The weekly Butte record., 1862-06-21
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A Glance at Paris.
PARIS, April. 1862

PARIS, April, 1862.
The bright sun aud spring-like weather ren-
der Paris very beautiful. The Champs Elys-
ees and Wood Of Bo1logue attract crowds OF
every rank and class. from the Emperor to the
peasant l should fail in any attempt to de-
scribe the beauties of the Wood of Boulogne,
forest four or FIVE miles ia circumference,
laid out and adorned at great expense and
exquisite taste.
The First Napoleon's tastes were more
mental. He adorned Paris with Trophies of
Victory, such as the Column of Vendome, the
Arch Of Triumph, the Obelisk of Luxor, etc,
etc. Napoleon III. is more practical seeking
to improve as well as 10 adorn Paris. His
reign will be distinguished by reforms and
progress. France, under his auspices, has been
rising aud improving in its agricultural, manu-
featuring and commercial interests and resour-
ces; while Paris is becoming the most beau.-
tiful city in the world. The opening and
improvement of streets is progressing upon a
scale Of magnitude perfectly bewildering. For
example, the Boulevard Sebastopol, cut thro
the heart Of the city, extends from the Port
st. Denis to Rue RiyoIi, and is already built
up with palatial grandeur. The broad avenue
is connected with the Boulevard Strasbourg,
equally magnificent, ending at the Strasbourg
railway station.
On the Boulevard Italian, new hotel, COW
ering more than an acre aud half, and casting
the Hotel Louvre into the shade, has risen al
most by magic. Perhaps the best idea may
be given Of this hotel by saying that it is lar
ger than the Astor," the " St. Nicholas"
and the Metropolitan" together would be
Adjoining this hotel, three acres of buildings
have been demolished, preparatory TO the erec-
ton Of an opera house.
Around the Hotel de Ville more than two
acres of buildings are being demolished, the
ground on which they stood to be thrown into
a park. This will include the site of the
Morgue," place of so many unwritten his
tories of misery and death. looked into this
receptacle of the unknown dead yesterday
The bodies of two wretched beings who had
shutfled off this mortal coil " lay there, wait
ing to be Identified and claimed by some of the
hundreds who were constantly looking into
this dead house.
Nearly opposite the Morgue, on the other
side of the Seine and facing it, stands the
house long occupied by Yolaire, and near it,
that in the fifth story of which the First Bona
parte resided when he was a captain of artille-
ry, nl785- The present Emperor has placed
tablet in the wall, recording this incident in
the life of bis uncle.
We went this morning to pay tribute Of
affection and gratitude, to the tomb of La
Fayette, who reposes in the cemetery of the
" Convent of the Sacred Heart of Mary
This cemetery Is but a short distance from the
site of one Of the guilotines, in the DAYS of
blood and the spot consecrated by the re-
mains of the good La Fayette, contains the
headless bodies OF 1860 victims Of the Revolp-
ton, that were thrown into pit dug for the
occasion. 1t is now the abode of penitence.
piety and peace Some of the nuns were at
their devotions in the chapel, and others were
walking through the beautiful gordens.
THURLow WEED.