VHE PBBBB. rVBUSBED DAILY (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED) BY tom w. JTOKHOT. omoi ire. ui south tomtit sbhi. IHi DAILY PRESS, gu nn_ u Tin Dollars PO mWKi ll v (fun o**t» ™ Wxbk payable to the Oanlu Hailed to Beb««rib*rz ont of theefty. Run mijra; tom mumm UmOm. Mt o n mortis j Tto Dollars ajh) Tfnrr*viyi SSSm B »,“JSS »«“■ tarorUblT In rinm ft* l»o»Ro4 »* D* uUI ratet IH IIW-WIEKLY PRESS, ■•iitl to iakeolbers, Inri Doluss ns Amu*. in kdvanee- - • THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1865. THIS VICTIMS AND THE ASSASSINS. [BDITORIAI. COBBKBPOHDBNOB ] Washington, May 10, 1865. .As I walked along the avenue my ’llioughts turned (how rarely they wander from it now !) to the great tragedy that has filled two continents with mourners. And as I reflected and recalled the fresh 3nd gloomy past several startling scenes Seemed to pass before me. The first was that of a room in the Presidential mansion linder the west eave of the portico—a half lighted room, with only one occupant, and She a widow. How solitary is this abode of most of our sixteen Chief Magistrates ! Jn the twenty years that I have known it have never seen it so quiet and deserted. j(o viators in the Bast Room; no crowds Waiting audience on the stairs; no busy Secretaries with full portfolios passing up Or down; no uniformed aids; no hustling clerks; no strangers for a sight of him,; no Sound of hells; and no laugh of children hanging on their mother’s robes, as she bided her time for an audience about her Sick soldier-hoy whom she wanted home that she might nurse him. All was deso late and still. Only in the half-lighted loom is there a human being. Poor lady ! For whom do you wait ? Alas, is jt not for the tall form that once walked by. your side—he who had become a blessing Jo good men; an almoner to the poor; a physician to the sick; a deliverer to the prisoner; and a pillar to a trembling Re public ? But he will come no more. As you wait and watch, and pray for his entrance into that familiar room, he sleeps the pro foundest.'of human repose, on the breezy bills of his home and yours. Millions, only Jess affected than you by this fearful stroke, jningle their tears with yours, and recall bis words, his smile, his imposing figure, as if to make more lasting and deep his illustrious memory. And what had you done, poor mourner, that this loss should b&ve fallen like a bolt from unclouded skies upon you and your two boys ? And what bad he done ? Let the terror of the incar nate fiends who began this war, and the terrible anger of the great American people ever his sacred remains, be the answer. The Second sight was that of several confined and soon to he arraigned for the deed that bas made the angels weep. As we look back to that fatal night, the tragedy seems to have been the feast of ghouls; the ban quet of tigers; the horrid butchery of an escaped maniac, who, having lost his own mind, hunted for the lives oE others. And yet they, who did this frightful murder, are made in God’s image. Look upon them! Sullen, dogged, and a few defiant; but if they aided to kill our illustrious pa triot, they cannot hill remorse. They can not even sleep; they fear that suicide •Would introduce them to tortures greater than those they now endure; and they " glance upon the face of nature, and think of the world, with the one fearful thought: they have done all they could to make both hideous. And one of these . prisoners is a woman l It is said that when her relation to the trage dy is made public it will recall some of the scenes of Tacitus, where he describes the fierceness, desperation, and persistency of ,the gentler sex, when filled with revenge and hate. Imagine one framed to minister to disease, to adorn some happy home, to be an example of her kind, consorting with bloodthirsty men, Mid, through a long pe liod of time, allowing them to meet under ber roof-tree for the purpose of consume mating their plans of massacre. A feeble •woman would be supposed to hesitate in the fulfillment of such barbarity; but this does not appear to have been ber nature. Since her incarceration, She has given no- intimation of regret or of penitence. Is it not incredible and unnatural that a conspiracy, baffling all parallel and all comprehension as to provocation, and in face of its certain ulti mate detection, should have been aided by a woman, and converted her into another Lady Macbeth ? She and her associates knew not alone that Mr. Lincoln’s murder might involve that of Mb wife and of the lady who accompanied her, but that Mr. Seward was stretched upon what was sup posed to be a dying bed, and that the effort to take his life might also tempt or farce the assassin to slay the women and even the cMldren of the household ! And the same maybe reasonably supposed, had the mur derers been able to reach the other distin guished victims marked out for sacrifice. And it was in full view of the probability of such a carnival of blood that this woman, and I fear others of her acquaintances; coolly, and even eagerly, became auxiliaries. The Secretary of War has, for prudential reasons, directed that the photographs of the men with whom she has acted should be withheld, but even if they are destroyed nothing can erase from the human mind and the human memory the picture of the Infernal orgies and deliberations of this gang, their capture, their imprisonment in dungeons where they aTe so secure as to prevent them from taking refuge in suicide, and finally their awful and most admoni tious punishment. If such wretches could feel or think like human beings they might now be tortured by the question, whether those they sought to send unprepared to lheir final account had ever done them any injury; but such a question might as readily lie put to the wild wolf as he springs upon the sleeping infant and sucka its precious blood. Turning from these doomed and remorse less beings, we next think Of the rash juadman to whom was assigned the task of striking our great Chieftain in the midst of the hour of victory, and on the very threshhold of peace. Few know where what is left of his remains have been • concealed. If it is true that his ambition was to live in undying infamy, and to rival him “ who fired the Ephesian dome that ’ he might outlive the pious fool who reared if,” that much he has at least realized. But he could not destroy the immortal fame, the unstained honor, the Christian example, the undying soul of Abraham Lincoln. If he had been selected to do the work of sending our good President to his . account in the very flush of his excellence and in the completeness of his renown, he could not have chosen a better hour. Nor could there have been a more sublime season in wMch to prove that our Repub lic could Burrive than this—the greatest and most grievous of all dispensations. But by this tragedy the affection of the people to the memory of Lincoln has been made immortal, the foundations Of the Govern ment have Men newly strengthened, and the rebellion, if possible, more effectually crushed. Last and saddest of all is the conspi cuous figure late so familiar in our streets, late so cherished and so fol lowed—even by men who had for years opposed and doubted him. After having been borne over hills and Along valleys and rivers, and through myriads of weeping and mourning friends and countrymen for hundreds of miles, it now reposes in calm and unbroken dignity In the heart of the prairies of his adopted Commonwealth. The worst of his foes even those now grimly awaiting their last Summons, cannot deny that he did not know what it was to hate ; that although his mission was one of war, his example was full of peace; that while Commander in-chief of the army and the navy of his country, he was equally the leader in every woil; of reconciliation and forgiveness, and YOL. B.—NO. 243. that he died as he had lived, in fear of God, in love of man, in devotion to Liberty, and forgiveness of all who had ever done him injury. , J. W. F. Assassination Vindicated. [From tho Washington Chronicle of yesterday. 1 The Old Guard Is a monthly journal published In New York olty, by Van Evrie, Horton, & do., Ml Nassau street, edited by 0. Ghaunoey Burr, The number for Way was prepared ror the press early In April, and was evidently printed, and probably partly circulated, before tho murder of Mr. Lincoln; for on the last page, which was evidently a blank in the original make-up, there Is a notice of tho Pro* sldent’s death, beginning as follows: “Inst as we go to press the terrible news of tbe assassination of Mr. Lincoln Is received In this olty,” Ac. TSere is strong Internal evidence that this num ber would have been suppressed as a matter of pru dence, if the assassination and Its oonsequenoe of arousing a spirit of universal Indignation had oc curred a little sooner. But it Is probable thatthe pam phlet was already In the hands of booksellers or sub scribers ; and that the expedient of inserting a hypo critical notice of the murder on the last page was the only alternative left. In the notice the editor says : •• A President, like the humblest individual In soolety, Is amenable to law for any wrong he may commit, and it is to this arbiter that we have always appealed; l And again the editor says: lf Wtlftt motive inspired him to the commission of the awful crime can ho known only toHlm whosees the hearts of all men.” * * * “ The most wo ean do Is to execrate the crime, pnnlsh Its authors, and deplore the condition or the oountry,” &e. Now the thorough hypocrisy of these lamentations will be patent to the least snsplolous mind, after reading the following extracts from tho preceding pages of the same May number of The Old Guard. Pages 232 and-233 are filled with citations from English poets, all under the common heading, “ Timely readings from the peete. 11 How appro priate this title Is, In view of tho mnrdor or Presl dent Llnooln while they wore being Issued from tho press, will be evinced by the following specimens: “ Fear no stain : A tyrant’s blood doth wash the hand that spills It.” — Cartwright's 11 Siege. 11 “ Tyrants Seldom die of a dry death; It waits at their gate, Brest in the colors of their robes of state.” — eUryu's u Henry VII. II “Tyranny Is the worßt of treason. