The Nevada Democrat., 1858-08-18
Louis Napoleon and Louis Philippe.

Forneys Press closes an article upon Louis
Napoleon, with the relation of a circumstance
which, it says, illustrates the personal character
of Louis Philippe. and throws light upon the
conduct of Louis Napoleon, in connection with
the much condemned eonfscation of the Orleans
property, one of the first acts of actual sover
eighty performed 10y Louis Napoleon, after the
coup d etat of December, 1851. We relate it on
the personal authority of Louis Napoleon, who,
when stating the circumstance. expressed his
regret that il was not publicly known:
While the great Napoleon reigned, be was
not only liberal, but profuse. in his allowances
to the different members of the family. At st.
Helena, he told 0'Meara that bis relations had
all taken good care OF themselves, which was
indeed the truth. Madame Mere died immense
y rich, and all her children were in good cir
cumstances. When Louis Napoleon went to
Boulogne, with MonthoIon, the tame eagle,
and an army not much larger than is seen upon
the theatrical stage) be had converted most of
his property into cash, and, besides a large
supply of gold, had the sum of e250, 600, equal
to 81, $50 900 of our money, i'll bis pocket-book.
When he was taken prisoner. as he was swim
ming back to the city of Edinburgh steamboat.
which took him to Bouloguc, this money, ia
notes of the Bank of France, was in his pocket.
In custody he was subjected to the usual search,
and each article found upon his person was
taken from him. sealed mp, aud transmitted TO
the authorities at Paris. According to custom
receipt for these various articles was given
to tue prisoner. This receipt named his pocket
book but took no nOice Of its valuable con-
tents In the agitation of the scene, Louis Ma
poeon did not observe this omission. He saw
the whole packet carefully tied np scaled and
addressed personally to Louis Philippe, accor-
ding to specific Instructions from Paris. He
never had the slightest doubt that Louis Phil
Eupa raoaivad the nacxpf N addrpggpd
After his conviction by the Chamber Of Peers.
and condemnation to perpetual imprisonment
in the fortress of Ham, the various articles Ia
ken from Louis Napoleon were given back to
him-pocket-book included. But the contents
had disappeared. ....
| 1t was Louis NapoIeon's belief, when he re-
lated this incident. that Louis Philippe had
tbievishly appropriated to his own use the pc
cuniary contents Of the pocket-book A mon
arch who was so mean in money matters as
Louis Philippe notorously was, could not re.
sist the temptation of sacking 6,250.0o0 francs
belonging to prisoner for life. 1t was the re-
membrance of this that made Louis Napoleon
confscate the Orleans property.
w.LYAxcEY, oY ALABAMA.-Ths gentleman
in letter dated at Montgomery, Alabama,
June 18th, says to a friend:
Il hardly agree with you, that general
movement can be made that will clean out the
Augean stable. If the Democracy were over
thrown, it would result in giving place to
greater and hungrier set of flies.
The remedy of the South is not in such
process. 1t is 10 a diligent organization of her
true men, for prompt resistance to the next az
gresson 1t must come in the nature of things
No national party can save us; no sectional
party can do it. Bot if we do as our fathers
did, organize committees of safety all over the
cotton States (and it is only in them that we can
hope for any effective mOveDent) we shall IRE
the Southern heart-iustruct the Southern mind
give courage to each other. and at the proper
moment, by one organized concerted action,
we can precipitate the cotton States into
revolution"
The Louisville (Ky.) Jonrnal, in reply says:
"Mr. Yancey is morally traitor TO the Union.
True bis treason, thus far, is such that he can
not legally be hung for il, but it is such that he
deserves hanging for it.
Mr. Yancey would have all the people Of the
South organized to dissolve the Union at once
upon the occasion of tho next Northern aggres-
sion. There is no knowing or even guessing
what be and such as he would be likely to con-
slider the next aggression. They thought it a
terrible aggression that Messrs. Crittenden Bell,
| Dodglas, Marshall and others, opposed the i'm
position of the Lecompton Constitution upon
the people of Kansas in defiance of the known
will of four-ffths of them, and undoubtedly they
| will in less than two years, consider all those
Northern people guilty of monstrous aggres-
sion who shall oppose the seizure of Cuba and
Mexico or demonstrate against the re-establish-
| ment Of the slave trade