New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-11
DOTS AND LINES FROM PARIS TO
PETERSTHAL.
From Our Own Correspondent

| From Our Own Correspondent
| PETEEsrHAL, July 16, 1850.
/ If the traveller would study economy and
national manners and customs in Fsance, let hin
take his place in third class car. He win pay Z
little more than hat as much money and see eight
times as many people as in the frst-clsss and who
are the people. Per contra, he will have no
cushion to his back and sides, and may sometimes
have dusty mason or mealy miller or otherwise
labor. stained mud silly for next assessOr. What
is worse he may, if an independent, democratic
American, think he is doing something low or yet
wOrse), something courageous, in travelling third
class wise. A Frenchman is not apt to think any
thing of the kind. This is curious. For that
Frencbmen are vainer and make greater aocounk
OF appearances, social distinctions and other
''shams than We, is fact universally admitted b.
Americans. A third. class car, accordingly as Il
is traversed from side to side by eight or ten
benches, is of forty or fifty human bodies ca
pacity. When are added to 30 many grown,
persons, child or two of lap-sze and boxes, SOL
diers' kDapsacks, caDes, umbrellas baskets CON-
tanning yiaic bread and wine, or fruit gathered il
some country cousins garden, carpet-bags, brown
paper parcels OF purchases made in town, podgy3
bundles of unknown contents done mp in checked
handkerchief, farmers and mechanics tools, q
pick-axe.tO:my leftmost corn three several times
between La Ferte-SOus-J Ouarre and Chateau
Tbeny-remarkable what magic pain-extractor
is q civil, je rous demande pardon applied M
mediately] and other indescribable impedimentt-
and when, moreover the day be hot and The. sun
shining in at the windows, or the day be cold and
rainy and the windows shut then has the iateli-
gent stranger rich opportunity for study. So full
chapter, however, is rare and does not last long.
occurring only at the approach to or departure
from large towns, in ordinary times, respectively
ditto small towns, on fste and market days. 4
If the Anglo-Saxo shrewd observer among
IBIS dense population, take notes for print (be
YRIBUNE Own Correspondent for example let him
first set down, with admiration points, the shi!ihe9
OF invention, accommodating temper, practical phi
losophy, fuency of sympathy and nimbeness W
spirit, with which these GallO-Franks find chinks
to stow away their multiform luggage, make and
give room for each other, lessen the discomfort BY
bearing and forbeariDg, offer services, beg pardons
by the thousand at time stretch legs, that would
else be in cramped opposition, in interapped alter
nation, take and give fOrtuitOus elbow thrusts INTO
ycina ribs as friendly letters of introduction, talk,
laugh and make merry. Ofcourse he may fall IN with
morose, crusty fellow passengers, especially when
he Is himself in crusty mood, NOT all French,
men are uTbane, or even decently rude; nor VIII
sitting on hard bench soften their manners. Bus
speaking generally the present reporter, looking
over an aggregate experience more than 1000 kilo-
metres long, running through the past nine yean on
different French railway says that the vlew. q
generalized type of all: Its live cargo, diminished
and increased as it runs is made up of well-to-de
townsmen, merchants, professional men and
renters of stout farmers prOprietOrs; OF mechanics
and day -labOrers-with feminine correspondents in
all these social kinds then there is almost always
priest, and especially in Southern and Central
France one or more Sisters Of Charity, or of soma
other religious order; gendarme is rarely
wanting and more or less soldiers arc
constant elements of the representative
company. The uniforms of these, tho
ecclesiastc's dark robe, the countrymen's blue
blouses, mingled with the Partisan modes and local
costumes of the women kind, make striking
contrasts or pleasing harmones of colors; then
there is commits rOyogeur, (bagman or travelling
drummer,) perhaps, and woman with nursing
Child surely; add now one or two Older children. Ii
any Of the company Is on Journey OF more than
twenty miles long, be she is Like to have basket,
in the which are pound of two of bread, bottle
of wine aud store of cherries, pears grapes or
whatever is the fruit Of the season in bis or her homo
region. When these are attacked by the owners,
the fruit is often handed round to by -stters. The
present reporter still cherishes grateful recollection
of luscious bunch Of brown grapes with which be
was 80 gifted between Saumur and Tours, on or,
about the 10Th September in the afternoon, A. ID.
1857. And so to leave the general and come 70
particulars
lett Paris by the Strasb0urg rail last Sunday ,
week On the seats behind me We're priest,
gentleman and bis wife, the priests sister, and TIVE
young men, cousin and brother, l Judged of tho
married lady--a in the highest spirits and exuber
ant of decent gayety. When there grew up dis
cussiOn between the priest and the gentleman, 40
to the authority of the church. then the young fell
lows listened respectfully, and the ladies' spoke
low. What was remarkable in the debate, which
was continued through an hour was that aldhough
the dsputants were friends and much III earnest,
they did not get angry: they were treating Of o
religious question, and addressed each other al
IN, dear sir" The clergyman, in maintaining
his ultramontsne sentiments with zeal and knowl-
edge. showed none Of what Dldsbury calls tho
oYdiuya he0i0gieaSS and the liberal gentleman
showed himself liberal.
At EperDaI four soldiers joined US. They had
with them a boy of ten years old in uniforu,. an
,nfont de troupe. 1t WAS good to See the care they
took of him. seeing TO it that he bad his slice and hs
drink when they lunched, and bolstering him With q
knapsack when he fell drowsy pres atty ther aafter.
They had their wine in canteen, which tn ~ per-
mittsd the boy, because of his tender inaxpgence,
to set to his lips, but first, each of
them in turn throwing tho. bead little
back, aud holding up the vessel be ore and
above his steadiast eyes, nj, if experimenting in
| sellhypnotism, let the wine decant Ipo his opan
, mouth without splitting drop. They were goins
home on Through, to help Ut the hayiag and graiS
harvesting. They We're ohliging enough to ansNs
as many questions about garrison life and the Ia
ian war Is an inquisitive traveller chose TO pat
| them. But what l most want to tel is tho b in
ness Of one Of ther number to a very small 60 10,
him, If now properly can. Ii Is pity ths ~,
shord be any improperly in epors;ns AZ ood =,
when the most yirtuous of journals d. Nv reno
| so MANY bad ones as they in