mm 
made the inquiry where the road led to. The 
question was entirely superfluous, ns I had 
not the tain test Idea where I was going, and 
so I told him. But he soon showed me that 
that was to him ft matter of secondary im¬ 
portance, for while I was answering him he 
rode close up against me, cocked his horse- j 
pistol, and presented 
it within six inches of 
. • ' my head, and de¬ 
manded that T should 
show him my papers. 
[2n Fortunately I was 
easily able to satisfy 
him, as I had no less 
;; than tli roe passes from 
• -- ‘i hut volunteered to 
help me on my way 
—an offer which I 
gladly accepted, as I bore him no malice. 
The Emperor ami France. 
A Paris correspondent of the Tribune 
writes:—“ You must not expect a republican 
revolution in Paris. From all l can gather, 
the movement will he in an Orleanist sense. 
It scorns most probable. No one believes 
the Emperor can ever return to Paris with 
safety. Koinu affirm that lie would notscru- 
iico with Prussia, and 
A MEMORY OF “NICHOLAS NICKELBY.” 
The Emperor, the Court, fashionable Paris 
with its fashionable shops, selling fashionable 
dresses would never have tempted reason¬ 
able women so far as to forget that all that 
brilliancy has its dark side, enormously costly 
in money, and inevitably leading finally to a 
still greater cost of lives. And when all this 
artment 
BY I.COY I,. STOUT, 
A child sat, on a breezy porch tn summer— 
A lonely little one. 
Heading-a book with rapt, absorbed attention, 
.lust as the day was done. 
She hooded not the noisy boy who noar hor 
Whistled and snug; 
Her slight form sat there but tier eager spirit, 
Kouniod other scones among. 
In the brlel stolen moments of the twilight, 
She left her world of care, 
Of sad neglect ami loneliness and pining, 
For more congenial air. 
Her untaught Judgement, knew not of the fable, 
But counted all as truth, 
And fancy clothed the dear ones of the story, 
With uu immortal Youth. 
THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. 
spread tuc unintelli¬ 
gible panic, under ; 
which they them- f’j 
selves labored. With 
reference to spies, : ' • 
again, the men have — 
ing ''examined as lo ~ 
his personality, or r - - 
ejected from the coun¬ 
try, the latter have 
constantly excited the 
mob by demanding 
that the person should be immediately torn to 
pieces. In speaking thus, I refer, of course, 
more particularly to the lower classes of 
French women; 1ml in the more educated 
circles, things were hardly standing better. 
While a few honest and kind-hearted la¬ 
dies did give themselves up to the service of 
the hospitals and ambulances, the great body 
of them ran cowardly away, thinking only 
about carrying with them all the dresses, 
the jewelry, and money they could possibly 
scrape together. Corrupted by an Indolent 
existence, deprived of all sorts of knowl¬ 
edge, anil physically weakened by an ab¬ 
normal manner of living, none of them 
thought for a single moment that they were 
answerable for a great deal of the mischief 
caused to their country. Were they better 
educated, they would form better wives and 
better mothers. The better wives and bet¬ 
ter mothers would better influence their 
children anil husbands, who would thus be 
made hotter citizens, better soldiers, and bet¬ 
ter politicians. A sovereign would never be 
able to enter upon war with a population 
not disposed to it, and the politicians would 
never permit themselves to be drawn into 
negotiations so critical as to lead to war if 
selected from among better citizens. 
She ronmeil with gentle Kate ana with thoso 
brothers 
So worry and so llko, 
Anti followed half in hope, half In foreboding, 
The fortunes of poor Smiicic, 
About that figure, uncouth bat pathetic, 
Her tender Interest shone, 
Dimly discerning that his life, neglected, 
Was kindred to her own. 
was begun in the fifteenth century, and 
completed in 1583. It was afterwards de¬ 
molished by Marik de Medicis, and in 
1015 she began the erection of a more mag¬ 
nificent edifice, after designs by Jaques 
Desbiiosses. 
