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T THE LATE SIMEON DRAPER, ESO. D This well-known public man, of whom a portrait in this week given, died at Whitestone, Long Land, on Tuesday the 6th of November, after only a a brief allness which at first seemed to be fever but t Bually resolved itself into Bright's disease of the kid. neysa malady which is aweeping away so many of the c g-tle and hard-working. Bis death was entirely morapeted, however, api in bs Immediate family und in a certain line of pulitic influence and usefulness it leaves a marked vacancy, not easily supplied. Mr. Droper's life had beon a somewhat varied one, slike in te afferent spheree, Me failares and successes Bo emmenced life at the round in the mercantile ledder known as clerksbiy, then hecusne a tuerchant, and event- ually one of large incans and influence. Then followed roverses, and three eventually led blan into a profesion in which he nequtrel even wore pronitcuce-that of auctioneer; there having been few section house in America ever wielding more moneyed lodnence, in their day, than the noted one of Haggerty, Draper & Jones. Mr. Draper, however, went into what may be called the business of politics," In addition to his more legiti sonte comployment and with something more than the avenge muccess. Originally a Whlg end a warm friend of Mr. Seward, as well as a member of the Whig State Central Committer, be eventually became, in tater re- publican days, an ultralet and at cue time the leader of the anti-Seward division in the State. Among the more Lpportent of the quael-political offers held by him, were those of President of the Board of Almehouse Governors, nad afterward umber of the Board of Charities nod Corrections, in both of which he was largely usefch though loo elringeut, and sousetinues too determined to te popular among those with when he was con- nected. As Collector of the Port of New York, to which ofice he was appointed by President Lincoln in 1804, be perhaps evayed a wader influence than ever befores and be was particularly useful as well as trusted in those arrangements of the Government which brought northward and to market the boavy amounts of cotton captured from the rebels at the taking of the Atlantic seaboard ports. Ho resigned his poet early in 1805, especially to make room for Honorable Preeton King. thi who afterward vacaled the offee wody. Bla Snoe this post in the Board of Charities being filled by 1 Mr. Owen W. Brennan, brother of the City Comptrollery air. Draper has not been iu official public life, thoagli parming his cotomercial avocatione quielly and prost ally. His regretted death has taken place at the ripe but uotT-markolily odvanced age of sixty-two; and in kim dicen certain political and persoust power pot offen moet and not much more eally measured. THE FRENCH EXPOSITION BUILDING In the Paris Champ de Mars. 1 IN pursuance of our intention to take and keep the lead in supplying alnstrations of the coming great Freuch Exposition, we this week give a comprebensive picture, filling both our open pages, of the most-wonderful building which is to contain the exhibition-as it will appear when finiebed. The view is a bird's-eye one, and the Seine, the distant Hotel d'Invalides and some of the tree-bordered Boulevards, also shown in the dpicture, aid in forming an excellent idea of the whole scene in which more people are to gather and more objects of intercet are to be assembled, than the world has ever before seen of either at any one tine sud place. A WIDE-AWAKE AND FAIFUL WIE-Liko those of many other good-cabared men, the means of Mr. Cobaldestou, the great Engliels sportsman and horse-fancler, who died not long since, failed him soroe twenty years ago. Be bad been unfortunate on the turt, and his expenses had always exceeded blocome. One cotate after another went, and the last eventually was sold, He then said to his wife, "My next step will be to joll for dokt." No it eball not," she replied. "What is to prevent it ?" he naked; "everything I have is gone-what in to support me I will," was the response for five-and-twenty years you have liberally auppiled man with noobey when I needed it. I asked for More than I waited, leat a day like this should come. I have saved a thousand pounds every year, and this wat is ready to be verleid when I lave your consent that it shall be rettled upou mo: atul then I will take vare you do not want in eld sge." This was agreed to, and Mr. Odablentes lind conse for gratitude li havi Nachteilhful wife PLUNDERED ROYAL GRAVES-A correspond out of the Pall Mall Garth writes. "Wandering through Frunce, I found myelf a sort time since et Foute- vrault, well-known as the burial place of some of our Plautagenet kigun. The shley, once fomene, has gode to rock and ruin; ita precincts are transformed into a convict entalitilmeet. The graves of the kings bove, of course, hart long ago plundered; but there