Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1878, Page 3

LANBERTIRI---ARTONELLL pid the Cardinal Secretary Have a Child ? o Uase that Excited Rome, and Tnterested the World, Figlia del Cardinale—The Case Before the Roman Courts, A i H 4 Epecial Correspondence of The Tribune. i, Feb. 7.—News from Rome snnounces s 8 judzment o the Lamocrtini-Antonerli cewill be reached very sbortly, and public attertion, distracted by the chances of peace and i, tarss once more to La figtia del Cardinale. Jdoobt vers much if your readers have read hecase in its entirety, or even scen a correct gstement of the same. It has just been pub- Jished here, with all the oflicial documents and Terbatim TEPOFLS of the testimony. The case yrsinst. Count,_Autonelli, as the inberitor of spe Cardinal Segretary’s estate of 40,000,000 i lire, sbout §10,000,000, is_sct forth by the in- giament fited in court. This indictment covers gliy-four poiuts, or paragraphs, from which I ammsrize the story. “Antoipetta Ballerin was born in Rimini in 11, sud at the age of 15 was married to a cer- 4sin Angelo Marconi, in the employ of the Mar- quess Francesco Coradori Frezoso. A few pontbs after the wedding ceremony some dormy sceaes occurred between the young wife o her husband of 40 years, Sheleft his house, paveled in Europe, and bronght up in Tunis in 1347, wherea boy was born. A year latershe eturned to Italy, and in the autumn of 1850 gettied in Rome. Here she made the acquaint- soce of Cardinal Autonclli, who accidentally met heras she was transacting some business at the State Treasury. The matronly woman so pleased his Eminence that he undertook to care for ber, and ehe became his mistress (wurde die Gdishte Sr. Eminenz). The relation with the Cardinal continued several years, although the prass-widow Was soon comvinced that she was obliged to share the favors of the Prince of the Church with many others, notably «q tively little Duchess.” The Marconi woman carried on a smail business in Rome, kecping a store for spectacles and opera-glasses, and her father, Glovanni Ballerini, found employment behind ker counter. Her husband lived in his advsocing age peaceably at Riminf, and neither of the pair troubled themselves in the least sbont the other. Stressis laid upon the fact hst Angelo Mareoni was never in Rome, and that during 1534 and 1835 he lived continuously in Rimini; and also not only was the Marconi woman during 1854'5 not pregnant, but was prevented Dy physical causes from being so. However, in 1855 pregnancy was feigned, and : THE SIMULATION WAS PRODGCED = bysgreement with the Cardinal for the purpose of concealing the preznancy of a foreign lady, ¥ inchild by the Cardinal, ana who by these + * meaus intended to bave the child legitimized. In August, 1355, the preparations were per- feted, and the simulation by the Marconi ‘woman carried out more in detail ; she withdrew {rom the Poli Palace, and took up her residence In the Via delle Vite. The window of 3 ber foom opened on to the Via del Gambero, 8 seldom-frequented street par- sliel with the Corso. As soon as the youpg stranzer began to feel the paits of childbirth, news was brought to the Marconi ¥oman by the midwife Anna.Gervasigso she immediately took to her bed to deceive ber neighbors. Every possible means were used to thisend. (The details here given ave hardly fit for translstion.) Scarcely were the preparations ready when the new-born infant was broughs to the Mareoni woman, by the midwife, carcfully ¥rapped in cioth, and the child was received by tne Marconi woman with her own bands. This W on Oct. 21, 1855, the birthday of the Countess Lambertini. On the 25th of tke same month the child was baptized in the Church of Santa Maria in Via, and was given the name Lorets Domenica Victoria Marconi. At the baptism, the father of the false mother, Giovauni Balieriny, acted as the Marconi father. Auzclo Marconi was in Rimiui at the time. In the opening of the year 1855 Cardinal An- tonellh rave the Rorran physician, Dr. Raphael Lucchesi, a command with the strictest injunc- 1ion 10 keep it sceret- Lucchesi was to o and R T amange with the midwile, Gervasi, to receive in b disclies {raul i nal. The midwife was to take charze of her uutil the aecouchement with the most tender eolicitude, and with the strictest injurction to preserve silence, so that twe child micht be lezitimized. Lucchesi told the midwife whose child_she was 1o care for, and as_she was so afraid of the power of the Cardinal she did as £ae was bid; and the same was the case with the Marconl woman. A mouth before the birth, Dr. Lucchesi brought the lagy to the house of the midwi‘e. during the night, 102 closed wazon, and with her came an ehlcrlE lady compauion, who remalned until after the birth'in the house of the midwife.. Before the birth, the Cardinal came in person to sce how the Iady had been cared for. Both ladies SPOKE A STRANGE LANGUAGE with each other that the mjdwile did not under- stand, but spoke French to the Cardinal and Dr. Luceniesi. The midwife did not hear all that was eaid, but tieard he lady weeping about. the future, and beard the kfsses of the Curdipal who was consoling ber. She frequently burst out with the remark, “When L am inarried, sud they know the relations I have had wih you, I shall go crazs.” The young dady con- funtly besourht the Cardinal to do all he d” tof the child. On such occasions the Cardinal promised and swore that the secret elould never get out;: she could be quite calm; his danger was greater than bers. -lle would provide most amply for the child, and would fssure its future exactly as she wi d and as was congenial to his own feelings. The mid- wile knew perfectly that the child was the first. the lady ever had, not merecly from what the lady £uid to the Cardinal, but also through her long expericnce of similar cases. The little 1 who was born on the 21st of Uctober. 183, s the same that the midwile carried to the coni woman, that was baptized in the Church of St. Maria in Vi, and who later was martied to Count Giuliv Lambertini. ¢ names Loreta (Laura) and Domenica were given 1o the child at therequest of the Cardinal, whose father’s name was Domenico, and whose Mother's name was Loreta. The Countess Lorera Antonelli, - v THE MOTHER OF THE CARDINAL, knew that the new-born child wus the daughter of her son Giacomo, and whenever the child ¥as brought to ber she fondled and kissed it re- Peatealy.” The teatures of toe child were very pronyunced, and such a remarkable likeness of the Cardinal that those w) v_1be chiid al- Ways commented on the similarity. The Car- dinal visited the child, fondled and kissed it on several ovcasions, and dirccted the nurse, a cer- 1ain Pontefilil, to take the_ utnost care of bis bter. Whea the child was a year old it ¥as taken ill, and, on news being sent to bis Eminence, he came at once, and in person, to ¢ his child. On amother occasion ~be brousht a silver medal ~which he desired the child ehould wear on a ribboa around its neck. D une side were the engraved arms of the Cardinal and this inscription: _ ** Jacopo Auton- ¢llio, £ R. E. D. C. A. Publ. Negot. Pil. 1X. P 3L (Jacapo Autoncllio, Sum Revercndissimze Eminential, Diacono Curdinali, a publicis nezo- ‘Lils Pii Noni Pontiticis Maximi). He also bought Ler a cold medal which on one_side had a_por- rait head of his Eminence, and on the other 3 Bead of himeelf, and be was very strict in_bis orders that the child shonld wear the med D geveral oceasions the Cardinal sent word t the Marconi woman that he would go out walk- inzat s certain hour cither before the Poria San Giovanni or to the Castle Gandolo, and she Fasto bring the child, now grown somewhat reer, 5025 to meet him. The child always went-and kissed ber father’s band. On one ge- €100 ishen the child Wwas about. 6 years old she {ell from a wazou in which sbe was_riding, in the Pincio, and broke ber right Jew. The Cardi- oal was notified, and came at onceto see her, ad seut repeatedly afterwards to_iuquire how e was. At first the Cardinal only paid o was mnecessary for the ~maio- “nace of the child, but as she grew Oder he pecame more amd_mare lib- @l in the sums he advanced. The Marconi ;?mn, knowing the Uardinal's love for his llg, wonld take the baby to him when asking mote money than the Cardinal scemed dis- 1o give the woman, for when the chila vresent he refused nothing. NII WANTED IS CHILD WELL EDUCATED, thelostno endeavor to haye her 50, Im- K THE CHICAGO .TRIBUNE: SUNDAY., MARCH 3. 