The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1873, Page 6

THE SHAH. His Persian Majesty Vienna. THE REVIEW NEAR THE CITY. The Reception of Dr. Russell at Laxenburg, The English Correspondent in an | """* Incomprehensible Uniform. THE FETE AT SCHOENBRUNN. The Glories of a Midsum- mer Night. Battle of Lizza Fireworks. The DEPARTURE FROM LAXENBURG. The Shah Showers Diamonds on His Austrian Friends. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ment of artiNery on foot, and then the cavalry, who, just before they came to the Imperial pa- vilion, leaped across a ditch, regiment aiter regi- ment crossing itas one man. APPEARANCE OF THE SOLDIERS. The soldiers looked rather tired and did not March well, There was scarcety a well formed line in the whole dtvision, as far as came to the eye of _ your correspondent, who was in a position to sec every portion of the review as it passed befere the Emperor. The wheeling movements were, never- theless, rather promptly executed ; but the general impression received was that the soldiers were an under-sized, loosely-drilled body of men, without the dian of the French or the massive, sturdy vigor of the Germans—machine soldiors, we might Say, who made no impression ugon the spectator but that of a body of indifferent men, indiffer- ently drilled and wearing an odd white uniform. At hal(-past seven the Emperor and his guest left the ground; the review was ended, The Emperor returned to Schoenbrunn and the Shah| to Laxen- A Petition to the Shah, Vienna, August 8, 1873. During the past two days the Shah has been very busily employed in Laxenburg in granting audl- ences, decorating the Austrians with orders, ban- queting with the Kaiser and conferring with Baron Reuter. Among the audiences granted was one to the Vienna Alliance Israélite; but when the gentlemen of the deputation arrived at the palace they could only be received by the Grand Vizter. ‘They made the best of the situatien, however, and placed in that dignitary’s hands a petition, drawn up inthe French language, requesting care and in | protection for the Jews in Persia, whose number will doubtiess Increase under the Reuter régime. The Grand Vizier told the Alliance not to have any fear about their fellow believers in Persia. All the subjects of His Majesty the Shab, he said, whether Mahometans or Christians or Jews, enjoyed the same Tights by law, and consequently he, the Grand Vizier, considered the Jews of Persia as standing under his own special protection. He said, further, that much of the reports concerning the condition of the Jews in Persia was untrue, and that the Alliance could rest assured of his care for the NOTES OF HIS STAY IN VIENNA. The Extraordinary Conduct of the Vienna Press. VIENNA, August 6, 1873, Yesterday (Taesday) afternoon was fixed for the review of the Austrian troops in honor of the Shah. The general custom has been to give these reviews to distinguished royal guests at an early hour of the morning, so that the soldiers, fresh from the night’s repose, brushed up for the morn- ing’s parade, could make the best possible aispJay. But the one uriental habit which Earopean travel thas not reformed in the mighty ruler of Persia is ‘that of lying in bed late in the morning; and as there was no one in the suite of the King of Kings ‘to venture to hint to nim the propriety of rising at #ix to see the royal parade at seven, the Austrian authorities made the best they could of the sit- uation, and ordered the parade for six o’clock in the evening. THE PARADE GROUND. On the western side of Vienna there is a wide, Grassy plain, breaking into a gentle hill and ran- ing down toa narrow stream, called the Smelz, On one side are the palace and forest of Schoen- bruno, on the other the’city of Vienna, This plain |” \s devoted to military purposes and las been sed- ulously guarded against the encroachments of the growing capital, in order that the troops may drill and muster and prepare themselves for war. The plain has an interesting history attached to it. It ‘was here that the old armies assembled that went put todo battle against the Turk. It was here that Napoleon reviewed his troops before the battle of Wagram. Here he encamped the army commanded from his headquarters at Schoenbrunn, and here also took place those splendid reviews which celebrated the sessions of the congress at Vienna, when the kings of Europe, having overthrown Napoleon, assembled to make 8 holy and perpetual peace. We reach the plain about a quarter of an hour before the time set apart for the review, and find 100,000 people present before us, The police and military have mapped out the vast open square or plain, and around them the multitude are fringed and densely packed. On the west of the slope isa small pavilion, and horsemen are careering over the meadow, giving orders for the evolutions and movements of the troops. Far off to the lef we see the long lines of infantry standing at rest and breaking away from view down the slope of the hill. On the right several squadrons of cavalry are massed, while intervening spaces are occupied by batteries of artillery, Now and then distinguished persons drive on the ground and ride to the ap- pointed station to join the suite of the Emperor. Other persons, not in military costume, but hav- ing some claim to note, attend in carriages and watch the parade from the outside of the line, very much as one watches the entry of the horses in the Derby. There is the usual amount of anxiety bout the Shah's coming; for, although it has been Published that he willbe here at six, no one is certain of his arrival. THE EMPERORS COME. At six the sun is quite high and throwsa fush of heat and flame over the plain, darkened by clouds of dust that come from the parched and whitened roads outside. At six precisely a thin Ine of cavalry is seen ascending the slope from the direction of Schoenbrunn. It moves along, first in column and then asa group, and apparently @ straggling cavalcade, to the number, as the eye judges, ef three or four hundred. By looking through the glass we see at the head of the line the Emperor of Austria in the unfierm of a colonel of @ regiment, and at his side the Ruler O! the Universe, on a favorite gray Arabian steed. He wears the diamond star and the