We have not space for the rehearsal of the 
historical events associated with it. In 1702 
Napoleon Bonaparte was received here 
by the Directory after his first campaign in 
Italy. Upon the establishment, of the first 
Empire, it became the Palace of the Senate; 
at the Restoration it was assigned to the 
Chamber of Peers. During the Republic of 
1848, several of ihe revolutionary bodies sat 
here. In 1852, after the establishment of 
the Second Empire, it became once more the 
Palace of the Senate. 
Its State Apartments, Picture Galleries 
ami Gardens are all worthy more extended 
notice. The Gardens cover an area of eighty- 
live acres, and arc the prettiest in Paris— 
embracing tiower gardens, fountains, statu¬ 
ary, trees, sh rubbery, orangery, hot,-houses, 
&c. The Garden of the Luxembourg is the 
garden of the citizen, the student, the artist, 
the poet. In it all who frequent it are ac¬ 
quainted. 
French Women nml (lie War. 
Aqamat Batuk, a war correspondent of 
the Pail Mali Gazette, in a recent lecture in 
London said : — I am sorry that in the pic¬ 
ture 1 attempt, to sketch of the state of 
France l must give a very bad part to the 
fair sex. Not only all the habits of my 
Turkish nationality, but all the tendencies 
of my heart and soul are strongly inclined 
toward the ladles. But all my thoughts are 
against them, for notwithstanding all the 
achievements the ladies attribute to them¬ 
selves, and all the rights they claim, l have 
seldom seen, yet, that they should, as a body, 
anywhere conduct themselves properly. 
Wherever you go, over 
France, for instance, 
the greatest disturb- 
unccs and the greatest 
mischief arc done by 
the ladies. The greatest yT 
panic Is spread by them. / _ = 
one bos ever sup- / — -- —- 
posed ot MacMaiion / —_ 
that he was anything ~ — ^ 
else than a brave soldier, jj: 
or that he was not a =- - 
imaginable means with : ti~~ - : ~ 
the view of extermina- _ - --- ■ 
passed through the r ~T - 
school of Algeria, and ~ _ 
it is certainly not hu¬ 
manity that one learns 
French ladies, how- ——- - 
ever, found that Mac- T - - ~ " -> T~ ^ 
M vhon was too deli¬ 
cate. There was a for- ' * 
eat somewhere n e a r 
Hagenau or Worth, V- 
where 40,000 Germans e. v-.v, ' 
were reported to have 
hidden t,h e msel ves. j •>. , .. *- 
How far this was true, ‘ V ^ V - 
is not ascertained even ' T\_'* c \ \‘vT\ 
now, but all the ladies ; • ^ 
of France reproached ^ 
MacMahon for not .? • ', A 
having set tiro to the v . .T /ftw 
wood and roasted the : x . T 
whole 40,000 Prussians . vv . - 
and Bavarians con- ' VH 
was the wood to be set 
would it take to burn ? 
How were the Prus- sto} 
sians to be kept in it ? raEirZfl 
Nothing of this was in- 
qtiired into, but the 
ladies of Prance wished e- 
and the Prussians to be 1 
roasted in it. And they 
talked so long on the ^ 
subject that a great part 
of the male population .;*jS 
of Eastern France be- 
gan to repeat the same ~4TT 
thing. . * 
I saw lots of young "TT-a 
and old women, who ; 
had fled from Forbach 
and Saverue, and all of 
But now apace conics on thn story’s ondinn ; 
In tItu dim Unlit who rend 
How |m woeful and how deep was his last slunihcr 
Dow in Ills itrassy hut). 
Into hor land of Mopo the shadow entered ; 
Tho book dropped from her hand . 
She looked abroad, tho warm, durk night was fall- 
ing 
Upon the summer land. 
PALACE AND GARDENS OF THE LUXEMBOURG, 
‘‘Gone, gone!" she crlod "and I shall never seo 
him. 
My dear, heart-broken friend ! 
O, why did GOD let the poor, suffer Ing follow, 
Cornu to so sad an end." 
