The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09


coMTE DE PARIS. d'Hauss
Colonel do Tarseval, Captain Morhain
and DIR. Recamier. The Germanic was
sighted OF the bar at 1915 Friday
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 1880
o'clock the Chandler started down the
bay. She had on board in addition to
the Collector General Z. d. Keys, Gen.
eral Fltz John Porter, General w. R
Franklin, General w. IL. Slocum.
General J. q. Parke, General
o. O. Howard. General Daniel Sickles,
General Daniel Eutterfield. General
John Newcomb. General II. a. Bar
mum and General James r. O'1seirne.
Lieutenant-Co Colonel John r. Nicholson,
representing the Loyal Legion Of
Philadelphia. was also q 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: Il am instructed
by the President and Government to
welcome you to these shores and to ex-
tend you every courtesy
THE Comte replied: ~ thank you
very much for the honor and
am glad to take another visit to
America. I appreciate the great ,nor
conferred on me by the President"
The Count declined to talk politics.
but to a 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 im-
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
mancery Of the Loyal Legion. From
Philadelphia the party will go 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 and Potomac
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 Scrvia.
American interest in the Comte dc Paris Is
based mainly upon tho fact that he and his
brother the Due de Charters. participated In
the war for the Union Us officers on the stan oi
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 younf
man who aspired to be their King wa.
made OF sterner stun than the later Bourbon
Kings had shown themselves 70 possess
He arrived in New York accompanied BY
his brother and his uncle, the Prince d.
Joinville, in the fall OF 1851, and proceeded
to Washington, where arrangements we're n
once made for their entry into the arm,
were commissioned rs Captains Of volunteer.
and assigned TO duty on the stan IT Genera
Mcclellan, with the understanding that the,
were to receive no pay and were to be fret
to resign whenever they chose. They tool
part in all the battles fought by tn,
Army OF the Potomac up to June, 1852, whel
they resigned and returned to Europe Genera
Mcclellan and other officers who had an oppor
tunity Of observing their conduct In the fielt
during their short stay with the army hav,
spoken highly Of their soldiery qualities.
Outside OF his American experiences, the lif'
Of the heir OF the BOurt Ons has been rather In
teresting. Born in 1888 he was just 10 years o
age when his grandfather. Louis Philippe wa
driven from the throne Of France by the rcvO
luton Of is4s. His father. who wa
the most popular OF the more recen
Bourbon Princes, had been killed by huntin,
accident some years before, and many French
men think that had he lived his conciliator,
disposition and his great influence owe
Louis Philippe would have prevented
the revolution. Brought up in exile the Comts
de Paris was educated partly in Wurtemburg
| OF which his mother was Princess. and partly
In England. where he has spent most OF hi
| life since he left Paris. In 1871 he re
turned to France and was elected to tn,
National Assembly, and the following
| year the Chambers voted the restitution O
tnC iAMAy piUpCTlS. lHulOuS Journey u
| Frohsdon In Austria, where the Comtt
| de Chambord the head OF the legiti
mist branch Of the Bourbons. resided, hat
| the effect of uniting the two royalist factions
and securing the Acknowledgement of his owl
| right to the succession. Since then he has beer
| the recOgniz ed head OF the royalst party IL
| France. In 1883 he and all other pretenders I,
the throne OF France and all descendants. o
| former reigning families were expelled from
| France by the enactment Of Il special law an.
| prohibited from setting foot on Frencl
| territory. That law has since been ah
rogated in the case Of the Comte's uncle
| the Due dAumale. in consideration Of for
| mer good service In the army and hi
| splendid contributions to the cause Of science
| The well-cstablished connection Of the Primes
| and his followers In France with the Boulang
| ist plots has destroyed all hope of its reyoca
tion In regard to any other member OF the Or
leans family in the life time Of this generation.
illinois, New Committeeman.
CHICAGO, Oct. AT the meeting o
the Illinois State Republican Com
mittee ex-State Senator Campbell wa
selected "a a member of the Nationa
Republican Committee, to succeed
Colonel George Il. Davis, who resigned
when he was elected Director-Genera
of the worlds fair.
Ohio Train R"bter. Got $1,000.
CINCINNATI, Oct 4.-Manager 4. Weir
of the Adams Express Company, say
that the loss by the express robbery
| near Urbana Thursday morning wll