Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, ULYSSES I. [ARTICLE]

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, ULYSSES I.

Pungent Pen Picture of the Coming Empire—The Eords and Eadies, nukes and Duchesses, Earls, Marshals, Etc., of the New Regime—The Gorgeous Imperial Army. [From the Philadelphia Times.] One of the cleverest satires of the day is an annoymous pamphlet just issued entitled, “The Coining Crown,” giving a prophetic pen picture of the coming empire under “His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Ulysses I.” It is illustrated with a crown, and some of its hits at the leading restorationists are admirable. The chief extracts are taken from the Cou, t Journal, dated Washington, Sept. 1, 1882, and from the Imperial Standard, dated Washington, Oct. 1, 1882, to which various telegrams are credited from different sections of the country telling of the troubles with such insurgents as Blaine, Nast, and others, of the progress of imperialism, of the gorgeous and numberless imperial troops, and of the grand public improvements prosecuted under the empire. The following extracts will be relished by the lovers of polished wit, whatever may be their views of imperialism: RETURN OF THE EMPEROR, EMPRESS AND CROWN PRINCE FREDERICK. His imperial Majesty, the Emperor Ulysses 1., accompanied by the Empress, the Crown Prince Frederick and a numerous suit, arrived at the palace yesterday, after a week’s visit to the Duke of Pennsylvania at his palatial residence, Cameron Hall, Han isburg. Her imperial Majesty, we are happy to announce, is in the best of health. The imperial escort consisted of a battalion of the guards and two companies of the household cavalry. THE PRINCESS NELLIE.

Her royal Highness, the Princess Nellie, will not return to England. We are in a position to state that the consort of her royal Highness, Algernon Sartoris, Esq., is to be raised to the peerage nndm- the title of Earl of Granton. We further understand that the Earl of Granton is to be appointed Governor, with the title of Lord Lieutenant of the province of Illinois, and that it is the intention of the imperial Government to settle $200,000 per annum upon his Lordship. A vice-regal palace is to be built at Springfield, the Privy Council having issued an order for the razing of the Capitol of the former State of Illitois, and the residence of the Lord Lieutenant will be erected upon the site. LORD SHARON, EARL OF NEVADA. Lord Sharon, Earl of Nevada, is expected to arrive at the palace on the sth inst. His Lordship, who has, during the past month, been entertaining a number of the Western nobility at his magnificent residence, Belmont Hall, San Francisco, is under.-tood to have successfully conducted the negotiations which resulted in California giving her assent to the prop'isitions made by the imperial Government. In view of his Lordship’s distinguished diplomatic services in thus eradicating the last vestiges of rejiublicanism in the Western part of the empire, we have reason to know that his Imperial Majesty intends conferring upon his Lordship the honor of the order of the Mailed Hand. LORD SIMON CAMERON, EARL OF SUSQUEHANNA.

It is with great pleasure that we are enabled to announce the arrival of Lord Simon Cameron, Earl of Susquehanna, at the palace. The venerabl • Earl and his son, the noble Duke of Pennsylvania, will have the honor of dining with his Imperial Majesty to-morrow, when the Duke is expected to arrive in town. As we have previously announced, Lord Simon was, some time ago, appointed by his Imperial Majesty, Earl Marshal, tho title remaining in the House of Camerons according to the laws of primo-

genitr.re. Loi land Lady Hamilton Fish have arrived at the palace. Lord Hamilton will receive tinal instructions 1 adore his departure for England as Imperial Minter to the Court, of St. James. Lady Fish will not, we understand, accompany the noble lord, but will remain during the coming season in attendance on her Majesty as principal lady-in-waiting. WASHBURNE, DUKE OF ILLINOIS. Cards have been issued by the Duke of Illinois for a grand party at the. Washburne House, the splendid residence lately completed by his Grace, and to which his Grace has given the family name, for the evening of the 12th inst. The noble Duke, whose appointment as Prime Minister by his Imperial Majesty has given such profound satisfaction in court circles, will, we understand, entertain during the coming season with ducal hospitality. Her Grace, the Duchess of Illinois, returned from the country last week. SIR O. E. BABCOCK, PRINCIPAL EQUERBY. Sir O. E. Babcock, whose devotion to the imperial cause and whose conspicuous gallantry at Albany, N. Y., when the republican army under Fenton was so completely defeated by the imperial troops, have deservedly gained him so many marks of imperial favor, is now, we are glad to state, quite convalescent. He remains at the imperial villa, Long Branch, for a few days more, when he will return to the palace to enter on his duties as principal Equerry in attendance on his Imperial Majesty. LORDS AND LADIES VISITING.

Lord and Lady Edwards Pierrepont, Baron J. Gould and Sir Whitelaw Reid, of New York, who have been on a visit to Lord George M. Robeson, of New Jersey, at Secor Hall, Cape May, arrived in town yesterday for the season. The magnificent yacht which his Imperial Highness the Crown Prince Frederick has been pleased to accept as a present from James Gordon Bennett, Esq., of New York, has arrived in the Potomac. It is named ‘ * Ulysses, ” and is a masterpiece of architecture. THE DUKE AND THE DUCHESS OF NEW YORK.

The Duke and Duchess of New York are expected to arrive in town for the season on Tuesday next. The Ducal residence, Conkling House, is rapidly approaching completion, and promises in point of architectural beauty to equal any of the many splendid houses of the nobility erected in the capital since his Imperial Majesty ascended the throne. Invitations will shortly be issued by his Grace for the ball which is to be given when Conkling House is opened, and the event promises to be one of most extiaordinary magnificence.

