The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-07

holding on with his teeth with such tenaoity
that they were obliged to beat him over the
head with their scabbards to force him to re-
linquish his hold. AT the same moment
dispute arose between a couple of men,
who, after expending all the expetives they
were acquainted with, fell to blows, and then
drew their knives, and thereupon were imme-
diately elected into the street by the guard.
They were quickly followed by several of their
partisans, and ere long the melee became
general. In another instant blood would have
been drawn, but couple Of sergents-de-ville
make their appearance. Instantly voices are
subdued, and knives concealed; for every man
among the crowd knows that in a couple of
minutes, if necessary picket of soldiers
would be on the spot to march them all oil to
the neighboring guard house, where the pun
shment would be something severer than
fine of five shilings. The Imperial Govern
ment represses with a strong hand anything
in the shape Of a street disturbance.
Nearly opposite the Alsacian Sugar-bakers'
Hall is the ballroom of the Auvergnats, or
pOriourS d cau-the water-carrier5 Of Paris.
The entrance to the ballroom is through a
low, dirty wine-shop with a counter at one
side, and o kitchen rallied oil at the other,
where red herrings and other dainties are
temptingly displayed, and against the walls Of
which a number of rabbit-sllus are hanging
first, as a sort of guarantee of the nature of
the viands vended at the establishment; and
secondly, in the hope of inducing some specu-
lative customer to make a bid for them. the
landlord is engaged in serving out drains as
fast as he can for the company in the ballroom,
which is OF the very worst description. The
men are en- blouse sale, or grimy shirt-sleeves,
while such of the women as do not wear white
caps have their heads bound up with spotted
red or yellow handkerchiefs.
Perched up in a little rallied pulpit with a
couple of dingy toy tIiColOr flags waving over
his head, is a stout, red faced musician pump
ing with more than Gaelic energy at bag
pipe and giving time to the dance with his
heavy wooden sabots. The dancers dance with
diabolic fury, but still with elephantine move
ments, raising their feet as though they We're
shod with lead. This was not merely the case
with the Auvergnats who danced in sabots,
which, of course have neither the lightness,
the fleXibility, nor the nOiselessnes5 of the
dancing pump, but was common to the entire
company, male and female alike. Pinned up
against the wall of the ballroom, l noticed 4
copy of the Auverguat newspaper a small
sheet started by three or four Parisiau Jour
nalsts, natives of Auvergne, no doubt aud
proud Cf being thought so for they sauuter
along the Boulevards in hats like those iuva-
riably worn by the Paris porteur5 d'eau.
These water carriers are not so clean as their
constant contact with the purifying element
ought to make them, 1t is commonly under
stood that one cannot touch pitch without being
defled; Auverguats cannot touch even water
without a similar result apparently.
From the Auvergnats' bail we strOlled up a
dark avenue into Mere Mairie's establishment,
famed, as the inscription over the gateway in
forms us, for its "bOnue galette," aud its
"lapin sautG where such of the surrounding
population as are not addicted to dancing
commonly resort on summer evenings. All
that we could make out by the dim light of a
few oil lamps was a good sized cabaret stand
ing in large garden shaded with tall trees,
and crowded with tables aud benches sufficient
to accommodate several hundred persons.
Here the workman and the chilfOnnier, who
cares not for q solitary debauch, repairs
in company with his wife and family,
to take his "cinquieme" of coarse wine,
or his "goutte' of brandy, or his "gloria
at three sous" while his dirty, happy
little children scramble over the tables aud
benches, munching their 'galettes." Finding
this phase of domestic felicity rather tedious,
we drive of to the ''CitG DOrG;" not the
'gOlden city," for it has nothing golden about
it except its name, which is that of its pro
prietor Gan analytical and manufacturing
chemist of some repute), but rather the city
OF misery. The origin of Cite DOrG-the most
notorious chiflOnniers' haunt in all Paris-is
somewhat curious. 1t occupies long, narrow
strip of ground which formed part of the
domain of the old chateau of Bellevue, con-
verted many years since into an English
brewery, of which certain admiral of the
Red was proprietor, The enterprise failed
everything was sold off, and NJ. bore became
the owner of the ground, portion of which
he desired either to sell or to let on build
ing leases. One day, to his SURPRISE a
chiGOnnier called on him, basket on
back and hook in hand, and informed him
that he desired to rent a piece OF his land. On
being asked for what purpose, he replied to
build a country house for his wife and family.
The interview ended in lease being drawn up
for so many square yards of ground at about
AID. per yard per annum. M. Dor6's chiffon
nier was laborious, intelligent, and courageous.
At daybTeak next day he and his numerous
family were at work. They dug out the
foundations of the house, and at ten
sous the CARLOAD purchased any guam
tity OF materials from the demolitions
going forward under the auspices of the
prefect OF the Seine. With this material they
commenced to build; but all their skill and
labor could not keep pace with the intense
anxiety they felt to occupy the house; so
without waiting to construct it after any regu-
lar fashion, they put up the outer walls in the
best way they could, threw piece of tarpaul-
ing over the top, cOverered this with earth in
which they sOwed nHsturtiums and convOlvuli
and so male a flower garden on the roof.
Their friends CNme to visit them; and as chif-
fonniers like to heard together, and there is
much in the force of example, the whole of M.
DOT6s land was rented, and a cite, such as it
is, suddenly appeared there.
On the side of the Boulevard d'Italie the Cite
Dore is bounded by a belt of low Cabarets, at
which fiery kind of brand known as ''cam-
phre," or, when duly seasoned with cayenne
pepper, as "Casse pOitriue, - is the stanla rink