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjectel The prince who Neglects or violates his crust Is more A brigand than the robber chief.” —Byron’s “ Two Foscari.” “ Now usurpation, that eternal slave To fear, tbe tyrant’s greater tyrant, dyes Her thlrsty'purple deep In nativ* blood ” — Jeffery's “ Edwin. ll That Mr. Llnooln was the “ tyrant ” and “ usurp er” to whom the editor Intended to apply these quotations, Is manifest from almost every page of the journal, but especially from the article entitled “ Lincoln and Maximilian,” at page 236. The fol lowing are extracts: “Mr. Lincoln wants to recognize Maximilian’s Government. It Is most important, for tbe success of his own plans in relation to the subversion of the Republican form of Government in this country, that an empire should overthrow the republic of Mexico. It Is not only Important, it may indeed be neces sary. For should tho people of Mexico suoceed In resettling the republic on a firm basis, the Austrian principle of consolidated despotism, which Lincoln is trying to fasten upon ns, would receive a death blow here. * * * » * * * “Mr. Seward’s genius for equivocating and de ceiving, lf we may not say for lying, will bo taxed to its utmost to. get an extension of time In which to lormally recognize the new empire.” The whole pamphlet abounds with treasonable sentiments. One article entitled “Massachusetts and Virginia,” runs a parallel between the histo ries of those two States, and arrives at the conclu sion that “ a government made for the oommon good at Massachusetts and Virginia, is perverted by the former Into an Instrument for Its aggrandize ment, and for tho destruction of the latter. So stands the case at this moment, and so it has stood for few years past ,- a million of lives have been sacrificed, and sir thousand millions of property destroyed, to aggran. dize Massachusetts and to ruin Virginia. ll The writer then threatens Massachusetts with “ a pun ishment, sooner or later, more awfnl than oven that which overwhelmed Sodom and Gomorrah.” ’Who can doubt. Is View Of tho evidence here pre sented, that the anthers and publishers of this monthly pamphlet Intended to encourage some bolder traitor to assassinate President Lincoln 1 If that was not the objeot, what could It havebeenfl Or was It intended to be an apology, or vindication In advance of the bloody deed) In any point of view, there was a wonderlnl coincidence of time between tbo mnrdor and the publication of tbe de fence, which is best explained by the supposition of complicity. Who can say that Booth, a vain young man, was not stimulated to tho crime he committed by tbe teachings of The Old Guard ! If Booth failed to make them his oonfldanta ho was an ungrateful pupil. . Roli o 1 Sensitiveness. [From the Hew York Times. 1 Our Government was conducted for eighty years on the principle that the great objeot of Its exist ence, ana the first duty of every gooa citizen at the North, was to keep Southerners u> good humor. To say anything that hurt their feelings, to retQSS them anything they demanded, to hint even in tne mildest manner that the free States could exist without them, that the withdrawal of their custom or countenance would not ruin everybody at the North, and bring np the grass In all our streets, came at last to be oonstdered little short of fratrici dal. The theory of the advocates of this policy was, that It was thus and only thus that brotherly feeling between the people of the two sections could be kept up, and the Union be preserved. The actual result was that the mass of the South ern people conceived for the people of the North a contempt and hatred, for which there are few, If any, parallels lnhletory. The very name of “ Yan kee” came to be a synonym in the slave States for meanness and cowardice; and by a diligent nursing of these feelings on tbe part of the leaders, the whole South worked Itself up Into the heller, first, that It was Impossible to live under the same Government with such miserable wretches, and se cond, that there would be no difficulty In breaking loose from them. Now, although we have taken In these oolnmns the strongest ground against all displays of vlndia tlveness against the Southern people, and although we would net willingly see the slightest trace o( conquest linger either In our legislation or our man ners, we have no hesitation In predicting that un less Northern generals and politicians and the Northern public make np their minds that tne “feelings” of the people In South Carolina or Vir ginia are of the same degree or respectability as those of the people In Massachusetts or Ohio, and no greater, and do not deserve and ought not to re ceive one whit more consideration, we shall never be able to live together in peace and harmony. There can be no sure and lasting foundation for union except mutual respect. If there Is to be on our Bide the old rawnlng and servility and deference, and on the side of the South the old arrogance and assumption which fawning and servility always either breeder nurse, mutual respeet oannot grow up, and we can never become in feeling, as we are In met and In law, one people. These remarks have been suggested to us by the extraordinary precaution adopted by General Sher man to save the feelings of the officers of Johnston’S army from being “ hurt,” by refusing newspaper correspondents permission to be present at the formal surrender. These Officers have, without the smallest provocation, and in defence of a cause in which the civilized world has been for very shame, lf for no better reason, oompelled to set the seal of execration, delnged this continent for four years In blood; have slain and orlppled the flower of our young men, have witnessed, lf not with approval, with perfeet indifference the ‘slow torture of unarmed prisoners, and have, during all that period, we venture to say, never put pen to paper without pouring out a Hood of abuse on this people and Government. They have protracted their resistance, too, as long as was possible. They lay down their arms now, simply and solely because the further prolongation of hos tilities would entail their total destruction. Our armies have hunted tbem down ; the people of the North have kept the ranks of these armies full; have supplied without stmt everything that the struggle called for; have fought on for lour long years In silence, under a great cloud of misrepresen tation and misconstruction, with the whole of Eu rope uniting with tbe Confederacy lu reviling and slandering them, without ever abating one jot o heart or hope. ] And new, when the long agony la over, whenthls desperate horde has been driven, to the wall, and forced, with the bayonet at their throats, to agree to go home and earn a peaceful livelihood and obey the laws, their nerves are discovered to be so ex ceedingly delicate,'their temperament so sensitive, ana their price a thing so tender, BO worthy-or our rtßpeot and consideration, that a newspaper oannot be permitted to report how they looked when they signed the capitulation, or even to describe the house In whloh It took place. And what makes this squeamishness all the more singular Is that these very men, whose surrender has to be made pleasant for them In this way,are persons for whose “feelings” Congress has had so little respect as to confiscate the property, to declare them Incapable of holding office, and who are, under the late President’s pro clamation, stripped of aU civil rights, and exposed to all the pains and penalties or treason. Can there bC anything mere maudlin than the tenderness which shrouds In mystery the surrender of his sword by a rebel whom you have already outlawed, and on the atrocity of whose orlipe the press, the pulpit, and every member of the Government, from the President down, have for years past been Inces santly ringing changes 1 We could excuse this sornpnlons deference to their pride and fastidiousness lf their surrender were really an expression of contrition. We should be sorry to advocate, for anybody’s gratification, the exposure of any penitent to the gaza of unfriendly ohtjoslty. But neither Lee nor Johnston, nor any of their effioers, have given the smallest sign of re pentance. They have never uttered one expression of regret for the breaoh of their oaths, the desertion of their colors, and their four years’ struggle to destroy the Government under which they - were born, which educated tbem, and from which they had received nothing bat Madness and considera tion. They boost to this hour that 'they give up their swords only in obedience to stern necessity, because fighting has become useless, defeat certain. Under all these circumstances, w© confess we can see in the pains taken to conceal the final evidence of the triumph of the law from the gaze of the publlo nothing bat an unworthy and unbecoming revival of the flunkeylßlU which so long disgraced ub 5 end something very like an Impertinence to the army and the people* Thu Son of Nafoleoh Sebiks Life —lt ap. pears that the Prince Imperial made an appeal to the Empress on the subject of his state drives, and remonstrated on being sent out in a olosh oarrlage, preceded by outriders and escorted by half a sqnad rot of oavalry, and begged so hard to bo allowed to walk about with his tntor andseetomethlng ol com mon life that the Empress sent for Id. Monnler and communicated to him her acquiescence In the boy’s wish, begging of him to take him out occasionally to walk in thestreets. The latter refused to under take the responsibility without the special permis sion of the Emperor. An audlenoe was demanded. His Majesty discussed the subject with M. Monnler, and terminated by “ Faites ce que votis t muirez je me fie a voire discrlMai " The result 18 that tne Prince has enjoyed several walks, or rather runs, as not. withstanding the remonstrances of his tutor, he scampers about at a most undignified pace. Yes terday he saw a dog attacking a poor little girl. The Prince beat the dog off, who lostantlv flew at him; be however fought him off gallantlv, and on perceiving the terror of bis tutor said, “ Votis eves ctv que<jene vouvats pas lui tenir tele, vows,” The first time he went out to walk he dived Into a circle of gamine, and seized a baby, which was the central object of the group, kissing Its mud-begrimmed face as if he had never seen an 3 thing so attractive. The boy Is a fine, manly fellow, and might easily be mis taken for an English schoolboy. He rides capital ly, and takes a lance as well as any boy of Us age could.