The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-03
oust been in honor of the Emperor OF japan, and
,.saessea at the same time OF accessories equally


advice be souDd there is surely something ike pre-
cedent for ho dnV suc1 an opinion For We eaow
that tlis same Piece dc "a Concorde, W wnich, on
Tuesday night 20 vast u popaiaHon resorted, vas
equsIlV GRO. de- on The occasion OF the marriage
of Louis XVI. Ii hnd been recently planned a1a
laid out by Louis XIV, whose name 1t then re,
and was in an nconpet state. Large treheues
were left open bv tue wnrkmeo, and Wnea sne
fireworks explocc6, there was say,
ush. and tail which filled those 'reu'1es
with some /, 500 human beings, the greater part
OF whom never qutitd lbem ,uVe. Was III
the same piece .oGe tlies weeks later thin tie
pyess ~ daie but atber more t1an sixty years ago,
that an aged person. no nyipg, informs me ne saw
a. MANI taougttitss shoutirg thousands assenoed
topetser 10 W Tues toe h1-dmans axe fLl on the
neck OF that King whose nuptal n es had been 80
sadly Uaugu sted IL eas eie, too, that rs saw
the same tuiliafne con 1ste IT'S horrid mission. on
the wife ana sister of bt unfortunate mouarcu aud
81 ere also BIN, ~ IN our wn memory-were cele-
brated tbs nummeries OF Robrspierre and the un-
chsngf able q lass o. me fit1-n constitutions.
But our du y il VITO the present.
At six O'Clock p. II. gus Of the Hotel des
Invalio ed 10 any gho might be 10 dagger
Of forgetting il, tina, h4d RISEN on the fets
OF Nsp1leoD. At ten o'c ock there WAS a slight
shower, just suffciep. TO r'flesh the air aud
lay the DUST but AT two, when by spe.
cial ordinance the business of the day com
menoed, Dot cloud was 10 be seen. nor any of
those signs OF temprsluous weather, which TO the
carefully dressed raris,an are Of such terrible i'm
port. The Champ de Mars, where the pantomimic
battle OF the Cross ana zee Crescent the siege Of
SilistIia 10 take place. must have had on its
vast and sandy plain not less than two hundred
thousand persoaS The fortress OF Silistrii, as re-
presented, VAS probably Of . life like proportions"
Tt ere Were tn be Is frOwnless battlemeHts its
walls. begIimeo with age, and gunpowder, add the
Moorish cb iracter OF this nov famous fortress
Sehtnels patrolled The keep, the banner of the SUI
yer crescent fnated so0se, and cam )ns-open-
mouhed and points d-requi I'd but tue match In
the distance was seen TIE town, With minaret I'D
dome and eablsd +, Of; the wnole beiog really
perfect and moss i0te e>trg illusion. Cossachs and
Russians were Observes t, take their position be.
fore it mines and couutermiDes we're exploded,
valorons sortafs made Tux aad Cossack struggled
to tire death, tie later, OF course, being ignomini.
ously put 70 flight, tnough the poor Turk was en-
Ieebled by LIS very success. Never MAD
The French version makes him celebrate
his victo y by an armed force, with Ama.
IONS on horseback, &c, &c. Again, how.
ever, we ste the contest renewed Russians
scale the walls, ONLY - be most contumeliously
pitched over: the OttomlUs perform prodigies of
yalor: Russian generals killed CIT wita as little
cert mopy and as eXpedtiously a. summer flies The
famous Cossack is boaled nto and rolled down like
nine.9ns; while before the spectarors eyes all the
terrible accessories Of siege enacted The
wounded, for instance, are carried off and tended
surgeons incontineatly Top ef arms and legs aud
the dead are CO. sgneo 70 the tomb Of tue brave,
with military poInp ard honor Tnen comes the flag
OF truce to be succeeded by another fght-aod f.