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES, mediately after the birth he save the Marcont | court {flo and toat ¢ e yoman 22,000 seudi in zold (about $23,000). F $23,000). For the same purpose he gave on ather"omgslm‘:s Laura. Woman often visited the anilm;fl to ;I;h: hyu?“;l:ig- cr, aud most gencrally returned with some postly present given her by him, particularly on her bx;::x;l:g‘s. In 1572 he presented her with X ang: ‘The Marconi woman. the 1 1L ~the false mother—died On March 12, 1872, and on her dying bed made a statement of the whole aff: r the fuperal tl[u: Lardinal sent 2, Laura not being 8 -’:..e. a guardian was procured for ber in the f\li;l[:sn of Signor Costauzo Chauvet, the present I3 Cher of the Popolo Komano. 'The Cardival fave Clauvet both instructions and mony for e purnose of taking care of his child. * The Sardinal was purticularly pleased when his Gl ater married the Count Lambertini, and id all in his power to advance the weddine, and }:";\\: them 100,000 francs. He desired them to e away from Rome, and they withdrew to ¢ ‘esenax, where his Eminence sent them money 19;g10ply furuish their villa. In November, rrs?a, the Lambertinis returncd to Rome, and Com this time til] the death of the Cardiaa! the -ountess visited her fatner reqularly; the Cas- dinal received heras his daushier, and fequest her to visit him in the evenings dressed in dark stulle, so that ehe should not be noticed. She Wrote constantly to bim; he received her letters and answered them by fufilling al] her wishes. The last letter is dated Nov 2, 1876, and it is proved the Cardinal received it. On the nest day the Countess went personally to receive her answer. The servant returned bringing_her £old, and the message that his ~Emi- nence would see her on the following Mon- day, as he feltsmnwell; on that same Monday he died. During her married life he paid ber 100,000 francs yearly for housekeeping, and con- tinued the costly prescuts on ber birthday; on ome occasion prtsenting her 125,000 franés in Tentes. The Father Marco Rossi, of the Socicty of Jesus, was during the last years of the Car- dinal’s Life his confessor, and on several ocea- sions the Countess Lambertini took counsel with Father Rosst, and he told her the evening before the Cardinal’s death be would speak plainly with bis Eminence in the mornfus about his daughter’s future. TULS 15 THE SUBSTANCE OF THOE LONG INDICT~ T Is it true! The Cardinal X y Sonnino was a remarkable mau, and pot over credited with those many virtues of life that one would ex- pect to find under the scarlet hat. Castelar, himself a devout Catliolic, descrived Antonelli as appearing “tall and strong,—a huntsman, rather than a Cardinal,—a mountaincer, but uo iers eyes Cark as night, a prominent nose, tull lips, & lemon-colored complexion, rude and rugzed physiognomy, a daring charac- ter, a robust constitution, and his attitudes and gestures—nccording to my impressions— proclaimed a man longr habituated to command mperiously, and to be obeyed without resist- ance. But lshould also deulare he seemed to e to be a person of extreme rulgarity.” Gruen compared Antonelli to the prelates of Beneven- to, judged with so much _harshness by Montesquiey, and who, while Pope Benedict XIIL prayed before the statue of St. Viucent Ferrer, ran from monastery to Inon: kissed the bauds of the friars, performed treme penance, despising all pleasures and all earthly pomps, gave themselves up to ambition, 10 weaith, and the foltics of the world. Certain it is Antonelli’s character will bardly stand bitn a defeuse agaiust the charges preferred by the Couutess Lambertini, Certainly the distinct- ness of the story, which would Bave required a cleverer inventor than Jules Verne to put to- gether from whole cloth, militates against any belief Ipating Antonelli, and no wan of his power and nature ot whom it used to besaid in Kome “a word from him js iuch, two, too much,” would subuit to be blackmailed 10 the extent of 2,061,972 franes, 03 centimes, which sum he was proved Lo bave paid out, $413,895.60. But let us look at the trial wiich opened on July 21 last year betore Appelirath Pio Teodo- rant, and ended, as faras pleadings and examiva- tion of wituesses is concerned, on Dec, scventy-five witnesses were summo amined, all on the side of the deteuse being content with cro: for the purpose of timony, and exceptions on points of Jaw . TIE TUREE PRINCIPAL WITN were the midwife, Gervase, a sniall, very fat, short-throated soman, who, however, gave her testimony _cl.arly, and with a cofiaence there was uo, shaking. She showed the Marcon woman to have been an adveuturess from the time of her marriage, and a woman of really valgar character, as obe of her remarks about the Cardinal will show,— l'edile come si srena ora quel cane. Ma per Div giacche mi vuol par fare uello che pare a lui, glido jaro costar salato.” he second princival witness, Don Vicenzo Beneditti, was the coufidant and Secre- tary of the Marconi woman, and 'a pricst, aged Gi. The third important witness was Augelo Tamburlani, 73 years of ag, was the valet of the Cardinal. The C: al’s confessor, the Jesuit Father Kossi, was among he other witnesses, who included m_their number physicians, tobaceo-dealers, coachnen, 2 canow, a notary, a house-furnisiier, a_ taior, a journulist, 2 banker, 2 _carpenter, a fencing- mester, an adyocate, 4 dealer in abtiquities, a surgeon, asoldier, a’ hotelkeepe aud a Jesuit. The testimol I 1y the assertions of the atlidavit, w no way shakeu by the defense. There was nothing very new to note iy the testimony. Perhaps a paragraph showing bow the gold was paid out is of_intere: Jan. 2, seut 4, pay laborers_at’ the palace, 7, personally 630 fr.; Feb. 5, sent 2 day, cveuing, to pay lab 10; sent 215 fr.; Feb. 16 arch 18, bya gendarme, 1,000 1y 8,093 fr.; Mareh 31, April 12, in the Vatican, ¥ 13, in gold, 500 1 April 18, personally 3,00 1r; April 20 personally, -in_gold, 1,000 fr. And so it continues, This' was in 18763 and we caunot but stand aghast at the golden shower the Car- dinal rained down ou his Dunee. I is casy to ste how suci sums were spent, when we re- member the Grapin Lambertini’s way of livingr. In 1875 she lived like a Princess, in apartments that cost 30,000 iraucs (o furnish. In 1571 she oceupied the ground fluor of the Palace Bermul, and, on the occasion of the celebration in bonor of the Princess Marwherita, the Marconi woman threw open her sulons, received the Princess, and gave a graud bail. THE DEPENSE, however, did not question all this, the fuct that the baptismal- the chill lezally u chuld of the Marconi woman, and, as the baptism was not disputed, there was an end to the vase. The defcnse dwelt very y on the fact that the mother was not produced, and declared her 1o be a wytin. Toe prosecution replied that the mother was a woman in high circles in another country, happy with her childres, _and bonored by mer friends, and, il sbie was forced to_appear, her life-happiness would be ruined. Ifit was absolutely necessary, how- ever, she_would be produced;; but the prosecu- tion considered that, if they found the Countess Lambertini not to hiaye been the child of the Marconi_ woman and that of the Cardinal Autouclli, it was not necessary to produce the mother. The deitnse went 50 far as to admit the Cardinal bad always considered Gimsclf the father of the Countess, which was unquestion- ably agreat point. Sinor Mari, the lcader for tne Autonclli heirs,” closed lis speech by remark'ng: * Adyenturers iike the Marconi woman have always a shoal of lovers, und it often bappens that the rich and old must auswer for the children of the youur and poor. VLo ope forrets lnmsell with “such a pe and we are all liableto weakuess—he bas often cause to repent all his life, although positive proof mag never be had. 1will grant you at once that the Cardinal considered hi f the father of the little Laura, But I remind vou of similar cases where Magino Falieri, Lord Palmerston, and other * great people, were chormed without cause’ with being the, father of ilicgitimate children. 