— London Star, Napoleon’s “ Life of Caesar.”” One of the most remarkable incidents in modern literature is the appearance of Napoleon as the biographer of Julius Coesar. That such a man should find or make time to write a great book, amid the daily and heavy labor of governing the great Empire of France, far more sur prising than that he should have chosen such a subject as the life of Cmsar. Truly did Shakspere speak of him as “ The foremost man of all this world.” De Quincey, who describes Julius Caesar as the “ one godlike man,” says “. without Csesar, we afflrm a thousand times that there would have been no perfect Rome ; and but for Rome, there could have been no such man as Closer." Why, it may be asked, should Napoleon have chosen to write the life of Caesar in stead of that of his own uncle? Why become the biographer of him who founded the Roman rather than of him who founded the I r.nch empire ? The reply is easy— we live too near the time of the great Na poleon to sit upon hie actions with unpre judiced minds. To a certain extent, in nearly every biography, “ ’Tie distance lends enchantment to the view.” There must be haste, and there will pro bably be a want of justice, and full infor mation, in the life of a great man who has but recently been among us—particularly of one whose life, as warrior, orator, juris consult, author, legislator, and ruler, placed him upon an eminence where all peoples, and all ages must observe him. Napo leon’s history has yet to he written, per haps in the coming century, and Caesar’s, though often attempted, has not had full justice rendered to it until now. The principal ancient materials for the life of Csesar arc to bo found in his own Commentaries, (which are biographical, though written in the third person, like Sully’s own Memoirs,) and in the writings of Appian of Alexandria; in the “ ParaJlet Lives” of Plutarch; in the “Lives of the Caesars,” by Suetonius, private Secretary to .the Emperor Hadrian; and in the records left by Dion Crassue, who must not be con founded with Dion, the disciple and friend of Plato long previous to the appearance of “ the first, bald Csesar,” and in some letters by Cicero. The reader of Napoleon’s “ Life of Csesar,” in the English translation, who desixs some pre-knowledge of the subject, can be at no loss. Plutarch, which has been adopted aB a standard clastic in Eng--, land and America, is always accessible, The late Thomas De Quincey’s characters of “ The Csesars,” are to be found in the re print of his works published by Tieknor & Fields. And, later still, the first and second volumes of the “History of the Romans under the ‘ Empire,” in seven vo lumes, lately republished here by D. Ap pleton & Co., are entirely devoted to Ro man history from the period of the first Triumvirate to the death of Julius Caesar, and, indeed, is rather a biography of Caesar than a history of Rome. It is to be observed that the Rev. Charles Men vale, who holds the high position of Chaplain to the House of Com mons in England, and is one of the most rising as well as able ministers of the Church of England, not only devotes two fifths of his entire history to Julius Cse3ar, hut, all through, speaks of him in terms of even higher eulogy than are to be found in the first volume of Ms Life by Napoleon. The best summary of Caesar’s life, in French, is given in the ninth volume of the NouvelU Biographic Unvmrsdlt, now in course of publication by Messrs.. Didot, of Paris. Napoleon has been occupied some years in writing the “ Histoire de Jules Cesar,” of which two editions, in French and English, are before us : —we should rather say, the first volume, or one-fourth of the whole work. The Preface is signed “ Napoleon,” and its date is ” Palace of the Tuileries, March 20th, 1862” the anniversary of the day on which, forty-seven years before, the great Na poleon had re-entered that very palace, on his triumphant return from Elba. If all accounts are to be believed, seldom has more care been bestowed upon a lite rary composition. The author’s agents are said to have been busy in all great libra ries ; his antiquarian emissaries have visited the countries he had to describe; Ministers of State have corrected the proof-sheets; translations into ten languages have been executed in advance of publication under the author’s own surveillance ; and, to crown all, it is a model of elegance and beauty, with its delicately ornamented bind ing and its luxurious type and paper. The edition in English, specially pub lished by Harper & Brothers, with imperial authorization, is of octavo size, is bound in green and £old, and contains pp. xvi and 463. The type is a model of clearness, and we have not detected a single error of the press. The edition in French, published by D. Appleton & Co., con tains 396 pages, post octavo (to match, with Merivale’s great work, already mentioned), and both volumes have, as the frontispiece, the engraved portraitof Cmsar, drawn by Ingres. The engraving in the French edition is executed with more force and depth than the other. In the French volume, too, we find several maps illustra ting the text, which will be delivered in an Atlas, to be supplied, without charge, to the purchasers ot the English copy. These maps respectively show the Roman terri tory, and the States under Boman domina tion, and the countries in alliance with Rome, at the expulsion of the Tarquins— -510 years before Christ, and in the 244th year of the building of the city; ancient Italy; the basin of the Mediterranean, and the country round the island now called Peniche de Cima, then an island, about twenty-five leagues irom Lisbon, but now a peninsula attached to the continent, where, while Propraetor in Hispania Ulte rior, Csesar achieved the great victory over the Barbarians, which was the first step to his rendering the whole of Lusitania tribu tary to Rome—a conquest for which the Senate voted him a triumph, on which, in the year following, he claimed the Consul ship, and, having made an alliance with Pompey and Crassus (in the 094th year of the city), was elected. On the portrait of Csesar, in these vol umes, a few words may be said. Napoleon has been accused of having employed M. Ingres, now one of the oldest as well as most celebrated of living French painters, “to manufacture a portrait of Caesar which would closely resemble that of the first Napoleon.” The portrait, it must be confessed, does greatly resemble that great man, but the ” manufacture,” if any, was made long ago—probably before Napoleon 111. had written one line of his life of Csesar. As far back as 1853, M. Ea gres had painted a large picture for the ceiling of the Hotel de Yille, at Paris, en. ■ itled the 41 Apotheosjs of Napoleon 1.," which was considered too good for its des ination, and was removed to St. Cloud. In this, the similitude between the features of t-iesar and the first Napoleon wasevident to -very one who saw it. Besides, and, We eat a this from the pages of Merivale, ‘the appearance of Ctesar, at least in youth, was remarkably handsome, and of a leiicate and almost feminine character.” He had dark piercing eyes, a nose slightly iquiline, HO beard, and scanty hair. His ousts represent him with a long, thin face, t forehead rather high than capacious, fur rowed with strong lines, hut his medals show a fuller and more handsome face, with Napoleon’s nose and underjaw, the ‘History of Julias Csesar. Vol. 1, pp. xvland 464 octavo New York; Harper & Brottters. Histoire fie Jules Cesar. Par S. M. I, Napo leon 111. Tome Premier, pp. 39e post Svo. Now York; D. Appleton et Cle, Xlbrarlroa —Edltears. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1865. firmness of the latter being relieved by the winning beauty of his mouth, which also made Napoleon’s smile so remarkably ex pressive and gentle. In short, the medals of Csesar nearly present a facsimile of the features of Napoleon, more especially aSs shown in the picture, by Gerard, of the laurel-crowned soldier of fortune, in his co ronation robes. The resemblance between the two great men, so observable in the portrait given in this work, can be traced in the medals of both. With what purpose did Louis Napoleon become the biographer of Csesar ? The subject, of itself, naturally presented at tractions to a writer who is the nephew and successor of a yet greater man than the Roman. confesses, with great frank ness, “My object in writing this history is to prove that when Providence raises up such men'as Csesar, Charlemagne, or Na poleon, it is to trace out to the nations the path they ought to follow, to mark with the impress of their genius a new era, and to accomplish in a few years the labor of several centuries. Happy the people who understand and obey them ! Woe to those who disregard and oppose them ? They act like the Jews, they crucify their Messiah !” There is no ambiguity here. Napoleon enters the lists of scholarship and history to defend autocratic power— to justify modern autocracies by one of early date—to make an apotheosis of Na poleon under shelter of Julius Csesar. The • portrait itself seems to say that the two he roes, besides a certain personal resem blance, were alike in mission, mind, and genius, and the imperial author writes to show that both were providential instru ments of human destiny, and the Messiahs of society—leaving his readers to infer that the reversion of the demonstration was to be given to himself. But Louis Napoleon was not the first to remark how much the character and the actions of the two great men—the antique Roman and the modern Frenchman—were alike. In Bchlosser’s “ Universal History” the parallel is boldly and ingeniously drawn, and it has since been noticed that what Au gustus was to Ca;sar Louis Napoleon is to his uncle. The wonderful improvements of Paris remind us of those of Rome, and those who recollect Paris thirty years ago and contrast it with what it is now cannot help thinking that the compliment paid to Augustus (he found Rome brick and he left it marble) is strongly applicable to the reigning Emperor, who has converted his capital into the most splendid city in the world. This “Life of Cresar” is the greatest homage to the force of thought and the suffrages of education ever yet paid. This appeal should not have been received, in any country, with contempt or scorn, least of all here, where, perhaps, intellect is more generally distributed than in any other land. It was with great pain, there fore, that we lately read, in a notice of this work, from the pen of one of our most ac complished critics, a mean reference to its author as one who had “leaped; from lodgings in Leicester Square to the Tiiile ries a statement untrue in feet and false in 'principle, Louis Napoleon never was a lodger in Leicester Square • before the ludicrous descent on Boulogne, he lived, en prince, in a stately mansion in Carlton House Terrace, quite close to Lord Palm erston’s residence at the time,- and after his escape from Ham, in 1846, until his de parture for Paris, in 1848, he had a bijou of a .house, in Charles street, St. James’s, which was furnished with splendor as well as taste, and had only the fault of being somewhat crowded with fine sculpture and exquisite