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Stewart Secretary of the Treasury, tory, confirmed Mr. Stewart's nomination? in violation of law, or rather, in ignorance It is a curious fact that in the first cast of the of the law which disqualified Mr. Stewart for the position, was a blundering step to begin new Cabinet there were two foreigners-Mr. Stewwith. It was a greater blunder to ask the Senate art, nominated for the Treasury, having been born to repeal for Mr. Stewart's benefit, or even to in Belfast, Ireland, in 1803, and General Cox, the 382 suspend in his particular case, a law the general new Secretary of the Interior, being born in Mon..383 wisdom and necessity of which were foreseen as treal, Canada, in 1828. We suppose it was early as 1789, when the whole revenue of the merely by accident that Mr. Adolph E. Borie, the Secretary of the Navy, escaped being a FrenchTHE STATESMAN will be mailed to Subscribers Government hardly amounted to a tithe of one out of Town, and furnished to Newsdealers in the year's receipts of Mr. Stewart's business, and the man or a Dominican-one of his parents having City every Friday evening: Subscription price aggregate salaries of all the officers on the civil come to this country from Bordeaux, the other Three Dollars per annum-payable in advance. list scarcely exceeded his annual expenditure for from the island of St. Domingo. The selection Persons residing in the city can be served by Car- clerk-hire. There could not be a more dangerous of Mr. Borie for the Navy Department has been precedent set a worse principle introduced-than variously ascribed by the journals to the fact that that of suspending laws made for the general he has been largely engaged in the East India good and designed for universal application, so as trade, and may therefore be supposed to know something about shipping; also that there is an to evade or defeat their operation in particular cases or in favor of particular individuals. Laws important naval depôt at League Island, near that can be so easily tampered with soon cease to Philadelphia, and that he has a brother who was be laws at all. General Grant's suggestion to the once in the navy-from any or all of which Senate exhibited, in fact, as profound an ignorance have derived a large and valuable fund of inforsources the new Secretary may be supposed to on his part of the nature and meaning of Law in mation in regard to naval affairs. Mr. Mallory, general, as he had already shown of the provisions of this particular law of 1789. of Florida, was for many years Chairman of the Naval Committee in the United States Senate, and afterwards head of the Naval Department at Richmond, having been elevated to both positions for no other earthly reason that anybody could discover, than that he had practised law at Key West, and in his boyhood had learnt how to conjectural qualifications for his new position, all manage a sail-boat. Apart from Mr. Borie's purely that can be said of him is that he is a retired Books intended for Review should be sent in early in the Week to receive prompt notice. Advertisements must be left at the Office on or before Thursday, otherwise they will be too late for insertion in that Week's paper. Communications should be addressed to THE STATESMAN, P. O. Box 1003, Notes of the Week. On Thursday, the city of Baltimore entertained. The lame and impotent conclusion of the whole Ex-President Johnson as its guest. It was a affair of the Treasury appointment was in perfect graceful compliment, paid not to the rising but the keeping with the weakness shown in its inception. setting sun. The popular expression of respect The President's action has been like that of the and good-will amounted almost to an ovation. Mr. oft-quoted "King of France with 20,000 men. Johnson had a military escort upon his arrival, a On Saturday, March 6th, he sent in his message portion of the Maryland National Guard being to the Senate asking for the removal of Mr. Stew paraded in his honor. He had a public reception art's disabilities. On Tuesday, March 9th, he merchant, rich, Vice-President of the Philadeland levée at the Merchants' Exchange, which was sent in another message asking to withdraw his phia Union League Club, entertains handsomely, largely attended. In the evening a Corporation previous one. So, after having been for four days and, if we are not mistaken, subscribed largely to Banquet was given him at Barnum's Hotel. The suspended mid-way between the heaven of the buy General Grant a house. Police and Fire Departments, two bodies of whose Treasury Department and the earth of his ordiappearance and efficiency the city is justly proud, nary business pursuits, Mr. Stewart was gently It must have been a subject of unfeigned suralso took part in the public demonstration, and lowered again to his former level. In the mean- prise to Mr. Creswell to find himself nominated added greatly to the effect. The display, both time, there is point in The World's suggestion for a Cabinet office. If it was deemed politic to civic and military, was highly creditable, and a that there is one department in the Government have a Southern man in the Cabinet, one would becoming mark of respect to the retiring Chief which the President ought