Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-11-27
The Emperor of Russ.a,s csretnsn.

g Observe" he says. 8 yondrr stately, six
feet high, comfortably fulEbodied man, viii.
his round face and stu rou,id,r beard, in tbs.
kaftan OF fiie green cloth, and the square CAP.
Of red velvet trimmed with inr. tn, mans
habitnal mode Of life is the most comfortable
imaginable the dtloe far nieate - his prof, s.
SON, and Only from time to time has he to make
certain suiwrhuman cxert.ons That is the
Emperof's iNly coachman OF duty, lie Ewes
ike u lord of the land. You probably Imagine
that the coaehnnn's natural residence is the
stable ! hut-t0 err is human our charlotte. r
has never seen the stable slice he r,ccived his
last app ointment. WLeth.r the carriage he il,
good condition, the horses fat or leal,, the har-
hess su tahle, be- troubles rot his head. Ey,n
as chamberlain AL reaches the Emperor with
the words, Sire, the carriage is at the door,
50 DOES cOacliman OF tine secoad class present
himself before the great chief of the stable de-
partmcnt and say, "Ai.x,e IwaEowt.ch, the
horses are put to 7" THEN the co,ae!y mai,
with the beard r:srs from his chair, empties his
glass. and dcscendS dclb, rately Tito the court
yard there groom oif,rs linn his arm. lea,i,,g
upon which he gently attai.,s the coac-box
settles himself comfortably. and mods. At that
nod the reils are handed to him, h. wi..ds til. m
iodiu Hts u0ttdS, StittCucS Out uOau uTu1S
straight before him, settles h;u,s firmly against
the box-hc neither 9Th nor wiz sit. aud roud
as the Emperor on his throne, lie drives III 1t
might uaily be said that lc Gos lis work
wtl.out moving hands or feet Tie latt,r h,
hardy can move. for he is firmly planted VI Oh
them, and of the motion of the former you are
not aware, for he guides tue Grry horses with,
the lressur OF his little finger. 1t is only out
of ar ton that when he suddenly lulIs up
he throws his hody backward, clasriig lo,h
arms to his breast Ike person swinm ng--.
After half hours drive &c IT turns home, the
Emperor alghts and he drives to the court
yar'. A groom runs TO the Lors-s' heads,
another helps him off the box, he throws the
rcins to coaclinan and walks away. His
days work is done H. has driven the E,npv-
ror. that is the whole of his duty. For that
he has officers rank, several Thousand RULES Of
salary, and lives in clover. But the medal las
its reverse for it may happen that the Emrc-
ror, o., getting into his carriage instead of Ld-
ding him drive to kamina Ostrow, gives the
word TO Moscow ; and, just as he would
have driven seven verstS in the one rusr 50 he
drives seven hundred aud twchty-s.x vrrsts in
the Other without pause or reirc>hncnt, with
out closing an eye or leaving his iox. At Ger
tain distances along the whole road there are
little houses lnilt AS haltug places for the En-
,rr'r Alexander bnt he does not use them !;
he seldom alights till he reaches Moscow, and
the changes of horses being eff cited with light
ming swiftncss, the coachmnn has hnry tine
to take of glass Of seodka. At every lo>t
a fresh position gets ulon the lox with han !;
hut the most the position is allowed to do is
to urge on the horscs--thc rrins never leave
the coaclmau's hand. and thus lie gets over
the one hundred and four German miles, stand.
ing with outstretchcd arms, without food, his
attention increasingly uron the strain, exposed
to every possible variety OF tcnlcraturr--on
the box of the carriage with twrnty-sour de-
grecs of heat, and on that OF the 81. dye with
as many of cold 1t has happened that Oh
his arrival in Moscow he was unable to leave
his box ; four men lifted him Fl, he was per-
frctly stiff, his eyes were starting from his head,
he had to he hl,d and Put in bath before his
Il fined limbs and strained nerves resumed life
aud sulplcness. No German could endure such
enormous fatiguc the Russ"n Ell urrs it with
ease, when he must--hc would do nothing his
whole Life long il he might"