Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-11-16

to all who expect to have much to do with in
huencing men,"
MAxMnIAN's EXIT.
The announcement that the French troops
have been withdrawn from Mexico, and that
the Emperor Macmillan, Louis Napoleon's
stool pigeon, thus deserted, has been captured
and shot by the Mexicans, has attained general
urrency and perhaps cannot properly be de-
nominated ''news." But it is not generally
known that quite an important part was played
in that affair by Gen. James Watson
Webb, the veteran journalist, still living in
this city at the age of eighty-one. When Louis
Napoleon was exiled by King Louis Philippe in
in 1886, he came to New York bearing letter
Of introduction to Gen. Webb. This he pre-
scented soon after his arrival, and Gen. Webb
thus became, not only his first American ac-
fender.
called at Gen. Webb's short time since,
and during an evening of intermittent whist,
he told me about it
81 was at dinner with party Of gentlemen
in the hotel opposite Stewards downtown
store, when Louis Napoleon sent up his card.
He was pleasantly received, and dined with US.
After that he was often my guest, and thence
forward we constantly corresponded as long as
he lived Did think he would ever be SOW
ereign Of France? I really can hardly say
that did. He was phlegmatic and quiet, and
seemed stolid, and though to intimate &C
quaintances he showed himself philosopher,
1t was scarcely anticipated in New York that
he would actually mount to the throne. 1t re-
qulred genuine prophet to foresee that But
while here he was never the roue and sot he
was afterward represented, and 1 gladly
defended him from those ISLANDERS.
think they originated in his being COMPOUNDED
with Prince Napoleon, who was in New York at
that time and was really hard case. But they
were not at all applicable to Louis When
was appointed minister to Brazil, in 1861,
had to so to my post via Europe, and President
Lincoln asked me to call on the emperor of
France and urge him not to interfere with our
blockade of the Southern ports. Ibid so, meet
ing him at Fontainebleau, and having a most
satisfactory interview. 1t was said that the
purpose of the emperor was changed by the
facts presented; at any rate, he promised not
to interfere to aid the rebellion, and that, too,
at time when Americans were filled with ap-
prehensions and our minister to France had
failed to make any impression. Tell the
president, said the emperor, that France will
recognize the blockade
sit was two years afterward that the Mexi-
can trouble arose. In 1868, when 1 heard of
the Intervention, wrote to the emperor, pro-
testing. I told him he had made grand mis-
take, that the United States would never
consent to the move, and that he would
be defeated on it. 1 urged him to
withdraw. Two months after he wrote
me long letter, explaining frankly how he
got into the scrape and promising to withdraw
justas soon as he could honorablv do So This
sent to President Lincoln
when came home from Brazil, I received
dispatch at Lisbon from the emperor urging
me to visit Paris. did so, and there was met
by command to breakfast with the emperor
at St Cloud After breakfast long CONVEX
satlon was had, the result of which was a spe-
ciic agreement by him to get out of Mexico at
particular date. That agreement was ex-
actly executed"
This Is the history of the transaction which
drove the French troops out of Mexico. Very
rarely, III the history of any country, has a
private individual succeeded in bringing about
such important diplomatic results entirely
outside of the department of foreign :affalrs
and without the assistance of his government
VARIOUS ITEMS
The Mutual Union Telegraph companv has
INDUCED in an important coup detat this week,
apparently with high success. The stock which
Jay Gould owned Chat sold by the heirs
of the late President Evans) has been trans
terred to the Western Uaion, which has also
quietly bought up other shares as it could Law
hands on them. To prevent it from obtaining
control, or even from having the power to keep
up futter in stocks, the officers of the Mu-
tual UnlCn have got possession and locked up
beyond reach OF even the owners, ma ior-
ity of all the Mutual Union stock-52 OOO
shares-the contract for the lock up extending
over five years So there need be no further
| talk about the Mutual Union being merged
| into the Western Union or controlled by Jaw
| Gould. Its status as an independent line i:
| assured. If the Western Union had succeeded
| in its raid, the new line would probably have
| been crushed; 80 crippled that it could no
| earn the interest on Its bonds, then put into
| bankruptcy and closed out
| The Marquis de Lenville, whom the readers
| of these letters have heard of, will return tt
| Europe France, probably this week. The rea
son for his sudden departure is not apparent
! but it is understood that he will not return
The Langtry excitement is visiblv subsiding,
| and fortnight of her now will, it is thought
be enought.
The new penny morning paper of Thompson
Pulitzer & Co., which was last week to b.
called the Morning Light, is (this week. to b.
|
| fishers should change their various minds
again this week.
One result of the Fictitious success of Oscar
Wilde and Langtry is the appearance on ou
lecture platform of various Englishmen ant
women of high merit and talent Of course
they will not succeed, and will fail to under
stand why. Here is Miss Emily Faithful
| whom met at one of Miss Doggetts pleasant
| parties in Chicago twelve years ago. She i.
| here again, willing to lecture. But I don't sup
| pose she gets any invitations. The trouble
with her is that she is really clever, ard ha
| done for the English women more than Flor
ence Nightingale ever did for the British SOL
| dlers. People don't want to hear such per-
| sons. 1t is not fact and fancy that lecture au
diences like; not the real but the unreal; no
the genuine, but the notorious and the preten.
| tlous.
The Brunswick hotel has a mild excitement
| just now The big bugs there domiciled ar,
gathered around little bug and exclaiming
| The object of interest is a South American
| bean, a little thicker than an average Linn.
| bean, but somewhat smaller. 1t is opaque
hard and shiny. Taken between the thuml
! and finger, it pulsates-Derceptibly throbs, likC
q heart Laid on smooth table it move
| around, fiOps over on it's side, and keeps up
| constant wriggling. Set on one end, it some
| times turns somersault ard lands on tn
! other end. 1t is never Still half minute at
| time. So, as a reporter would say, 1T is tn
| cynosure of all eyes" The owner has beef
| offered So, 900 for it, but refuses to sell 9th
! ers have been sent for, for it is understood Il
grow (sometmes) on peculiar bean vine il
the Columbian States. There is no orifice lead
ing to the inside. 1t has been m1nutely ex
amined by scientific men, who think there i.
a living insect beneath the polished shell, tina
| doesn't need to breathe very much fresh air
| The electrical. clock-work and spiritualisti
theories, at first advanced, are now exploded
and the $10-a-day guests at the Brunswic
are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the mex
| consignment. w. A. CRoFFUT.
| LOVE LIES DEAD.
| When the YEAR was in its nrine