Les années de Thricité de la politique de New York sont à jour .. . d'abord appeler le Prince jStapoleon, puis sur le Due deMorny, puis sur l'empereur; le marchand promis-ing Weed pour paver la voie pour lui à tous les trois. Cette ad-vice Thurlow Weed a pleinement réalisé, avec un tel succès dans un très court temps l'attitude de la France envers les Etats-Unis a été complètement changé. Cet incident attester de manière frappante la vérité de l'axiome qu'il n'y a pas de choses telles que peu de choses. Car ifNapoléon n'avait pas changé de cap à propos du périodmentionné, la France et l'Angleterre pourraient bientôt être induites par le recogn

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Thrity years of New York politics up-to-date .. . first call on Prince jSTapoleon, then on the Due deMorny, and then upon the Emperor; the merchant promis-ing Weed to pave the way for him to all three. This ad-vice Thurlow Weed fully carried out, with such successthat in a very short time the attitude of France toward theUnited States was completely changed. This incident strikingly attests the truth of the axiomthat there are no such things as little things. For, ifNapoleon had not changed his course at about the periodreferred to, both France and England might soon havebeen induced to recognize the independence of the South-ern Confederacy; and Napoleon, perhaps, might not havechanged his course had he not been reached in the diplo-matic way suggested by the French merchant, whom Weedwould not have known or would have been unable to reachhad it not been for the very warm letter of introductionobtained from the friend accidentally met before leavingNew York. From which chain of premises I shall leaveyou to draw your own conclusions.. (Kedrawu from Harpers Magazine. By permission. Copyright, IsrJ, by Harper & Brothers.) Peter B. Ssveeny. LETTER IX. Pluck Displayed by Tweed in His Early Political Career—How He Combated the Omnibus Monopoly—What ItCost Thirteen Aldermen to Disregard an Injunction—Thirty Years of Incessant Struggle for a BroadwayRailroad—Sad Fate of the Original Projector—Pub-lic Clamor and Its Victims—How a Washington BossWAS Hounded Almost to Death ; Then Applauded as aHero, and an Ovatton Extended to Him, My dear Dean : In my last letter I devoted some space to the intricaciesof railway legislation in this State, and while this subjectis in my mind, I may refer to a local controversy in whichBoss Tweed, in his earlier days, was interested, and at atime when he did not have so much control over our Judgesas at a later period. In this connection, permit me here tosay, that in these familiar letters it is my purpose to doequal and exact jus

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