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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»