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nonsense for Belmont.
STATE OF NEW YOSE, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMMPI'
AI.I3ANT, MARCH 9, 1868.—My Dear Sir: The
strong'convictions expressed by yourself and
others have led me to re-examine the application
for thepardon of Edward B. Ketchum.
There are many circumstances connected with
the case which would make it agreeable to me
to grant the application, if./ could do so con
sistently with o sense of public duty. The youth
of the offender, the reputation he kad previously
sustained, the deep Interest expressed by
many for whoa opinions I have a great regard,
and the high character of his family and friends,
all commend the appeal for Executive clemency
to favorable consideration. I am, however, un
able to resist the conclusion that if I were to
grant the pardon it would tend to impair the con
ridence of the public In the administration of
-criminal law. The certainty of punishment, in
cases of unquestioned guilt, is essential to the
-common security; and the nature of the offence
In this instance was such as to preclude the re
mission of the penalty, unless for very clear and
satisfactory reasons.
The power which I am asked to exercise in his
behalf is one of grave responsibility, and the ex
tension of clemency to conceded offenders is only
to be justified by causes which commend them
selves so strongly to approval as to overbalance
the evil influence of permitting crime to go un
punished. These applications are usually ex
u_parte. The representations on which they are
sed are generally partial, and they often prove
to be unfoiode4. It is not strange that amid the
pressure of numerous and important duties some
.of the many and persistently-urged cases should
result fur rardons not fully justified. I think it
has happened to every incumbent of the Execu
tive office to err in granting pardons, which, with
fuller means of knowledge would have been with
held, and yet it is possible that the same expert
. once would disclose more mistakes in withhold
ing clemency than extending it in unworthy
...casco. In this instance, however, the recom
mendations come from sources that entitle them
to fall faith, but they rest on grounds which do
'mot seem to justify a pardon. The fact of guilt
conceded. The crime was of the gravest char
acter. It was one of a series of offences of a
;similar nature. It was committed with delibera
tion. Nothing' has since transpired which
.changes its character. Therefore, in my judg
ment, the. case is not one in which I can prop
ocrly remit the sentence of the law.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) R. E. Fte;rox.
I'arke Godwin, Esq., New York.
Oen nesuens have observed that we rarely
praise patent medicines,and that we advertise only
..the very beat of them. But now, the remarkable
:recovery of Mrs. Rice, of Canastota, from her dis
tressing. and almost helpless scrofulous disease,
which is known throughout the community, and
unquestionably effect of Ayer's Sarsaparilla,
leads na to publish, without reserve, the remark
able pfileacy of this medicine. We do this in the
interest of the afflicted. Any remedy which eon
:so effectually raise one from the - dead," should
he universally •known; and , we wish it maybe
- universally as successful as it has been in th e
,case of Mu. Jilee.—KDa(dy Journal - , Arsons&
A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCES IS EU.
DOPE.
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THE CARNIVAL IN ROMP: AND FLONENCIL
ROMIC, Feb. 29, 1868.—" ("twee vale!" I had
almost said in good earnest, of my own mortal
habitation, what with the indescribable rush and
excitement of the advent of the "maddest, mer
riest time ". of all the year in Italy, and the con
tinned effort one is forced to make even to keep
pace with the residents of Rome. As to Ameri
can travelers--oh ! it is wonderful to see their
power of endurance, their (opacity of adaptation
to the customs, however ancient or modern, of
any nation under the sun ; and bow, no matter
where they go, they create more surprise, more
jealousy, and inspire more admiration than any
other people. I wish in my soul our Senate
and Congress could be sent in a body
to travel through Europe, and have their earn
assalled, their pride kindled, and their conscien
tiousness reproved by the prophecies of the
downfall of our glorious republic, by England,
who says in the same breath, " we are fools for
supporting royalty at such a cost, but we are
vain enough to like the prestige it gives us!" by
France, who adds to every sensation despatch,
per cable, a chapter of adjectives in the superla
tive degree; by Germany, so jealous, that our
men of science are treated with indignity when
prceented at court; and, delightful contrast! by
Italy, even in suspicious Rome, whore an Ame
rican woman, presenting her passport,' is ad
mitted to the secret recesses and towers of St
Angelo and the subterranean passages from the
Vatican to the place of refuge prepared for the
Pope, even when priests and sworn officers of
the hcilechold are forbidden to enter!!
I have seen the stars and stripes on the Bay of
Naples, where poverty, beggary, degradation and
vice reek and revel. Oh! I asked myself, why
cannot these poor, down-trodden peopha leek on
that flag as I do! and, as when the children of
Israel mist(' their eyes to the standard of the
Pardoning One, exclaim: "I am free!" "The
most wonderful things come from America," said
a Roman. Let America look to It, that the right
!ci these cemplimen ts,whether sincerely or insidi
ously uttered, be preserved ! But to the point
—Rome and its ,Carnival.
The Carnival this year in Rome was not equal
to those of preceding yearn, they say. Admitting
the possibility, / say, thank goodness, it was not.
In Florence thirty thousand people appeared on
the Arno. in costume. Why? Because Victor
Emmanuel, to show the people the blessing of
independence from church government, offered
a reward to the most successful mimic. The re
belt was what be had anticipated, a general,
overwhelming, revel and frolic during the whole
ten days. There was no need for him to mask or
costume. He had only to drive out, as he does
every Thursday, on the Casein°, and a jolly
_Bacchus as any in the Naples Museum, with red
nose, red face, and extensive corporation, ap
peared complete! But beauty is as beauty ,
does. Long live Vroron Emmanuel!
