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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. KUB1SKT K. LEE, ?KN. LOUD WOl.sKI.KY REVIEWS TUE SOUTHERN I.C.VDMK S LIFE. The Scene Described When 11 <> Accosted a Commission From tho Mother of I'resi rients-A Comparison Itetween the Amor li nn Sohller ami England's Conquering Marlborough. ? NEW YORK, March 1.-Of tho cables printed in tho Now York papers tho fol lowing special cabio from London to thc World is tho one which will attract most attention: Tho leading article in Macmillan's Magazine for March is by Ctonoral Lord Wolseley, on General Lee. Uoferonco is made in a foot note to tho recent ly published memoirs of (icu. ;al Lee by General Long und .Marcus Wright, bul in no sonso a review of that work, (leu oral Leo is given full ondit for tho love ho had for tho Union, and for Hie strug gle ho went through before Unally taking tho decision to go with his own State. General Wolseley describes how Lei accepted his commission ns commander in-chief of all tho military fo JCS of Vir ginia in a orowdod convention of the most eminent mon of tho ??tato, and thou draws a parallel la tween him and the great Marlborough: "Geuoral Loo's presence commanded respect even from strangers by a calm, soll-posscssod dig nity the like of whioh I have never BI I U in other men. Naturally of strong pas sions he kept them nuder pi rfect control by that iron and determined will of which bis expression and his face gave evidence. As this tall and handsome soldier stood liefere .us countrymen he was thc picture of thc ideal patriot. Unconscious and self-posse seil ia his strength, he indulged lu nd thoatiioal display of feeling. Thoro waa n his face and about bim that placid resolve whioh bespoke great confidence in si If, ami which, in Iiis caso, om ? tu \. i >| how quickly communicated u.i ina}.; influoneo to others. Ho wa then jual lilty-four years old, tin i ol Mm borough when ho dt tro\ army at Blonhcini. lu mi on many points those two gaul much resembled each othi lioth w of a digniticd and commaudit ? exterior, eminontly handsome, with a li ure tull, graceful ami erect, while i muscu square-built frame bes) oke i id activity of body. Tho chana of mi . ivhicll I have mentioned us vor,> liuni \j in Lee waa possessed in tho I ij I cal di .. by Marlborough. Holli, ul tho out el ot their great career of vioti ry, \.< io re garded as essentially national command ers. Both had married young und were faithful liusbauds and devoted fathers. Both had in all their OaiupaigtiS tue same belief in an over*watchful Provi dence, in whose help they trusted im plicitly und for whoso interposition they prayed nt all limos. They wore gifted with tho same military instinct, thc same genius for war, tho power o? fasci nating those with whom they were asso ciated, thc spell which they cast over their soldiers who believed almost super stitiously iu their cortain'y of victory. Their cont? nipt of danger and their dar ing courage COUstitU to a paral lol that is dimoult ttt equal lad ween any oilier two groat men of modern times." AN OROANIXER. Befcronee is mudo as |o how Gonoral Loo organized an army of 50,000 men in two mouths, lind us to how in another month ho bud gained a grout victory ut Bull Bun und driven thc Northern in vaders back across thc I'otomac like herds of frightened sheep, his army be ing supplied with ammunition, army btores and clothing captured then-. Ile tells tho following story: .'.Some time afterward, when Genorol Pope and his largo invading army hud boon sent buck fly mg across thc Maryland border, 1 overheard this conversation between two Confederate soldiers: 'Have you heard thc news? Goneral Lee has resigned." 'Good God,' was tho reply; 'what for?1 .Ile hu? resigned because he says ho can not feed ami supply \?f anny any longer now that his commissary, Genoral l'ope, has boen removed,' Mr. Lincoln had just then dismissed Genorol Pope, re placing him by Gonoral McClellan. INEFFICIENT SUBORDINATES, General Wolseley incidentally e\ Srosses un opinion, when speaking ol nil Bun, that the Confederates did not follow up their victory tiaro as tiny should have donc. A rapid and duriug advance; would have given them posses sion of Washington, their enemy's capi tal. Politico! considerations ut Bich mond were allowed to outweigh tho very ovidont military experience ol' reaping a solid advantage from this their lirst great success. This suggcstM thc general criti oisni whioh follows: "What most strikes thc regular soldier in thew campaigns of Gonoral Leo is tho inefficient manner in which both he and bia opponents wore often served by their subordinate, commander and bow badly tho staff and OUtpOBt work generally was Ssrformed on both sides, lt is moid llicull to move, with .my effective pre oision, young armios constituted o - the. o wore during this war. 