New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-03

called the Associative Manual, published al a
shilling, by Dewitt & Davenport. In This City
r. When you have nothing to say, say
nothing. is a good motto, but not always Oh
served by our vivacious little neighbor, The
7im,s, in its daily efforts at smart and knowing
paragraphs The other day 1t copied an account
of an adventure which happened to Duke Paul,
Of Wurtemberg, near Fort Laramie, in order to
bitch on the following sceptical suggestions
"Of what Wurtembarg is this Paul Wilhelm the
Duke There is q kingdom OF Wurtemburg IN Ger
many having monarch entitlei william a man
well stricken IL years but the Duchy OF Wurtem-
burg appears nowhere on the maps Such titles are
sometimes given by courtesy TO the sons OF royalty,
but unbappily King William has no son answering
to ina name We do suspect that no sucn scion OF
regal OF ducal family has really visited the Western
wilderness. May not the accurate intslagsseer nave
fallen victim to a jokei In the vuleate Is 1t not
sold 4,
The next day some correspondent wrote to al
leviate the above heap OF blunders and The
Times accordingly enlightened its readers with
the following pretended corrections:
"The 80 called, Duke of Wntemberg' is the bro
,hsr of King Wilhelm l.. and claims no other tl1le
than Prince without any territorial designation.
In 1884 he WAS banished on acc cunt OF conspiracy
y hicn be had devised for toe detnronement OF the
rsisuing KIg. Slutgsrdt, the splendid capital vas
a time duly appointed but 70. tunatey. one OF the
conspiIators proved faithless, and on the evening
before the fatal day disclosed the plot to his royal
master. Upon the arrest and punishment Of the Of
tenders the life of Prince Paul Wilhelm was spared,
upoI condition OF emigaton to America. Thus, with
our female specimen from Bavaria, and male exem-
par from the adjoining realm OF WnrtembuEg, the
courtius OF Gern6any tocrably well represented
in the United States. The pair had better Join for.
tunes"
Now, it is no crime not to be familiar with
the genealogies of German families, but 1t 10
highly inconvenient for a metropolitan journalist
so far to misuse his utter ignorance on the topics
he presumes to discuss, as to put forth the most
outrageous calumnies upon gentleman of WELL
earned distinction and high personal character,
especially when that ignorance might have been
dispelled by q moments reference to any good
cycIopedia or diplomatic almanac
Duke Frederic Paul William, Of WGrtenberg,
the person referred to, whose lucky escape from
death by freezing was lately narrated In The
Tribune from his own account in the Algemeine
Zeitung, is the third son ofthe late Duke
Eugene, uncle Of the reigning King OF that
country He is one of the most eminent and in
defatigable of living naturalists, and is univer-
vancement of physical science have been &C.
knowedged in warm, but not exaggerated terms
by such men as Humboldt and Culver. His
name appears in all treatises OF any complete.
ness on Botany, Zoology and Mineralogy, in
connection with his own discoveries He has
thrice visited the United States for scientific
purposes, in 1922, in 1929 and at the present time
IL han
Central and South America, and penetrated into
Central Africa, and his Castle at Mergentheim,
his residence in Wurtemberg contains an i'm
nense collection of stuffed birds, animals, min
erals, Indian curiosities, &c, gathered in his
wanderings.
And if our contemporary were only in the habit
of reading the Augsburg AIgemeine Zsitung-a
paper no metropolitan Journal can afford to do
without-he would have had frequent OCCASION
especially within the last few months, to admire
the good sense, manliness of character and scien-
tfc zeal evnced in the Dukes letters to that
journal, though we trust he would have disa-
agreed with the aristocratic notions often ex-
pressed in them As TO the charge that the
Duke was once engaged in conspiracy to burn
STUTTGART and ASA ssinate the King, his cousin
not his brother, as The Times affrms and that
he has been banished in consequence, that is
all groundless calumny. He is on good terms
with the King, and we presume always has
BEEN The latter has a younger brother known
as Prince Paul, who, Oil account of some dill
culties with the King, voluntarily withdrew to
Paris seme 30 years ago where he has since re-
sided, but neither of these two princes, nor in
deed any prince of the house of Wurtemberg'
was at all implicated in the conspiracy referred
to in The Times, which by the way, happened
some two years earlier than that print states.
Our neighbor won't believe there can be any
Duke of Wurtemberg, because his maps disclose
no Duchy of that name. On this point also we
will let little light in on so much obscurty
and unbelief. There was once man named Ma
poleon, mot Louis Napoleon,) and he took it in
to his head to raise certain Princes, originally
known as Dukes of Wurtemberg, and Bavaria,
and subsequently, as Electors, to the rank Of
Kings. The Marquis (Markgraf) of Baden he
also made what is called Grand'Duke At the
same time, it was stipulated that the sons and
grand.sons of the two Kings should have the IL
tie of Princes, while the sons, &C. of the col
lateral branches of their families should be
called Dukes; the sons and grand-sons Of the
Baden potentate were to be called Dukes, and
those of the collateral branches were to flourish
as Marquises. Thus it happens that there are
numerous Princes, Dukes and Marquises in those
countries, though the map does not mention
single Principally, Duchy or Marquisate.
And now, after good-naturedy imparting
such mass Of genealogical, scientific, biograph-
ical and historical knowledge to our cotempo-
rary we may be allowed to deduce the moral of
the strain, which is, not to write very wittly or
very learnedly about things you don't under