Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-08
Mortester 9atlp Syn.
LETTER FROM PARIS.

M. Maurice Dudevant, dit Sandwich
name he adopts from his celebrated mothers
nom de plume and makes available in getting a
hearing before the pubic-publshes in the
Reoue deS Deur MOndeS his second article, emit
tied "Sir mile heues a tout vapeur," in which
he devotes eighteen pages to his experiences
in America, which he visited in company with
Prince Napoleon. NJ. Maurice Sand is an art
list, and describes just whatever he happens 10
see, and some things which it is more than
doubtful if he ever saw. And like so many
other unfortunate toarists-the Y. MANNERS,
the Oscar Comettants, the Irish Grattans, &C.,
he tails into the old trap of inerring nations
life and manners from the desultory and su.
perficial glimpses he gets of things i'll his fly
ing tour through the outside of three cities
of the United States. He sees everything
through the spectacles of petit maitre--a
oockney from the Partisan BouleYards-and
touches nothing without betraying habtual
want OF earnestness, if not of honesty.
AT almost every sentence he shows his de-
termination to find fault or ridicu e. Ocva-
siOnaliy he says truth-and not without
eSprit-but oitener makes such laborious at
temps at wit that his sallies have not the
merit of redeeming his exaggerated and dis
torted statements. He does not pretend to see
more than what passes in the streets. He sees
"everywhere on the doors oil shops tile words,
Time is Money" He is idier enough to waste
his time in Barnum's Museum. On SUNDAYS
che sees nothing but people stupeied or dead
drunk since the morning, lying in the corners
or on the steps of the bar rooms" AT tile
windows lie observes only 'solcs of boots"
and attempts to be witty in asking if all the
people sit with their feel in this elevated posi-
ton. lie has good deal to say, with some
truth, doubtless, about our slip-shod and I'M
disciplined recruits for the army. He sneers
at the Bull Run panic, as matter of course.
He sees a dead horse lett all night in Broad
way, and the corpse of drowned man lett at
the wharf, in the water, the same space of
tme-the boys amusing themselves with
throwing stones at the dead mans head, and
laughing when they hit it.
He makes merry (why, one doesn't ex
actly see,) over the ways of the recruiting
agents pays one dollar for having his hair
cut lays in a stock OF clothes at \ bazaar and
gets horribly cheated trumps up the old
common places about tobacco chewers and re.
volvers, goes all the way to Washington TO
describe negro kissing his shady sweetheart.
lie gives picture of Il visit To Messrs Sew.
ard anH Lincoln, which has founda lion OF ac-
curary, but coored by his false French aristo-
cratic pre- judges; and ends with a visit to the
senate, where he hears an orator, fort bruydnt,
speaking with his hat nailed to his head"
while another senator "is whiting piece OF
white wood, and Il third is asleep, with his
legs in the air" The only passages in which
the reader finds himself drawn towards this
young writer are those 1--WE regret they are so
few in which lie describes flowers, hummipg
birds, butterflies, &C., for l believe he has
penchant for natural history, and evidently de-
scri5es nature with some guslo.
SALE OF PICTURES.
Il sale of paintings belonging to an English
do tlo CoHo
des Venies. "A landscape of Troyon, "Mont
Veteran, was bought for the Luxembourg
Gallery for 10000 francs. Another. by the
same artist, animals Going to Pasture"
brought 1175 francs. "LAmour Medecin,"
by SehleSinger, 1000 francs, "Shipwreck on
the Coast of Normandy" by Isabey, 1000
francs. "Banks of the Nile" by Belley, 1860
francs. Gle Sommei de la Grand Mere" by
Breton, $50 francs. These prices, considering
the times, are not bad but don't hear Of
much encouragement being given here to ar
fists, French or others, Several pictures by
men of great reputation have lately sold Tor
small prices.
The American crisis has something to do
with this 1t is a great intestinal trouble that
seems 10 affect the whole world. The war in
which we are engaged for our national exist.
ence may vet have one excellent result lit is
well to extract from lis bitterness what sweets
we can namely, that of proving how closely
our relations are intertwined with Europe, and
in fact the whole world, In truth, the nations
of the earth are but members OF one great
body ; and not until one of them is sick and
tossing with fever does this great body find
OUT how intimately one part is connected with
another There is JEFF Davis at one end OF
nerve, like an ugly boil, and thousands of in.
nocent sufferers at the ramifcations, whom
you would never suppose could be in the
slightest way affected by such tumor as this
remote southern rebellion Let the tumor be
removed as speedily as possible, should be the
prayer of all sane men in the civilized world.
But it happens in Europe as with the sick,
who half the time are puzzled to tell the doc
tor what is the matter with them.
AN ECCENTRIC CALIFORNIAN.
l heard the other day of very odd, per-
haps lucky circumstance, which has just be.
fallen friend OF mine, Il young American
artist residing in Rome. A Mr.. W., rich
Calforl ian, who has anassed a great fortune
by keeping hotel and restaurant, at which
were served twenty five hundred meals day,
and who seems endowed with love of the
fine arts as well as the culinary, was SO much
taken with this artists works that lie bought,
tout dun coup, not only his whole stock OF
paintings at wholesale price, but the artist
himself, whom lie has engaged to go 10 Cali
Of a year, alter which time he trusts the paint.
er will be able 10 make his own fortune.
understood that other American artists wished
to make similar arrangement with Mi. w,
but the eccentric Californian declined, think.
ing that one painter and one studio full of can
vass was enough for the present. He did not
want too much OF good thing
JOHN sLIDELL IN PARIS
Mr.. Slidell is still in Paris 1t is said that
H. s.t1f i,aG v., Il
err to return to America. This looks as if he
thoroughly despairtd of the rebellious states
establishing their independence. The quasi
confederate ambassadors must begin to feel
very much as Aaron Burr must have felt dur.
ing his exile in foreign parts. 1t would be
we'll if England would send out to America
for mere Of these traitors, and either keep
them herself and teach them better principles,
or let them hide their heads somewhere on the
European continent. 1t is very certain that
we don't want them-abd it would be better
for them to go on their foreign travels at once
than starve at home, or be shot down in battle.
An ALMANAC BEHIND TIME.
A curious specimen OF Rip Van Wrinkle
almanac has appeared in France. in which
Francis III. is set down as still king OF Naples
and Sicily, Victor Emanuel, king Of Sardinia,
leopold H., archduke OF Austria, duke OF
Tuscany Francis w., of Lorraine, duke of
Modena and Robert Bourbon OF AGjou, duke
OF Parma, with his mother, Louise Marie The.
reese d'Artois, duchess OF Parma, regent This
almanac bears the blue stamp of the colpOr-
tage commission, and has therefore been ex-
amiDed, and circulates freely in a country
whose government recognized the Kingdom
OF Victor Emanuel more than seven months
ago.