'I ho direction und movement of large bodies of newly raised troops, oven ?hen victorious, in never easy and often impossible, Ovoi and over again was tho South appin, ntlj within a stone's throw of Independence, and it has been many times remarked, when from want of a thoroughly good staff to organize tho pursuit, the ocofl sion waa lost, and tho enemy allowed to escape. Lee's combinations t<> secure viotory were tho conceptions of a truly great strategist, and when they had I i eu effected his tactics were also most always everything that could bo desired up to thc moment of victory. But Ibero his notion seemed to stop altogether. Wan over on army so helpless at tho moroy of another an that of McClellan, " hon hfl began his rotreat to Harrison's landing, after the seven ?lays' fighting around Itiohmond? What commander could wish to have his foo in a tighter plat?' than Burnside was In after bia disastrous attack upon Leo at I'redorioksburg? Yot in both instances tho Northern com mander got safely away; and othor simi lar instances could bo mentioned. The critical military student of tlu> war, who knows the powor whioh regular troops, Well officered and well directed by a thoroughly eflloient staff, placed in the honda of an able general and who has acquired an intimate ami complete knowledge of what these two contending A morice n armies were really like will, 1 think, agree that from finit, to last thc co-operation of oven one army corps of regular troops would have given com plete victory to whichever side it fought on." AT ANTIETAM. Lord Wolseley says that Leo told him that bo bad only .10,000 men in front of McClellan at Antietam, with a few tired reserves behind, while McClellan bad an army of 100,000 men. He .states that Leo always spoko well of McClellan, though hu spoko bitterly of none of his Federal opponents. In lo- reference to the thirty-five days' IV..* lg around Richmond just before thc irrender at Appomattox, Wolseley says: "Leo bad only 55,000 exhausted soldiers to op pose 100,000 fresh men under General Grant." In spoaking of tho faults of General Leo be says: "One of them was too great dread Of wounding the feelings of others, which lead him to leave incom petent men to lill important positions. This softness of heart or amiability, however good in itself, may amount to crime in thc man intrusted with public affairs at critical moments, Lee's devo tion to duty and great respect for obedi ence seems at times to have made bim too subservient to those charged with Un civil government of his country. Ile carried out too literally tho orders of those whom tho Confederate constitu tion made bis superiors, although he must have known them to bo entirely ignorant of the science of war. He ap pears lo have forgotten that ho was thc great revolutionary chief, engaged in a great revolutionary war; that ho was no mero leader in a political struggle of parties carried on within tho. lines of an tdd, well established form of govern ment. lt was very clear to many at the time, as il will bo commonly acknowl edged now, that tho South could only! hope to win under thc rule of a military dictator. If General Washington had bad a Mr. Davis over him, could ho bavo accomplished what ho did? It will, 1 am sure, be news to many that (huerai Lee was given the command over 1 the Confederate annies a month or two only before tho final collapse, ld hat tho military policy of the South was throughout tho war dictated by Mr. Davi as ['resident of thc Confederate tai is. Leo had no power to reward soldiers or to promote officers, lt was Mr. Davis who .selected thc men to com mand divisions and armies, ls it to bo ; sod that Cromwell, King William 111, Washington or Napoleon could have succeeded iu tho revolutions with which their names are identified, ba l they submitted to tho will and authority -ii .i politician os Lee did to Mr. Davis? DKt-'HNSK or UlCItMOX I). Lord Wolseley says that "General Le? w as opposed to thc defense of Richmond at the last, and that ho was right, for if he had drawn Genoral (inuit's army into thc interior far away from its base of supplies, be would have greatly weak ened it. lint it wen? vaiu to speculate. Richmond fell and Leo's army surren dered. Who shall ever fathom the depth of Lee s anguish when the bitter end came, and winn, beaten down by sheer force of numbers and by absolutely not liing else, he found himself obliged to surrendor? The handful of starving men remaining with him laid down their arms and tho proud Confederacy ceased to bo. Sundy the ci ashing, maddi liing anguish of awful sorrow is only known lo the loader, who has so failed to ac complish some lofty, some noble aim for which ho bas long striven with might and main, with heart aud soul in thc in teresta of king or of country. A smiling face, a cheerful manner may conceal the hore place from thc eyes, possibly even from thc knowledge ot his friends, but then; is no heidi og for such a wound which eats into thc very heart of him who bas once received it." AN ESTIMATE Of LEE. Tho article closes with this enthusias tic estimate of thc Confederate chieftain: "When all thc angry feelings roused by the secession are buried with those which existed when the declaration of inde pendence was written; when Americans can review tho history of their last great rebellion with calm impartiality, 1 be lieve all will admit that Genoral Lee towered far above all men 0U either side in that struggle, i believe ho w ill bc regarded not only as the most prominent figaro of thc Confederacy, but as tho groat American of the ninetci nth centu ry, whoso statue is well worthy to shuni on an equal pedestal with that of Wash ington, and whoso