On the morning of the fifteenth of February
our party Blasted out for a drive on the Corso.
Everywhere active preparations were being made
for the CarnivaL From every window of horse,
palace, hotel or atelier, crimson and white
drapery and embroidered banners or gay car
pets were hung out. The balconies, from the
first to the fifth stories, and Seen the railings on
the roofs of these high houses, were draped and
festooned with crimson cloth, velvet, silk or
whatever material the taste or means of indi
viduals might furnish. Cushions to match the
drapery were placed along-the railing, like those
in an opera box, for the arms to rest
upon. Under the cushions, on the ontside,boxes
or troughs were firmly secured, into which the
confetti were poured by the basketful. The
confetti are made of plaster-of-paris and sand, in
small pellets, like white sugar plums, and when
thrown from the boxes they go to powder the
moment they strike a hard object, and woe to the
black beavers and broadcloth that are sure to in
vite a shower of confetti. In between the lattice
work of the window shutters opening on the
balconies, bouquet. by the hundred were
fastened; camellia, violets, hyacinths, roses and
even strawberries nestled among the fresh green
leaves of the lemon and orange flowers. If
"bouquets by the hundred" sounds like an ex
aggeration, let tee assure you, to my certain
knowledge, there were two hundred and fifty
bouquets thrown from our balcony alone on that
day, and fire hundred pounds of confetti emptied
on the heads of less fortunate pedestrians, within
its reach, while from another we attempted to
count the bouquets till they were thrown by the
dozen, and we gave up in despair. And why
not? Italy, fair, sunny and joyous, speaks to
her children in towers!
Hark! the belrof the Capitol rings out ajoyous,
merry sound; it announces that the Carnival has
begun ! That bell, that never sounds but for
the death of a Pope, and the beginning and end
of the Carnival! How my heart beat when I
heard that bell! I looked nervously towards the
Capitol, with a vague dread of seeing apparitions
of the senators whose cold marble faces, in row
after row, line the chambers where their noble
voices once roused the world to enthusiasm by
theirglowieg eloquence, and with a cold shiver,
such es I experience whenever I look upon an
array of these immortalized dead, I hastened into
the excited, noisy multitude of revelers,and soon
we were overlooking the scene, surpassing ex
pectation. One must see the Carnival fully to
realize how it is possible to abandon every
thought and feeling except that of fan and frolic.
How we saw it I will tell you in my next, and
after that promise is fulfilled, I will never make
another. Travelers cannot keep pace with their
wishes, and ills impossible for one hand to tran
scribe to paper the spines that occur as rapidly as
steam power carrion them from one place to
another. But without binding myself to oft
broken rules, I will yet relate our adventures and
delightful experiences in Dresden, Gratz, Vienna,
Venice, Florence, Naples, Sorrento and Rome.
• E. D. W.
4 would um—ilPes the attention of every one who
undertakes - a European tour the abselute necessity of a
DagerOTt. Those who , come from home unprovided.:in
consequence of the bad advice of those who ettoeld
know better, find themselves harraseed and delayed. at
thou and in places most inconvenient, and often lOsoo
opportunities of seeing important institutions, fortifies.
how and castles, because they have no
_passes, when :an
American passport would admit them . • I have sent faint
lies detained for hours at the outposts of European cities
and even prevented from boarding a steamer on the Dhsd
iterranosn, though their passage was paid for, and they
lost the ship, when unable to produce a passport, It hi
much easier to comply with the rules of the countries one
Visits than to try to evade them. Miles are nutmerotur on
the continent. and notwithstanding the old wing. they
are - rbtorouely enforced. The reply to every , wlkr or
wherefore is "C"esi
--The little town of Smyrna, le reported
to , contain 78 drinking ortabllohnlente,,wb-telkt is
about one to every fifteen of t& baludzolt,nta.
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1868.
Vlore of the History of the •"Behivient
Built. , "
In Saturday's paper we told the story of this
fine work of contemporary art, whose merit has
received the equivocal compliment of tempting
the antiquity-mongers to foist it on the world as
an antique; The correspondent of a Boston Jour
nal, finding himself at Florence in the centre of
the scandal, dishes up the matter by the column
for the appetites of his Athenian constituency.
It will be enough for us to seleet a fact or two as
bearing on this controversy, grown into such an
agitating one for the French connoisseurs.
There is no longer a doubt as to the author
of the bust. Bastianini, the actual sculptor, is a
young and poor artist of Florence. Of his per
sonal distinctions we only get the fact that he is
"square-browed"—a Florentine trait, indeed. It
appears to have been Lie trick to model portraits
of Italian celebrities of the Renaissance, and sell
them in dead silence to art-hucksters. In his
last letter he reveals" the fact that a bust
by him of Savonarola had been the ob
ject of a similar dispute on a small
scale; this previous sham-antique, after
having been bought (doubtless at a moderate art
price) and exposed as a curiosity, was afterwards
explained into a modern imitation; for, "when
the artists Banti and Costa had learned from
me that the bust of Girolamo Savonarola was my
work, they at once published the fact in the Rifor-
Ira, without trying to turn the world topsy-turvy,
as at Paris,for the bust of Benivieni." The letter, a
bit of the bravura of an Italian "man of honor,"
closes with a challenge to the Superintendent of
be Louvre to deposit 3,000 francs (just at
tithe of the price paid by the. .31nede
for the "Benivieni,") as payment for a second ter
racotta, to be artistically the equal of that under
dispute. It is addressed to a friend and patron,
Dottore Forese, a savant and man of letters, pro
prietor of a museum of vertu In the island of Elba.
