Year: 1869

And pray, what do you think oil the IntpertdtIstl
Have you read it7 Have you seen III Have your
fingers clutched its sixteen leaden-colored pages?
Have your eyes wandered down its forty-eght lugu-
brious columns How does it sell don't know.
Nobody does. Its price is twelve cents per single
copy and its personnel s not attractive. IL s too
cadaverous and corpse-like. 1t has clammy and
mortuary touch To speak in a slightly fgurative
sense, the blue around its eyes Is the only thing
about suggestive Of the purple of royalty and the
texture of the paper on which it is printed is GER
tainy very far from suggestive of fine linen. am
afraid the Iflperidlist is foredoomed. The news
papers here have treated il very cavaliery, not
deigning to notice its existence SO far, the Impe
rial Publishing Company has been magnIticently
snubbed, and No. 81 Mercer street the Imperial"
headquarers) has nothing to congratulate itself upon
beyond having given expression to its opinions. The


first number Of the new weekly made its appearance
'Monday. Its platform revolutionary. Its object is
to prepare the American people for a revolution
that is as desirable as it is inevitable" Its publishers
workings have been found inadequate to the wants
OF the American people, and they promise that their
hebdomadal shall 'unite the high tone and thorough
culture of the standard British weekly press with
the lighter and more popular features of the best
current literature of the day free from the low and
commonplace vugarisms that have heretofore dis
graced American journalism" The editorials of this
first number are exceedingly long and heavy. One
columns long; another 'To the American People, is
one and half columns, Loaded; two others "The
each one and half columns long. The tone OF the
new journal can also be pretty accurately Cleaned





licatons as, for instance, widespread Corruption"
from the San Francisco Commercial Reuetc; "On FL
York Herald; '1Nore Impudence, )" from the Toronto
Globe; government in the United States, from the
M To LIs tbs PpsrS e pr1a Mae
Easy" from the Morgan Gazette, ''The United
States: Its Degradation" from the Albany Argus"
ETC. etc The design upon the first page is an i'm
psrial crown, with notices '"The Empire is Peace"
and 'Tet Us Have Peace" upon opposite sides, the
first being quotation Of the Emperor Napoleons
lebrated aphorsm uttered In 1852 when he
Prince President Of the French Republic) LE,npire
cest la pdir," and the second the sadly worn quota
ton from the lips of our present President But
enough of the ,I'nperiGhst The sapper and miner
progress and death of another politico-literary
whippersnapper. Here the wise men now give the
plepty Of thinkers in all Classes, in this
city of New York. who will not grudge even twelve
cents for such kind Of talk as the IperaiSt will give
them These are the men who have been of the
opinion all life long that the country is going to the
devil" Only il it be true that the descent to Eblis is
very easy, and the country is bent upon getting
there it is little singular she should not have
reached her destination before this 1t requires no
small courage and capital to start publication like
the InPerfatist, and since courage and capital are
possessions greatly to be admired hereby lender to
the Imperial Publishing Company all the homrage
which is consistent with my remaining 'loil."


AT any rate, even when the empire shall have been
than there are now. The city is full of them; and
when think of the immense number of patriots
for the benefit OF their beloved country l place my
left hand (when it don't happen to have the scissors





supply of that kind of patriots is always greater than
the demand. When passed by the Custom House,
yesterday, and the crowd of patriots besieging
the door there, elbowing each other, and induging
in of the most vigorous Vernacular that 1t has
ever been my pleasure to listen toal gathered to-
geher for the same great cause, that of serving their
country at the highest rate of wages and the lowest
se G n et brng my weos oSv % on s
birthday and the Fourth of July. Such swarm of
applicants! You might have thought it was
Ludlow Street Jail broken loose and mixed
up with the audience part OF the Tombs Police
Court during wholesale murder trial. The squeeze
lasted from early in the morning until O'Clock, only
one applicant being admitted at a time to learn his
fate as 10 whether he had been deemed worthy to
enter into the service OF Uncle SAM Precisely the
same scene will be enacted day after day until the
last applicant shall have come and gone; and snail
feel sorry for the utterer OF oahs IL the recording
angel should prove less amiabe than usual and
evince disposition to bottle up her tears


I d9e 9f sure &c wgo a darg
cursions around New York. will be interested in
learning how frail are their chances OF safety on
board the steamboats, in which they put their trust
The hopes OF life held out by 'e-preservers" and
'fe-boats seem to be almost as frail as those pro
Greenwood has lately been exposing. The question
arises whether straw and rushes do not greatly pre-
dominate in fe-preseryers over the cork with which
they are warranted" TO be exclusively stuffed. All
the passenger boats navigating the two rivers which
certain number Of cork jackets, but numerous are
the cases in which few or none are visible. Some
times few dozen will be found packed up in some
out OF sight as though they were buried in the 70
Semitic Valley To have things in this condition is
not quite as bad, perhaps, as to have them in that
described by the London journalist but 1t Is bad
| enough. When one in his innocent summer ram
bles has escaped the cholera and the yellow fever,
the railway collisions, the steamboat explosions the
bycicular runover and the hotel charges 1t is rather
too bad to be drowned to death in sight OF home and
happiness, by trusting too implicitly TO corkjac
1t s enough TO drive one out OF ones wits TO think OF
it, and straightjacket on land is infinitely prefer
| able to one OF these rk-jackets by water.
Vincent Wallaces opera Of Lurline is TO be pro-
| duced in May at the Academy OF Music. Parepa-
Rosa to have borne the principal part, but she
has had her rheumatism" to attend to- and 1t Is
pretty certain that the role must be conhded to other
hands There was O rumor emanating from musical
people that Parepa was in some danger OF losing her
IL for time. 1t was said that she had over-eXerted
her organ during her Californian and Western tour
and that considerable rest and tact would be
| sary ere 1t could be certain that the recreant
| warbler could be put in perfect tune again. But
then the very same stories were breathed
about Miss Kellogg and when she last
sang here there was nothing wheezy about herlovely
| organ. Next Monday night at Woods Museum,
Robinson Crusoe In pantomme is going to be pro-
| duced. Mr.. Paul Juignet will take benefit on Fri
day evening at the French Theatre, when Carrier,
the tenor, will take the part OF the "Grande
Duchesse,h with Madame Rose-Bell as "Frtz,n Des-
clauzas as General Boum," and the other male and
female characters Visa peTsG, that neither actors
nor audience will know which end OF them is over
| most / think the chances are In favor OF my being
RIGHT when / say that of all the singers of opera
| hojJ6S who have been with us ITma Is the faVorte