memory is equally worthy to bc enshrined In tuc hearts of all bis countrymen." Goori Rules to Follow. First, bc honest and truthful. All de pends upon this. If you havo work to do, do it cheer fully. If you go out on business, attend to Hie matter promptly, and then as promptly go about your own business. Don't atop to tell stories. lt you have a pince of business bo tin ie liming business bonn.. No one can get rich by sitting around stores and saloons. If you have to labor for a living, re in- min r that om- hour iii the morning is better than two at night. I lo not meddle with any business you know nothing of. A good business habit and reputation is always money. Help yourself, and others will help you. Do obliging. Do not be. in too great basto to get rich. Do not spend timo in idleness. lie kind. p Loam to say no. There is uo neces sity of snapping it out, but say it llrnily and respectfully. Learn to Hunk and act for yourself. Be valiant. Help others when you can. Keep ahead rather than behind time, for it is oasior to koop ahead than to catch up. _ An Kxpemtive Delfty. Is failing to pr?vido tho proper moans to expel from tho system those disease Serins which oanso scrofule, indigestion, ebility, rheumatism and siok headache. Tho only reliable means is Dr. Harter 's lion Tonio. * THE I.AST ITKM. A "Sa<i Accident" lo Ono Wlio "Was Val. venally Liked, IlavliiK No Kiicmy lint lllnatolf." lt was carly evening. Tho lumps were beginning to shine out iioi'0 and tliei'O ann men and women who had finished their day's work were hurrying home to supper. The door ot* a neat little home stood partly opon. A man was near it, evidently just starting out to begin his work. "1 am sorry you have to f?o bind; to night work," his wife was saying. She looked pole and troubled. "Hoa.n 1," lie answered, "but never mind, dear, perhaps it won't be long." Ho kissed nor aa ho spoke and went out through tho door. She looked after him with ber eyes full of team. "If be \ should begin again," she sahl, "oh, if he should!" "Mmmii," called a tali, slender girl from the room, "come and tell mo w hat pattern to choose for father's slippers; I w ant to commence embroidering I hem j to-night. His birthday isn't very far off, you know." "Hertha and I are going to club to gether and get him that new book be 1 wanted," said another girl, evidently lier sister; "we beard him speak of it and wc j have money enough." The woman turned and weat into tho house and shut tho door. Tlie man went on down tho street and was soon busily engaged at bis ease, away up in tho highest story of a tall building. lliy lingers went back and forth, back and forth, picking up tho bits Of black metal, setting up lino after line of what, in the nu >i ning would appear in the groat daily, Out over thc city he could BCO thc lights beginning to shine, and gradu ally the hum in tho streets below him grow loss and loss. All about him were men working away steadily at the bits of metal. Ile could hear presses oliok, click, as they went on with tin ir part ol tho work. The gas llared. Now and then one of tho nun spoke briefly, generally some thing about the work. Some td' them Weut to their coat:; oc casionally v, here they hung on the wall ami drunk from bottles in the pockets. One otVi red his to tho silent worker be side him, but ho Bhook h?8 head. '."What," called a gay young fellow across thc room, "you given up thu bottle, Monson; what will happen uoxl ?" Tho lin n laughed. The lights in tllO houses died out uftor awhile, the moses on tho street grew less and less. Tho nun went to their bottles oftener and passed them back and forth from hand to hand. Monson was grow ing tired. Ile Was not us yoting as Li bad boon when ho hogan to work at the type, and tho smell of thc liquor came to hun OS bc worked ?iud grew more and more weary. He longed for ono taste, just one, "to help him out," ' to rest him." Vet, when a lad near him took tho bottle and began to taste the liquor he touched his arni and said: "Don t, 1 begun at your age; I wanted to be smart ; don't begin," Hut the boy laughed and drank. The hours went by ami the presses clicked louder and thc noises on tho street grow less and less. "Dire, Monson," said a man, coming across thc room, "hore is some of tho best French brandy. .lust taste it; I know you are sick to-night; it'll do you good.' "I don't b el exactly well, ' ho said, s i/.ing the bottle eagerly, "l il Liste it, only taste iv." The fumes of thc liquor had been hulf-muddcuing him, his old thirst had been crying out to be satisfied. Ho drunk as eagerly OS he had seized it. "That is good brandy,'' he sold, giving back thc bottle. Thc man winked slyly at tho others as h . went back to his ease. Monson worked on. Ho b lt bettor, ho said to himself, thc brandy bad done him good ; and after a w hile bc asked for another drink. The mau gave it and he drank as eagerly as before. Ile bad drank a good macy times by tho timo the last line was set up and the nu n were making n ady to leave It was early morning now ami tho noises of that early time in tho eity were beginning tc be hoard. Monson went to got bis coat, but he could not find it. Then ho looked for bis hut, but ho could not remember w here he had put it. He stood holding on to the Lack of a