The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-04-30
|9HR CzARsAKDrAE FRENcHxAM
HOW TO CONVINCE A skEprrC.

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great success, and that Silistra was In thei
hands.
. But official news is not always implicit!
believed when and where unofhoiai news
mOnRers are engaged.
"Holy Russia forever the troops are in Silis
. tria."
, before p Batushka, you mean TO cay"
Before 1t inside It.; say what mean;
"Inside it! outside; under correction STILL"
Correction you may well say; repeat it
| inside"
sand repeat it. out"
| 81 have seen the dispatch"
"What the government version?"
| 1.-THE government, to he sure"
"No,hing less sure, l assure YOU"
"What, less sure than the government
story p
"All stories may be told two ways"
"But one way is true, the other false"
| ,"Precisely, and mistrust the latter.'
| "l3ut the real truth is. the troops are in"
1.-THE real truth is, the troops are OUT
"Iu, say
''Out, say"
Aud so on, ad in fnitum.
In private saloons, clubs, in cafes at table
dhotes, on change and on the Perspective.
| Nevskoi, might such wranglings have been
heard. In the Gasunnoi-Dvor, and in the
vodki shops, there was more unanimity; the
"black peoples" wish was less doubtfully
father to their thought; with their unques-
| tioning as well as usquestionable patriotic
prejudice. Holy Russia must have won, and
| Diebiisch must, for certain, be holding for the
| Gossudar, for our Lord the Gar.
There was French gentleman, Monsieur
DE la Jobardiere shall l call him whose
| mistrust of official bulletin had, perhaps not
| unreasonable. grown with it's growth. Rus
sian Invalids, Northern Bees or whatever
| may have been in 1929 the accredited organs of
the Imperial government, were to his mind SO
| many miserable limitations of his native Mont
| teur, the feebleness OF whose inventions, how
ever, as compared with those of that great
Gallo organ of mendacity, consisted not in the
absence of mendaciousness. Monsieur De la
Jobardiere was himself very much split "tres
rspnndu" in certain social circles OF ST Peters
| burg, to borrow an image from his own vernac-
| ular and thus it came to pass, that being
| gifted, as is not unusual amongst his fellow
| countrymen, with a considerable flow of
| words, he was enabled to spill the ink of dene-
| CATION far and wide upon the spotless page Of
the same disputed government dispatches.
"Hold to yourself for aid, my good friends"
| he would insist; "your government wishes to
| throw you the powder in the eyes. tits one
'ennard,' one duck how you say this great
news of Silistria. Thatp sir OF 4 Diebitsch,
he kick his heel, what outside still and the
Turk be safe and snug inside rs one rat in
cheese, Ell p
Now, DE la Jobardiere had his entries in sssa-
looms diplomatic" as ne would himself have
said and was altogether a man who, chatter
box as he was, might yet be supposed to have
access to certain channels of authentic fnfor-
nation at which the vulgar of St. Petersburg
might not easily Stake their thirst for infor-
nation His constant and confident afrma-
tons of the falsehood of the victorious intelli-
gence were not without certain effect within
the radius OF his own social "effusion :" and
perhaps beyond it.
Monsieur De Ia .Jobardiere was a precise and
somewhat tnate dresser he was a chilly per-
sOnage, in spite or because of his longish resi-
dence in the northern capital; he was also
somewhat of a gastrOnOme, particular as to the
quality and regularity OF his meals he was.
moreover, q sound sleeper.
So sound, indeed, that the heavy boot-tread
of the feldjager, that hybrid between a police
rio fniIa
break his slumbers on certain nj light nor was
he reused from them until that functionarys
rude hand had shaken his shoulders for the
third time. Thereupon he started I'D TO Sit
ting posture and Enclosed his eyes, which
closed again with blink at the glare of
the lantern which the feldjager's other hand
almost thrust into his face.
Look sharp, sir!' said that official, "and
come alOng.''
'Come along, indeed You are pleasantine.
my good fellow" quoth the sleepy French
man.
