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'ZIA VLCi voN- ILMNIN I cLAIE:N-)ON ('OINTY, S. C., WEDNE"SDAY. MAR('1 IS. ' t r1. 1e1e:h l ' ' -. re .e j Theniinike. Frn he liiother oft Pe ,jnt - Osn 1,rso vt wercn t1he A mer iran solilier andl England', conqluering Marlborouzgh. Nw YORK, 3March I.-i the Cables printed in the New York pgers the foi lowing special cable from Lundon to the World is the one which witLl attract Uo:t attention: The leading article in 'lemnillan's M"agazine for 1ereb is y(it ceal Lord Wolseley, On (e::nd Lee. Ueference is made in a foot nue to thea recently published memoirs of Ge'nend Lee by General Long and Marcus V. iiht, but in no sense a review of that wrk. Gen eral Lee is given full credit for the love he had for the Union, and for the strug gle he went through before tin-:ly taking the decision to go with his o'vn State. General Wolseley describes how Lee accepted his coaission as cmimander in-chief of all tlie nilitarv fo:ces oi Vir ginia in a crowded e.seu'tion of the most eminent men of the ;::te, and thc draws a parallel between hi_, and tlhe' great Marlborough: -Gencral Lee's presence commanded respect even from strangers by a calm, self-pos::essed dig nity the like of which I have never seen in other men. Naturally of ,trong pas sions he kept them under perfect control by that iron and determined will oi which his expression and his face gave evidence. As this tall and handsome soldier stood before his countrymen he was the picture of the ideal patriot. Unconscious and self-possessed in his strength, he indulged in no theati ical display of feeling. There was in his face and about him that placid resolve which bespoke great confidence in seli, and which, in his case, one knows not how quickly communicated its iaguttic influence to others. He was then just fiity-four years old, the age of Marl borough when he destroyed the French army at Blenheim. In many ways and on many points these two great men much resembled each other. Ioth were of a dignified and commanding exterior. eminently handsome. with a 'g'ire tah, graceful and erect, while a u square-built frame bespoke gra aci t of body. The charm of mayler wiin I have' mentioned as veV Ii Lee was possessed in the highet dcc by Marlborough. Doti:, u it <ut. Ct of their great career of viette;n, wr Mrded as essentiaLly nationd ciand ers. Both had married voun'g ad were faitful husbands and devotd fathis. Both had in all their ca.mp iges the same belief in an ever-watenail l'rovi dence, in whose help thtey t 'ed im plicitly and for whose interPoV:: u they prayed at all times. They were ;ited with the same military insutuet, the same genius for war, the power of fase nating those with wLomn they were asso ciated, the spell which they east over their soldiers who believed aLoaut salr stitiously in their certaiuty of vietory. Their contempt of danger and their dar ing courage constitute a parallid that is diflicult to equal between any other two great men of modern times." .A e:(;A-IzEn. Reference is made as to how General Lee organized an army of 50,o00 men in two months, and as to how in another month he had gained a great victory at Bull Run and driven the Northern in vaders back across the Potomac like herds of frightened sheep, his army be ing supplied with ammunition, arnia stores and clothing captured there. lHe tells the following story: "Some time afterward, when General Pope and his large invading army had been tent back flying across the Maryland border, 1 overheard this conversation between t wo Confederate soliers: 'Have vou heard the news? General Lee has resigned.' 'Good God,' was the reply; 'what for?' 'He has resigned because he says he can not feed and supply his a.-my any longer now that his commissary,- General Pope, has been removed.' Mr. Lincoln had just then dismissed General Pope, re placing him by General McClellan." INEFF1eIE NT SUBORL'IN.TEs. General Wolseley incidentally ex presses an opinion, when speaking of B3ull Run, that the Confederates did not follow up their victory there as they should have done. A rapid and daring advance would have given them posses sion of Washington, their enemy's capi tal. Political considerations at Rlich mond were allowed to outweigh the very evident military experience of reaping a solid advantage from this their tirst great success. This suggests the general criti cism which follows: "What most strikes the regular soldier in these campaigns of General Lee is the inficient anner in which both he and Shis opponents were often served by their " ~rdinate commander and how badly a outpost work generally was .e on both sides. It is most afcult to move, with any etieetive pre cision, young armies constituted as these were during this war. The direction and movement of large bodies of newly raised troops, even when victoirious, are never easy and often impossible. Over and over again was the South apparente within a stone's throw of independence, and it has been many times remarked, when from want of a thoroughly good staff to organize the lpursuit, the ocea sion wvas lost, and the enemy allowed te escape. Lee's combinations to seeare victory were the conceptions fatral great strategist, and whaen they i.