paintings. His associates, during his residence in London, were men of rank, family, and wealth; and, in reply to the oft-repeated taunt that “he served as a special constable iu London,” during the Chartist emtule of April, 1848, the truth is, he was sworn in to defend the capital at a moment when the public mind was much excited and needlessly alarmed, and the same “squad” to which he belonged on that memorable 10th of April included the Dukes of Buccleugh aud Argyle, the Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Forester, and some twoscore of peerß and commoners who had seats in Parliament. Even if he had been so poor in his exile as to have occupied a lodging in Leicester Square, is it a fair TepToach'now that he is the most powerful monarch in Europe ? If it is, let his critic remember that when the present King of the Belgians, then Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, had the good fortune first to find favor in the eyes of the Princess Charlotte of "Wales, his whole patrimony was only $1,500 a year, and he occupied two small rooms, in a bye-street off Regent Quadrant, for which he paid about three dollars a week. In this country, where we take a just pride in buying our ransom— “ From those twin gaolors of tho dating past— Low Birth and iron Fortune.” it seems out of place to taunt any man who has risen with having been poor, and worse still if the taunt have. small foundation in fact. Cfosar was born exactly 100 years before the commencement of tlie Christian era, or in the 654th year from the building of Rome. He died, 44 years B. C., in his 56th year. The volume before us to the exile of Cicero, under a law brought forward direct ly to aim at his life, by Clodius the Tri bune. At this time, Coesar was little more than forty years old,. and, though powerful and popular, had not become the great man into which circumstance and time matured him. Of his life, there fore, this volume gives comparatively lit tle, though it traces him from youth to manhood. It was necessary, for the bet ter understanding of his career, that his life should.’ be prefaced by a resume of Roman history; and this, forming Book 1., occupies nearly three-fifths of the volume. In six chapters the following subjects are treated: 1. Rome under the Kings; 2. Establishment of the Consular Republic; 3. Conquest of Italy; 4. Prosperity of the Basin of the Mediterranean before the Punic'Wars; 5. Punic Wars and Wars of Macedonia and Asia; 6. The Gracchi, Marius, and Sylia. These chapters fill 278 pages, and are followed by the be ginning, in five chapters, of the biography proper of Ctesar himself—-ending with his departure for his first campaign in Gaul, about the time that Cicero, .having de clined his friendly overtures, was driven into exile. On comparison of Merivale and Louis Napoleon, we find that the former gives more space than the latter to the early career of Ofesar; but this may be accounted for by the fact that Merivale was writing history, not biography. The leading characteristics of the “Life of Csesar ” are sweep of view and style of narrative, large generalization and subtle definition, elegant scholarship and labori ous research. Had it been written by an unknown man, it must have attracted at tention and won admiration—and this, though we have only a part of the work, which will fill four volumes. Theauthor’s own style, as exhibited in former works, imperial speeches, and state documents, is readily recognizable. He has had aid, no doubt, in the collection of materials, but the work is emphatically his own. We have little space for extracts, hut here is a passage, to which the echoes of Magenta an£ Mexico were probably de signed to ring. He relates (from Livy) how, at the Isthmean games, a Homan he rald proclaimed the restitution of their rights and laws to the happy Greeks : “ The herald is recalled, each mas burning, not only to bear, but to see the messenger or such good tews; be reads the decree a saeond time. Then, no longer able to doubt their happiness, they uttered cries of joy, and bestowed on their liberator suoh loud and repeated applause as make It easy to see that, of all good, liberty is that which has most oharm for the multitude. Then the games were celebrated, but hastily, and without attracting the looks or tbe attention of the spectators. One In terest alone absorbed their souls, and took from them the feeling of every other pleasure. The games ended, tbe people rush towards .the Roman general; everybody is anxious to greet him, to take his hand, to oast before him erowns of flow ers and of ribbotss, and tbe crowd was so great that he wag almost suffocated. He was but thirty tkree yean of age, and tho vigor of Ufa joined with the lntoxloatfon of a glory so dazzling, gave him strength, to bear up against suoh a trial. The joy of the peoples was not eonflned to the enthusiasm of the moment; the impression was kept up long afterwards In their thoughts and speech. ‘There was then,’ they said, ‘one nation upon earth whloh, at Its own ooßt, at the price of fatigues and perils, made war for tho liberty of peoples even though re moved from their frontiers and oonttnent; this na tion orossed tho seas, In order that there should not be In the whole world one single unjust Govern ment, and that right, equity, and law should be everywhere dominant, Tho voice of a herald had been sufficient to restore freedom to all the cities of Greece and Asia. The idea oloneof suoh a design supposed a rare greatness of soul; but to exeoute it needed as muoh oourage as fortune.’ ” The conclusion of the First Book will be taken, no doubt, as the author's defensive assertion that France, after the Revolutions 0f1789 and of 1848, required the ruler which she had and has: “ The history of the last fifty years, and especially the dictatorship of Sylla, show beyond doubt that Italy demanded a master. Everywhere Institutions gave way before the power of an Individual, sus tained not only by his own partisans, but also by the Irresolute multitude, which, fatigued by the ac tion and reaction of so many opposite parties, as pired to order and repose. If the oonductof Sylla had been moderated, what Is oailed the Empire would probably have commenced with him; but his power was so cruel and so par tial, that, after his,death the abuses of liberty were forgotten In the memory of abases of tyranny. The more the democratic spirit had ex panded, the more the anolent institutions lost their prestige. In fact, as democracy, trusting and passionate, believes always that its Interests are better represented by ah Individual than by a po litical body, It was Incessantly disposed to deliver Its future to the man who raised himself above others by his own merit. The Gracchi, Marius, aud Sylla, had In turn disposed at will of the destinies ot the Republla, and trampled under foot with Im punity ancient Institutions and anolentoustoms; but their reign was ephemeral, for they only represented faotlons. insteadof embraolngcoUeotlvely the hopes and Interests of all the peninsnlaof Italy, they fa vored exclusively particular olassefl of soolety. Some sought before all to secure the prosperity of the prole taries of Rome, or the emancipation ol the Itaiiotes, or the preponderance of the knights; others, the privileges of the aristocracy- They failed. To establish a durable order of things there wanted a r. un who, raising himself above vulgar passions, ' Should unite In htmselt the essential qualities and justtdessof each of his predecessors, avoiding their laults as well as their errors. To the greatness of sonl and love of the people of oertaln tribunes, It was needful to join the military genius of great generals and the strong sentiments of the Dictator In favor of order and the hierarchy. Tho man cspable of so lofty a mission already existed; but, perhaps, In spite of his name, he might have still remained long unknown if the penetrating eye of Sylla had not discovered him in the midst of the orowd, and, by persecution, pointed him out to pub lic attention. That man was Cmsar.” Plutarch, it will be remembered, as well as other ancient writers, held, with the most thoughtful of the Romans, that “ the dis orders of the body politic required the es tablishment of monarchy, and that Csesar was sent by Providence, as the mildest physician, for its conservatism.” Seneca, Livy, Fiorus, and the epitomizer of Tro gUS have expressed a like opinion. No wonder that Louis Napoleon should notice how parallel the events were with those' wMch created and restored the French empire! The present volume comes down to the year 58 B. C. There remain to be nar rated "Csesar’s numerous Gallic Cam paigns, his invasion and conquest of Bri tain, (wMch country he twice visited,) his return to Rome and enmity with Pompey, his difficulties with the Senate, his inva sion of Italy and crossing the Rubicon, his- successes, his repeated dictatorships, his war with the Pompeians in Spain, his expedition to Greece, his defeat of Pom pey at Pharsalia, his interference in the affairs of Egypt, his seduction by Cleopa tra, Ms campaign in Africa, his celebra tion of four triumphs at Rome, his reform of the Calendar, his five consulates, his final appointment as dictator for life, and his assassination. Much will have to be told, and we an ticipate that not the least interesting part of the coming biography will be that, in which the author will have to treat of Ccesar’s intellectual capacity and acquirements. “He was great,” Drumaun says, “in everything he undertook ; as a captain, a statesman, a law-giver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a grammarian, a mathematician, and an architect.” Pliny expressly praises the unparalleled energy of his intellectual powers. "We have de livered a general opinion upon tMs work, instead of making large quotations. But the truth is, it is destined to be in the hands of all readers, ere long, (cheap editions of the work, in French and English, are ad vertised,) and there was no occasion for filling our columns with extracts. The “ Life of Csesar” is well worthy of study. The Atlantic Telegraph Cable. The work connected with the equipment and pre paration of the Great Easters steamship for laying down the Atlantia telegraph cable between this country and America during the approaching sum mer Is being carried on In the most expeditious manner at the vessel’s moorings, Saltpan-reach, be tween Chatham and Sheerness. Already consider . ably more than 1,000 miles of the cable have been placed on board, the total length deposited in the tanks constructed between the decks for the reeeptlen of the cable up to Satnrday evening being 