Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-08-11

he fire department in Paris is, in every of
the word, military organization. The members
enlisted like soldiers, have pay, rations and
barracks, like the gendarmcrie, municipal guard
and are subject to constant discipline They are
required to be temperate, and to know how to read
and write The officers and men are uniformed
and subjected to the rules as in the army
every movement is by order from The ofcers, and
the men On duty at fire are under the same
discipline soldiers field of battle, and any ne
glect disobedience of orders is punished the
Immediately on their arrival at fire, they are
absolute masters OF the locality; all objects of value
remain at their disposition and under their charge.
They are furnished with n great variety of appara-
tus. The pump, or what would be called the engine
in this country, is essentially the same as that
in use here. 1he entire corps is composed of 623
sous officers, cOrporals and sodiers-fve captains,
four eutenants, five sous lieutenants one treasurer,
two surgeons, and two ad jutants.
These 623 men divided into four compan-
les, placed at four cardinal points of the capital
There are in Paris thirty light posts including four
barracks, fifteen theatres, and the quarters of the
staff Each post is furnished with armed pump,
hose, &c. Those of the barracks have eight
pumps, and of the staff many. Each post is COM
posed of three men, sufficient TO draw the pump and
It's apparatus, and to put IT working, and in taking
bystanders TO work it until other soldiers arrive.
The captain receives per year $500 francs
Lieutenant receives per year 800 francs.
Sous do. receives per year 1900 francs
Sdpeur (hremen receives per year AIS francs
The pay cited above for the sapeur, means the
expense of each Being soldier, he has raons,
barracks, &c; but his actual pay is about four dol
lars per month 1t must be remembered that in France
labor and wages of all kinds are forty or fifty per
cent. lower than in this J. In Paris very strict
laws enforced with regard the construction of
buildings. Every stove-pipe, every chimney has to
be arranged according to the laws OF safety. All
constructions in the city constantly under the in
specton of government officials; and this caution to-
| geher with their fine corps of fremen, account for
the little destruction of property by fire in that city "
/ COUNT CAsM1R BATHIANY, the Canada reports,
died in Paris on the 18th of July. He was brilliant
and accomplished member of one of the Oldest and
most noble Hungarian families. Although trained in
European court society and educated in the school of
aristocratic exclusion, he was, for long time, an
active friend of the people in his native county,
But he never sided with any open revolutionary move
ment until 1349, when he made head of the de-
partment of Foreign Affairs in Kossuth's government
He shared in the calamities of the organization and
was, along with Kossuth, captive in Turkey. Since
his Liberation he has resided in Paris, and has ony
been heard of once twice, in controversies re-
speeding the honesty capacity of his former asso
cate and leader, Kossuth, of both of which he has
expressed doubts.
M. Louis Neyret manager of private telegraph
company at Marseilles, has been condemned 10 a
fine of 500f. and months Imprisonment, for trans
hitting false news relative tn the war