Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-05
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.
Correspondence Of the Newark Daily Advertiser,
81 PARIS, April 9th, 1855.

b, S.sf, \, l.,e PARIS, April 9th, 1855.
l Pehaps, ere this, some enterprising speculaior
in America has gratifed our well known eager
ness for such food, frothy it is, by publishing
q translation of Madame de Grandfort's villain
Gus book. But perhaps not; and in that case,
you are welcome to u few more extracts, which
the haste of my last communication prevented
my furnishing. In lieu of preface, the author
| gives three pretended citations addressed to
philosophers and statesmen.
lst,l Authority may cease to pursue the vaga
bond, the fraudulent bankrupt, the refugee from
Justice, the thief the forger, the murderer or
the prompter of sedition---of whom we spoke
| some time ago. 1t is now known that he has
fled to the United States. To be found in all
the gazettes of Europe daily for fifty years.)
I'd. Most public Offices in the United States
are held by naturalized Europeans, come no
one knows whence. Political statistics Of the
| Union.) e 8 aoos airaesA 578ili
Sd. The Americans are a great peopleli
I (Opinion of crowd of eminent men in Eng
land, France and Germany.) 1851 I'D
Er pede Herculem. You may easily gather
from this the tone of the book. Accordingly,
most of our gentlemen are blackguards, and
our ladies Bloomerites, if not worse; there are
no household ties; the father has no love for
| the son, and the son no respect for the father;
the almighty dollar is onr only deity; our public
men are subjected to the tyranny OF mob, to
whose level they must themselves descend, or
resign all hopes of preferment; our institutions
are drifting rapidly towards destruction; and
finally, (which it seems to be the object Of the
book to proclaim) the French Canadians are in
fnitely our superiors in every thing worth hav-
| ing. This is the warp, and here is some Of
| the woof: I" A New York woman, who had not
some hundreds of dollars to throw away every
/ t,,apth ,pc .tb.nL
poor, and so the unhappiest creature in the
world. An American lady rarely dimes at
home. Her husband, occupied down town, re-
turns only in the evening; thus leaving his young
wife at full liberty, by which she is not slow to
profit. Then the house is abandoned; the
children, when old enough, are sent to college,
or stuffed with candy by the nurse, while ba-
| bies. The day is, to the American woman, life
and happinessl for the evening is often mo-
notonous and wearisome, when she cannot visit
the theatre, or it is too cold to 20 out. They do
not know here the sweet relations of family, the
intimacy of the fre-side. Julien took the ON
| nibus in Broadway, and was scarcely installed,
when a woman of bold air, with thick eyebrows
and prominent forehead, entered. The lady
threw rapid glance around, and discovering
no place vacant, Get upl she said TO Julien
in harsh tone, and make hastel Julien was
eager to obey, supposing that the stranger had
forgotten her p0rt-aonndie or her handkerchief
on the seat. What was his astonishment at
seeing her TRANQUILITY install herself in his place
without so much as a word or q look of thanks.
| He did not know what to do with himself, and
bestowing furious look on the American lady,
| decided to go out when he heard some one call
him from the other side of the vehicle. Sirl
| sir! cried a little feminine. Julien turned 1t
was q very young and pretty girl, dressed with
taste and distinction. Come, place yourself
here, said she, smiling But there is no room,
Madamoiselle, he replied. Never mind, come
The appeal was too gracious to pass unheeded.
Julien advanced, then, towards the young
American. She rose, and in her turn, giving
place to Julien, sit there, said she. Oil Miss,
no; cannot suffer ii, murmured the confused
young man. What a stupid feowi cried the
young girl, impatiently pushing him into her
seat. Then square and resolute she placed her.
self on his knees. With the presumption char.
acteristic of a Frenehman, Julien did not fail
to attribute the familiarity Of the young miss to
the influence of his elegant fouynnre, and the
neatness Of his gloves. He grossly deceived
himself; she would have done as much for the
first Yankee conner" he
OF our whiting propensities, she says:
"Armed with pocket-knife, they seize the first
piece of wood that comes to hand, cane or an
umbrella left in a corner. If these are want
ing, they take to the furniture; they carve with.
out mercy, counters, window-frames, doors,
chairs, sofas, billiard. tables, church-pews--in
fine, nothing is sacred to them. / have often
seen on the Ohio steamboats,, gentlemen cut
ting furiously under the very eve of the cap
tain, the arms Of chairs in which they were
seated This mania is so universal in the
United States, that during the sessions Of Con-
gress almost all the desks of the Senators and
representatives are supplied every morning by
the attendants with little bits Of wood for the
use Of the members. Ii is indeed very in
tellectual occupation, calculated TO develope TO
the highest point the faculties of these gentle
men,"
She thus auimadverts on our money-loving
character: "The dollar is the reason for every
thing in the United States. But If the object
Of passion in the men, it is certainly that Of
worship in the women Nothing is so en-.
tirely in accordance as their opinions in this
regard. American women demand, as you are
aware, an active participation in the govern
ment Of their country. Woe TO the people of
the Union, If they should allow them to enter
political lifel From the moment its secrets
should be known to them, the State would be
compromised; for them, as for Jugurtha, every
thing in the world has its price; it only remains
10 fix it." la
th hOsc Oh hchIy Nihy, WTltteu Dy announcer
in l84l, but endorsed by her, he is spoken Of
as man Of limited capacity, acquainted with
no language, dead or living, except his own, Of
low habits, drinking whisky in taverns with the
mob, utterly ignorant Of European affairs using
the most insulting familiary with people he
does not know, and picking his teeth at table
with his knife, in the presence Of ladies.
Such is the wretched trash, the miserable
tissue of lies with which this silly writer has
chosen to make her entrance into the literary
world. Of course it IS appreciated here at its
proper value, and secuted by every sensible
man.
In pleasing contrast is the address recently
delivered by M. Guizot on the intellectual ac-
tiyity Of the United States, in which we are
spoken Of as might be expected from the author
Of the admirable essay on Washington, and
the first statesman of France. The Americans
here have subscribed for its publication along
with translation to be executed by Mr.. Field.