New-York tribune., 1867-08-22

indeed can measure the extent of our debt TO that
fccund mother country of beer gunpowder, trans.
cendental philosophy tho reformation the best nan
of our language and a,it printing parnamentady
Knights KReohe And TINS brings me BACK 10
our new chevaliers, lately made" not
Is bolIn a. for 4ltbonph YOUR CORRESPONDENT
is but incompetcly informed on the subject it seems
ft that such knowledge as he has on hand should he
dispensed and fixed now III PRINT. IL may IcleIo
some future Bancroft from abOriOus cropping In the
darkness that may in few generations partially OBJ
the origin and doughty deeds OF these knights,
luminous in our day. and relieve future g1ands0ns
from the neptiliar duty of matreatng him. The
new chivalry themselves can have no objection TO
being Photographed, being already suspended, as 1t
by their button holes, in public view. Prefer
mitng historical notice of the order of the Legion
of Honor instituted by the first Napoleon, mOdlled IN
some of It's statutes by H. and again IN 1897
by the present Grand Master, Napoleon ILL., t is well
enough TO remark in passing that the actual number
of It's members is about 6OOO0 of whom about eleven
tweltths are ChcrderS, One-twelfth officers something
more than a siXticth commanders, 80 grand 0VcGS ~
TO 50 grand crosses Eight tenths of them are military
men-in the highest grades, princes and very hlgh-
flying diplomats. Lopez, who was tavorlte VIII VIII
MaXimillan and the French, both OF whom ne soiC,
has been degraded MARQUEE whom poor "a Max -, gOV
TO think worse of than he did OF Lopez Is sun | %
ber believe The theory is that no one IeceiH1S t6S
the order except a reward OF services dohe W '
French State OF to the world at large, ,;o;,,
The American who was created Ill tie ,1 pusnNuS' Us
was, believe. DR.. Brewster OF NOIWIoIii' f o ,ad
fist for sItful operations the inside OF crowned
od o' NJ in time was DR. Jackson on the unten-
able ground that he was the dIsc0Nerer Oh ule acS
thetc uses of chOTofOm. Philip hcarny GOT ci0SSeu
for fighting, and having acquaintance WIN lnlnlaI}
men IN Algeria and the Italian campaign HiS giai,
children will remember as dying wei IN the ight
for the Union DR.. Evans Is Officer, was about 10
say de bOHcbe for his dental merits In 1895, all PreSi
dents of Commissions at the Worlds Far that year
became ChcvalieTs er-O6icO. Our Government sent
no commissioners on that OCCASION State govern
ments sent them plenty, and unfit as colonels The
SO-called United States Commissioners were, 10r
the most part, queer lot. There was some
difficulty IN getting PRESIDENT 1Or tnenl
appointed by themselves. The first incumbent,
Philadelphian, lapsed from the presidential char
more or less voluntarily quite in the beginning OF ms
effort TO sit He was succeeded by Mr. Maunseu
Field, who was presently after called away TO New
York by private business interests. He was followed,
very unwillingly, by MrW. Valentine of Maine, then
residing and banking in Paris, who had much pre-
ferred to give all his time TO his private affairs lhe
main part of all the good work done in the name OF
the Presdent-as MrV was and is the first to freely
and gratefully acknowledged of the Commission,
done by Mr.. Charles FlelSchman, who remains
plain Mr. Mr.. Valentine as said, won his spurs
eX-oticio. Mr.. Field obtained his by epiSI3laIy
petition atterward, reminding Prince Nap0,
leon the then dispenser Of this small piece OF
knightly dry goods, that he had BEEN and was only
by unforeseen of circumstances prevented from re-
naming to the end President. MIR. Somebody,
from Rhode Island (his name may have been woods
or MaTshall) was also turned INTO cheValicr tha'
year for having been named the American juror on
the Fine ArtSjuy. I. Stergy Hunt OF Connecticut,
was a commissioner from Canada IN 1879; His ere
alton them as his prOmOuOn TINS year 10 te Craze Oh
officer not result of his accidental junction on
the occasion, but an acknowledgment OF ms acquire
ment in and contributions TO- the science OF chem
istry. Mr.. Morse entered the Legion by Telegraph,
that wear OF the next Mr. Paul Forbes of your city
or of Boston believe, arrived at the lower grade by
the Suez Canal of which he Is or was, Nlce-Pres-
dent II mean of the SueZ Canal Company; your re-
pOrters pen gets tangled and trips among these new
Mr. Beckwith has been made officer as suppose,
eX ofiCio DidsbuTy, however. to whom desire here
70 eNpresS nv Indebtedness for ChccTtiy turnlsncd
notes for this historic page OplneS that II was ior MS
discovery of Mr.. Charles Perkins formerly oil BOSTON
and of MIR. Robert Benney, formerly OF south caro-
lina the home of chivahy before the war and thelr
fitness as jurors for something. They are made IN
return, chevacrs, for having been discovered.
Messrs Beckwith and Rugges holding official com
missions from the United States, and paragraph eght
of section nine of article OF the Constitution OF
that country being unrepealed, some rtualists sup
pose that these gentlemen. pending their petuOn 10
Congress for peTmiSsve law, will depose their snps
of redslk in the Patent Office. or other Government
receptaCle provided for presents lke those lions 10
old LeOnine JacksOnl sent In from baTbaTOs powers
More latiudenaTian interpreters scent imperial Jest
of some breadth in the affair 1t can be sad 1or thcn
that Napoleon has on other occasions shown sense
of humOr. He is doubtless well read IN the letter OF
our Constitution and one can imagine guTgllng
and chuckling in his sleeve at tho notion OF brhlng
our Democratic-Republlcan COMMISSIONERS 10 violate
His Majesty's other creations" as French theatri-
cal feuilletOnsts say of the cORedansDOchc IN the
! part of Dane CGmcliGs and the likc-thc other
creations of chcualiers are Sir Chickering de
| Piano, Sir Goodwin de IacksttCh, Sir Elias Howe,
| and j. T. Kennedy de Baltimore No pay goes with
the ribbon except for military men. The title of
Cherdiier is used addition Of spoken adj
dress in France. No French subject Is suffered TO
wear an order given by foreign sovereign, till per-
mission is formally granted by bus Government IL
, not permitted 10 English exhibitors and commits
siOners by therGOyenment 20 accept and wear the
blushng honor now meelly borne by score OF 50 of
our cOuntTymen.