1 repéat it, the point of the whole question lies in the maternity. Where is this unknown mother? Why does she allow twenty years to pass away and wake o sizn? Whefe is she now since the great protector of Ner child s dead? They say she is rich. Go to her, then,— a natural daughter has more claim on a mother than a father. She never did anything for her daughter, for she never existed; but the Mar- contiwomnan, the real mother, always took care of her.” The complainant is a little woman (Fraucher). The Cardinal and the stranger were both tall; the two ousht to have pro- Quced a Janp-post.” THE ADVOCATE TAZANT, a member of the Italian Parliament, led the prosecution, and from his lone gspeech I ex- tract the following: ** Let us giance for a mo- ment at the older times of the Papacy. Who among us does not know what a remarkable change hes passed over the Church in the course ot time? We all kuow the fatal temporal power of tue Pope has fully sccularized the diyine in the Church's institution. We all know the sovercignty of the great Bishop of Rome, with its glory, has killed the democratic spirit_of the Church. And in the hour tue Church became rich and powerful began corruption to pierce through and tbrough to bring the Church to that degredation which we to-day snust witness. Andso it was that the celibacy of _the priests, one of the institu- tions of the Church confinned by the at Council of Trent, remains to-day only a dead- letter. And s0 it comes to pass that this Roman | g that so long has jron- feally been termed ¢ Holy,’ was peopled by bastard sons of priests. It grew at one time to such dimeusions that Pius V., a strict keeper of customs, endeavored to stay the evif and forbid the prelates to eail their children Duchesses, Princesses, and Countesses, In the same year, 1571, in which Pius V. published his bull against corruption. a book appeared at Basle containlng 1he collected letters of another Pontiff, Pius the Second, <Eneas Silvio Piccolomini. In one of these letters the learned Pope comnmends to his father a son which an English lady bad borne tim (the Pope). ‘I Lave sinned,’ wrote the Pope, ‘and I Lope for the merey of God. Re- eeive the child, 1ather; he is destined for great things; he shall be my inheritor, and I wish him in his progress to be like me.” Gentlemen, when 2 Pope can write such a letter, then we ‘can understand that the Church laws against the children of the father in sacris cannot be §o very strong, and that in su‘vih o case the proofs of paternity are admit- ted. 5 CARDINAL DE LUCCA, in his work about the children ez damnao coitu. lays down this rale: ‘The children of Cardi- nals are not sacrilegious, quia Cardinalatus cx i natura non est ordo.’ 'The case secms to me, fentlemen, to be proven. There is no romance cbmposed tor you. I believe such proofs of pa- ternity have seldom been given before 2 court. When we prove the associating of the Cardinal with the mother, the birth, bis tender care for her and her condition, his care of the child, the payments for the same, the child that he ordered baptized with the names of his father aud mother; toe chifd he always watched with the eyes of Iove and who heard ‘papa’ so often from his_lips—then no one can say we have brought forward no proofs of weizlit nor made our accusatiou good.™ ,oud applause.] ‘This is the case for which we wait an “answer at the bands of whe Judees, and either is or is not a disgrace to the Roman priesthood and the history of tue Holy City. ADDISON. APPELLATE COURT CLERKSHIPS, o0 the Editor of The Tribune- TUSCOLA, 11l., March 1.—One of the Judges of the Appellate Court in this, the Third Dis- trict, has discharged a bombshell into the ranks of the aspirants for Clerks of the Appeliate Court in the Third and Fourth Districts. The Judge alluded to says the clerkship will not be worth more than $2,000 br §3.000 per anbum. With all due deference to his Lordship, I desiro to say that I have carefully examined the Ap- pellate Court Jaw, and find, by precedeut, that the clerksnip will be worth in the Ottawa Dis- trict not less than §5,000, in the Springfield Dis- trict not less than $6,000, and in the Mount Ver- von District not less than $4,500 per anvum. Sec. 3 gives the Clerk a six years’ term, and declares that he “shall perform the duties usually devolving upon Clerks of Courts of Tecord, and he shall provide books, stationery, ete. [the learned Judge forzot that margin), and shatl be entitled to reccive the same fees for services as are allowed for like services in the Supreme Court.” Sce. 1L vests the Appellate Court ‘¢ with ‘power to issue writs of certiorari, error, supe sedens, and a1l other writs pot probibited law.” ' A leading lawyer states that this clause alone will add 20 per cent to the fees of the ‘Appellate Clerk because of the case with which attoraeys can reach one of the twelve Appellate Judges. But Sce. 15 is the one_which will prove most profitable to Appellate Clerks. Tt reads: “The Judges of the said Appellate Courts respect- ively, or amajority of them, may enter orders and’ judsments in vaeation in all cases which harve been argued or submitted to the courts during any term thereof, and which shall bhave been taken under advisement.” Novw this section gives the Clerk of the Ap- pellate Court an absolute mouopoly of the de- cisions of the Appellate Court. The law creat- ingthe Appellate Court does not provide for publishing thc opinions of the Court. The third paragraph of See. 8 says that *In all cases de- termined in said Appeliate Courts, in action ex- contractu, wherein the amount iuvolved is less tian 31,000, exclusive of costs. aud the jude- ment is aflirmed o, otherwise finally disposed of ia the Appellate Court, the judgment, order, ordecree of the Appeliate Court shall be finat, and no appeal shall lic or writ of error be prosecuted therefrom.” The lezal friend at my elbow eays that this provision will include as much as onc-third of the business that formerly went to the Subreme Court, and that for every one ot these cases the Avppellate Clerk must furnish, on demand, a cer- tified copy of said opinion at the prescribed rate of 15 ‘vents per folio of 100 words. Attorneys having suits before the Appeilate Court must therctore have an opinion certified 10 their clients at the carlicst practicable period. That opinion liticants must pay for, and it adds to the fees of the Appetlate’ Cierk over and above the fees accruing to the Clerk of the Su- preme Court. And now I want to add the legislative testi- mony touching the Appellate Courts. There has Deen, for eight or ten years, a settied and confirmed prejudice against the monopoly en- joved by the Supreme Court Reporter. ~The Legislature at its last session took action on this monopoly, and limited the Reporter to $2.25 per volume_for books that ordinarily sell for 34 and & per volume. ‘The Keporter re- ceives the opinion from the Sutreme Court on its delivery, and if several attorpeys desirea certified copy (which is always the case) in ad- vauee of publization, he furnishes it at the legal rate of 15 cel er 100 words. A lezal printed pace contains 650 words per page, or nearly $1 a paze. An average 1 opinfon will make four pages, and not fess than two opinions of the Appellate Court will be required for each case. Thesc fees acerue exclusively to the Clerk of the Appellate Court. Pitoctox. e SLANDER. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaco, Marcli 1.—The following is copied from a clipping several years old, and is, I think, worth reprinting. W. RLEP STRAIGNT ATIEAD. Pay no attention to_ skuderers and gossip- mongers. Kee straight on in vour course, and let their backbiting die the death of ueglect. What is the use of lying awake nights brooding over the remark of some false friend, that runs through your brain like lightuing? What is the use of getling into a worry and fret over ossip that has been se afloat, to your disadvantage, by some meddicsome busybody who has more time than-character? 