~a e effected his tactics we re also miost a"y everything that coul d be~ dare 'upt the inoment of victory .oIni' the i action seemed to stop) alteteher. War ever an army so helpiess~ at~- "e ev el another as that of McClelan, wY. henh began his retreat to Hrg ison 'a adig after the seven days ;igatng arotta. Richmnond? What coismander co'ul. wish to have his foe in, a tighter lae. than Burnside was i alter lmm' d"-'too attack tupon Lee at Frederie-sbur'gy 1. in both instances the Noter o mnander got safely away; and other sniu lar instances could be mentanta a. 11. critical military studenit of thias w.ar, wha knows the power which regular troops well oflicered and well directed by thoroughly effielent stagf placed in thi of an abie general and who has a i intintate and comiplete 2%kIleg of what these two contening' I .\ericai armies were really like will, I t k Tee that froim first to last the co-o'vrtion of even one army corps of regular troops would have given com pl te victory to whichever side it foulit on. AT ANTIETAM. Lordt Wolseley says that Lee told him that he had only :30,000 men in front of MeCtllan at Antietam, with a few tired reserves behind, while McClellan had ain atri of 100,000 men. le states that Le ,Iwavs spoke well of 31Clellan, thouglh Ile spoke bitterly of none of his. Federal opponeits. In2 his reference to ie thirty-five days' fighting around ich~ und just before tbe surrender at App tos,- Wolseley says: "Lee had only 5 exhausted soldiers to o)-I pose '9,000 fresh men under General Grant. In speaking of the faults of General Lee he says: "One of them was too great dread of wounding the feelings of others, which lead him to leave incom petent men to till important positions. i This softness of heart or amiability, however good in itself, may amouant to crinme in the man int:sted with public attalrs at critical moments. Lee's devo tion to duty and great respect for obedi ence seems at times to have made him too subservient to those charged with the civil government of his country. He carried out too literally the orders of those whom the Confederate constitu-f tion made his superiors, although he must have known them to be entirely ignorant of the science of war. He ap pears to have forgotten that he was the great revolutionary chief, engaged in a great revolutionary war; that he was no mere leader in a political struggle of parties carried on within the lines of an old, well established form of govern ment. It was very clear to many at the time, as it will be commonly acknowl edged now, that the South could only hope to win under the rule of a military dictator. If General Washington had had a Mr. Davis over him, could he have accomplished what he did? It will, I am sure, be news to many that General Lee was given the command over all the Confederate armies a month: or two only before the final collapse, and that the military policy of the South was throughout the war dictated by Mr. Davis as President of the Confederate States. Lee had no power to reward soldiers or to promote officers. It was Mr. Davis who selected the men to com nuand ilivisions and armies. Is it to be p.posed that Cromwell, King William 11', Washington or Napoleon coul Savye suc'cded in the revolutions with w hich thir names are identitied, had the - s itted to the will and authority a politiein as Lee did to Mr. Davis?" 1 DEFENsE OF IuCHMoND. I Lord Wolseley says that "General Lee was opposed to the defense of llichmond at the last, and that he was right, for if he had drawn General Grant's army into the interior far away from its base of supplies, he would have greatly weak- V ened it. But it were vain to speculate. Ri-himond fell and Lee's army surrer dered. Who shall ever fathom the depth of Lee's angiush when the bitter end Cne, and when, beaten down by sheer: Lrce of numbers and by absolutely nothing else, he found himself obliged to surrender? The handful of starving ixen remaining with him laid down their I arms and the proud Confederacy ceased to be. Surely the crutshing, maddening i anguish of awful sorrow is only known fo the leader, who has so failed to ac complish some lofty, some noble aim for which he has long striven with might and main, with heart and soul in the in terest; of king .or of country. A smiling~ face, a heeriui manner may conceal the sor e place from the eyes, possibly even, Ifrom the knowledge of his friends, but there is no healing for such a wound. which eats into the very heart of him who has once received it." .N ESTIMAiTE OF LEE. The article closes with this enthusias tic e.stimate of the Confederate chieftain: "When all the angry feelings roused by the secession are buried with those which existed when the declaration of inde pendence was written; when Americans can review the history of their last great. Irebelion with calm impartiality, I be lieve all will admit that General Lee tower' d far above all men on either side in that struggle. I believe he will be regarded not only as the most prominent figure of the Confederacy, but as the great American of the nineteenth centu ry, whose statue is well worthy to stand on an equal pedestal with that of Wash ington, and whose memory is equally worthy to be enshrined in the hearts ofI all his countrymen." Goodi Rules to Follow. First, be honest and truthful. All de-I p~ends upon this. IIf you have work to do, do it cheer fully. If you go out on business, attend to the matter promptly, and then as promptly go about your own business. Don't stop to tell stories. If you have a place of business be there during business hours. No one enmn get rich by sitting around stores and saloons. 