She gmaotei ?Internment • • PRELIM:IRE EVERY WEDNESDAY BY H. G. SMITH et CO. IL G. SMITE(' TEDHS—Two Dollars per annum, payable all eases In advance, TUE LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCES. lB published every evening, thintlay excepted, at 85 par Annum in advance. LlFFlCE—HouTriwisa' CORNER OT CENTRE SQUARE. piAcilinutottg. A Remarkable Impostor. idled taken my place in the express night train from Paris to Marseilles, on my route to Algeritiand Morocco. There was nothing remarkable in my fellow travellers, nor in their conversation, until we arrived at the third or fourth station, where we received an addition to our party hi the person of a passen- ger, us remarkable for the neatness of his eqttpment as the perfectly gentle manly style of his general appearance. Everything about him exhibited the taste of a man of the upper ten thous and, who had plenty of money at his command, and was accustomed to the best society. Up to the present time, as the conver sation of my fellow-travellers had con sisted of nothing more interesting to a stranger than the prospects of the har vest and the vintage, I half dozed In the corner,of the carriage, quietly en joying my cigar. " Ah ! monsieur," exclaimed our new voyageur, " what a splendid cigar that Is you are smoking! I knew it to bean ' Havana, by the aroma., the moment I entered thu carriage. You cannot get such a thing now In France, at any price, unless you import them yourself, and llen you must get u special order to do so from the (liiverninent. Never theless, fine as yours undoubtedly :are think mine are equally good,' said he, handing me at tile Hume time his , clgancasu to help myself. .This led to a must animated conversa tion ; and If I was struck by the dis tingue appearance of the stranger at first, half an hour's conversation showed me that he was a man of rare ability. Like myself, he was also a great travel er; had been all over Europe and a great part of Asia and Northern Africa, spoke several of the languages of Europe with great fluency, as well as a little Russian and Turkish ; and, while com paring notes, lifound he was as well ac quainted with the manners and ens- Wais of the various countries he had visied as myself—a very unusual Ihing In Frenchmen, who have nothing of the passion of the English for traveling, a n d rarely speak any foreign language null'• cloudy well to make themselves under. Ht()()(1. During Lite whole night WI iitinined ournelvem will; iletailm of our adventures, trod onoodolom of the mtrange charactern we hail mei with during our travels; Molt retreillinienim logether at illiferent tiiong the lima; treated each otliOr In the 11111110 friendly, confiding manner wn had It 1i0 , ,v11 each other for yearn. Nothing ocourred to Inter our harmony mall I arrived at Alartielllem, whore having secured it place In the itteitmer hound to A Iglent, NVO /411. i 110W11 Ulaconltortuhlo 1 / I 'ollk 111141 ILL our holm'. I had, however, tioareely taken the II nit mouthful, when the N% • alter 011. tete(' telling me there was a gentleman waiting to Hoe 1110 Iu the adjoining room. A glance wait HIIIIICICIIt 111 tell me that the permit; who hail tient for 1111 was an agent of the Police. "ilionsi,;//i; r nl !" said he rather abruptly. "OW, awns/cur." "1 thought so. You have come direct from Paris, and you aro on your way to Algiers; you took smile refreshment, at Lyons, and drank a, bottle of old Cham berlin with your Minprignon rlc rogrgic at the railway earringo," "Most accurately described," I ro• " Did you ever meet with the gentle man before?" " Never." "Of course, I.bcn, you know nothing If' his hlstory or antceedents'.'" "Absolutely 'palling." " No doubt you find hunt a very pleas ant, companion ',' " I never met with ono more agreeable or gentlemanly. "So much the wor-e for those he selects as his victims. Just look and see If you have lost anything " Nu; here is my money all right in my pocket..book, and there are my de spatches in the breasipocket .1 . my coal." "Marvelous!—most.marvelow.!" cried my interrogator. "You will no doubt be astonished when I tell you that you have made the acquaintance of one of the most accomplished rhr rtilicrs dr in audric at this moment in all Europe, who, notwithstanding his disreputable calling, is a nobleman, and related to some of the first families in France. We have nothing against hint at present for the very hest reason, that he has only just completed his term of imprison ment; but it is such a wonderful actor, and his disguises are so numerous, and so true to nature, that even the Argus eyes of the most vigilant rtgoit de police is detfeived. Indeed, it was only by the slightest chance I recognized him, and then I owe it entirely to that strong bottle of Burgundy he helped you to drink at Lyons; huts" it is, and has ever been, In nine cases tilt of ten, the cleverest men in crime that I have had to do with, lose their wits when they take a glass too much." fin say ing this, lie turned on his heel, and most unceremoniously quitted the room. I was bewildered. I knew not what to think. Might it not be a ease of mistaken identity ?—some per sons so much resemble each other. The more I thought, the more I considered the matter, the more I believed I had arrived at the right conclusion. What, so perfect a gentleman as that, to be a common pilferer!—a common pick pocket! Preposterous! I had lost no thing; on the contrary, lie had plenty of money at command, and through out the journey paid his share of what ever we had in common, as every other high-spirited gentleman would have done. I teas lost In amazement and full of confidence In the honorable charac ter of my friend, I entered the break fast room, and laughingly said, in the off-hand manner of a man who dishier lievts in tofu what he Is about to say, "Do you know, monsieur, that I have just had a visit from an write de , policc, who has told me that you are one of the greatest CNCPUes of ,the day ?—one of the most accomplished du valierB fl' indtm• iris at this moment In Europe." " Monsieur ! have you seen anything In my conduct during our short ac quaintance to warrant such a supposi tion.." he answered, drawing hinnv.df up with all that Indignation if manner and bearing that might be expected front a gentleman who felt himself in jured by an unjust suspicion. " Nothing !" I exclaimed ; on the contrary, in all my travels I never met with a companion I liked so much, no 'one that was more amusing, and all I regret is that I did not kick the fellow down stairs." "Don't be so busty, monsieur. Ap. pearances are all in my favor, but, alas! every word the agent, told you is too true, I am a sorry dog, for, having lost all that I had, and afterwards what my friends and relations could spare, I have been compelled for the last four or live years to live by my wits. Still, during all that time, I never forgot that I was a gentleman. My quarries, when I want money, are those that prey upon the weakness of their feliow•creatures— your princes of the State and Church, your rich financiers, bankers, and stock jobbers; but never yet have I taken a cent from a poor gentleman. My scouts at the Hotel des princes, where you were staying, put me on a false scent. certainly did intend to do a little busi• ness on my own account, at your ex pense, when I took my place with you in the same carriage; and now you must be aware of the numberless opportunities I had of taking every farthing you were possessed of, if I was so inclined. But, no ; I very soon saw you had no money to spare, and to spoil such as you, mon sieur, would be worse than sacrilege.— Above all, you charmed me with your conversation and adventures; you made me happy; I was again a gentleman, and you treated me as one. It recalled to my remembrance the brightet period of my life—the time when I was free from crime—the spoiled child of a dot ing mother, who denied her darling no thing that wealth could purchase. And more, monsieur, having told you some thing of my sad, eventful life, I am sure you will grant one favor: Please retire into the adjoining 'room, for just five minutes, while I pack up the few things I ha've, and be oft" On my return instead of my travel ling companion I found a commiaston aire from the Menagerie Imperiale Steam-Packet office, who had beekaent for my luggage and to say that, owing to a telegraphic message just received from Parisi . the, -steatior would sail in , less than' a quarter of an hour. Having no time to lose I hurried on board, and when in the act of placing a piece of money in the hand of my conductor, a peculiar look and a deep-drawn sigh t4e r 1 ittaOtte ijittelligenkee A. J. STEINMAN VOLUME 69 told me at a glance whom I had before me; but so completely transformed in appearance as to defy the possibility of recognition. I had merely a moment to say, " Go on the stage ; that is your true vocation. Do not forget this; there is my card—write and let me know if I can be of any service to you." On all my travels, in my intercourse with my fellow creatures whether I civilized or semi -barbarian, never met with one, however vicious, who had not something good in his nature, if you happen to strike the right chord. The high born, titled roue, who up to this time had been celebrated only for crime, all at once vanished from the world, as If lie never had been. In short, he adopted the counsel I had given him, changed his name, and is now one of the most popular actors of the day, as much respected for his virtues as he is admired for his talents by every man of his acquaintance. RENJAZIN DISRAELI. A. Rncy Sketch of the Premier of England. Slit: The cable despatches lately In formed your renders of the elevation of Mr. Disraeli to the Premiershipof Eng land, vacant through the retirement of Lord Derby, who has for many years been the leader of the Tory party, and was known as the Rupert of debate. I glean the following features of Mr. DlB - raell's life from au authentic source, I and consider them sufficiently interest ing to form a lengthy article. Tire Right Honorable Benjamin Ms mull is now aixty-three years of age. He is the son of Isaac Disraeli, Esq., author of the Curiosities of