The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-11

Mr.. Walsh, in letter to the New York Jour
nal Of Commerce, dated at Dieppe, in France,
July 10, thus speaks Of matters that he witnessed
at that place:
"Two Saturday evening public balls have been
already given in the spacious saloons OF the bath
ing establishment for the benefit of the INDECENT,
and surely the aims were not supertuous; tor the
multitude of mendicants and wretched objects re-
minds me of the array in Dublin some forty years
ago. The proportion of the fishing population,
who are half clad in tatters, and live or half live
on the paltrest food, seems to me extraordinary,
however precarious the pursuit and trade of a
community of fishermen; no pauper-tax or fund
has been created; private charity is insufficient;
the municipal authorities regard beggary in any
extent as matter of course. The clergy do what
they can, which is not much except in the elee-
mosynary tuition of derelict children, and others
whom their parents oblige to submit to dis
cplinc. Every day meet along the quays and
the extended entrance from the to the docks,
and near the jetty, and in the principal streets,
large groups of men and womer ~ all ages, and
of boys and girls not to be matched in raggedness
and squalor, and general toil-worn, famished ex-
terror, in any free negro or slave quarters in the
American Union.
ga prodgous quantity of galet, or round and
oval stones and pebbles, is thrown by the sea OH
the shores and into the entrances of this port.
They are susceptible of fine polish, wrought into
staiuettes, figures of every kind, and domestic ar
ticles, and used for masonry and pavements. Wo-
men of the sui urbs collect the galet the shore
into large baskets attached to their backs, and
carry it to the artisans and others of the town by
whom it is required. The baskets thus laden are
heavier than any burden which ever saw on fe-
male shoulders in our country. Last summer,
between six and seven O'Clock in the morning,
when seated on the etty, remarked an elderly
woman ON the bench below alone, with her basket
nearly filled. She attempted two or three times
to strap it on her back, and seemed to fail; at
length she threw herself on the mass of stones
with which the shore was covered, and rolled her
self from side to side, if in extreme despair and
| agony. Moved by compassion, l went down to
her and offered her some sous, which she eagerly
accepted. l was quite sure that she had not de-
scried me on the jetty, or merely acted part.
She informed me that she had two grandchildren
to support; that her strength failing, and that
in fact she gave away to dependency in the man.
ner had witnessed, because she could find no
other of subsistence than the portage Of the
galet, which she had followed for many years.
Hundreds of old mariners, and of women old and
young, whose costumes might defy the pencil of
a Hogarth, earn few pence per day by dragging
with rope from the wall lifelong canal the sailing
vessels destined to the inner docks. tall, grey
headed, and weather-beatcn tar, when Intercepted
respecting his years, answered seventy seven, and
added that he could scarcely keep body and soul
together by this work, and sometimes received
presents of old jackets and crabs.
81 accompanied one of these people, to see how
they were lodged in the Pollet-a suburb founded
! by Venetian colony in the 10th century. No
thing worse has been reported by the London
commissioners for inquiring into the haunts OF
pauperism. My conductor supposed that the
number of the inhabitants in utter restitution
could not be short of Thousand. Nevertheless,
central Deppe and all within the quays and in
the upper hubourgs thrive; the business folks
dress and live tolerably well; the scores of hotels
are crowded in the summer; the Gra',de Rue or
main street-a mile in length and suitably wide,
with flag side-pavements-- shops as sufhp-
tuous in fine goods millinery, and articles de Paris
of every description, those of the Rue de la
Pax. English Is spoken stares label on the
window of u third of the shops. The ruddy, ath-
letc, neatly-attired Brtons who stroll from noon
to five or six CLOCK, furnish broad CONTRAST in
deed, with the mendicants by whom they con-
stantly beset. The nine or ten depots in the same
street of the products of the ivory manufactures,
for which Dieppe is unrivalled in skill and fancy,
possesses the strongest attraction inexhaustible
might say, for all loungers capable of enjoying an
endless variety of admirable specimens in this
Quisite art.
The man in the world, Graillon, who works
brown and yellow clay into the forms and perfect
likeness of the personnel and the modes of beggars
and fishermen and poissarde life,y is native of
Dieppe; he displays his figures in his repertory in
the Grande Rue. 1t is only here that he could
find originals for the wonderful proficiency which
he has attained in this of the potter mate
rial. He was born in a mud hut under one of the
cliffs on which the Polet is built, and the young
ragamuffin, following the bent of his genius and
creating laboratory for HIMSELF brought his re-
alites into notice, 50 at length as to be able to
improve his mind and hand generally, and place
a family in comfortable circumstances. There is
more of minute faithfuness and expression in his
figures and groups than can be achieved in ivory;
the beauty, the eciM of the latter material and the
cd Co rn1
and fascination beyond any other similarly
wrought"
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