Tho boy lauffhod lit. her cry and tears fast fallinj;; 
But days and weeks went hy, 
And still the faint smile on hor Ups had over 
Its ending In a sigh. 
is rlonc, when France is thrown into the 
miseries it now finds itself in, who is it that 
seeks that even the honor of the country 
should be sacrificed ? Again a woman, and 
of the highest circles. It is they who begin 
to talk of mediation, as if they did not know 
that, not a single Frenchman will cease to 
fight till he himself, not other people, ac¬ 
knowledges that the country is vanquished, 
and that there is absolutely no hope of rescu¬ 
ing France from political degradation and 
military dishonor. The ladies present, must 
excuse me speaking so frankly about their 
sex ; but,, in the first place, company present 
are always excepted, and, in the second, my 
chief intention i& to expose here what I think 
to he true, not to make compliments. 
An American Correspondent and Prussian 
(lendurmc. 
Riding on from Forbach I found the road 
entirely clear, with scarcely any evidence of 
the Prussian occupation, aud beginning to 
fancy that I hud mistaken my way, I took 
out. a map and commenced a careful exam¬ 
ination ot the topography of the country. I 
did this several times, and frequently made 
inquiries of the peasants. On one of these 
occasions, as I was examining the map, I 
was accosted by a mounted gendarme, who 
The yellow locks of the poor little nuildou, 
Are silvered now Willi groy, 
And many fancies, hopes and aspirations, 
Tho years have borne away. 
Her present, grief recalls the bitter sorrow, 
That wrung her heart of old , 
For the strong hand that wove tho magic story 
Is palsied now and cold. 
pie to make a hasty pc 
to return escorted by King Frederick Wil¬ 
liam and his cohorts, proclaiming that his 
action had been paralyzed by internal dis¬ 
sension, hence his defeat. I give you these 
as rumors. One tiling is certain; he has 
failed iguominiously as a general, and can 
never again hold the same position in public 
estimation which the hollow glory of Sol- 
ferino accorded to him. It is on every lip, 
thaL France has been shamefully deceived by 
the Emperor’s creatures, who, like Marshal 
Leireuf, declared she was 1 prepared for 
war,’ when they must have known the re¬ 
verse. to be the ease.” 
War events have not accumulated the past, 
week to such an extent that we may not con¬ 
fine them to our news columns. We aim to 
give our readers the best and freshest news 
in our power. 
BY MARY WHITNEY, 
CHAPTER I. 
Built during the Quaternary period, un¬ 
doubtedly; originally inhabited by some of 
the lower order of humanity—a poor artist, or 
still poorer editor perchance, who starved and 
blew away or spontaneously combusted, leav¬ 
ing not a trace of himself anywhere of a pri¬ 
vate character, except for the winds that, came 
from all quarters of the 
_ universe to howl in its • 
deserted chambers, and 
jggiygN the storms which get 
themselves up lor the 
express purpose of bcal- 
ing m through the di- 
lapidated doors and 
' ■■Ss==^k —\ windows, tearing off its 
few remaining shingles, 
blackening its grimy 
~~ its^eon s tin if ior i gen eral- 
:inii the unfailing scape- 
T -'•T ; goat for the jokes of all 
wrong minded ones; 
the terror of bod boys 
and small dogs, who 
firmly believed in tire 
old tradition that it was 
- “ possessed of a devil,” 
% j or the ghost of the afoi'e- 
said victim Of starvation 
or combustion. There 
| it stood, lorlum ami oh I, 
B . j conceived in the evil of 
j their hearts to do with 
on sly nt the bottom of 
and abettors of crime in 
|||nl| mysterious and unholy 
looked with con- 
^ ^ the Other side, casting 
doomed abode of winds 
giibiL/F.. .and witches; the un- 
VT;> -- -A sanctified (lodged past 
hurriedly to avoid its 
-- T. ; T- chilly g h o s t -1 i k o 
- --T~-~ shadow; and when at 
last “ They ” scut a 
reckless force of carpen- 
“REP OS K .” 
Engraved from a Eainting Expressly for Moore’s ltnral New-Yorker 