chair, vaguely, wondering what ho should do about it, when the man w ho had given him thc brandy came up. "Hello, Monson," he called out, "you look as though you were getting up a leader. Too late now forthat. conic on." Monson endeavored to lot him know his dilemma. "Whore's your coat?" ho said; be was loud und noisy; "where's your coat? West if i know." "Oh, boro it is; lot mo help you on with it. There you aro, come on now, the boys have alt gone aud loft us." They wont ovor to tho elevator. It Was jtut coming up tho shaft. Awa\ down below them thoy could hear tho i ie ino and at ono sido tho pros&t , ; tamp, Stamp, as thc great daily dropped away fresh and damp from their jaws. "Conic on then, now my boy," called his companion, as Monson hesitated. Ho drew him on, ono bewildered and confused, tho other hilarious and loud. The elevator began to move down thc shaft. MenSOn looked up and saw a door. "Here's place," he said stepping out toward it. His companion caught his coat. It carno off in bis hand, and as bc stood wildly looking at it, he beard, down Le low him, something fall heavily. The great daily had a little item, a few linos crowded into its columns that morning: "Wo regret to relate a sad accident at tho bnildii.F of tho Morning Chronicle,' it said, "whioh resulted in tho death of one of eur oldest and most popular em ployes. "At 8.80 thia morn in;, when the prlntors woro leaving, G. W. Monson, being nt tho timo in a rather confused state, owing to having taken a little brandy for a slight indisposition, stepped o IV tho elevator shaft at tho fourth story, falling to the basement and being in staidly kdied. His terrified companion attempted to save him" but was horrified to find his empty coat left in his hand. "Monsell was universally liked, having no enemy but himself. "Ho leaves a wife and three daughters who wore dopenden! upon hire for sup port." Emma Harriinan, iii Union Signal. AN INTEKUSTl Mi 111 IV I'oHHtblo Contiii|*onolvH Wliloli May Arlno ?lui ni Ithotlo IHIHIMP? Voto. Tli'Hi; is a prospect that little Illunie [aland, that already lias a numerical rep resentation in the Senate equal to that ot' the largest State, may have an influ ence 0? the largest character in the next ?louse of Representatives, in ease there should bo no choice for 1'resident at thc polls in 1888 the election would bc thrown into the House of Representa tives, the vote being taken by States, COCll State having one. vote, and the can didate having a majority of all thc votes being solee ted. There was a contest over the election last full in t he second Rhode Island district which wits bottled by the House ordoring a now election. That election will be held April ti, and on thc choice then made may hang the next Presidency. Tho majority of thc States is twenty. In the Fiftieth Congress if the vote for President is taken by States, cindi State voting according to thc party proforences of a majority of its delega tion, the Republicans will have nineteen States and the Democrats will have ?seventeen, classified as follows: Republican Statis California, Col orado, Illinois, indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massaohusotts, Michigan, Ne braska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pi nns-, b ania, Vermont, Virginia, wisconsin. Democratic States-Alabama, Arkan sas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mary laud, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, Noith Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes see, Texas, West Virginia. New Hampshire ii not, included in eithi r of these tables, as its delegation is divided evenly, so that it would have no vote in the emergency contemplated. Rhode Isintu! is al ii omitted, for the complexion of its delegation i. not yet determined, it has two representatives in Congress. One ol' these is a Republi can, lind If tic other, wini is to be elected in April, shall be a Republican, thc Ito pllblicaus will tin .i have tho twenty Statis necessary to a mnjoiity, and would so elect a Republican I'resident, ff ho shall bo a Democrat, the delega tion from Rhode Island would be a tie, without, a volt", and tho Republicans would then be h it with their nineteen States, or still one short of a majority; while the Democrats would bo no bottoi ol?*than they .uv now. Tho result of tin election in April will bc a Waited with great i ubi est, as tho tccolid district ol bltle Kinnie I shill d le 'V have tho dis position of the m xi. Presidency in itt minds. silt. I SICH A I10?AI lilt ANO. \ \ mu?!; wu. Tc i Hoi- lloHhiuid's l.ov? nuil Hil murs Sinn fur it. (iroin til? Now York Worl 5.) Annie Pfaff, tin: young and pretty will of Saloonkeeper August Pfaff, of No. ll)} Avenue A, wasn't quito sui - that he husband's love was all ber own, and ii putting him to the test she posset through an experience which she entire!; unexpected. Saturday ovoniug Pfai found her moaning piteously on tin sofa, and in answer to bis questions sin saidtiiatiiavingaseertaineiltii.it bc dil not love her, she had swallowed a dosi of "Hough on Rats." Instantly tin; hus band was on his knees beside her nm calling her ju t names, and sin- was Ol the point ol tolling him tim! she hm been n i n ly joking when be dashed on ol the house, and, meeting Policcmai