New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-22

read the description Of Saratoga Springs and the fash
ionables who 20 there NJ dc Hauranne evidently pre-
ers the miucine manners Of the Partisan damse to the
free and easy ones Of the American young lady and he
in nv opinion falsely declares that the taste Of the lat
tor in matters pertaining to the toilette wants reorma
ton. He allows that the American women are the
most intellectual half OF American society. But their
nteects he adds are too much developed at least Tor
him for he does not like TO girl reason with the
acuteness of an old lawyer talk Of bales OF cotton
like broker What has she to do with either 1t or
picked porki lie would say nothing did he not know
how expert American ladies are In catching husbands
who have caught geese laying golden eggs However
our author has the good sense to aver that nus
band hunting" in the United States Is better than the
chase after girls with fortunes that goes on hourly IN
Paris lie Justly ridcules the affection with which, In
some cot,ries Of the Eastern cities. titled Europeans
arc received but no forgets that Lincoln and an
Andrew johnson have been elected 10 the Chief
Magistracy of the United States.
The exceptionally hot weather which we have had Tor
tie last week makes read with additional interest
the accounts OF scorcbing sirocco in Algeria, followed
by devastating fires. letter from Agiers says: al
most all the Summer have been congratulating our
selves on the GOODNESS OF the season. and when letters
from France complained Of tho heat recommended
our friends TO come TO Agiers for fresh air. But we
reckoned without hostthe sirocco; and now taat
has come with vengeance. 1t prefaced by ire.
mondous thunder storm which broke the windows and
ronsed the population from their beds An hour later
all was calm; but the old colonists knew what was
coming and sure enough next day the sky assumed
that peculiar violet color which asonishes artists
when they TO pass Summer on the other side
Of Mount Atlas. A few burning gusts Of air. feeling
and smelling like that issuing from oven when the
baker opens It TO take out the bread served the
advance guard Of the enemy. The temperature rose
rapidly On Friday the thermometer at Duchassaings
ClGb, with a northern exposure, marked 40 cengrade
in the shade At III Biar. at the same time. another
thermometer also in the shade but exposed to the foil
blast of the srocco, went up TO sly The most robust
could not have crossed the sunny side Of Govern
mcnt-place without danger. The ground burned the
feet through the shoe caher the hand that touched
any object whateyer-a cane or coat seeve-smarted
with pain; the nostrs contracted and the eyes closed
under the influence OF the torri breath Of the smooa
In many houses, furniture fen to pieces, tapestry
dropped suddenly from bursting walls, and ceiling
crumbea to pieces and descended upon the heads of,s
inmates like flakes of burning snow. Never. within
the memory Of man, had such things been In Al
gicIs. At night frightful spectacle From
Guyotye TO Cape Matifou. along extent OF twelve
leagues Of coast luhd glow suddenly appeared, be-
came rapidly and more intense and 1t soon became
apparent that the whole country fire. Entire
mountains burst forth In fame like Volcano and burn
Ing forests Iii up the waters Of the harbor and made
the stars look pale. 1t sublime horror. There
are minors Of loss OF life and the damage done TO prop
ery is necessarily enormous. Many farms, baIns and
stack have been entirely destroyed.
The inmates Of Clichy he debtors prson) arc griev
ously disappointed at having to pass another Winter IN
DURANGO after they had illuminated the Jail windows,
out Of gratitude the Emperor ior the promise con.
tanned in his speech the opening Of the session. that
Imprisonment for debt should be abolished. The Con
ervatives who form the majority Of the Corps Legs-
laf are firm believers In the efficacy Of imprisonment
ne a protection 10 iradesmen against bad debts; and
although when pressure Is put upon them they must
vote as the Emperor orders IL Is not with their own
good will that they will abolish that property In the
PERSON Of the debtor which laws conferred
upon the creditor. and under rretense Of too much
business they contriyed to get the bill made reHaHd
Meanwhile the report has been nduftrousy circulated
that since the q the measure arrests for
debt have doubled and trplei and from this assumed
fact II has been sought 10 argue that shopkeepers aud
bankers feel imprisonment for debt 10 be necessary
and desire protest beforehand against the proposed
innovation. The truth 49, however, that there were
never 30 few prisoners in Cohy a. now; tho whole
number is under a hundred. and as DO not think the
trading interests Of s great country conld be vitality
affected by letting this handful II poor devils loose,
have very little doubt that the Emperors humane idea.
entirely conormahe is 10 the spirit OF the age.
will be realized next year.
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