'hese things caunot possibly injure you, un- Tess vou take notice of thiem, and, in combating them. give them o standing and character. If what is said about you is true, set your- self v ifitis false, let it go for what it teh, 1fa bee to destroy it} upon youd Itisw juries you have received. We are generally losers in the end if we stop to refute all the backbitiug and gossiping we may hear by the way. “They are annoying, it is true, but not danzer- ous—30 long as we do not stob to expostulate or scold. Our are formed and gustaiued by ourselves, by our own actions and purposes, and not by others, Let us always bear in mind that *Calumnia- tors may usually be trusted to time, and the slow but steady justice of public’opinion,” And O how much evil designers fear public opinion! — Do Beauflremont, The interminable Princess de Beauffremont case is up azain _before the Paris courts. T Princess, a Belgian, married a Frenen oflicer, by he bad two children. He and she quar- he sued for a separation, but failed to obtain it, her pleas being dismissed as frivolous. She bad fallen in jove with Prince Georse Bivesco, 2 Roumanian, and to marry him went, to Germuny, beeame nauralized, got a divoree under German law, and was married. This made her a bigamst under French law, and ber hus- band sued to attach her property in France, so as to make her give up the children. The civil courts ordered her to cowe into court with her children, and as she couldn’t without being tiable to arrest on criminal process fined her 1,000 fraucs o day tiil she should purge herself of contewpt. "When the Prince proceeded against the estate, he found himself hampered by the fact that she was a Belgian by birth and a German_by adoption, with a German divorce from her French husband; and when he tried his luck in Germany she was discovered to be in Roumania, where there is no earthly way of surving the process of the French court on her, aud the local tribunals wiil take no cognizauce of this extremely interestit but very compli- cated case. And now, even the lawyers are in Gespair. —— A Big Iron-Clad, The new iron-clad vessel in construction at Castellaware, Italy, wiil be perhaps the most powerial yet atloat. The Italia’s dimensions are 120 fmetres in length, twenty-two in width, fifteen o height, and eightaudahalf indraught; 13,000 tons displacement, and 5,000 tons weizht of the bull. The vessel will compartments, and will earry an oval cuirassed Dattery. It will be moved by _two independent; cugines, with six cylinders and twenty-six boil- ers of 13,000 horse power, giving a velocity of sixteen knots an hour. The =uns will be Inrrer than those of 100 tons, and the {Jlating twenty inches in dismeter. This colossal construction, completely srmed, will cost, it is calculated, more than 20,000,000 of francs. el ing you, would you go to the hive Would nof a thousand come «dom to say little of the in- EUROPEAN GOSSIP, Anecdotes of the Public and Pri- vate Life of Victor Em- manuel, The American Colony in Paris Exer- cised About the Balls at the Elysee. Gambling at Monte Carfo-King Aifonso of Spaip... An Imperial Christening. VICTOR EMMANUEL. Rome Correspondence Soringfleld (ass.) Republican. So much svmpathy bas been manitested in America with the aims and successcs of Victor Emmaaucl that a few anecdotes of his public und private life may be interesting to your readers. He commenced his reign, as is well known, in a time of disaster and panic. After the battle of Navara, on the abdication of " Charies Albert, the new King opened tegotia- tions with the Austritn General Radetsky. Covered with dust and blood, weary and sad, be went to the enemy’s camp and was con- ducted to the prescnce of Radetsky. It was a memorable interview. The voung sovereign asked for an armistice and honorable terms of peace. Radetsky replied that the sole con- ditions he could offer were these: Abo- lition of the Sardinian Covstitution; sup- pression of the national colors; & return, in all respects, to the regime of Carlo Felice: intimate altiance with Austria. If these were accepted, he would set out with bis army for Aiian at once, and, not only would uot demand any tribute or indemnity, but would proffer the good offices of his government_in the new state of things to be insugurated. ~Victor Emmanuct listened in silence, though with dificulry re- pressing his indignation. When the Austrian had tinished, ** Marshal,” he exclaimed; “sooner than sign such a treaty I wonld lose a hundred crowns. 1shall not be unfaithfulto my oath to my father. You want war to the dedth,—you shall have it. I will arouse the nation, and you shall see what Piedmont can do when she i3 in earnest. If I must vield, it shall be without shame. Qur race knows the path of exiie, but not that of dishonor.” He was about to retire, but his firm bearing had made an impression upou the veteran soldicr, and other terms were pro- posed, which, though involving great sacrifices, did not compromise the independence of the Sardinian klugdom. Victor Emmanucl cared greatly for popular approbation. In 1863 the Marquis Masseino d'Azeglio, then President of the Council, ad- vised him to make a tour through certain proy- inves which were thought to be discontented. “I will go," replied the King, “{f you can as- sure me that I sball be well received. A despot can do without applause, but the silence of tne populace is a condemnation for a constitutional Sovereigm.” In 1855, returning from his visit to London and Paris, the King stopped a few days at Chambery, the Capital of Savoy. Anact of Parliam j e from the Kingdom of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, who bad remafned _there only by suffer- ance since 1848, and bad begun to meddle in nolitical affairs. The Chambery ladies, who depeuded on this sisterbood almost ex- clusively for the education of their daurhters, resolved to send a deputation to the King, begging him that this decree might not be executed. ~ He received toe three ladies who compused the deputation with the utmost po- liteness, but explained to them that he could not interfere, as the Sisters had descrved their expufsion. The ladies pleaded hard, and at length oue of them exclaimed: “Sire, if these 2o0d nuns go away, who s to_cducate our chil- dren?” *Madame,” the King replied. with a smile, “if that is the difficulty, 1 belfeve I can dispel your fears by pointingout to you where you can obtain far better instructiou for your Janghters than that which they are about to lose, without goinz out of your own city.” The ladies looked st one another, thinking they bad not rightly understood the King. “But where, your Majesty, can we find in Chambery, or in_all _Savoy, such marvels of teachiers?” Victor Emmanuel, bowing to the three ladies, answered: *‘They are mow before me. Yes, mesdames, where can your daughters find teachers more tender or more zealous thau their own mothers! To con- fide these beloved beings to the care of scrangers is to evince an unjustitiable want of confidence in yourselves. I sure that ere long ypu will thank my Mioisters for havivg given you ocea- sion to fuldll the most important and solemn duties of maternity.” There was nothing more to be said, and the ladies retired to dizest their complimentary fesson. Onmorethan one occasion Victor Emmanuel’s fgood nature and_ready wit has stood him in food stead. At Pisa, one day, he sent word that e would visit the catnedral at a certain hour. When he arrived, the Bishops and Priests, whose duty it was toreceive him, were absent, the main cutrance was closed, and the church appeared deserted. He waited patiently a few moments, acrowd collecting, meanwhile, and becoming Joud and threatening in their indignation azainst the Bishop. Fiunlly, fearing & tumuit, the King went quictly around to a small side-door, and as he was about to enter, turned to the ex- cited mob, and with an expressive smiic and gesture, called out loudly: *Never mind, my fricuds: you know it is by the straight gate that ‘e enter Paradise!” The happy hit told on an Tialian crowd, -always ready to laugh, and the Qanger was over. At Bolozna the Bisbop.ab- sented nimself on a shmilar occasion, but the next day, cither from compunction or fear, asked an audicuce of the Ki and pleaded ill- ness as an excuse for his incivility. O, it is not of the least consequence in the world,” re- plied the King, “Idid not