to lose no time in get- suppose that somebody could have been found Magistrate of the Republic. We have freely ting into good working order-that of the who would have been more of a representative criticised Mr. Johnson's administration, but we Attorney General, without whose advice General man of his section and party. Not only are the recognize the consideration which is due to the Grant and his epauletted secretaries may wander, Radicals in a minority in Maryland, but in that high office he has just laid down, and to the breaking their shins over every law in the statute- divided household, Mr. Creswell, we believe, is in eminent public services which he has rendered. book in pure ignorance of its existence. Judge a minority in his own party. He brings, thereWe have regarded as one of the most strik- Hoar, who was first appointed, was in Concord, fore, no greater accession of personal or political ing evidences of General Grant's littleness of Massachusetts, when the question in Mr. Stewart's strength to the support of the new Administramind or soul, it is immaterial which, the dispo- case arose, and although the law in that case, one tion than any other member of the Cabinet. As sition he has manifested to put personal slights would imagine, was too plain to admit of much Mr. Creswell in his time has belonged to all parupon his predecessor. We are glad that the city question, Mr. Stewart, the President, and every- ties, and was, in 1860, an ultra-secessionist, ready of Baltimore has acted in this matter in the spirit body else had to grope their way out of the diffi- to eat fire and incarnadine not only the waters of which should always govern a great and generous culty without any of the light which the learning the Susquehanna, but of the Chesapeake also, if Corporation, and doubt not that the occasion was of the Attorney General would have shed on the necessary, with Northern blood, his selection may deeply gratifying to the Ex-President. dark and devious paths they were treading. In be regarded as evidence that General Grant does 1 retain all its terrors, and at the same time be shorn of those features which have too frequently converted public executions into an occasion of triumphant bravado on the part of the criminal and of revolting amusement to the mob. not object to a man on account of his antecedents. egged him on to do it; if he has spoken more flicting the death penalty within prison-walls, in It must be admitted that for his pro-Southern and frequently from the heart than the head, they fur- the presence of the officers of the law and a cerStates' Rights heresies, Mr. Creswell subsequent-nished the key that unlocked the one and turned tain number of spectators admitted by ticket, and ly made ample atonement, having in his place in the other. If he has danced, it has been to music who could certify to the proper execution of the the Senate and as State Enrolling Officer in charge of their piping. If he has overstepped some- sentence. In this way, the Death Penalty would of the draft, exhibited all the zeal which be- times the limits of diplomatic propriety and good longs to new converts. Personally, and apart taste, they have met him at least half way. from the want of political consistency that has characterised his career as a public man, Mr. Creswell stands well at home, where he is best known, and in point of ability, he is probably the strongest man, certainly the one most versed in the crooked ways of politics, in the new Cabinet. If, under his administration of the Post Office Department, we are to have negro letter-carriers and clerks, we hope that only such will be appointed as can distinguish the numbers of houses and read-writing. Whether President Grant has a policy or not in reference to matters of commerce and finance, In reality, Mr. Johnson has proved a most successful diplomatist. He accomplished in a very short space of time all that he was sent to do. He obtained from Her Majesty's Government all the concessions that he was instructed to ask, and talked the British people into the humor of making those concessions cheerfully. That his work has not been ratified by the Senate is no fault of Mr. Johnson, though it may be that of Mr. Seward, who, it must be confessed, has shown less zeal and solicitude in the matter, than one would naturally have expected. We doubt whether Mr. Johnson's successor will be able to obtain better terms, if so good. The extent to which "circumstances alter cases' is illustrated by the difference between the fate of the murderers of Johnson and Cannon above described, and that of Grant, the murderer of Pollard, whose trial was concluded in Richmond last week, and terminated in a verdict of-acquittal! Pollard had been guilty of an infamous and brutal libel upon the fair fame of a young lady. For this her brother killed him. The provocation, though confessedly very great, would have been no justi fication for the homicide, if it had been commitis left somewhat in doubt by the facility with ted in heat of blood. In point of fact, the perwhich, when he could not have Mr. Free-trade Meantime, a heavy responsibility rests on the petration of the crime was attended by every Stewart for Secretary of the Treasury, he took up originators