Damascus blade frosted with diamonds and gems. The two monarchs ride advanced afew paces at the head Of the cavalcade, which is composed of as brilliant and varied a retinue as ever followed a king. Representatives of all the armies of Europe are there, and of most of the armies of the East, in every manner of fashion and costume, from the plaited and braided and furred Hungarian hussar, whose uniform is a trophy of luxartance {nd taste and extravavance, down to whe sheeted emir, who looks as though he had suddenly thrown & white gown over his person, as he goes careering | over the plain like a phantom. We observe repre- sentatives from the Prussian army wearing plumes or Pickelhaube, and scariet officers from England; then French, Swedes, Danes, Turks, to the number, as we have said, of about 200, straggling after their ma- jesties in slow procession. Parallel to the edge of the group we observe a court carriage, ‘with two members of the imperial family and the Princess Joinville as guest, which quietly foliows the troops. As the cavalcade descends upon the plain the musicians strike up the “Persian March,” and then the monarchs begin the review, down one Mine, up another, sluwly walking, the Shah obsery- ing the troops with what seemed to be a half curious, haif indifferent gaze, now and then turn- img to the Emperor to make some remark upon the appearance of the soldiers, and acknowledging salutes only when they came from a general officer. ‘THE MARCH Past. after he had gone from regiment to regi- Ment and inspected the troops in line he returned = siowly to the pavilion, to observe the march past. As he left the end of the colamn for this purpose every band on the fiela commenced the “Persian March,” and the ef- fect of so many instraments from different parts of the wide plain, mot keeping in unison, but, as it Were, one tane crashing against the other, was Striking and unique. Amid all this clamor of trumpet and drum the Shah took his position close tribe of Abraham in Persia. The Shah has during his stay here accepted the honorary presidency of the Vienna Pasigraphic Society. A Dr. Vincent says he has found out a universal system of writing for all nations. The Shah promised to be a royal protector to pasigraphy and told his ceremonial master not to forget Dr. Vincent. A STARTLING RUMOR, On Wednesday morning the Shah received several foreign residents in the palace at Laxenburg. Among those presented was Dr. William Howard Russell, the distinguished correspondent of the London Times, who 4s now in Vienna obtaining materials for an article on the art of war and the manufacture ef arms, to be published in the Edinburgh Revtewo, and which, is is said, will make a profound impression, Dr. Russell's learning and attainments will give his essay on this subject great interest, especially as he is also engaged in editing an English military journal. Dr. Russell wore the uniform of a deputy Neutenant of the Tower Hamlets, an office to which he was appointed by the English government, the uniform of which is one of the most gorgeous and striking in existence. Sir Andrew Buchanan, the British Minister, attended Wr. Russell to the palace at Laxenberg, and on presenting THE FAMOUS CORRESPONDENT the Shah His Oriental Majesty was evi- and in- military to dently impressed by the uniform, quired eagerly the nature of the oMce the Doctor represented. Every effort was made to explain to the King of Kings the exact functions of a lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets and his place in the military econ- omy of the British Empire, but your correspondent 1s informed that the resources of the English and French languages translated into the Persian were unable to give His Majesty even an approximate idea of Dr. Russell’s dignity as expressed in the gorgeous uniform. There was a terrible rumor in circulation last evening that the Doctor, thus at- tired, succeeded in interviewing Mis Persian Maj- esty. But this has been denied upon the highest authority, as an injustice to the British Minister and Dr. Rasseil and an irreverence to the Prince, the splendor of whose name fills the world like an aurora and with a glory exceeding the sun, the moon and stars, and would be a just cause of offence to His Austrian Majesty and lead to serious complications. THE SHAH’S REUTER. Baron Reuter has been in the Grand Hotel for some days past, waiting for an audience to be granted him by the “Ruler of the Universe.” Yes- terday the Baron was overjoyed on the arrival of a messenger from Laxenberg, bidding him hasten with all speed to the palace at Laxenburg, where His Majesty the Shah would receive him. The Baron was, I am told on good authority, enrap- tured with the private audience granted him, but feels there la necessarily @ great gap between His Majesty and himself so long as the former will persist in sticking to his Oriental habits, in not permittang any person to approach during an audi- ence nearer than fifty feet to his royal and sacred person. However, the Baron is in excellent spirits. He says he intends to make his Per- sian plans an international affair, and 1s by no means inelined to give any preference to English capttal—in fact, is willing to take any fish that comes to his net. He assures that the whole ofthe inhabitants of several villages, German and others, had expressed their willingness to emi- grate to Persia. He is, however, far from under- rating the difficulties of his Persian concession. He intends, I believe, to construct a railway through the entire length of Persia as a road to India, PERSIAN COURTESIES. The: Shah has been Killing time by distributing his orders of the Lion and the Sun to prominent personages in the Austrian State, besides a sum of 30,000 francs to be distributed among the imperial servants at Laxenburg, and three golden and forty-nine silver medals for the gendarmerie at- tached to the palace. Here are the names of the fortunate individuals who received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun and Lion :—Minister President Prince Auersperg, Ministers Lasser, Bauhaus, Unger, Pretis, Horst, Kuhn, Holz- gethan, szlavy and Wenckheim, General Director Baron Schwarz-Senborn, Baron Von Gagern and & number of others. Burgomaster Felder, with others, received