This gentleman has watched the whole story,from
the earliest scoops and rakings of the sculptor's
tburnins In the clay, to the exaltation of the lat
ter as a thirty thousand franc antique in the
Louvre; he has an anecdote or two which tend
to stamp the latter history of the bust as Wilma,
and excessively little to the credit of French
honor.
The carver-youth Bastianini,of course, is poor,
and cannot always afford to deteriorate his
"antiques" by scratching his signature on them;
These niceties of feeling are reserved for his let
tere, where they come out in the most manly and
chivalrous way. On the contrary, the name of
Binivieni, the Imaginary original (of whom no
real portrait is known) was imprinted on the work
in earefully-imitated antique letters. The "anec
dote or two" refer to the troubles of this poor
genius.
The first French purchaser, de Nolivos, visited
him in bis studio in 1867. The authenticity of
the work had at that time been seriously breathed
upon. "flo it le yon," said the mortified and
therefore furious Gaul, "who pretend to be the
author! Yoa are a cheat and an. impostor.
Conic to Paris and we yeti in Quires
ton !" The young modeler acted just **Gentili
would have done. He flew, relates Form, at the
insolent Frenchman like a fury. That is pre
cisely the old Florentine method of defending the
truth, and we can fancy the broken-nosed ghost
of Michael Angelo smiling on the scene. By
e tenders interfered.
Prince Napoleon, we know, is another infalli
ble connoisseur. Being In the museum of the
Doctor Forese,he alluded to theßenivieni portrait,
and asked for an opinion. Upon the Italian
authority relating what he knew and had seen,
the Prince paid him for his testimony with a cour
teous "flt of laughter."
After these twe episodes the Count de Mau_
werkerke tired of his antique, and gracefully sold
it to the Louvre at the same high price he had
paid for it. That Is to say, the work never left
the palace in which it was deposited after the de
Nolivos sale; but it was set In another chamber
thereof, the Renaissance Gallery, and left there in
the company of Benvenuto Cabal's Nymph of
Fontainb/eau,Michael Angelo's Captivea,and a pre
cious marble by Desiddrio da Settignano; and the
French tax psyers permitted the Comte to shift
into one pocket the sum he had recently drawn
from another.
The sculptor Bastianini is collecting proofs
said documents. He has our beat hopes and
wishes. His part of the transaction is at least
as meritorious as was that of Chatterton when
he issued the poems of "Rowley." We hope he
has found, in the trampling of all this mire, the
beginning of the path of fame.
The Doctor Forese,who will be recognized, by
all but the sore French connoisseurs, as maim
peachable testimony, promises a pamphlet which
will ventilate the practices of the antique-huck
sters, and the history of this scandal in particu
lar. The title will be "The Tower of Babel."
Art Items.
George Lambdin Is active since his removal to
Gotham . He is preparing for the spring exhibi
tion of the National Academy in New York three
pictures in genre. One is called "The Anxious
Mother." A young girl is represented carefully
holding two young kittens in her arms, which
are most anxiously regarded by their mother.
The picture is simple and unpretending, but true
and well managed. A domestic scene—called
the " Morning Lesson " shows a pleas
ant household interior, with a centre
table near a large window, at which sits a
lady reading, while a young girl stands attentive
ly listening and leaning on the table, on which
sits a little child, entirely happy, unconcerned
and "master of the situation." The most effec
tive of the three pictures is one called " The
Pruner," which represents a man pruning the
ends of a tree, while beside him stands a little
chubby-faced boy with folded arms and a meat
curious and interesting expression.
Mr. Lambdin has also upon his easel an ideal
portrait of a child with brownish golden hair,
and a forehead full of character.
—The latest bit of Parisian gossip is ae follows:
"The curd of Notre Dame do Loretta addressed
his eongregation—the most fashionable congre
gation in Paris—on Sunday leek and after scold
hig: them for their stitr-neckednest, informed
them that whoever should thenceforward attend
the representation of a certain wicked play at the
Theatre Francais, called 'Paul Iforestier' shonid
be excommunicated, the cure of the Madeleine
having uttered .a similar threat on the previous
Sunday. M. .Angier, the director of the Thditre
Francais, on ,
hearing of the ben thus placed upon
his establishment, is said to have replied : 'VerY
well, henceforward I'shalt 'decline to sell tickets
of admission to my theatre to whoever shall at
tend the representations at the Madeleine and at
Notre Dame de Lorene.'
,-;•-•A very ',•popular street nstfortner In London,
is a man who throws big Mato° ati high as ;he
cap; catching it in Its Allocable forehead, where
it anasehre-tn tlts.
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
APHIL BIALGAZIMES, acc.