Logan’s Crusade Against the King’s English. The New York Tribune of several years ago gave a graphic characterization of the Illinois Senator’s terrific style of dealing with his mother tongut'. We

copy the following paragraphs from tin Tribune's picturesque sketch : “ Pranced there upon the arena of the great debate, like a trick mule in a circus, or a spavined nightmare upon th. ; track of a beautiful dream—Logan, ol Illinois. There visions of mustaches, 1 eye-brows ami hah - , piled on each other in arches ; a large brandishing of arms, a pose and a stridulous war-whoop ; ami much as though a picture of the Deerfield massacre had stepped out from the pages of our history. Logan took tin * American Senate by its large, capacious ear. And then he went for his mother , tongue. He smote it right ami left, hip ami thigh, ami showed no mercy. Swingi ing the great broad-ax of his logic high I in the air, he turned it ere it fell, and I with the hammer side struck tlie lanI guage of 60,000,000 people fairly in the ! face, ami smashed it beyond recognition, j Under his stroke the floor of the American Senate was spattered with the remains of a once-proud vocabulary, and messengers, door-keepers and pages were covered from head to foot with the spray. In the fearful two hours which followed the first roar of this oration all the parts of speech were routed ami put I to flight. There were orphaned adjectives and widowed nouns, bachelor verbs driven to polygamy, and polygamous verbs left lonely, conjunctions dissevered, prepositions scattered, adverbs disheveled and distorted, and syntax flung to disorder. It was a great day for Logan. “He set his teeth into the language as the untamed tiger of the jungles takes between his mouth and paw the wearing apparel of the wayfarer, and the ripping of it was heard through all the forest depths. It reverberated to the other end of the Capitol, and sluggish Representatives lifted up their ears and listened with terrified awe. Some started for the scene, but, upon being told the cause of the disturbance in the brief communication ‘Logan’s up,’ turned hick, with full assurance that they could hear from that end of the Capitol all that was worth hearing. So through two hours Logan swung his beautiful arms over the heads of the Senate like the booms of a Government derrick, while his chin churned the language like a pile-driver in a heavy sea, ami the. baffled reporters made wild plunges with their pencils to gather up his regurgitations for the printer.”

One Source of Strength to Grant. Although Gen. Grant goes into the National Convention with only a minority of the delegates at heart in his favor, the moment it is undertaken to put any other candidate in nomination a source of strength peculiar to Grant will be developed. It is this: While he is not particularly loved, he is not the object of such bitter and unrelenting hatred as is every one of his competitor.-, for the nomination. How, for instance, can Conkling ever support Blaine ? It is impossible. He may pretend to do it; but he will never with any degree of sincerity support a man he hates so fiercely. Neither would Conkling yield any earnest support to Sherman. At the same time, he hates Washburne even more bitterly than he hates the man of Maine or the man of Ohio. Sherman, on his part, is just as inimical to Conkling and to Blaine. He could endure Grant, but hardly any"btl|er rival candidate. If Grant is taken, the party starts off with a minority candidate. If any other candidate is put in nomination, the party has to encounter the implacable ill will of some of the most formidable of its leaders.— New York Sun

Chestnut Flour. Mr. J. Schuyler Crosby, United States Consul at Florence, Italy, gives, in a report to the State Department, an acj count of the Hour made from chestnuts and used in many parts of Southern J Europe. The writer says : “The number of trees in Tuscany and Lucca is estimated at several millions, and the nut and wood have done more I to maintain the population of some of these districts than any other production. In some places wheat Hour and corn meal are entirely superseded by , the chestnut Hour, which is very nourishing and much cheaper as an article of food.”

Mr. Crosby is of opinion, after a care- ! fill study of the subject, that this variety of chestnut can be grafted on the native American species, and thus be i made a source of wealth and profit to ' this country, especially in certain niount--1 ainous districts, where it is almost impossible to raise cereals, owing to the nature of the soil and the steepness of the mountain sides, and whore transportation is so difficult, and labor so high and scarce. Outside of this question of using the chestnut for food in the districts where it could be cultivated and grown Jo advantage in the United States, the present price of the imported Spanish chestnut, which is used for various purposes throughout dur country, would, he claims, amply re- ■ pay any outlay farmers might have to . make, in importing rings or shoots of this ; magnificent variety from Italy for grafting on our own chestnut trees. * * * i The chestnut flourishes in a light, fer--1 tile, deep soil, but thrives on the sides ‘ of mountains facing the south and west. The flour can be preserved for two years. It is used in the same way as wheat flour, and, though less nutritious, is much cheajier and at the same time is exceedingly agreeable to the taste. He says that in those regions where the inhabitants live almost entirely on the chestnut, they are of better appearance, more healthy and not less strong than those people who live on what in Amer ica is considered more wholesome and nutritious food.

Ruling Passion. A decided case of the ruling passion strong in death is told in an old book of sporting anecdotes, to the effect that once upon a time a famous huntsman, of the suggestive name of Fox, being at the point of death, addressed a letter to his master, requesting that when he was gone his silver-mounted whip, with old Merrilas and her litter of pups engraved upon its handle, should be presented “to our sporting parson, Dr. Dasher, upon condition that he will preach a funeral sarmint over me from the text, ‘Foxes have holes.’” In addition, the dying wielder of the horn inclosed a copy of his own suggested epitaph, in the following terms: “ Here lieth Timothy Fox, who was unkennelled at 7 o’clock a. m., upon Nov. 5, 1768, and, having availed himself of shifts through the chase of life, but being at last unable to get into any hole or crevice, was run down by Capt. Death’s bloodhounds, Gout, Rheumatism, Dropsy, Catarrh, Asthma', and Consumption.” •