Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1859-08-12

The Cincinnati Enquirer thus discourses Of
Ex-ning Jerome Bonaparte and his family:
Il has seldom fallen to the loi Of any hu-
man beng 10 witness such remarkable vicissi-
tudo of fortune, affecting himself aud family !,
as has been witnessed by Ex king Jerome Bo-
Dararte. The dreams of romance have been
exeelled by the actual realities Of life. He is
The only Surviving brother Of tie iiustrious
Napoleon, aud was born 10 l7S4. So long
has the latter been historical character, that,
al FIRST il appears almost impossible that the
great coDGaeror, who, after running the most
remarkable career of twenty Years that the
world ever saw, terminated il by lis death
nearly forty years ago, upon the rock of ST..
Heleua, shonld have brother now occupying
high position in the French government
OF all his family, be alone is permitted to
witness both their remarkable rise in ptosperi-
ty aud fortune, and their subsequent .,.:emer-
dous downfall, and their equally wonderful re-
turn to the heige. Of power and influence. -
iiis recollection goes back to the time when
the family Of Bonaparte was not known te-
yond the range OF few friends and acqusint.
| ances, and when its members in private life,
were compelled to struggle in obscurty With
penury aud mislnrtunc. He can recollest his
inorher, widow wi'b lafgs family Of chil-
dren on her hands, aud HheE it required a stern
| eoItiict to obtain for them the uecessary ueau us
! OF subsistence. lie vas in early manhood
wheu the genius of his brother FIRST burst upon
the world, and opened TO bis relatives visions
OF power aad spiendor that never, in the Wild
est flights OF Imagination, had they nreyiously
entertained. He saw his brothers ana siste,,
placed, BY the magic wand cf NapoIe3D. upor
nearly all the thrones of EUROPE, aud Geeked
with diamonds anG corouets,
cor the first time in tbe history of Europe
vas the extraordinary spectacle observed OF a.
| family Of private citizens parcellIng thrones
aud cfo%ns among themselves as if they hal
been the nerest baubles. jerome was thirty
enc years old when tue dark clouds os misfor
tune and disaster gathered black aud heavy
over the fortunes of his family, aud when the
| storm cslGe that swept them from their height
| OF grandeur and glory into the depth of humli-
iatIon and debasement. lie saw the star ef
the Bouaparte destiay, 30 often 8pestrophized
by Napoleon, sink beneath the clouds, appar-
eutlg never 10 fise again. For nearly tori5
years tie biackness Of light enyeloped It,
Not one Of the original family saw lhis nigh,
10 close, save jerome; as, before il again
emerged tfoin the political horizon they were
all deceased. jerome has tad the remar ka Die
felicity 10 see the fortunes of his family re-es-
tabished under new Napoleonic dynasty.
One of the chiefs of the CID empire, he holds
a similar position in the new He directs the
counselS OF the Regent Empress Eugene, as
ae had previously Gone those of Maria-Leuisa
a great historical monument of the past is this
old King Jerome, who personally mas witness
ed the most remarkable family history the
world has ever beheld. Ii is not yet finisied.
lie has not YET attained the most extreme old
age, aud it is possible that he luay see events
affecting his family quite as startling and re-
uiarkable as those which have hitherto charac-
terized its remarkable career.