Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-30
WHOLE NO. 2,292.

NAat a. Pee97Ahb VA bilN btNNh-obliA7
of Court.
n His room, containing rs Il docs
!, not few works from his own hand
his Ouwiere, his TrdrnH, his POl
: h'tque, Rddicdie, Religion Ndt,TelisI
l and Peiae dc Hort, as well as thd
4 treatises son,classic themes-gives you
: an impression Of an over-busy life1
The mere sight of what he has dond
= isa headache, and itisalmost fever
} to think of what he has also writ
ten and said. His manner confirms
the impression It Is that of thel
"weary Titan" of public labors,
though you must not expect TO flndI
! the aptness of the allusiOn in his
physical mould. Our Titan Is mol
giant; and you might almost forget
the rest of the body in the intent-|
ness of your gaze at the head, butt
for the fact that he is at present sol
obviously obliged to remember i'll
by having to nurse limb affected
with the gOut. IL is a consolation,
he will tell you, that his troubles
have flown to his feet. Yet you mayI
guess that he has had enough oil
them elsewhere, by his pale and
rather wasted features and his wOr-
ried look. You feel, at the same
time, that French public men inI
! general are immense losers by their
habit of living so little 81" the sum-
If Jules Simon had taken n gallop
every morning, instead ola dip into
Epictetus, TO brace his nerves for the
daily contest with the Marshal, he +
might never have found thestrength +
to lay him low.
] His conversation confirms what /
/ Brougham loved to repeat as 20 the
! value ofassiduOus literary compost
tion in improving oral style. He
has written so many books that now
he has TO talk like one-lilSe q good
book, though-which Is only
roundabout way of saying that he
speaks with the freedom and ease of
man of culture at his very best.
The effect of bOokishness is mainly /
due to the even tenor ofhis speech,
which flows on without any hind
rance due TO the impeTfection Of the
instrument, rs thought flows when
ii in print as distinguished from the
same thing set down in the hand
writing OF the author. He is ready,
alta moments notice, with an aDerCU
Of complex political situation that
should bear verbatim reporting, and N
that is even punctuated as comes
from hismouth. lie speaks his mind
freely upon what has happened, SAYS
he foresaw IL from the first; twice
refused to take office, and only ac-
cepted a third offer because his
friends said he was putting them
and himself in q false position be
fore France. He does not spare the
Elysee, and, though he knows his
greatest enemy dwells within II,
walls, he is shrewd enough TO sec
that it is not the master Of the house.
Listening to him, one is more than
ever astonished othink of what fine
lypolished metal leaders ofdemocr-
cy are made in France. Ifthis man
be polished social danger, what
must be the mannor OF those men
who are social supports ? COurtiers
might study him for refinement uf
tone; and he would take more bOth
of sweetness and light into Il palace
than any other would be likely to
bring away.
His mode Of life is that Of most
Frenchmen, no matter what their
position the early part of the day
is for business, the evening for COM
munion with his friends. hut of
late his receptions have been almost
necessarily only n continuation OF
his morning work. It wasimpOssi-
bic to keep politics out of them
to forget tllat he had to-
night to form his combinations
against tO-morrOw's attack. The
continuous strain of that life has for
the moment worn him out, and
there is still no prospect Of rest for,
if we are to suppose that he does not
think of personal reputation To
we may be sure that he is
not Indifferent TO a cause 10 be saved.
He leaves the Ministry for his old
occupation Of editing a journal and
he has still 10 help carry on the Gov
ernment of the country for the Re
publicans are the country, or lac and
his friends are wOfully out in their
and the Republicans look
to him as much as 10 any man for r.
counsel as to their plan of campaign.
Within couple Of days after the
recent coup de pdidfs, he received
cOmmunicatiOns-letterH or cards
from all parts Of France, and
every post adds TO the number.
His secretaries, turned sosters for
.he occasion, are still at work upon
he heap, entering the names on the
ards i'm alphabetical order, and try
ng to classify the letters il may BE-
presumed under "condulencps,n -
'rumors, t" Recommendation nand
what not. When they have got
through all, they will be the best
Informed men i'm Paris, or they will M
nave gone clean out Of their minds.
He rises early, as has been said,
md he seems To have the question
lbly good habit of falling immedi-
ltely To work. There wes no help
or il, perhaps, when he had sold
er TO please, but IL seems 4 pity To
zee him bound TO the Same slavery
If labor now that he has the disp0-
al Of his own time. Until the other IN,
lay, his first duty used 10 b, 10 go IA
o the Elysee for n conference with
he Marshal; and from the Elysce
ne went to Nersailles-perhaps to
axe the palace once more on his
way home, His struggles in the
rena, il seems, were as nothing To
hose private trials Of strength and
emper which the world did not sec.
lis conversation warrants the I'M
erence that he had always tO carry
lis resignation in his pocket, witha
'lank for the date and name, and
hat he would no more have thought
f leaving the house without Il than
lis handkerchief or his watch. His
requent threat tosign the one papcr
vas the only way Of inducing the
farshal to sign many another ON
he most important, as sometimes
m the most trivial, business of state.
lie seems unaiiectedly glad that t
s over, and If he were other than
he leader ola party one might wish
or his sake that ii We're never 10
,egin again. But his j. Of an order
whose motto i'm the struggle has
ver been JiiSq,fd td mort
THE Tilden and Hendricks recep-
ion i'm New York has set the Re-
,ublicans To hard thinking and hard II
wearing. They are coming IL over III