1-ohave to labor for a living, re nmembe tt one horxr in the morning is better than two at ,aidt. Do not meddle with any business you know nothing of. A good business habit and reputation is always money. Help yourself, and others wvill help you. D!o not ue in too gr"eat haste to get Do not spend time in idleness. Be kind. Learn to say no. There is no neces .ity of snapping it out, but say it tlrmly~ :~Ud respectfully. Learn to think and act for yourself. Be vaiant. Helvi oth':s when y-ou can. Keep ahe..d rather'than behind time, oriti eser to keep ahead than to _ aln to provide the proper means excpel frm the system those disease cms which cause serofultr, indigestion, debi"lity, rheumatism and sick headache. ihe ouly reliable means is Dr. Hlarter's ver':ally H Lkel. I:,in No .y Oi Wel f."% i was early owvninz. TAe hauip. wer begiuning to shine out here and there and mcu and women who had finislwd their day's work were hurryin' home to supper. The door of a ieat little home stood partly open. A man was nar it. evitly juAst sIrting out to hei his work. "I am sorry you have to go back to Uilht work," his wife was faying. She looked pale and troubled. "Stio ama I. he answered, "but niever mind, dear, perhaps it wont be long?." lie kissed her as he spuoie anL wenti ot through the door. She looked after hMi with her evts full of teai's. "If he I should b.egin again, she said, "0h, if he should:' "3Mmma," called a tall, slender girl I from the room, "come and tell me what i pattern to choose for father's slippers; I want to commence embroidering them] to-night. His birthday isn't very far off,i you know." t "Bertha and I are going to club to. zether and get him that new book lie wanted," said another girl, evidently her i sster: "we heard him steak of it and we have money enough." The woman turned and went into the iouse and shut the door. The man went on down the street and was soon busily engaged at his case, I Iway up in the highest story of a tall, building. His fingers went back and forth, back mnd forth, picking up the bits of black I netal, setting upline after line of what n the morning would appear in the great i laily. Out over the city he could see he lights beginning to shine, and gradu lly the hum in the streets below him -rew less and less. 1 L All about him were men wL sing away I ( 5teadily at the bits of metal. He could I lear presses click, click, asthey went on I with their part of the work. ( The gas flared. Now and then one of I he men spoke brielly, generally some- i ;hing about the work. Some of them went to their coats oc- I asionally whtre they hung on the wall md drank from bottles in the pockets. )ne offered his to the silent worker be dde him, but he shook his head. I "What," called a gay young fellow t tcross the room, "you given up the 1 >cttle, Menson; what will happen next?" I The men laughed. I The lights in the houses died out after N twhile, the noises on the street grew less c nd less. The men went to their bottles t ftener and passed them back and forth rom hand to hand. ,Nenson was grow ng tired. He was not as young as he I iad been when he began to work at the i ype, and the smell of the liquor came o him as he worked and grew more and nore weary. I He longed for one taste, just one, "to I ielp him out," -to rest him." Yet, vhen a lad near him took the bottle and | Jegan to taste the liquor he touched his rm and said: "Don't, I began at your ge; I wanted to be smart; don't begin. But the boy laughed and drank. The hours went by and the presses t licked louder and the noises on the treet grew less and less. "Here, Menson," said a man, comirg tcross the room, "here is some of the yest French brandy. Just taste it; 1 mnow you are sick to-night; it'll do you ;od. "I don't feel exactly well," he said, sizing the bottle eagerly, "I'll taste it, ynly taste it." The fumes of the liquor had been ialf -maddening him, his old thirst had een crying out to be satisfied. He drunk is eagerly as he had seized it. "That is good brandy," he said, giving iack the bottle. The man winked slyly at the others a ie went back to his ease. MIenson wo'rked on. He felt better, ie said to himself, the brandy had done iim good; and after a while he asked fo another drink. The man gave it and he drank as agerly as before. He had drank a good t oa~iy times by the time the last line was set up and the men were making ready to leave. It was early mor-ning now andL the noises of that early time in the city~ were beginning to be leard. MIenson went to get his coat, but he uould not find it. Then lie looked fort his hat, but he ' could not remember where he had put