the Grand Omicers’ Cross of the same Order. Of course Francis Joseph was equally liberal in the distribution of these court favors. He gave the Shah the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen, in brilliants, and to the Grand Vizier the Grand Cross without brilliants. ‘To the Emperor the Shah gave the Persian Order. in brilliants, as well as to the Crown Prince, the Archdukes Carl Ludwig, Ludwig Victor and Rainer; Count Andrassy, Count Crenneville, Prince Hohenlohe, Prince Auersperg. The orders for the Emperor and the Archdukes have much greater precious stones than those given to the Ministers and court oMcials, During his European trip the Persian monarch has emptied about a dozen large cases of decorative orders of various names, grades, virtues and values. He has still four more full ones with him, which may do good service in one a select, privil class, who were invited by the palace people to enjoy the supper given to the Shah; the other class, numbering 6,000, who recetved tickets permitting them to enter the paiace grounds, to listen to the music and ebserve the fireworks, THR IMPERIAL SUPPER, ‘The tims appointed for the arrival of the Shab ‘Was eight o’clock, but the Oriental monarch, true to bis habit, did not arrive till fully two hours afterwards, Then he was received at the entrance ofthe palace by the Austrian Emperor and bis household. Her Majesty the Empress, who had been pouting at Isch! because of a slight she had received from the Shah, appeared this evening for the first time since his arrival at the court, It 1s said that the Persian monarch made due explana- tion of his slight, excusing himself on the ground that his astrologer, on examining the hens after he had killed them, discovered that the day set apart by the Empress for his reception was an unlucky one, and so he sent word that he could not come, bus would . himself ap- point a day to pay his visit, But he was determined to see the beautiful Empress before he left; and afterall the arrangements bad been determined by the grand master of court cer- emonies, the fireworks purchased and everything ready, he intimated that he could not attend the Jee unless the Empress herself would be there. “For,” said he, ‘the world would lose ita riches and the sun its splendor and the great sea itself would cease to roll and the stars to shine if His Majesty could not have the pleasure of looking upon the eyes of the one woman of the universe who could be called surpassingly beautiful.” Thus, or in some such Oriental fashion as this, the explanation was duly made; or it may be that Her Majesty being, among other things, a Woman and éu:ious withal, could noé resist the temptation ofseeing the Ruler of the World beinre he left Vienna, so she was in attendance at the fete, and received the Persian along with her husband, and was very much honored by Nassr-ed-Din, who was permitted to enjoy her society for over am hour—an hour, Perhaps, of the most terrible torture he has en- dured since his arrival in Vienna, for he was ill at ease, as bashful as a boy in his first love and very awkward, for the “lightning conductor of virtue” had at last found the source from which all virtue proceedeth, and knew that ho had sinned greatly mong the innocent groves and waters and woods of historical Laxenburg. MUSIC AND FIREWORKS. The company assembled at Scheenbrunn was all that was brilliant and rich and astonishing in Vienna. Allthe Ministers and members of lega- tions were there, our own Mr. Jay conspicuous in his plain apparel, and a few bewildered Americans in his train, who were mistaken occasionally for the custodians of the ices and creams, but who did bountiful allegiance to the supper. alter the supper many ofthe guests strolled in the grcunas and listened to the music of the eight military bands, directed with remarkable harmony and skill, discoursing everything, from the latest child of Strauas’ brain, which he entitles the “Persian Hymn,’ up to the majestic strains of “Lohengrin” and the march in “Tannhiuser.” They looked at the moon as she “tipped with silver the high tree tops.” There were gossiping and laughter and flirtation among the 6,090 between the broad avenue from the palace to the Gloriette, and greups of honest Viennese, scattered hither and thither, waited patiertly until His Majesty of the Sun should have condescended to finish his dinner and make his appearance. At last, about ten o’clock, the imperial party came on the balcony, and, as the Persian national hymn was played by the entire musical force on the ground, a blaze of rockets arose in the air. After this there was & pyrotechnic display representing the lion and the sun and the coat of arms of Persia, many- colored and dazzling, which, as it flamed out on the night from its high eminence, evidently pleased His Majesty, who answered the compli- ment by a salute to the Kaiser. Then came other rockets, hundreds of them at the same time, it seemed; flowers and bouquets, and bursting shells and balls of flame—blue, red, green and all the colors of the rainbow—floating over the scene. Succeeding this came a pyrotechnic representa- tion of the battle of Lizza—a battle, by the way, which, being the only one won by Austria during the last 500 years of any con- sequence, and indicating the triumph of the Austrian arms over the Italians in the Sadowa campaign, is @ favorite subject for iJlumination and illustration. The battle of Lizza was shown on the long front of the Gloriette, half & mile distant frum the palace, by some ships firing upon other ships, and shells coming out of a fort, and explosions like those of cannon, and rockets leaping high in the air, of many-colored flames— blue and green and orange and white—hissing, leaping and seething, the battle scene standing out against the pale sky like a picture, very beau- tiful, lasting only for a minute and fading away at last like the rest of the things that die. Then came the illumination of the fountains, which was ac- complished by four Drummond lights, red and green and white and blue, perched upon the top of the palace and throwing their stream of light upon the leaping waters and the Gloriette above. ‘The heavens bathed with the midsummer light of the harvest moon, the shadows under the trees, the tapering decoration of the foliage, which might al- most be called architectural, so majestic and sweep- ing was it; the windows of the palace dazzling with light and filled with the faces of the most sublime and illustrious peopie in the world—at least of the Persian and Austrian world—and the vast sea of faces beneath, the air filled with music by the various bands, terminating in a rocket bouquet, formed a panorama of beauty, life and color— nature and art in union as it were—that His Majesty, if he has any poetry in his Persian soul, will long remember in Teheran. “OUR REVELS NOW ARE ENDED.'