Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1858 — Morphy to Play against the Emperor of the French. [ARTICLE]

Morphy to Play against the Emperor of the French.

Recent advices from Paris state that the , Emperor Napoleon has requested Morphy | to give a specimen of his blindfold playing at the Tuilleries, before the ladies of the Imperial Court, and has also consented" to be beaten at chess by the young American, at the odds of a rook. There is now reason to believe that before leaving Paris, Morphy will have a chance to contend with Her Von der Lasa, the great chess analyst and player, who lias recently u-jt Rio Janeiro, where he has acted as Embassador from one of the German courts for some years pas). Mr M'lrnhy is expected home before the cdose of the year and the New York Chess Club, it is said, wijll give him a public reception. (U7"Tbe Indians in Mex ico are now becoming a source of daily fear to the Spanish and mixed breeds. As the power a d organization ot the latter diminish, the old and fearful passions of the natives, breothIng vengence against their oppressors! ■waken into new life.