of the Eutaw House banquet in circumstance of cool, studied premeditation-the with Mr. Protectionist Boutwell instead. High this city, given to Mr. Johnson on the eve of slayer lying in secret ambush for his victim, and tariff or low, fish or flesh-all's the same to Gen- his departure for England, and which first deliberately shooting him from an upper window. eral Grant. Thus far, it does not appear that the opened the sluice-gates of his dinner-table ora- Yet a jury, said to have been composed of most jaybird-like secresy with which the President con- tory. The New York Tribune, kindly commiser-respectable persons from various portions of Vircealed from everybody the composition of his ating the change which Mr. Johnson will experi-ginia, find it consistent with their oaths and their Cabinet, has resulted in much advantage. It ence after bidding his British hosts farewell, sug-duty to society to acquit the assassin. We can has only led to blunders all around. Mr. Stew-gests having something ready for him on his well imagine the difficulty they would have exart couldn't serve, and Mr. Washburne (of the arrival-a dinner at Delmonico's, we suppose? perienced in bringing in a verdict of manslaughfirm of Washburne Brothers, Members of Con- We trust it is to be no feast of the Barmecide, ter, or of murder in any less degree than the first gress and Politicians in general), didn't suit. So but that, having started the idea, The Tribune and highest, but we can not understand the moral it has been "rub out and try again." Hamilton will see to it that it is carried out. or mental process by which they reached the conFish, of New York, now takes the State Departclusion that the prisoner was guiltless of any ment, and Governor Boutwell, of Massachusetts, For the credit of the boasted civilization of the crime. The action of these Virginia jurors is the Treasury. The latter is the learned astrono age and country in which we live, we hope not more disgraceful even than that of the Albany mer who found the hole in the sky, known as soon again to read of scenes such as occurred at jury, which virtually decided, in the Cole-Hiscock Boutwell's Limbo. Mr. Washburne meanwhile the execution at Princess Anne, in Somerset case, that a murderer might be perfectly sane one goes to France, probably to perfect his French. county in this State, on Friday last, of the four instant before the commission of the deed, in enA junior brother of the same firm has already negroes-Wells, Wilson, Rounds and Bailey-tire possession of his senses the next moment after, distinguished himself in the field of diplomacy in hung for the murder of the captain and mate of but for the inappreciable interval of time when Paraguay. the schooner Brave. We hardly know which was his finger pressed the trigger and fired the fatal more terrible-the manner in which the con- shot, so far insane as not to be criminally reWe have had our little joke on this side of the demned men met their awful fate, raving wildly sponsible. No such nice metaphysical subterfuge water, as we had a right to have it, at the expense and incoherently, in their uncouth negro dialect, was resorted to by the jury which acquitted Grant. of Mr. Reverdy Johnson and the gushing charac- about "going home to Jesus, to Glory and to the ter of some of his after-dinner performances, but Lamb," and so plunged darkly into eternity—or It was a very small thing on the part of a very we deny altogether the right of Englishmen to the ruffianly behavior of the mob which sur- small man, Mr. E. A. Rollins, the Commissioner laugh at the same thing. So long as the British rounded their scaffold, interrupted with scoffs of Internal Revenue, to request of President public were under the impression that Mr. John- and jeers their dying speeches, gloated over their Grant the dismissal from office of Mr. Solicitor son represented the true sentiments of this coun- last agonies, and finally, when the hangman Binkley, and a still smaller thing on the part of try, and that his official action would receive the bungled in his work, deliberately choked one of the President to lend the toe of his official boot sanction of the American Senate, he was the most the poor struggling wretches to death. In the to Mr. Rollins, for the purpose of administering popular Minister ever sent from the United States case of the boy Wilson, the noose was not prop- to the unfortunate Binkley the desired kick. Mr. to the Court of St. James. Now that it turns erly adjusted, nor were his arms securely pinioned. Rollins' letter to the President was characterized out that both Mr. Johnson and his works are His neck was not broken by the fall, but retaining by the most violent personal feeling, and the likely to be repudiated at home, the English jour- his consciousness and strength, he managed to free mixed character of the Government under which nals begin to speak slightingly of the man whom his hands, and climbed up upon the shoulders of we live, was happily illustrated in the President's a few weeks ago they delighted to honor. The the man who was hung beside him, and regained order issued thereon, addressed to the Acting Secfacetious Tomahawk describes our Minister as the platform of the scaffold-from which he was retary of