Connecticut western news., 1872-01-12
OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
Hotel Wagram, Paris, France,

sents itself, and other friends are disposed | of' such lottings as might possibly interest still other friends may be given. If these ac-
 complish that object in any degree, shall
 be satisfied. You perceive from my date that write from the capitol of what was
 but recently, one of the grandest, as it is now in some respects, one of the meanest empires on the globe. It is an empire of nearly 5000, 900 inhabitants, eligibly and | delightfully."- situated, with abundant resour- ces ill soil, climate and manufacturing
 ability and taste in certain directions of d | very hi.h order; and yet, left to itself, it | is government of grown up children.
 The French have so long been gorermed, that they have but very faint ideas of how
 to govern themselves. Instead of having any one great party, carrying large pro- portion of the people with it, ar even one
 with large and influential minority to
 keep il in check. France is nll broken un
 the respect of the people, and each one,
 Instead of planning for the promotion of | the paramount interests of the country. is struggling for it's own agrandzement. What
 just now called the government of France.
 Is d legislature of 75O men, with Is or % lacllOns Ill u and even these men holding thelr places in the estimation of half of ] PAr's, unconstitutionally. NJ. Thiers. him. seit' IS supposed to be operating constantly to maintain his own existence. Hence. the probability of another Revolution, The work recently accomplished by the com munlsfs in this city was the work of Van- da!s. The palace of the Tuileries: the PAlais Royal; The Palace of Finance: the Palace ot Justice and other great and noble structures, stand in crumbling ruins: mon. uments of the vandalism of the lowest c,.ss or Parisians, and thousands of vagabonds from the country. No one was benefited, but thousands were injured and the nation uls@raced, and the beauty of Paris greatly marred. Could any other empire on the globe, with the pretentions of this, have been so thoroughly overthrown in one short third of year? And could you conceive Of such fact as this, that 60, 900 l.- ,.,,o were consumed as human food ,,,,r,,, h. e;o NulAAS IlC siege Of the city? ItW",s oven So, And '". '"1 curse oi Inc city, as of the empire is, the herd of prie,,ts and soldiers who live .o eA,''"S' "s resources; so, 900 of the 'a''er ne'ng quurtered in and around this s,nsIe CT J. Our quarters are on the Rue
 o '-'noli, popular thoroughfarc, but not pJ any means one of the most freouented, and yet, during partial illness of day or two, l frequently counted at different hours of the day, passing soldiers, and found them to average one minute on this single street. How would New York or Philadelphia relish such display? or free Americans feel to be jostled every minute by soldier or officer, every one of whom carries side arms, when he chooses to do SO? These are all of them, evidences of despotic rule. But despotic rule has made Paris one of the most beautiful cities on the globe. The splendid palaces above alluded to, and many others; the noble churches and other public buildings, the broad boulevards the numerous fountains the magnificent squares and gardens, occu- HJ NASN'o OA hSISS, anu all lncSP anu many street squares filled with monuments, statuary &c., &c, do, indeed render it a most magnificent city. This description applies only to the eXternals of Paris, when you come to add to these, miles of beautiful paintings; tons and tons of satu- ary from all parts of the old world, with thousands of curiosities, large and small, some of which have been in existence for thousands of years, consisting of all i'm. aginabe personal ornaments; of house. hold utensils of all ages; of marble tombs, huge as an omnibus; of carved stone gate. ways, more ponderous than the largest ot elephants, of animals, and birds of ever, age and country on the globe which fill hel nurseries, and then in buildings which art in themselves splendid monuments of art you will not wonder why it is said, tha all good Americans when they die would like to go to Paris. Certainly you will no wonder why people of all nations desire tc see Paris. We have been to day 10 th palace and garden of the Luxemburg, th residence of former kings of France; an, the seat of senates and councils of variou kinds, as well as of galleries of painting and statuary, and private apartments fitte
 up with all the elegance that wealth an
 taste could bestow upon them. Thes buildings and courts occupy probably tw
 or three acres. while the surrounding gal dens or pleasure grounds occupy probabl
 two or three hundred more. These latte are filled with groves, fountains, statues monuments, walks, drives, &c., &c., an
 all are works of art high art with no abol tions. It seems indeed, like an elysia field. To day we have been at the Made line church, also most magnificent edific commenced by Napoleon 1st in 1906, an completed by Louis Philipp in lss6 Book will give you much better description c it than 1 can, but can never impress 70 with it's imposing appearance. Old Notr Dame has also been visited, which has
 history older than that of our country b far. Here the first Emperor Napoleon WE crowned and here the Sd Napoleon wa married. Here too, have been enacte many other remarkable scenes, which hay entered prominently into the history of th empire. Through the city runs the rive Seine, as you are aware, river about g large as the Housatonic at New Milford This is walled in on both sides for mile with cut stone; masonry as perfect as th walls of the buildings that stand upon il banks, and about Is feet high. Near tn foot of these walls on both sides, just abov the ordinary water level are solid ston side walks and drives, and these too, ar all made of hewn stone. Over this rive are ten or twenty bridges of iron and stone