1,210' statnte miles, rather more than hair the quantity Intended to be shipped. The total length of cable required to stretch from the starting point in Ireland to tho spot where It is intended to land on the American side Is exactly 2 263 miles; but, according to present arrangements, It is Intended to place at least 2,400 miles on board, the few additional hundred miles’ length being al lowed for “ slack,” the action of ourrents, and other such like contingencies. The smallest of the three monster tanks In which the eable Is deposited when received on board the Great Eastern—that In the forward part of the ship—is now full, the total le agth stowed away within It being exactly 033 miles. Tho largest ofthe tanks—that in the after part of the vessel—ls Intended to receive between 800 and 900 miles of the cable, and already a total quantity of 620 miles has been deposited in It, the suing of this tank being temporarily suspended te admit of the third, or midship tank, which Is constructed to'hold about $2O mUes, being proceeded with. The returns on Saturday evening gave a length of slxty two miles as deposited in the last of tho three tanks. During the time the eable Is on board It is kept submerged, the tanks, for this purpose, being always Sited with water. Electri cians are constantly employed on board In a portion of the Great Eastern appropriated for their accom modation. and by moans of the most sensitive and delicate lnetrnments every portion of tho cable Is subjected to the most careful and rigid tests, as It Is received from the hulks and deposited In the tanks, In order that' the most triflng defect may be dis covered. Up to tbe present time, however, not the slightest break or law In the whole of the 1,200 miles’ length of cable baa been deteoted, notwith standing that during every minute of the day a con stant current of electricity is passing through the colls, and there is little doubt, therefore, that, so far as Its electric capabilities are concerned, the cable will leave this country in the highest possible state of periectlon, and, with the Improved Instruments In tended to be used, capable of transmitting messages between this country and Amerloa at the rate of 12 words per minute, or more than doable the number which could be forced through the old Atlantia tele graph cable. The rate at wnloh the cable has been shipped on board has varied from 20 to 30 miles per day,andltis calculated that.provldlngnodelay takes place at the works of Messrs. Glass, Elliott, & Go., of Mordenwharf, Greenwich, where tbe cable Is manufactured at the rate of ODC hundred miles per week, the entire quantity Will be shipped by the first week In done, and the Great Eastern ready to take diet departure towards the latter end of the same month, eo as to fall In with the best possible weather to be met with In the Atlantic. Although the construction of the tanks Is complete, a numer rous body or mechanics and workmen are employed on board in strengthening the ship by means of a system of knees, butts, and deck-beams, so as to support the additional dead weight of the oable, and to overcome the lateral 'pressure of the mass by confining its dead weight to the oentre of the Ship, find thus to lessen as mush as posslbletheroll ing propensity of the Great Eastern When at sea with tbe three tanks filled with the eable and water. The weight of the new Atlantia oable Is nearly double that of the one originally laid, the welgbt.of the entire insulation of the oable submerged In 1868 being 261 8, per nautical mile, while that of the new oable Is 100 ft per ns ntloal mile. The weight of the new oa ble In air Is 36 ewt. 3 qrs. per nautical mile, and In water 14 ewt. per knot, or equal to 11 times its weight in water per knot; or, In other words, It will bear Its own weight In 11 miles depth of water. The orl gtnal Atlantlo telegraph oable weighed but 20 owt. I per mile In the air, and rather more than 13 owt. per nautical mile In water, whloh would be equal to 486 times Its weight In water per knot. In the cable now In course of shipment the breaking strength Is 7 tons 16 owt., while the breaking strength of the first laid oable was only 3 }z tons, and the contract strain equal to 4 88 Its weight per knot In water. The contraot strain of the new oable is equal to 11 times Its weight per mile in water, or more than double the strength of the cable first laid between this country and America. The whole ofthe arrangements connected with the ship ment of the oable, and, Indeed, with the equipment and preparation of the Great Eastern, are most ably oamed out by Mr. Canning, the company's engineer, who has had the great advantage of being similarly engaged on the occasion of the first Atlan tic eable being submerged. The Great Eastern has commenced shipping her coals, about 2,000 tons ot tie 8,000 she win reqaireHhavlng been already re ceived on board. The restrictions as to the admis sion of visitors have recently been removed, and the publloarenow admitted to Inspect the great ship and witness the operation of shipping the Atlantlo cable onboard.— London Times. The Beshlts o» Too Much Hospitality.— Some weeks since a vagrant stranger, travelling through Carlisle, called at a house, wlßhlng to get lodgings for the night, hut was sent to the town almsbonee, where he stopped only one night, sleep ing in a room with one of the lnmateß. it Is cus tomary in the oountry towns generally to send snoh stragglers for temporary lodgings and food to the almshouses j and, tn the vicinity of Boston, an alms house Is kept In many places, so that the permanent Inmates are not exposed. As a result of this night's lodging at Carlisle ten ont of the twelve members of the family have had the small-pox or varioloid, and tbe remaining two may yet oome down with it. Among the oldeetlnhabltaots of the country already dead with it are a Mrs. Green, at the age of ninety three, and Mr. Bobbins and wile, both aged abont eighty.— Mastachuutts paper. RICHMOND. Bebel Detectives Arrested by the Pro vest Guard—The Different (Hasses at the Spottswoed House—A Strange In cident. [Special Correspondence of The Press.) Richmond, May 9,1865. ABBHST 09 BBBBL DBTBOTIVBB. Yesterday the provost guard made a descent upon the Spotswooa Hotel, and arrested Joseph G. Connor, a detective In the rebel service, who, under Federal rule, has been doing a rushing business In levying black mall, and his oomrade, F. w. Roberts, of tbe English ’suasion. Roberts claims to be In her Majesty’s servloe; that he la unjustly restrained of his liberty, and threatens the military authorities with the growl of the British lion. He has taken rooms In castle Thunder, while Connor Is furnished with aooommodetlons In Libby. THBBPOTBWOOD HOTEL. The Spotswood Hotel Is at present the largest plaoe open for the accommodation of the publlo. It Is the resort of the two extremes of soolety—gentle men, fashionable loafers, broken-down ohlvalry, Union officers, rebel chieftains, eminent visitors, thieves, gamblers, and every possible phase of soole ty, are seen thronging in jostling confusion the iron l and Inside of this public honse. The post offioe be ing under the hotel gives additional Ufo to the ani mating spectacle that is witnessed throughout tho day. AN mOIDBNT. Among the interesting ffieldenta which are being related In connection with tbe evacuation of this city, is one whloh may he worthy of consideration among the medical faculty. A colored girl, whose sight had long been defective, became blind about live months ago, and continued so until the terrible explosion of the magazine in this olty, whloh seemed to shake ereatlon. Recovering herself almost Im mediately from her fright, she exclaimed, “ Mother, I can see.” I have conversed with the person, and have been assured by her that her sight since that memorable morning has been wonderrully Im proved, though her eyes bear evidence of being de fective. ABBBBT 07 TWO OOTTBIBBS. Nandosan and Barrows, two couriers of the 89th New York, were arrested yesterday for burglari ously entering the Press Bureau and appropriating some articles to their own use. The property has cot been discovered, bnt sufficient proof has been adduced to deem their Incarceration a publlo bene fit. Koz-lin. East Ihdiaw Makcvaotubes.—The London Atba.ccum has the following: “In order to exhibit to menuiaotureiß. and especially the cotton manu facturers, the wants of our Indian people, Govern ment has oollected, at great expense and with muoh trouble, specimens of all the most characteristic, useful, and oostlj of the native manufactures In cot ton, silk, and wool. Not only does the collection of these specimens represent every class of fabric now dianufaetured and worn In India, but It exemplifies the characteristic art ef tbe people of the East In decorating the materials with those admirable pat terns and oolors which are the Inheritance of their race. These patterns and colors are enjoyed by the people; and it will be hopeless to attempt to rival them without an equal knowledge, not only of the mechanical processes of manufacturing the material and oopy lng the patterns, bat also of the reeling for art whloh Inspires that decoration. It Is leit that, as wo buy an eni rmous quantity of cotton and silk from India, while the people there only take Oulllon from ns In exchange, the balance of trade Is against us, and that our manufactures would secure an am ple peui if they could enter the Indian market with textile fabrics fit for native use, and decorated in accordance with native tastes. In order, therefore, to enable English manufacturers to study the de mands of the Indian market, the oolleotlon of tex tile fabrics and patterns above referred to, whloh contains twenty specimens of each sort, has been divided Into twenty complete sets; the objects have been placed In volumes, eaeb sot amounting to eighteen substantial folios, comprising about seven hundred examples. These sets of eighteen folios eaoh are to bo distributed to the leading seats of manufacture In this country, and deposited In the Chambers of Commerce In those' localities, where they may be ooneulted by those desirous of Informa tion.” A Calwobnian Tabtak.