New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-10
The Dukes Admirers.

We do not know that the following story
| in relation to the Grand Duke Alexis ant
his late tour in the United States has eve
been published, says q Nevada paper, bu
it was related by the Grand Duke himself
while in japan, to gentleman whose name
we're II mentioned, would be familiar tt
| the most Of our readers.
No sooner had the Grand Duke landed in
| the United States that he was hooded Will
| ali sorts of letters from all sorts Of people
| on ali sorts of subjects. Embraced in the
| epistolary hurricane were hundreds, per
| haps thousands, of letters from females
mapy the inspiration Of impertinence and
dishonesty. and many more the prompting
Of fragrant and criminal immOdesty.
All Classes seemed to participate in this
| folly-women withOut:reputatiOn and with
nothing to lose as well as the ladies OF
wealth and respectability, prepared to sac
ritice everything. Many of those letters
were glanced over merely and destroyed,
but large number were, with pardOnable
vanity in the young Grand Duke, retained
for future examination after be had finished
his travels. These letters. embraced in no
less than five packages, were entrusted to
an orderly for conveyance to St. Peters
burg, while the Grand Duke continued his
tourney westward. In due time Alexis re-
ceiyed letter from his august father, an
nouncing, among other matters, that four
sealed packages had been received from
him, but the messenger was missing. Alexis
at once surmlsed that one of the packages
had been stolen by the orderly, whose pur-
pose was to make them public.
Unwilling to have the reputation OF many
ladies of responsibility thus compromised
through his carelessness, Alexis promptly
telegraphed to the Emperor to arrest the
orderly at any cost and seize the missing
letters. All the police appliances of the
Russian empire were at once invoked, but
the orderly could not be found within the
vast dominiOns of the Gear. He was at
length discovered in q town in Belgium,
where he was serenely engaged in making
up the letters in an attractive volume OF
point Of being issued, for the fellow had
made good use of his time No time was
to be lost. But what was to be donel
Russia had no extraditiOn treaty with Bel
GUM. and the Belgian authorities, although
willing to accommodate the Gar, did not
see how the publication could be suppressed.
Exasperated at this state of affairs, the
Gar threatened to invade Belgium at once
with powerful army, utterly reckless of
surrendered. Alarmed at this extraordi-
nary threat, the Belgian King set about
finding some pretext upon which the or
DERBY might be arrested. It was finally as
certained that he was printing his book
without the usual license, and he was
promptly taken into custody. With his I'M
finished volume and stolen letters he was
hurried across the Belgian line into Prus-
STA, where the agents Of the Russian gov
eminent were ready to receive him. He
was soon in St. Petersburg, and in twenty
four hours after was on his way to Siberia
under sentence Of lite servitude in the
mines.
The next letter from the Emperor in
formed Alexis that his missing letters, par
TALLY printed, had been recovered, and the
young gentleman was admonished to be a
little more careful of his love missives in
the future. Had these letters been pub
lished, profound futter would have been
created among the fairest, if not the best of
the great cities of the East and the volume
would have met, of course, with prodi-
gious sale. The erring ones will appreciate
heir narrow escape when they learn that
they were saved through the menace of a
general European war, and the lesson
should serve them through life.