Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-12-03
The Emperor Napoleon III.

An unfang topic for discussion in all the papers
and other publications pick up is-Charlcs Louis
Napoleon, tho Nephew of my Uncle and success
to his throne. under the title of Napoleon III,
the Senate having issued decree for the estab-
lishment of the Empire etc.
All this had been foreseen by almost everybody
for very long time The ceremony of ratification
by the people only remains but that is all ar
ranged, the thing may be regarded done France
is again an Empire, and Napoleon III. is Emperor.
1t now only remains to be what his policy
is likely to be: and those who have studied the man
and his history most attentively, wold never think
of taking his professions any indication of his real
purposes.
He says The Empire is peace,' while at the
tmc he steadily turns to the traditions of tie En-
pire--one of the prominent is that the natural
boundaries are the Rhine and the Alps The able
Paris correspondent of the National Intelligencer in
recent letter, shows conclusively, from Louis Ma
poleon's whole course that the absorption of Belg-
UNI and Switzerland is one of the cherished projects
of his lfe This will hardly be peace, is it like
~ that French Empire, with Bonaparte at its
head, and splendid army of half Million will ev-
er mean peace. The thing is not to be thought of.
But, then. all these projects of ambition have
ment all the resources which the French Empire can
bring to their accomplishment and we therefore re-
gard the idea of any interference with The affairs of
this continent, or with Cuba, on the part of the
French Emperor, as purely chimerical, unless, in
deed, under extraordinary circumstances, which are
by no means likely to occur.
We anticipate stirring times on the other side OF
the Atlantic, and that at no distant day.
Private Enterprise VS.. oGIcial ImtcrmeddIing.
After Mr.. CALHouN's death, the Legislature of s.
Carolina appropriated thousand dollars for the
purpose of publishing his works, including his much
talked of posthumous work on Government. They
also employed a man to edit them, and superintrnd
their passage through the press Well, the money
has been expended and the books printed and that's
ALL Published they certainly are not, for we never
hear of them-no means are taken for their crcula-
ton or sale and SO far as we learn, they are
neither circulated nor sold.
It is confidently asserted that the HARPERs, of N
York, offered the family of MIR. CALHOUN very large
sum-thirty or forty thousand dollars-for the copy
right In doing So they acted upon business caicu'
lations. They knew their facilities for giving them
Notwithstanding them home to the door, and
within the means of every man in the country and
they would have done so, and have made money oy
the operation and the result would have been
full and eHectual dissemination of MIR. C's views by
a-real and not merely nominal publication of his
works while his family would have received hand
some sum for the copyright, and the State have
saved the ten thousand which has been thrown away
in burning Mr.. C.s posthumous works It's str'
king instance of the folly of persons undertaking tt
NEEDLE with business in which they have no expe
Renee, or Of public body pretending to interfere
With private business
n
csrscEEr CITY.-Lieut H X. Davenport, U. 5. N.
who has recently been in command OF the Crescen
Civ, while absent from the Navy on tur'ough. ma.
b. en- ordered The Macedonian. OF Inc Japan squad