Literature, who spent the later years of his life at Bradenham, County of Bucks, England, hi a moderately sized mansion adjacent to the Church, and overlooking the village green. It was at this mansion that Disraeli passed his boyhood, youth, and early manhood. There wore three , brothers, lien, Ralph, and Tern, as they ' were .called by the neighbors, and one daughter. No other member of the family having earned any distinction we may pass them. Ralph faded away somewhere orsomehow ; Tem, who was a country funnier, was given a lucrative ofilee under (lovernment, a life appoin t- Mein, with high pay and little to do ; and the daughter has scarcely been heard of In literary or fashionable circles. Scholars know that during tho later years of Isaac Disraeli he wile like Mil. tell, sightless, unless in mind, 'and It was Ills wont to aid in the education of his children. The family wits riot rich. The boys and girl went regularly to a town ( 1 Igh Wycombe), about four miles from their village, and called at a book seller's to hear the gossip, read the Times, and make small purchases. Shortly after Disraeli was of age lie became a candidate for Parliamentary Honors in the Borough of High Wy• combo, then a close borough, for the period to which I allude was prior to the Reform 13111 of 1831. Be cameo out a thorough Radical, and for a time was a great favorite, lin took the common people by storm. They idolized him, and he, in turn, carried them away by the power of his eloquence and Ins sweeping denunciations of Whigs and Tories. Wycombe, at that period, was a borough in which Quaker influences were extensive. At first the Quakers looked upon lieu, as he was called, with favor, but at length deserted lihn. Ho was lint in the field, and had done us nuieh work as should have carried half a dozen boroughs before the campaign was opened by other parties. His oppo nents were the llon. Robert Smith, sou of Lord Carington, and the present Car ington, Lord Lieutenant of Bucks, by marriage related to Lord Willoughby, and thus associated with the highest families; and the Hon. Charles (trey, up Cfficor of the linards, and son of Earl (Trey, the then Premier of Englund. Carington's Monty mansion was adja cent to the borough, and was called "The Abbey." Disraeli used facetiously to say that he fought the Abbey on oue hand, and the Uoverument on the other. Disraeli, by his wit and sarcasm, alie nated the two leading brewers, Wheel erand Lucas, and thus added the weight of beer to the opposition. The Mayor of the borough, whose duty it was to superintend the erection of the hust ings, borrowed some 36-gallon casks from Wheeler's brewery, stood them on end, and laid a flooringover them for the stage. Cu that memorable nomination day Disraeli spoke three hours, and put his opponents to shame. He did not care for the Quakers, let their brims be never so broad. Ho did not like the hustings • they smelled of brewers' grains. lie knew that a quarter's in come of the Curingtou estate was greater than all the Disraeli funds, and that the Premier's son could count on the Na tional Treasury. The close of the poll showed Disraeli only nine behind, so that his boyhood eloquence did some thing to win friends. Three successive elections found him at the old stand; for at that period, when England was convulsed with re form ideas, elections fpllowed swiftly. Three times did he fight, and three times was he defeated. He then tried the County of Bucks, for which he has since sat for twenty years, with no bet ter success, and was looked upon as a political dare-devil, who had littleprin ciple and less money. He became a wanderer, acquainted himself with Eastern and European fast life, wrote the famous Runnymede letters in the Timea ' the finest exposure of the political state of England ever penned, and again ventured to try the fates. By accident he was returned for Shrewsbury, but the Saloplans growing weary of him, he went to Maidstone, for which borough he was returned through the patronage of Wyndham Lewis. When the news of his return for Shrewsbury reached Wycombe, the place he had three times unsuccessfully contested, the common people turned out en 712(1.58C. Bands of music paraded the streets, fair ladles displayed his colors, pink and white, and there was Joy that lieu had at last become a mem ber, His first attempt at speech In the Connnons was a failure. The House is generally favorable to young members• gives them every latitude ; but Ben had come with a kind of stagy grimace; he had not learned that the oratory of the hustings and the lecture hail is not that of the English 1 - louse of Commons. As he proceeded, the members ha-hoed, coughed, laughed, became unruly, crowed like roosters, brayed like asses; still he held on. lintels the multiplica tion of voices were greater than his own he was forced to yield. His closing sen tence was remarkable: "Though you hear me not now, the time will come when you shall hear me," which only called forth louder laughter and wilder demonstrations. Disraeli was silent for some time. He had begun to make his mark as an author, but his wants were pressing. We know that he contested the borough of ;,.hrewsbury with capital borrowed at thirty per cent. per annum interest, and that Lord John Manners kindly backed some of the bills. By the mention of the name of Manners it will be seen that Disraeli had, changed, his coat and become a Tory. This was the same Manners who wrote - Let literature; low and learning die, Ind give us still our old nobility." When Sir Robert Peel, from policy and conviction, indorsed the views of free trade, which had been so eloquently enforced by Cobden and Bright, Die raeli was a rising star In the Tory ranks. He was a thorn in, the side of Peel. To hear his denunciation of the traitor from the Tory ranks, there were full houses. He had found his vocation. Peel writhed under his eloquence, and suffered mental agony, Disraeli had pitted himself formerly against Daniel O'Connel, but was badly whipped, the Irish orator stigmatizing Ben as a des cendant of the impenitent thief that hung on the cross. • The success of Disraeli in finishing Peel, and the great want of drain-power in the Tory party, made Ben sought after. He formed the friendship of Lord George Bentinck, who forsook the turf for politics, and whose life Disraeli wrote after Bentinck had passed, by death; from the scene of action. But the great est hit that he made was'in marrying Mrs. Wyndhani Lewis, widow of the gentleman who had been his friend in Maidstone. Scandal, ever :ready to deal with rising men, said that Mrs. Lewis, who had been raised, by mar riage, in social position, from servant to lady of the establishment, much prefer red the rising and eloquent Disraeli to the staid and old-fashioned Lewis, who was much her senior. Rumor said that Lewis knew of the attachment of his wife before his death. That did not prevent the wife from having the great er portion of Wyndham s wealth, roughly estimated at £36,000, which brought financial status at once to Dls• This was not the only stroke of luck. Bucks, the county thathad rejected him in comparative youth, received him with open arms as thechampion of pro tection. The shattered forces of the fallen house of Buckingham aided.— Tenant-farmers and aristocratic land lords combined to give him honor, and before he was forty years of age he was the Tory representative and champion of the same county in which he had spent his boyish years. This was a prdud position. Disraeli felt it. His heart warmed toward the squirearchy of Bucks, but he inwardly cursed the stu pidity of the tenant-farmer, whose apol ogist he had become. Disraeli spent the money he obtained with his wife wisely and well, He pur chased the Hugendon estate from the executors of John Norris, father-In-law of Sir William Young, who had repre sented Bucks in Parliament, and whose two sons fell at the battle of Alma, in 'the unfortunate and uncalled for Rus sian war. Hugendon Manor joins Bra denham, and Disraeli, with a journey of two miles, can visit the scenes of his 'boyhood. As a boy he played in the woods of which he is now the master, for his father was only a tenant, and not Included among the landed gentry. Four years from the period when he had with so much malignity attacked Peel he was looked upon as likely to take part In a ministry. In 1852 Lord Derby formed a Cabinet with Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer. That ministry only lasted ten months. In I 1859 Disraeli was again Chantellor of the Exchequer, and for that and the previous short service, called two years, availed himself of the pension, X'2,1100 yearly. This was in consequence of I his poverty. His lady, twelve years older than himself, was, and is, a faithful manager. She looked after the estate, looked after the man, and introduced order and regularity. If any change was wanted, the common saying was: "See Mrs. Disraeli." Her word was laW. The attachment that exists between this singular pair is remarka ble. 1 have seen her cheering him in times of election excitement, throwing kisses with her hand, and seen Disraeli gracefully acknowledge the salutes, then relapse Into Lis stern and leaden man. ner. The receipt of the pension akered Dlsraell's condition. An old lady,' who had read his writings anti heard him speak, remembered him in her will, with a gift of ,040,000, whereby he was removed from all fear of genteel poverty. Among Disraeli's works are "Vivian (-Ivey," "Alroy," "Ixion," "Contrarlim Eloning," " Tanered," "Sybil" "The Young Duke," "Henrietta Temple," " Venetia," and HOMO pamphlets. The dreaminess of many of his writings comes not from his wanderings In the East, but his parentage. He is a Chris tianized Hebrew, and his genius is es. sentlally of the Jewish type. Description of the Patent Office The Patent Office at Washington oc cupies an entire square, around which It is built, enclosing thereby a court yard laid out with turf-plots, bordius, and a fountain, and securing for itoM= manse halls, that lead from one another us nave and transept do in a church, a free and perpetual circulation of air.