? The panorama filled up the time tiil eleven, when the lines of fire went out and the great ones de- parted. The sete was over and the glory all gone, save that midsummer glory of tne night, which remained until the morning came. His Maj- esty of Persia, very tired, I am told, drove from Schoenbrunn to Hitzendorf, and thence by train back to the palace at Laxenburg, and to bed be- fore midnight, because it was written that he should leave Vienna the next morning. Farewell to Austria, VIENNA, August 11, 1873 Yesterday morning Francis Joseph, accompanied by his brother and inany of his suite, came to Lax- enburg to say farewell to the Shah, and they had breakfast together, About ten o'clock His Persian Majesty drove to the station, accompanied by the Emperor. There were in all about 200 persons in attendance. It was very warm. Lax- enberg seemed to have wearled of the pivot of the universe and did not care to turn out and speed his parting. A mass of the miscellaneous parapher- nalia of the Shah had been sent ofthe day before— his boxes containing decorations and boxes which had contained decorations; four gazelies, horses with red tails, dogs, the sheep which had not been killed, Ashort time before the departure of the Shah from the palace the Persian servants wended their way slowly to the depot. One carried a cage with @ canary, another a cage witha small green parrot, with which creatures the Shah loves to Turkey or in Egypt, if he accept the Knedive’s invitation, The Fete at Schoenbrunn, VIENNA, August 9, 1873, The Persian monarch spent the last day of his so- journ in Laxenburg as well as could be expected considering the pitiless sun and the burning weather. Inthe evening he attended the sete at Sehoenbrunn, This was the climax ofthe enter- tainments in Vienna and was arranged upon a scale of surpassing Austrian splendor. The Palace of Schoenbrunn has a world-wide fame as a princely seat of beauty and taste; just on the edge of Vienna, with a labyrinth of lines and walks, a wide outline of jorest, the temple cailed the Gloriette, on top of which you see Vienna lying at your feet, not to speak of a collection of wila animals which is surpassed by only few collections to the pavilion, with the many-colored retinue thered about him. Then came the march past; 10,000 infantry, im company front, slowly Geflied before the {emperor and ,his guest, Then in Europe and is much frequented by nursery maids. On the evening of the ete nature was on the side of while away the time. Then came Famella, You ask who is Famella? She is a beautiful Circassian girl, the slave and companion of this Oriental monarch. She left the palace on foot, dressed in the Persian male costume, and would have escaped my notice altogether but for the fact that my st- tention was called to her by a good citizen of Lexenburg. This individual told me—put I cannot say how far his words are based on truth—that Famella is not happy witn the monarch, that she sometimes crics, and complaips of her hard lot. Since she has been in Laxentay she was not even allowed to leave the reom, and only once did the compendium of magnanimity permit her to show her face at the window when the music was played below. You know, perhaps, the fate of the French Fameila, Who was incorporatea with the Persian harem at raris. Sho became indiscreet. She took it into her head one afternoon to waik about the park of Laxenburg. But the justice of the the Kaiser, for we had @ full moon and caim, bright skies, in addition to the fireworks and music. Shah overtook her. She was called to his presence and told to depart to the land of her ancestors, for Cuine the artillery ata gallop, preceded by & regi- | Those Who Visited the /ece were of two classes—the | she could not belong to the household of the Shadow of God—she who had ywn her face 80 reekleasly to ordinary mortals, FARBWELL, The transient glory of Laxenburg was about disappearing. The Shah was about to pay a visit to hia brother, the Turk, who, like himself, is Vice- regent of the Prophet. In leaving Austria, there- fore, the Shah would leave Christian civilization. I do not know whether this parting produced much emotion in bis ming. As he drove into the station with the Austrian Emperor he looked tired and peevish, and, evidently, would have been satisfied to have ordered some of his suite into the nands of the executioner, by way of exhilaration and as @ revival of his spirits, There was much hand- shaking between the two monarchs and many words of cordial respect. The Oriental brother said how deeply he had been astonished—how gratified and impressed—by the Austrian wel- come; and then the Austrian brother replied that no glory of his lute had equalled that of the honor of having so distinguismed @ guest as Nassr-ed-Din, Then the Persian monarch got into his carriage, and as the train did not move off for sume minutes there was the Per- sian monarch looking out of the window and the Austrian monarch standing in the sun, Then the Shah said to his interpreter in Persian, which was repeated in Freach, that His Majesty was very sorry that the Emperor was compelied to stand out there in the blazing sun, to which little courtesy Francis Joseph replied promptly that it made no difference; he was accustomed to it. By tuis time the cars began to move, and the Kaiser cried out a von voyage, and his Persian guest raised his ingers to the diamond aigrette and bade farewell, and was seen no more by your correspondent. Notes of the Persian Visit. VIENNA, August 12, 1873. It 1s the intention of the Shah to go by way of the Brenner Pass and Brindisi to Constantinople, I am told that this trip to Vienna bas only par- tially pleased