Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-22

Slaues Ol an EngllSn n0Oleman's
park. Flowers, fountains, merry.
go-rounds for the children who
will come by and by, umbrageous
trees, with all their spring fnery of
green, untarnished as vet by the
summers coat Of dust; cafe chant
ants, so noisy at night, so quiet and
pretty now, all go to make picture
unsurpassed for beauty. There are
not many carriages in the Iavenue
yet, but many horsemen and
LADY RIDERS
60 ambling by, bent for the imita-
tion Rotten Row of the Bois de
Boulogne, where they will show the
mettle Of their steeds in a flying
gallop. Among these riders
among them, but alone save for
the attendance Of a correct English
groom who follows her, as superbly
mounted as his mistress, I note
that worldwide celebrity, interest
ing only from the magnitude Of her
sins, the lorette known as
CORA PEARL.
| slacken my pace inyoluntarily
to look at her as she touches her
noble beast with the spur and sends
him bounding and dancing up the
avenue. What a magnificent seat
she hasl How light her hand, how
perfect her knowledge Of the proper
relation between the horse and his
riderl In the broad daylight her
face plainly shows the raYages Of
time and dissipation drawn and
haggard visage, whose faded charms
are all the more strongly accentu-
ated by the tawdry yellow hair, the
painted cheek, the blackened eye
brow. But in the neatly-ftting
riding habit her figure is that of a
girl Of twenty, and her sloping
shoulders and gracefully arched
neck have in them the suggestion
Of a descent, not from circus-tum-
blers, as the story goes, but from
the ancient and honorable lineage
Of Di Vernon herself.
/ lose sight of this woman by
turning into the Rue de Ohaillot, a
street where formerly she lived in
magnificent state, the plebeian
monogram Of her nom de guerre
brazenly crowning the apex of the
gilded gates of the charming hotel
given her by Prince Napoleon. A
year or SO back she sold this house
at a fine profit, and no longer the
ears Of
OUR MINISTERS AND SECRETARIES
OF LEGATION
are asSailed by the clatter of her
horses hoois, or those of her
guests, as they come tempestuously
| up the Rue de OhailIot. For a
good maSy years the United States
Legation has been situated in this
same house, each minister who
comes adhering to the locale as a
satisfactory one. For myself may
say / should like to see the United
States in Paris occupying haudsom-
er and more imposing quarters.
Almost every country out8wells us
in the splendor of its Partisan
home. Yet this may be mere in.
dividual vanityin me, aremnant OF
pride inherited from Adam at the
fall. If so, must stand the brunt
of punishment for that with all my
other wickedness when the day Of
reckoning comes. Meantime | wish
the eagle had as grand nest in
Paris as the gorgeous cage where
the British lion licks his cubs.
| found
GOVERNOR MOVES, boo
seated at his desk in his private
room, busy with the large corre-
spondence which the minister must
needs attend to, and which is out
side of the routine matters which
can be intrusted to subordinates.
You know Governor Noyes, and,
knowing him, like him, no doubt.
He is a manly man, OF frank adj
dress, a genial manner and rich,
sonorous voice which seems to in
dicate to the listener that, in the
emplt yment Of that voice for
speech alone
MUSIC
has sustained a loss. We chatted
awhile on Indifferent subiects-old
times in Ohio, where | first met
Gov. Noyes some years ago-and
then / said to him, as l leaned back
in the armchair he had kindly
rolled forward for me, "Governor,
| want to just tell the readers Of the
Enquirer how you feel about the
unpleasant matter in which your
name has been mentioned recently
the accusation made by Mr..
McLin, Of Florida"
z" You may tell them," said Sen
cral Noyes frankly, "that l feel
deeply grieyed to think that on the
mere, unsupported assertion of Mr..
McLin, when l was three thousand
miles away from the country and
could not possibly be heard in re-