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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