— The ventilation of this building, in deed, Is extraordinarily good, owing, Perhaps, to the preponderance of its space being really thrown into one great galleried hall, with a labyrinth, to be sure, as intricate as a Greek Fret, but everywhere open and vast; while lu the Post Office building opposite, al most entirely cut up into narrow pas sages and little rooms, It is wonderful that anybody Is able to live and breathe at all. The l'atqQt Office is built of white marble, In Osimple and severe style of architecture—the pure Doric; it rivals the Treasury in mere beauty, and is seen to much better advantage than that edifice; for the Treasury rises close upon the street, and, although intrinsically as perfect a building as was ever erected, standing as it does on a hillside, it has an uncomfortable effect of being run into the ground. But notwithstanding this, as you turn and look back when at some distance along street, and see at the end of your vista the long colonnade of the Treasury shining white by either moonlight or sunlight, and half way down a wing of the Patent and Post offices on either side, like lofty and stately gateways into the treas ure of a continent, you will ad mit that the old world itself can hard ly oiler a lovelier sight in the line of marble or stone. But whatever the architectural charm may be, there is no ether. In the old world a thousand as sociations hallow every stone and every stain ; but here the vision of a " maze of midnight palace , pillarS "seems more a dream than a reality, having no his tory to warrant its existence, uo famous figures of memory to people it. The present generation' can find in all this marble beauty of architrave and column little but the satisfaction of having com pleted a work for posterity—that when the recent dark and bloody war has ac quired historical shadows as well as its own, and the stirring scenes of the present revolution have evolved some cluster of noted men—shall hold a meaning of which it is now destitute. Meanwhile, though Mr. Ruskin might object to so much of, Grecian architec ture in England, Whose damp dark heavens make all the Gothic spires that cau,spring up to catch what sunshine they have a pure necessity, he could by no means object to it here, where the hot summer climate renders its fiat roofs and long cool colonades as fit a shelter as they are in their native air. So far as cleanliness is concerned, none of the vestibules of the great build ings in Washington are In any way worthy of their exteriors ; the Patent Office is no exception to the general rule of the Capitol and the others—no ono would ever conjecture thatthe beau tiful but filthy staircases at the Capitol were washed down freshly every day— and it is no compliment to the Ameri can people's sense of fitness that even the most gorgeous of the halls of.the Patent Office is disfigured in spots, every few feet apart, with printed placards ad vising the visitors to "keep the floors clean and use the spittoons.' On the whole, however, this Is much the clean est public place which your correspond ent has encountered in this metropolis; whether the virtue resides in the pla cards, or in the possibility that inven tors and those that take an interest in inventions are too busy a class orpeople to indulge in the more slovenly habits of loafers and loungers congregating elsewhere, I know not. The main hall of the building has been but lately decorated in a costly and bewildering way, somewhat after the Pompeilan manner, lines of dark blue columns, as if hewn from enormous blocks of lapislazuli, extending along its length, and with their white capi tals supporting a beautifully groined and vaulted roof, on which are drawn and shaded outlines of black and buff and scarlet. , The Pharoahs, as well as the Pompelitins, loved such rich colors, and swung their lotus crowned sceptres down halls scarcely more splendid.— But nevertheless, full as much as it re calls Egypt or, Pompeii, does it remind you of the stage dressed for some enter. tainment of legerdemain ; but there is nothing glaring or harsh about it, and the effect is novel and charming. Behind these dolumns, on the tessellated marble floor stand the exhibition cases,the great er part of them framed out of plate glass and dark, costly woods; in other halls, or rather in other branches of the one great hall, the cases are merely white-painted pine ; and there the white pillars sup port a white ceiling, with the exception of one other very beautiful section, whose painting has just been finished, the ceiling being frescoed in caissons of dellcate dappled fawn tints, which are exceedingly admirable. The light and graceful effect of this coloring, though, is much marred by the presence of iron girders spanning the open space above and strengthening the arches of the roof, giving that sense of in security which always destroys any architectural beauty. Whether can be called high art or not, the wisdom of thus relieving the monotony of _e white or leaden-hued walls is evidat ala t when one compares the cheerful emo tions inspired by those in which color has been used with the dreary and half dead effect of the others. One is almost always afflicted by a sort of depression during the fatigue of eyes, nerves, and memory caused by sight-seeing, and almost anything Is to be hailed that in any way Lightens it into pleasu.e. We LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING APRIL 22 1868 go through so many things because it is expected of us—because others go—be— cause In some visionary future we may be sorry if we didn't; and it is already a pleasure merely to wander through these vast rooms, that would be delight• ful to see in themselves, even if they were not stored with other interest. Directly oppoeite the main entrance stands FrankMVP printing press, old, rusty, half-decayed, and mouldering to pieces. You pause there, whether you would or not—it is nothing but a little clumsy heap of old wood and Iron ; but at the word, as if clouds of magic rose and,ehut out the work-day world, the skies of Greece are overhead, the lap ping of the tideless sea is in your ears, the ancient Begrching for his lever with which to move the world, passes down the place and stays and gazes with you ; for surely he has found it, and surely the world has been moved with it; the boundaries of empires have been broken' up, kings have been discrowned, re publics ruined—for this little rusty heap of wood and iron is the only power that reigns by right divine among all the dominations of the earth. I have said that the appearance of the main hall was like that of a stage dressed foreome legerdemain entertainment, and in very truth there Is no deception at all In that appearance, for the 'Wizard of the 'West and the Enchanter of the East, as the light-fingered knights style themselves, know how to work no such spells as are wroughtperpetually here. Go down a lit tle farther; a case of toys, harmless-look ing trifles enough, arrests you—cannon a finger long, the merest miniature mor tars from which ever a child exploded a tiny torpedo ; batteries the size of a lady's spool-stand ; rifles which might shoot snap-dragon seeds—but the re duced models of death-healing engines that, as you gaze, become guns of such swift action that for every heart-beat of the bearer they can still the heart-beat of another ; batteries that face and fire, and wheel and fire and fly indifferent ly ; cannon that, far away, unseen in the horizon, can send a red-hot mes senger of destruction hurling for miles through the scorching air ; mor tars that make such wholesale slaugh ter that they must needs revolution. ice the code of nations and abolish warfare. In another case you note only a lump of coal, a phial of pitch, a flask of oil—and the necromancer of the place has dipped his rod down into the con trol darkness of the sphere and drawn up light like the day's. Yet beyond— au iron stirrup and a slender spur—and the worn, white mowing•girl has only to set her foot there and escape the shadows of temptation and starvation that dogged her while she sang the weary song of the shirt. Not fur away again, we remember the old oriental magician who, as fast as the king had his head cut off, grew another in its place (Helier himself has no such trick its that) ; but us we look into this case we learn how one almost as wonderful may be performed as long as there is a limb left op one's body, and we see how an exact qnatomy of steel springs and leather ligaments fits upon the nerves of volition themselves, till the halt walk again and the maimed are made whole. ' Aud in still another place there lies a simple-looking little apparatus; let it be touched and it can make no louder noise than a buzz and a click; but whether it invoked the aid of the red bolt of Heaven, or of the mystical north ern lights, its whisper can be heard front one end of the land to the other; and it rime beneath the storms and roar of ocean, and curries the voice of one world to another, There aro many things in the Patent Office less astonishing, though not less interesting, than those by whose help is wrought what In old times would have been called witchcraft. There are the treaties with the great kingdoms— the Turkish with its long scroll of ca balistic characters, with the white silk wrapper in which it was rolled, and its huge pendent seal ; the Brazilian in its green velvet book ; the French, Aus trian and Spanish, in their blue, crim son and black . covers ; and all fortified with the tremendous seal of their mon archs, large enough for Peace to have sealed up the grim goblins of war with them, as that threadbare old fisherman did the Genius. There are the med als of all the famous men and deeds of the last century; there hang the sabres, with blades to sever a float ing hair, given to our officers by the Egyptian Pacha; there are the per fect Persian carpets sent to one of our Presidents, with their pile as soft and thick as the turf of a June meadow; there, too, are the gem-embroideredsad dies and housings presented by the Imaum of Muscat; and there are the relics of Washington himself. Here hangs the coat of arms of the Father of his Country, which, in however bad taste its exposure may be for a