The Journal of the Franklin Institute, for March,
begins with editorial notices of new mechanical
nventions; it is indubitable that uo other nation
but ours could produce subjeet•matter for thirty
' ) or forty such pages every month. A Paris letter
follows, with some recent ideas in hydraulics and
'drainage. New York furnishes news in matters of
civil engineering, er,c. Prof. Meyer's Lecture-
Notes on Physics are this month upon "Methods
of Precision," with instructions for getting the
practical average of a number of measurements.
From the Proceedings of the Royal Society is re
ported &Method of Qualitative Analysis of Animal
and Vegetable coloring matters under the Spec
trum Microscope. Some book-notices, placing
the reader on a level with the scientific literature
of the day, close a very instructive number.
The Northern Monthly, published in Newark
and New York, continues Harriet Prescott
Spafford's tale, "The Thief in the Night;" the sort
of voluptuous vivacity which distinguished this
writer's maiden efforts seems to be dying oat,
without leaving much gain in the way of con
creteness and what painters call "composition."
Two contributions to our military history are
Col. Anderson's "Experience of a Military Mis
sionary in Virginia," and Mr. Throckmorton's
sketch of Major-General Kilpatrick. There is
practical information (for New Yorkers) in the
series entitled "The Metropolitan Pulpit," by Mr.
W. Tufts. The Editorial Department has a pro
vincial tone.
NEW STITCHED EDlTlONS.—Stitched editions
reach us of "The Marriage VailFct," by Dumas,
from Peterson tt, Brothers. "Old Mortality," by
Sir Walter Scott, same publishers, twenty-cent
form, and very neat for the money. To the
Dickens Revival, which has so naturally followed
that generous spirit's avatar among us, the same
house contribute "Mugby Junction" and "Doc
tor Marigold," sewn together. Messrs. Peterson
do not think it neeeNts rto advertise their
cheap public tha.k the greater number of the
stories included In these Christneas Tales are by
other names than the lemons one on the cover.
Public Spirit, a monthly magazine made up of
very abort articles and supplemented with a great
many editorial news-items in literature, art,
drama and politics, is out for April. The opening
story, an Oriental chess tale called "Mating and
Checkmating," does not begin witn much prom
ise. It is followed by a ridiculous poem of Stod
dard's, "On the Divan." The following papers
are very various in subject and quality. The pe
riodical is published by Le Grand Itenedict, 37
Park Row, N. Y.
Supplemental Nos. 128 and 129 of "Chambers's
Encyclopedia, a Dictionary of Universal Knorr
ledge," republished in this city by J.B. Lippincott
44 Co., cover ground between the words "Epi
demic" and "Mabommedan." Thla standard en
eyclopmdic authority is by no means for British
students exylusively. We obferve American
,Mbiecte treated at length - and with courbecins
fairness henever they occur. The Illustrations
add greatly to the value of this chef-d'oeuvre of
the Chambers arm.
Appleton's small and pretty edition of a pam
phlet Dickens now includes "Hard Times,"
which Mr. Ruskin once selected as the most
thoughtful work of its author. It is for sale by
G. W. Pitcher.
DISASTERS.
Deetsneillive Fire in New York—Less
$30,000.
[From the New York Herald of to-day.]
About a quarter to one o'clock this morning a fire broke
out on the second floor of No. 74 _Fulton street, occupied
by the firm of Kiel & sudhaus ass paper-box manufac.
tory, which gained such rapid headway that, even before
the arrival of the engines, which were on the spot within
two minutes after the alarm was rung, the entire block
between Rider's alley, or Little Greene street. and Gold
street was wrapt in a sheet of flame that threatened for
a time to extend to the he twee adjoining. So soon, how
ever, as the firemen had got to work and the heaVy
stloll2lB of water from the steam engines had begun to find
their way into the burning buildings the fire was confined
tothe block in which it had origin ated,and by two o'clock
the flames were totally extinguish( d.
The building No. 74 wild totally burned out, the second
floor of which was occupied, as before mentioned, by Kiel
& liudhatut, paper box m aufacturers. The same floor
was also occupied by Durzig & Golding,glasa sign makers,
These two firms in all probability are damaged to Vise ex
tent of $1.2.000. G. W. Loos, clothier, occupied the first
floor of Noe. 70 and 72; stock burned out; loss about
$15.000. The cigar store of Alois J. Kgglinger, on the first
door of No. 74, was also damaged to the amount of about
$6OO by fire and water; insured for $1,500 in Liverpool
and London Insurance Company.
lhe fast floor of No. 76 was occupied by Beardeley &
Bolton, clothing; loss, $lO,OOO The second floor was ee.
cupied by Dehr & itterhard, map coloring manatee
nacre. The third floor was occupied as a manufactory
for Laird's preparations; stock probably all lost.
The stock of various kinds in the building No. 70. and
that part of .o. 76 bordering on Rider's alley were mostly
damaged by water, although the flames had at one time
gained such a headway and had become so intense in the
latter building on the upper floors that the iron shutters
tacini on the alley were rendered red with the heat.
Captain De Camp, of the second Precinct, with a large
force of his men , was promptly on the ground after the
aleam bad been given, and during the progress of the fire
gave vsluable aid to the firemen in their efforta to over
come the flames
Going to the late hour at which the fire broke out. the
tuoint of insurance on the buildings and the stocks of
the 'serious firms who aro losers by the disaster could not
be ascertained. The probable hies on both buildings and
,tccl of all the losers will reach $50,000. The buildings
are am tied by John J. Sutton, printer, who loses about
$15.1200.
