The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-05-22
Napoleon Family.

speaks particularly OF Lue IesuiL vi NapOieohs
schemes of personal aggrandizement:
How wonderful the ways of God All Napo-
leon's schemes Of personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT were
scattered to the wind. He divorced the good,
the loving wife Of his youth, and married an
Austrian Archduchess, in order to crafty his
ambition to leave his throne to one who should
be his son. That marriage was the cause of his
ruin. The son whom he so much desired, and
to whom he would leave his crown, died while
ayouth, in the palace of his Austrian grandfather.
Not from poison rs some asserted, but probably
from disease from which excessive indulgence
| and care on the part Of that grandfather laid
the foundation. Before the birth Of that son,
Napoleon had thought of making this same
| Louis Napolcn, thcsson If his brother Louis
}(then'King of Holland. and of Hortense, the
daughter of Josephine, his heir. How wonder
full The grandson of Josephine is chosen the
fist President of the French Republic, while the
son Of Napoleon sleeps by the side of his grand
father in the Church of the FranciScans at Wen
ma!
A singularly good i"rtune seems to have fol-
lowed the family ofpoor Josephine. Her SOD,
Eugene Beauharnais, married the Princess
| Amelia Of bavaria, a woman Of excellent charac.
ter, who lives stillla Munich, respected by all.
And after having served in all the campaigns
of his rand-father, with distinguished reputa-
tiou for every virtue as general of the highest
rank, and wearing for time the title Of King of
Italy, he ended his days in peace in Bavaria,
while Napoleon, Prolnetheus like, was chained to
the rock OF St. Helena, there to die.
Eugene Beauharnais left two sons and four
daughters. The eldest daughter, (caed Joseph
inc, after her grandmother,) is now Queen Of
Sweden. Nor is there a happier Queen in Europe
or one more beloved. The second daughter
was the last wife Of Don Pedro, late Emperor
of Brazil She still lives and wears the title of
Braganza. She is beautiful woman. The
third is married to German duke, whose name
and title do not recall at this moment. The
fourth was not married when saw her, and her
mother, with one of her other sisters, at Stock.
holm, on visit to the then Grown Princess of
Sweden, (uow its Quccn,) in the summer of
1886.
The elder of the sons Of Eugene Beauharnais
married the present Queen Of Portugal cut died
few days Or weeks afterward. The younger, the
Duke OF Lcutchtenbcrg married the eldest
daughter of the Emperor Of Russia and is q
great favorite with Nicholas. And here we have
the son of Hortense elected the first President
of the Republic Of Franc! This is wonderful.
"God is great" say the Mohammedans: God is
Just also, as every page of the history Of man.
kind would teach us, if we could or would but
read it aright. Let us hope that He will Ieign
to guide and bless the grandson Of the injured
and good Josephine ias the President Of France,
ri Go "a tlot,
INTERESTING STATISTICS OF Russ1A.-The
following facts are taken from the Journal Of the
Statistical Society, and from an abstract of the
return Of the publication Of marriages, births
and deaths in the principal provinces of the
Russian empire in 1852, procured from Count
Nesselrode by Lord Stuart dc Rothesay, at the
instance of Lord Aberdeen, and communicated
to the Statistical Society by Major Graham, the
Registrar General, in 1874:
The Russian frontier has been advanced to
wards Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna and
Paris, about 1000 miles; towards Constantine
pie, 500; towards Stockholm $50 miles, and
towards Teheran 1000 miles. The acquisitions
Of Russia from Sweden equal the remainder Of
Sweden; those from Poland equal the Austrian
empire; those from European Turkey equal
Prussia, exclusive of the Rhenish provinces;
those from Asatc Turkey equal The German
small States, Rhenish Prussia, Holland and
Belgium; those from Persia equal England;
those from Tartary equal European Turkey,
GREECE, Italy and Spain. The total acquisitions
in Russia in Ga years equal her whole European
empire before that time. In 1859, at the
accession of Peter l., Russia had 100000
inhabitants in 1862, at the accession of
Catherine H., she had 36,Ooo,000; in 1926,
at. the death Of Alexander, she had 5s,-
100000; in 1912 at the reign Of Nicholas she
had 6o,oOo,OOo.
In 1912, the returns had not been received
from Georgia, Koursk, the Trans. Caucasian, or
the Caspian provinces; nor are Finland, Poland,
the Don Cossacks, the Cossacks in the country
of the Black Sea and of the Uural, the provinces
of Yachutsk, Kamtschatka, Okhotsk. or Russian
America, included in the Return. According to
the last census the females preponderated over
the males, but not nearly to the extent they do
in England. The births were 445 per cent,
the death 3.75 per cent, the excess Of the form
er indicating an increase of in 1000 annually
In Russia, l in SO persons married annually, in
England, I in 1913. The mortality in Russia
was in 81; in England, in As annually
The area of the Russian empire was estimated
at 100000 square miles, or IS times the ex-
tent of Great Britain. The mortality was least
in the north and northwest provinces, and great
est ip the southern in the latter, the mortality
was five times greater than in the former.
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SOUTHERN HIsroRY.-A correspondent Of the
Sumter Banner states that the object of the visit
which Mr.. Bancroft is making to the South, is
to gather historical information the writer says,
to get information as to the Revolutionary His.