The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-01

umph living In o hotel Of his own. He has his
legation In the Rue do Ohatlot on the ''Hill OF
Chailiot" as IL was called on the old maps This
was the most famous spot In Paris during the
siege, for while Lord Lyons and his British lion,
and the other Ministers with their birds and beasts
OF national glory hurried away, washburne re-
NAMED, having in charge not only hts own noble
eagle with one head and one TAIL but the eagle OF
Prussia, with its two heads and two tails. Greatly
has he been honored for this by every one out
| Jules Favre. sturdy. prompt. kindly. brave,
gifted man is Elihu b. Washburne, and as king OF
| the colony is held in respect. His vce-regent 10
Colonel Wickham Hoffman, man honorably
known In New York before the war as o
| citizen during 1t as soldier, and since 1t
| as a diplomatist. Colonel Hoffman came hero
| with General Dix and the only thing that stands
in his way is that being extremely useful, no Mn
lister will consent to his promotion to mission.
He is one OF the most competent men now serving
the country abroad; full OF information which he
does not squandcr upon gentlemen Of the press.
attentive, courteous, always at his post and cer-
tain to have mission when we come to have
civil service In diplomacy. In addition to the
Colonel, we have In this court Mr. WashDurne's
son, Gratiot, whom the dowagcrs with daughters on
their hands will be glad to learn Is In single life
yet-a brighteyed, prompt, amlable and Intelligent
Secretary, and popular In the colony. AS all mon
arches have two oourts-as In England there is
Buckingham Palace and Marlborough House, and
as In Paris there the Tulleries and the Paiais
Royal-so In the colony there is prince apparent
in the Consulate. The Consul General for France
and Algeria and the prince apparent or Prince Of
Wales Of the colony, is General John Meredith Read,
Jr, OF Albany, the Of J. NJ. Read now Chief JUS
tice OF the Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania, and
descendant from George Read who signed the
Declaration OF Independence. Although young
man, General Read has gained literary distinction,
and Is q member Of many scientific and literary
societies. The General has his Palaise Royal near
the Champs EHsees, and dlspenses his hospitali-
ties with q lavish hand. He Is also very popular
| in the colony, more especially as he does not,
like many other Consuls General In former
times, set up palace In opposition to
| the Minister, nor does he, like many OF our
| present Consus, entertain his American friends
with reflections upon the government because Con-
| gress does not raise the salary OF their office.
| Around these separate centres-the Ministry and
| the Consuate-the colony revolves In harmony.
| reception at the Ministry and o dinner with the
General are among the comforts OF life unless you
add q paragraph In the personal column Of the
American Register; for the colony has Its press
likewise, being American in that respect truly.
There Is journal In London called the anglo
american, given to American news; another called
the S,otss Times, Is published In Geneva, but this
is American and English in its news. Gali0rant's
journal Is printed daily, and, although English for
nearly half century, is becoming American In its
old days and has our Yankee coat Of arms painted
on Its window side by side with the roaring British
lion. The Register is the colonial organ and in Its
columns colonial public opinion is generated. Over
the Register presides John J. Ryan, gentleman
well known to the HERALD, who spent twenty
years under the eye OF its founder. and shows the
effects of that mastery training In his new delicate
and Independent station. a,r
PHASES OF COLONIAL CHARACTER
You pass beyond these spheres and the colonial
harmony ceases. The colony breaks into its little
zones or worlds, each different world, and one
generally speaking in great contempt OF another
There is Washington Club, q kind Of Upper
House or House OF Lords in its way. which many
seek, while few are chosen, and where members
may discuss Baccarat for 100000, or the Athana-
sian creed, as they please. for the deliberations
secret. There Is the Congress, which holds Its
sessions In the courtyard OF the Grand Hotel-a
talking If not deliberative body (of which shall
speak AGAIN., access to which Is open to any one
who will buy bottle OF champagne. There are
general distinctions, but colony has many, many
Others There are the old resident and the resi-
dent, the American in trade and the American who
has nothing to do, the one who can speak French
and the one who cannot, but insists upon buying
French newspaper and reading 1t In
dazed condition. as he sits at his care,
in the belief that the attempt somehow
improves his position in society; the resident
who has his family and the one who has no visible
relations Of q family Characteristic American who
has the red ribbon OF the Legion OF Honor and his
fellow cOuntryman who denounces the custom as
disoyal but would give twenty per cent OF his for
tune to have similar decoration. And so on in
distinctions even more minute II enc cared to fol-
low them.
CoLoNIsTs VINO "MAKK COLLECTIONS"
But before following them there Is o class that
we might rudely and scarcely with accuracy call
the "vrtuoso" colony. This IL composed OF peO-
pie who collect things. But even this requires
division. There is the virtuoso who Is q kind OF
pawnbroker or Chatham street Hebrew OF the
original Jacobs tendency, and who runs from one
brfca-orac and curiosity shop to another buying
all that Is curious and odd to be resold to Ameri-
| can customers In the Summer do not now refer
| to this class-although there are some In the
colony who follow the trade who will sell
| you anything from o china jug Of Louis XIv.'s
time to a stolen fragment OF the Column vend0me,
and failing to make i've hundred per cent profit
will take five. Your true virtuoso is man Of taste
and culture, who makes collection" There is
one well known to the writer OF these lines, whose
hobby is the French Revolution. Aplcture, print or
book on the French Revolution Is a source Of Joy
to him. He Is quite moony the subject, and win
spend an afternoon on the guays among the old
book stores, and II he can find new print OF
Mirabeau or colored caricature OF Robespierre
or an edition OF Pere Duchesne, goes home in trl-
umpn and makes himself blessing to his family.
II he has one rare print and sees another he will
buy 1t, not because he needs It, but to prevent
some one else from possessing 1t. know an
other, most respected member OF the colony,
though neither one OF the lords In the club nor
an attendant at the Grand Hotel Congress- nor
TO an.alarming extent courtier OF our reigning
Powers, whose taste Is for books and prints Illus
trating the American Revolution. There was q
time too when Paris Was a mine for those who