the Treasury, directing him to gratify "well-bred and butter," and the grave Spectator kicked off. A second time he hoisted himself to little Mr. Rollins' little wish, and signed "by begs him to "stop his flow of unseasonable jocosi- the platform, and there, after a fierce struggle, he order of the President-Horace Porter, Brevet ties." He is spoken of as "the convivial party was choked to death. We are at a loss to imagine Brigadier General, Secretary." In Russia, every who represents the Trans-atlantic Republic," and what end of justice was served by such a specta- member of the Imperial household has a military the "jocund old gentleman, who makes everybody cle. It would be far better to abolish altogether rank: even the imperial nurses who have charge laugh." This is hardly kind or fair. If Mr. Public Executions, and to substitute the system of the imperial offspring are brigadiers and colJohnson has spoken too often and too much, the which we believe has been adopted in Massachu- onels. Does President Grant propose to introduce English people afforded him the opportunity and setts, New York, and possibly other States, of in- a similar regime at the Republican Court? The Griffith Gaunt libel case of Charles utterances of Thursday week, and no incautious of experience and tried ability. This example Reade vs. Charles Sweetzer (proprietor of The word betrayed the mysterious secret of the com- General Grant has seen fit to ignore. Upon what Round Table), has terminated in a verdict giving ing Ministers of State. Both have burst upon special theory he has acted, we will not stop to damages to the amount of six cents to the plain- the country with something of the force which inquire. His own ignorance of Executive duties tiff, each side paying its own costs. What Mr. attends all unexpected announcements-a force may have rendered him unappreciative of their Reade will do with the magnificent sum awarded soon lost in the general judgment of their weak- importance. He may possess a self-satisfied conhim by the jury is not known. The suit, as is ness, which has succeeded to the first emotions of sciousness of instinctive wisdom which is indifferwell known, grew out of certain articles which ap- surprise. Whatever else may prove to be want-ent to the counsel of others; he may be so strong peared in The Round Table, in the summer of ing in the power and capacity of the new Admin- in his own self-reliance that he will seek no auxil1866, in which Mr. Reade was accused of plagiar- istration, it is plain that its chief is troubled by iary support in the most trying exigencies of govism, and this particular work, Griffith Gaunt, no want of self-reliance. Duties which were ap-ernment; or he may apply the principle, outlined criticised as indecent and immoral. A novel fea- proached by Washington with timidity-to which in the financial views of the Inaugural Address, ture in the trial of the case was the employment Jefferson humbly confessed himself unequal- that all intricate public questions may be solved of Mr. George Vandenhoff, the well-known actor which Madison undertook with distrust-and by the simple declaration of a purpose, without and Shakspearean reader, to read Griffith Gaunt which no former President ventured to accept regard to the means or details essential to its acto the jury, so as to enable them to judge for confidently, have been assumed with defiant bold-complishment. But whatever may prove to have themselves of its character and tendencies. It is ness by Grant. He needed no word of counsel in been the motives or reasoning which determined obvious what a dramatic interest would be im- framing the declaration of his policy, nor did he the appointment of his Cabinet, the result is of parted to the proceedings of the Courts, to say seek advice in determining whom he would call to immediate and unmistakable importance to the nothing of the new element introduced into foren- his side, as aids in the performance of difficult country, because it foreshadows more distinctly sic contests, if the precedent were to be gener- and responsible duties. A peculiarity of temper than any other present indication, the spirit and ally followed in similar cases. Suppose, for ex- and mind like this will naturally have its admirers. policy which are to be impressed upon the future ample, in the discharge of our duties as public Interested partisans will praise, without stint, a of the country. journalists, we should feel ourselves constrained trait which they pretend to accept as an evi- We have no disposition to judge the Administo denounce certain kinds of theatrical exhibitions dence of greatness-while unthinking men, really tration in advance. We are ready to accord to it in this city as indecent, and the proprietors of the anxious for the welfare of the country, will derive a fair and impartial trial. There exist too many places of amusement so criticised should feel conviction from hope, and discover strength in a anomalies in the present political condition of the themselves aggrieved and sue us for libel, and, in weakness which is unrevealed. But it will not country to permit criticism pointed by partisan order to establish their case, should bring into need many months of actual experience to