Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-10-25

WHAT BECOMES or SUPPRESSED JOURNALS.
The Fall Mai, Gaz tic says: "Peoplc may
ike to know what becomes OF all the newSpa-
perS that are seized by the French police. As
there Is not u day passes but eight OF ten jour
nails, native and foreign, are cOnhscnted by NJ.
Forcade's officials, the mass OF literature accu
mulatcd in the course OF q twelve month IS gen.
orally enough to fill big store room. One
might suppose that the forfeited papers were
made to pay the penalty Of their various Of
fences by being employed duIing winter time tC
light the fires in oil the Imperial palaces, bar
racks, and police offices of the empire, or hand
cd over gratis TO loyal buttermen as reward
for voting iutelligently at the elections. But
the fate reserved for them is more useful, and,
on the whole, less Illuminating. When the
stOre-roOm is full to ovettlOwing the papers
are transferred to the Reeeveur dc Domaine, or
Crown steward, and carted away under his sur
ycilance to closed spot beyond the barriers,
where they are thrown pell nell into cauldrons
ot hot water and prosaically boiled down to
pulp. This operation is called Ia mise au plon,
and is performed in the presence OF squad OF
gendarmes, who are careful to see that not 4
single one of the doomed Journals escapes
When the whole mass OF print has been re-
duced to thick cOorless paste it is sold to
cardboard and paper manufacturers, who make
Of it what they can. At the last boiling, which
took place a week or two ago, 100000 OF Henri
Roehefort's l.anternes, red covers and all, were
slowed in company with about half million
comics of the independence Beige, the Gazette
10 FRANKFORT, the Gazette dc Moscou, and the
Kladderadatch, four papers which, from so
often finding themselves in hot water together,
must bv this time have got used to each others
society. Next to those just mentioned, 1t Is
the Italian Journals which go IN the greatest
numbers to the melting pot after these come
the Spanish, which of late have been IN partic-
ularly bad odor The English papers, which
few years ago were offered up IN monster nee
atombs are boiled now in smaller numbers
TEACH YoUR Boy A TRADE.-An article
which we cut from one OF our exchanges, refer
ring to this subject, says
''Ol l3 4y6 prisoners In the penltcntlaries OF
thirty States in 1867, according TO the report
of the Prison Association lust issued, - per
cent, more than three quarters, had not learn
cd trade. Here is . text from which DR..
Franklin could have preached forcible sermon
to parents.
Tho time was when it was not thought re-
nutable for parents to leave their children with.
out trades-uness they belonged to the class
of gentry In France, before the revolution
the one of lIS9-this provident sentiment or
instinct was so strong that even the children
of the mobiles we're in some eases taught light
haudcralt, and when the storm OF the Reign
of Terror came, and they were expelled from
their homes and deprived of their fortunes,
many of them subsisted by the trades they had
amused themselves with in moro prosperous
days.
"A man who has good trade has an indie
pendencc. lie has need only TO be honest and
diicent to secure n competence. Bread and
butter are sure for him wherever he is. lie is
sure always of higher wages than lie who has
no trade, and il his genius and enterprise lead
him into some other calling, it is always sat !
lsiactiOn to know that in case Of misfortune he
can return to his trade. lie has that at any
rate failure In business cannot deprive him OF
it, his speculatiCns may break down, but he
has an anchor to lceward, as the sailors say
his Subsistence and that OF his family are sure
I'm this country where fortunes quickly
o,;nc1 are also quickly lost, 1t Is sull more
necessary and prudent that every young man
should learn useful trade, and learn It tho
ronChlv. No mans future is so secure here,
but that he would do wisely to have hls boys
and his girls, too, for that mattcr-lecrn
trade
"PARIs FAsuoNs. "-Everybody. knows
that famous (or rathcrintamousl ParlS Grette'
named Marie DuplesSS, was the model from
which NJ. Alexander Dumas, IT,, drew La
Dame aux Camilias novel which has iurn-
ished plays and an opera book La Iravlata j.