New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-02

in "A lcng leader. on General Sheridan The
monarchial French pretcnder was McCheanite
when he was in the United States Army, ana
Porcrtc TO boot. IL is not therefore, surprising
that his particular journal has, under the inappro-
pirate heading of May He Rest in Peace MADE
an attack on warrior who, win NFiht' ielD no
place in the roll OF fame for Mcclellan The pre-
text for the onslaught is that Sheridan y Ior'-
innate general was a base Yankee ana icrociouS
extcrminatOr Of the Indians and therefore hau no
ripht to lift up his voice or hand in bchaii OF te
colo:ed race in the South. LIE ooloh c""'
Sheridan n time-servcr and murderer OF Peaux
Rougcs7 and treats dcmoralizlng the reSpecO
which the people of the United States have shown
for his memory The writer of the article says
that he does not allow himself 70 be disturbed py
the remembrance of how Sheridan drank in the
winter of " the terrible year. under the walls OF
Paris. TO tho success Of the Germans and gsoveEed
in the presence of the successful German Emperor.
Perhaps he had in his veins Teuton blood,
which might explain without the assumption OF
u base time-scrving instinct his attitude in re-
gard TO the heroic besicged." The name OF Sherl-
dan noints rather TO a Celtic origin. But IN
French journalism the blind often lead the blind
This doubtless is why lie Soleil' thinks it reflects
credit on France to have been hated by sheridan
Of " The Catholic Times that the Princess Chris
Granddaughter Of Queen Victoria, and Princess
Helena before her MARRIAGES. going openly to
Join the Church Of Rome II would not surprise
me if she did The Princess made-when she was
a young and blooming girl and her sister
Louise, the best looking Of the Queens daughters
q miserable match. Her husband was rich only
in names, old enough to be her father, heavy
bore in manners, and not free from complications
of n kind which threw doubts OF his freedom TO
wed the Princess without becoming n blgamlst.
\ DaImsadt lady told me that one Of the seasons
why Queen Victoria was so furious in her de-
termination TO separate, in the case OF the Grand
Duke Of IesSc and Madame de Kalomne, what
God he'd united WIS he: dead of letting a
precedent be established which would initiate
against the children Of her daughter Helena. The
Princess was in love with tutor Of one Of he:
brothers, n young clergyman. She formed an
attachment t. him when The Queen WIS absorbed
in the grave OF the Prince Consort The Queens
stcp-ncce, Adelaide llohenlohe who is q sister-n-
law OF Christian. haf-niecc TO the Queen mother
of the German Emrrcss, and now an inmate in Il
lunatiG asylum, informed on the Princess, and 50
manocuy.cd that when Hex Majesty refused /
,hc matrimonial Offer Christian made her. he
was PASSED on to Helena then the hest-loolIing |
Of the Quccn's daughters and certainly the most /
amiablc. She has led IA miserable, humdrum life |
at FroNnore. few years ago her health and |
spirits gave way. Her chief occupations are her |
children, nccdlcwOrlS and the poor. She never |
went anywhere so long as the woman with whom |
Christian was involved was alive. She made his !
acquaintance at Coburg somewhere about the year |
] $685. whittier the Duke Of AuGustcnburg, his old |
est brother. and the Duchess Adelaide went, after |
Bismarck used them Il catspaw, TO hide their !
poverty and hang on to the Grand Ducal family /
OF SAKE Coburg and the Queen OF England. The |
marriage Of their uncle. Prince Frederick q. few |
years earlier with Mary Lee. dashed their gAien |
expectations. The Princess is on afcctionate /
term, with her double niccc-in-aw, the German /
Empress and with the German Emperor her |
nephew He could not agree to his sisters be- /
coming Roman Catholic to qualify for Maria re /
with the Prince Of Naples | darcsay that his rep |
rcscntative at Rome would help the daughter Of |
the Princess Christian to the best match Italy |
could afford. were she Catholic. l.. G. |