Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-08-04
OUR PARIS ooRREsp0NDgNoA
PARIS, July IL. 1864.


The departure of the Emperor for vichey ana
sequent cessation of the Court receptions at
mas completely brought TO close the fashionable
OF ioo4 and Paris is now being rapidly Diverted for tho
country the watering places the seaside
ihe accounts OF the crops from parts o The country
highly favorable and represent our aootn wine and
OIL as only requiring sunny influences to bring them To-
perfection The grain creps have already been FAX in ia
satisfactory condition. The wheat promised an abr
yield the wide plains Of the Beauce and other graners
of France The vineyards Of Languedoc OF tho Rordess
district as also Of Burgundy and Champaign, an
nounced promising equal the famous year of 1858 in
produce and quality. The Rhine district has been slightly
injured by heavy rains aud late ross and will this year be
less prolific But every where the ordum or ape disease
has either disappeared or shows itself slightly as e be
easily mastered.
This ID great time for pushing on public works in
Paris and the extent of building operations progress
quite remarkable Miles of streets aud bOuevards
and avenues stretching themselves out in every drec1
on aud the hot atmosphere is made yet more saOcaDg
by the dust of excavations and demolnions The munich
patty OF Paris sposes OF amounting to
than 25 Of francs annum, and disposed
at this moment to strain its immense to the
most. Whole quarters of the town being changed
Ill they no longer be recognised the old narrow and
squad streets being pierced through by prncey thorough
fares, which speedily lined with magnificent ereo
tons and occupied fast they built Yet in spite
of all this continue to RISE and twenty and thirty
thousand francs is unusual to pay for pr-
and three times much.
The population of tho French capital according to re
turns just issued by the Hotel de Villa amounts to
1876 Isl, contained in twenty ACCOMPLISHMENTS dis
tricts each of which is presided by mayor There
therefore, in Paris less than twenyODe Mayorp
the Project being the Chief Mayor and presiding all
According to these same returns, which wss looking
over the other day, find that the number of births
Paris IN the last year 52,32 of which g. sos
boys and 20 SOY girls OF tho whole number Ia SOL
legitimate and 81 72I born in wedock The number of
desths were a. a5 and the of births l027 The
marriages. were 1876 8.
One OF the great public attractions in Paris at the pre-
sent moment s the presence of Blondn, who ia exhibiting
at the Hppodrome before immense crowds His perform
ances however, TO the present time would be garded
as nothing in American point Of view the height at
which he placed being altogether uncomfortable and far
less even than that at the Crystal Palace England Still
the French people atonished and flock crowds
see him cook his omeet he sits perched in the air
hear that be wished to have rope stretched from the
Tower of Notre Dame to the Tower of st. Jaques and to
walk across it, But the French Government which has
never seen Blondin do Niagara with mpunty, refuses
it's consent and depriyes the capital of this sublime
spectacle!