New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-23

horse power stages from Italy. They say his
delicate organization and nice musical ear IL
shocked and distressed BY railway rattle and
,creecbipg steam whistles. So far from being
dead or brain shattered, o. We newspaper CORE
spondents would have him last Winter, he isplumP
and clear witted for man Of his time of life His
friends represent that the doctors, or natures own
forces, are like 10 cure him of the nervous de-
rangement from which mainly he suffers
The event of the week for us Americans in Paris
was the imprisonment of Horace Greeley last Sat-
urdsy The report Of it spread rapidly, exciting
general and earnest sympathy for our worthy Chief
who seemed much less troubled about the matter
than the rest of us-looking upon it rather as a
merely curious incident of foreign travel As he
will tell bis own story in the columns Of TIE
TRBUNE | need say nothing more OF il.
At last, after an unusually cold, rainy season,
the weather has become warm almost to sultri-
ness It ia hoped the change Of temperature
will speedily make itself felt in the grain market,
where at this time of year prices run in direction
contrary to the mercury The cost price Of bread
for the past week has been 40 centiues or Genuine
above the selling price. A good crop, or even the
prospect of good crop, will bring about partial
reduction but the only effective relief for the
working classes ia in rise of wages In correspond
ence with the increased amount of gold in circs-
laticn-the chief cause Of the augmented price OF
provisions. Government has recognized the action
Of this cause by raising the pay Of various classes
of ts servants-amoDg the rest Of the gems darmes
very recently.
Suicides and grave accidents seem on the in
crease, numerous they generally are in Paris.
Apropos of grave accidents, i want to mention q
fact for the benefit Of those who suppose that they
never happen out of America: In the year 1853
there were over 5000 accidental deaths" in
France Ny authority is the report of the Minis
ter Of Justice OF these 80 were steam and rail-
road accidents. 1t certainly remains true that
travellers are better cared for here than with US.
Thur, one day last April tao trains came In col
lisiOn On the road between Metz and forbach five
passengers were killed ON the spot, and fifteen
others seriously wounded. twas just one of those
cases which "our special reporter would be sent
to look into; we should be indignant for day or
two, then receive explanations and corrections
from conductors aud directors for day or two or
more and then prepare our minds for calm con-
sideration of the next weeks accident OF similar
nature They do those things better IN France
Six employees of the Metz and FOrbach are now
in prison found guilty Of criminal careessDess re-
spectng that accident, which Of course does not
prevent the surviving wounded from entering civil
suits for damages So again: the Court here de-
cided the other day that "a contractor (entrepre-
" neur de haraur) is bound to see to it that the
necessary precautions are taken to prevent ,ccl-
dent 10 his workmen; and therefore when, in con
sequence of the want of solidity of scafiodng or
other apparatus constructed by the orders of the
contractor, one Of bis wOrkmen is injured, the
contractor is answerable, although the victim of
TIE accident himself aided in its construction:
1t is nearly three years l think since first
wrote to The TRIBUNE some account of the com
mencement of the revived art of pisciculture in
France. / now read in the Courier du Bds Rim
that the nursery at Huningue has distributed this
year. in January and February, to different parts
of France and to some foreign countries, nearly
one million embryOns. And now, with few excep-
tions, the little fshngs are all doing well The
Youngsters of somewhat older growth in the arti-
fetal lake at the Bots de BOulogne were brought up
at the nurseries of the College de France. spoke
of them at the time the lake was stocked some
weeks ago. They all wax fat, and wrigge in
manner eminently creditable to the institution
which gave them first start in life. Thus far
they have picked up their own living in the lake,
although it was supposed they would have needed
before this more food than nature furnishes them.