The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-10-09

morning.
At the barge office at that time the
revenue cutter Chandler lay under Or
ders to take Collector Erhardt and his
party to meet the steamer At 1850
o'clock the Chandler started down the
bay. She had on board in addition to
the Collector General E. D. Keys, Gen.
eral Fltz John Porter, General w. b.
Franklin, General w. II. Slocum,
General j. G. Parke, General
o. O. Howard, General Daniel Sickles,
General Daniel Butterield, General
John Newcomb, General Il. A. Bar.
nun and General James r. O'Beirne.
Lieutenant-Colonel John p Nicholson,
representing the Loyal Legion OF
Philadelphia. was also passenger in
the cutter The Germanic was boarded
off Staten Island. and the Comte, sur
rounded by his party, was awaiting the
old soldiers on the quarterback.
Collector Erhardt was presented to
the Comte and said: II AN instructed
by the President and Government to
welcome you to these shores and to ex'
tend you every courtesy"
''The CONT replied: II thank you
very much for the honor and
am glad to take another visit to
America. appreciate the great moi
conferred on me by the President u
The Count declined to talk politics,
but to reporter he said that he had
come to America simply for pleasure
and to revisit scenes with which he was
familiar. He said that he would return
on the Servia in November Lieuten.
ant Colonel John p. Nicholson, who
represented the Loyal Legion Of Phila-
delphia, now presented the Count with a
button of the order, which the Count inn
mediately placed in the lapel of his coat.
After going ashore the party was
driven to the Windsor Hotel, wherc
they will remain until Sunday evening,
when they will 60 to Philadel-
phia. Saturday evening they will
be guests of the Union Club of this
city. In Philadelphia, where they will
remain two or three days, they will be
the guests of the Philadelphia Com.
mandery of the Loyal Legion. From
Philadelphia the party will 60 to Balti-
more, then to the battlefield OF
Gettysburg, then to Washington
and Richmond. From Richmond they
will return to Washington by water,
travelling along the James ana FotUmaC
rivers. From Washington tho entire
party will return to this city, where the
few days remaining of their stay here
will be spent in sightseeing. On No
vember they will return to England
by the steamship Servia.
lAmerican interest in the Comte de Paris is
based mainly upon the fact that he and his
brother. tn, Due de Charters. participated in
the war for the Union officers on the staff of
General George B. Mcclellan. The Comte
de Paris was then but twenty one years
Of age. and he was anxious to show
the French people that the young
man who aspired to be their King was
made Of sterner stuff than the later Bourbon
Kings had shown themselves to possess
He arrived in New York accompanied by
his brother and his uncle, the Prince de
Joinville in the fall Of 1851, and proceeded
to Washington where arrangements were al
once made for their entry into the army
under certain clearly defined conditions They
were commissioned as Captains OF volunteers
and assigned 10 duty on the stan Ut General
Mcclellan, with the understanding that they
were to receive no pay and were to be free
to resign whenever they chose They took
part in all the battles fought by the
Army Of the Potomac up to June, 1862 when
they resigned and returned to Europe. General
Mcclellan and other officers who had an oppor
tunity of observing their conduct in the field
during their short stay with the army have
spoken highly of their soldiery qualities.
Outside of bis American experiences the life
of the heir Of the Bour, ons has been rather in
teresting. Born in 1888 he was just 10 years OF
age when bis grandfather, Louis Philippe was
driven from the throne of France by the revo
luton Of l842 His father, who was
the most popular Of the more recent
Bourbon Princes, had been killed by a hunting
men think that had he lived his conciliatory
disposition and his great influence over
Louis Philippe would have prevented
the unpopular measures which caused
the revolution Brought up in exile the Comte
de Paris was educated partly in Wurtemburg.
of which his mother was q Princess, and partly
in England, where he has spent most OF his
life since he left Paris. In 1871 he re
turned to France and was elected to the
National Assembly, and the following
year the Chambers voted the restitution OF
the family property. His famous journey to
FrobsdoTf, in Austria, where the Comte
de Chambord the head of the legiti
mist branch Of the Bourbons, resided, had
the effect of uniting the two royalist factions
right to the succession. Since then he has been
the recognized h ,ad Of the royalist party in
France. In 1885 he and all other pretenders to
the throne Of France and all descendants OF
former reigning families were expelled from
France by the enactment Of a special law and
prohibited from setting foot on French
territory. That law has since been alb
rogatcd in the case Of the Comte's uncle
the Due d'Aumale. in consideration Of for.
mer good service in the army and his
splendid contributions to the cause Of science
The well-established connection Of the Prince
and his followers in France with the Boulang
list plots has destroyed all hope Of its revoca-
tion in regard to any other member Of the Or
leans family in the life time Of this generation
Illfnois' New Committeeman.
CHICAGO, Oct. AT the meeting OF
the Illinois State Republican Com
mittee ex-State Senator Campbell was
selected as member of the National
Republican Committee, to succeed
Colonel George r. Davis, who resigned
when he was elected Director General
of tho wor1d'a fair