The flood in the Ohio-Condition of
the River at Cincinnati.
[From the Cincinnati Gazette of March 30.]
We arejnst now having aepecimen of the spring rise of
the Ohio river. The heavens have poured forte their
raise till the channels of the river had no room for them,
and have spread their waters over the adjacent plains',
&letting many a town and village on its fair banks. At
the present writing for hundreds of miles along its shores
parlor floors are covered with its waters, and the news
Item above is anxiously looked for to learn whether the
stores of furniture and household geode up stairs shall be
removed to higher quarters. During the past week at
hesehomee there were busy scenes of preparation for the
floc/4ot whose approach the daily papers and telegraph
gave learning.
Now boats are traversing the streets of many a village.
Storehouses_, school houses, churches, halls, and the extra
room of neithborn are occupied. But the rivers above
are falling, and the prospect now is, that if It does sot
rain heavily at once at the sources of the floods, the
present stream will soon be within banks, and the ifACQH
vebies re from title watery visit will diaappear,
he eteree from Main to Walnut it has taken possession
of, and below the Fifth street terry It has filled cellars in
great numbers, and is menacing others. All along the le
vee from Broadway to Its lower termination, rooms and
cellars are invaded or threatened. 'Steamers are put to a
great inconvenience in discharging their freight, while
drays snd wagons are finding a thorough dismal swamp
all along the lap ding, Mill Creek Is in receipt of heavy
depogV from the golden waters.
Not much damage hail, as set. been effected. and in
case of no further rise. not much damage is likely to be
done. The rivers in the eltate generally have been up
am doing theast week. Thousands are affected more
or fees by the fr p eshets, and all directly or Indirectly con.
c erned. W ill be glad to see the waters recede.
Destructive Fire Ju,Chicisko—Exten
sive 011 Works Burned. -
(From the Chicago Journal. March *1
The extensive linseed oil worka of Mesa, a, Gould Bro
thong, situated on the rear bank toning on Charles, and
beta eel Van Buren and Benison Weiler, in the West
Divisiou, were deatroyed by firs about two o'clock yea.
terd.iy Morning, . _
The Wilding was three dories in Wahl. 974 feet tons
and 74 feet wide. The ,western half was constructed of
atone aid the remainder of wood, The (=Unto emulated
chiefly el 6013 barrels of oil, 40 tons of putty. %OM bushels
wae- ai d 4°blair..l..Trifit ulltl)eigrilliet7 coat
about
or not it to a totil font '4 l oW'Protollra ales%
valued t 4110,000,11 ad Put bma Latrodocqui into the astab
lhtunen and WWI unilusuradi it wad the rim= of the
firm to p filt re la.: a taw ,2 , a ivoacity f t r d
the re sip We, Or lums pew 1,00,r, aela or sod ,
day. la *OP. Om to a V a,ter., of..luek ii
k
The lt o Imo ase If l l t,. . a_ red 'WM rated
for *al au amblesam 1 at aiding, lad VOW
oa stele dielpil 1,11104 e l 11 l'uk T 4 epaulet 1e 'doled
among forty-one companle o, four Chicago companion only
in that number being interested to the total of tAll 500.
Nothing definite has twen learned as to the origin of the
fire, but suspicions are entertained that it waa trio work
of some malicious incendiary.
The New Napoleonic Pamphlet—The
. Claims oil the Ss insole on In Dynasty.
(Paris Correspondence of the London Standard,March 18.1
The pamphlet entitled "The Claims of the: Napoleonic
Dyneety,"which was heralded by such a tigerish of semi.
official trumpets ' has appeared today and has uttisly
disappointed the expectations it bad raised. Though the
report of its being duo to the Finpet ore pen has not been
contradicted. I am inclined to think that it cannot be cor
rect it quotes a good many 'of the Emperor's old speeches
in extents), bet the only part of it which its new lacks that
clearne n, terseness, and nerve which are such charac
terietic features of the Emperor's style. However that
may be, here is an account of it.
The pamphlet is a smell quarto of 76 pages, and bears
on the corner, by way of *motto. the mystical adage—
Vox populi, vox Dn—an adage which. Is conveniently
elastic, and which, •as the Temps pointedly remark., fa
more ancient than respectable. There is hardly a cause
which has not been outplayed to Justify the attempts to
reconcile two things which are hardly minsietent, the
"right divine" and "universal suffrage." Atter this
motto cornea a preamble which has the advantage o.
being short:
"We have had the idea of collecting in one publication
the various manifestations of the national will which,
under the two Republics and the two Empires, have
founded the Napoleonic Dynasty. It has teemed to us
that from this parallel, curious for history. , a great politi.
cal lesson might be derived."
The pamphlet is divided into two parts, respective/
entitled "Napoleon and "Napoleon III." Each mar
aeratea the various acts by which the first and third
Napoleons raised themselves to the Imperial purple.
