The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-03-04

anu I'll etlC luis hn1 pIIpdtiuHS Ot y 1TOnMeI
life. ii the service q God and his fellow man.
In good standing as q clergyman, respected
for his piety, unimpeched for veracity, be-
loved for his aelf-denials, his labors and his
worth; Of remarkable simplicity Of charac-
ter, but without creative genius, or the in
ventiVe faculty thatmarks the successful i'm :
position; it is nov claimed and believed, that
in his person may be seen one who, when
an infant, was nestled in the bosom Of Maria
AntoinetIe, who, when boy. spent years
of suffering and captivity as the unfortunate
Dauphin, and who, had he been IN France,
would long ago hava sat upon its throne. !
Such is the claim made for him, and
supported too BY circumstantial testimony
of the very strongest character. We have
neither time nor space to recount it. Suf-
fee it to say, that If the tale be truly told,
Mr. Williams was visited in 1871 by the
Prince de Joinyille, who communicated to
him the secret Of his birth and who off
cred in the name Louis Philippe, to restore
to him the princeiy private property of his
family, fhe would sign away his pretentions
to the throne in favor of the Orleans branch
that in 1896, Louis Philippe himself Wis
tied the Indians in the State Of New York,
in the vicinity where young Williams was
brought up, and in the same vicinity there
came afterwards to reside gentlemen from
France, one Of them being one of the body
guard of Louis 16th-that in 1917, Genet,
the French Ambassador, acknowledged to
witnesses still living, that the Dauphin did
not die in 1895, but was brought to Amer
lea; and mentioned as acquainted with the
affair, the name of Frenchman, who had
much to do with these same Oneida Indians.
That the name of Eleazar Williams is not
found in the baptismal register of his reput-
ed fathers family, although the names of
the other eleven children are SO found. That
Mr.. Williams has no Indian features; that
hdclosely resembles portraits of Louis 18th;
that marks on his body correspond with
those known to be on the person of the
Dauphin; that boxes of clothing and medals
of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, were left
with the child, one of which is yet in Mr.
Williams possession; that an unknown
Frenchman came to see him in his youth,
and wept over him; that Louis Philippe
wrote to him since 1841, and that the
President and Ecclesiastical dignitaries of
France have also written to him concerning
his history. These are some of the claims
| put forward bs his friends.
Il they are false. how deparved must be
| that human nature, which thus forced man
| Of such good repnte, to lie and fabricate so
lfoully. HtTue, how well may that be re-
peated which was said of his mother
"Oh, what an elevation, and what fall'!
We of course speak in the light of mere
worldly honor; for we doubt not that the
humble missionary. ignorant of his lineage,
enjoyed more the modest performance ofhis
simple duties, than will the Bourbon-(if it
be he Ibis future career, ever conscious
of how vast honor and power he has been
deprived of The one had contentment; the
other must live, conscious of guilt, and
dreading public scorn and contempt, if lie be
an impostor: or, if he be no impostor, al
ways regreting how cruel has been fate to
him. The simple happiness of his earlier
| life he can never again know, be the story
the romance of truth or concoction.-Na tchez
Courier.
DRUNKEN HUsBANDs WHIPPED. Two wo-
men. named Mary Gay and Catharihe Simp-
son, were arrested in ookEn,recently, for
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cruelty beating their husbands, who had
come home drunk and abusive. From APP
pearances, the whipping had been pretty
effectually done in both cases. Justice
King. on hearing the evidence, came to the
conclusion that the husbands deserved what
they got, and discharged the women.
KEAN's FUNERAL.-Owing to the crowd Of
people at Kean's funeral, there was a diff
Guilty in getting out Of the chuE ch. A come
dian who had been intimate Rith him whis-
pered as he went out. while d teal glistencd
in his eye, "This, then, is the end of Kean,
poor felloWl--But he drew crowed house
to the last.
AID YER Use MENrS.