New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-22

msshe the persons that occupied Il, be m sud
oep'y Grew bach, and moved along on in the dirso-
tion o. the Rue Miromesnl There are a r,x..t,.
uoheo ID ue neiehborhood OF the Pre.id. or, resi
oenSe nu moer OF police agents dressed in plain
clothes, bot who are sufficiently known h, IT,
hdbIfnes Of the palace Oae Of thsse No. "a ~. w.
served the motions Of Walker and MS ls.t roo~.
meh' naturally reused his picons lat sonetbiny
was wrong, though he states that the idsa Of nj,
having 70 DO with an assassin did not occur IN him
The police agent followed him 70 the cornsr Of the
Hue aIromesnil, but before he had time To soro.,
him WaEtr went up to him. and the folio wing
conversation occurred:
"'Are you police sgenti'
"'Wbat business is that Of yours Why do
you wish to know =
"a" II you are hat believe you to be- said the
youIg man, wish you 70 take me into custody
Arrest me instantly This is the second time Ihavs
n Used him, aud III have nothing more h. do with
the business. came here this day with the fall
determination t. asssssinate the President OF the
Republic have been waiting at his door siuce
10 o'clock bat, 10 all appearance, destiny will not
have it that my design be accomplished, for half
hour ago, when another carriage left the Eysee.
had my pistol cooked, and was the pOnt Of
firing when | perceived it was not the President
who was before me-
These words were spoken In 4 Short hoarse,
and abrupt tone of voice, and betray ed the extreme
agitation OF mnd under whlch the speaker labored.
The first act Of the police agent whose name Is
Lsmtert) was to lay hold Of the lad with one hand,
while With the other he felt his person outside the
paletot he found that he was actually armed with
pistol He Drew the weapon from his pocket, and
atcertsIned that it was loaded, capped, aud at fall
cock. All this passed between the two without
any OF the persons near them being aware of what
was going on. The agent instantly led his prisoner
TO the Office Of the Commissary Of Police attached
to the quarter Of the Presidency. The lad there
repeated bis story, said that his name was George
Alfred Wa lker, that he was II years old, a com.
positor by trade and that he resided in the Rue
Cherubini, No 3, aud lived with his parents.
In reply 10 q question as ~ the motive that in.
duced him to contemplate the preparation of such
a crime as that which he avowed having meditated
be replied, that he had for long time past enter.
tanned the idea that he had had various dreams
in which it was announced that bis destiny i'm.
PEELED him TO destroy the life Of the President
through whose fault il was that the good Repub
lie " not established that, however, on several
occaiions he had observed that the Presidents life
seemed TO have been protected by an influence su
perior to bis own will and tn at what had occurred
that day, when on two different occasions he per.
ceived tue President not in either Of the car
riages that left the Elysee convinced him that the
deed was not TO be emphasized by him, and that
il was then he made up bis mind to surrender him.
self and avow bis designs.
"As | write, additional information on the sub
Ject OF Walker reaches me. 1t appears that the
physicians appointed 10 examine him report that
he is somewhat deranged, or rather, that he has
been laboring under NOR omaha. He believed il
to be his vocation to kil Louis Napoleon. He will
be sent to the lunatic asylum of BiceGe. In bis
conversation with the Project of Police, he stated
nearly the same as detailed in the commencement
of this letter. He has been haunted, he said, by
the same idea for the last two years; and was so
tormented by it, though he knew he was medita
ting crime, that he bad more than once q serious
intention of enlistDg soldier, in the hope that
the severity Of military discipline would give
new turn to bis thoughts. Mas he always con-
Guides. 'c'etan plus fort que MOI