republic, still proves him as good as the best, with its motto vi (us sola nobilitas, its quarter ings and emblazonry of the Earls of Huntingdon and Salisbury, of the Duke of Clarence, of Malcolm King of Seats, and of the Earls of March and Monmouth. Here are various articles of furniture used by him during his lifetime—the mirror that reflected him, his clothes, his cane of a length that would suit the Cyclops who walked by the help of uprooted trees, his well-used sword ; here are his bed-curtains, orna mented with tambour-work by the hand of Martha Washington ; here are his tent poles and his camp-chest, with its simple appointments—a gridiron, six pewter plates and one platter, two knives, and four two-pronged forks that must have pricked the worshipful tongue.at many a rude banquet beneath the forest-boughs and the stars; but how different an equipage from that of the camp-chest of a General in the late war, which has been heard of, with its silver covers and cutglass cordial-case. And here, in the same case with all these sacred sights, dear to every one who loves freedom, purity, honor, and the old republic, are two desecra tions in the shape of mementoes of Lin coln ; one is tue tall beaver hat which Mr. Lincoln wore on the night of his assassination—it hangs by a fit analogy on a wooden prop, and looks like a black blot upon the memorials of that differ. apt order of things which all his actions tended only to destroy—and the other Is a mammoth pair of buckskin gloves, too large for any human hand, you would say—they Ile on a little table from Mount Vernon, they have never been worn, and there is a label attached to them which says that they were a gift to Mr. Lincoln, and arriving after his death were placed in the Patent Office "as a fit memento of the unsullied hands for which they were intended." How Mrs. Lincoln consented to spare them, and why they did not meet with the fate of the eleven shirts that are said to have been sold for what they would bring, is mere matter of conjec ture. But here they lie, with the hall lantern from Mount Vernon swinging above them, with the appointment of Washington as Commander-in-Chief and saviour of the country that their owner brought to the door of ruin, and with the originial draft of the Declara tion of Independence banging just over them. It is, perhaps, the wildest magic and miracle of theplacethatsuch things are there at all; and if there they are to remain for all time to come, or till the people are released from the thraldom of their superstition regarding Mr. Lin coln, there is consolation in the fact that they are empty of mischief. Many things formerly in the Patent Office have been removed from its guar dianship to that of the Smithsonian Institute. Among these were all the wonderfully splendid birds and insects brought home by the exploring expe ditions, the sarcophagus of Alexander Leverue, the slab from the tomb of Mithridates, and the mummies which have been so unfortunate as to give qualms to the squeamish members of Congress who survey them—perhaps by reminding them in an unwelcome way of the dust of their own future decay; for if the return topower of the oppres sed and downtroddenhas in more than one instance been marked by such acts of violence as thp tearing of the dead oppressors and tyrants from their hid ing-places, and scattering their ashes to. the four winds, these Radicals can hardly expect to be allowed, by-and by, to sleep quietly in their graves. But the Patent Office can well spare all that has been taken, it hives still in its cells such a store of treasure. Here are the reapers that saved us from na tional disgrace in the Cryital Palace, without which how could any harvest of the vast prairie -fields be gathered? Here are clocks that tell not only the hour, the day of the month, the time of the moon, but with whose works there slowly revolves a glob above, with its brass equator and ecliptic, that teaches us the movements of the constellations themselves. And here is the last im provement in the. twisted wire that keeps the wondrous chignon in position and gives to every wearer that air which ancient statuaries labored to give the heads that grew beneath their chisels, while it rivals Phidias with a hair-pin. And independently of all the wealth of of invention that this building holds, of all the wealth of money whose first coin age its contents symbolize, there is laid here how many a heartache, how many a lifetime of bootless endeavor, how many a pang over the fruit of bitter years snatched away by a skilful thief, of search and struggle and dispair and sudden splendid triumph. For here, behind the crystal fronts of these cases, is held the concretion of all the intelli gence, from Atlantic to Pacific; here the brain of the country displays its strength ; and here our inventors dis play a heraldry nobler even than that of Washington, since creation is the only power that proves us akin to the gods. RUSTIC. Billiards The origin of billiards bus, by some writers, been attributed to the Chinese, but more general opinion ascribes Rein vention to Henrique De Vigne, a French artist, who in the reign of Charles IX., about the year 1571, designed tables and drew up the earliest code of rules. It was then prayed with small ivory balls, a " ass"p or ' Iron " being fixed on the cloth, through which at set periods they were driven. Amongst German, Italian, and Dutch games the new amusement soon occupied a prominent place, but trmany years elapsed ere it obtained pa onage in England. Very few im provements In the method of playing were carried out until the last century, when six holes, or, as they were termed, "hazards," cut in the bed, superseded the " pass," and, greater skill being necessary to eflbct a score, billiards speedily became the rage, and was, as we discover from an old pamphlet, "much affected by persons of condition, notwithstanding its prostitution by the designing and vulgar." On the Con tinent, a thick stick or "cue," half an inch lu diameter, and held between the forefinger and thumb, was employed for striking the balls; but the "mace," although derided by foreigners, contin ued the acknowledged instrument in this country, and not a fow of our best players showed great expertness in wielding it. The system called "trail ing," similar to that now celebrated in America under the name of the "push shot," next called for notice, and strokes defined by the titles of the "sweep," the "shove," the "trail," the "dead trail" or "turn u " and the "long stroke," each and all' secured advantages to who uvorgave their practice proper attention. About the year 1700 cues with perfectly fiat points, sometimes of ivory, were introduced, but, as may be conceived, very little mole adroitness resulted. Five-and-twenty years later a second cue, out obliquely at the small end, or rounded slightly on one side, was pro• posed, in order to enable players to lilt the ball below the centre. It could only, ,however, be applied for making "cramp" strokes, and obtained the name, why, we are not aware, of the "Jeffrey." Another alteration was adopted towards the close of the cen tury, the point of the cue being bevelled all round, thus presenting a still broadersurface. Leathern "wads," did not follow until about 1800, ,when the virtues of chalk wore also found out. Lastly came the French "tip" of the present day, than which no invention connected with the mccaniquc of the game has rendered more signal service. A couple of balls only were necessary eighty years ago, there being but two styles of play. By one the sole object of each competitor was to pocket his op ponent, and keep his own ball on the table, as, if it accidentally ran lu, the score marked against the striker (hence the term "losing hazard"), but by the other both might be holed, and a total of four thus made. The former was designated the "white winning" and the latter the " white losing game," each 12 up. After the introduction of the red ball, about 1795, the mode of government underwent many reforms ; the score was lengthened to 10, then to 24 up ; while, though restricted to alter nate strokes at the outset, increased fa cilities were also given for rapid count ing. The carambolc, or cannon, be6ame known for the first time ; and two new games, at one of which seven, and at the other ten points might be made by a single shot, speedily out-rivalled the old-fashioned plan. A curious clause in the rules specified that " whosoever shall wilfully shake the table forfeits the game," leaving It to be inferred that tables then did not boast too much so lidity. Although prior to the beginning of this century some trifling progress had been made, it shortly transpired that the most fascinating of games was still in Its early infancy. About the year 1810 there lived at the city of Bath a marker named Carr, to whom is assign ed the credit of discoveries which in fused new life into billiards, and de veloped fresh wonders on every hand. Year after year the balls had been kept rolling, and still the fact re mained unnoticed that the division of both in attempting many losing hazards was infinitely safer and more certain than simply dividingthe object as hith erto. Repeated experiments further proved to Carr that the adoption of what afterwards came to be styled the " side stroke" would enable him to increase or decrease at pleasure the width or length of angles. The detection of the "top twist" followed, and visitors in shoals flocked to Carr's rooms for the purpose of witnessing the curious effects of the novel and singular motion im parted to the balls. Devotees of the game literally besieged him, but it is related that he steadily refused to dis close the secret for the consideration of large sums. The mediocre class of players he wilfully misled, and main tained the delusion by using a cue, the point of which was ever and again freshened with what he termed "magic chalk." Pieces of this substance were fitted Into small boxes and disposed of by Carr to hundreds of eager amateurs, who soon learned to their disgust that they remained as ignorant of the real discovery as before. Time passed, how ever, and by degrees the mystery oozed