it. He stood holding on to the back of a chair, vaguely, wondering what he should do about it, when the man who! had given him the brandy came up. "Hello, 3Ienson," he called out, "you look as though you were getting up a leader. Too late now for that, come on." ensona endeavored to let him know his dilemma. "Where". :our coat?" be said; he was loud and~ noisy; "where's your coat? Blest if I know." "Oh, here it is; let me help you on' with it. There you are, come on now, the boys have all gone and lef t us." They went over to the elevator. It was just comning up the shaft. Away down below them they could hear the engine and at one side the presses, stamp, stamp), as the great daily drop ped away fresh and damp from their jaws. "Conmc on then, now my boy," ealled his companion, as 3Ienson hesitated. He drew him on, one bewildered and contsed, the other hilarious and loud. 1 The elevator began to move down the shaft. 3Ienson looked up and saw a door.I "Here's place,' he said stepping out toward it. His companion caught his coat. It came off in his haud, and as he stoad wildly looking at it, lhe heani, down be low him, so:nething fall heavihy. The great daily had a little item, a few lines crowded into its columus that morming: '-We regret to relate a sad accilent at the building of the MIorning Chronicle, it said, "which resulted in the death of one of our oldest and most populair cia -"At 3.30 this morning when the printers were leaving, Gi. WV. 3Ienson, ieing at tile time in a rather confused state, owing to having taken a little brandy for a slight indisposition, step1pea~ oIl' the elevator shaift at the ? furth story falling to the basement and being in stantly killed. His terrified compa na atteneited to save him" hut was hoi' iled to tind his emp1~ty coat left in hi hand, '31enxsoni was uinivers~aly' itke .i e no enemy but himseli. -ln 1lee a wife and three daugerx Ih ver depenbnt upon Inm for sup -. mna Hlarriman, n ion Co:,- l;b Awtngn iW ich 'Iay Arise C.t of Z;h ItI . 1 .4t' V4 te. Tiii-e is a prosiect that little Rhode ii , aready has a numericul rep remation inl the selnate equ:dl to that t t latrge'.st State, may have an influ nce if the laru- character in the next ouw of, RepLeentaiv!e!. In case there u'd be nc choice for Presjidit at the in 1.- the electio n would be rn into te !1 01;L of lepreseita iVes, th1c vote b i . iken lb States, Sae hiaving nIevlte, and the can d h- 1 avinl a maiiy of all the votes iing se. etLd. There was a c ntest over he lecti a a in the second hliode sland district whlich was settled by the Ioue rdeliing a n-ew election. That lection n ill be hldp yril G, and on the hoie then made may hang the next residency. The iajority of the States s twenty. In the Fiftieth Congress if he vote for President is taken by States, -aci State votin- according to the party )refeenceS 01f mjo-ity of its delega ion, the Republicans will have nineteen tAte.; .n.d the Democrats will have evmeclas;ified as follows: Re ian States-California, Col r 1ad, 1ilii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, aine, 3M sachuisetts, Michigan, Ne- I )raska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, )hio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, irginia, Wisconsin. -)emocratic States-Alabama, Arkan as, (nniecticut, Delaware, Florida, xeorgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mary ad, 3Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, olth Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes e, Texas, West Virginia. -New Hampshire is not included in ither of these tables, as its delegation is ivided evenly, so that it would have no OL( in the emergency contemplated. hode Island is also omitted, for the omplexion of its delegation is not yet ietermined. It has two representatives a Congress. One of these is a Republi an, anti if the other, who is to be elected a April, shall be a Republican, the Re >ublicans will then have the twenty tates necessary to a majoiity, and vould so elect a- Republican President. I he shall be a Democrat, the delega ion from Rhode Island would be a tie, thout a vote, and the Republicans Vould then be left with their nineteen ;tates, or still one short of a majority; hile the Democrats would be no better 'I than they are now. The resnt of the lection in April will be awaited with reat interest, as the -econd district of i le Rhode Island may have the dis :osition of the next Presidency in its ands. -.11E USED A IiOO31EI.AG. L Young Wife Tlts ier Isinitd's Love amiil iec(msC% sorry for It. (Froin the New York woril) Annie Pfaff, the young and pretty wife I Saloonkeexr August Pfaif, of No. 198 tvenue A, wasn't quite sure that her ausbana's love was all her own, and in >tting- hin to the test she passed Urough 1.2an experience which she entirely pced Saturday evening Pfaff ound~ hr moaning piteously on the of1):, and i answer to his queAtons she aid that having ascertained that he did ot lve her, she had swallowed a dose f iough on Rats." instantlV the hus and Was on his knees beside her and alling her pet names, and she was on he point oi telling him that she had Wen a erely joking when he dashed Out i the