Schmidt, of the Fourteenth Precinct requested him to ?.ng for au ambulance as his wile had taken poison ami wa dying. After the policeman ?md sum moued an ambulance he went to tin saloonkeeper's apartments ami made i prisoner of Mrs. Pfaff on the charge o attempting suicide. Tho ambulance surgeon looked dowi her throat, slapped hor on the back am walked her up and down the lloor at th rato of six miles an hour. Then she wa taken down thc stairs and placed in th ambulance, although she protested thu she had not taken poison. At Bollovil Hospital she screamed w hen she saw th doctor with tho stomach pump, but sh couldn't help herself, and tho doctor' disgust can bo imagined when not trace of poison was discharge.! from lu .stomach. She was discharged and slie w as goin homo with lu r delighted husl and who Policeman Schmidt interposed. She wi bis prisoner Ibr attempting Btlicido, an as he had already reported thc ease t his captain In- was compelled to arrei her, and use the husband, w ho had give him the information, as complninan .Mrs. PfalVremained in tho sitting root of tho Fifth street station house nut Fssox Mai kit Court was opened y es tc day morning, w hen she was arraign?1 before Justice O'lteilly, and alter si had told li? r story she was discharged. Xl ll. (1.1.1 Kl.AMI IN 18S!>. Ho "Will UH i IT to Private I.lie in Alhai or NOM Yuri? City. (Prom the New York Killi ) "What :M tho President do win n 1 returns to private lifo?" asked ono Nt! York man of another to-day. "I cr tell you precisely," said the other. "1 will not go back to Buffalo, but wi make his home in Albany or New Yoi city, more likely thc latter, from li saving's while in the White House. i will purchase a huge, handsome hon in tho emile idly i espectable, and n too fashionable part Of the city, pcrbaj Gramoroy Park. Mrs. Cleveland w continue ber social can er in a mann not enjoyo*! by any wife of an ex-Prei dent, since tho days of Dolly Madison. Mr. Cleveland will fit up for hims? down town an excellent law ollicc, which ho wiil Spend very little time, ol really do vet y little work, ns he will on deairo a nommai place at tho bar. 1 would not expect very much of lucrative practice. Rut what is hogoii to live on? That is the rub of the ste to which I was about to como. Ile w l>o made the president of one or tw possibly moro, birgo new business c< Iterations, to wInch bia name, his bab of industry and reputation for go common senso and strong will pov will easily 1K> worth anywhoro fr< 310,000 to $25,0( 0 a year. In short, will i - i 'i,it on a little larger scalo wi Sec rel ai y Manning has been asked to . A post-masUT-The superintendent telegraph poles. FACTS ABOUT THE CZAR. INCIDENTS I N Ul-- STOIOIY I.I li: NOT (I KNICK A LIA KNOWN. Ultu Ills Liking lor |-'l'UIIOO IMsploiiBOil His Vni her-Ho l a vue* t ho .Strongest Kimi of llovwrnmonl-- nu Wile tho Idol <.> II Ix Home-A Uovolod ItUHlmnil, (Kroni tho Now York Mall ami Kxprcsa j While tho private and publia lifo of ovevy othor European nionareh bus fre quently givou tho journalist's pen occi si?n to cover a ream of paper, mun: or less, Alexander Aloxandrowiteh ol' Kas sia, bas kept the modern hicrophanto, lo whom every BCOl'ot is known and who aro initiated into tho mystory of lifo, pretty v.oll at liny. What has crept into print about him, oil" and on, bas uniform'';, been marred by inaccuracies. This is easily explained, Tuc present Czar is not readily approach! d, and since bis advent to tho throne especially bas hu hedged about so thoroughly timi even thu intrepid gatlioror of news has often lost scout buforo reaching him. Alexander 111. saw tho frosty sun of tho Nova first Mandi lo ( february 20 by thc Hussian calendar), 1815, n thu sec ond son of Alexander If., ami was edu cated with his elder brother, tho heir presumptive, Nieidas, by two years bia senior. Tho education ol' those two princes was put into thc bands of Count D. Strogonow, but their real "gouver neur" was Privy-Councilor Titow, re called for the purpose from his post as Hussian ambassador at tho court of Stuttgart. [ll Titow's place State Councilor von (oimin was appointed in 1858, when Alexander was lu years of ago. From that time on tho boy drank daily deep from tho fount of Gorman learning, as nearly all his tutors wen; professors of that nationality. Grimm, however, ill spite of his Gorman name, was nu arch-Kmsian by heart, and tho early influonco of Titow, a Muscovite of the old school to thc linger tips, bad j sunk into tho youthful prince's soul. ? Grimm, twenty years bet?re, bad guided the education of tho Prince Constantino ! Nicola io wi tch. The military training was intrusted to an adjutant gem ral re siding in tho winter pallico, tho religious instruction to a learned old pope, and State Secretary baron Modest KoilV, author of several books on Russian Iiis- 1 tory, taught tho high born twain ail of j Hussian Btatuortift, history and law thoy Woro desirous to learn. April "Jl, 1805, tho death of thc ozarowitz intorvencd at Nico, and Alex ander, thou just attaining bis majority, was solemnly declared tho heir to tho ' throne. In the following year, Novem ber 1800, llO Wedded With much pomp thu Danish lady who had been his laic, brother's UtlUCCC, 1'rincoss Dagmar, King Christian IX.'sdaughter, Rapt