out, Carr, through his intemperate habits, sinking from short-lived afflu ence to the level of his former position. Connoisseurs found leisure to practise "side," and sharpers and cheats migra ted en masse to the large towns in the provinces, where country gentlemen and men of property; who In their own opinion played with some address, were fleeced so unmercifully that they, in turn, began to be impressed by and to seek after the as yet unrecognized phe nomena. The game was now tal e d to 24 up, and the "jenny," for many years a favorite hazard, became more fashion able amongst gamblers, as the assistance of twist rendered it not only safer but easier than ever. Some professional players proved extraordinary adepts at scoring it, and the wily baited traps in the most subtle manner for their vic tims. The custom in those days, by persons versed in all the adjuncts of sharp practice, was to visit the most frequented watering places and spas, where, during the season, they and their accomplices reaped golden harveks, and continued ever on the lookout for fresh prey. Schemes were hourly concoted, and, on suitable occasions considerable sums appeared to depend on games in which the unwary dupe was generelly made the favorite at long odds on him, and complimented in such an unblush ing outrageous manner that, inspired by new confidence, he eventually com menced speculating. The chief object of his opponent was:now to win acci dentally or after an extremely close game. By these means alone the con federacy were often rewarded with a fair stake ; but, notwithstanding all their shrewdness, they seldom could bring themselves to resign their greed. The pigeon must be plucked, and the jenny, above all other strokes, seemed specially adapted to the purpose, from the facilities it afforded of scoring a game right off the reel. If the red ball could be manceurved into position just beloW the middle pocketat the opening of play, it was usual to commence laying a series of "flash bets" against the sharper —who all this time had veiled his real strength—winning without once ceas ing to score. Up to this point the vic tim had probably been mulct to the tune of two or three hundred pounds, whilst his apparent supporters must have lost quite doublethat sum. They, however unhesitatingly accommodated takers with long odds against the play ers scoring " game off the balls,"—hav ing a care, of course, with whom their wagers were made,—and it was seldom, indeed, that the victim, stung by his losses, required much inducement to enter the snare thus artfully set, and offer corresponding odds to a still larger amount. If he proposed lay ing £l5O to £25, some wide-awake spec ulator immediately "shot him," and was ready to double the bet on the merest 'suggestion. Then followed a really scientific display, the fruits of years of misspent time. First, the piece of fine French chalk, which causes the tip to bite so keenly, appeared from the player's vest-pocket; then the white ball was spotted most carefully, and finally driven on its way with an exact regard to strength, the "twist " very likely never havingbeen previously ap plied during the whole of the earlier part of the scene. More betting follow. ed the shot, and, as each succeeding hazard was scored with an accuracy of aim hitherto undeveloped, the flimsy artifice became apparent to every be holder save the dupe himself, who, though wroth at the deceit practised by his adversary, never for a moment suspected the connivance of such " well to-do" looking fellows as his backers at so barefaced a swindle. Until the year 1827 wood alone had been used in the making of tables; and English players were not a little sur prised towards the close of that year to find it supplanted by slate, of which the beds have since been constructed. Greater accuracy, smoother running, and more weight were consequen ton this improvement, the only drawback now being slowness. Ten years later India rubber displaced list for cuslons, and altnough at the outset it met with steady opposition, in consequence of the delet erious effects of frost, the difficulty was soon remedied by the use of a very sim ple and inexpensive hot-water appar atus, and also by the adoption of vul canized rubber, which retains its elas ticity in any climate. The table of today is a handsome piece of workmanship In mahogany, walnut, or oak, and presents a remark ably solid appearance. The slate bed measures 12 feet in length by 6 feet 1/ inches wide, and varies in thickness between an inch and an inch and a half. It is usually composed of five pieces, sometimes of four, and occasionally of three; but the unwieldiness and weight of the latter renders it politic rather to avoid than seek after them. Very fine tests aro applied in levelling The slabs, and by careless management alone they get out of order after being once proper ly adjusted. Tile cushions are stuffed with thin strips of rubber, which ad here to each other by means of strong solution, A covering of canvas binds them still further, above it a piece of flannel, and over these materials i s stretched the green cloth. Perhaps the chief difficulty in connection with bil liards is the balls. Take a new set, place them on the table In a small, close room, with the gas at its usual height, and, after having been played with for ten or twelve hours, it Is not improbable several cracks will have appeared. In order, therefore, to season them proper ly, they are turned down or " roughed' to a certain size, and left inn moderate ly warm place for six or eight months, when It is supposed they have become thoroughly dry and ready for use. Ash also requires keeping a long time before It is fit to cut up into cues. The would-be skillful must give much time to practice ; and if a great degree of steadiness be necessary, it is essentially requisite that no shade of nervousness shall ever cross the mind of the player. He must be endowed with fortitude to meet every description of adversity, and, above all, the provokingly good fortune that may possibly be showered lavishly on opponents of scarcely half his calibre, while he must, at the same time, be ever prepared with ready judg ment to take advantage of any stroke of luck the chances of the game may place at his disposal. To the proficient, then, a keen, clear eye,oa hand that loses not its cunning in any strait, and an aim that never falters, are the gifts to bede sired. To the ladies a word is due. Nothing can be more admirably adapted for all that appertains to flirtation than bil liards ; and the game should therefore not be omitted from the already exten sive catalogue of modern accomplish ments. Amongst the fair sex there have been many really sound players, of whom none attained greater celebrity than Madame de Stael and the late Duchess de Beni. As a medium for ex ercise, especially to invalids, nothing can be more beneficial than regular practice ; and no house of pretension should be without a billiard-table. Plaintive Statement of a Man Wbo Didn't Want to bo Either Married or Murdered The infelicity and frequent separa• tions of the married at Chicago seems to have caused a horror of matrimony among the bachelor fraternity in that city, which is well illustrated by the means taken by one to break off an en gagement made when he was drunk.— "He told his own story in court, where he appeared to have the " big brothers" of his affianced put under bonds to keep the peace towards him : " Until a week ago, your honor, I was engaged to be married to Sally, the sis ter of the prisoner. I will not speak ill of her, though we are enemies now ; for it is owing to my engagement that I took the pledge and am a sober man. You see, I was drunk when I proposed and was accepted. This showed me to what liquor could bring a man, and I at once took the pledge. I was engaged to her for three months, and during that time I did my duty. I visited her daily, took her to places of amusement, and told her sweet lies. In fact, I did every thing required except to name the mar riage day. In that I procrastinated. "She insisted that we should be mar ried at once ; she had sworn she would be married before Mary B—, and she would be. I became desperate. I had no intention of marrying her or any one else. I knew what matrimony ls ; I have been whipped by my father be cause my mother has happened to caress me. Not knowing what else to do, I pretended to be drunk when visiting Sally eight days ago. She had some friends with her in the parlor, and that pleased me. I kissed her and tried to kiss them—male and female. Then I told her, in ahle•coughy way, that I had been unable to get the false hair she wished ; that they cost too much. That did the business. "Indignant at thus apparently having her dearest secrets exposed to the young ladles and gentlemen there, she angrily told me to go—that I must never come near her again. Believe me, Judge, I was happy to hear it, and I left at once, I did not visit her, and three days after• ward I received a note from her telling me she was sick and wished to see me. Not being a doctor, I stayed away. "The next day I received a similar note ; my answer was the same. Then I received a note telling me I was a faithless brute and cruel wretch; and she had two big brothers, (I knew it,) and they would at once avenge her wounded honor and broken heart by beating me. I believed her, and have carefully avoided the big brothers. " I am a law-abiding man, and do not wish to fight. They have been to see me eight times already; made the ser vant tell them a lie, (may God forgive me,) and say I was out. But I know they will catch me, and then I shall feel very bad. To prevent that I have had them arrested. I wish them bound over to keep the peace; .they can keep their sister Sally. They have said they would kill me." Justice—" You were right to have them arrested. They must each give bonds in the sum of $5OO to keep the peace. As for you, your conduct has been disgraceful. The name of my first love was Sally, and no one shall go back on a girl of that name. You are fined $15." Marriage Of American Ladles In Parts The Paris correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette says : Marriages are quite therage now in " Our American Colony," scarcely a week elaps ing without the announcement of some new foreign alliance, offensive and defensive. England, France, Germany, Italy and the Roman States offer many suitors at the shrine of American beauty and American 5-20's. Esquires, Barons Lords,'Dukes, Princes. all are willing, if' not anxious, tq . endow fair women with titles in considera tion of the wherewithal to keep up their dignity—for of estates they are generally barren enough. The " dot ' is regularly scaled—from one' hundred thousand francs for Countess' coronet to one hundred thousand dollars fore Princess' diadem. Whether the dol Tars are accepted in greenbacks or demand ed in specie, depondent sayeth not, though is is surmised that this point is; not insisted upon very strongly. The only instance within many months fiat of an American ladywabroad, uniting her fortunes to those of Une of her own countrymen, Is announced for the middle of Aprli, when one of the fairest of the fair daughters of Savannah will be led to the altar by a former prominent citizen of New Orleans, for many years connected with the diplomatic corps of the United States, and afterwards occupying a similar position in the Confederate States. The Deg to His VOWS. Thv N. Y. World administers the follAring well deserved castigation to Forney, for publishing one of his char acteristic slanders upon ex-President Buchanan : In the 211th chapter of the Book of Pro verbs and the 11th verse, is a text which we commend to the attention of Col. John W. Forney. It has a canine flavor, illustrating a very disagreeable habit of that animal, and is brought to our mind by reading in the Press of Friday a renewal of this fellow's indecent and ungrateful attacks on iex- President Buchanan. Our relations to the ex-President are of the slightest kind.— There were many things in his executive career which did not commend him to our sympathy and ;not the least among them was his apparent affinity to a set of - low, scrub politicians, of whom Forney is a type. While there was honey for them to suck they buz zed about him, and when the honey was dried up they tried to sting him. How dif ferent have been the conduct and bearing of the Whig gentlemen whom Mr. Buchanan, by a natural and honorable instinct of gra titude, recognized! They were his true and honest friends. They supported him while he was in power, and what is more to their credit, they are his friends in seclusion and what may be described as adversity. While John W. Forney would not venture to walk along the turnpike that skirts Wheatland, for fear his species (which is not naturally ungrateful) might hark at him, and certainly would not like to meet the venerable man who once, when he was friendless and poor, be friended him and helped him along and loaned him money (which, we take for granted, never has boon paid), the men of honor and ;character who politically sus tained Mr. Buchanan as a matter of pritial pie, and respect him individually on ac count of his pliure, private character, aro his friends and his welcomed guests in the re lined retirement where the lute Paident tranquilly pusses the remnant of is cer tainly not undistinguished care r— that '! of the last of the Constitutional Pre Idents. ! I3ut wo aro wandering from our to t, or to ' neon not inappropriatounalogy,our ' cent," ! which is Forney !s now attack ou Mr. Du- 1 chatter'. We copy It verbatim front tbo 1 1! Press: 1 "A Mouth Carolinian, of unquestioned personal honor and of the boat standing at home, has boon tolling ono of the Managers of the Impeachment a curious story. It seems scarcely , credible, and yet witnesses are numod and dates given with a minute ness that at least warrants its repetition ; In the winter of 1800-01, before Major Anderson had loft Port Moultrie for Sum tor—the story runs—a small boat ono night approached the landing before the gate of Moultrie, and was hailed by the sentry.— The gentleman in the boat sent word to the commandant of the fort that ho was the bearer of a message from the President of the United States. It was after midnight, and Major Anderson, on being aroused to receive the message, sent word that he would see the gentleman in the morning. In a tow moments the purled sentry re turned. The gentleman said that he was instructed by the President of the United States to deliver a certain message ; that his instructions required him to dolfverit forth with; that Inched used ell possible despatch in presenting himself, and that ho must In sist on being received without delay. Thereupon, Major Anderson hastily dressed himself, and ordered his untimely and pertinacious visitor to be admitted. - . • -. The gentlemen proved to boon officer hold ing a responsible position In the cavil sor vice of the Government in South Carolina. He presented a communication addressed to the commanding ofllcer In Charleston harbor, and signed "James Buchanan, President of the 'United States." It required him to deliver, on receipt of the order, fifty cases of tilled arms, then In his possession, to the civil authorities of the State of South Carolina. Major Anderson remonstrated. The bearer of the order persisted. " There is the handwriting," ho said, "of your Com mander-in•Chicf; I insist upon an obedi• once to its requirements." Or, if the Major were unwilling to obey, he insisted upon an explicit statement to that effect. Thus presented the well-intentioned officer, the story goes on, saw no escape from obedi ence, and an order for the delivery of the guns was signed. These were the gulls, the South Carolina who makes those statements adds, with which sharpshooters afterwards picked off our soldiers at the embrasures of Sumter, while the insurgents reduced the fort. "The question arises," said the Manager, who told me the story, " whether the order thus presented was a forgery. If not, I bold that we ought yet to try and hang Seines Buchanan." For myself, I confess, the whole thing wears a mythical look ; but the people who tell it are men whose words cannot by questioned; and it can do no harm to ask whether anybody else knows anything about the sending or the delivery of such an extraordinary order, shortly be fore the transfer of Anderson's garrison from Moultrie to Sumter. Now, bo it observed, that when a " South Carolinian" of character and honor, such as Governor Perry, or John S. Preston, or Wade Hampton, or General McEwen, or General Conner makes a statement as to a matter of fact, Forney is an infidel. He does not believe ono word of it. "Rebels" cannot tell the truth. But when an anony mons "South Carolinian" comes to Wash ington and puts himself in communication with Bingham, Butler Jc. Co., he becomes at once, Forney judice, "a man of unques tioned personal honor and of the best stand ing at home." We do not hesitate to as sert, and we challenge Forney's newspa pers (both daily) to publish what we say, that this whole story about President Bu chanan's ordering arms to be given up to South Carolina is an infamous libel, and it would give us sincere satisfaction if the ex-President should so far depart from the dignified reserve which he has maintained as to prosecute this ungrateful follow in the Philadelphia Quarter Sessions. It would be delicious:to see, after "Indictment found" in Philadelphia, Forney demanded as a fugitive from justice by Governor Geary, and brought to trial for a malignant libel. Some day it will come to this. National Democratic Committee--Mr Delmont's Circular Letter. The following letter was addressed tothe members of the National Democratic Com mittee by their chairman. It has got into the papers at the West, and wo therefore republish it, desiring especially to signalize to our readers the clear sagacity with which Mr. Belmont sees andstates the issues upon which and the methods by which the De mocracy may win an easy victory in November "NEW YORK, March 2, 1868. DEARSIR: I have forwarded to you the call of the Democratic National Committee for the holding of the next National Con vention In the City of Now York on the 4th of July next. You will please confer with the State Central Committee of your State to the end that she be fully represented in the Convention by the number of delegates to whioli she is entitled. " The National Committee Is very clesir. ous that an earnest appeal should be made to the conservative element throughout the Union which has not heretofore acted with the Democratic party. " We call upon every Democratic voter to unite with us In our efforts to save our free institutions from the lawless despotism which now threatens the very foundation of our Government. " It is only by the unitedaction of all who love the Union and the Constitution that we can hope to drive from power in the next Presidential election the Radical party, which, by its representatives in Congress, has attempted to usurp the functions of the Judiciary and executive branches of Gov ernment,• and which, by profligacy and corruption in the management of our na • tional finances, continues to burden our people with a system of taxation which must end iu public and private disaster, unless arrested by a wise, sound, and eco nomical policy such as a Democratic admin istration is sure to give us. " I hope you will lose no time, in order to cause such measures to be taken in your State as will bring to our aid in the contest before us the combined strength of all those who are opposed to Congressional usurpa Lion and negro supremacy,and,who wish the restoration of peace and unity between all the sections of our common country under the blessings of the laws and the Constitu tion,for,which our brave soldiers and:sailors shed their blood and the nation poured out its treasure. " AUGUST BELMONT, Chairman." The issues of the great contest at hand are and should be these, and these only or chiefly: 1. Opposition to Congressional nsurpa- 2. Opposition to negro supremacy. 3. Immediate restoration of the unity and peace of the nation. The method of victory is to combine the strength of all those whatever their past party ties, who unite in that opposition and this demand.