The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-11-21
The Ruins Of the Tulleries.

It Seems impossible to dispel the idea
that the stability of French forms of Gov
ernment may be promoted by rechristen-
ing streets or buildings, opening or clos
ing thoroughfares through palace gar
dens and razing or preserving royal resi-
dences. The Paris municipality is now
busy in abolishing all names calling up
monarchial "reminiscences. A public
road made two years ago alongside the
Tuileries was exulted over as an ad-
ditional impediment to the revival of
royalty, and the razing of the Tuileries
was discussed by the Chamber as though
the permanency or instability of the Re
public were at stake. Some of the
speakers, indeed, adduced aesthetic or
financial arguments, but it was easy to
see that political considerations were up
permost in their minds, for in no other
way can the fact be accounted for that
the Conservatives were ranged on one
side and the Republicans on the other.
A foreigner might have supposed that
the restoration or the destruction of the
Tuileries was as grave matter as that of
the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the
captivity, symbolizing, if not a religion
or State, at least form of government.
The Sanballats of the day were MN.
Proust and Clemenceau. The former
urged that after eight years indecision,
it was time to remove the ruins, that any
remains of interest could be preserved in
the museums, that the present garden
should be extended: and that the Tuil-
cries could not be harmonized with the
Louvre without being rebuilt in diff
ferent style M. Clement ceau de-
nounced the ruins as an insult. Baron
Haussmann, formerly famous for his
demo, o,itions-he protested he had demol-
ished only what was mean and insalubri-
GUS, but he was twitted with mutilating
the Luxembourg gardens-was this time
champion of conservation. He regretted
the eight years inaction, but, while dis
claiming any desire for restoration fit
ting the palace for royal residence, he
urged the rebuilding of the central por.
ton, the galleries of Philibert Delorme.
and the two Medici pavilions as q
museum. This, he said, would not ac-
| commodate Sovereign or even Presi.
dent of Republic, but it would termi-
| nate the vista from the Arc de Triomphe
concealing the irregularity of the line be-
| tween the Are and Louvre. The Flore
and Marsan pavilions, on each side, i'm
piled, moreover, an intermediate build
| ing, or they would appear like two long
arms-an ungraceful spectacle, which
would not be permanently tolerated. The
| gBrden and casts of intereresting frag
ments would cost, moreover, 92, ,OOO, 600
and he deprecated hasty decision. M
Rene Bice likewise warned the Chambel
against taking, at four days notice, al
| irrevocable step; but verdict of ''Razt
/ it; raze it even to the ground" was pro
nounced by 246 to 166. It is to be pre-
sumed that the Senate will not decide il
| such hurry, and that the Government
| uncountably silent to-day, will then ex
press an opinion. Letter.
/ DEATH OF A BERLIN CoMPosER.-Th
musical world and Berlin society hav
lost much-yalued ornament in the per
son of Herr Carl Eckert, conductor a
suddenly last evening at the compare
lively early age of SO. Walking through
the streets to join his wife at the hous
of Professor Helmholz, Herr Eckert sud
denly felt very ill, and hailed cab t.
| return home, but was dead before arriv
ing there. Born at Potsdam in 1920, th
son of Sergeant in the Uhlans of tn
Guard, Eckert, while still mere child
| performed wonders on the piano and vic
lin, and was regarded as prodigy b,
Berlin society. Before reaching hi
tenth year he had completed an opera
and three years later an oratorio. Men
delssohn gave the lad lessons in compo
sition. In 1851, after Eckert, favored b,
wealthy patrons, had gone the artisti
round of nearly all Europe, he becam
attached, in high capacity, to the Ital
ian Opera of Paris, and in 1852 accom-
panied Henrietta Sontag to America
Returning in the same year to Paris a
conductor at the italian Opera, he wen
to Vienna in 1854, where he RENAME,
till 1861 as chief of the Imperial Opera
and then removed in a similar capacit.
to Stuttgart. whence, after a residence O
six years, he was persuaded to come her
| as a leader of the orchestra. His opera
William of Orange, failed to obtain
permanent place in the royal repertoire
though as composer his fame vii
characteristic songs Berlin CORE
spondence of the London Times.
| A pretty shabby looking man wake,
into the Office of a Western newspaper
and approaching man in red shirt an
top boots, who had his feet on desk an,
his chair tipped back, remarked:
care you the editor?"
] 81 am, sir; but haven't time to talk
If you have anything to say, boil it dow
to stickful.
The visitor eyed him sharply for a mo
| ment, and then drew seven shoote
from his pocket and advanced step o
two. The editor turned pale as death
when the other said:
/ Don't be frightened. shant hur
you. am tired of life, but have to-
much self-respect to commit suicide
Here, take this poem on Spring and thi
pistol and do your duty as a citizen VIII,
loves law and higher standard of litera
/ ture.''
His pistol was handed back, also th
poem, and the versifier remarked as h
1 stepped to the door:
i IL were rich and had everythin,
necessary to make me happy, and shoult
offer you an ode on Spring you woult
kill me, but now you are too mean {.
pull trigger. I thought could <om
IN here and be quietly nassacred, Dut
can't. You are the most contrary man
1 ever saw.
Then he marched out with solemn
i grandeur.
If it was for the years couched upol
his head, wrote the obituary writer; an,
then he got right up and howled whel
the type-setter rendered it. "If it wer
not for his ears he could have stood upol
his head. !"