New-York tribune., 1868-07-25


PARIs July TO- 1868.
When n man feels it TO be his duty" no matter
how unpleasant il" may be to himself or Others the
best way is to have it ont and done with it, like
bad tooth. To send you an account of a Fourth of
July and at this late date is like sending Goals to
the Parker Vein (patriotism forbid Newcastle, nay
like casting cnders Briefly, then: The Glorious IN
pursuance of the good example first set by Minister
John Bigeow, the Fourth of July next following the
close of the Rebellion, was honored with observance
last Saturday by the Paris-American colony at the
Pre- Catean. in the Bois dc BoulOgne. Instead of
few dozens of men-men Over-eating, and over
drinking and over-toasting cold sentiments in hot
fusty room-sOme hundreds of men, women, and
children rather nationally enjoying themselves on
broad lawns and in shady groves, wthal "a gay
buffet before them set, where laShins of good drink
there was" and under the same broad tent on the
green a smooth planked platform for tripudiation
on which Young America united without distinction
of parties. Then there was one good speech by an
orator who has the art of speaking we'll and
stopping just before you wish him tO-the heV.
Mr.. Chapm.
AS we the only people in the world who are all
sovereign since '16 we are of all people IN the
world most eager TO and hear about crowned heads
If an clement of snObbery mngles with this sympa-
thy it must he attributed to our more or less eNcus
able descent from the loyal BrtlSheTS. How otherwise
explain the enthusiasm of that type American large
tvpe capital type) H. w. BeecheT for the highly
respectable 0uite common place woman. but crowned
queen who does not govern Great Britain " If
now, here in your midst, shall mention the name OF
Queen Victoria yOuT cheers Will be testimony 10
your admiration of this noble woman land sure
enough the American orator as great orators are Is
sure of his American audience; the reporter nterc0
lates the proof. Great applause) Though It be IN
political meeting or any other puDllC gatheiihg no
man can mention her name without eIlcltlhg enlhu-
siaste tokens of respect
1t is then, the duty and pleasure of your CORE
spOndent TO crafty this American-lOying taste for
ROYALTY but Paris has been uncommon snort OIL for
monarchs this season. We are living fallow, as il
were after that magnificent last years crop of
crowned heads-the CesaTian Russian, the Royal
Pwssan ldOuble the Imperial Austrian, the Sublime
Turk lraTel, the Mock Egyptian, the IaicOun Ja-
ponica (admired blossom, but LASTED slnce, and nu-
meTOus dwarf varieties. am happy at last to offer
sovereign crumb of comfort, in announcing the
arrival at the Hotel du Louvre lAmeucans only stll
rush TO the costly discomfort OF the Grand Hotel OF
III. NJ. FatOuma DjOurbe, that noble woman. Queen of
MOh6y, one of the COmOro Isles latitude about llSO
south, long. 4420 east pop ab0ut 900; mixed Arab
and negro; Telig. MahOmetan, mixed with primary
fetichism and superinduced Christianity II. NJ. Fa-
tOumah the general reader will be pleased to learn,
arrived at o'clock p m on tuesday last past ana Is
small SLIM with bright black eyes white teeth, yas,
The lower leg so to speak and French bottines that
greatly impede her movements, b. MS court cos
tune in that particular, when at home, being bare
foot. Her hair is not kiuked, but her royal com
pleXOn is what was a merchantable shade in our
country few years ago, and would be again should
Democratic victory Tepeculiarize our republican in
gained accord with the common sense and practice of
modern civilization be permanently granted.
Still keeping TO themes of specially American bear
ing. l must say a word of an Ode entitled lie
Juliet, and dedicated TO Au General Grant published
here its names day by NJ. Cauyet, with this cpl
graph from LOngfellOW, whose presence in Paris is
now daily expected:
Humanity, with all ITS fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging bTeathess on thy fate"
The first flowing French stanza walks in English
as follows: Hail, glorious day, when happy
America freed herself from odious yoke. and,
casting Oft her vassalage, like the eaglet bursting his
cage scared free toward heavenw To our notion the
prose of of the Paris journals preferable where
the editor announcing last Friday the proposed cee
bratiOn of the Fourth ut the Pre- Catean, adds:
"Happy the people independent enough TO celebrate
the anniversary of their independence You see
sary of the Teunis Court Oath, OF Of the
cath of February, would not be permitted
ON English literature should be difideqt of his
criticisms the essentially foreign qualities of
French verse 1t is mindful Of this general, let
alone particular, incompetence that your cores
pOndent has long deferred any written notice of
several poems relating to the " Death OF Lincoln ,
that evolved last year by the motive power of
the prize offered by the French Academy for a best
poem on that theme. There were more than ninety
GOD competitors, so one OF the unsuccessful ones
tells us in the gOodnatuTed preface 10 his printed
unsuccess. -Four of these "effusiOns' are il my
bookcase. may confidently say Of all these four
that they well printed on fine paper, "credtably
got up They are full of generous sentiments of
liberty and humanity rather worn for the most part,
for their specially poetical form and quality it
TO that there Is reason to suspect under cOrrec-
tOn of any critic who reads French well as he
does English that three of the four rather above
than under the low level of prize-COmpeting occa-
siOnal essays in verse
To return to the savings and dOings of the week.
Even those Of the Corps Legisatf offer feature
of peculiar attraction TO the thirty Americans who
and to the numerous compariOts whose ambition
il is to be- enlisted knights in the select host of the
French Legion of Honor 1t appears by the report Of
last Tuesdays debate, that up to the battle Of Aus
teThtz TINS NOBLE order numbered less tDan 500
members In Louis Phllippes time thGnumber rose
TO some 40OOO-a vulgariZatiOn and shameful deter-
Grafton for which that monarch was very sharply
taken to task in print the press being then compare
lively freel by Prince Louis Napoleon Of Ham, who
returned to the charge in 1852, and himself proposed
and, believe, decreed that thencef0rth till the host
was brought again within duly exclusive limits two
vacancies by death should precede each new nOmi-
nation. That was IN 1882. 1t is now 1868 and
there are between G2,OOO and 5000 living le-
sioner Beckwth and Mr.. Mccormick OF these
more than 1900 military men. govern
ment member, Gen. LebretOn, responding to the civil
ian orator who enuncated these facts justified the
growth of the Legion on the military side by the eX
cepuOnally numerous feats OF arms, meriting the
reward of the red ribbon and cross, that have been
done under the " Empire which is peace in the
Crimea Italy, China COchn-Chna, and MeIicO ::
the General added that if there was as he impliedy
admitted there was, lanentaDly grown and grow
ing accession to the Legion, the excess and the un
woTthiness were all on the side of the civilians
When the gallant General had expressed his becOm-
ing contempt for the civilian knights and suitors for
knghthOOd, Glais BzOn the witty opposition men,
ber rose to say that he agreed neither with the first
speaker yet with the General but thought rather
that the knightly ribbon should be given TO every
who applied for II in exchange OF slight fee
which, seeing the vanity of men, would bring a very
handsome and timely sum to the national treasury.
1t may be u service rendered to our numerous
cOmpatr0ts There are four frank enough 10 confess
TO the desire in C.s small circle of American ac-
Quaintancesl, ambitious Of French knlghthOOd, 10
inform them that by a regulation dating since the
origin OF the second empire the canpidate ior tLe