deter- spirit. Too many real and permanent interests Court the whole of their "incomparable olio of mine that statesmanship is made, not born. It is are involved-interests which affect the future as Sylph-like girls" to dance the Mabille cancan be- both an art and a science-not to be acquired in well as the present-to justify any other purpose fore their Honors the Judges and the gentlemen the subaltern duties of a frontier military garri- than that which is ready to recognise with satisof the jury? We are afraid it would be all over rison, nor even in the command of a victorious faction every act which promises to enure to the with us, and, in the interests of justice and of army, however vast its numbers or enlarged its prosperity and permanent welfare of the republic. impartial criticism, we hope the dangerous prece- operations. Government, in a republic like ours, If, therefore, the apprehensions which the chardent will be at once frowned down. The prospect is no automatic machine, running regularly and acter and capacities of those who have been inof six cents damages is not tempting, but the ad- successfully by the perfectly poised force of its vested with power by General Grant have exvantages of such a first-class advertisement are own organization. Even Mr. Lincoln's crude cited, shall prove to be unfounded-if the future great. Joking apart, the principles involved in ideas of its nature included the necessity of in- shall bear the fruits of wise purpose and successMr. Reade's suit against The Round Table, in telligent supervision; and when, according to his ful effort-if the peace which has been invoked their bearing upon the rights both of authors and own classic declaration, he undertook to "run the be, not the forgotten shibboleth of a party, but of critics, make the case worthy of future and machine," he was careful to surround himself the accomplished result of faithful and patriotic more serious consideration. with those who comprehended its intricacies and policy-we trust there will be no doubtful or hesiwere competent to its management. If an old tating expression of universal approval. THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. and worn metaphor may be again impressed into We have no predictions to utter in regard to service, the Ship of State must be guided by a the Administration of General Grant. Nor have helm, and its voyages upon the troubled seas of we additional comment to make upon the Inaugu- domestic and international politics are fortunate close of the war-the prevailing tone of sentiment ral Address, except to note the possible signifi- or disastrous, according to the accuracy of the among the people-and the precise character of cance of the announcement-that the President chart by which it is steered and the skill of him their feelings toward the general Government, proposes to have a policy of his own upon all who stands at the wheel. were all subjects of doubt at the time of Mr. public questions-and the declaration, that he It was naturally expected, both by his political Johnson's accession to the Presidency. Reports will freely employ the power of the veto to ex- friends and opponents, that General Grant-re- had been made by officers of the Freedmen's press his disapproval of Congressional action. Of cognising his own want of experience, his abso- Bureau, then in full operation, of the most exthe probabilities of the future, therefore, we can lute ignorance of the theory and details of Exe-aggerated character. Political missionaries and only judge from the indications which each day cutive duty, and the very limited relation which the class of men since known as "carpet-baggers," may reveal; and these, it is already easy to per- his previous life had borne to the consideration forwarded to the press of the North, to Senators ceive, are likely to be too uncertain and contra- or determination of public questions-would have and Representatives, and even to the President dictory to justify prophecy, or indeed give value gladly sought to supply his personal deficiencies himself, stories of contumacious rebellion, sullento conjecture. and incapacity by the selection of Cabinet Minis-ness and discontent, the absurdity of which had The appointment of the Cabinet-taking it as ters from the most competent and experienced no other parallel than their falsity. Mr. Johnthe first manifestation, both in point of time and members of the party which elevated him to the son, as a resident of a Southern State, knew that significance has occasioned general surprise, if Presidency. The example of all his predecessors no reliance could properly be placed upon these not universal disappointment. The selection of was before him. None of them had failed to es accounts; and yet he was aware that their conthe several heads of the Executive Departments, timate the value of wise counsel, or the necessity tradiction should come from a source-the truth like the cast of the Inaugural Address, is undoubt- of executive capacity; and those among them and responsibility of which none would venture edly the President's own. The secresy with which whose want of familiarity with the highest to dispute. He accordingly entrusted to General the latter was carefully guarded from prying