The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-25


most rigorous winter there was nothing
burn and they broke Up their furniture ar
harmed il even to tic last chair. Polite
affair. were discussed in their length nm
breadth. Tho old gentleman remembers
the good old days Of the kings, and bclc'
!. ell II republic -the-wisp for th
French people. The Russian, who woult
put few words of French together AN
then run OF on ten minutes beat in Ru:
sian which hi wife would follow up an,
interpret, saw the golden horn coming uI
as the booty of Russia at no distant day
to be acquired through the aid of Ameri
ca, who would divert England while,thc,
took Consiantinoplc. | told him ] coulC
not think him prophet; that I sncercl,
| hoped that America would
keep out Of all European broils.
Frcn accounts had received in Eng.
lish papers, ] expected we should GO
through trying ordeal ut the frontier. ]
think the English are particularly gifted
in meeting with adventures. At the table
where | dined in Brussels, there were
three families, singularly, each had
lost their baggage. One had forgotten to
book il, another had sent it TO another
place. and the third family did not know
exactly what it had dorc, but believed
there was something very much out OF
joint in travelling facilities on the CONT
ncnt. We were all drawn up in line at
the station, and in passing in showed our
passport Mine was merely glanced at 1
noticed others did not slip through so
lightly, but it was doubtless their own fault
lack Of proper vises, or something of the
kind.
BY this route, it is only within few
hours Of Paris that one begins to sec
marked evidences Of war. Formerly we
used TO see now and then man at work in
the fields, but during the entire day,
through continuous ripened harvest
field, ] scarcely saw man nj work.
Women were cutting the riptned grain,
gathering it into sheaves, loading IL into
carts and then dragging it homewards ;
l noticed many small children at work,
and at all the flag stations where was for
merlya man IN military garb and pose,
is now seen a woman-sometime old and
haggard, again fresh young face. These
women are dressed in blue blouses, with
wide sailors collars, and high glazed bats.
They are very military in their attitude,
erect, the flag held over the left shoulder,
the right arm extended and pressed to
the side. The uniforms of the railroad
officers have grown very shabby
after one sees them in the ordinary peas
ants blue flock, only bird on the cap to
tell OF their office. The same nice refresh
ments are to be had at all the stations, and
the same little baskets of fruit tempt you
at your window at the same price as be.
fore.
Our baggage was not examined till We
reached Paris. If little more strict now
than formerly in its examination, there is
still the same civlity, which, you will re-
member, is always n concomtent part of
our American custom house. The man
who assisted me asked if ] had hotel in
view-if ] would have Il cab or an omni.
bus. He took my things without word
to the former, and thanked me for the ter
cents gave him.
And hero | was in Pari, again. |
wanted to say, How do you do, my good
fellow - to the coachman, whose face
seemed so fam ar, MS he handed me his
little ticket Of the rates of fare, Just as
cheap and orderly as ever, and then, when
we started, there was the same good devil
-aw bon diajic--on the end of the house.
holding in his long claws that innumera.
Bile list Of articles for sale, Just as we had
left him more than five years ago. Amid
bombs, bullets and petroleum he had not
lost II horn, nor an inch of his tail We
rolled over the noiseless pavement, saving
to ourselves: Well, this is Paris after
all unchanged" When We turn into
the Rue de Ia Paix, then, for the first time,
the destructive work of the mob comes to
consciousness. That magical column, that
pointed heavenward to the glory of France,
gone; only its beautiful pedestal remain
ing, and the railing no longer hung
with wreaths Of immortellcs Then we come
into the rue Riroii and | felt, rs did the
Babylonian, that it would be II relief TO
sit and weep, to see that grandest of struc-
lures, with all of its accumulated treas
urers-the Tullerics, tn, pride of the
world-a ruin--a mass of debris. How
sad, impioring, commanding and plying,
stand lis Isolated statues and fragments of
groups. 1t seems rs if in their positions
stones though they are that they had
cried out against the vandalism that des-
troycd them. As one looks adown the long
vistas Of halls, amid tie columns we catch
here ana there n patch of the marvellous
| frescoing intact, and the broad winding
marble stairs, where imperial feet were
wont to tread on cloth of gold, invite one
to walk in and view this ruined monu-
ment of past ambition AMI present folly.
| The Louvre, also all prepared fer des-
| tructon, was saved quite intact and is open
| daily to show its treasures SO perilousl,
| threataned The trees in tho Tuillerios