The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-05

THE DAILY DISPATCH.
...1,naY NoRNTNo.. .......mAYA 1855.
FRENCH WOMAN ON AMERICA.
Il was formerly the custom OF all foreign
-. !, America to write book, criti-
s;.;n. The institutions and ridiculing the hAb'
-. &c The American people. As nothing bat
..,;eature would pay, nothing but carl
..,rra vas attempted. and the consequence
v.s that the Yankee nation became tne ou''
and laughing stock of Christendom' BIO
.h., Jonathan being excessively thin SKIN
nod felt keenly every stroke Of the LASH
and. writing under the wounds OF ms sensi'
i've vanity, roared like msddened Hon
IT. m.n;festations of bis torture added new
rest to the satisfaction of his tormenters.
Who in the spirit of North American Indians
r.tbsr than of civilized European cockneys,
tied him to the stake, piled him with singing
arrows, hurled tomahawks at his head, and
yelled like so many demons as he lodged and
WINGED and roared with agony. The sport
became so fine and exciting, and Jonathan
showed himself 90 much of baby, that at
last the squaws began to take part IN the
fun. and beaped upon him all manner OF fe-
minnie cruelties and indignities. one oio
woman, in particular, Mrs. Troliope, VIII
not soon be forgotten. Jonathan has now
grown to be man, bat he has not forgotten
his former school mistress. He still remem-
bers. with intense modification, how he blub-
bered and howled when that ancient dame.
with vinegar aspect and vigorous hand laid
him across her knee and piled his seat OF
honor with the last argument of school.
marrns." There is reason to believe, how
ever, that Mrs. Trollope, who Is now hob
bling about in the appropriate neighborhood
of Mount Vesuvius, looks upon her former
treatment of Jonathan with contrition, though
we rather suspect the only sorrow the old
lady feels is that her rheumatism and the IN
frmities of age, and the growth of her for
mer pupil to manhood, prevent her from re-
peating the old eastigation.
1t is q long time since regular Troilope
book has been written upon America. The
thing was overdone; the country became
used to abuse, and didn't mind it; its pro-
digious growth and prosperity answered its
libellers better than any formal argument
J.atterly. however, French woman, one
Madame de Grandfert, has published book
which is said to out.Troilope Trollope.-
We give some extracts as we find them in
Northern exchanges. In her preface she
gives the following quotations
lat Authority may cease to pursue the vsksbond,
the fraudulent Bankrupt, the refugee from justice,
the thief the forser the murderer. or the promoter
of ssdition of whom We spoke some time ago. 1t
ITO be found In all the gszettes OF Europe daily for
n "a. a o.t public Offices in the United States are
held by naturslzed Europeans come no one knows
whence. Political statistics Of the Union
81 The Americans are great people Opinion
of . crowd OF eminent men In England france ana
Germany
She then proceeds, according to an account
which we find in the n York Express, to de-
scribe most of our gentlemen as blaokguards,
and our ladies as bloomerites, if not worse ;
we have no household ties, our only deity
being the Almighty Dollar; our public men
are subjected to the tyranny of mob, to
whose level they must themselves descend or
resign all hopes of preferment; our institu-
lions are drifting rapidly towards destruc-
ton; and finally, the French Canadians are
infinitely our superiors in everything worth
having
Among other fancy sketches, she gives the
following incident in an omnibus:
"Jullien took the omnibus in Broadway. and wa
scarcely installed, when woman, of bold air, with
N thick eyebrows and . prominent forehead entered
ing no place vacant Get up she said to Julien In
A bsrsh tone, and make haste! Julien was eager to
ooyte' monnais or her handkerchief on the scat
What his astonishmeut at seeing her TRANQUILITY
install herself in his place without 80 much .. word
himself and bestowing furious look on the Amer
can lady, decided to out, when be heard some one
Sir! cried little feminine: Julien turned. It wa.
avery young and pretty girl dressed with taste and
distinction: Come. place yourself here. said she
replied Never mind. come. The appeal was too
gracious to pass UNDECIDED. Julien advanced to-
turn siyine her place to Julien. sit there she said
Oh Miss, no cannot suffer 1t, murmured the CEN
fused youne man. What :tupid fellow erisd tho
young girl impstiently pushing him into her seat
fhen square and resoute, she Plsced herself on his
knees With the presumption chsracteristic Of
miarity Of the young miss TO the influence of his
elegant touynuYe. and the neatness of his gloves He
grossly deceived himself; she would have done a.
much for the first y ankee conner"
OF course, the above is coinage of the
brain of this ingenious French woman
Upon her own statement, however, it does
not appearthat julien" her male eompan-
ion, was as polite as Thackeray represents
most american gentlemen, who always give
place in omnibuses, and everywhere else, to
ladies. If the above incident ever occurred,
the women who figured in it must have be-
longed to that class in New York, which has
adopted the morals if not the manners, of
Madame de Grandfert's beloved Paris. From
the peculiar bitterness, however, which she
everywhere exhibits towards all American
women, we are inclined to suspect that she
is restless under the silent rebuke of that vir-
the and purity which are the acknowledged
attributes of the sex in this country, and
which present such a contrast to the frivolity
and looseness Of fashionable life in France.
Our public men do not escape the Sian.