curi- duties of civil service most resembled his own, Grant, the successful commander of a victorious osity, was observed in regard to the former. No were prompt to give strength to their adminis- army, the duty of making a personal inquiry into previous intimation was given of the proposed trations by the careful selection of subordinates the political condition of the South. The report THE RESTORATION OF SHERIDAN. his career. English writer, he was "the first stump-orator in the world, standing, too, for the time being, on the highest stump." This humane and moderate course cost him his popularity. He was sneered at as a sentimentalist, and the chief power passed into the hands of Cavaignac, a man not troubled with excessive scrupulousness or tenderness. of the General-of-the-armies was promptly re- power, were the personal qualities which dis- Florence, until 1829, when he returned to France, turned. Our readers have not forgotten its terms. tinguished him. They naturally prompted a and was elected to the Academy. It was the testimony of a soldier, the generosity series of military requirements and oppressions Unwilling to accept official position under Louis of whose character had not then been affected by which combined to kindle discord and dissen- Philippe, he undertook a journey to the East, an eager ambition for civil office. "My observa- sion, to destroy the peace of the community, to something like a royal progress. During this jourwhich, with his Gallic love of display, he made tions lead me to the conclusion, said General array class against class, to excite sedition and ney he had the misfortune to lose his daughter, Grant, "that the citizens of the Southern States conspiracy, to paralyse industry and trade, and to who accompanied him. On his return, he took are anxious to return to self-government within subvert the order and integrity of society. Un-his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, to which he the Union as soon as possible; that they are in der the inspirations of his own restless vanity, had been elected in his absence; and where he earnest in wishing to do what they think is re- and governed by the counsels of intriguing and greatly distinguished himself by his eloquence. quired by the Government, not humiliating to reckless political adventurers, this modern pro- He declined a place in the Ministry which was them as citizens, and that if such a course were consul illustrated the crushing effects of arbitrary offered him by the King in 1834, and at last became one of the prominent members of the opposition. pointed out, they would pursue it in good faith." rule, and demonstrated how limitless is the measWhen the troubles of 1848 broke out, Lamartine This statement was the justification of what ure of irresponsible aad unintelligent tyranny. was at the highest point of popularity, and it is to has since been known as the policy of restoration. But the character of his whole administration is his lasting renown that he used his great influence It had the sanction of General Grant's testimony best shown by the contrast between it and that of unselfishly and in favor of law and order. His and approval. It involved the simple principle General Hancock. memorable speech which prevented the unfurling that the people of the South would accept the This brief allusion to a chapter of very recent his- of the drapeau rouge and saved Paris from being consequences of war, in whatever form they tory is sufficient to introduce the record of one of deluged with blood, is the crowning incident in At that moment, says a humorous might be presented, if "not humiliating to them the earliest acts of the new Administration. The as citizens." It is no part of our present purpose promised programme of peace is inaugurated by the to trace the influences which changed the policy return to his former satrapy of the commander of the Government to the policy of reconstruc- whose reign was of iron--galling the necks of his tion. The issues that arose between Congress subjects, constantly "humiliating them as citiand the late President, and the conflict which zens," treating them with consistent harshness, lasted to the close of his administration, may be and forcibly repressing their "acquiescence in the left to history. With a single feature of that ex- authority of the General Government" by making cited period have we present concern. Military that authority onerous and odious to the utmost commanders, placed over districts and depart- degree. On the other hand, General Hancock, ments at the South, soon exhibited their sympa- who added to the soldierly qualities displayed in thies. A few, honorable and generous men, acted in the full spirit exhibited by General Grant's report. Their administration of delicate and responsible duties was attended with the success No word of comment is necessary. What was which always crowns conscientious effort-a suc- true of the Southern States in 1865, according to With the notable exception we have mentioned cess which demonstrated with what ease the im- the report of General Grant, is far more true in pending problem of Southern government could 1869; and no one knows more thoroughly than above, it is as a poet and not as a politician that be