—/V. Y. World. ' Spain wishes to borrow two millions ster ling, and pledges the surplus revenues of Cuba as security. Bidders for the loan are not numerous. Chicago papers gives details of the 'disas ter at S. Mary's Church, in that city, on Good Friday evening. Besides the three women killed, six were injured, one of them fatally. About twothousand persons were i the church at the time of the calamity. The panic was caused by the settlingof a portion of the floor,. NUMBER 16 THE GREAT RADICAL CONSPIRACY. Startling_ Revelations . Regarding the Plots of the Radicals. Our Republican Form of Government to be !Superseded by a Dictatorship. Virtual Abolition of the Supreme tour Grant, the Senate and the Nationa Hanka to Rule the Nation. pThe Now York Herald of yesterday pub. j Hellen the following startling special tele gram from Washington : - WitarliNaTON, April 1.1, MIS. History records numerous instances o conspiracies to overthrow existing govern ments or to change ruling dynasties, but they have generally been the work of a low restless spirits, who have kept their real designs concealed front all but their im mediate associates, and thus have lad their followers blindly on in the path of revolu tion in ignorance of Its ultimate goal. The Jacobins of France were bold in their no tion; but even with them when their revo lutionary tires wore first kindled only the men who applied the match knew fully the extent of the destruction that was designed to follow the conflagration. Tho radical conspiracy now under full way at Wash. logien is probably the most reckless that has ever sought to strike at the life of a strong and beneficent government and to reduce a happy people to a state of anarchy. Events have occurred hero within the past two or three days. which render it ter lain that the ultimate object of the men who are now striving to control the republican party in Congress Is to effect an entire change in our republican form of govern• ment, and to substitute in its place a dicta torship more absolute and arbitrary than that of Robespierre and the Commune du Paris. Thu uppurent triumph of the Im peachers on Saturday last, when thOSenate, after giving the broadest license to the Managers In regard to the admission of evidence against President John Sim, refits ed to the latter the privilege Si eXaillialtlit General Sherman on points vital to the de fence, imparted such confidence to the rad ical conspirators us to tempi thine to cast aside all-caution tind to boast openly of their power and of the manner In which they are resolved to exercise it. In the bar rooms and over the dinner tables principles were avowed which under other got.l3llt moult+' would speedily consign their ex loin ents to felull'M cull. The objects of the revolutionists WOradeclarad to be the entire overthrow of constltutionnl republican gov ernment, as a failure , proved to bo such by the war of the rebellion, 1111 d the substitu Lion in Its place of a so-coiled " Government of the People," under the delusive Jacobin cry of" Liberty and Equality." Thu 11101111 s and process by which this and Is to bo ac. complinhed are sot forth its Wows: The conviction and removal of Andrew Jobtimon, raid tho in.tittintion or Ilan Wattn in rho Pranklonuy bur thruu or boor months boforo thu corn muneutnunt ol' thu nuxt l'rrul duntinl torte. Tho oh.tion of Grant as PrOMlllUnt and Hon Wudo as Vine Presidont and President of the donate, by ti) aid of martial law In doubtful Stu ton, If tieeesmary. Thu virtual abolition of tho Supremo Court of the United Staten, by strlpplug thu judielary of the power to pass upon thu constitutionality of any net of Congress re lating to rocorstruction or to thu business of tho government. Thu ortontion of the term of ofneo of the . . Proeldont, Grant, thu Vico President, %Vatic., and tho prumont United litmus Sunato to tell years from Cho let of March, IHIIO, on thu pion that a constantly rocurrlng (Mango In the government to harmful In thu exhaling condition of thu country nod WIN ono of thu main common of thu lato war of thu rubolllon, The unlimited inflation of the currency, through the instrumentality of the national banks, so us to throw upon the country an enormous amount of paper money, by moans of which the people are to be kept in a state of excitement and good humor, and to be unused and made satisfied with nTls flu . a apparent i o e sper i n ty d aim of the radical conspiracy, to which impeachment Is only one of the preliminary steps. Thu dictator ship of Grunt will be in the Senate, with Ben Wade at Its head. Tho appointments made by him during his brief term of power will be carefully selected from the tools of the conspirators, and the patronage anti In fluence of the office holders will stand at the buck of the revolutionary commune.— Grant will not have the power, if he had the disposition, to change a single feature in the programme—a single creature in the action of the drama—for the Senate will hold hint in a vice stronger titan that they have prepared for Andrew Johnson. With the latter out of the Presidential office, no voice will be raised in vetoes to expose the true character of radical le illation, and acts will be passed which will strike down what little of protection yet remains to the peo ple in the barriers of the constitution. With a paper currency flooding the country speculation will run wild, stocks of all kinds will rise, railroad schemes, land schemes and all the wildest projects that ingenuity can devise will Iliad ready vota ries, and in the general fire and smoke of the great revolution the radical dictatorship will be made perpetual. The united power of Grant, the Senate and the national banks is relied upon to crush out all opposition and to enforce a Reign of Terror io which the experience of 1862 and 1863 will be but a trifle. The conspirators cite the case of Louis Napoleon in support of their argu ment that boldness only is required to turn into an absolutism tyrule commenced under the guise of republican liberty. The immediate admission of the Southern States, with their negro constituencies and negro representatives, will follow the first successful steps of the conspiracy, and then the vote of New York in the House of Representatives will be nulLified by that of South Carolina. The real object of the radi cal conspirators is no longer a secret. Men may shut their eyes to the truth, but the revolution will not go backwards, and its last acts, which are hero foreshadowed, will come as surely as military rule, negro su premacy, the usurpation of the constitu tional powers of the Executive, the destruc• lion of the Supremo Court, and finally, the impeachment of the President of the United States, have one after another followed the close of the war of the rebellion. Arrival of Sergeant Rate. at Wrothing ton—He is Received by the Prenident— The Radical,. refune to permit the Flag to be Dimplayed from the Dome of the Capitol. WAHILINOTON, April H. Sergeant Bates, carrying the United States flag, arrived in Washington to-day, and accompanied by n large crowd with u band of music, proceeded to the executive man sion, where he was received by the Presi dent on the steps, and then conducted by him to the East room. He extended to Sergeant Bates n cordial welcome, and ex pressed his gratification at seeing him after his long Journey, and also invited him to call upon him again, assuring him that he desired to extend every hospitality in hie power. At the President's request the band played the air of Star Spangled Ban ner. Sergeant Bates then proceeded to the Metropolitan Hotel having ascended to the portico, the Hon. Charles A. Eldridge then delivered the following address: Fellow-Offizcas: It is owing to the fact that I am a citizen of Wisconsin that I have been invited to appear hero on this °yea Mon, and for a few brief moments to pre sent to you the guest of Washington, Ser geant Bates, [Cheers.} Ile finding a pop ular error existing in the State of Wiscon sin, like that, perhaps, in every Northern State, to wit—that the people of the South ern States, whom our conquering arms sub dued, were hostile to the flag, undertook to carry it from Vicksburg to Washington for the purpose of planting it on the dome of the Capitol. Ho has demonstrated to the peoplo of this country, and the world, that no such hostility exists, but, on the con trary, that the people of the South submit ted to the flag of the Union in good faith, and are determined to maintain their alle giance to it, and expect us of the North to maintain ours. [Applause.] I understand that Sergeant Bates will now proceed to plant the flag on the dome of the Capitol, but I will not longer detain you in this ruin storm farther than to say I cannot forget the day, now just seven years ago, when our flag was lowered in humilia tion and sorrow front the battlements of Fort Sumpter, and rejoice now it rises In triumph and glory on the dome of the Capitol. [Repeated cheers.l General ldungen, representative from Ohio, having been called upon for a speech, said he supposed he had thus been honored because he bud served at Vicksburg until the surrender. Sergeant Bates, he remarked had journeyed without a single cent of ex penses, traveling through the South meet ing everywhere with hospitality and receiv ing pledges of fealty to the Union and the flag which the people of the South uphold to-day. This treatment of the noble sol dier ought, ho continued, to satisfy our Radical gentlemen that the people of the South are more loyal than the man " Wen del Phillips," who boasted, John address at the Smithsonian institution, several years ago, that he had labored for nineteen years to take thirteen States out of the Union. There is a bill pending in Congress to re move political disability from Gen. Long street and others, but I am in favor of in cluding Wendell Phillips, for I think ho has all the time been voting illegally. [Laugh ter.] I believe him this day a greater traitor than Jeff. Davis or any other man. [Cries " that's so," " good" and "he is."] I went him to vote according to law. Three cheers were then given for the old flag, three for Sergeant Bates and three for the Union. The crowd then accompanied Sergeant Bates to the capitol and, on arriving at the East gate, the policeman in charge of the door stated 4 that he was ordered to allow no demonstration in the capitol without the written consent of Sergeant at-Arms Brown, of the Senate. The permit which was obtained yester day from Gen. Michler, Superintendent.of Public Buildings and Grounds, to place the flag on the dome, we/silent to Mr. Brown by RATE OF ADVERTISING. BIIII120:86 ADVXRTMIIIIIATO, $l2 , a year pa otuare of ten line.; SO per yea,r for each ad• &Monet square. RnAraforkrn ADVORTIIINO, 10 mortals linsfor Meant, and 6 cents for mob enorrgnant ration. Geastaer, ADVarrteria 7 cents a Ilne for the first, and 4 cents for out' subsequent Inset- Lion, SPZCIAL Nam= Inserted In Local Column!, LS oonta per llno. BPZCIAL NOTION@ pr(101 4 / 1 10 Mardagel And deaths, 10 cent' por Una for first Insertion and I 'tenni Ibr every subsequent Insertion. jZOAL AND °TER& if omen— Itlzeoutors' ..otlees 2.60 Admlntstrstors' notices 2.60 Assignees' nottcou .............»