naily, cecampment-a total route of the enemy
though not before Musss Pacha-the gallant defan-
der OF the fortress is suddenly wounded while in the
Balloons now let OFT ny dozens, inscribed With the
names Of ships cons tiiu'ng the Balc aud Bla k Sea
fleets and it may be truly said what with these
(aways 30 delightful to Parsian) and the victory
OF the Turk over the Gar the happy spectators are
half mad with delicious frenzy and excitement and
the Eastern war is at thus moment decidedly in the
ascendant
The same mimic strife was afterwards repeated at
five o'clock to an increased of anxious wit
nesses. and with, If possible, eater effect. And az
the motley groups dlsoabded, and fastened towards
the Champs Eysees to observe the decorative spleu.
doris there 10 process OF PREPARATION it easy TO
perceive that the fall of Silistria had detracted
nothing from their pruverbia good humor, and
that they were well disposed to meet amusement
half way. The Champs Eysces, soon after IL
o'clock gradually gan To presen. one of those gay
and busy scenes which perhaps can be witnessed in
no ether place 10 the world but 10 Paris. The grace
full arches which, at night, were to be Illuminated
were scarcely less attra tive and picturesque even
by day; the variegated lines composing them we're
so harmoniousy blended, that the eye, in spite of
the repetition, was never tired Of resting on them
The lnstres, too, even before the lamps were fixed
II 1t be not a "bull' to call them sucl-were so
tastefuLy decorated thar poised on their gar
Iana cordage by hundreds, they appeared like so
many clustering consultations lowering in the air
waiting to leud their light to the happy scene be.
low. Meanwhile, until night was ready to throw
her sable mantle over this festive vortex, the air
was redelent Of all sorts of imaginable sounds.
There were Wild animals from the anipodes; there
were fat somen seven ee high, and little ones Of two
feet; there were dentists who, in the twnkng Of an
eye would extract your teeth render the foIlest
grinders winter, s.eeter and stronger than the ele
plants ivory there men who pledged the lives
to make our gray 6airs ba X; or II, unhappily you
were without any, be was ready TO furnish you
with charmed elixir able to call forth the locks
Of the uDshorn Appollo--aye, even out of the very
stones Of your Threshold. Beside an in6nity Of
other extraordinary things, far too numerous to
specify, there We're impomptu restaurants, tables
covered over with snow white iEen where the most
lucous dsinties, fresh from the hand of some
itineiant Gordon ue invited the gay oiterer to sit
down and make merry; an invitation which few
were found to refuse, and perhaps, no more pleas.
Of so many holiday folk refreshing their own inner
man and that of their wives and little ones with
temperance and sobriety so orde rly and exemplary
l could not, as an AngloSax0n but have some
doubts as to how my own race would have con-
Quoted themselves IN 81 n4r circumstances.
By eight O'Clock, every lamp was ht-an ccupa-
ton Of forty minutes for 1000 men. That might
have good coup d'Ga OF ne whole, commenced
promet ade from the Arc de Triomphe. itself only
partially lighted, and lesurey descended the
three quarter Of mile which brought me
walking with Indy under my arm, amid
congress of many thousands of persons
cannot help saying that as respects order and gen.
era propriety OF behavior the best company at the
best palace in the world could not have excelled
them. High and low were mingled together on
terms of equal reciprocty-the women of the latter
class dressed with neatress and absence Of pre-
tension contrasting them very favorably with their
gRudily atired Anglo Saxon Leighbors, and the men
clad in blouses, blue or white, models Of ceanli
ness, often with their children on back or shoulder
were an interesting spectacle Of themselves. Lus
trous banners, designed after the form Of the ORR
FANNIE were placed at intervals each side Of the
broad avenue at distances Of twenty-five yards,
each containing, probably, two hundred lamps, OF
different oolors. In the centre was the letter N.
Eacn side had one funere and afty of these, and
they form ed species Of pageant before approach
ing the chief encampment Of illumination below.
Gradually the radiant haze-whch, like a blazing
meteor, reddening the whole heavens with its fiery
beams, bad thus far led us on-begsn to assume
something like shape and smilitude The FREEDOM
inant feature was the globe, Of which spoke in my
last; third OF it only appears. Its diameter was
probably twenty yards. On the zodiac stood an
enormous eagle, with outspread wings. The color
Of the sphere was ethereal blue studded with bla.
zing planets and it formed the centre OF the Rond