ents, for the aspect of shops debases
the intellect and degrades the heart. Merchants could be
permitted to establish themselves in the suburbs under
the regulation of the laws. The ground floors of all the
houses to be occupied with stables and kitchens; the
first floors let to persons worth an income of a hundred
thousand francs and over; the second, to those worth
from eighty to a hundred thousand francs; the third, to
those worth from sixty to eighty thousand; the fourth,
from fifty to sixty thousand. No one with an income of
less than fifty thousand francs should be permitted to
live in Paris. Workmen are to be lodged ten miles
outside of the boundary in workmen's barracks. We will
exempt them from taxes to make them love us; and we'll
plant cannon around them to make them fear us. That's my
Paris!' The Emperor listened to me patiently, and
twisted his moustache. 'Your plan,' said he, 'would cost
a trifle.'--'Not much more than the one already
adopted,' answered I. At this remark, an unreserved
hilarity, the cause of which I am unable to explain, lit
up his serious countenance. 'Don't you think,' said he,
'that your project would ruin a great many
people?'--'Eh! What difference does it make to me?' I
cried, 'since it will ruin none but the rich?' He began
laughing again, and bid me farewell, saying, 'Colonel,
you will have to remain colonel only until we make you
brigadier-general!' He permitted me to press his hand a
second time. I waved an adieu to brave Leblanc, who has
invited me to dine with him this evening, and I returned
to my hotel to pour my joy into your sweet soul. Oh,
Clementine! hope on! You shall be happy, and I shall be
great! To-morrow morning I leave for Dantzic. Gold is a
deception, but I want you to be rich.

"A sweet kiss upon your pure brow!

"V. FOUGAS."

The subscribers to _La Patrie_, who keep files of their paper, are
hereby requested to hunt up the number for the 23d of August, 1859. In
it they will find two paragraphs of local intelligence, which I have
taken the liberty of copying here:

"His Excellency, the Marshal, the Duke of Solferino, yesterday had the
honor of presenting to his Majesty the Emperor a hero of the first
Empire, Colonel Fougas, whom an almost miraculous event, already
mentioned in a report to the Academy of Sciences, has rest