him. He could not quite compre- hend the isolation of the Empress, He made but one short visit to the Exposition, where he saw ttle else than the women who crowded around him. He does not like reviews; and as the fireworks in the palace at Schoenbrunn must have cost at least $500 he nodoubt had his own feelings as to the paucity of the display, and only wished that he could show His Austrian Majesty what he could do in the way of entertainment at Teheran, Then it must have come somehow into the mind of His Majesty that he has alter all been a tolerated guest; that in the honors paid to him there was the least touch of mockery; that the potentates of Europe, and especially Francis Joseph, were not disposed to regard him as the abounding source of all mercy and power and the representative of Ma- homet, who was the prophet of God. Certainly, if he could have read the Vienna papers, or even ) merely looked at the pictures of the comic journals, he would have noticed this feeling running wild, Far be it from ‘the correspondent of an American journal and _ representative of that press whichis regarded by the Europeans generally as being far from perfect in the art of journalism, to criticise the preas of a city as old as Vienna and under the patronage of this ancient and illustrious Empire, But, with one or two ex- ceptions, since the Shah has visited this city—its guest, the guest of its Emperor, and entitled to the courtesy which every host is bound to pay to those who accept his hospitality—he has been ridiculed, opposed, set upon, treated with contumely and contempt, and the air filled with most extraordi- nary fabrications as to his character and move- ments, Ido not know whether tt is the custom of Austrian journalists to regard the guests of their Empire as subjects for amusement and ridicule; but [have been amazed at the general bestowal of opprobrium upon the Persian monarch, and if the papers have been at all read to him I can very well understand his leaving Vienna without any feelings but those of mortification and anger. THE AUSTRIAN PRESS ON THE SHAH. From beginning to end the accounts of the Shah's movements, as reported by the Vienna papers, have been indeed degraded and a degradation to the journalistic profession. The Vienna writers had had a good month’s notice beforehand of tne Shab’s coming, and had culled trom Russian, Ger- man, English and French journals the very essence of all the ridiculous stories that had ever tickled the fancy of vbeerhouse politicians in the various lands through which the monarch has travelled. The stories were of a character whose indecency should have forbidden their publication, the more so as there was not the least possible breath of truth in them. I could not venture to repeat them here; but one thing I cannot omit to say—tnat, amid all the Shah’s indifference, his follies, his idieness, he had traits of a good disposition and showed remarkable shrewdness. Once, when the Emperor had invited him to a haunt at Laing, when deer and game were driven before the barrels of the guns and Kaiser and princes rejoiced in the noble sport, the Shah said he did not like such slaughter-house work; he would have preferred a hunt where the beasts had a chance—in the Leitha Mountains, Where was the barbarity in this case? As to the many curious customs to which he is attached by tradi- tion and religion, such as the slaying of rams, &c., we see nothing ridiculous in it when properly understood. We are positively informed, more- over, that the apartments occupied by the Shah at Laxenburg are scarcely the worse for tneir occu- pants. Beautiful window curtains have not been used as handkerchiefs; nor did the Persian princes wipe the biood from their hands after killing the cid He the only damage is caused by the glowing coals having iallen upon the carpets or upon tue tables. Nothing more. But had we be- lieved all the legends, then Nassr-ed-Din were a wild canni A party of Ger- man students, insinuates a Czech journal, would have done more damage to the furniture, have destroyed more tables and chairs, more carpets and curtains, in a ‘ht than these 140 Persians have done in atortnight. Then his court astrologer. The Aus- trians make game of him. Well, it is not so very very long ago since such individ played an im- portant rove in the destinies of Europe, and a Ger- man Emperor of the very house of Hapsbur; Rudolf the Second, had an astrologer, who nell great influence in the court. Has Kurope herself got over the era of superstition? If so, then she Inay cast the stone at Nassr-ed-vin. HUMORS ABOUT THE SHAH. The Shah has furnished an inexhaustible amount of material for the small wit of the Vienna comic journals, Taxing up the Figaro, we are favored with two attituaes of the Persian monarch, one of which represents him being wheeled through the Exposition in a perambulator and fast asleep. A short letter from some famished Persians to their bah in Vienna is not without point:—“King of Kings—Thou hast been Phare enough to permit us to die of hunger, and hast permitted our souls to shine as glistening diamonds on thy precious coat; we find ourselves rewarded above our merits, and are delighted that thy far-famed coat, with the bright soul diamonds, should have caused so much to be said of thee in Vienna and that we have contributed to increase the brilliancy of thy majesty. We have only this wish, that it be known in Frankistan that thy Persians would sooner die of hunger than see one diamond less on thy coat, and that thou shouidst not beam with ra- diance like the sun of the world.” Kikerixi has a full page Pocus of the Shah looking at and touch- ing the Italian statues in the Exposition. The Bombe has # portrait of one of the Shan’s favorite Viennese maidens, and & series of sketches repre- senting the Shah in all conceivable and incon- ceivable attitudes and adventures. Now it is @ picture of his chief astronomer reading the stars In order to arrange the Shah’s movements on the foliowing day; now it ls the reception of a depu- tation of the Alliance Israélite, in the person of a popuer Vienna actress, Fraulein Gullmeyer; now itisa picture of the hh, with closed eyes and grinning, sensuous feat touching the bust of @ marble statue; now the Shah feeding his