Part I, is largely made up by quotations from M. Thiers's
"History of the Consulate.' In Part IL the comments
areiluo to the author himself. Respecting the lid of De
cember. he says:
'People have not forgotten the state of the public mind
at the closes of the year 1851, which is the date of a new
era for France. At that period, while the country which
had elected Prince Louis Napoleon with such enthusiasm
was anxious to ixtrust him with its destinies, and
awaited her ears ty with him alone, the Legislative
eenibly,Sconsisting for the most part of the diterts' of old
parties, gave the wo• Id the spectacle of a passionate coa
lition, openly committing in tumultuous deliberations
against the President of the Republic. Between two
powers, both due to popular election, the people alone
could decide.. To the people Prince Louie' Napoleon ap
.
hie very brief account of the coup d'efnt is followed
by the document published at thelline, and a judicious
selection from the Presidential speeches bridges over the
twelvemonth which elapsed between the coup &clot mid
the proclamation of the Empire, 1 comment then ra
se n es. and proceeds a, follows:
"Ilse opposition to the Presidential election in 1848 had
been 1,918,541 votes; on the 30th of December, 1851, it had
declined to 641,251' votes. Against the creation of the
Empire the noes were only 283.145.
"But that which this exposition above all seta forth, is,
that eix timce within Calf a century the Napoleonic
dynasty has roc. iced the conseerstiou of eniversal suf
frage. The uncle and the nephew have gone through the
same historicill cycle: both have rescued France from
elmoe teach, three titers acclaimed, held oilier for a
limited per iod. soon prolonged, and both took their seats
On a throne which they found vacant. The Consulate
and the Presidency both merged in the Empire—a
unique spectacle in history at fifty years interval,
in spite of so many events that intervened to keep it
down. The will of the people Lite a river swallowed up
by sand, bursts forth from the lower layers of society,and
resumes its it vet se independmme and national greatness.
The plebiscite of 1853 answers as an echo to the plebiscite
of 1804. The 4,000,0 th of voters which amazed the his
toriane (of the Find Empire) increased to 8,01.3 104 and he
who was called to the throne In virtue of theconetitntiona
of the First Empire, becomes the clad of the Second,
uniting in his person hereditary with elective rights.
From 1799 to 1804 Napoleon received 10,000,00) of suffrages
eroui It4B to 1053 Napoleon received 20,000,0 W of Votes.
Thirty millions Of voting papers signed bs the French
people—those are the title-deeds of the Napoleonic
dynasty.
"There documents, we have already stated, have ap
peared to us well worthy of being collected and brought
together. We think it right to append the text of the
Constitution of 1852. At a time when that Constitution,
which formed the fundamental compact between the
people and the I:mom or, is made the target for attack
more or less open , and the objective of all the efforts of
the coalesced fragments of the Opposition, ithas appeared
to us useful to place it anew before the public, and to ro•
'call the circumstances under which it was produced.
"In the measures which followed the3d of December, it
may have been seen that the Prince President did not
confine blamed to apply to the nation 'for extraordinary
powere, with a . view to devising a remedy fora tempo
rarysitiment, but. that he set forth a whole evident of
goveruniart appropriate to the pennanentraq.
the
of the country. kte only consented to undertake the bur
den of leading the destinies of trance on the condition
that that system.reverting to the consular tradition of the
year VIII, was favor ably received by the nation. Never
was a condition more emlicitly stated, nor more unani
mously fulfilled. The principles whence the Constitu
tion is derived were, therefore, the result of a frcelrcOn
sent ed compact
"But if these bases be fixed, if they cannot be modified
without a plebiscite, the work itself involves progressive
improvements, it' is perfectible. The Emperor openly
proclaimed that fact as early as the Blot of December,lBBl,
when he said ho intended to ineurothe country to the wise
practice of liberty. Let us add, that the decree of Novena.
her 24, 186 e. and the letter of January 19,1867,have fulfilled
that promise."
In other words, "the edifice is crowned." The writer
then proceeds:
"Tbe Constitution of the 24th of January, 1831 has, it is
known, become the Constitution of the Empire. The
change effected in the form of government has resulted
in abrogating or amending several articles which were no
longer in harmony with the new state of things. It has ap
peared to us useless to point out these differences. The
intelligence of the reader will at once supply that want.
'As for modifications of another order, they axe the re
sult of nations Senates ( oroulti; and as they mark, ee to
speak, the stages of the Emperor's Government In the
liberal rath it has entered on, we will confine ourselves
to mentioning the most important and enumerating tho
great measures which have been their almost immediate
coneequence.
"We will mention (1) the act which has made public in
the papers the debater. of the Senate. and has permitted
the reproduction in, ex too by shorthand of the discos.
alone on the two Chambers: (2) the sending of ministers to
the Chambers by special delegation ,• (3) the extension to
the Corps Legislatif of the right of amendment; (4)itho
power attributed to the Senate to send back to the Corps
Legbdatif for fresh examination bills which appear to it
to be defective; (S) the voting of the budget by large sec
tions: (6) the abandonment by the Emperor of the power
of opening, in the absence Cl the Chambers. supplemen
tary or extraordinary credits; (7) the law on the liberty of
the preas:(B) the law on coalations. and (9) finally the
bill which is now before the Legislature, and whose ob.
ject la the right of meeting.
"The whole of these dispositions emanate, so to speak,
from the womb of that Constitution, which lends itself to
every movement of liberty, and which, in this respechhas
been an innovation as rdy as fruitful. To appreciate
the liberal character of this Constitatian, we have only
to compare it with the Constitutions of preceding men.
archiee."
his official publication excites the enthusiasm of the
ecmhoilitial prima:but the independent papers (especially
the A cenir Aofional and the Gazette de France) criticise
it as sharply as it is possible for a French newspaper to
criticise anything printed at the Imperial Printing office.