i.ouse, and, meeting Policeman, elani'dt, of the Fourtecnth Precinct, equested Lim to ring for an ambulance, .shiswf had takten poiaon and was ivn..ie h oiceman had sum Join liten tmuh~e he went to the *loonkeper's apartLments and made a risonter of Mrs. iLtl'on the charge of The atabulance surgeon looked down ter thiroat, siapj~ed her on tihe back and talked her up~ and down the floor at the ate of six miles an hour. Then she was aken down the stairs and placedl in the tbuhanee, although she protested that he had not taken poison. At JDellevue .fosptal she screamted when she saw the loctor with the stomach pump, but she ouldn't help herself, and the doctor's isgst can be imained when not a race of poison was dischargel from her tomachi. She was discharged and she was going io with her delighted husband when oicmnan Schmidt initerpi sed. She was xis roner for atterupting suicide, and is he had alrady reported tihe case to is captain he was comp~elled to arrest ier, and use the husband, who had given in the information, as complainant. \rs. P'iai remained in the sitting room >f the Fifth street station house until Essx MIarket Court was opsened yester lay morning, when she was arraigned >efore .Justice O'Reilly, and al ter she iad told her story she was discharged. 3iI;. CLECVELAJN D IN 155s). ELe Vill 1;et ire n Prin:te tire jin Ailbatay or* New Yo.rk City. (Fro:n tw New York sa ) "Wiat will the P'resident do when he 'eturns to private life?" asked ogle New ork man of another to-day. "I can :ell ou nreciselv," said the other. "lie 'ill not go back to Eutfalo, but will nake his home in Albany or New York ity, more likely the latter, from his saings while in the Wohite House. He ~il purchase a large, iiandsomte house n the eminenttly resp ectable, and not too fas-hionable part ot the city, perhaps Irnaee Pak 3Irs Cleveland will cot-iu hr -ochi career in a manner cot inved i: any wip of atn e'c-lresi 31r. Cl~ ed wi'J I t upi for himself down tow"n t' exellent law olice, in hicih hte wil spend very little time, and elly do very little work, as he will only desire a nominal pla ce at the bar. He would~ ntil exiwet very much of a tuerative praeltee. Rut w.hat is he going to lve ony That is the rub of the story to ich I wa abiiout to come. lie will ~e mad0 e the p~residenat of oneC or two, mi!:mre lag ewbusiness cor bortieus towhch isnam, is tabit. cgrti i ot. uitngwlpoe \CfS A1iT T L1- (T/HE . INCI)CNTS IN 111" .STO 'v YII: N01 V 2N I-'tILYl lINOWN. Ilow I i 3dki. for Fr1uIcle I )iI-LeswIl II Fatther--14e Vnor, tht- stron::;ewt Kindl -1 Omer~t ~n --I i Wi' 4. hOe Idlol of fli Hliine--. I)evot (.41 111u h:tI<II. (From the xew York .Mal nd xPr-+ While the private and public life 0 every other European monarch ha., fre quently given the journalist's penl uca sion to cover a ream of paper. mIore or less. Alexander Alexandrowitcli of Lus sia, has kept the modern hicroph.ants. tu whom every secret is known and who are initiated into the mystery of life, pretty well at bay. What has crept into print about him, off and on, has uniformly been marred by inaccuracies. This is easily explained. The present Czar is not readily approached, and since his advent to the throne especially has he hedged about sr. thoroughly that even the intrepid gatherer of news has often lost scent before reaching him. Alexander III. saw the frosty sun of the Neva first 'March 10 (February 26 by the Russian calendar), 1845, as the sec ond son of Alexander II., and was cdu. cated with his elder brother, the heir presumptive, -Nicolas, by two years his senior. The cducation of these two princes was put into the hands of Count S. Strogonow, but their real "gouver neur" was Privy-Councilor Titow, re called for the purpose from his post as Russian ambassador at the court of Stuttgart. In Titows place State Councilor von Grimm was appointed in 1858, when Alexander was 12 years of age. From that time on the boy drank daily deep from the fount of German learning, as nearly all his tutors were professors of that nationality. Grimm, however, in spite of his German ianiae, was an arch-Russian by heart, and the early influence of Titow, a MIuscovite of the old school to the finger tips, had sunk into the youthful prince's soul. Grimm, twenty years before, had guided the education of the Prince Constantine Nicolaiewitch. The military training was intrusted to an adjutant general re siding in the winter palace, the religious instruction to a learned old pope, and State Secretary Baron Modest Korff, author of several books on Russian his tory, taught the high born twain all of Russian statecraft, history and law they were desirous to learn. April 24, 1865, the death of the czarowitz intervened at Nice, and Alex ander, then just attaining his majority, was solemnly declared the heir to the throne. In the following year, Novem ber 9, 1866, he wedded with much pomp the Danish lady who had been his late brother's fiancee, Princess Dagmar, King Christian IX.'s daughter. Baptized in the Greek orthodox faith, she received the names Marie Feodorowna in ex change for her former ones-Marie Sophie Frederika Dagmar. This prin cess, as amiable and accomplished as she is beautiful, was born November 26th, 1817, and was consequently her spouse's junior by two years and eight months. The young consort of the Rlussian heir came from a court where the loss of two beautiful provinces, just swallowed up by Prussia, was mourned with tears of impotent wrath, and where pious Wil liam by the Spree had been daily anatheratized. What wonder, then, that the beautiful bride made her young husband, then in the flush of enthusiasm so common to heir presuiptives, a sharer in her mortal antipathy to the Hohenzollern dynasty? The palpable effeict of these uxorious lessons was not long in coming. 