The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-04
Admit In Henven.

From the N. Y. World of to-day.
"And l saw men like trees walking, also
streets of gold, and multitudinous persons of q
comely aspect, clothed in white samite, mystic,
wonderful seated upon pyramids of rock
OF Palestine in honor of the beast with six horns
whom the uncovered revile as Napoleon the
Third, Emperor OF the French"
This, or words to this effect, is our latest
message from the great historian Abbott, since,
like Bottom, he was "transated;" and, having
praised God and honored the Emperor in New
Haven, was caught up on an Inman steamer
and presented to the Empress in a "magnif-
cent So'Tee at the Tuileries" Our readers
have already been blessed with one chapter
of the apocalypse OF Abbott concerning the
unimaginable Things OF imperial life in Paris.
We gave them yesterday a second and still
mere dazzling insLalment of this incompatible
read it did himself a fatal injustice. To say
that Abbott describes the emotions of BoS-
well with the eloquence of Bancroft is to
give but poor idea OF performance before
which criticism grows dumb, and admiration
maddens into dithyrambic ,ecstasies.
author of the Life of Napoleon" appeared, ION
gate of the "Pulace OF the Tuilerles" in n dress
which he himself describes as consisting
legs a white cravaI, and a led hat under the
arm" Throughout the rest OF the world, the
days but in honor of Abbott and Napoleon the
Third, and the 1.-TWO ladies formerly of New
Haven" an extra Ieap-year was ordered for
Tuileries Cesar invented calendar.
Why should not the calendar which Caesar
and to Abbott, his prophet? AS Abbott entered
the abode of bliss the ''gas-lights" paled their
Intellectual fires. "Gas-hghts." )" observes Abbott
with much justice, are mot genteel light"
and they naturally went out as Abbott, who
game is "always genteel,' went in. In their
stead, 1.-THE soft light of wax candles, which
seemed TO be in numbers without number"
opened to the eyes OF Abbott all the splendors
OF the scene Goethes Minstrel" who got
foaming goblet of sparkling Moselle in return
for his song describing German court as "a
rich heaven, stars on stars" could alone paint
these splendors as Abbott saw them Servants
in snowy liveries, ready to minister to every
want and to rescue from every embarrass-
ment;"" picked men, OF dignihed and imposing
mien, literally covered with gold livery" "llV-
in the centre of it all, sixty persons from the
different nations in diplomatic RELATIONSHIP p TO
France" These were the things which pa ssed
in rapid and coruscating review before the
senses and the soul of this favored son of Con-
necticut. AS wave after wave of glory burst
upon him, Abbott went off into spasms the
like whereof can only be found in the most
convulsive experiences of the heroes OF Petro-
MUS Arbiter. He stood on his head, on his
heels; he leaped out of his boots into his waist
coat pocket; he became a Catherine wheel
bly, have gone off like a Congreve rocket
through the root OF the Tuileries, and landed a
fiZz OF incomprehensible emotion, in the great
square of Pekin or Mexico, had not the doors
suddenly been thrown open and ga signal
given that the Emperor was about to enter
At that signal, "all was hushed silence"
Abbott, the gold bands, the white cravat, the
'adies from New Haven of whose dress and
appearance" Abbott "had reason TO be proud"
the servants in gold livery" the Statues in
armor," and the sixty guests from nations
In diplomatic relationship with France" sud-
denly crystalized. The Emperor entered. "a
few steps behind him came the Empress,
like a vision OF fairy beauty" For all that
followed, no poor pen OF ours can so much
as pretend to dwell upon 1t. Even Abbott
gasps at the recital and declines upon vague
imagery, like the young lady who could only
describe the moment when the man of her
heart finally offered her his hand, by saying
that she "feIt as If every nail in the house had
suddenly become a jewsharp" 1t is painful
TO find that when the Emperor come up out of
the mist OF gold and flowers, and shook Abbott
| by the hand and "bade him welcome to the
! Tuileries," Abbott burst into tears overcome
! by an honor (which was not conferred upon
| any one else." In acknowledgment of this
| peculiar blessing, Abbott, having wiped his
oriental fashion, about the knees, and, callngt to
Ihlnu thesuggesttons OF HerriclS, forthwith pro.
ceeueu 10 such oscillations as even Rabelais
hlIlseH must needs have pronounced more
Sootnlngland more soft than the else unparal-
iSiS% ,I IIaCseIles Ies OF young gosling's neck. SO
cohuescensions, and these again brought the
| wafer 10 Inc eyes OF Abbott, whom we are
| Iorceu 10 leave, at the last dates from Paris
ulssoIVep IN brlny Hood on the steps OF the
| we know no remedy and all thai We can DO n
console ADDott Is, to remind him OF the remarIx
made by friend 10 Monk Lewis when that
| quiVerlng creature likewise broke down and
WePt BECAUSE US the duchess of York had spoken
Don't cry, my dear fellow said his svmna-
thetic comforter; "don't cry ven MOI, Ie SIRE
the Duchess never meant tt.' W
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