The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-16

% h%u9 st3} s. s lssoheys IN livery; matre.d'hotel
and st'enosnts OF the kitchen; French cook;
body cHoki ten cooks; six coolCsi assistants,,
two braten masters, or mas;ers Of the Toast
WI NO1e iahCies hes luminous spills turning slowly
ana the honest Soaster Of the roast beladline the
drippingl; pastry baker; a rie baker. and
hDally, three sculliCNus, at the modest remune,
Iauoh OF eleven thalel'e. In the sugar cham Der
mere were Tour pastry @ 9oks (for the ladies' no
doubtl; seven officers in t,Ne wine and heer col
l1Is; Iour bread bakers; a, nd five men in the
th so. Ioon' 1nere were six 'mdred horses In
Of nrinonIr sSspees-no less than twenty teams
VI pIlncely carriage horses, eight to team;
bAyeen coaohmen; fourteen postiIion =; nineteen
Ostlers; thirteen helps, besides smiths carriage
morse doctors, and other attend uts of
lne stable. Inc female attendants were No SO
numerous: grieve 10 find but a dozen mr. 70, II
Teen OF them about the electoral premises ona
only two washerwomen for all the court Tbaso
IunceonaEIes 4ad not so much to do as in the
small beer chronicles. I like to people the OIS
World with its everyday figures and inbabitants
not so much with heroes fighting Immense
battles and inspiring repulsed battalions To on
gage, or statesmen locked up in darklinp oabi
nets and medtating ponderous laws or dire CON
splracles, as with people occupied with their
everyday work OF pleasure-my lord and lady
hunting in the forest, or dancing in the court
or bowing to their serene highnesses as thev
pass in to dinner; John Cook and his process
SION bringing the meal from the kitchen; the
Jolly Dutiers bearing In the hagons from the
cellar; the stout coachman driving the ponde-
rous gilt wagon, with eight cream colored
horses in housings of scarlet velvet and morocco
leather; position on the leaders, and a pair,
or half-a-dozen of running foOtmen sCudding
along by the side of the vehicle, with conical
caps, long silver-headed maces, which they
poised as they ran, and splendid jackets laced
all over with silver and gold. / fancy the clti-
zens' wives and their daughters looking out
from the balconies; and the burghers, over
their beer and mum, rising up, cap in hand, as
the cavacade passes through the town with
torch-pearers, trumpeters blowing their lusty
cneeks out, and squadrons of jack-booted life
guardsmen, girt with shining cuirasses. and
bestriding laundering chargers, escorting his
highness' coach from Hanover to Herrenhausen:
or halting, mayhap, at Madame Platens country
house OF Monplaisir,- which lies half way be-
tween the summer palace and the Residenz.
In the good old times OF which | am treat.
ing, while common men were driven off bv
herds, and sold to fight the Emperor's enemies
on the Danube, or to bayonet King Louis troops
OF common men on the Rhine, noblemen passed
from court to court, seeking service with one
prince or the other, and naturally taking com.
mand OF the ignoble vulgar soldiery which bat
tied and died almost without hope Of promotion,
Noble adYenturers travelled from court To court
in search of employment; not merely noble
males, but noble females too; and If these latter
were beauties, and obtained the favorable notice
OF princes, they stopped in the courts, became
the favorites of their serene or royal hiehnesses
and received great sums of money and splendid
diamonds, and were promoted to be duchesses
marchlonesses, and the like, and did not fall
mucn IN pubic esteem for the manner in which
they won their advancement. In this way
Mademolselle de Querouaines, a beautiful
french lady, came TO London on a special mis-
sion OF Louis XIV, and was adopted by our
grateful country and sovereign, and figured
as Duchess of Portsmouth, In this way the
beautiful Aurora of Konigsmarck, travelling
about, found favor in the eyes of Augustus of
Saxony, and became the mother of Marshal
SAKE, who gave us beating at Fontenoy; and
in this manner the lovely sisters Elizabeth and
Melusina of Meissenbach (who had actually
travelled on like errand, by the wise jealousy
of the female favorite there in possession) Jour
neyed to Hanover, and became favorites of the
serene house there reigning. Ezsss7R
ITO be continued in our next issue1