—lt seems that San Francisco has been captured by a Lama; a verita ble medlolne-man from Tartary, who heals all man ner of diseases by the system of "practice sc amus ingly described by the good Father Hue In hts oharmlng “ Travels through Tartary, Thibet, and China. ” The office ol this Oriental sage, we are informed, Is crowded all day, and the cures which he has already effected are carrying his fame throughout Eldorado, and moving tne regular faculty to the most Intense Indignation. The lead lug peculiarity of this Lama.treatment seems to be that tbe physician frets bath pulses Of his patient at once. As the Abbe Hno desorlbes It, *■ he takes the patient’s wrists In his two hands, and passes his fingers over the arteries very much as a musi cian passees his fingers over the strings of a guitar.” According to the Abbe, the Lama proceeds, after this, on the theory that all diseases are evidence of demonism. Ho ad ministered! purely vegetable specifics to expel the “ Tchutgonr,” or devil, from the parts afflicted. These are given in the form of pills. But the La mas have as large a faith In paper eurrency as Mr. Chase, and it their pills give out they roll up small balls of paper on wbloh they have written the name 01, the desired remedy, ana give these to tho suf ferer. 'Whether San Francisco, whloh has refused to swallow onr greenback currency for gold dollars, takes the Lamanlst paper pellets any more kindly, does not yet appear. Forthe sake of the Lama and his profits we hope It may; and we dare say the beneficial results to the patient will bs much the same. One strong evidence of good sense whtoh the Lamas give Is, that they take much more palas with rich patients than with poor ones. Indeed, the Abbe line’s account would seem to Imply that the Lamas are almost 08 enlightened on this point as If they had takes their diplomas at Paris or Edin burgh. “If the patient Is rioh in fioaks and herds,” cays the Abbe, “the evidence Is plain that the Tchutgour which torments him is a demon of great rank, who cannot be expected to leave unless he is properly accoutred with fine clothes, a handsome pair of hoots, andavlgorous young horse.’’ “ Infaot,” he adds, “ the number of horses demanded for the devil and his retinue Is limited only by the wealth of the patient.” That the Lama of San Franclsoo Is extremely popular and greatly sought after we have on the best authority; but we wait with some curiosity to learn whether he has acquired [enough knowledge of the country to graduate his diagnosis of disease by the soale of his patient's Investments in “Gould and Curry,” “Ophli,”or “Yellow Jaok et.” Possibly the very best way of dlmlntshtngdls eaae Is thus to make It a luxury, In which only the very rich can Indulge. It Is an odd thing, even In cur age and land of .oddities, to see a doctor from Thibet praotiolng Laman medlolno In an American olty; but when we look at the matter dispassion ately, we may come, perhaps, to the conclusion that the difference between the dootor who feels two pulses In San Francisco, and a great many doctors who feel one pulse In New York or Boston, Is rather a difference of details than of principles. “ Scratch a Husßlan,” said the Marquis de Custine. “ and you win find a Tartar.” If we-soratoh our Californian Tartar, W# Bball find only what-we may find any morning in tbe ” medical advertisements ” of Lon don and New York. A St. Pstbbbbubo Scandal.—A very queer story Is told abont some prominent people In Pe tersburg. A German actress, who by her beauty had won the hearts of every nobleman In the Rus sian metropolis, went home and was just going to take her tea after the great triumph whloh she had aehleved In the theatre, when her servant girl en tered, and announced the visit of the young Count N——, a favorite of the Emperor and chamberlain to his Majesty, whose father Is one of the highest functionaries of the Empire. It was Impossible to refuse admittance to a man ef so exalted a posi tion, and the actress reoelved him. The young man said he bad come by order of the Emperor, who admired the lady’s acting very muoh, and desired to thank her far the oxtraordf. nary pleasure she had afforded to Ms Ma jesty. At the same time he requested the lady to accept a radiant diamond bracelet, which he gave her as a token of his personal admiration. After having talked about art for some time, he asked permission to take sapper with her, and surprised her by the announcement that he had brought the supper with him. The actress, who knew the lnfi a once of the Count at Court, could do nothing hut thank him for tbe delicate attention, and accept the invitation. But before the couple had time to sit down to table, there appeared the seivant girl, aad lasmedlatclYafter her Count N , the father of tho i our g Count; looking rather surprised to find his son, who hit his lips that he might not laugh. The lady thought, “ How will this end 1” The old courtier soon recovered his coolness, and said very politely that he came by order of his Ma jesty to congratulate the lady upon her success. The actress smiled more maliciously than obliging ly. The old Count then addressed his son and told him to go to court, since he was expected there. The son made a wry face, but the Count added: “ I will take supper with the young lady and wait for yon here.” The son took leave and was going to leave the room, when all at onoe the door opened, and nobody less entered than hla Majesty In propria ptrsona. His Majesty asked rather excitedly, what gave him the pleasure of seeing the two gentlemen at this place, when both of them replied that they had come to congratulate the young actress. “ Very well,” seta hie Majesty, “Yon may go now. ia» not want you any longer.” Father and son depart ed, and his Majesty oondesoended to aooeptthesup. per, whloh the young lady humbly offered, to the Emperor. Thl Prefecture op Police in Paris.—The works at the new Prefecture of Police, whloh were suspended during the winter, are now resumed with Increased activity. The left wing is raised as high aB the first story. This building, whloh Is being erected to the south of the new part of the Palais de Justice, forms to the right of the great western front a wing parallel to that of the left, beyond which It beoomeß more narrow, so as not to dimmish che length ofthe lront ofthe Palais de Justice, rbe new buildings on the Quay lies Orrcvres, as well as those of the Kne de Hariay and or the Qnal de l’Horloge, tendered deep sinking necessary for the foundation. The lower stories, consequently* have been carefully protected from damp by cement, A number of arcades are to be erected in front of -the ground floor. The principal entrance will give access to a Equare court yard. Coaoh-houses, stables, storehouses, and caloriferes are to be arranged in the vast galleries of tho lower story. The virions offloes connected with the Preftoture are to be situated in the principal courtyard. The waiting-room for ’.he public will be divided Into three naves by means of eight Anted metal columns. The completion uf Ibis courtyard and ofthe grand front will re quire the demolition of the right side of the old Bne ue Jerusalem; the Bue de Nazareth, and the arcade leading to It, are likewise to be removed. The t rand front of the Frefeotnre of Police will likewise require, the demolition of the houses on the Quel des OrfCvres between the Bue de Jerusalem and the Boulevard du Palais, and tn e removal o! the Bne -st. Louis. There will likewise be an entranoe to the Prefecture on the Quai de l’Horloge, and the northern and southern parts of the building will be placed In communication by a long passage. KuksbsihPabib at Twopence ah Houn.—An old woman may be seen dally In Paris trotting along loward the Luxembourg Gardena, snTronnded by flf reen or twenty little children, aged from two or three years to seven or eight. Their parents pay the old lady abont ten centimes an hour to take their obll ■iren ont, and give them a walk or a game or play m the gardens, it Is pretty to see her convey her itttle regiment over a orosslng; It reminds one of .heoldrfuzlleof the fox, the goose, and thehag or corn. The elder children an left In charge on one side, while the very Uttleones an carried over; then one of tbe oldest Is beckoned across and lectured on •m can of them, while the old woman trots book for the rest. At length they an past all dangers, and Jafo in the gardens, whore they may make dirt piles so their hearts' content, while their Chaperone takes out her knitting and seats herself on a benoh in their midst. Say she has fifteen children and keeps cbem out for two hours, It makes her a little lnoome of half a crown a day, and many a busy mother is glad that her child should have happy play and ex ercise, while she goes a shopping or does some other piece of housekeeping work, which would prevent her frq m attending properly to her child. FOUR CENTS. Propose* Borne for Poor OMcaat VoUBi LBTTSX ZBOK MISS BHMA HSBNXCB, To the Editor of The Prett t Sib : I beg to remind my friends In this dty that In a public address made here some few years ago, I presented a plan for the foundation of a Home for Poor “Outcast Women,” on what I then thought and still deem a more practical bails than any other at present In operation fn this country. At the meeting In question I solicited subscriptions in aid or a fund for this purpose, and the eolleotlons lqade in this city, In addition to others oontrtbuted at and through my publlo leotnres on tho subject, amount ing te about *l,BOO, being now Invested in a some what different way to the object for which they were solicited, I beg to call the attention of eontrlbntorato the 101 l owing statement, one which I makoln justice to myselfon the resignation Of the trust I undertook on the occasion of the meeting referred to r When I first commenced lecturing In this oanse, I proposed to build a heme In the country on a self sustaining plan. My schema required for its accomplishment a eom medious house, with land for a large nursery ground, laborers to work the ground and persons to teach the Inmates horticulture, seed preparation, herb drying, pickling, preserving, frnlt-dresslng, and various other branches of Industry, all growing out of oouu. try housekeeping. I urged the prospective benefits of my plan, on the ground of the remunerative, as -well as healthful and lnstrnotlve oharaoter of the employments, and the moral and physlologloai benefits to be derived from them. I took the bast counsel I oould obtain on the subject, and presented what I deemed would prove a highly practical plan, requiting, however, for Its completion, at least tso 000 To obtain this sum I devoted a large share of my own Blender earnings as a sinking fund, adding thereto every contribution, large and email, that I could gather in. I did not expect to make much progress towards the accumula tion of the required sum in thlß way, but trusted that the spread of my plan, through the pub lic lectures 1 was giving on the eubjeot, would at tract the attention ana enlist the aid of tho benevo lent capitalists, through whose large donations my purpose oould be accomplished. The