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non, and shared his kindly hospitalities.-
Learning their desire to travel West, WASH
ington prepared for them an itinerary, and
furnished them with many letters of introduce
ton; and adopting the customary mode of
travelling on horseback with saddlebags, they
started on thoir journey. They crossad the
Alleghanies to Knoxville ond Nashville, and
then turned northward to Plttsburg, thence up
to Erie and Buffalo, and thence to the Falls of
Niagara. From this place they came down
through Canandaigua, aregion of country then
almost uninhabited, and with roads almost
impossible. Embarking upon Seneca Lake,
they journeyed on foot from its headto Toga
point, distance of % miles, each carrying
his baggage OH his back, and thence they de-
scended the Susquelianna to Philadelphia.
The yellow fever broke out in Philadelphia
on their return, and these Princes were so poor
aud reduced as to be unable to leave the city
until fortunate remittance from their mother
gave them the means of making an excursion
to New York, Boston, and the Eastern States.
Learning that their mother, by a new law of
France, had been sent to Spain, the exiles
fastened to reioin her, and as the surest,
though not the most expeditions way, tray
elled with wagon and horses to the Ohio,
thence by water to New Orleans, which jour
ncy they accomplished in little over two
months. A little incident illustrative of the
strong and versatile character of the King,
occurred at Carlisle, in Pennsylvania. He
was thrown from his wagon, and, knowing
that he required bleeding, he slowly crawled
to the house of farmer, and requesting assis-
lance, opened vein in his own arm, and de-
rived the benefthe expected. The good peo-
pie, supposng him some Eastern doctor 60
ing to settle West, urged HIM to remain in
Carlisle, and promised him an abundant prac-
tice. Arriving ut Havana, they were soon al
ter ordered to leave, and again returned TO
New Y DIRK, whence an English packet carried
them to Falmouth, and they arrived i'll London
in February, 1900.
Such is a rapid outline of the American
part of Louis Philippe's history. 1t was full
of incidents and vicisstudes, stirring scenes,
mutations of fortune, escapes, perils, and adj
ventures. And now he is upon the throne of
France, and his son is upon the ancient foot
steps of his father Since the visit of Louis
Philippe, France has been revolutionized, Ma
poleon has arisen, seized the rens of empire,
conducted his nation to the pinnacle of glory,
and fallen to rise no more ; and convulsed,
distracted, and war-blasted Europe has settled
down in peaceful repose. The poor stran-
ger, who, for want of money, could not leave
an American city filed with yellow fever, and
who had to teach for his support, is now the
richest man in Europe, with millions and tens
of millions at his disposal. The refugee
fleeing before the assumed power of the FRS
Consul and the Emperor, now sits with b.
naparte's splendor on his throne.
This country, once traversed in poverty
and peril, and WEAKNESS by the prosecuted
sire, is now visited by his royal son, i'll prince
| ly character and glory; nay more, that very
son and that very ship which he command:
were commissioned to transport from thei
solitary resting place the remains of that co
lossal genius of military power, and bring
| back to his own-loved Francois idoliZed Ma
poleon. Such changes constitute the romano,
of history, and assure us that truth is Otter
stranger than fiction. Could the son, as h,
journeyed in our midst, look back forty-fou
years with the eyes of his father to the day
of Washington, to the infancy of our institu
tons, before the first steamboat ploughed on
waters, or the first railroad tracked our land
or could the father, calling up the scenes h
once saw, gaze, with his sons eyes, upon ON
now teeming population, and behold, in tn
then solitudes of the West, Cities, States, Tel
ritories, with millions of stirring, busting in
habitants-could he, in the vicinity of Canar
daigua, again meet Lord Arburton, who the
so bitterly complained of the roads, that h
doubted whether Niagara itself would con
pensate his toil-could he again visit the spc
then unbuilt, implanted, which now is til
capital of our nation, and the Seat of our G. oN
eminent, he would believe himself not in til
America of 1895 and '96, but in a new worl
where every feature was strange, and ever
scene novel. So rapid is the march Of in
, provement, that it is only by guiding on
selves by some such landmarks of though
as these that we can sufficiently realize Il
recentness of our origin, or the sublmty
i. our increase. We say sublimity, for the Col
= trast we now present to our condition seven
years back is one ofthe most sublime mantle
4 tations OF Government i'll the history of Il
f world. And yet we have but begun our c
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