go to see the clergy, but the churen.” In his personal habits Victor Emmanuel was extremely simple and eyen severe. He detested court._ceremonials, and gladly loft them to go to his hunting lodzes in the Alps or at San Rossore, and as never 60 happy as wheu on horseback following the star through heat and cold in thegnountuin soltudes. He somctunes speut the uight in a sheoberd’s hut, incognito, and his host on being told to come to the palace on his mext visit to Turin, would find to his astonishment that the hardy mountaincer he bad sheltered was tue King of Tialy. The Kivg's private apartment at the Quirinal was in accordance Wwith these simple and soldierly tasies. It consisted of three rooms onm the sround floor, looking on the garden. The first, a sort of ante-chamber, had its walls covered with weapons of every kind, snd with trophics of the chase. The second, a dinine-roomn, modestly, almost meagerly fur- nished, was adorned by all sorts of pictures of the Piedmontese valleys, lithographs, enarayv- ings, paintings, photographs, witbout order in their arrangement, coverinz all the space. A large picture, painted by the King’s command, and representing himself with all bis hous:hold encamping after the chase on the Snowy siopes of Valsavaranche, hung opposite to bis seat at table, and bis attendantsremarked that ke often gazed long and steadily upou it, espeeially when troubled by the concernsot State. The bed- chamber, iu” which he died, was "a large, lonx room, with the fire-place at oneend and the door at the other; a large window on one side, and the bed opposite; a simple fron bed without. baugings. Near the window stood o small writing-table and a Jarze and worn arm- chair. - There were a few pictures of small artistic value, vrincipally portraits and land- scapes, and on the chimney-piece a clock and a {few comnmon:-place ornaments. When the Presi- dent ot the Council came oue morning after the King had begun to feel the symptoms af his last illness, to which he would pay o heed, the Kmg said to him: *“See, Depretis, I bave had the fire lizhted, contrary to my eustom, because Lam socold. Last night I was vot at all well.”? “Your Majesty must tuse care of yourself,” eaid the Mimstor. I am taking care of my- selt,” was the Kina’s answer. ‘1 am not goiog hunting! 1 feel badly at night, but in the daytime I am better.” And he beman to sizn the papers which the President handed him, till presently bis attention was arrested by one giving a furlough to some Government employe on account of his health. He looked up at the President, and said, * I, too, need a little rest for the same reason.” “ Your Ma- replicd Depretis, rather troubled, but ‘viaz on the jest, ** sovereigus cannot take furloughs on account of their health.” The Kine was silent, and went on with the writing. A week afterward his rest had begun. THE ELYSEE BALLS, Paris torrespondence Pailadelphia Telegraph. Public opivion in the American colony is just now & good deal exercised about the balls at the Elysee, the offictal programme of which has recently been published. There are to be three given, as usual, this year, but the invitations to each are to be limited to 1,500, or at the most 2,000, ngainst 7,000 to S,000 as in former years. Of course, this argues an immense cutiing down of the invitation-lists, and it is whispered that the lists sent from the foreign Embassies will be the first to suffer, The American Lega- tion nsually sends in about 200 names, whercof 150 are generally admitted. ‘This winter, if any invitations at n!fflre accorded to Americaus, the number will be reduced to about twenty-five at the forthest. One can readily imagine the heartburnings, the jealousics, the indignmation that such a course is likely to cause. Nor are the balls to pe called by that name this vear; they are to be known as’ ¢ soirees dansantes ¢ merely. It is rather an _odd. proceed- ing on the part of those having charge of the matter, as the bhalls of the Elyseo arc large enough to accommodate 6,000 people comfortably, and 2,000 will merely sprinkle those long stretches of rooms with a thinly dispersed and dreary-looking company, unless, indeed, the half of them are closed up. Various reasons are assigned for this social change of base on the parb of the powers that be, the real reason apparently being that, as so many official envertainments “will be given dur- ing the coming summer for the benefit of the foreizners of note who come to attend the Ex- hibition, these winter fetes atrthe Elysee arcto assume s more ;}uiel and private character. Of course there will be twice as much anxiety to get an invitation than on ordinary occasions. And yeu these balls at the Elysee are never really worth the fuss that 1s made about them. Apatt from the halls and tne decorations and the lights aud the liveried servants, there is very little to see, and there is nothiug at all 'to do. Rovalty in the shape of the Or- leans family shuts itself up in solitary grandear in s small galon, and s hamne about 1t o'clock. The various notabili- ties of the day cither stay at home altogether, or else walk onee through the rooms, and then take their departure. The old nobiesse sulk in their hotels in the Faubourg St. Germaiu, or in their chateaux in the provinces, and never come near the pluce at sll. And the ladies who do go—the wives of Deputies and Senators, the representatives of the parvenu nobility of the Secoud Empire, or_the ladies of tho Corps Diplowatigue—always pique themselves upon their oldest and shabbiest dresses on such ocea- sions. It is only the Americans who think it in- cumbent upon_themselves to get up new toi- lettes for the Eiysec balls, and it must be con- fessed that they are generally the only pretty women present. ‘There is nothing to be done at these balls, the crowd being too great for cither dancing or conversation, and as to taking supoer, he or she who zets within six yards of the buffet is blest with stronger shoulders and more patience than are the majority of Amer- can bail-goers. GAMBLING AT MONTE CARLO. Roulette at Monte Carlo goes on apac, al- though the prince of gamblers is no more, and every train from Nice and Mentone brings hundreds of reckless souls to Dame Fortune's board of green. Casino. One Russian lndy is said to haves wonderful system which prevents her from losing. She asks the servants for those cards which are at the dispesal of each player. She marks the hour on each card, and then pricks out the different runs of red and black, while ousome tablets she has before her she makes an claborate calculation as to the numbers which come up. An elderly Englishman has had a great run of luck with a uew system. He reg- alarly sows the board with five-frane pieces, putting a piece of gold here and there as a hostage 1o fortune. He refuses to stake his money until the wheel has been set in motion and -the ball is rollinz. But the best-contrived systems cannot always stand on their own bottoms. There wasa youne las- yer at Marseilles who was unable to meet his engagements, and in a moment of desperation be borrowed a couple of thousand francs and started for Monte Carlo. It bappened that in about two days’ time he was lucky cnough to win between $15,000 and $20,000. He returned at once to his home, paid all his creditors, and surprised even his own family by his good for- tune. He told his neighbors that he had a per- fect system and would wiltingly return and break the bank again, Every onewanted to have a share in the undertaking, and the sum of $10,000 wis collected among his fricnds and relations. He was accompanicd to the railway statiou by his friends, and a parting chicer was given as the train bore him on his way to Monte Carlo. He played, lost, erew desperate, and in less than seven hours lost cvcryFenuy, and had to apoly to lnlhc administration for a free passto Mar- seilles. EING ALFOXNSO. The young King of Spain gave an andience the other day which was pleasant and conversa- tional. A Londou Zimes correspondent says of it: The youns monarch and bhis amiable bride were standing at the entrance of a third room, the King with extended hand and aifable smile on bis lips, and in a gray country swit, the Queen in a dark green veivet brocaded