sudden out break of the war, just as 1 had suooeeded In oolleotlng about 11,810 and enlisting theaympathlesof a large and zealous body of praotloal friends in Boston, completely paralyzed my efforts In every direction. For nearly three years after this disastrous period 1 worked incessantly, but almost alone, to carry out my plan, even on a small scale I risked all I pos tered on earth of my own private means in the pur chase oi a small estate In the oountry, which I hoped to eonduet Into the neuclens of my home, but I found it required an Income to cultivate, put Into order, and keep up a oountry home far beyond any which 1 could earn. I have Bpent months In searching for estates and getting up petitions to tho aitlzens ol different places to purchase and loan such estates to me to try my experiment with, bnt unwilling to risk the money I had collected, 1 have never withdrawn one cent of It from the Boston savings banks, where X deposited It with trustees, bearing all my own ex fienses, and pursuing all my experiments at my own private cost. Three winters since I presented petitions to the New York Legislature, aooompa hled with a bill seeking to obtain an appropriation lor a State Home, founded on the plan I proposed. Alter many weeks of the most arduous efforts of my life, I sneoeeded In getting my plan l airly before the Committees on State Charities, and, in their printed report, myself and my entire , cheme are most warmly commended to the ap proval of future Legislatures, although the exi gencies of the war rendered it lxexpedientatthat time to lend me personally any ald.or oommit them selves to any promise to adopt my plan. Financially, 1 have spent upwards of (1,600 from my own narrow means in my efforts. Personally, I nearly wreaked my health, devoted a large share of five years’ labor, and finally so wrought upon my mind by anxiety and fruitless effort, tbat friends and physi cians alike determined “I must stop.” For the last fifteen months I have been absent In California, endeavoring to recruit a mind and body almost wrecked by my exertions,, and a purse so depleted that I bad not the means to carry me ont of the States without borrowing my travelling expenses, 1 return to find the war still raging, the same obstacles to my suaoeas as formerly existing In greater foroe than ever, and many of my kindly considerate friends still urg ing me on to further efforts in the same direction as formerly. This counsel 1 have determined to reject for the following reasons; All my experiences of the unhappy and problematical condition of those for whose benefit I am laboring, have convinced mo that it la an evil that far outstrips the reach of pri vate philanthropy, and must be dealt with by the State. Twenty thousand of these unfortunate women live and praotloe their Infamous and rutnous trade In and about New York city. One private Institu tion, and one hundred benevolent Individuals, mij reach and benefit the few whose peculiar cases re quite the tender and delicate treatment of se cret philanthropy, but tho main bulk of tho evil is too vast to bo thus reachedtoo atro cious to.be mueh longer neglected as an Item of municipal government. A thousand reasons exist, which my largely varied experience has shown me, why tbb vast evil must be dealt with on a large scale. My own plans are only adapted to such a movement; and despite of the sneers of those who have never wandered with me through the night cellars and other dens and haunts of Infamy, to jn actually learn, as I for years have done, its work ing. bnt who philosophize at home on the Magda lr-nes of engravings, and the reforms whloh never get beyond theory, lam convinced tbat small and individual efforts may benefit a few, but will leave the gigantic evil, Its cause and effects, alike un touched. My seoond reason is, utter exhaustion of private funds, determination not to appro, prlate any eolleotlons to any expenses, or the dally demands of a missionary In snob a work, to gether with physical and mental lnoapaolty for Its lnrther prosecution, and the absolute necessity of my' going back to Europe with as mueh speed as the awkward condition of the currency and tho ex pense of English money will permit. These are my reasons for temporarily suspending my efforts to establish my proposed homo for outcasts. When the condition of the oountry justifies another ap peal of some of Us Legislatures, I shall need no spark from theoretical reformers to urge me on to a renewal of my labors—all things else oomblnlDg to favor my work. Meantime, being unwilling to permit the money I have collected to lie idle, or only draw small Interest, whilst thousands are suf fering for the very necessaries of life, I have deter mined to bestow the money on the Temporary Home for Wotnen and Children, the noble institution in Philadelphia,(differing only from a refuge for Magda lenesin the fact tbat ft Is a preventtverathor than a cure. It affords shelter to poor homeless women, pro vides them with plaeesof work, prevents, and has pre vented thousands from pining or starving, and now, In those oalamitous times when thousands of deso late women are oast upon the streets In the dreadful bereavements of war,its demands are so great as imperatively to call for support from all who love their country, would do justice to tho martyrs who have died for It, leaving victims to mourn their lose, or who would stretch out a hand to rescue despair ing virtue ore It is drives to crime to save ftself from perishing. loannot trespass on these columns further, by a description In- detail of this In stitution, and have only to oonolude with a brief statement that the money I have ool looted, after lying At interest for nearly four years, and aooumnlatlng to the amouat of (2,500, has been bestowed by me, first In (2,000 on the Temporary Home for Poor Women and Cclldren. Philadelphia, and tho rest In tho bands of Mr. M. B. Dyott, of that city, as trustee for tho same Institution, when they (the managers) shall have added, at my suggestion, a laundry, work room, and other buildings now In contemplation..- I have, accordingly, to repeat the statement with which I commenced this address, that I make It as a resignation of the trust confided to mo by those who have contributed towards the fund. A list of their names and dona tions, together with the charge of banking the money, was kindly undertaken, at Imy earnest solicitation, by Fhlneas E .Hay, Esq., of Boston, and the Hon. G. S. Ladd, magistrate, of East Cam bridge. Both there gentlemen are amongst the largest contributors to the fund, saving myself, whose collections, as shown by our papers, amounted from my own earningß to about (1,000 of the gross amount. As the three principal contributors then agree to the uaerul disposition of this sum, which I am now making, I trust all others Interested by donations in the matter will feel satisfied likewise. To the grumblers, whose only contributions are In trusive advice, I oan only say go the Temporary Home, see these poor homeless wanderers resoued from the streets, and determine for yourselves whether it Is better to wait till the taint of sin and degradation Is on them before wo etretoh out the hand of pity to save them. My own mind Is made up on this point, even If tho logic of ovontß had not compelled my decision by an arbitrary necessity. What I now write Is not an excuse for a change of operations, but simply in justice to myself and my kind allies in my long ana onerous labors to make this publlo statement of a trust publicly oonfided to me In publlo contributions. Emma Habdihob, 8 Fourth avenue, New York, The managers of the Temporary Home Assoela tlon of tbe olty of Philadelphia for women and children, hereby publicly acknowledge tbe receipt of two thousand dollars from Miss Emma Herdlnge. tbe said snm to be appropriated for tbe uses and purposes of tbe said institution. Signed by direction of the Board of Managers. SiDKKf Amt Lewis, President. Emily S. Staokhoubb, Treasurer. Amts o. Pabkbb, Secretary. PHILADEtPHIA, May 8,1886. Tbe National Cemetery at Gettysburg. To the Editor of the Press: Sib : In your Issue of to-day, I learn rrom tbe letter of « OCOftSlonal ” that “ It la proposed to OQUl memorate tbe next Fourth of July by laying the corner-stone of the Monument over the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania." I sin cerely hope this proposition will be adopted, as, It seems to me, a no more fitting ceremony oould occur on that day than that proposed. Independent of the saoredness of that olasslo spot, where, oomiug from eighteen States of our beloved country, repose the remains of thirty-five hundred brave warriors who there fought their last battle for Freedom, that place Is endeared to the heart of ever? loyftl men and wo man by the association with It of onr country’s two greatest men, Abraham Lincoln and Edward Eve rett, both of whom, like the sacred of Gettysburg, <■ sleep their last sleep.” Who, of the loyal millions that have read the ao> count ol the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, would not like on the day most glorious In the annals of American history, to visit the plaoe Where Edward Everett, the greatest of all orators, paid the following glowing trlbnte to the spot: "Standing beneath this serene sky, overlooking these broad fields now reposing from the labors of the waning year, the mighty Alleghanles dimly towering before ns, the graves of onr brethren be neath onr feet, it it with hesitation that l raise my poor voice to break the eloquent silence of God and Nature .” Aye, let ns by all means visit, on the Fourth of July, the sacred ground where Mr. Lincoln, stand ing above tbe graves of the brave departed, In the presence Of God and Nature, demented himself “ to the unfinished work that they have thus far SO nobly carried on." Let ns behold the spot where, from “ those honored dead,” the Immortal Lincoln " took lnoreased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last foil measure of devotionand wanting, as we do, to gaze In lingering admiration on that hallowed spot where the martyred President highly resolved, “ That the dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation should, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." We thank » Occasional” for his—“what better way to celebrate the anni versary of Amerloen Independence than by an Im nMWK consecration of the heroeß who, by their valor and their saorlfioeS, made the Fourth of July, 1863 a day forever to be remembered for the uni versal joy that thrilled a gnat people!" And be. Having there la no better way, I am respeotfully, Jho, W. Fbazibb, MatO.wW. VOIQ WAR PRSS9W tFUBUSHID WIIKLT.I M WAX FBISS Will b» max to •uhwntemha m*U (r«r annum la adTßuwi.i.