'J~he prince within a few months was the ac knowledged head of the auti-German party at the court, at that time and up to the hour of Alexander 1I.'s, death divided into the old Russian and the new Rus sian or German parties. In Berlin they were well informed about this, and Bis marck, together with his master, in dulged in dire forebodings as to what would happen when Alexander II. should close his eyes. The war of 18'70J-71 came and the flames burst out afresh with re newed vigor. The Czar and his immedi ate entourage were in full sympathy with Germany at that time, and especial pains were taken to emphasize this state of feeling. The younger Alexander, on the other hand, had a well-organized follow ing of his own, whose sympathies were strongly in another groove. The in evitable result was that these sympathies and antipathies frequently clashed and that snubs and the "cut direct" were dealt out very liberally and evenly dis tributed during the whole duration of the Franco-German conflict and for some time after to the representatives of Ger many as well as France. Personal en counters even and duels ensued and Alexander II. had rather a busy time of it trying to allay the outraged feelings of this ambassador and of the attache or secretary. Occasionally, however, he, too, felt provoked, anid on one notable occasion the Emperor was put into a p)erfect rage by his son's Prussophobous pranks. It was on the occasion of a court 'ball. 'This happeined to be given the night when the telegraphic news of another disaster to French arims had just reached St. Petersburg. The Emperor jhad b' en speaking of this to several of his inti mates early in the evening and in terms of admiration at the wonderful achieve ments of German valor. Soon after lie had entered the grand ballroom in the winter palace, Prince AlexaLnder camae in likewise, aluost immaediaely followed by his circle of friends, lie pri ie, a well as thocse behind him, had ,in''ed small favors to the lapels o' the ir swaii low-tails, these being diminutive rere sentations of tihe French ti-cvlor. *(e whole set of ladies b~eloing to them carrie-d simultameously bouquets to their lovely little noses, which exmhted evenC more glaringly the three 'olors m'uaus up the Giallie emblem. 'The demontra ton was so patent that it could not es cape the imperial host, tad he wa onsidrably angered. To'. take the. edge i this unpleasant incident, howiever, he Emwperor walked over to whlere the e ofI t'he (German amblasar sa ..t au d. usan't is usual custim, daeedt 1:1ou o fa quadrille wxith la . h owz no.I.otidiug daunted, responded -: leading the spouse of the FrVench am bi-sador to thm'.fztyA whir. N-i the retlemien of the Germanal party wenat "u+ ne i ne ad vet rn 4d with Ger manI colors-white, black, red--in their ituttonioles. and their ladies in an hour or so) had managed to obtain the corre si oinding thing in ilowers. This, o: course, did not improve matters, and th< h all for the rest of the evening consisted largely in couples of diflerent politica alfiliations sweeping past each other anc glowering savagely. A similar occurrence happened the eviening of the day when the Germans triumh1antly entered Paris. That was 't the opera. but the emperor did inoi liapen to be present. IRemonstrances and uleasant scenes are said to have btn gnite frequent just about that time i~eween father and son. However, it all ble. w over, and the scenes enacted a few mon ths later on by the commune in Paris, as well as the repeated attempts o tLh life of his father made by nihilis tic conspirators considerably changed the czarowitz's views and held in check his sympathies for France, though these sympathies never wholly died withir anid still exist to-day. How much of a change time had wrought in him was obviously shown when Alexander III., after the assassination, of his fathei ascended the throne. Thousands in liussia expected in his proclamation tc his people some promise of larger liber ties, and if not a constitution outright, at le st an assurance from him that the nation at large, through its representa ti es, should have a. voice in making and inimaking la ws and in administering the fluances of the immense empire. But neither in that document nor in the pub lished manifesto of May ,1, 1881, did the new Emperor say a word about this. Quite the contrary, he accentuated his claims to autocratic power even more broadly and absolutely than his father had ever done. Loris Melmkow, a re former of a mild pattern, was soon given the go-by