The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-08-15
A. Head in Paris.
Special correspondence OF New Orleans Crescent.
D,prc Julv 10 1867

Special correspor dence OF New Orleans Crescent.
PARIS, July l3, 1867.
So you hold me to my promise to take
Won up the Shoms Eleezay Champs
ElysGes), do you? Well, step into my
private carriage, hired for this occasion
only" at a franc and a half, and OIL we
whirl through the Place dc la Concorde
and enter the avenue, wide enough for Sc
veral cotillon parties to dance abreast, and
on each side of which are double rows of
trees and walks, and outside OF these still
are beautiful groves lit up with dazzling
beauty and petroleum to enticc the prodl-
gal son into some retreat, some Cdje chdn
| tdnt, where he can see some rare sights ).
| By rare / don't mean UNDERGONE, as l
would if l were speaking of roast beef, for
things are rather 0rerdone. Let's go into
this brilliantly lighted garden, where a
| thousand Jets pour their rich light over
an Annic-mated sccne-men and wo-
men looking on, and men and women
dancing such very strange dances. Then
there are others trying to win some arti-
Gle Of jewelry or what-not on chance
board; others drinking ut tables; others
at shooting galleries, etc. All around we
see people who, at home, say that folks ort
not for to do so. Gentle reader, this is
nothing but the celebrated lMabiHe jar
dine, and is place that everybody who
visits Paris goes to once. There are some
aged seers, however, that "increase and
multiply" their visits here, after the first
time Well, it is such Il garden as there
is not another like it in the world; and
with all the freedom and abandon and
license, everything is done decently and
in order"--no drunkenness, no trouble.
Trooly, "thcy do these things better in
France !" But you have got three francs
worth, SO let's go to another over here to
the right, all flowers and shrubs and mu-
sic, and more gas jets, that shine brightly
over tolTably fair women. These women
know how to put on their silks and their
satins and their little hats, and make
themselves captivating; but they are not
beautiful-only pretty some hardly that !.
Look at that bewitching-looking creature,
with her face and complexion so fair, her
/ jaunty hat, her silken tolds-and see with
what grace she moves. Yet that fair COM
pleXion is due to art, not to nature and
that hair auburn, aye, golden as it seems,
was, and will be again, a muddy black
or brown; and that dress and imitation
jewelry are al hired, my dear and
ten to one that woman doesn't know
where her breakfast is to come from,
and yet she is as jolly as you
please But we have kept her company
quite long enough for our good name, and
we will move on to scenes as fair, gardens
as beautiful as eye could desire, scattered
here and there, on either hand of the
Champs ElyseeS, from the magnificent
Place de la COnc0rde to the grand Arche de
Iriomphe yonder, raised in glory for the
first Napoleon, whose ashes rest SO quietly
only yonder where point my finger to
the dome Of the Hospital des Invalides
| What man lies there. Is there such an
other? Not in all France
But let's turn back from the gay avenue
we have been visiting, and go to new
scenes which you can visit in Paris for
months and still see something new. 1t is
now ii o'clock, and all Paris is one blaze
of light, and the gaiety Of the grand
French capital cannot be equalled in the
whole grand world. Its squares, gardens,
palaces, and palatial cafes, lit up so bril-
liantly as to dazzle you as you walk past
them These cafes extend for miles, and
they all make money to keep up their
splendor, for Paris lives in cafes. Where
is the family in all Paris that do their
cooking at home, and live there, like us
Americans? They are as scarce as honest
men
1t was the aim of the first Napoleon to
make Paris beautiful, and the third Ma
poleon, or Louis Napoleon three times, is
carrying out that aim. Now, if succeed
Napoleon in lice, and the Fenians are
successful, l shall make Paris and Ireland
the two garden spots of the world in
tend to move on Mexico first and stamp
civilization into those barbarians there,
and then proclaim myself dictator of that
soil and potater Of Ireland. The first
thing that Mexico needs is a few good fu
nerals; these want to be followed up by
other funerals, to be succeeded by tune-
rails. l would suspend the ha6eas corpus
in Mexico, and suspend the corpuses of
the Mexicans, so that they 'shall not learn
war against nation, nor lift up sword any
more!'' This is as near scripter as the
circumstances of the case require. No pa
tent yet required blue pills as bad as