State rights and democratic union. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??, 1839-09-03
Tue SONS OF MURA.r

Lueien Bonaparte, her fesiduary logatae and
has left to him every thing LETT to her bg the
Emperor Napoleon--his sword, bed, portrait.
&c. The will directs that be shall he edu.
Gated and live in France. Her daughters.
Letitia and Louisa, Countesses of Pepoif
and Paspon.l will receive what the law ac
cords them, and the twosons will retain eve.
~ thing that will remind them Of theft brave
and heroic sire. We see It stated that these
young men reside in this connty-ln what
part we are not told.-and are practising as
barristers. Their absence from their mother
IS said to have greatly increased the anguish
of her last moments. Boston Iraascripf.
The two so, sol Mural referIed 10 IN. the
above Paragraph are Achille aud Euclen.
Achllle, the eldest son, was on board the
frieate in which his father sailed on that DIES.
perate and fatal expedition to recover the
throne of Naples. At that time he was some
ten or twelve years old. Subsequently he
passed several ars in Austria, and on com.
ing of age, enIgrated to the United States.-,
He purchased plantation near ST. Angus.
| tine, In Florida, devoted hlmselfto the study
of the law, and was admitted to practice as
an attorney and counsellor.
About the year 1925 the SemiBoles, uho
at that time occcped what IS now known as
Middle Florida. wele induced TO cede their
| lands, and 10 retire S0uthWaFd into he pen-
Insula- Aiurat, IN company with his friend,
Col. Gadsden of South Calolina, was one of
the first adventures who explored the count
ry thus coded, hey built hut in the
midst OF the wilderness, and employed them
selves in land hunting, that Is, seeking OFT
l fart NH nh tSrhf l.o n
advantage. hese gentlemen entered plan
tatlons some fifteen or twenty miles west OF
| Tallahassee. Murat called his plantation
Lipona, the title assumed by his mother,
which is formed from Napoi, the Italian OF
Naples, by reading the syllables backward.
Am ng the French, and other foreign set.
| tiers, IN that vicinity, Mnrat commonly went
by the title of the prince, though the state
| which he kept did not ex; city correspond
with the notions we are apt to attach to that
title. He might be met in the woods on a
| lean horse dressed IN the common homespnn
of the country, with long whip IN his hand,
hunting cattle, with the outward stylp of what
is known IN that country as Georgia crack
er, rather than that of the heir and claimant
of the thronesof Naples. Having settled in
The woods, he avalled himself OF his liberty,
and seemed to cast off all regard for the
mere forms and shows of artificial society:
| His domestic establishment was on the same
careless plan. 1t is related of him, that one
day, large party from Tallahassee having
come out TO pay MIN a visit, he sent for his
cook to inquire what there was in the house
for dinner. Nothing at ALL replied the
coo K a circumstance rather apt to happen
| IN the days Of his bachelor house keeping,
when things went with him pretty much at
SKIES and sevens. Just at the moment of
| this alarming annunciatlon the oyerseer came
| in to say that he had driven up the cattle of
the plantation and to inquire of Murat what
mark he should put OF them. 1t IS TO be OBJ.
served, by the way, that in Florida. the cattle
belonging to the several settlers run wild
| in the woods, the whole time. Once
ear, however, they are hunted and driven
up for the purpose OF marking the young cat
tle-ev"ry proprietor having particular
mark, generally slit of some kind in the
ear, by which his particular cattle are dis
tinguished. what mark1' said Murat, why,
cut off their left ears, and bring them all in
directly to the cookr This was done ac-
cordingly, and Murat's guests were soon ser.
4 we'd with dinner, consisting principally OF
cows ears, dressed in every variety of style.
To this day, in riding Though the woods IN
that vicinity, if a cow happens to be seen
mutilated of her left ear, she will be pointed
out with the observation, There gOes one of
Murat's CATTLE
That Murat is philosopher, and no epI.
cure, will appear from the following anec-
dole. One day at dinner party, the CONVEX
satien turning on the different sortso wand.
Mulat declared that during his early rsidence
in Florida, ne had made trial IN the way OF
eatlng-divesting himself of all PrejudIces--
of all the various birds and beasts which he
he could lay his hands upon. Grow SOUP
said he, sis fine; aIligator's tail Is lent;
but turkey buzzard is not good; II nave no
preiudices, but it is not good
| Subsequently, Murat married daughter
of Mr.. WILTSHIRE Navy agentat Pensacola,
and a grand nelce OF Gen. Washington. Mr.
ills had emigrated from Fredericksburg,
Virginia, to Florida, bringing his daughter,
beautiful young widow, with him, and at
that time resided at Tallahassee. Yrs. Murat
Is lady Of uncommon beauty, spirit and good
sense. An excellent housekeeper, and she
has put Mr.. Murat's domestic establishment
upon somewhat more orderly footing.
The French Revolution of 1880 excited
new hopes in the mind Of Murat. He mort
raged his property, raised what money ne
ould. and set sail for Europe. he spent
some time in England, and John Randolph
observed of Mrs. Nurat, that she was the ONLY