Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-05-23
LOUIS AND EUGEN1E.

Column after column giving detail afer detail oil this
regal expedition, has been spread before the hungry
masses either side of the Atlantic And tho cry Is
still they come-longer columns anu fuller details.
Well, they are very unusual couple, whether as to
their antecedents present fortunes. That LOUIS
is an extraordinary parsonage, may not be gnnsayed
when the coup detat by which he was made Emperor
is recalled. That EUGENE is peerless beau'y-the
Helen lin that respecp of modern days-,s the uni
yersal acclamatiun of all who know any thing about
the matter. Whence sprung they!
LOUIS is the nephew of Bunaparte-the Bonnparte-,
and the grandson Of that Bonaparte's first wife. His
mother was HorteEse, daughter Of Josephine as
Madame Beauharnos. His blood is the secret Of his
SUCCESS. But how of his bride!
EUGENE is said 10 be the granddaughter OF WIN.
RIRKrATRIcK-pain Mr.. WM. KIRKPATAIcK-.of
Malaga. Mr.. X. married Barons daughter to be
sure, and thus came EUGENE. Her beauty is the
secret Of her success.
Yes, there they are the great ones-as little as any
body few years ago, but now the observed OF all
observers" Fortune-lhe dame that turns the wheel
has here been playing one of her most renarka-
bic feats. She is determined to leave her impress
upon the age, and this is Of her devices 10 that
end The dame is certainly doing things up splendid
Iy for the nonce. But by and by uhe tickle quean J
shel turn that wheel just tile and down goes the
Imperial card-house, Kings, Knights, Diamonds and
all. Before this event however, she has doubtless
several other brilliant of the play-the ballet we
mightsay-to amuse mankind with. "All the worlds
a STAGE" wrote the hard of Avon; and some o..e
else speaks Of the " boast of heraldry, the pomp
Of power, the pride Of beauty" &c and whittier
it all tends. AS for NAPOLEON, we care NOZZLE is
doubtless graceless fellow the Royal purple has
adorned for century. But EueEKIE-beautiful,
good EUG let her be spared the iron scourge
Of an adverse hour. Yel old republican reader
will say" What's he to Hecuba, or Hecu5a 10 him!"
Nolhng-oniy We felt bound to say something on
subject which all the rest of the world are talking
about Having said it, we pause, not however before
calling the readers attention to the following grap ic
description Of the personel of the French Emperor
and his Empress:
THE PoRTRAITs-She.-As for Eugenie, she has
been the theme of all tongues each ouclamorng the
other in her praise. Such beauty, to begin with, has
never been al least 80 It is said, and the saying
dues exceed the truth as it is in the suyers. Ii is
beauty thai combines all styles, and eIces in each.
II unes the romantic gravity OF the - oresque Span
lard with the AIRY piquancy OF the Parisan; the re-
serve Of tie British belle with the abandon OF the con-
,i1enlal southern.
Her com plexion is at once blonde and olive, and
comprises the charms of both. The IpressiOn oil her
face is at once winning and commanding, conhdlng
and dguifed. Her stature and figure are all tlnt
could be wished in woman Or desired in monarch,
and each dress she has appeared in public in seems
exactly the Of all others that SHE should never ap
pear out Of if tile spectator al the moment had his
way.
Moreover she is just at The precise age when the
several graces Of the seem TO blend into perecllon
and when The diminutiUn or addition, almost Of nm
hour, would imply forfeiture of some one attribute
essential 10 The completion Of the real and the dea
the poetical and the practical before you. The lady
amongst who bears the nearest resemblance to her
is the Duchess Of Wellington, or rather such was the
case when the latter wasa little younger and Land.
reer's liket ess in the Visit TO Waterlou," was a
faithful potrait Of the then Marchioness Of Douo.
There is the conmng glement Of the half Oricn
al half Scandinavian aspect the large open antelope
eve, with the full droo ing fringe, al once heighening
and mitigating its lusre; the same small rounded
limbs and majestic presence; and the same pensiveness
in the midst Of animation, perhaps arising from the
same cause, the chilsness of an otherwise enrable
union.
This probably is but passing sorrow with the
Empress for the Export runs that the stag hunt a
Sonrh, on Tuesday, was not jUined by the Imperial
Iady last eqnes striansm for reasons known in all we'll
regulated families should be detrimental to the proba
bic pruongalion Of The line Of the new Sesostrls
who, born no king, made monarchs draw his car"
He-Cerlninly he looks everything that his impas.
stoned assailant in Napoleon le Pel describes, and
moi all the circumstances Of splendor surrounding
him not all the romance Of his liie and not all the
effect which such considerations produce upon the
most phIe matte and philosophic OF minds, could de.
prve his countenance oil It's ndeinaole bui unmlsta-
keable responsiveness. In it is disclosed no trait
of a,raclivenes Indeed the absence Of all trait is
the only decided trait about it, 1t is perfectly expires.
siouless whether in animation or repose
His face is a blank, Or rather blight. 1t may
have been capable Of conveying some expression
some time, but that time has gone by, and now
il really expresses nothing. The eyes are dead ;
the com plexion lived the mouth, even when smiling,
inanimaie the muscles Of the whole lace al once
rigid and relaxed and the contemplation OF the vls-
rage altogether leaves most uncomfortable impress
sion, no matter what ones predileclions IN aVor of
the man himself, or however biasscd by the ascina.
on of the immortal deeds Of his uncle, by virtue Of
whose name the nephew is what he is.
Between the Two men there is not the smallest facial
or physical sembance and certainly as far as e1er
mails are concerned, there is much coorng ail"rded
by Louis Napoleon to the popular scandal which
assigns his paternity, not 10 the King oil Holland but
10 Dutch skipper with an unprononnceab!c name,
and of whom Hortense was said to have become en-
amOred.
In the confguration Of the head there is some SINH
lary between Napoleon the First and Third, and the
sparseness and quality of the hair avors the likeness
But in the faces themselves, and even The ioreheads
the most acute phys gnOmst could detect no trace Of
ndenly of blood between the relatives
The Italian element is altogether wanting IN the
nrssent Emueror who is much mure of The bad French
type of face, what Voaire called between The Tiger
and the monkey, than was the great Corslcan whose
antique beauty, scarcely less than his deathless e1
plots universled his portraits and buss by re- 1der
ing their production labor Of professional love 10 the
artist as the finest subject they could be employed
upon.