New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-23

super fully, no retreatiDg absence, Dot pin stuck
through il, nor an ugly hump or angle in i,-fuly
protecting the head without Disgusting lie proper
liens il s graceful and convenient than tuT ban
cap or bat. At the other extreme beauty gives way
10 economy and health, and she stands, safe from
cough aid consumption, dry sh0d in stout wooden
sabtts.
Among the phenomena that attract ones atten-
tion in email French narket is the isck Of COM
n.rcial c. tralzatiOn-the absence Of the whole
sale u iddemep. The small producers are their own
merchants. Thus see many dealers here, the qusn-
tity ard yaue Of whose stock in trade, all raised up
on their little ribbon Of laud does not essentially diff
fer from that of peasant market woman, whose
wares | nventored this morning before she hsd
made any sales. In one hand she held the legs Of
tw pendent hens; on her arm was basket con-
tsinDg one RABBIT, three pieces Of salt pork, weigh
ing together say eight pounds and couple OF quarts
Of new walpsts. Her cottage lay a. s. distance OF
nearly two hours walk. She will probably remain
on the place two hours before dispo.ing of all Der
% odr and then must spend two other hours before
she gets back 10 work. 1t is true that French
peasant wOmans time is not much money; for she
III bre out to field labor at from ten 10 twelve sous
and found when the days are longest and then il is
true that ali the profits Of her handful and basket 60
into her own pocket. She gaias another profit. She
C, NEE to market twice week, partly, as one takes
a semi weekly newspaper in other parts Of the world,
reporter" bringing in her little contribution Of births.
malades and caiusties from her neighborhoOd to
the general district Items that circulate in the
market-pace.
must not leave it without noting another of its
pben, mena first discovered from Ing observatory by
The fQ.woman's stand. While eDgulplng my second
dozen in the selfish contentment OF healthy appetite,
there came along an old man bearing large basket
half filed with samples Of every fruit grown in the
oh yho.d A.. fos
sorbes pears. etc. Before each stand he stopped
AND holditp cut his basket, repeated in the mOnoto
nous official way of court clerk swearing witnesses
Pour les psuvres, sill vous plat" My hg.woman
threw in one two of each ct four kinds OF hgs and
the old man went to the next dealer and the De1t
till be h.d gone the whole round, no one refusing
little contribution. He is the so.itOr for the Door
sick in tie town hospital and is one of the recog-
nized regular but free institutions of the market
place of LibOurne.
A few miles distant from here lies that quaintest
of quaint that by. gone,t of by-gone old towns ST.
Emilon. l say it lest does not: IL huddies'
clipps, tumbes and burrows at the BOTTOM On tue
inner side and crest aud underneath
valley. As We walked toward it, past well'culti-
waited fertile fields, and comfortable looking, sat
tered farm.hOuses, We had for landmark lofty
Gothic spre When ut last We reached 1t, we were
surprised enough to find this church splre carrying
on ecclesiastical business on IFS own account, ev-
IDENTIFY having 10 connection with huge old churcn
over The way which was supplied with steepe OF
its Owl. The nearest building, the only edhce In
the town constructed within the last 900 years, was
dedicated 10 cofee-drinbing and dancing. 1t could
not have any connection with hGt-thOugh the dane
ing is conducted with great prOprley, as we Judged
from large lettered inscription at the end oil the
hail. which reads, in translation: :" 1t is forbidden
"ts smoke, and dance indecenty" Gong through
the hall and out on to platform beyond, we gazed
olx,,nr far hnll M
two Of which in the same direction, we went
out Of the cafe, and after zigzaggng down through
streets SO steep and narrow that in one Of them we
ste pped into doorway to let pass vlntI ers cart,
to which two yoke of COWS were attached pull
ing back behind ard one backing back in 'front.' we
came to place large enough to stand on with both
legs straight On the face OF precipice before us
we're q Tichly.c carved Gothic portal, two or three
windows and email door, 1t is through them that
worshipers used and nqustiye strangers still do 60 to
peer into the solemn gloom Of the famous monolth
,lurcb of St. Emihon. The base ef its tower, just
spoken Of, lies 80 feet above its lofty ceiling. We
entered tie dlmy lighted space. Floor AMI sides.
and huge square pillars ana vauIed rooI al OF one
,olid Vi. &C, were DARK with greeD sepulchral mold
and TIE smoke of long-extiDguisbed censers Forty
meters long, 20 wide and II heh-say l25 x63 ( 80
feet QuCth our ciceIOhe grocer OF the place, 10
whom We gave franc for this full measure OF the
col. unity. Near by and formerly communicating
With it is the subterroDean mOnOlith cell which that
holy troglo0yte, St. Emilion, quarred out l,2Oo
yeafs ago for hiding place when the Sarace1s over
ran the land. In later days, churches and coisters
grew thick about the grave of the saint and the place
became famous beside many other things, for its
crow ming abundance of ecclesiastical architecture
As military stronghold, also, it had its Importance
a. The ruins of singular old tower built by Louis
Will, and its six fortified gates and its deep fosse
cut in the solid rock aud all TIE guiie-books to tns
day attest. The side walls of the church and the
coumned corridors Of one of its most famous mOnas-
teries are It'll tosraby we'll preserved, but the
" DIM religious light" that once fell aslant s aisles
through pictured saints, now comes hecked and
tinted through the thick foliage OF old trees
rooted beneath it's broken pavement
There are at this day 900 live men, women and
children and some "cattls" in ST. EmOn, but they
seem out Of place, as though they were like our
selyes only visitors to this curious old m!ddle-sge
seuucbre. Some Of them burrOw in the immense
Guarries that undermine the upper part OF the town
In these auarries number Of the Inflated Grondins
sought refuge after their prescription BY the Mountain
in 1874. The son Of one Of them, n. Gaudet who
nov lives at st. EmiIon has told their trasic stony.
Louyet, Barbaroux and Potion wrote parts OF their
intere sting memoirs there few miles on, not Tar
from Cas'llon, is the field where the dead bodies OF
Potion and Buzot were found. hait oevSoied -, "
wolves. The peasants of the neighbOrhood call that
field the Champ des Emigrks- an instance OF pop
uar historic justice that sadly reminds one OF the an
aver Of one Of the London mob to q gentleman who
asked why the brewers were matreating that old
General HayDau: "'COs he's one Of them bloody
Hungarian refugees"
Life lie preserved in modern st. Emihon oy J" e1.
ceent wine its quarries. and sketches, OF wncn last
il furnishes large yearly CROP gathered by stranger
artists With its vine should be eaten its altogether
exc. ptional macaroons-so coyly crisp without, so
pel,nply, cresmily delicious within. Grace " tne