
waters Of Vichy; some are in Switzerland, others
in England, and some few have gone for the sum-
rner to the United States. That the population is
very much thinned is evident from the appear
ance of the streets. There are many people who
are vet in town, and who will remain there dur
ing the season, but who will not be seen in public,
either at the Bots, or the Champs Elysees, or the
theatres. Appearing in any Of the Partisan re-
sorts is incompatible with encouraging the idea
that you are on the sea-shore, and spending
the summer in pent-up town is suggestive Of u
den,i-forsune and curtailed resources. Many citi-
zensthat class who are thin-sknned on the subject
Of following the fashions, and have thesuscepti-
bility without the means ofthe hautton-ifthey want
to live very secluded life during the hot months,
their blinds are closed, and to the passersby the
occupants appear to have fled the city, and to be
shutting the odor of green fields, or fishing in
shady streams. About the first Of October the
blinds are thrust open with considerable fracas,
and heads are thrust forward into the abandoned
street, az if to renew forgotten acquaintance
ship. If anybody notices this movement, he un
derstands that the tenants in question have JUS
returned from their chateau, and that as the all
is growing cool, the more compact settlement o.
the city seemed to them more desirable resi-
dence There is much less of this sensitiveness
to what other people may think in Paris than in
any other city, probably; for minding ones own
business here is the rule and not the exception;
but still there are persons who resort to little
maneuvres, and practice artful lodges, to pass
for weather. than they are, and to circulate the
belief that they have devoted the warm weather
to nvigorating exercises and to manly sports with
fishing fowling pieces, quoits, kites, bare
backed horses, fresh butter and new-lad eggs.
However, the heat is any thing but oppressive
lust now The clouds have constantly hidden the
face of the for ten days past, and the heat OF
that luminary if it has disengaged any, has played
truant on the way, or has got off the track. Ger
tain it is that it has not arrived here. We hardly
know whether to get out our woollens again, but
effect compromise by leaving the hannels in re-
pose, and assuming velvet waistcoat, by way OF
breastplate against the inclemency of the air
There is anxiety felt for the crops, of course.
never knew summer in France when tn
harvest did not inspire uneasiness. This time
however, the price of bread has advanced
anticipatorily, to point higher than has beef
known for thirty years, with one exception Ih'
government has taken time by the forelock, ane
has imported an immense amount of flour from
the north. Still the .Moniteur declares that there
is no cause for alarm. ,s.ll
In connection with this question Of supply, one
or two figures are interesting. France consumes
38O, 900 hectolitres of breadstuffs in n day, OF
GOO, 900 bushels, and her average yearly produce
is lao, 200, 900 hectolitres. From calculation
made in reference to period of thirty-six years,
France requires, over and above what she pro-
duces, and therefore imports from foreign coun-
tries, about half million hectoltres, or 100000
bushels, a year. There are certain sorts of grain
that she exports in considerable quantities. The
importation of this year will doubtless be much
above the average amount.
The ascent of very novel sort of balloon il
announced as soon to take place at the Champ dc
Mars. 1t is in the form of an eagle with out
stretched wings. BY an arrangement of weights
it will be made to assume the position and atti-
tude of flying 1t is ninety five feet high, by for
ty-fve feet from tip to tip of the wings. Upon
it's head it bears a crown, and upon the fiat sur
face presented by each wing when spread, is the
couchant figure of goddess-the one represent
ing Justice and the other Abundance Justice
probably typifes the course of things since the
coup d'efat and the transportation to Cay
enne; and Abundance is suggestive of the
probable short crop of 1853. The bills give a
photographic picture of this eagle, and speak of its
ssfirst ascent" from which it would appear that
there is to be a second But there seems to be no
intention Of sending an 9ronaut up with it, and
without one the chances Of recovery would ap.
pear to be small. It took four men to make it
that is, it was designed by one, put together BY
another, painted by third, and equipped by I
fourth. 1t makes preliminary trial next week
ana helps celebrate the 18th of August by CRANE
imperial ascent.
representation of a translation of Euripides'
ssHppolyte Stephanephose' is to take place TIN