...............2J I O Auditors' notices 2.00 Other "Nottree, , ten lines, or lou, C throe timesl.6o a policeman', and Mr. Brown endorsed it, giving the required permission. The paper was then handed to the policeman Inchorge of the door, who would not lot the Sergeant pass into the Capitol without the further en dorsement of Sergeant-at-Arms Ordway, of the House. of Representatives. Not waiting longer and tired of delay, Sergeant Bates, with his friends, left the Capitol to plant tho flag on Washington Monument. Sergeant Butes was then es corted to the Metropolitan Hotel, tho pro prietors of which entertain him gratui tously. llSouthern Itturdere—umo commit Them? Whenever any radical firebrand, loyal leaguer or negro is killed or hurt In the South the radicalpress and orators of the North make a terrible noise about it. Thoy ring the changes and howl day after day about rebel outrages, rebel hatred end rebel murderers, but wo never hear anything from them concerning too murdered Southern whites and black Outrages. The radical papers are full of sensation accounts and denunciations of the murder n 1 Ashburn, In lieorgitt, but they say noth ing about the white one-armed ex-Con• federate moldier who was shot deed on his horse recently near Selma, Alabama, or 01 the other four white men who have been tendered In the Halal , vicinity since the war and no one arrested for these murders, No, we hear nothing from these Radicals, of the numerous other murders or the conquered Southern whites and outrages on them in other localities or tho South, because there Is every reason to believe thin is the work of the black loyal leaguers. Al a public pro cession and meeting of negroes nl \l icon, Georgia, on March 10, the "Jaya] lihmks" carried s banner on which the figure of a negro, rut In pasteboard, hung, filing ling !rum a gallows, end to which was at tached, on a pima .r white paper, the 101- lowing inscription Every man I nit don't vote a Radical ticket this Is the way we want to do him—hang him by the nook* These radical loyal longue negroes boldly proclaimed, too, that the negro who failed to register should receive thirty nine lashes; If he failed to vote at the election, two bun dred lashes, and it he voted the democratic ticket he should be hanged. Need We be surprised, then, that white Southerners are murdered In every part of the South and that the murderers are not arrested? The Northern friends of these black berhorionn pretend not to know anything about their murderous doings. It is dear Met the South under radical rule is fast tending toonorchy and to a worse conditimi than St. Domingo Was over York //crab/. Ittiohler'o Kitttcro. Tito ibllowing !MALT of inquiry wou rocolvetl,tind uw NI:11111u tittoollonm litivo froquontly boon milted boloro, wo will on- Nwor tnoin through Ow prowl t lIA Rlllllllll no, Fob, lOth, trod. Do, S. 11. Thelma; ta Abru. ham Hari In, Of lids CIIIIIILy[IIII,I 1110 IL Visit 011 Una loll) I Deoenibor last. obsorved nu Meer coltind ills ear, and kin eyes also wero morn, On questioning Mtn, ho told MO 011110 Ito 111111 several ulcers On him legs, and small must all over his hotly, anti °von among tho mole of his hair, with shooting pains along the bottom. I advited Mtn to write to you, and see whit, you would may of his arum, knowing Dr, Hart, 111110 LO be a practicing physician of Ulu old school. lie followed sty ruivicu, and wrote lo you all Um Mate; which you answored by stating, that hie Mama.° was Kerofuln, or sonar other .11111tirtlriMILli tilMllllBl3, and you advisor, him to tako Mixitior's (Wean Label ilittoni. lie bought six Wall. of Dr. I.:llmaker, a dr mullet in Laucaster, and crimmenueri with a table. spoonful every throw hours, and gradually in. aroused the done to a small wino -unworn], and than diminished gradually wain to the sumo dole MI began with; no cold therm wont your diroolions. I saw hint this morning, hale rind hoarty—porfectly cured—evou Ills oyes are well which I coneldor rornarkable, as I have known porsouit to bo agllated with Inflamed oyes all through 1 ifo. 1 [lover sow a mon num° delight. oil; and having roped( boon cured of n most tie,tea rl I ingartng Dyspepsia, about a year ago, by your Whore, I rucked tub if Ito hall any In the 110t1110. "0, yea," said he, And going to tiro cupboard, handed Inn a MALI° half full, and saying, "this le what I illOlO left from Oho six bottiox." I took a swallow, and It las .1 so tin. 11110 the Bitters that I had taken, that, I wax sure It wax not &fishier's Bittore; and he hay. lug never taken any other, doehired, that Ito bought It for Mishior'x Bitters. Unublo to de cide the question, I concluded to write ttt and salt If you have more than nun kind. : - Yours, most respectfully, ANSWER: LANCAHTICIL, Feb. 14W, Mr. Charles .bbrrew : Dear Sir ; Yours of the 10th inst., Is at hand, and In reply, would say, we make three kinds al:litters. Tho one you used for Dyspepsia Is called MISHLER'S HERB BITTERS, generally mold for a dollar, or one dollar and twenty-five cents a bottle. It Is always used for Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Kidney Affections and Diseases of the Lunge and Throat, Ako.; and In these It la a auro and permanent remedy. Dr. Hartman, on referring to his bock'', !Inds that wo have cured, since the 2d of July, 18117, the time we became I he proprietors of this in stitution, 213 cases of Dympepela; 78 of Chronic Rheumatism; 107 of Lingering (loughs and Colds; 93 of Kidney Affections; 17 of Yellow Jaundice; 23 of Neuralgia; 43 of Headache and Sick Headache; 19 of Lumbago or Pain In the Rack; 10 of General Debility; 27 of Chills and Fever, and 37 not well defined. There are, of codrso, thousands who have need Mishier's Herb Bitters, that never visited Dr. Hartman, nor wrote to him, with doubtless the earns effect. But the number above given aro carefully recorded In a book, with their ad dress. Those that have visited the Doctor are marked V. and those that have written to him, W. This book is open to eve] ybody, and nil of them can be written to, If desired. MISILLER'H GREEN LABEL BITTERS, In the kind that has always been used Mr Scrof ula, Old Running Mores and Ulcers, and deli cate diseases, caused by Imprudence, excess, exposure, or early Indiscretion; also, for Skin Diseases of ever kind, and Inflammatory Rheumatism, These Bittern aro now sold everywhere, at ono dollar and fifty cents per bottle; and although never before advertised, have at present nearly as largo a sale as the Herb 'littera. They have been cold In Phila delphia, Now York, Baltimore and some other places at two and three dollars per bottle. They are the only sure remedy for tile diseases Just named. Wo could refer the reader to over live bun dred canoe of the moot miraculous cures pro duced within the lug, RIX months by thin CIREEN LABZI, BITTE1t8; but wont penmen, eutlerlng I rum three complalnte will not allow t ,olr !imam to be publlehod, a thing wo never do except by epochal pertnlmelou. M I 8 11 LER'S RED LABEL BITTERS, which In the third variety of our preparation, will surely cure all Chroulc Complaints pecu liar to female's. Ladles suffering from any Ir. regularities will Had thorn a great boon. Every lady that is pale with palpitation of the heart, or a Skittering 'sensation about that organ,wlth a shortness of breath after a little exertion will Ilud these Butlers a panacea. Prom two to four bottles will entirely cure all such cases. In short, every other lady, young or old, the world over, should use thin medicine. And wo pre dict, that In loom than one year, or at leant, as soon as the fair sex thoroughly understand Its merits, no more pale, emaciated and dirsconso late faces will be seen; but all women will at least look fresh and hearty, If not beautiful and fair as queens ; and when asked, how came the change, all will answer, through MISH• 1,13Ei11i3 RED LABEI, ISITTEIII3. They aresold everywhere at one dollar and day conk] per bottle. Hoping yon, sx woll as the rest of mankind, are no t disappointed in the fact, that the large array of certificates of cures effected by Mis lees Bitters, of every con ceivable diseaffe,which we and Mr. :dishier have published heretofore, woo the Work: of three distinct prepamtionsl and not one only. We are respectfully yours, &e... B. R. HARTMAN & CO LADIES ALL! Old and young, married and aingle, should use SUSI:MEWS RED LABEL BITTERS. GENTLEMEN ALL! Young and old, rich and poor, ahould use WEIMER'S HERB BITTERN. EXCEPT WHEN Afflicted with Scrofula lor delicate dreenees— then by all means use MISHLER'S OMEN LABEL BITTERS. Hine our preparations are sold only as med icines, and not as beverages, persons selling them are not required to take out retail liquor SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS, AND COUNTRY STORE KEEPERS DR. S. B. HARTMAN Can be consialteOn all cues of disease of what ever character, and will prescribe free or charge at all hours of the day, OFFlCE—Sontlimat Angle Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa. mar 5 tfclaw E. M. scHAEFF..., WEOLlieetZE AND DATA= s4DDLER7 11013 IAND 2 22211 T KING 8711222 Z L&NCAPTEP., PA. 11131110 ityr
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