i'/.ed in tho Co cci; orthodox faith, she received : tho names Marie Fcotlorowua in ex chango for her former om s-Marie ; sophie Fivdcrika Dagmar. This prin cess, as amiable and accomplished as ..lu is beautiful, was born November 20th, j 1817, and was consequently lier spousi's 1 junior by two years and eight months. The young consort of thc Russian heir came from a court where thc loss of two ; beautiful provinces, just swallowed up hy Prussia, was mourned with tears of impotent wrath, and when- pious Wil liam by tho Spree had been daily 1 anathematized. What wonder, thou, ! that thc beautiful bride made her yoilUg husband, Ha n in tho flush of enthusiasm so common to hoir presumptive*, a sharer in lier mortal antipathy to tho ! Hohenzollern dynasty? The palpable elVect of these uxorious lessons was not long lu coining. Tho prince within a few months wa.i the ao knowlcdgcd hoad ->t tho anti-Goimau I party at tin- court, at that iii.ie ami np to the UOlir of Alexander 11.'s death divided into tho i ld Russian and tho new Hus sian or German parties. lu Berlin they were well informed about this, and llis marek, together with bis master, in dulged in dire forebodings as to what would happen when Alexander 11, should close bis eyes. The war ol' 1870*71 came und the Hames burst out afresh with re newed vigor. The Czar and Ins immedi ate entourage were in fu Uyrapatbv with Gormany at that time, and especial pains were taken to OmphasiZO this state of feeling. Thc younger Aloxandor, on the other band, had a wcll-orgaiii/.ed follow ing of bis own, whose sympathies wore strongly ill another groove. The in evitable result was that these sympathies and antipathies frequently cia: iu d and that snubs and the ..cul direct" Mere dealt out very liberally and evenly dis tributed during tho whole duration of thc Franco-Gorman conflict and for some time alter to tin roprosontativos of Gor many as well as Franco. Personal en- ! counters even and duels ensued and Alexander II. had rather a busy time of it trying to allay thc outraged feelings of this ambassador and of tho attaoho or secretary. Occasionally, however, bc, too, felt provoked, and on one notable occasion thc Emperor was put into a perfect rage by his son s PmSSOphoboUS pranks, lt was 00 tho occasion ol' a court ball. This happened to bo given thc night when thc telegraphic news of another disaster to French arms had just reached St. Petersburg. Thc Emperor Iliad bei n speaking of this to several Ol bis inti mates curly in thc evening and in terms of ad m i nit ion at thc wonderful achieve monto of German valor. Soon altor ho had entered thc grand ballroom in thc winter palace, Prince Alexander carno in likewise, almost immediately followed by bis circle of friends. Thc prince, as well as those behind bim, bad pinned ; mall favors to thc lapels of their nw?-1 low-tails, tb oso being diminutive repr? sentations Of the French tri-color. The whole set of ladies belonging to them carried simultaneously bouquets to their lovely little noses, which exhibited even moro glaringly tho three colors making up the Galbo omblcm. Thc demonstra tion was so patent thal it could not es capo the imperial host, and he was considerably angered. To take the edge off thU unpleasant incident, howovor, tho Emporor walked over to where the wife of tho Gorman ambassador sat and, against his usual otistom, danced a t. or two of a quadrille with i.er. Thc coarowitz, nothing daunted, responded by leading the spouso of the French am ??asador to tho nia/.y whirl. Next tho gentlemen of tho German party wont out, ono by ono, and returned with Gcr / man coloi white, black, roil in their buttonholes, and their ladies in au hour or so had managed to obtain tho corro* ispondiug Hiing in (lowers. Tin?, of . courso, did not improve matters, und tho ball for tho rest ot tho evening consisted : largely in couples of different political , alliliat ions sweeping past eocli other and glowering savagely. j A .similar occurrence happened the evening ol'thc day when thc (?crniaiiH triumphantly entered Paris. That was I at tho opera, but tho emperor did not happen to bo present. Remonstrances and unpleasant scenes are said to have been <p?de frequent just about that time In t ween father and son. HoWOVOr, it all blew over, and thc scenes enacted a fow months lat? r on by thc commune in Pari , us well as the repeated attempts OD tho lifo of his falle r made l>y nihilis tic conspirators considerably changed tho c/.arow it/.'s views and held in cheek his sympathies for Franco, though these sympathies never wholly di 1 within pud still exist to-day. How much of a chango time bad wrought ill him was obviously shown when Aloxandor lil., after tho assassination, of ids father ascended thc throne. Thousands in Russia exp? eted in his proclamation to his people some premiso of largor liber ties, and if not a constitution outright, al h ast an assurance Hom him 'hat thc nation at large, through its i\ piesenta t i - i s, should have a voice in malting and unmaking laws and in administering thc ilnaucos of tho immense oiupiro. Dut neither in thai dooumeut nor in tho pub lished manifesto of. May ll, 1881, ?lid tho new Emporor say a word about this. Quito tho contrary, lie accentuated his claims to autocratie powor oven mor?' broadly and absolutely than l is father had ?.ver dono. Loris Molmkow, a rc formor of a mild j) itt? rn, was .