Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-14

night. On Wednesday the Comte de
Paris will be the guest OF General
Smith, OF Philadelphia. and by Thurs
day the whole company hopes and prays
TO be reinstaIled again in New York.
ROYAL PILGRIMS PRAY IN RICHMOND.
RICHMOND, October l2.--As Sterne in
his Sentimental journey" permitted
himself little rest OF mind or body, so
the Comte de Paris pushes his followers
on with an enthusiasm and intensity OF
purpose that brook no delay. AT 9
O'Clock this morning the Comte and his
suite attended mass at st. Peters Cathe'
dral, where the contribution-box was
substantially benefited by the plous
Frenchmen, the Comte de Paris alter
ward sending 500 TO Bishop Van de
Vyver for the poor OF the parlsh-and
they arc very poor.
AT THE CAPITOL.
After the church services Colonel
Archer Anderson. who has been indie
faiigable and most successful In his
efforts TO entertain the royal party, again
became their cicerone. not to battle
fields this time, but TO the peaceful and
prosperous sights Of a thriving city. The
drive was first to the fine old capitol,
built in the most solid colonial fashion
40 years ago, and opened this Sunday
as a special compliment to the dis
tinguished travellers. The Comte de
Paris found his usual intellectual repast
in the memorabilia OF the Virginians,
who have made American history IA
nous, caring less for the Elizabethan
records and the original draft OF Corn
wallis's surrender at Yorktown than for
the statues of Washington, Lafayette,
the relics Of Patrick Henry, and Henry
Clay, and the portraits of the Confede,
rate leaders Lee, Johnston, Stuart, and
Morgan.
From the Capitol the party drove to
the Lee statue, then TO beautiful Holly
wood, the lovely home of the Conied-
crate dead, who fell in thousands by
their very hearthstones. And so PACK
10 drjeuncr q m tOUrchettc at l2-that
meal so indispensable to the french
man, whether on foot or horseback, on
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An INTERESTING INCIDENT.
After breakfast one of the most inter
esting incidents of the Counts southern
tour occurred-a visit from fifteen mem
bers of the local Philip Kearney Post,
Grand Army of the Republic. Waits
and strays almost they seemed, veteran
Union soldiers whom the whirligigs OF
time have domiciled in the erstwhile
capital of the rebellion. Yet with them
came, as though to impress upon the
Comte dc Paris the story OF a blessed
and reunited country, three representa-
tives OF the Robert e. Lee Confederate
Commandery - hard fighting enemies
once, long since hsrmonized, and now
united IN showing due respect for gal
liant soldier in exile.
After few kind and cordial words to
each the Comte de Paris was obliged to
shorten the interview, as it was time TO
take the train for Petersburg to fulfil an
engagement made with the learned Cap
tain Gordon McCabe, a distinguished
ex- Confederate officer and now head
master of school for boys, patterned
after Rugby and Eaton, which bids far
to rehabiitate the Virginia OF the iu-
ture with the same graces of scholarship
and literature that made her famous IN
the past. A special car was hitched to
the +. NJ. train, and run OF forty
five minutes through a charming coun-
try found a large and friendly party
awaiting the tourists.
AHUGR WAR SCARE.
The drive was straight to the famous
huge hole made in the earth
bv the explosion Of mine which Grant s
soldiers spent months of incessant toll to
dig. Happily, or unhappily, as Your
sympathies be, no one was hurt, nothing
accomplished by the big blow up, bat
the brink of the crater served Captain
McCabe as an excellent rostrum to de-
liver brilliant dissertation upon the
Federal siege of Petersburg. If he
had forgotten one line, ditch. or
detail. it was sure to be brought
out by the pertinent suggestions OF Colo
mel Coppinger, who was one Of the be-
siegers and if train had not been in
waiting and Richmond far away those
two old warriors would have been there
still rewriting history and fascinating
their hearers as Othello did Desdemona
with the dangers they had passed.
All this pleased the Comte de Paris
but no more than when an
was made to Captain Nc
Cabe's house, and where one of the most
elaborate libraries in the South was in
spected.
CAPTAIN McCabe, himself an author
and distinguished commentator on the
classics, preferred to spread before the
Comte de Paris the treasures of French
literature which he had collected with
love born rather of whole-souled admi-
ration for French history than perfect
fuency in the nuanccS of the French
language.
BACK TO RICHMOND.
But it was time TO be back to Rich
mond, and by 7 o'clock the party were
again installed at the Exchange Hotel,
where Mine Host Darlington again play
ed the changes on the succession of
southern delicacies with which he de-
lights to tickle the delicate and apprecia-
tive palate.
After dinner-having received infor-
nation that Count Dillon, prominent
figure in the recent Comte dc Paris
Boulanger episode, had arrived in New
York to-day by the Aurania-l made in
ouiry as to the significance of his sudden
voyage to this country.
The genuine surprise with which my
information and question we're received
was assuring enough in itself, without
the explicit denial which followed, to
prove that neither the Comte de Paris
nor any of his suite had previous know
ledge that Count Dillon was coming to
or was in the country.
While declining to discuss French
politics in any phase, as the Comte do
Paris and following invariably do, one
of the suite volunteered the remark that
the Dillon referred to was undoubtedly
the fugitive Irish member OF Parliament,
"who comes over here" as he put it,
"to beg American money for Irish fill
clustering"
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