sons, and now the monarch taking a promenade in the castle grounds of Laxenburg, ogling and patting the Viennese demt-monde under the c In another picture we are shown the Shah creeping trom under the bed, where be likes to pass the night, instead of between civilized sheets, Here we see him slaughtering the ram, clad in his diamonds, while some of the diplomatic corps, who had come to get an audien are compelled to assist in this jan religious action, In another picture he is represented as having single nt had the bathtub removed into the rece tion saloon, whither Princess Z. is ushered, and faints. And so on I think an entire column might be filled with tities given by the Vienna papers to the Shah. Im one paper he is addressed as “O of Mogals! King of Kings! Fountain of Grace and Other Orders o1 the Sun and Lion! The Star of the Orient! Central Point of the World All! Butter Bread of the Orient! Street Light of the East!” The Xtkerikt some brilliant wora inventions, such as “The Whale of Benevolence! the Gasometer of Enlightenment! the Middle Point of Grace! the Commandant of the Stare! the Catal ot Nobilit Civilization! the Watering Can the Light Tower ot Tho 81” And now that he is gone the Austrian journals sing with the Persian t— ‘Aas Row cays Ga Staple all oe aggrdi CHASE'S SUCCESSOR. Further Filtering of Public Sentiment on the Filling of the Vacant Chair of the Chief Justice Who Is the Right Man for the Place? Judge Daniels, of the Supreme Court, and -Governor Warmoth, of Louisi- ana, on the Situation. “WHAT’S WHAT?” Judge Daniels, of the Supreme Court. Judge Daniels was sitting in Chambers when the representative of the Hgeatp called upon His Honor to learn his views touching the appelutment of a successor to the late Chief Justice Chase. After adjournment Judge Daniels received the reporter in the ‘judges’ private room’’ adjoining the court. His Honor isa gentleman of medium size, somewhat on the sunny side of twoscore and ten years; not feshy, and doesn’t require spectacles to see his way through a legal problem. The Judge explained that as on Monday next a new term of the Supreme Court begins a great amount of accumulated business has to be de- spatched in the meantime, so as not to run the risk of its being lost sight of at the incoming term. “JSudge,’’ said the reporter, “you will have seen through the press that the HERALD 1s agitating the question of the appointment soon to be made of a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. I have called upon you to-day in order to ascertain if you have formed an opinion on the subject.” “I may say that I have not,” saie His Honor. “I have been so very busy of late with cases pending before me that it has been impossible to turn my attention to anything else, The commencement of our new term on Monday has thrown a terrible rush of business Jately on my hands, I may, how- ever, say that the question is an immensely grave one, to offer an opinion upon which would require @ man to have devoted much time and study to it alone. The Chief Justice of the United States Su- preme Court should be a man of the profoundest learning and greatest ability inthe country. Now, the difficulty consists in finding that man among so many. The man who may be appointed requires especial and peculiar qualifications to fit bim for this high office, Chief Justice Marshal hesitated to accept of it. It is true that at the time of his appoint- ment he had not had very large experience asa lawyer, yet he was one of the most remarkable men ofhisday. He had an amazing ability, that fitted him peculiarly enough to intuitively grasp the very pith and marrow ofa question before him. He was able to jump, as it were, to a correct conclusion ona point ol law before others could arrange their premises to argue it, Yet, singularly enough, un- important minor matters that might easily be seen by any common mind wouid escape the notice of Caief Justice Marshall. His great mind could not descend to the level of commonplace affairs. An amusing anecdote is related of him. Once, in tray- eliing through Virginia in his buggy, the Chief Justice drove with such carelessness as to run foul of a stout sapling on the road- side. lt got some way stuck between the axletree and bottom of the buggy so as to prevent further progress. Justice Marshall sat in his until & ing country- man came up, with an axe on his shoulder. The Justice requested the man to cut down the sapling, Stead of doing this, ireed thebugay very ‘casi. by 101 ee e. y very casi backing the horse. The Juatioe sas Muceeusneand mortitied to find that the poor countryman should know more than himself, but acknowledged the service done by leaving a doliar jor the man at the next public house. At the time of receiving the dollar the owner of the house asked the woodman if he knew who had left it for him. ‘No, I don’t,’ said the man; ‘but if he had not left that dollar I veareirec MeRRSSEROMEL cobs dhe baecy ot lave you thor any al or the Ohief Justice 1 asked the Lp abe of “Not Perna isnkwered judge Daniels; “but itseems to be altogether inadequate to support the dignity of the office. A Justice will to Washington for a term and stay ali winter. His Position Fegrires that he should live in a certain style and give, at least, two or more entertain- ments ae the, season. This runs away with the salary of the office—tormer! 