< on given thc godiy likowise and fguatie appointed in Ins placo. Bouuwalofi' followed, and now it is ovou Tolstoi, a man thai) whom there can bo nobody bettor qua lilied to crush every liberal aspiration and returd every sort of progress and popular en lightenment. Thc present Uuiporor's foreign policy is too well known to need comment, and thc fact that ho bas thought u trio of such men as Tolstoi, Do fliers, and (tourkko worthy of thc highest honors and of his spec: il confi dence, and that ivuulbars whom a rocout article in this paper snlllctontly charac terized, luis 01 late likowiso found favor in bis eyes and has even been promoted lo lh" grade of lioutciiaut-goiioru!, speaks volumes. The family relations ol' Alexander III. have boon uniformly plea nut. Ile isa dovotcd husbuud tinda loud ai d dutiful luther. From his nu ion with tic royal Dam- have spuing four childi'! il-three sons and olio daughter. Tho latter, Princess Menin, is now nearly twelve y? ;iis o? agc, and is a lovely, amiable giri, with ohio eyes und fair hair, bf a rare goldou tint. The eldest son, Nicolas, was boru .May 18, 1" ?S, and i a line, sturdy boy. Qoorgo, tho second, was boru in 1871, and Michael in 1878. The empress is still a charming woman and wears her forty years with ?ase and grace. Though not much of a musician wlion she woddod tho Russian, she per fected herself since in ordor to gratify his taste for music. The I'jinpc or, how over, is only fond of line Italian opera mid of tho melancholy, simple airs and folk-song; ?d' hi country. Dagmar sings to him ? von to-day, w hen she wishes to pienso him. ON Till'! CA lt lt lilli: AN \. A Title ot Modern Sluvc Trailing KXpe rt I Hon, (from tho Detroit 1'roo I'ross ) I propose herewith to relate tho histo ry Ol a crime committed fourteen years ugo in tho city ?d' Jacksonville, I la., and ol winch 1 have bad guilty knowledge ever since. W hen I first learned, near Pornambuco, Brazil, of what hail aotuol ly lie?:ii done a few weeks bofore, I was too young to fully comprehend tko gravity of tho affair, though 1 recollect experiencing a certain sense ?d indigna tion, and this has grown steadily with tho lapso O? timo. I have not kept the matter secret through any desire to shield the guilty parties, but have inver been able, nor alu I now able, to discern how they might have been micheil and punished. At tho oloso of tho war, in 18tiG, all those CoilfodoratOS who hud been light ing on prinoplo admitted their failure, lani down their arms ami ret uned to tho peaceful walks ?d' lifo, to rebuild, if possible, thc fortunes that bad bceu wasted. But something like I?0 irrc Iire-sibles spit upon tho amnesty offorod them, ami, heaping imprecations upon tho destroyers ol tho institution of davory, loft tho country and became 0 -aleuts of Moxico. Proud, imperious uni haughty OS these men were, ami never having tilled a position other than 1 command, their success in tlie capital of thc Mexicans was but indifforont, In short, their incomes could not bo modo lo ?'?pud their expenses, anil within live years fifty of tho most unfortunate had returned, broken in spirits, health and '.'mancos, to their native stiil. Oh tin; morning Of October I, 1872, 1 u as sitting a< op ol thc piling at thc cilgc if thc wharf in Jooksonvillo, with note book ami pencil in hand, scoring down tho dimensions of certain live oak tim bers and planks as tho scalers mensure?! them ami called out their cubic cou tents. Our vessel, tkobarkontinoMapk Loaf, Wa8 being loaded With these tun bera for uso in bridge building on tin Panama railroad. For au hour or mon the sailors bad been watching a smal full-rigged brig that had appeared Ol thc brood, black bosom of thc St. Johns, uni waa slowly making her way to Hu [der without the aid of a tug, ami liaviii? DVe?y ono of ber patched and dirty sailt set to catch tho almost Imporooptibll brcozOi Along toward ovening tho ves sd reached thc wharf ami tied up, ant Line?! bill, liurdd'oatured men, each witl <\ gripsack iu hand, carno ashore am struck out for tho nearest hotel w ilium uttering a word. A bl.ick, curly-hairei man, who soomotl to command thc 1 itt.lt brig, was loft giving orders iu Mcxicai to bis crew of three hands. '.Hullo, Greaser I" calle?! ont our cap tain, who hail boon watching tho wind proceeding; "why didn't you tako th Lug at tho mouth of tho river and b bowed up?" "Mo no sabe.'' "Don't BUI>O, oh? How would a goo Square drink of whisky strike you abon tliia timo of day?" "Bi, sil Mo nairn whisky. Mo nab damn." "Ot course. Your knowledge of tho English lu ngango is not very extensive, that's certain; hat in tho small amount that you have acquired you seem to havo selected its brightest gems. Como up tho ladder and toko something." Whisky may not be in all respects tho ???pial of thc common school in calculat ing a knowledge of the English language but in tho caso of this "Mexican captain it? effect was such that within two hours after joining our captain in his cabin ho managed to convey the Jacks that his vc sst I had boen chartered by the thrco gentlemen who first came ashore, and that they had come to engage a cargo of negro laborers to work in a tobacco fac tory of their.; in tin: City of Mexico. When the Mexicali had returned to his brig, and I had finished writing up tho day's log after supper. Captain Ellsworth turned to mo and said: "Steward, there's something all-tired strange about this thing.'' ..What thing?" 