Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-04-04

time. comprehended the joke, and such a
scoldlng never got before, and, Il hope
never to get again. ~
know not what the end may have
been il John;in his endeavor to appea,
respectful and sympathetic, had not given
way to such groan and horse laughter
that all gravity was upset, and wescream'
ed out in concert.
knew it was very wrong. and all that
to tell such falsehood, but think Mrs
Opie herself would have laughed If she
had have seen Aunt Mary's expression
when she was informed that her hearing
was defective.
rhe European NJ Metaphistopheies3s
Translated for the Tribune from Bell
isle Zeitung.
OF no historical character of modern
times have such various opinions been ex>
pressed and such manifold comparisons
been made as of the man who has run the
long and terrible gauntlet from poverty
to the Tuilleries. When NJ. de Cesana,
the editor of La Partrie, exclaimed on the
Coup d. Etat of 1851 caesar may sleep
for Augustus holds with strong hand the
reign of his empire" he threw out com.
parison which the people quickly took up.
and which. indeed. is not without founda>
ton. Like that of Augustus. who took his
popularity on credit from his uncle, the
majesty Of the little Napoleon stands upon
another's glory. 1t is not his own desert;
it is borrowed splendor. And indeed,
in character certain similarity cannot
be denied to exist between Caesar and
Louis Napoleon. The sly, heartless, cold
calculating. intriguing Asustus. who sac
rifced his friends 10 prescription. who had
completely ruined himself by debaucheries
in his youth, and to whom every means
of attaining an end was acceptable. has
certainly, points of similarity with the
hero of the second of December. Not
until he was OLD, did Augustus become
clement. and in this respect Mr.. Napoleon
will probably carry out the plagiarism to
the end.
On the whole, in Louis Napoleon a
certain Mephistophelcan element cannot
be overlooked. His very appearance -
the dead, cold face, with the great NOUS
tache, which hides every smile, as did the
Duke of Alba's-this face, which is at
most. now and then moved by malicious
compression Of the lips. gives Mr.. Bona
parte right TO the name Of Mephistophe-
les, which he has earned by his conduct
towards his enemies aud his fiends-the
English aristocracy. A man who for
years, and years, has allowed himself to
be treated as moou-calf, as an inlbecie--
who during Cabinet Councils, draws fig
ures of horses and men on the documents,
and then after all carries out his own
villa man, who adopts any and every
means, even the most abhorrent, when it
leads him to his object-an actor. who
plays his part so thoroughly-may well
be represented as the principal evil.
When after the coupe II etate the so called
Parliamentary Generals were taken al
Ham. Mephistopheles Napoleon took care
that Bully Changarnier should be bolted
in the same cell that Louis Napoleon had
occupied years before. His marriage with
Senorita MontUo, his bitter remarks in
relation to the past connection Of French
Emperors with Princes and reignine
houses, the cold blooded revenge which
he took on the Orleans family, and, above
all, his conduct toward England show 6
purely Mephistophelean nature.
The aristocracy which would not en-
dure the Bankrupt loafer, Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte, in their parlor. are now toe
happy to swell the train Of the unfortunate
adventurer The virtuous Queen, whose
aristocratic tastes are known Throughout
all Europe, is compelled to submit to the
notorious rue, who wherever he lived ir
exile had the reputation Of being by nc
means fastedious in his associations
Surely there is grand retribution in the
late performances in which Louis Napo'
leon allowed the English arstocracy, nay
even the Q leen herself. to 6gure as deco
ratious. We will not now point out the
Mephistophelcan service which he has
done his dear allies in the CIimea by ex.
posing their military weakness, especially
the powcrlcssness of England. 1t mus
often appear as though he had the inten
ton Of reducing them to dependence. Ado
to that the cold blooded barbarity whicI
he ever maniEests towards all real repub'
| licans over whom he can in any way bring
his power to bear, and in Louis Napoleon
one cannot fail to recognize a European
Mephistopheles. Louis Napoleon is the
principle which. denying the past, sits
like mountain upon the freedom of Eu
rope. ..
We would wish Merhistophcles to tn,
devil, if he were not the devil himself
we will therefore merely wish that he may
soon return to his own home.
EARLY PorAToEs.-As soon as the fros
is out of the ground, and it can be plough
ed and put in first rate order. is the time
to put in early potatoes. The land mus
be ploughed, narrowed and rolled, unit
fine tilth be obtained. Cut the sets {