The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-22

| Hoi little attention has been paid
- riase. in Paris of Colonel Mar
chand the hero of the march
SSt a. Africa to tashoda. to Mile. de
John Slidell. of Louisiana, who was
! sent by Jefferson Davis to champion
i In, cause of the confederacy in France
Ills removal from the British liner
trent, on which he was making Ills
way to Europe. with his colleagues.
James Murray Mason, OF Virginia,
sion to his own. almost resulted in
war between Great Britain and the
United I'm States, half century ago. For
BY the United States war ship San
Jacinto. whose commander, Captain
, w,ilIkes. seized seized slidell and Mason, as
them them off ON his cruiser to Boston.
though not before his face had been
so9,nn9iy slapped by one of the Miss
Sii6eiis. II may be remembered that
captain Wilkes was afterwards held
TO have acted in defiance of the die
tates Of international law, in defer
enee to which, Slidell and Mason were
set ht liberty. and allowed to pro.
| coed 10 Europe.
In Paris. the Miss slidelis, whose
tame had preceded them. soon became
notable notable figures in society. The ono to
wh9m l have referred TO above as
having Slapped Captain WiN:css face.
married the Comtc de st. Roman. while
me other became the wife of Baron
, iinaneier established in Paris.
Nile de 81. Roman. daughter of the
no Longer In the first blush Of youth,
and Is one OF the leaders of the French
ltod Cross Society, in which capacity
she proceeded 10 Morocco during the
miIltiry operations In that country two
years ago, for the purpose of nursing
the French and native sick and wound
ed. She may therefore be said to have
seen active service In the field
When recalls how near her
grandfather's seizure on board the liner
Trent came TO bringing about war
In 1851, 1t is certainly a strange CO.
Incidence that Mile. de ST. Roman
should now become the, wife of 81 sol
dier whose heroic march across Africa
to the Nile, in obedience to the orders
OF his government. and whose arrival
with his followers at Fashoda. where
precipitated war between England and
France in lSos. Indeed, had not Franco
consented to retire from Fashodn. sac
rihcing all the fruits OF Colonel Mar
chands odyssey, war would inevita-
bly, have ensucd. since the late Sir
Edmund Monsop had the ultimatum in
MS pocket. which lie fortunately was
not called upon to present although
he found means OF making the French
Foreign Minister aware OF It's cXis
tence. The orders 10 Marchand from
him through Lord Kitchener. and il
speaks volumes for the tact and the
generosity of character of both men.
that trouble was avoided at Fashodn
Itself.
Patrick MacSwiney. of MashanagIass
formerly chamberlain TO the Holy
Father and who according to the cable
dispatches from Rome is endeavoring
to recover from the Vatican $4,000 or
more. representing the fees which he
which he has lately been deprived by
the Pontn is the chief OF a family
which iiourishcd for centuries in the
south Of Ireland until driven b. relig-
France and In Spain. He is descended
from MacSwlney Mad Fuadh. one of
the most famous warriors OF his time
and came into prominence some time
ago, owins--cto his association with
John Rcdmond. the Nationalist leader.
during, the latters visit to Rome
cured II divorce from his tomn II Ca tholic
wife, and has turned Protestant. in
order TO wed Countess Anna ,Schiitz
the thirty three-ycar-o daughter of
Count Emile SchlitZ-Goertz. who is an
intimate friend Of the German Emperor
The intimacy of the Kaiser with
Of inherited friendship. the counts
father. president of the Iessian House
of Lords. and his consort. a Princess
OF Sayn Wlttgenstcin, having been
the most intimate friends OF Emperor
and Empress Frederick, whose acquain-
lance they made through the late Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of IIesse. In
order 10 show the affcctionatc relations
existing between the parents of the
Kaiser and those of the present head
of the ancient and illustrious house
Of Schlitz-GocrtZ, which formerly cXer-
clscd petty sovereign rule In Germany
and Is now mediatizcd. IL is merely
necessary to say that Professor iIintz.
peter. who for n number OF years d
rccted the education of Emperor VIII
liam, and Of his brother Prince Henry
and who as their old tutor. retained
brothers until his death, was selected
By Emperor and Empress Frederick
Tor the purpose on the personal recon-
mendation OF The. late Count Schlitz.
for number of years as tutor to their
son. In fact. the present count. who
Is some eight or nine years the senior
of the Emperor. can boast. like the
latter. of having been Il pupil OF old
Hintzpcter. When William himself was
anxious to obtain the services of a
in n case. 1t must be added, of par
ticular delicacy. he at once nominated
to the post Professor Krenge. who was
at the time tutor to the sons OF the
counts wife. who died few years
ago. was woman OF great beauty.
from her mother. the SO celebrated
Countess Of Vllleneuvc. wife Of the
Brazilian envoy to the court of Berlin
and renowned throughout Europe on
account OF her loneliness.
That Patrick MacSwiney should have
obtained the hand of the daughter Of
a family so IlSustrious as that of
Countess Anna Schlitz-Gocrtz must he
ties already existing between his fam
lily and that of her mother. The we'd
ding took place with great pomp att
the Castle of Schlitz, in the presence of
a large number OF members OF this
princely and mediatized houses of Ger
many. one OF the MISUNDERSTANDING of
Count Schlitz-Goertz being. however
conspicuous by her absence. owing to
the fact that. born as Princess of
Thurn and TaXis, she was a Roman
Catholic.
The extraordinary lawsuit between
Sir Oswald Mosley. of Rolleston Hall.
Burton Trent. and Lord Eno1ys's
brot hcr-in law. Canon Tyrwhitt, the