1 asked. "Why, this rotten little brig, with its dirty anils, its dirty crew, and tho th roo shabby aristocrats who have chartered her they aro not over-clean themselves. " "Probably engaged in a dirty busi U0S8?" 1 suggested. "Correct," said he. "If they wanted niggers for factory hands why didn't they stop al New Orleans tho Frouch niggers uro tho smartest of all, and can be had by tho, cargo. Or, why didn't they stop at Pensacola? Why did thoy come clear around herc to Jacksonville for a load of country hucks, tho laziest and dullest of tho whole caboodle? An other thing, "Mexicans can bc hired cheaper than niggers can bo boarded, and will ?lo twice thc work. What do you make out of it?" "1 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 mo, that's sure." Next morning Captain Ellsworth called nt tho hotel, but tho three men had gone. "I used to know one of thoHO mon before tho war,'' said the landlord, "Ile was n big planter up here, in Ala bama, just over the line, and when I recognized him last night he said ho said ho was going back to get some of his old slaves to go and work for him in Mexico." in three days the Maple Leaf waa loaded and ready to sail, hut the evening U lolo wo wore to sail Captain Ellsworth, tttended a fandango, got into un alterea tiiin, was arrested and released on his personal parole to appear ono week from thc day of arraignment for trial. lu vain ho pleaded with tho local magistrate to set tho trial for the next day-tho boniplainnut know the captain's anxiety to sail and insisted upon his "rights." Tho week passed tediously away, and Ellsworth remarked that ho wished ho had gone to jail instead of being released on personal b.ti!. "As il is," said ho, "T am bound upon honor to stay and pay HIV line. Il I had gone to jail I could have kicked the old rattletrap to pieces tho lir.st night and been half way to Aspinwall by this time." On tho second day of our delay tho Ihne charterers of tho little .Mexican brig returned, accompanied by some thirty negroes. They immediately wont DU board; n couple ol dray loads of pro visions were taken in, and in less than m hour th*' br ' ad casi off and was Moating down . ' tho current and tho lido. A clump leaning cypress trees, with long gray mosses streaming from the limbs, hui tho ragged sails from sight at last, and ubout the saine moment the hymn which tho colored people hud been singing ceased to reach the car. There was certainly something singular about tho whole transaction. Wo had left Aspinwall nearly a week, having discharged our load of timber, find were ra)>idly nearing PoruombuCUO, where it was designed taking in a cargo d' hides and horns, when thc lookout in the foretop called out: "The Immaculate Mexican!" This was the naine tho TOW had ap plied to the unclean brig that had loaded he negroes at Jacdsonvillc, and ali lands were soon looking at tho patched ails and black pennant of their old ad putintanco, as she rapidly approached is. "What in Sancho is that brig uoiug town hore?" saul Captain Ellsworth. "There's something wrong, by hokey. Make signals for her to heave to and no'll speak her." In half an hour tho Mexican captain was in our skipper's cabin drinking clear whisky by tho cupful, At tho omi of mother hour ho was lowered to his boat ind both vessels resumed their coarse, "lt's about as 1 expected," said Ells worth at tho supportable "Those chaps took thc negroes to Brazil, landed at St. kynthia, 80 tho Mexican says, sud he hdn't daro refuse to obey their orders." "And w hat havo they done w ith thom?" L asked. ' lather sold them into slavery and rocketed tho cash, or else they intend to ;eep 'om themsehos and become plan ners." Kew,oe tin I'OUOOOk leather. This lady says that she onco warned Prosidont Arthur not to keep it, us it ivius tho most unlucky thing ho could nive about the house, but he laughed at nor, and said ho was not .superstitions. When he left tho White ."ouse ho pro lontod the hird to Mrs. John Davis, and the ladj of the legation called ray atten tion to tho fact that Mrs. Davi ? ' ad mot with many misfortunes sinco foi which hu peacock was responsible. I had lover heard of thia superstition boforo, mt upon inquiry found that it was quito 'levaient in Europe, and tho French Minister told mc that thu ill fortunes of he EmpreflS Josephine were attributed o tho fact tliat she was excessively fond >f peacock feathers us ornaments and iciuly always woro thom.-Washington Lotter. A no HIT I.IO- Saved. About two years ago a prominent citizen . f Chicago w as told hy his physician? that lie must duo. They wild his system wa? so Ichiliuited Unit lhere wa? nothing left to build on. He made up I ' mind to try a "new departure." Ile goi some of Dr. pierce's "(?olden Medical Discovery" and took it according to directions. Ile liegan to Improve at once. He kent np tho treat ment for some months, and 1H to day a well man. Ho say? tho " Discovery" saved his Ufo. An oil well, unlike n dude, gutbc* Vj . : ve light to tho world.