dress. During the whole Interview the King did not utter a sentence without looking at the Queen, as if to ask ber approval, and my friend tells me that the Queen, to whom my back was nee- essarily turned, listened with admiratfon to her husband’s words. I nave noticed you several times,” said the Ring, ‘‘durinz these grand Spanish fetes; but they bave not been so fatizuing for 'you as for those who have con- stautly had to fizure in them. You have witnessed the two greatest events in my life,— my accession to the throne and my marriage. A to my marriage, all Inow ask for isto re- main quiet with my wife; and as to my scces- sion, [ have the firm resolve to be a Constitu- tional King; and as long as I remain here "'— here the Kinzlooked at the Queen with minzled tenderness and.sadness—‘*as long 2s I am here no Cabinet will be overturned by 2 palace in- trigue, nor, if 1t please God, by extra Parlia- mentary events, but a3 far as possible by the working of Parliamentary majorities, to whose policy U'shall loyally conform.” Whea he was at Barcelona a working tailor commenced his harangue with these words: “If aworkman may address a Kioz.? Alfonso XIL, inter- Tapting him, said: “ Whynot? We are both workingmen; you make clothes, and I” make order; but do not forzet that my work permits you to enjoy the fruit ot yours.” AN IMPERIAL CORISTENING. St. Petersyurg Letier to San Francisco Chronicle. Yesterday there was much ringing of bells and firing of caunon, and fireworks in the even- ing. All this display was overa very small matter, indeed—a matter of ten or twelve pounds—the first-born of Grand Duke Vladimir, who was baptized according to the rites of the Russian Church. Thne little fellow, who made his appearance immediately after bis father re- turned from the seat of war, received the cuplionevus name of Borls Vindimirovitch., As the Greek baptismal rite requires the total im- mersion of the infant, it is to be noped that the water used was duly warmed, for the day was one of the coldest experienced this winter. The bushy whiskers of the “mushiks” stood out Stiff in their crystallized elory of frozen breath, and the soldiers turned out on parade were mutiled up from head to foot, their “bashiyks” or camel-bair capes drawn tightly over liead and shoulders, so that nothing of their slowy uniforms could be seen. ‘The happy father of the occasion, of whom I caught a #limpse as he_emerged from the Im- perial Chapet at the Winter Palace, is a noble- looking fellow, his bronzed features set off by a fresh scar on the side of the forelicad. During the battle of Metehka, in which 'he participated under command of the Czarevitch, his brother, a Turkisir bullet grazed his head and failed by less than an inch to send him after his cousin, the late Duke of Leuchtenberg. Grand Duke Vladimir is not yet 80, and has been married four years to a German Princess. BRINGING BACK OLD TIMES. San Franctsco Call's London Letter. There is here in London a little cligue, com- posed of artists, connoisseurs in old china, ete., all of whom live in houses of the reign of Queen Annc, if they cau get them, or, failing fn that, and provided they possess the wherewith- al, build themsclves residences on the exact model of those in vozue during her late Majes- ty's relem, and who, when gssembling at cach other's parties, Oress in Queen Anne style, minus the great, beavy, curied iigs, but with powdered hair. knee-breeches, silk stockings. skiocs and buckles, etc. Their wives, on the con- trary, do not, in the matter of costume, contine themsclves to the one reizn or style, but cultl- vate the pleturesque of all - umes and of no time in particular. The couversation of the Queen Anne clique partaketh not, how- ever, of the character of that decidedly coarse era, but condescends unto subjects and_diction of the present Victorian age. And indeed that is quite as well, since talk in those carlier days, xmg even in later ones, was not always of the most refined: which fact recalls to mind astory which my grandfather used to relate. A lady went to pay & morning call at the house of some friends, all of whom happened to be away from hotne, and she hiad to return, to her own domicile without seeing them. When the family re-entered, the footman, who was new to the place, told them of a call made fn their absence, but could not recollget the name of the Tair visitor. “Only,” said he, #I know she must have been a real lady, quite one of the quality, indecd, because she ‘swore so mueh!™ e ———— Mes. Hicks in London, ndon Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer. Ju’;& now London shares with New York the tittle-tattie about that great American person- aze who was the cynosure of a certain social set here, who believed her to be o millionaire, and who almost devoured hier out of Clarridge’s Hotel,—the great American sspirant to be an English “Iady,” but who has now suddenly be- come an American Lord. You will hear endless absurdity about Mrs. Hicks and her duings in London society. She is reputed to have been ooed by Dukes, Marquiscs, Earls, Lords, and Commoners of high and low degres, “by Strange faces are scen in the 3 . Italian Princes, Hungarian Magyars, and Turkish Pashas, all of them perfectly sane. You ‘Will be told how she euchred the landlord of the aristocratic Clarridge’s Hotel, and made the Queen of Holland her guest instead of his, and sent no bills for the entertainment. You will be told that she ruled fashionable society at ¥ill by her reputed enormous wealth, -fine per- sonal appearance, diamonds (all pure water, doubts 10 the contrary), and lonely widosnood; ond that Paris and Loudon vied in sceking her salous. Uon't believe it! ‘There is a bushel of chail to about a teaspoonlul of grain in all these stories. Here is the teaspoonfui: Mrs. Hicks Bad dollars—i say, qualifiedly, had; Mrs. Hicks bad dismonds—I may Say has; Mes. Hicks had figure, sud no doubt stilf has firure aud form, for New York can grandly vie with the modiste- art of Worth in” Paris. Mrs. Hicks had, and still has, style in digoity as well as in lavish abandon. rs. Hicks had sreat personal cbarms and some youth. * What more could a lone widow want?” as the song says. All of the above, however, will not open the door ot Eoelish first-class ' society, There must be morale and pedigree, and introductions well signed and sealed, for not only is the portal of the fashionable world well guarded by the drng~ on of dollars, but on one siae stands the in- spector of origin. Say what you will, the pure and real aristocracy of England is to be found in the congregations of ihe Roman Catholic Church. Mrs, Hicks sought, through her pious zeal, her conszientious convictions, to become a8 member of thesc congregations. She was duly recelved into the Church, and speedily introduced Into ome of two of the [ending Catholic families. She made her social debut with telling effect. A foreigner in Enclish society, when in, is permitted many more privilezes than one * to the manner born. If you have a penchant for people, and people bave a penchant for feeding on delicacics, all you bave to do is to con over the fashionable dinner-party editor’s lucubrations in the Morn- ing Post, or the flaccid essays in the Court Journal, or the glittering games in *Who's Who?” - Then use your little group of first ac- quaintanes diplomatically, as walking and talking advertisements and social canyassers,— inductive evils in this electro-plated age,—and soon you will have around you an army of curlous, Dlase, and bhungry efele “soclety people.” They come, they see, and they conquer. Your salons are charm- ing’; your natural lowers are profuse and love- 1y your delicate ices are deliciously cool; your fragrant Mocha s the perfection of 2 chasee- cafe; sour American hospitality only excels your taste. ‘Thus you magnetize and are mag- Detized. A human melange, nearly all strangers to the ambitious_hostess, come, guzzle, and swill, and go. Two weeks after they forget even to laugh or ridicule the *pretentious American,” ~ Amuse _this _blase class, and they will o to “Joe Dueging' party.” But this smusemest {s often financial death to the ecntertainer. Somebody_pays for it, be it Lady Hicks or Octogenarian Lord; perbaps both, perbaps neither. He who dances must pay the piper, as the Toledo Blade classic- aily puts it. Aud many whispers went around a8 to the bottom of this millionaire’s portemon- nafe. To have married poor Lord Lennox or any other impecunious nabob would have been dire folly for a young, rich American girl; to dosoon the part of another American Jady would bave been dangerous madness. But why the vencrable Mr. Lord shoula be insane or foolish in doing what he did before and since he married Mrs. Hicks, is a puzzle to the knowing ones here. Both were old enongh to under- stand each other, and beyond that is nobody’s business. MORALS - AND LITERATURE, To the Editor of The Tribune, SwissvaLE, Pa., March 1.