Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-03-14

21st of this month. in order 10 form q syndicate
and 10 determine the mode Of admission % the
uibunes OF the Journalists. A syndicate Il the
organization Of any ASSOCIATION for its self gov
eminent, and is . usual proceeding In France
Tor the regulation Of persons uniting together
American corporations but with an interior
police, conducted by responsible persons (lsSs.
LOUIS Philippe, the son of Philip Egalite,
WIG turned republican, signed the death war
own head,-escaped to Switzerland and taught
N college the French and English languages
ana common branches. He hss an assumed
lame; An attempt which he made 70 join the
french forces satisfied him that his life was
sui IN danger, and he repaired 20 Hsmhur,
ana ana thence TO Denmark and on to che North
ne arrived August 4, 1875. He then went int
FINLAND and crossed the gulf again to Stoek.
nolm, and at Copenhagen he heard that hi.
mother, the Duchess OF Orleans, bad been re
leased from Jail, and that his two brothers who
were shut up in the castle Of ST. JEAN AT Mar
settles, would also be set free IL he and they
would quit Europe for good. A secret inter,
view was held between the wsnderer and a
French republican agent at Hamburg, when
Louis Philippe received money and at once
TOOK passage on the ship "Americsn," Captain
living, Tor Philadelphia, paying thirty five
guineas passage, and half that sum for his ser
want. his only fellow passenger WAS an old
santo Domingo planter, but there were m say
stesrsge passengers emgrating from AIsace
Der "a, 1896, the future king arrived in
Philadelphia, where he remained until a slow
swedish ship brought his two brothers. Phil
aaelpbia was then the capital OF the United
States and Gen. Washington President, The
exlles heard him deliver his last address to Con.
gress, and saw Mr.. Adams inausurated Then
= Warrington invitation, they went TO visit
mount vernon, passing, Of course, through the
new and imperfect capital, without streets aud
full OF slashes and stumps.
he was entertained by the eccentric and rich
"A hN araEw
Ten. John Mason, of Mason's or AnalOstan
Island. At that time Georgetown contained
two hundred and fifty houses and Alexandria
I'VE hundred. The Presidents house was in
compete; Blodgets hotel. on the site OF the
present post Office, was rooted in, and the Can
itol was raised only 20 the basement floor. A
humber OF houses were finished and remained
lot rent or Tor sale, and there were more houses
at Greenleafs Point, near the Arsenal, than
any where else; 5000 people was the population
including the workmen; the whole place wa
covered with trees, except around the public
buildings, and where vistas of streets had been
hewn through deep woods.
Louis Philippe, and his two brothers, the
Duo de Montpensier and the Count de BOuieau-
ais, stopped on Mason's Island, then beau.i-
fnlly cultivated in flowers, vines and fruit trees
al blooming In the spring weather; and Gen.
Msson' VINO was man of great force, enter
tanned them lsvishly, and made them accom-
pany him 10 the Great Falls of the Potomac
where the party had q picnic. That year wa
porn James NJ Mason on Analostsn island, who
"a
states 10 Europe in lS6l, and lied little while
ago on a farm near Alexandria, within sight OF
bis lost patrimony.
From MssOn's Island the princes went 20
Alexandria, which was well built and with good
paved streets; then b. eKecrable roads they
passed TO Mount Vernon, which they found 10
some dilapldaton, owing % Washington's long
absence, and Inhabited 10y his slaves. HIS gar
deus and fields looked as il he had begun the
business Of cultivating them for prof instead
of show. The following lines convey Louis
rhllIlpPes idea OF the most celebrated man OF
the world at that period:
50 lie was comparatively silent, somewhat re-
served, methodical in the division OF his time.
and careful in the use of it, The arrangement of
hls household was un0stentatiOus, comfortable,
aud leaving his guests 10 nil mp their hours as
they saw Mt, and at the same time providing
Whatever was necessary for pleasant employ
nent. Que mornirg z after the usual salutatiore
the Prince asked his distinguished host how he
had slept the preceding night IL is probable,
rom the answer, that some peculiar circum
stance had turned his thoughts towards the
evils too often produced in society by reprehen
sible publications. However this may be, taai
answer deserves 70 be engraved upou the he ,rts
OF his countrymen: 81 always sleep well, for
wards cause to regret"
General Washington, whose months on earth
were 10 be lew, prepared for the princes al
itinerary OF a journey 10 the western country
ana gave them several letters of Introduction
Ibey started on horseback with saddle bags
Bracley's maps, and creature comforts and
went by Leesburg and Harpers' Ferry TO Bush's
notei, at wInchester,-Bush being an immi
grant from Mannheim, Germany. Bush turnei
them out of the house because they demurred 20
eating at the public table. They proceeded 20
Staunton, Abingdon, Knoxville, Nashville,
Loul Vile, Lexington, Maysville, Chilicothe
Lancaster, GAINESVILLE, Wheeling, Little Wash
ington, and Pittsburg, and thence to Erie, Buff
faio, and Niagara. At Canandaigua, New
York, they met Alexander Barring, after sards
Lord Ashburton, who had married Miss Bing-
ham, OF Philadelphia. They descended Seneca
lake TO the Susquehanna, and came down that
river In hat-boat 70 Wilkesbarre, and thence
across the mountains TO PHILADELPHIA. After
visiting New England, they returned TO Pitts
burg anu descended the Mississippi TO New
orleans, and embarked from Havana for Spain
AFTER many years, this same wanderer was to
be led out by Lafayette and introduced to the
peole OF Paris as their citizen king, and long
after that bis grandson and graDdnephes were
10 sefy under General Mcclellan In front OF the
city OF Washington. ARcTURUs GADABoUr.