New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-21

- Al. Phi,antbropic Society,"" so that 1t has
49,, obliged 70 appeal to the public for aid.
go. n viii not appeal in vain. It'll an example
sfthe advantage of Association whose DEMENT'S
no one will dspate.
Il never met more friendly and social poo
Die than the inmates Of Clichy. Before had
been up two hours this morning, though most of
them speak only French and but English, the
outlines Of my case were generally known, my
character and standing csnyassed and dilated
on, and had dozen fast friends in another
hour; had / been able to speak French, they
would have been hundred. OF course, we are
not all saints here, and make no pretensions to
be; some Of us are incorrigible spendthrifts-
desperately fast men, hurried to ruin by sssoc-
alton with still faster women-probably some
ublucky rogues among us and very likely fool
or two; though as a class am sure my asso-
eiates will compare favorably in Intelligence and
intellect with so many of the next men you meet
On the Bouleyards or in Broadway. Several of
them are men of decided ability and energy
the temporary victims of other mems rascality
or their own over sanguine enterprise-some-
times of shipwreck, fire or other unavoidable
misfortune. A more hearty and kindly set of
men never met in my life than are those who
can speak English; i have acquired important
help from three or four of them in copying and
tTanslatng papers; and never was more zeal
susly nor effectively aided than by these ac-
suaintaDces of to-day, to not one ofwhom would
1 dare to offer money for the service. Where
could match this out of Clichyl
Let me be entirely candid. l say nothing of
Liberty" save to caution outsiders in France
to be equally modest, but Equality and Fra
eternity have found prevailing here more
thoroughly than elsewhere in Europe. Still,
we have not realized the Social Millennium,
even in Cbcby. Some of us were born to gain
our living by the hardest and most meagerly re-
warded labor; others to live idly and sump-
fuously on the earnings of others. OF course,
these vices of an irrational and decaying social
state are not instantly eradicated by our abrupt
removal TO this mansion. Some of US cook,
while others only know how to eat, and so re-
suire assistance in the preparation of our food,
as none Is cooked or even provided for US, and
cur intercourse with the outer world is subject
TO limitations. Those Of us who lived gene
Iously aforetme, and are in for gentlemanly
sums, are very apt to have money which the
1sckless chaps who are in for a beggary hun.
drtd francs or so and have no fixed income be-
yoDd the franc per day are very glad to earn by
doing MS acts of kindness One of these at
tached himself TO me Immediately on my taking
possession Of my apartment, and proceeded to
make my bed, bring me basin and pitcher of
water, matches, lights, &C., for which expect
to psy him-these articles being reckoned super
nuiiies in Clichy. But no such anstocratic dis
tinction as master, no such degrading appella-
tion as servant, is tolerated in this community;
this philanfhrepic felow-boarder is known to
all as my "auxiliary." Where has the stupid
world outside known how TO drape the hard
realities Of life with fgleaf so graceful as this
So Of all titular distinctions. We pretend to
have abjuIed titles Of honor in America, and the
only consequence is that everybody has title
either Honorable, or General, or Colonel, or
Reverend, or at the very least Esquire. Bat
here in Clicby all such empty and absurd pre-
fxes are absolutely unknown-even Names
Christian or family, are discarded as useless,
ANTICIPATED lumber. Every LOGGER is known by
the number of his room only; mine is 1885, and
whenever a friend calls, a "Commis sionaire"
comes in from the outer apartments to the great
hall sacred to our common use, and begins call
ing out cent-trente-neuf," Theoretically "sent-
"traD-nuf" at the top of his voice, and goes
on yelling az be climbs, in the hope of finding or
calling me short Of ascending to my ifth-story
sanctuary. To nine-tenths Of my comrades I
am only known as san-tran-nuf." Ny aux
Hilary is No. 81, and when need his aid go
singing "sankan.cat' after the same fashion.
Equality being thus rigdly preserved, in spite
Of slight diversities of fortune, the jealousies,
rivalries and heart-burnings which keep most of
mankind in ferment are here absolutely un-
known. / never before talked much with
many people intimately acquainted with each
other without hearing something said or insinu-
ated to one another's prejudice; here there is
nothing Of the sort. Some folks outside are
here fitted with characters which they would
hardly consider nattering-some laws and usages
get the blessings they richly deserve-but among
ourselves all is harmony and good will How
would Meurice's, the Hotel de Vile, or even the
Tuileries, like 70 compare notes with us on this
Aeadt
Our social intercourse with outsidersis under
most enlightened regulations. A person calls
who wishes to see one of us, and is thereupon
admitted through two or three doors, but not
within several locks of US. Here he gives his
card and pays two sous to Commissionaire to
take 10 to No. -, Of whom the teryiew ia soli-