000, now aa) a@year. The late increase 500 could make but little difference one way or the other. Certainly the office should be better paid.” “Do you think tl the Judiciary compares fa- vorab! mies ae most European countries as regards ff think,” said His Honor, “that we compare favorabiy with any country. Perhaps in the mat- ter of—what is now to us nearly obsolete learn- ing—the Roman civil law, England be a little in advance of us in @ general way. But of course we have many lawyers as deeply read at these classic fountains of legal knowledge as can be found anywhere. In most European countries their codes of law are less subject to modification than ours. Theirs are more uniform throughout, and that makes a difference. For the reason that the ever-chan, requirements of our new coun- try needs amendments in our laws men of the profession here are more exercised in their leisure ours to learn the state of existing'legislation than at liberty to pore over black letter lore, notwith- ee the agreeabiencss of this instructive pur- r “Your Honor will remember that until very lately little or no restrictions were placed in the Way of almost any man’s being admitted to the bar. What effect do you think that had upon the ished learning and ability of our lawyers as a “It is always good to have as rh @ standard of knowledge as possibie,” replied the Judge, “for admission to any profession, the ilaw par- ticularly. But I have observed that young men Who enter a lawyer's oilice just after having fin- ished a classical education at college are not al- ways the successful ones. Their refined natures and delicate instincts impel them to shrink from the drudgery of office work at the outset of their. career, Luwyers, as well as doctors, and gentie- men of other liberal projessions, must by force of necessity do @ good deal of disagreeable work; which naturally fails on the shoulders of the young beginner. Finely educated youths @re apt to be fastidious and seek to shrink from these necessary but disagreeable duties. I speak of what only happens sometimes, On the other hand, a young man who, With a com- mon schoot education, enters an office, usually does 80 from a strong conviction and with great desire tosucceed, He goes through the various grades in the office, from the very sweeping of it out. He is inured to hard work and pursues his studies with a zeal and zest oniy known to the sons of ad- Ma Such young men frequently become in A burning and a shining Ii To a’ the na jon. No; some men are pecullarly fitted to law, while others— a x bic What matters colleges and sch: Tr honest nature made them | ashy their Latin names for horus and stools, Clean out of season.” “Pray tell me, Judge, do you think that a man’s being & politician should be a recom Mendation or otherwise to the vacant Justiceship?” “In my opinion,” was the answer, ‘a politician should not be appointed to this great office. I think the position of far more importance than that of President of the United States. An incumvent may enjoy the office for thirty years or more, as his term 18 during good behavior. Sometimes suits involving political issues are brought into Court, and may go to the Supreme tribunal. To guard against a politician’s hat to decide upon party matters I cortainiy think @ man who a8 Dever been noted as a partisan ald fill this great trust of the people. I know Of several actions of @ political nature that were decided by artisan judges, and must say that some of them ar the stamp of political leaning; 80 much so as to materially weaken iheir weight as precedents inlaw, All this shoud be prevented by every means in the gy ts power; and one way to ac- complish it is by means of the press, to afford the President the benefit of public opinion, in order the better to enable him to put the right kind of man in the chair lately eo honorably filled by the lamented Chief Justice Chase.” Governor Warmoth on the Situation. Governor Henry C. Warmoth, recently Chief Executive of Louisiana, was found in his rooms at the Fifth Avenue, taking soda and chiorate of potassium for a heavy cold which he had caught at New London, He was very hoarse, and conse- quently found it somewhat dificult to express any very elaborate opinion on the questions of the Chief Justiceship and Owsarism. The Governor was accompanied by Colonel Jack Wharton, ex- Secretary of State, of Louisiana, whose health was strong enough to permit him to venture an opinion or two. “Governor,” said the reporter, ‘‘we are collect- ing 4 variety of opinions on the subject of the Chief Justiceship as well as Cwsarism. Could we do ourselves the pleasure of interviewing you on the subject 1” have auch a gevere cold.” sald the Governor, “that Ifear my voice will hardly be audible; be- sides, my relations with President Grant in the last campaign were not such as to give me an ia- side view of his intentions.” “Vm aware of that,” responded the reporter, “put we do not propose to seek only the views of those friendly to the administration. What, as a ‘starter,’ do you suppose Genera! Grant means by delaying the appointment ”’ y THE DELAY IN THE APPOINTMENT. “] don’t know,” said Warmoth; “perhaps he wants to hear the voice of the Senate on the mate ter, or the voice ot the press, and probably hea seeking out some one who will serve bim in his Cwesarism, as the HBXALD puts it.”” “Do you think,” asked the HERALD man, “that hus delay in this matter may be traced to the hopes he entertains of Cwsaring the govern- ment ?” “If he has his Cesar programme yet unfinished I should think he would consider the Chiet Justice- ship a8 an imporiant part of the arrangement.” Colonel Wharton, whose voice sounded like & hurricane after Governor Warg@oth’s hoarse whis- per, announced that Grant was a bigger fool tham the country took him to be, if he didn’t count the Chief Justiceship in the arrangement. GENBRAL GRANT'S SUBTLETY, “Po you think General Grant is deep enough to consider all these matters 1”? “Deep enough!’ ejaculated Wharton; “he ts dovilisn sly, he ig Jocy B.; he’s no fool, by along shot, 1 think he’ own himseli a devilish sharp fellow all throug! “Oonkling can have it if he wants it," said War- moth, parang: in fact, can have anyt irom Grant, and VYonkling would make a very go Chief Justice. He's rather young for it. It’s some- thing like @ last tes in the storm ot poiitica, where only very old and sometimes disabied ves- sels ought to go. Conkling can take part very well in bis way, for many years to come, the rough and tumble of politics, and I should think at t time the Chief Justice’s ermine would prove rather irksome to him.”” be offered it?!” “You think he “If he intimates that he wants tt the offer will certainly be made to him. Next to him, I think Howe, of Wisconsin, has the best chance, and he would be an excellent appointment for the success: of Cesarism.’