—For sears the decent people of Pittsburg have been trying to et rid of the **pretty waiter-girl saloons " which disgrace and demoralize the city. City Councils passed an ordinance against them, and the Courts pronouncea it unconstitutional: and this winter the people en masse have peti- tioned the Legislature for redress. Several bills have been brought in, but it seems next to im- possible to frame one that will not be unconsti- tutional, since Constitutions are cunningly-de- viscd fables for the protection of scoundrels. While men sre tryiog to propitiate the Con- stitution so as to give a little aid to public mor- als, women have become so excited about this evil that recently s temperance-meeting ad- journed and went to one of the worst dens in the city, to draz the burning brands away from their ecagerly-sought destruction. So intent were these missionaries on the business of sav- ing souls determined not to be saved, that they endured nsults the most gross, prayed, and sang, and exherted, while peoper was thrown onthe hot stove.and they were met by recrs and taunts, and only saved from blows by the presence of police, had their pockets picked, and were finally ariven out. - This shows the state of fecling on this sub- Jeet, and while it is as it is, the most orthodox Cliristian and aristocratic Reading Club of the ¢ty gave, at 8 rccent regular mceting, that gn:niuus literary morsel of Goldsmith’s, *She toops to Conquer.” It is to be boped that few of your readers have ever read the play, or ever will; but 1t is necessary to my purpuse to say that the bero of the drama is a_nice youcg man, too modest to look at or speak to a decent woman, but per- fectly at his ease with the other kind: and the heroine is a very proper young lads, not sup- posed to know that there 1S such a thing as vice in this world or any other, who personates the pretty waiter-girl in order to win the nice young man, She had done her best to overcome his ‘modesty while talking to him iu her own char- acter, and could not even catch his eye. Then she comes to him in the character of a pretty waiter-girl, and this model young man is as pert. 25 2 poll-parrot. She parries his insults, and adroitly avoids anything which might spoil her triumph when she throws off her barmaid aisguise and pre- sents herself as' the young lady he had come to marry; when his declarations of love for the wanton ate hashed up, warted over, and pre- sented as proposals for the wife. Father, mother, and brother of the damsel understand the oature of the courtship; the mutual friend is in the full confidence of both parties, and so the nice young man is caught in the net of Hymen with a very unhymencal bait, the stooping beroine has a giorious victory, und evervbody is happy. Tils play was rendered by people especially interested in the preservati.u of public moralss by ladics so delicately and really seusitive to moral purity that not one of them couid find it possible to utter a coarse word either alone or in company. The lanzuage was modificd in the reading §0 as to avoid such phrases as * brought to bed.” uscd by Irs. Hardcastle in speaking ot the birth of herson; and yet no one seemed to think of the moral of the story; of the bound- less license given to men; the polite accom~ plishment of debauching pretty waiter-girls, which is vauntingly recognized as amatter-of~ course gentlemanly trait. Goldsmith could not more have taken it for granted that a gentiemen could not submit toa blow, than be doces that he would take immoral lierties with a barmaid; but his work is liter- ary, and the lovers of literature do not stop to inquire whether it be a moral pollution or a preparation for the Kingdom of Heaven. Does literature really ask nothing but prett; words prettily arranged? Is it such a whites sepulehire that the uncleanness and dead men’s bones inside are to be forzotten while we inhale their polson with every breatht When will lit- erature purge itself of contempt for morality, and every work of letters oe judzed by its power to make men_better, and nobler, and more God- like in their lives and conversation? Ivscems as if we never should reach that point until we give up the idea that it is divine inspiration which scts David up as * Chief o’ lang-syne saints.” It is dificult to see how the streams of literature can be cleansed while we regard as unerring inspiration the teaching that David was “a man after God’s own heart,” and Jacob the spiritual favorite of Haron. We must eschew these old sinners as lising any- thing but what they arc,—semi-savages comiug to a knowledge of spintual life,—~and take Jesus of Nazareth. for our model map, before our literary tastesure so cultured that such stuff as Goldsmith’s comedy can be sent to where it belongs,~Gehenna. JANE GREY SWISSHELM. e The Fight Gono Out of the Tarks. The Constantinople correspondent of the Philadelphia Press says fn his last letter: “]tis curious to note the stolidity and indif- terence of the Mussulman population. The Turkish journal Fakit (Zimes) a few days since flamed out with 8 most belligerent article. It compared Constantinople to Paris when be- siezed by the Prussians, and said that the true believers would prove thmselves as valiant in defense of their eapital as the Parisians did of theirs. This jeremiad excited ooly laughter and contempt. The same night the walls of the mosques, and even the. gates of the Sublime Porte, were placarded with denunciations of the Government, aud calling upon the Sennlg tn desist from_resistance and to yield to the enemy, to which a faithless Sultan and his Mino isters had betrayed them. This demonstration was 5o alarming to the authorities that an im- perial {rade was fssued the next day threaten- fng instant death to any ome who should be connected with such seditious appeals, or ‘who should even be found reading them. This was supplemented by an earnest appeal to the peopleto rally in deiense of their homes, and to inseribe themselves on the volunteer list on the Seraskicrat (Minister of War) Sqtare in the centre of the city, and which is travers by all the principal streets, Although Djevdet Pasha himself was to preside over the enroll- meut, not one iohabitant of Constantinople, Mussulmun. Jew, or Christian, presented him- self. For she first time the Government had a convincing demonstration of the despondency of the population, and their want of confidence in its loyalty and capacity.” 