Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-09-10
LOUIS NAPOLEON.

! The cleverlv-skeiched portrait OF the
french President we give below, had an in
,erest for us, as il would seem TO be drawn
by an imparlial and shrewd- Judging mind
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81 extrac, from the journal Of friend, a
slight sketch of The present appearance OF
! the President. was struck by the linge OF
melancholy upon his coun,enance, TO which
. the writer refers.
| AT The feie of 81. Cloud, had good op-
! porlnnity Of seeing Louis Napoleon. AS il
was The first time, j, may be easily believed
! that ! looked with all my eyes. lie was a.
bout entering the Orangery, where the re-
| fleshment table was SET out On his righ,
arm was The Marchloness of Normandy
As he advanced through crowded line, on
, either hand, he stepped aside two or three
times TO shake hands with ladies' whom he
knew, and whose eager eyes seemed 10 force
him a moment from his orbit.
had become familiar, from busis and
pictures, with the appearance Of Louis Ns-
poleon, and if had met him anywhere ]
should have known him Instantly, without
pronp'er. 4lis general aspect, as the en-
cravings represen, him, is grave, square and
heavy; bu, the living person admits of a
minute and interesting study, as we'll on &C
count Of his strange fortunes as his present
position.
| Louis Napoleon is little under sze-say
| five feet eigh. inches high-wi,h rather
broad and square shoulders, somewhat,
thick neck, and German rather than French
head. dis complexion and expression, his
wide face, his ample brain, expanded al The
sides and rather lowered at the forehead,
all would have led me, had seen him with
on, knowing him, to say he was German.
! His hair is dark brown, his moustache very
massy and reddish brown eyes dark grey
| sh blue, almost covered by thick and fold
ed eyelids, and shaded by heavy, neshy
| eyebrows. His movements are simple, ma
lural and moderate, with touch Of dignity
which is The more effective, as it seems sug-
gesive of something more behind it,
On the whole, Louis Napoleon nigh,
pass in the crowd as an ordinary man, un-
ambitious at heart, bound to no fame by for
tune, consecra,ed to no high purpose or a
chievmenl by Providence. looked inten,ly
at bis counlenance for some traces Of Jose
phine, whose blood beats in his heart, but in
vain. Looked again for The semblance o
the great Napoleon, of whose lineage he is
whose name he bears, whose sceptre he all
but wields. II may be fancy, yet thought
| could perceive something of that sadnes:
SO impenetrable, so falhomIess, so mystical
which was characteristic Of The Emperor
il is, however, slight, and has no, the re-
pulsive Asialic gloom which bIackened ant
! rendered terrible the clouded countenance
of the Corscsn. On the contrary, Louis
NspoIeon's face is decidedly benevolent, his
smile is pleasing, and the play Of his feature:
rather social and genial yet there is a sad
ness and tlnge Of mystery about him like
,ha, of man trained TO disappointment, and
little accustomed to hope: one who ha:
walked the world by himself, not refusing
sympathy, nor yet deigning TO ask ii, one
who is accustomed to be looked on as rid
die, which he would not, or could not, solve
He does not look Disconnected, nor the con.
trary; neither happy nor unhappy neither
exalted nor depressed. His general express
sion is tina. of sleadiness, self-possession
modesty, with an air of melancholy which
lrresislibly invites sympathy and begets fa
vour-lhe more. perhaps, because of the
blaze of Pomp and power with which he is
surrounded, and which he seems to com
mand. can very easily comprehend, now
; The power which Louis Napoleon exercises
over a considerable part Of the people o
:, France, in spite Of the difficulties OF his situ
alton, and the many things, good or i'll
} which he has done, and which of necessity
have often fallen with annoying emphasis
:, upon The cIashing interests Of parties, clique
|, and cabals.n