? “How sot? QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE PLACR. “He would be a subservient tool of Grant's, No view would be too outrageous for Howe to decide favorably on its constitutionality, if Grant wished 1t. Now, Conkling is by no means subservient. If. there 1s subserviency between him and Grant it i on Grant's side. Grant is, in fact, afraid of Conk- “Afraid of him?? “Yes, afraid; just as a mediocre man is alway® afraid of a brilliant one, and I don’t know but whas he hates him to boot.”” “Is it possible there can be hate among such & harmonious family ?”” They cordially endure “On, understand me. each other, but Grant’s tastes would never permis him to like such @ man as Oonkling. At the same time Grant don’t tod everybody whom he hates. He’s more politic than you would suppose.’’ ans) else do you think has a chance of appoint- ent “Well,” drawled the Governor, slowly, “if you had a list of his brothers-in-law and cousins ous of onice, if he has any, I might be able to name im. Colonel Jack Wharton again joinedin. “I can give you the full list,” said he, “just a round O. A laugh ensued, alter which the Governor, re- freshing his cold with more soda and potassiui resumed:—‘‘Then 1 don’t see why he might not appaint some very good, clever fellow, who'll do all nate Antony and the conspirators may want “Could you suggest a man for the place holding such q fications?” inquired the reporter. THE FITTHST MAN OF ALL, “Yes,” replied the Governor quickly, “I think I could recommend one man to him, who could pee best of references from his last place— are! “Yes! cried Wharton, ‘I could give him a cer- tificate of character myself to Cesar. If he would do half as well for the national government as he did tor the State government of Louisiana, Grans call himself Czsar and assume the purple a& might once.” are hopes ot Durell,” continued War- aid! “T have moth langi , ‘under the Cesar administration, Louisiana rather pent himin. His great powers never had full play there. It would be magnificent to see him oversiaugh a Senate with neavy ex- pounding of the law when Cmsar bade.” A CASH IN POINT. “Why,” said Wharton, “he enjoined the Gov- ernor and me, as the Returning Board of Lor from counting the returns last election and then summoned us to answer at his Court the next Monday to acharge of contempt. In the mean- time, mind you, he ordered the United States Mar- shal to seize our offices, and when We went to them the next day we were denied admission. We at- tended the trial and were tried, and Judge Dureil holds any sentence he pleases over our heads to-day. If we should return to Louisiana, and our presence there should be deemed by him ‘danger- ous’ as he might call it, why he could commit us both to jail under his decision yet unrendered in that contempt case, By all means I recommend Mpiading the ¢ 1 adieu the reporter ading the two gentlemen adieu re} ofthe HgRaLD then withdrew. * POLITICAL NOTES. Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior, would like to occupy the seat In the United States Senate which wiil be vacant on the 4th of March, 1875, by the expiration of the term oi service of Hon, Alien G, Thurman, of Ohio. The request of United States Senator John Hippie Mtchell, allas John Mitchell Hipple, says the Port- land Oregonian of August 5, to the County Judge te usurp authorities not vested in him by law, and make an order which he cannot lawfully make for the purpose of giving the semblance of approval to his past sins, was not granted yesterday. It ts supposed the matter will come up for consideration again very soon. In 1857, after Congressmen had raised their pay to $3,000 a year, Ben Butler made a speech in Law- rence, Mass., in which he condemned, in no meas- ured terms, that increase. Ben was not in Con- gress then. The case is different now. The Birmingham (Ala.) News denies that it isa democratic paper, but says:— This is a white man’s paper, edited by a white man, printed by white men, paid for and supportea by white men, and willsupport no man for oftice who refuses to stand squarely on the platform that this is a white man’s country and a heritage to him and his children for ever. There is talk of sending Thomas 8, Bocock to the Virginia Legislature from the city of Lynch- burg. It is pretty certain that if Ben Butler is nomti- nated for Governor at the Worcester Convention there will be a bolt on the part of the opponents of Butler. In that case there will be three tickets in the fleld—viz., the administration back salary grab republican ticket, the old line republican ticket ana the democratic ticket, In addition to which the labor reformers may come out with separate nomil- nations. The Boston Journal says that the ofice-holders of the general government in Massachusetts are working like beavers to secure the nomina- tion of Ben Butler for Governor. Caleb Cushing sent a congratulatory despatch to Mr, William Allen, on his nomination for Governor of Ohio, Mr. Cushing and Mr. Allen were warm friends during old Jackson times, When Mr. William Allen, the democratic candt- date for Governor of Ohio, first entered the United States House of Representatives he was but twenty-five years old, just the constitutional age, United States Senator George M. Boutwell is booked for the presidency of the Massachusetts Republican State Convention. Both the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi on the radical ticket are white men. This is the more strange when the fact is taken into consideration that the negro population in that State exceeds the white by up- wards of sixty thousand. The old colored servant who attended Generat Grant’s father is running for the Legislature im. Kentucky. It is said he has the sympathy of the administration, The St. Louis Democrat (republican) ssys Bem Butler ought to go to Unicago. His fertile imagi- nation, his hardened cheek, his ‘superiority to moral considerdtions, all would be appreciated there. It further says that it is a long time since gnybody has accused Ben Butler of being am honest man, Governor Joel Parker, of New Jersey, wants to go to the United States Senate. The Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry in - Crease at the rate of two a week. Hon. Henry L. Dawes, republican member of Con- Gress from the Eleventh district of Massachusotts, 18 Working against Butler. The Southern members of Congress cling to the back pay steal like a hungry dog to a bone. The New York Republican State Convention wit be held at Utica, September 24, The liberal demoerats of Minnesota hold a State Qgpvepsion ot Ht Pamh September 2