likewise and Ignatie appointed in his place. Schuwaloff followed, and now it is even Tolstoi, a man than whom there can be nobody better qualified to crush every liberal aspiration ani retard every sort of progress and popular en lightenment. The present Emperor's foreign policy is too well known to need comment, and the fact that lie has thought a trio of such men as Tolstoi, De Giers, and Gourkko worthy of the I highest honors and of his special confi dence, and thd Kaulbars whom a recent article in this pap-r sufficiently charac terized, has of late likewise found favor in his eyes and has even been promoted to the grade of lientenant-generid, speaks volumes. The family relations of Alexander IIL have been uniformly pleasant. He is a devoted husband and a fonI and dutiful father. From his union with the royal Dane have sprung four children-three s1ons a-nt one daughter. The latter, Priness Xenmia, is now nearly twelve years of age, and is a lovely, amiable girl, ith blue eyes and fair hair, of a rare golden tint. The eldest son, Nicolas, i as born May 18, 1868, and is a fine, sturdy boy. George, . the second, was born in 1871, and Michael in 1676. The empress is still a charming woman and wears her forty years with ease r-d grace. Though not much of a musician .when ,he wedded the Ihissian, she per fecttd herself since in order to gratify his taste for music. The Emperor, how Sever, s only iond of fine Italian opera I and of the melancholy, simple airs and folk-songc of his country. Dagmar sings to him even to-day, when she wishes to llease him. ON T lIRE CARI BEAN SEA. . Tale of Modern Slave Trading Expe (IomI te i'etroit Free Press I propose herewith to relat& the histo ry of acrime committed four en years ago in the city of Jacksonville, Fla., and of which I have had guilty knowledge eve i nce. When 1 first learned, near P eranbuco, Brazil, of what had actual ly been done a few weeks before, I was too voung to fully comprehend the gravity of the affair, though I recollect expeneeing a certain sense of indigna tion, and tis has grown steadily with the lapse of time. I have not kept the matter secret through any* desire to shield the guilty parties, but have never been able, nor am I now able, to discern how they might have been reached and punishaed. A.t the close of the war, in 1st, all those Confederates who had been fight ing on ineple admitted their failure, ad dofy n their arims and returned to the peaceful walks of life, to rebuild, if pssible, the fortunes that hadi been wasted. But something like 120) irre pressibles spit upon the amnesty offered thm, and, hMaping imprecations upon the destroyers of the institution of slav ery, left the country and became residents of MIexico. Proud, im >erious and haughty as these men were, and never having lilled at position other than at command, thei' -uccess in the capital of the 31exicans iu s but indif'erent. In short, their incomes could not be made o equad their expenses, and within five ye ars tIitt of the most untfortunate had eturned, broken in spirits, health and iines, to their native soil. Oni the morning of October 4, 1.872, I was sitting atop of the piling at the edge of the wharf in -Jacksonville, with note book and pencil in hand, scoring dowu the dimnsions of certain live oak tim heris adt nlanks as the scalers measared them and called out their cubic con tenits. Our vessel, the barkentine M1aple Leaf, was being loaded with these tim bers for use in bridge building on the P' anma raimlroad. For an hour or more the sailors~ had been watching a small full-rigged brig that had app~eared on he broa d, black bosom of the St. Johns, adws..lowly mainugher way to the er w ithout the aidi of a tag, and having -eec one of her patcehed and dirty sails breeze. Along to ward evening the yes reiached the whart and tied up. and thre tL i ar-etured men, eaen wvithm a gipsack fu hand, came ashore and 'ateL oit for the neares~t hotel without attering . word. A blacek, curly-haired man.i wiho s'eee' to cmmand the little bri UwaLs iest givintg orders in MIexican to h cew of three hands. 'ilo G reasur!" called out our cap tawo haLd been watching the wh~ole proedng -wlty tdint you take the !tn t Lie mouath of the river and be n i J)e, ehr How wvouldi a good njare drin;k of whisky strike you about "Of course. Your knowledge of the English language is not very extensive, that's certain; but in the small amount that you have acquired you seem to have selected its brightest gems. Come up the ladder and take something." Whisky may not be in all respects the equal of the common school in calculat ing a knowledge of the Englishlanguage but in the case of this Mexican captain its effect was such that within two hours after joining our captain in his cabin he managed to convey the facts that his vessel had been chartered by the three gentlemen who first came ashore, and that they had come to engage a cargo of negre laborers to work in a tobacco fac tory of theirs in the City of Mexico. When the Mexican had returned to his brig, and I had finished writing up the day's log after supper, Captain Ellsworth turned to me and said: "Steward, there's something