The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-17

with profit; for Lamar adds:-"Such operations
help US and our government, too; 1t helps TO
break down their currency" G. A. L. Lamar
writes from London to his father, in regard to
The rebel agents in England;-'It is impossible
10 conceive by anything might write-though
you have, as know. liberal opinion of them
ON that subject-the amount of swindling going
on ell the time, and conducted by government
agents Captain Bullock is the only one whose
name is untarnisbed Some of them have
made large fortunes. One has Q summer
residence out Of London and winter one just
out Of Paris, bought. it is said, and presented to
him BY the house OF Isaac Campbell 81 Co.
That he is living at the rate OF SIS, 900 q year
imagine there can be no doubt. With such
financial agents to negotiate, and such agents
To make the expenditures, how 10 the govern
ment credit to stand?' How, indeed! We CON-
mend these financial letters and the letters
about the purchases OF boats to the special at
tention of our readers They will see the
tricks and lodges OF the rebel spectators
clearly revealed, and will learn how the pow
der speculation turned out a humbug, how the
cotton speculation failed, and how the
rebel loan speculation broke down. They
will also be further informed in regard to our
Custsm House traitors by aletter from Frank
Smith, ST. Georges, Bermuda, who has the i'm
pudence to write:-"I have facilities for getting
almost anything from New York, and. if can
dispose Of the cargo I now have here, intend to
send an order to q foreign house in New
York-who are acting for me-to purchase either
the Margaret and Jessie or Cornubia Captured
lately when they are sold. 1 think they can
be bought cheap, and there is no trouble in
getting them out" All this our readers will
find, and more; but, like us, they will seek in
vain for any explanation of that mysterious
message to Dick Busted.
The VAGARIEs OF AN EMPEROR.-Nap0-
leon the Third is strangely sensitive upon
one subject: he desires, above all things, that
the world should look as much as possible
upon the founder of the Napoleonio dynasty as
an emperor and not as a soldier. He cannot
bear illusions to tho "Petit Caporal;" he wishes
to ignore the commencement of the great Cap
tain's career, and see in him but the Emperor.
Louis Napoleon has carried this sentiment to
degree which oversteps the sublime and falls
into the very depths of the ridiculous.
grand column, made Of bronze, Of great height.
and which was surmounted with an immense
statue Of Napoleon the First, as all Frenchmen
love to see HMM his cooked hat and famous
cdpote grise-in fact, as the soldier, wearing the
habiliments which were peculiar to him. This
was most appropriate, IS the column upon
which the statue stood is made Of cannons cap
tnrod from the enemies of France. Around
this Colonne de Vendome the old soldiers from
the Invalides were wont to collect and gaze
admiringly at the efigy of their beloved COM
mandsr. There was much in this trophy to
awaken the pride and sensibility Of the vete-
rams, as it is covered with beautifully executed
reliefs of the great victories won by them un-
der the command of the "Petit Caporal."
Napoleon the Third could not bear the sight
Of this statue. He caused it to be removed,
and instead placed there magnificent First
Emperor, in Roman toga, with q crown upon
his head and in his hands the insigniss
Of empire. They made a Cesar of the Little
Corporal, whose splendid statue they have
placed far out Of the town, upon a suburban
bridge. The Parisians are disguised at this ex-
hibition Of weakness aud puerile vanity on the
part Of their Emperor. and ridicule heartily the
statue which now crowns the Colonne Vendome.
They aseert that it looks like man in O shirt,
with candle in his hand. At the great dis
lance from whence it is seen the statue GER
tainly loses all the effect the Emperor mag
ined it would have. and we dare say he wishes
that the cooked hat and the long gray overcoat
were once more on the top of that great col
umn. As sure ss fate they will be replaced
there by the people of Paris some day. They
will never allow Napoleon the Third, who,
with his Casarean ideas, evidently wishes even
the glory Of his great predecessor to pale be-
fore bis Life of Caesar" to remove the evil
dences of that glory. The French will think
of him with glowing hearts at a time when this
man and his achievements shall have passed
out of their memories.