The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-06
The Russian Minister'S Chasseur.

This legation continues the excitement
In Washington. The people cannot oef
used to the chasseur, called by Colonel
sellers the curacoa. They cannot take
MIN IN all at once and they had better
not try, The attempt to take chasseur
In one dose might prove fatal. We knew
a fellow once who swallowed his sedlitz
powders from different glasses and lef
them effervesce in his stomach. He
Missed and splurted like locomotive
LOT few minutes and then exploded
with loud report, knocking over an
lnouensive nurse, with q child in her
arms, who happened. to be near him.
The journals next. day reported Il as
another case OF Kerosene" but we
know the facts from a piece OF the un-
Fortunate man that flew in at our win
dow. 1t made dying statement as
above.
We have not yet opened sufficiently
close Intercourse with this diplomats
representative to give our readers all the
gossip necessary for their better enter
tainment. We commissioned Jones to
call on his excellency. But Jones de-
clined upon the ground that his French
was 80 bad that he feared the high rem
resentatives OF all the Russias might
not comprehend him clearly, and SO
fetch on q complication that would en-
danger the harmony now happily exist
ing between the two governments.
Browns Young Man said he would
execute the mission as soon as he could
pick up little Russian. TIC this end he
has been sleeping with his feet out at
the window, and thinks he can sneeze
and cough into that trying tongue with
In the next week.
Various stories are afioat over town.
but we place no reliance whatever In
their truth. It Is said, among others,
that the minister had some difficulty
with one Of his servants brought With
him from st. Petersburg. His diplomatlc
ment, In an informal note of dfstin-
guished consideration, to know what he
should do. The venerable Seal Of the
State Department, recollecting his row
clined. The Russian Minister then
sought Sir Edward Thornton, and that
gentleman told him, In England's g purest
French, that all he had to do was to
summon hepolice, through the District
telegraph, and have the fellow arrested
and sent before Judge Smell, (old SMELL
fungus); that he, the servant, would
wish he were dead when once before
Smell, as that judicial functionary kept
his room so crowded with dirty negroes
that ordinary peoplelwere known, after
being there, to go into a decline, and
define paying their debts.
The Russian Minister did as he was
advised, but the policeman could not be
made to comprehend the situation, and
to the horror Of His Excellency, first
Knocked the chasseur In the head, then
arrested that stupendous creature for
provoking a breach Of the peace, and
wound up by filing charges against the
chasseur as one OF the burglars who
had ravished our wine cellar.
As the servant continued refractory,
the Minister went into study OF Puffen-
dorf, Bancroft, Gutzendorff, Loudon-
hisky and other great lights, and found
that under international law he was, in
the Carroll mansion, on Russian ground
and subject to Russian law. Thus in
structed, he organized a sort OF drum
head court and tried the fellow in the
basement. He was found guilty and
to ten lashes Of the knot on
the bare back, and then banished to New
Jersey. The knot cannot be very agree
able, for such yells have not been heard
on the Potomac since the Indians left.
This Is a specimen OF the gossip aflo0t
our new diplomatic agent in
Washington. But OF course we give no
credence to them, as fact Is our strong
hold, the one thing that makes the
Capital SO acceptable as a family journal
Tor Sunday reading. Washington
Cdpitdl.