solved. There were others, however, who himself, that their anxiety to return to self-gov- fortune that being a sentimentalist, a man of poetry perceived the tendency of Northern sentiment, ernment within the Union, to which he bore such and reverie, he was forced into a position which and sought to propitiate the tyranny of growing willing testimony, is a stronger and more widely demanded a man of energy and action. And it Radicalism by adopting its wildest tenets as the pervading feeling to-day than at the time he was his great misfortune that his latter years were rules of their own conduct. Of the former class wrote. Of the other military orders we need not darkened by the consciousness that he had outthe most striking example was General Hancock. speak. Every mild and, so to speak, conservative lived his fortune, his influence, his reputation, and A true soldier, he had sympathies for those whom general, is made to give place to a radical succeshe had known as formidable and generous enemies sor. Such is the beginning of an administration in war. Although in no American sense a poli- whose programme has been declared to be-Peace; It is now nearly fourteen years since, in the tician, he comprehended the nature of free gov- and whose inaugural has asked "patient forbear-summer of 1855, Offenbach obtained permission to ernment sufficiently well to lead him to abhor the ance, one toward another, throughout the land, open in the Champs Elysées, in Paris, a small habitual violation of its most sacred principles. and a determined effort on the part of every citi-theatre, the inauguration of which took place with His, in a word, was that admirable combination zen to do his share toward cementing a happy a prologue and the performance of a pantomime of qualities which readily reconciled obedience Union." to military command with the observance of individual right and the preservation of public libOn the first of March, as the telegraph briefly erty. His administration of a difficult depart- informs us, died Alphonse de Lamartine in the ment was rewarded by the restoration of peace 79th year of his age. In these few words is anand order within its limits; and few will forget nounced the close of the career of one who for in the future how in his hands, a military general order was made the vehicle of an admirable exposition of Constitutional Law-instead of a registered decree of wanton usurpation. war a comprehension of the statesmanlike duties world. LAMARTINE. The coup d'état of Louis Napoleon terminated Lamartine's political career. From that time he lived in retirement, occupying himself with the composition of works from the sale of which, and from the produce of his vineyards, he labored in vain to free himself from the load of debt which his reckless extravagance had brought upon him. The close of his life was clouded by mental disease, almost, or quite, amounting to imbecility. Lamartine will be remembered. It was his mis his intellect. OFFENBACH-OPERA BOUFFE. and two saynètes, one of which was Offenbach's Deux Aveugles. In the month of November, the establishment, which was called "Les Bouffes Parisiens," was removed to the Passage Choiseul. There Offenbach produced successively a great number of small operas in one act-Bataclan, Tromb-al-Cazar, Le Mariage aux Lanternes, Les nearly half a century has held, if not a foremost, deux Gardes, M. Choufleury restera chez lui le,....... at least a conspicuous place in the eyes of the Le 66, Les six demoiselles à marier, and many others. At that time, Mlle. Tostée, threatened Lamartine was born in the stormy times of 1790. with consumption, was one of the prima-donnas of His childhood and youth were passed partly in the "Bouffes Parisiens." She was a great favorite retirement and partly in travel, during which he in La Chatte metamorphosée en femme, and in nourished his native poetic genius, which was Les Pantins de Violette of A. Adam. After s afterwards to win him so wide a reputation. very successful season, Offenbach felt the necessity In 1820 appeared his Méditations Poétiques, of diversifying his repertoire, and of writing some which at once obtained extraordinary popularity, longer and more elaborate operas, the first of and elevated their author, in the opinion of his which and one of the most successful was Orphée countrymen, to the highest rank of poets. His aux Enfers. Afterwards followed in rapid succes his absolute and relentless rule. Obstinancy, literary celebrity induced the Government to give sion, Les Bavards, Les Georgiennes, Les Bergers. passion, prejudice, the pretence and weakness him a diplomatic position at Naples, where he These last two were very indifferent works, and which belong to little minds, and the insolence married, his bride being a young English woman. Offenbach's genius seemed exhausted, when the which attends sudden and unworthy accession to He filled other diplomatic posts at London and decree of the French Government in regard to the The officer whom he succeeded in the command of the Department of Louisiana, was a type of the latter class to which we have referred. The administration of General Sheridan, in that department, will certainly never be forgotten by those who were so unfortunate as to be subject to |