all-fired strange about this thing." "What thing?" I asked. "Why, this rotten little brig, with its dirty sails, its dirty crew, and the three shabby aristocrats who have chartered her-they are not over-clean themselvea" "Probably engaged in a dirty busi ness?" I suggested. "Correct," said he. "If they wanted niggers for' factory hands why didn't they stop at New Orleans-the French niggers are the smartest of all, and can be had by the cargo. Or, why didn't they stop at Pensacola? Why did they come clear around here to Jacksonvie for a load of country bucks, the laziest and dullest of the whole caboodle? An other thing, Mexicans can be hired cheaper than niggers can be boarded, and will do twice the work. What do you make out of it?" "I make this out of it," said I, "that Mexican captain has lied to you." "No, he hasn't. Those fellows may have lied to him when they chartered his brig, but he was straight enough with me, that's sure." Next morning Captain Ellsworth called at the hotel, but the three men had gone. "I used to know one of those men before the war," said the landlord. "He was a big planter up here in Ala bama, just over the line, and when I recognized him last night he said he said he was going back to get some of his old slaves to go and work for him in Mexico." In three days the Maple Leaf was loaded and ready to sail, but the evening before we were to sail Captain Ellsworth attended a fandango, got into an alterca tion, was arrested and released on his personal parole to appear one week from the day of arraignment for trial. In vain he pleaded with the local magistrate to set the trial for the next day-the complainant knew the captain's anxiety to sail and insisted upon his "rights." The week passed tediously away, and Ellsworth remarked that he wished he had gone to jail instead of being released on personal bail. "As it is," said he, "I am bound upon honor to stay and pay my fine. If I had gone to jail I could have kicked the old rattletrap to pieces the first night and been half way to Aspinwall by this time." On the second day of our delay the three charterers of the little Mexican brig returned, accompanied by some thirty negroes. They immediately went on board; a couple of dray loads of pro visions were taken in, and in less than an hour the brig had east off aLd was floating down with the current and the -tide. A clump of leaning cypress trees, with long gray mosses straming from the limbs, hid the ragged sails from sight at last, and about the same moment the hymn which the colored people had been singing ceased to reach the ear. There was certainly something singular about the whole transaction. We had left Aspinwall nearly a week, having discharged our load of timber, and were rapidly nearing Pernambucuo, where it was designed taking in a cargo of hides and horns, when the lookout in the foretop called out: "The Immaculate Mexican!" This was the name the crew had ap plied to the unclean brig thathad loaded the negroes at Jacdsonville, and all hands were soon looking at the patched sails and black pennant of their old ad quaintance, as she rapidly approached us. "What in Sancho is that brig doing down here?" said Captain Elisworthi. "There's something wrong, by hokey. Make signals for her to heave to and we'll speak her." In half an hour the Mexican captain was in our skipper's cabin drinking clear whisky by the cupful. At the end of another hour he was lowered to his boat and both vessels resumed their course. "It's about as I expected," said Ells worth at the supper table. "Those chaps took the negroes to Brazil, landed at St. Cynthia, so the Mexican says, and hie didn't dare refuse to obey their orders." "And what have they done with them?" I asked. "Either sold them into slavery and pocketed the cash, or else they intend to keep 'em themselves and become plan ters." I~eware the l'en~coc'k Feather. This lady says that she once warned President Arthur not to keep it, as it was the most unlucky thing he could have about the house, but he laughed at her, and said he was not superstitious. When he left the White House he pre seated the bird to Mrs. John Davis, and the lady of the legation called my atten tion to the fact that Mrs. Davis had met with many misfortunes since for which the peacock was responsible. I had-/ never heard of this superstition before, but upon inquiry found that it was quite prevalent in Europe~, and the French Minister told me that the ill fortunes of the Emapress Josephine were attributed to the fact that she was excessively fond of peacock feathers as ornaments and nearly always wore them.-Washington Letter. .\nthier Life saved. .A ou t w' year~s ag.o a promlfinent citizen of Chicago was tokd by hi physicians that hie must Iue. '[hey sad his system was so lh-bilitated that there was nothing left to uniild on. Hie made up his mind to try a -new de'parture." ie got some o r I':vrcees '.ilden .Medical Discovery" and akit acc('rding to djirections. Hie began Simprove at once. lie kept up) the trea't mesut lor some months, and is to-day a well man, ie says the "Discovery" saved his life. An 'gil Well, unlike a dude, gushes to aive liiht to the worl