are still preserved, hidden in a dark coruer of the convict chapel, begrined with the dust and dirt of age, the offigies in malde which once adorned those of Henry II. asl Elenuor of Oulenne, of Richard Coeur de Lion, and-oned beautiful and best pronurved of all-Isabella d'Anpnalas, the wife of John. Would it not be a grareful act of the French Esperor to haud them over to our government? As being unstleuteated likeness they would be a voluntde addition to the records of our bisiory." A SECOND FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE-ID the cholera wards of the Looden hospital, during the late epidele, were eccues of sufering and desti, suti- A lady volouteer cient to try the stoutert heart. Durse passed her tune from the beginning of the epideenic, moving from bed to bod, in evaseless efforts to comfort and relleve. So very youthful and so very delicate in the devoted girl, that it was dificult to control a feeling of pain at ber prescoes under much circumstances. But be offered her belp at a time, when, from the sodden inroad of cases, such was urgently required, and nobly she followed her sett rought duty. Wherever the need was greatest and the work the hardest thero sue was to be seen toiling until ber lirule almost retused to sustain her. And the effect of the fair young creature's presence was, that the Durses were encouraged by her never-failing energy and cheerfaines, so that alread of the disease was loot In efforts to combat it. This is su itdance of devotion which it wohl be a luult to praiset poed cauly be recorded, tance

NELL CWYNNE AT THE KING'S ow bec THEATRE. me the "E ENGLAND has paid much less respect than France, to the left-handed wrives" of its kings: nad the Portsmouths and Castlemaines of Charles Ves the Second's time Lave left even worse names in ce Euglish popular regard, than the Gabrielles and etc Montespans of the French Heary and Lous, the There is one woman, however, ambiguously allied Fla to that very Charles the Second, whose memory w the English people do not despise poor Nell N wc Gwynne ne she is ordinarily called, the ances-P tor of the Beanclerks, Dukes of St, Albans. Her menory is, indeed, rather loved the execrated; partly, no donbt, because she was never arrogant, but always seemed to steer her royal lover towerd the welfare of his kingdom iurtead of away a it; and partly because all navet England bus al waye bad canse of gratitude to her for urging upon Charies the erection of that unexampled Lenevolence to era veterans, Greenwich Hospital. The "pretty witty Nell" was born on February 6, 1650, in the Coal Yard, Drury Lane, the last turning on the east eide, as you walk toward St. Giles's. Her early calling was to be sent dressed as un orange-girl, to sell fruit and attract atten- tion at the theatres, as we gather from a poet of the time, attributed to Lord Rochester: But Brst the basket ber thir arm-didit, Laden with pipples and Hesperiau fruit: The first step raled, to the wondering it she sold The lovely fruit maling with streaks of gold Nell was now an orsage-girl, holding her basket of fruit covered with vine-leaves in the pit of the Kmg's Theatre, and taking ber stand with her fellow fruit-women in the front row of the pit, with bor back to the stage; and the cry of "Oranges! will you have any oranges?" It is there and in that situation that our artist has caught her in the illustration accompanying. Nelly was ten years old at the Restoration of Charles the Second, in 1660. The theatres were reopened; women came on the stage, and the King and Queen, the Dukes of York and Bucking- D -0 bum, the chief courtiers, and the unids of honor, were amoug the constant frequentere of the put le play-houses. The King's Thestre stood in Drury Lane, on the site of the present building: it was first opened, April 8, 163, when Nell was a girl of thirteen, Our earliest introduction to ber wo owe to Pepys, the diarist, who eat next to her e at the King's Honse, when she was sixteen, and was fascinated with her foot, described as the least of any woman's in England. But abe was - yfirst lifted from Irumble life by a young merchant who had taken a fancy to her smart wit, fine ampe, and the emallness of her feet; she remem bered hims un after life, and to her interest be m De owed his appointment in the Guarde. Nelleoon became an actrees, noted for her beauty and ber merry tough; ber üret part was Lady Wealthy, int the comedy of "The English Mousienr," G mighty pretty play," in which the women did very well; "but above all, little Nelly." She suc ceeded so as to represent prominent parts in stock plays; one of her successes was Celia, in the "Hamorous Lieutenant" of Beaumont and Fletcher; after this performance, at which Pepys was present, he says Mrs. Kuep "brought to us Nelly, a most pretty woman, who acted the great part of Colua to-day very flue, and did it pretty well. I kissed her, and dad my wife, and a