A FLORIDA SHRINE. 
Aut pilgrims to Tallahassee visit the Mu- 
rat place. It is one of the most conveniently 
accessible of those “ points of interest” with 
which guide-books so anxiously, and with so 
much propriety, concern themselves. What 
a tourist prays for is something to see. If 
I had ever been a tourist in Boston, no 
doubt I should before now have surveyed 
the world from the top of the Bunker Hill 
monument. In Tallahassee, at all events, I 
went to the Murat estate. In fact, | went 
more than once ; but I remember especially 
my first visit, which had a livelier senti- 
mental interest than the others because I 
was then under the agreeable delusion that 
the Prince himself had lived there. The 
guide-book told me so, vouchsafing also the 
information that after building the house he 
“interested himself actively in local affairs, 
became a naturalized citizen, and served 
successively as postmaster, alderman, and 
mayor’? —a model immigrant, surely, 