The Gantt, asks why the pamphlet says nothing about
1814 and 1815. Surely the "Acta Addittonel" deserves to
be ranked among the claims of the Napoleonic dynasty
far about the Constitution of the Year VIII.
The Weather for March.
B. J. L. sends us the following table of the
weather at Germantown for the month just
passed :
MARCH, 1868
'- ! I • I I
=-' I.: t: i l li 1
S k.: , a
86, :Z; 0 . .: 1 '7°, ...., Wind and Mather.
.t
'4' I ' -;?,
11.4
1 5
ks* a rr , ..N 8
ik7l 87 67 k..-4 8:1 CI
1 8120 23 i 29.5 23 6-10 E. Cloudy. Snow. 8 in.
2 1T 28 23129.4 22 N. E. Cloudy. Snow.
3 '2 8 12 30.1 17 N. W. Clear.
4 '4 10 20 30.3 25 W. Clear.
5 820 32 30.7 34 N. W. Clear.
8 17 28 42 30.7 40 S. W. Clear.
7 30 49 52 30.4 54 S. Clear.
838 45 51130.3 541 S. W. Clear.
9 33 45 31130 5 52 N. E. Clear.
10 33 47 59!30 3 60 IW. Clear. ...,,,
11 36 40 49 30.6 49 N. E. Clear.
12 27 36 89 30.4 39 IN. E. Cloudy. Rain.
13 85 41 49 29.9 49 9-10 S. W. Cloudy.
.Rain.
14 29 45 59 30. 69 S. Cloudy. Fog.
15 39 48 57 30.1 58 S. W. Clear.. Fog.
16 4Q 47 52 30.1 57 N. E. Cloudy.
17 41 47 74 30. 75 4-10 S. W. Clear. Shower, Fog.
18 45 65 09 90.2 591 N. W. Clear.
19 27 35 45 80.4 47 N. E. Clear.
90 24 34 41 80.2 41 N. E. Cloudy. Wh. Frost.
91 22 39 84 29.4 35 1 N. E. Cloudy. 14 in. Snow.
22 19 29 38 30. 41 N. W. Clear.
23 24 32 50 29.9 52 2-10 N. W. Clear. Shower,L.&T..
24 85 4056 O. 67 N. E. Clear.
25 27 88137 80.3 88 240 E. Cloudy. Snow.
20128 8648 SO 448 E. Cloudy.
21 28 3442 30.1 43. .4-10 N. E.,Cloudy.. jtaln,
5 N. S. Cloudy.
4 6 N. E. Clear.
7 I
• E. Cloudy.
63 N. E. Clear.
28 5 38 41 DO 29.
99189 48154 30.4
80 .59138143130.41
81135 43189180. 1
*Below Zero.
El=
Lowest Point.
Eight o'clock.
Twelve o,clo ,
Three o'clock
Dopth ot Bahl
—Poor Archduke Henry boa hest still farther
I t therottnnrig or „Ikoettia for marrying
Mlle; IttiFOlian. , ,'-fte' - nent .fOr c *,#ansport, but
when tri ad )* *ir e wa s mentioned Itt it,
and the 1 —:P.# 7 . o e: i3.re;euele4t the 1448 k
anther* On
MESE
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..... lK 9.10
.446 6.10
.; $ T-10 in.
F. I. FETHERSTON. Pabbsber.
PRICE THREE 0 &NTS%
reeTs AIVD WALIVMM•
--Lula describes Engetne's toilet at the epees
as a body of diamonds and a skirt of black.
—Quoin etoria proposes to visit Germany kt
the anthem.
--Chicago k,
cago improNes
—What vote ,
has—the "castle
—The grain pro it
a bountiful harvest
—A charity se ,)
plates—Judy.
—To Authors and 0
—let him have six meals .
—A monument to the co.
erected in Catania, Sicily , h
—The new letter boxes of B. I
of glass.
—Great Britain used more the • wenty thou
sand tons of sugar last year in tit. ..atinfacinee
of beer.
—A Western editor says that in s.. ,ky Bits:
burgh men kiss each other's wives, an. are able
to tell which is their own only by the t.
—An Australian lady gives public u. cet by
advertisement, that if her husband does u. turn
up in three months she means to marry aga
—Admiral Farragnt has so far recovered as
be able to leave his berth and take walking
erciee on the quarter-deck of the Franklin. s )
—The Government of the Dotainion of Canada
proposes to raise a small standing army of four
regiments and one battalion-4,600 men in all.
one not appreciate Forrest. Chi
,
*-1 taste.
c manager of a theatre always
vote.—Punch.
lects of Wisconsin indicate
lxt fall.
—Money is "tight," and the rivers are "high."
Has this anything to do with the whisky ques
tion P.—N. Y. Express.
—Col, Hiram Fuller ("Belle Britian") is editing
a paper caned "The Cosmopolitan" in London, and.
amusing himself by trying to write down Amer
lea.
—Berlin is much astonished at the performance
of a man who plays on sixteen drums with forty
eight drumsticks. His performances closely re
semble those of a Chinese knife-thrower.
