Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-07-25

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fash of the light upon the bayonet Of the Turct
that guards him. Through the dark gardens art
other guards, revealed by their steel flashes. Now
all alone, noiseless, like great creeping gow-worm
you see the most wretched man in Paris steal uI
to the palace of the most powerful the chifoniel
is under the windows of the King.
The chihonier is the Paris rag-picker. He has
great funnel-shaped basket tied to his back !; 9
lamp drops to his feet; by its ghasty light he dis
covers whatever in gutter or ashheap is worth his
notice, and this he tosses with dexterous move
ment Of his iron hook into the basket The mo-
ton is so rapid, and the hook so long and thin
that you can with difficulty see the transfer. The
lamp gares at the chfoniers feet alone; the rest o.
his body is only hlnch-backed shadow, and il
the light he seems to be some monster eating the
offal of the highway.
There are seven hundred chifoniers in Paris. :
They live, in main part, on the Rue Monfetard
and if you go thither Of morning you will see
their wives washing out the rags they get, and as
sorting the old bones. Here they have ball called
the Old Oak and every Sunday night there are
several hundred of them here dancing the cancan
The most remarkable chifonier in Paris is CASTOR
the R'5on, or Owly Castor. He is sixty-6ve year,
old, and bald as sole-leather trunk Forty year,
ago he was beau and dancer, owned ball in the
Faubourg St. German, and claims to have invent
ed the cancdn, which is the most shameless and
popular ballroom dance eSta1t.; A love Of gaming
and worthlessness ruined CASTOR at thirty-fve; he
married one of the girls he had hired to dance and
while one of them went to the hospital to wrestle
with death, the woman took her crook and bas
ket and perambulated in the night. She found 9
diamond of great value at the cleaning out Of the
Pont Neuf canal, and this 80 excited the cupidity
of CASTOR, that when he vas convalescent he turn.
ed to mud larking himself, and coaxed into The
same business several of the broken down bellies he
had known. They found no more diamonds, but
CASTOR was shrewd enough to become the common
patron of all his converts and is alleged to be vel
of. He is quite character in this district, and
he has probably BEEN into every sluice, sewer and
passage under the city of Paris. 1t is related that
Baron Haussmann, who has projected grandel
system of sewerage for the metropolis sent fol
CASTOR some time ago to confirm plan of the
subterranean bitches. he had ordered to be prepar'
ed. The veteran rag picker took the map and e1'
pored the whole under world Of the city, being alb
sent six months, and travelling and retracng near.
|ly q thousand miles of filth. T[aussmann, gave
him years pay of policeman, and pioneer
decoration.
TWO o'CLoCK-TE NIGHT TROOPS
When the dull lamp of the chifFonier has got
round the corner, you hear the tramp of hoofs in
concert and directly company of mounted police
men come sweeping up the street, with guides out
in advance, as if for skirmish with some enemy.
These policemen wear brass helmets, like Ro-
man Generals, with red horse tails streaming out
behind carbines are slung around them they car,
ry naked sabres. Riding along in the night, they
make the city seem conquered one, full Of con-
spring citizens On the opposite side Of the river,
as if riding down concertedy to sweep an enemy
from the quays, squadron Of regular calvary is
seen bearing along, their FURNISHED accoutrements
glittering; and bugle call streams over the Seine,
answered back by the gems darme. So, in the
darkness, supporting columns move over the whole
capital the forty great barracks Of the city and its
dependencies are never quite darkened but their
guard-rooms telegraphers and sentries keep per.
petual vigil; four thousand policemen walk all
night in cooked hats and side-swords; wherever q
taper burns past its season, there is cold eye In
the street fixed upon it. Sixty thousand men Of
all arms are distributed over Paris, and horses
stand day and night to pursue revolution or crime.
Within every place Of frequent resort the maouch-
ard or spy, abides-no introduced agent in gene
raj, but your friend, bed-fellow or school-mate-
to whom you are free to unbosom every indgna-
ton and purpose of your life, purchased by natu-
raj deceit or treacherous political regimen to de-
liver you up for your thoughts as remorselessly as
your deeds. Said NJ. Viyien, of DID, the Perfecto OF
Police:
''There is no lack of candidates for SPIES They
come from every class Every day hundred Of
fer themselves Our mail is filed with volunteer
letters betraying some friend or relative. Con-
science is low-priced among my country-men.
The 'Felon's Biography" consists Of 400 regis
ters and of forty bookcases filed with their sup
Elementary leaves, making grand catalogue of
French criminals and suspected people, containing
SOO 900 names. This remarkable book Is kept in
the Rue de Harlay, on the island Of the city. A
spy and policeman get the same average pay
about $3.50 in gold year, or Is cents per day.
FOUR o'cLocK-THE ABATToIRs.
While these are the night scenes in the heart Of
the city, away out on the hills of the suburbs the
butchers of cattle and sheep are getting ready for
market. There are but eight butcher shops in
Paris, and three of these are long distance from
the city proper. The five principal ones stand on
the outer boundaries of Paris; they are owned by
the city, and rented to the several butchers, who
are compelled to drive their cattle to them in the
night, to permit none Of their employees to be
seen upon the public streets in the garments Of the
slaughter house, and to transport all the meat to
market between midnight and sunrise. The cattle
markets proper are at Poissy and Sceaux, days
walk from Paris each the drover is not compel
led, therefore, to pay the octro or municipal tax
this is paid by the butcher when he passes the
city gates or at the obottoir when he kills. In the
great butchery of Montmartre, the largest in the
world, there are nine streets, sixty-four boiling
houses and butcheres, eight pens capable of in
closing four hundred COWS at once, with abundant
shade and fodder; two artesian wells supply 2OO,-
600 quarts of water day; there are triperies, ma
chineres for curing calves head, and sleeps feet
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