7 WORKING WOMEN. Falfillment of Mr. Stewart's Plan—His Mag- nificent Hotel for Women to Be Opened DLy the Middle of March. New York Tridure, Fev. 27. The Working-Women’s Hotel of New York will soon be opened under the title and with the « purpose originally designed for it by A. T. Stewart. Many have been the conjectures since its beginning, more or less tinged with skepti- cism and incredulity, as to what would be the result of the scheme of philanthropy of the millionaire merchant. Several years ago, Mr. Stewart proposed to the Common Couucil of this city that a grant of land properly situated should be made by them on which he wonld pledge himself to crect buildings at the cost of $1,000,000, to be used as tenement houses for t._he industrious poor, after a design which he be- lieved an improvement upon, that of Mr. Pea- body’s model tenements, While negotiations on this subject were pending, however, Mr., Stewart for reasons best known to himself with-, drew the proposition, and started the project of a working-women’s hotel, Alter the building was begun it advanced slowly and with so many delays that it was re- ported that Mr. Stewart had abandoned his orle- inal purpose, and would use the bullding for & warchouse, or French flats, or some said a hose pital. When Mlr. Stewart died the buildine was nearly completed externally, but very much work remained to be donefnside. Mrs. Stewart took the greatest interest in this cherished. planog her dead husband, and labor on the structure has been pushed forward steadily. The present. delay i:;upenmz the finished building is on ac- count of the sickness of one of the enefneerin; supervisors. It is now hoped that the hotex will be ready for occupation about the middle ?ig)hrch. E ‘here will then be a brilliant recep- 0. The plans for the edifice were made late John Kellum, who was also the archil &vctfigg the Tenth street store and the Stewart mansiou on Fifth avenue. There 1s a resemblance in the styles of all three structures. They are of renaissance architecture. The hotel fronts on Fourth avenuc, and Its long and lofty sides ars on Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets, The buildine is one of those grreat pale structares, baving countless wide windows with deep case- ments, which Mr, Stewart delighted in, They look eoldly massive during the day, but light up ag night maguificently.” The hotel is painted in pearl grav;its lower storyia darkened to the color of brown stone, aud its numerous pillara and pilasters are in Imitation of red Scotch granite. Its sinzle entrance, on;Fourth avenue, has a wide portica, supported by wide pillars, and i3 more spacious than any hatel entrance fn the city, excent that of the Windsor. The building contains 502 sleeping rooms of various sizes. There are cight reception roams, besides extensive parlors and. dining-rooms. A, £pacious library, containing nearly 8,000 vol- umes, 18 furnished with every comfort, and with desks and conveniences for writing. The furni- ture, carpets and upholstery ‘of these rooms were all designed and made at the manufac- tories of the Stewart estate at Glenbam, and illustrate the most modern ideas ou the mublect of house-faFnishing. They are desizned to correspond, and the walls are tinted to give the proper artistic unity of effect. The hoase is heated bv steam. , 1t has five elevators, besides stairways. All the mechanism of the establishment, the ele- vators, pumps, engines, ete., were made by the works of the estate In this city. A artesian well on the premises, by means of -steam pumpos, will Aupplz the ‘establishment with water throughout. hot and cold water being hrought to every room. The zas burned in the botet will be manufactared on the premises. A saving of about $10,000 a year will be efected by this independencs of city supplies in respect t0 gas and water. ©I have noticed,” said Judge Hilton, with a benigh smile, ** that, if thercis one thing a woman dislixes more than another, ittsnot to be allowed to burnas much light and to upse as much water as ever she wants; and I bave determined that fn these two things the supply shall be as plentiful as air.” The building surrounds a large sized court, ‘which, with its pavements in various colors like mosaic, already shows a careful design to make it beautiful as a3 garden. In the centre of the court a fountain will rise toa height of forty feet in the central jet, and around his will sprinza thousand ‘smaller jets, filling a wide and deep basin, At the four coraers_ of tua fountain curb are ornate bronze candelabra, manufactured in_Paris, to order, each support. ing five lamps, of ornamental design. Edward Schelcher, the cook for the last three years at the Grand 'Union Hotel at Saratoga Sprines, is assicned to future duty at the Women’s Hotel.” He bas just arrived from Europe, where he went on 2 pleasure trip. He is cmploved at an snuual salary by the estate, and receives half-pay whenoff duty. The cuisine will be under his supervision, and, in the quality of its bills of fare if nct in extent, it is designed to equal that of the firstclass hotels of . New York. A corps of fifty men servants is enzazed for the dining-room alone. The entfre force of attendantsof the house will sleep ougside of its wails, leaving all the houtse-room for the accom- modation of guests. Breakfast will be served from 7to 9 o’clock; luncheon from 12 to 2; dioner from 5to $; and a luncheon will be pre~ parcd for the satchels of those whose work keeps them on duty at noon. v Much curiosity has becn expressed about the rules and regulations of the hotel. The ques- tion has seemed to be, How many references, how many supervisors, how much éspiouage will be necessary? - But Judge Hilton intends to treat the guests of the hotel as responsible per- sons. [t will be conducted in this respeet ex- actly on the principles of any first-clags hotel. Such, however, are the facilities for information in possession of the management, which already numbers its_thousands of solitary figures nut “set in familfes,” in the departments of fts in- dustry that, {t is belicved, the guests of thehotel’ may feel entirely secure as to the zeneral char- acter of their associates. The botel will be closed at 1:30 a. m., being open at all times previous to that hour to those whose duties de- tain them late at night. It is intended to reserve some of the rooms for transicnts: for ladies, for instance, who come to the city on shopping excursions, and . who are now obliged to o the public hotels. Such transient =ucsts, while enjoying the more auiet and genial atmosphere of the Women’s Hotel, will be charged about the price af sim- ilar accommodations elsewhere, deduction not. being made to the sameextent 2s to those for whom the hotel 1s primarily inténded—the working women of the city. Numerous appi- cations have been made for accommodation from ladics now livinz fn the city upon private incoraes, but these have been refused, the de- sien beiog to provide for those who are wark- ing for a living, or occupied in some specal pursuit. The miolmum charge for those liviog at the hotel will be 36 per week, and from thatsmouut up to §10 per week. Toese rates will be too hugh for the great number of workinz-%ru in New York, who are paid from 3 to $7 per week. But it i3 expected that a large class of women will find a home at this place, The art~ ists, writers, teachers, students, telegraph-ope- rators, actresses, and the majority of women en- gaged in the finer mechanical and commel pursuits, are believed to be numerous eaough to fill many sach hotels. Almavist, N # Almquist, the Swedish author,” is the sub- ject, in tlie Encyclopedia Britannica, of this re- markable bit of romance: * Suddenly all minor criticism was silenced:{ the astounding news that Almqvist, convicted of forzery and cbarged with murder, had fled from Sweden. This occurred in 1851. For many years nomore was heard of him; but{s was known that he went over to America, und, under a_feirned name, succecded in being appointed Secretary to Abrabam Lincoln. After Lincoln’s death, A]mq]visl again fell under the ban of the law. His MS8., includiog several unprinted novel were confiscated and destroyed, but he himself escaped to Europe, where, under another alias, he continued to exist a short time Jlonger. His strange and sinister existence came toa close at Bremes, in 1366. 1t {s by his romances, undoubtedly the best in Swedish, that lis literary fame wiil mainly be supported; but his singular bistory will always point him out as a remarkable figire, even when his works are no longer read. He was another Eogene Aram, but of greater genius, and, so far more success- ful thap he escaped the judicial penalty of his crimes.”” Those most familtar with the White House ia the days of Mr. Lincoln’s Presidency are unable to reconcile their recollectious with the ““Encyclopedia Britannica's history. ——————— A Mized-Up Family. A lady, 57 years old, liviog in Springfield, Mass., IS a representative of a very mixed-up family. Her father, living at Belfast, Me., is 85 years old, and four years ago he marrled for his second wife a lady 34 gears old. The fruit of the union was a daughter, and this lady of 57, therefore, has a sfster 3 years old, who {s the aunt of lady’s son, & stalwart mad of 40, who is the old man's grandehild. oy