—Victor Emmanuel has established an order
of the Crown of Italy. Between this and the
order of St. Maurice, Italy will soon become
more benighted than ever.—Boston Advertiser.
—A London musical paper says that by the
adaptation of Barker's system of electricity to
organs, it is possible for a performer in England
to play on au instrument situated in America.
—Three men were swallowed by sharks on the
little island of Cabras, and near to Porto Rico,
retently. The fishermen report the sharks to be
unusually daring and ferocious. In many instan
ces they have tried to upset their boats.
IN—A portrait of the prudish Meuken, taken in
conjuctien with the shy and modest Mr. Algernon
Charles Swinburne, has been leaned by the London
Stereoscopic Company, and is the occasion of
considerable comment.
—Dorothea Sapres, grand-niece of the famous
French revolutionist Murat, died the other day at
Vienna, where she had lived for the last twelve
years as lady's maid to the Baroness Daniel.
'With her decease the race becomes extinct.
—Miss Anthony's Revolution says that man
generally pops the question in an "awkward,
stammering way." The ladies who conduct that
journal mast, of course, be well Informed on this
subject.
—George Francis Train got a sumptuous sham
poo.° Iralch dollvered4o taarathin OokonekNss ,
gle, in the desk in spite of the vigilance of the
officers. A police officer tusked Mr. Train how
he got the thing into Nagle. Mr. Train, laugh
ing, replied, that he knew how to run such ma.
chines—be was none of your one-horse fellow..
—The Revolution pnbliahei the following wed
dilemma :
The hearers perplexed
'Twixt the two to determine:
"Watch and pray," says the text;
"Go to sleep," says the sermon.
—lf feushion had much in common with the
communion table, a recent order of the PdpQ
would make havoc among the Catholic milliners
and dressmakers; for he says : " Women with
extravagant heal-dresses shall in future not be
admitted to the communion."
—A dry goods clerk relates that a stylish young
lady requested to see sours lavender kid gloves,
ana was shown several different shades of that
color. Being a little puzzled by the 'variety, she
ingenuously asked, "Which of these pairs are the
lavenderest?"
—The story is told that during Mr. Buchanan's
administration an advertisement was sent to a
paper with the direction to insert "WI forbid,"
Out the order to stop never came, and that a bill
of several thousand dollars against government
has just been sent in.
—The latest discovery in the science of names
is that no candidate for President or Vice Presi
dent In whose name there occurs a capital C,—
there have been eleven ench,—was ever elected,
while the names of nine of the seventeen Presi
dents ended with an n. The moral will be evident
to all having boys to name.
—A letter, postmarked eleven years ago, ad
dressed to Miss Van Hoosen, Shodack,wasfound,
last week, by a mall agent on the Hudson River
Railroad. It had slipped into the false bottom of
the distribution table, which, with the car, had
been lnid up for several years. The owner
received the letter.
—To bave•the great organ in the Boston Music
Hall, or that in Mr. Beecher's church, played by
the agency of the Atlantic Cable would now-a
days be regarded as no more wonderful than the
laying of the cable itself. Tnat was considered
an impossibility only a few years ego.—N.T.
Post.
correspondent of an English paper pro
poses to settle the .Irish question by a plan simi
lar to that of the "marriage, fund association."
He wishes the government to offer a bounty. to
every person of Irish descent who' merries t one
of English or. Scotch ancestry, and pay a pre
mium of .£lO for every child born of such mar
riages.
—The trustees of a township In Ohio have Just
been mulct in $250 damages for refusing to re
cefve the vote of a resident citizen at a late local
election. The cause of their refusal' was curious.
The citizen's wife was an inmattrof•the insane
asylum, and these 'wiseacres decided that as man
and wife wore legally one, his domicil was in the
lunatic' asylum with her, and he was therefore
non compos. This excels Dogberry's decisions.
—Two little children in. Bent; England, aged
respectively seven and nine years, being found
in the unlawful possession of fohr hedge stakes,
were duly arrested, placed on trial, and sentenced
to imprisonment. The little ones were greatly
bewildered by the trial, and the kissing and cry
ing of their ' mammy" over them was a perfect
wonder to them. When they came to be placed
in separate cells, they set up a wall of terror
which was heard In the court-room.
—The Corporation of London have for several
years been discussing the propriet y . of pulling
down Temple ear, which is a serlou.s ImpW.lment
to travel along the overcrowded Strand. Bat
that historip structure seems 'likely to settle the
qUestlon by tumbling down of its own aterado."ll - '
huge transverse crack is now visible on its western
side, and the authorities are urged to dernolieti it
before worse happens.
—The Life of Elder Knapp, the reviValltd, is
published. In forty years he claims to hive east.
vested one hundred thousand souls, and hey
litany more is.not known,for he dropped the tally
after arriving at that flora. u 3 ,4 be made
converts at one place IA New roit *t in tha* th e
church could receive them . 'lle'. bas bvtlied
about five 'hooves& This buigastissults mute is
due to the factthet ketrilernulikr_put moot of
the work : n • AtbOr , `et hoot* of
baPtaing % PPlotrit !ak *notes ow CMS
030404. He Cot Ot ts);tivo, 51494 f In the . 0 a:
'Wagon of tki Vest dipper,' whet bid/0113
, n—one itinstrated with
v.—How to till a page
lay.—Judy.
poser Heikki Ls to be
,birtbplace.
goon aro to be made