^.^^^^, flwmlMi .■■■■■■■oim, tre no 01 Larger Clubs than Ten will be charged at the same rate. (B-00 per sopy. The money must alveaye accompany the order, and Ih ns instance aan that terms he deviated from, a# they afford very little more than the cost iff pother. (W Fostmutew are requested to ast as agents tie fn Was fust To ths zetier-sp of ths dab of ten or twenty, <e extra eopy ef the piper win be given. STATE ITEM*. The mercantile appraiser at Chester county publishes a list of 808 wholesale and’retail dealenf and brokers and real estate agents; who-are required to take out lloobbos under the State laws. Of this number lots are In West Chester and'llia Phoenix. \ville. The Harrisburg Telegraph gives thr Allowing advise to the owner# of old hoop-skirts l “ 'Suspend them la your garden on a pole live feet high ; plant the ends of seme flowering vino aronnd it, and you will soon have a trellis eovered with beautiful vege tation. ! There is a war between the employers and em ployees at the Fall Brook and Morris Hun'coal mince. The refractory miners have camped out on the lands of the companies, and refuse to permit other minerß to be employed. Tliirty-two youcx men arcdt boys were arrested in Allegheny, on Sunday night, by the Mayor’s po lice, for congregating aronnd the doors of several or the churches and blocking up the passages. - —An effort is being made to eonsolldatothe Outn berland YaUey and' Franklin Railroad oompanier. A meeting of the stockholders of tho first-named company will be kerld In Cbambersbcrg on Wodnes r day, tbe Slot Inst, to eonsNer the matter. The publication of the Berks oounty Zeitung, published by E'. Hv Bbuoh, Esq , for the past year, has been suspended for the ppeeent. Oanse, Insuffi cient patron»ge,we presume. Governor Onrtln, accompanied by one of the editors of the-Washington- Chronicle, visited the Pennsylvania troops stationed near Alexandria, Va , on Monday. Peter Smith, one of the- “ oldest Inhabitants,”' died at Sumneytown, Montgomery oonnty, on Thursday last. He was born on the 13th or October, 1776, and was therefore nearly ninety y cars of age. The Government will make sales or condemned cavalry horsoS at Carlisle on the 11th, and at Pitts burg on the 20th Inst. The provost marshal's office at Norristown has been closed. A confidence man has been operating In Pitts burg, and has swindled a large number of people, The Lehigh Valley Progren Is the title of a new dally paper published at Easton by Elohman A Co. HOME ITEMS. Last Wednesday a barrel found floating In the river at Cincinnati was found to contain the body of a negro In a decomposing state. The head had been severed from the trunk, whloh had been out In two the feet were separated at the ankles, and the legs divided at the knees, whilst the arms had been disjointed at the shoulders and elbows. A watchman. in the Laconia Mills, Blddoford, Maine, while oiling up Monday morning, was caught on a shall revolving one hundred and sixty times a minute, and was carried round with It many times, his olothes torn off, one arm broken, and se verely Injured internally j.yet, singular to say, he was rot killed, and may recover. The statue of Senator Benton, which was or dered six years ago by tho citizens of St, Louis, from Miss Harriot Hosmer, arrived In that atty on tho II lust. It Is of bronze, ten feet high, and wal oast at tbe Eoyal foundry in Munich, Its weight Is over 5,000 pounds. Among the new fashions In New York, at pre sent, Is this, that no lady goes to the grave with a husband, oblld, or Blend. Women are compelled to sit solitary In the bouse, while the gentlemen attend tbe burial. Many lament tho heartless oußtom, bnt fashion Is Inexorable. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Journal says that copies ol the full confession of Harold, andjof the equally Important evidence re ported to have been fonnd on the person of Booth, were sent to London by the steamer whloh sailed on Saturday last. A merchant at San FrandßOO, having tho mis fortune to lose his wife, invited his clerks to attend her funeral, He Is said afterward to have oharged eaoh of them for tho day as lost time, and made them pay for the carriages. A peddler recently lost a box, while riding In a horse-oar in Boston, and the oonrt In whloh ha brought Suit gave him (100 damages, holding that, as the peddler paid transportation on the box, the company was responsible for It. On the site seleoted for the " Anttetam Na tional Cemetery” is a spot called “ Lee’s Rook," tbe plaee where Gen. Lee stood daring the bisttle of “Antletam.” A new weekly paper, the Colored Tenneueean, a journal edited wholly by members of the Anglo- African persuasion, has made Its appearance at Nashville. The City Connoll of Bath will place neat blue calks In tbs different parte or the oit;, and keep them constantly tilled with 0001 water during the hot weather. A farmer at Bridgeport, Conn,, Is about to Mt a mile and a half of living fence of- white willow. He claims that It will, within two years, keep out swine, sheep, and poultry. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has begun the survey of the Metropolitan Railroad, for which a charter was given at the last session of the Maryland Legislature. Mr. Roseoe G. Green, formerly a refugee from Richmond, but for three years past a olerk In the Treasury Department, has been appointed post master at Petersburg. The Alexandria papers are calling upon the Government to have the stockades around the olty removed. We understand that the oaterplllara are doing incalculable mischief to fruit trees In tho vicinity Of Horton. Gov. Seymour, Of New York* during the year 1864, pardoned one hundred and twelve oouvlOtS and commuted the sentonoee of ninety-two others. A new breeoh-loading musket, on an original principle, has been Invented by two workmen In the American Machine Works in Springfiold, Conn. Strawberries and green peas are plenty at Washington. At Now York strawberries are rather soarae at (1.80 per quart. The provost marshals of Indiana are to be mas tered out of tho service at onoe, orders to that effeot have already been Issued. Gen. Lee Is said by a contemporary to wear bis old gray uniform, because his poverty will not permit him to buy other elothes. Flame color is the fashionable tint on Broad way for gloveß. Twenty-one couples were divorced In Boeton last Friday. This Is bad for Boston. ' The hands on the eoal docks are on a strike for hlghtr wageß at Georgetown, D. O. Nlblo’s saloon, New York, Is to be made Into a dining-room for tbe Metropolitan hotel, Heavy robberies are dally ooourring In Balti more, The State debt of Kentucky Is more that! (20,000,000. —G. H. Miles, of Baltimore, has -dramatised “ Elsie Venner” for Mrs. Bowers. FOREIGN ITEMS. The London Review Is about te publish weekly tho report of a special commission, which It has sent -out to Inquire to what extent the Established Ohuroh meets the religious wants or the nation, how far she falls to do so, and In what lies the secret ol her fail ure. The commission will, at the same time, re view the efforts of other religious communities for the spiritual instruction of the people; and as the facts w»l in every case be derived from personal examination made by fiPMlftl OpmmlßSlonere upon the spot, their report Is likely to prove -not ohly valuable, but Interesting. A fiery Proteßtant preacher, b? the name of Don Ambroglo, Is making no little sensation In Italy. He suffers Imprisonment frequently, but no sooner Is he at liberty than he begins again, Ha oxhortß to the free study of the Bible, and the col porteurs, following In his track, make large sales. The police of Paris are hunting for the author of the satirical pamphlet entitled the “History of Napoleon 111., b/Jullua Cmaar." They seize every copy they can find. Nevertheless it olronlates ex tensively, and its ontting Innuendoes are upon every tongne. A nsemi innovation has been Introduced In the omnibuses of Paris, When the’bns-ls full the con ductor unoovers the word 11 Complet,» and a similar sign appears In front of the driver’s box, so that pe destrians wishing to ride are Informed that they must wait for the next conveyance. TheOrpheon Soolety having announced three prizes for as many cantatas, to he sent In anony mously, declared their decision as follows t - First prize, Prince Edmond de Pollgnae I: Second prize, Prince Edmond do Pcligfi&e t! Third print, Priam Edmond de Pollgnae ill The Emperor Napoleon’s Lire of Julius Omsar Ib soarcely published before It Is followed, in Paris, by a “Life of Napoleon 111., by Julius Omsar," It is reported that this work has for Its motto the first sentenoe of Napoleon’s famous preface: 11 Historic truth ought to he no less snored than religion." The London Sacred Harmonic report their re ceipts, last year, to have been £6,461, and expendi tures £6,186, of which £4ii- were for the choir of the Kandellan festivals. The? hftVt Invested, and value their library at £4,e00. Mr. Henri Jullen, of the Canada Gaeette, hae Invented an addressing press, whiohls highly spokes of by the Quebec newspaper proprietors. It oan he worked by steam, and print 2,000 addresses - within the hour. A number of foundry workmen in Paris have petitioned the Emperor for permission to make gra tuitously a huge bronze eagle to snrmonnt the Are de l’Etolle. ' The London in ilex, Jett Davis’ organ, and Lon don Pott, Lord Palmerston’s organ, have expressed tbe opinion that the war will be continued In soma new form by the rebels. —• The Avenne Danmeenll, which. passes to ttm south of the Plaoe Eambonlllet, In Paris, la now le velled, and the preparations for building are com menced. - „ Herman Sternberg, a boy ol fifteen, and a ptL. pll or Ylcutemps, is the latest mntloal wonder In the art-world ofGerM&ny. a new story by Miss Mmine&u, with the title or" a Family History," Is shortly to appear in one of the London story papers. Movements are being made In Austria to pre vent an expected Garlbaldlun expedition into Ve il etla this spring. —lt is proposed in London that- Englishmen should present swords to Grant and Sherman, to testiry their sense of admiration or those officers. —M. H. G. Ollendorf, the author ef many well known grammars Of modern languages, has just died in Paris. A Murillo, belonging to the late Marquis Agnado, sold in Paris reeently for $16,000. -LouisNappieon’e “Life of Ososar" Is said to be slow of sale in Paris. . M’lle Ttetlens is to lay the foundation stone of the Alexandra Opera House, Liverpool, —Liszt, the piaplsti is giving eonoofM to «*me»
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