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Show THE COiTi PARIS. The Distinguished Frenchman and H's Son Will Make a Tour of America. ALL TOEN UP BY POLITICS. The Election of Colonel George R. Davis Causes Lots of Trouble Among the World's Fair Directors. Loxnox. Sept. 24. Special. The Conite do Paris and his sou Gaston, due d'Orleans, sailed for New York today on board the White Star steamer licit-(iermanic. licit-(iermanic. The gentlemen in the suite of the two noblemen are the follow ing: The Conite do Haussouville, member of the French academy, nephew of the Due de Iiroglib, anil late member of the national assembly, lie came to America at the time of the Yorktown ceutenniary; Colonel de Perceval, late under chief of staff of the sixth corps of the French army, who accompanied the Due d'Orleans during his long visit to India and spcut the four months of his detention at Clairvaux in the wretched village at the door of the penitentiary. The Couito de Paris has long contemplated this visit, but it was thought that ho would not make it now, although all arrangements had been perfected for it, on account of the McKinley bill to which ho is opposed in the interest of his country. One of the chief objects of his journey is to visit the battlelield of Gettyslmrg to see for himself the scene of the great events so minutely aud graphically do-scribed do-scribed in his "History of the Civil War in America." Tho" count, who will be accompanied on his tour by his old comrade-in-arms General Daniel Hut-terlield Hut-terlield of New York, is anxious to give his visit a purely military character and to avoid being mixed up in personal or political quarrels, lie goes to America, lie says, its a former soldier of the army of the Potomac to see the battlefield, battle-field, and to see his old friends. Having been with the United Stales iu the darkest hour of its history, it will bu a great pleasure to him, he declares, to witness its present prosperity and happiness. |