Litchfield enquirer., 1880-02-26

THE CoLDBsT TowN ON THE GLoBE.-Those who are dissatisfied with the mild winter we are having in New Eng land can go to 1a- kootsk the commercial emporium of all East Siberia--a town which Humboldt and other travellers have pronounced the codest on the globe This town, Jaizatsk or Yakootsk, in on the left bank of the rlver Lena, 62 degrees minute north. longitude, 1l9 degrees A mIn- utes east, and distant from St. Petersburg D. 921 miles. The ground remains continually frozen to the depth of 300 feet except in mid- summer, when it thaws three feet at the sur face. During ten days in August the ther- mometer marks S5 Q; but from November to February it ranges from 42o to 6So below zero, and the river is solid ice tor nine months out of twelve. The entire industry of the place-population about 7,000--s comprised in candle works, and yet it is the principal market of Eastern Siberia for traffic with the hunting tribes and the Burats. The former, mostly nomadic, having large herds of horses and cattle, bring to market butter, which is sent on horseback to the port of Okhotsk The Buriats, also nomadic, bring quantities ot skins of sahes, foxes, martins, hares, squirrels and the like, and many of them are sold at the great fair in June, which, with May, IS the ac- tive period of the year. In May. the collected goods are conveyed to the seaports, whence they are sent in every direction. The mer- chandise, chiefly furs and mammoth tusks, sold at the fair, amounted in value to 400, 900 rouhles ($300, ,000).
 The town stands on plain surrounded by lofty and dreary mountains. The streets pre- sent strange aspect. being composed of houses of European structure. standing apart, while the intervening spases are occupied ny the winter yo0rts, or nuts, of the northern nomad tribes. These huts have earthen roofs, doors covered with hairy hides, and windows of ice There isa large stone cathedral. another church, a great stone market-place, and wooden fort with four half-sunk towers.
 It's great trade gives this strange town some importance it being the emporium for, among other things. the trade in the ivory from the fossil elephants which have been for untold ages frozen into the thick ribbed ice" on the shores of the Arctic Sea, and in other places in Siberia. These antediluvian mammoths lived when Siberia was mild-mannered" country as to climate, and before the great and mysterious cataclysm happened that til ed the earth over upon different inclination to it's orbit.
 NAPoLEoN1c TRAITS. s.-The Emperor walked everywhere, speaking to right and left. pre- ceded by some ChamDerlains, who announced his presence. When he approached there was dead silence, everybody remained perfectly stIll tine ladies rose and waited for the insig niicant and often disoblgins remarks which he was going to address to them. lie never remembered d .nanue, and almost alWays>his first question was i" What is your name - There was not d lady who was not charned to See him depart troin the place where she was. His Ministers, for himself and in his presence, were nothing but agents more or less active 'l should not know what to do with them," he said, ''if they had not certain mediocrity nf int <.I,n n<,fn If them felt himself superior in any point, he would feel it necessary to dlssemble and per haps, as the feeling of danger warned every one, they generally affected feebleness or nulllty which dld not really belong to them In fit of frankness in which he sometimes in dulged heard him Say that he did not like to confer glory except on those who could not carry it. Hence, according to his political at titude toward the chiefs under his orders, or the degree of confidence which they inspired, he kept silence about certain victories or chang ed failure into success. Sometimes q General learned in dispatch an action which he had never performed, or speech which be had never uttered. * It was in vain to protest against neglect or misrepresentation the past had been already wiped out by fresh CT news, for the rapidity of Bonaparte in war brought something new every day. He i'm posed silence on all remonstrance, or, if he found it necessary tQ appease a General, a sum of money or the grant of some favor ended the difference. 1 cannot say whether he was dcst or an atheist. He was ready to scoff in private at everything connected with religion, and think that he gave too much attention to all that happened in this world to care much about the other. 1 would venture to say that the immortality of his name seem ed to him much more important than that of his soul. .-Aemooirs of dlme. De Remusat.