The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-16

! lyeies thanks.
"All but one! Was vour highnc,s kind
enOuCh 60 say all but one a' asked the iHNelgr
| "NCs, my secretary cell, me tlal when the boV
was sent 20 his house, the clict was not TO- tpyn.
which explains his not having favored me with
! his Acknowledgements. Tie returns on sunday.
| But how is 10 you have only nrpuEh. me i've
/ boxes e. day My Ist OF presents Is m de o1t,
| and mus, not leave one chief wItHlg. the Com.
pliwcH' 1 have paid t1 others
Tie i'wy!cr paused for a moment and thea
said, "Dtl NOT your uighuc,- say tult the r1 o.
| piCut of your muuHcenCc who had not yet ac-
/ knowlc:dgcdyourg.,t Nould be in Paris on sun
ayes, and lake my departure on saturdav."
"Ihen IL your hiEhngss will graciOIsly leave
/ me the name Of the eighteenth parsonage you
desire TO honor, ] will take care that on Monday
or Tuesday ut the latest, he receives your hish-
ness giit.'
Between this and then you think you can fur
nish the eighteenth box -
81 can, your highness.'
Ut must IN all points be exactly iikethc others,
for must not make any luNtdOus distinction
"Nour highuess will grlciOusly acknowledge
that of the hali-duzens have hitherto presented,
each ono Is precisely simila-.'
True
81 give your highncss my word of honor that
this last shall be as eNlcly like It's prede-
cessOrs."
"Good NY secretary will pay you seventy.
two thousand francs
The odd part OF the story is, that if any prince
should wish 70 present his admirers with diamond
snutl-bONes, he will lind half dozen A. the shop
OF the celebrated iewclor who had the honor and
profit Of supplying Said PaCha; and what is still
more extraordinary, they are all exactly similar
to those made for sold TO, and presented by that
potentate.
WHO CoHrosEp THE WNRsETLLAIsE3
We know from the authority of Shcridan's
"Nrs. Puff how possible it is for two great
authors to hit upon the same idea, but that two
composers should hit upon the same air requires
sn amount Of Credulity beyond US. Here is evil
dence conflicting enough topuzzle the most intel
ligent of special iures.
NJ. Alexandra Boucher, who was born in the
year l770, was q celebrated yloinist He was also
remarkable for an astonishing resemblance TO the
first Napoleon.
"In '02," says NJ. Boucher, 81 spent an evening
in the Fauboarg st. German at the Hotel de
Montaigae, Rue de Ia Chaise. During the soiyce,
a colonel who was on the point Of departure for
AarSeiles to join his regiment, took leave of the
mistress OF the house. Madame dc Montaigne
introduced us.
az am charmed to meet you, said the Colonel
and l shall profit by the introduction by asking
you to compose a march for my regiment rim
prOyiSte, if possible
~ sought to excuse myself. objected that
had no musc.paper; and a guest ruled sheet of
ordinary paper with pencil. Madame lie Mon
taigne supplicated, and at last l yielded wrote
lne HaICu, anu the COlOnel departed with 10 his
pocket. had not even time TO arrange iJ. When
the colonel arrived at Marseilles he gave il to the
bandmastcr. II was played on parade, and be-
came the fayorte march of the regiment.
"About this time Rouget de PIsle, the reputed
author and composer Of the 'Marseiase, was
imprisoned for political causes in fort St. Jean, in
Marseilles. HIS Jaier, seeing that he occupied
himself necessarily in wrltingdyerses, one day
said to him
"'Mon ofiicier, why not write a song in honor
of our armies The Marseillais neither like the
words nor the air of the "CarmagnOle" but there
is march the band plays every day-a quick,
stirring, inspiring air-every one is singing it,
Why not write words 10 it?
"The imprisoned soldier set himself to work
and his words were adopted by the crowd who
had before adopted my air.
"Judge Of my astonishment when In the Mar
seiaise' recognized the march had written at
the Hotel dc Montagne. IL came from Marseilles
and was naturally called the 'Marseilliise.' IT,
as biographers have stated, Rouget de l'Ise had
composed it at Strasbourg for the departure Of
the volunteers Of the Army of the Rhine, it would
have been called the 'Strasb0urgeoise.'
"Years after was dining in Paris and Rouget
de lIsle sat beside me. Having so long heard his
name coupled with my compositions, looked at
him with considerable curiosity, and cOmpli-
mented him with marked significance upon his
famous words.
"'But You don't speak of the music said he.
Your opinion as a great musician Is of value.
Does i not please you !?
g Yes
10y GU must know, then, that the air is not
mine. 10 Is a march Of don't know whom, that
was played at Marseilles when l was prisoner
there during the Terror
II soon convinced him that was the composer,
and after congratulating me, he said
"'You are forever robbed Of the fame of your
own work, for though | proclaim you the COM
poser, the words and air are SO inseplraOle that
no one will believe men
"Keep all the fame YOURSELF answered. Bat
for your genius my little march would be forgot
ten, or played sometimes in garrison town.
You have ennobled, sublimed It, and it has be-
come yours by the power of poetic absorption = "
Thus for NJ. Alexandra Boucher. On the other
band letter from Nj. Nortie of the Library of
StrnsbouTg, protests against the fable, prompted
by amour. prOpre, told by M. Boucher It was in
'93, says M. NOrtiel, and within the walls of
StrasbOurg, that the sublime Hymn of Liberty
was composed, and it was inserted in the
'Afches de Strasbourg,' on the 9Th of July of
the same year, and was entitled, Chant dc
Guerre pour larmee du Rhin, dedie au Marechal
LuCkner.' Copies of this journal still exist
which prove this fact. From Strasbourg the
hymn spread rapidly through tho departments,
and it was first sung in Paris by the volunteers of
Marseiles as they entered the city gates. IL was
christened the 'MarseilIaise' by the Parisians
themselves"
We have heard too that the illustrious com
posers is so delighted with the singing of our
thoroughly English Mr.. Sautley that he intends
TO offer him one of the chief roles in the forth
coming opera.
GRARDM.
The hand efimproyement is ruthless, even in
Paris, where sentiment has its share in councils
imperial, senate rial, and municipal, and the house
in which Monsieur aud Madame Emile dc Girar-
din held their celebrated reunion is now abln-
doned to the pickaXe. In that famous salon
Musset, Victor Hugo, De Vigny, Balzac, Sainte-
Beuve, and Lamartine were constant guests. It
was there that deputies and academicians were
made and unmade. 1t was power in the Paris
which is power in the world.
Madame de Grardin, whom Chateaubriand
called Ia Muse de Ia PatTie, though an authoress