Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-02-09
A sTRANGE STORY.


published in the Belfast (Ireland) Chro-
nicIe-a journal which is said to be the
most trustworthy and reliable in the Uni
ted Kingdom If true, it discloses the
character of the new Emperor of the
French in new light, and summarily
dissipates whatever suspicious may have
been innocently entertained that sc En-
pire is'' really to be peace" If false,
why it is but another of the many news
paper romances, of which the ''Nephew
of his Uncle has been the hero since his
ascension to power. There has been so
much of the wonderful already IN the eN-
traordinary career of the man, that per-
haps we should cease to marvel at what
we are now told are veritable facts, and
vet we presume it will be difficult mat
Ter TO persuade one render in ten that the
revelations in the Belfast paper are not
Slievegammon texture:
There lives in Paris gentleman who,
in December, lG48, wrote-"l can see
with clearness that Louis Phillippi will
not be three months on the throne of
France" Louis Philippe was exiled in
February, 1843. That same gentleman
wrote shortly after the Presidential cleo
tion-''This Bonaparte scion Is traitor.
Not Il man looks at him but feels the in
stinct of avoiding him as a treacherous
man. He will strike for the Consulate
for the Dictatorship, and God knows what
will follow" He St,uck. The coup d'ctat
of December, 1851, tells in history hOau
he struck The same gentleman wrote in
the March of the present year-''The ty-
rant aims at the empire. His gaze is fix
ed upon the crown. Before year there
will be revival of the Bonaparte dynas-
tv. and the French will knecl before Ma
poleon the Third The empire has
come.
The man who predicted these events
is no common man. He thinks and looks
around him. He participates in many
movements quietly. and gathers knowl-
edge, which in our view, no other man at
the present moment, in or out of Paris,
could find means to acquire. His Prevl-
Gus predictions give US confidence in what
he states. In fact we know him, and
know that he would not detail as truth
what he did not know 10 be true, for he
is generally one of the least speculative
individuals we ever met.
Well that gentleman-we would give
his name if we were permitted-writes
the subioincd on Thursday last, and all
before whom it comes can measure its
worth, and the amount of credence to be
attached to it from what they have alrea-
DIV learned. The revelation will seem GU
rious to many-to us it is by no means so
as we are aware OF the sources from
which so much of his information is de-
rived, and how he derives it. That it is
true, we are convinced, and that the Bri-
CtIn n tho mol
tions of the French Emperor, is evident
from the revived state of our defences,
from the embodiment of our militia, and
the addition to our maratime hands, and
from the enlistment of Channel Fleet.
The following is the communication re-
ferred:
elm a secluded part of the wood of Bo
lougne, at place called Madria, whilOme
the residence of Lamartine, is house
surrounded by trees, and the windows of
which are never opened, except sometimes
at dawn, as if to let in fresh air. This
house, all day, and in many nights has
the air of being uninhablted; but often
times at night there comes about Suspi
cious looking characters, who take up their
post in the thickets, and then about twelve
or one up come several carriages, with
the blinds close down the porte cOchere
is opened nysteriously, they drive in, and
the door closes behind them.
What is this place?
1t is the residence of Yirginie la Sabo-
there.
This, for many persons-indeed nearly
all-is no explanation. But let us enter,
one evening last week, and, perhaps,
what may be going on may enlighten us.
In an apartment, sumptuously furnish
ed, is grand supper laid out, resplendent
with plate, and brilliant with lirhts. sit a
half dozen of men and as many women
who, while slipping their champagne, are
talking animatedly of conquest and en-
pire, Of aggression and rapine.
Yes" says one, striking his fist on
the table-a man with heavy moustache,
hooked nose, and saturine bilious coun-
tenance-"Yes. when once l am crown
ed will proclaim Jerome King of Hol-
land, and not only proclaim him King,
but make him King, while Belgium shall
reign but as my vassal."
Yes, sire," said all but one whom we
shall not mention.
"And then King of Rome and Italy,
a nd Protector of the Helvetic Confedera-
tion shall be no empty titles, they shall
be mine."
s' But, sire, England % observed one
gently.
England, the assassin of my uncle Eve