"Well, then, if you WON'T retorted the ruth |
less invader of his SAUNDERS, ''my orders are
positive;" and he transferred his paw from the |
shoulder to the throatband of Monsieur DE la |
} Obardiere's night-dress.
"LaiSsee -donc grand brutal" exclaimed that |
worthy; "let me at least let on my pan falcons, |
and he inserted his feet into the slippers by the
bedside
"But, by fatality" as he always said. "mv
cossack OF a domestic, Ivan Petrovich had as |
sisted at my dishabilIe, and had taken nv |
clothes ont wi him to brush before should |
rise of great morning the next day.
LET me ring my domestic, at least" he in
CURED O. the stolid feldjager.
Ring bells and resist authorities D, he
grove ''Come, come, sir, none of that"
And again his rough, hairy paw was busy in
with the white throat of the finick-
ing Frenchman.
"Quick, march and not a word, Or"
!. but it's un d Of it is an iafamy, bar
The scowl darkened upon the feld,ager's un.
countenance; and it was more
than evident that expostulation and entreaty
were alike in vain.
"Happily that l lost not my presence OF mind
in that dreadful crisis, and draping myself
hastily in the sheets and blankets, and elder
Town quilt. yield to destiny and follow that
,oGHin OF a feldjsger down stairs, gentlemen
NY faith yes, down stairs to the porte eocheye
There what find we! A telega, kibitka taran-
ASS, what do know? Some carriage of mis-.
ortune at the door, with its own door open. |
n %
1t was even so. The night was very dark
md foggy; the rays from the carriage lamps. |
dded to the CLEAN OF the feldjager's lantern. :
ave but dim light after all but such as it
vas, Its sclnulatIOnS were retiec ted from the
teel scabbardS, spurs and horse bits of a
nountei Cossack on either side; and dark
midst the darkness, the open carrage-d door 1
awncd after the fashion of a tomb ,
'Oh! by example," once more did De Ia |
obardlere attempt to demonstrate, turut4ad !
ound "here is what is little strange, DO I
GU inquire yourself that l."
He had one foot on the carriase-steps AL
eady, and one hand on the handle of the
oor-way a muscular grip seized his others
lbow. In an instant he was hoisted and s
ushed forward in, and the tail of the quilt L
'as bundled in after him, and he felt that 4
ome one had vaulted on the front seat out !
de |
"Houpp Ia !" cried a hoarse voice. and three
racks of whip like pistol-shots made an i
Weri and with bound and a plunge the
irrlage darted EDWARDS. He could hear the
FLASHING gallop through the slush and mud Il
n the left.
81 try the windows; on this side, on that.
| front, and am quits of it for nv pain. No
cans! l scream, howl, l cry, 1 threaten
lat pig OF feldjager that must hear in front
he Embassy French shall have reason of this
ltrage! When tell you there that am not
ne of your nationals, but a Frrrench! Hear
gu! A Frrrench! Animal that you are c
abecile OF a Cossack, GO! Frrrench, then | o.
tell you, ehl Useless pass to entreaty | a
ere, there, Ivan, Stephen, Nicholas, Sergius !"
y corporal, my sergeant, my lieutenant of -
oiice Here is one billet of bank that is TO |
y, not here but there; in the pocket of that
'htaloons, At home, on the MOr>kaia, you | r
billet of twenty five roubles; ! /
fifty; Of a hundred, say, how! III
Again useless. Not a word ; not a sign he da
axes the deaf ear, that 'polison de la police
ltside. bu
IS II is stronger than me. am transported ei
ain OF rage, of despair. / strike of the fist "a
the foo, of the head at last against the :
lnels OF that carriage atrOcions. Dersion! I
y efforts desperating about TO nothing That -
lnion of a despotism brutal mocks himself &c
ell OF this agony. ! have disarranged NV ~;
apery and currents of air from the under. nj
aths OF doors give my legs frances of cold. ed
There is no remedy. l enveiop myself an
ce more of my eider-do wn, and resign my. no
u TO my destiny. / comprehend at last zee