The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-01
The Imperial Family.


The Paris correspondent Of the New
York Herald, who recently was blessed
with a sight Of the imperial family Of
France, described them as follows. First
came the
Prince Imperial-NapoleoD Eugene
Louis Jean Joseph--the youngster who,
If nothing happens, will some day as
cond the imperial throne Of France. -
lie was standing up, as he almost al,
ways is when riding, and looking out
of the carriage window, apparently in
high gIee at seeing such a throng Of
carriages and people. He is pretty
little blue-eyed boy, and will be four
years old on the 10th Of March. His
g0uUernante and nurse always ride with
him. He is said to be a very bright
boy, and already able TO converse quite
auently in English and Spanish. His
mother, it is said, ia her hours of family
retirement, often addresses him in her
native Castilian, while the Emperor de.
lights to talk English with him. His
gouUerHante, of course, drills him in
French, so that the acquisition Of the
three languages is no very difficult task
for him.
Driving q pair Of splendid bays at
tached TO a box wagon, with the rcins
in his own hands, and handling them
as though he was accustomed to it.
without any outridcrs, equerries or
guards, the Emperor Napoleon came
along the avenue He was dressed in
black Overcoat and a hat which was
Of a fashion Of its own. The points of
his mustache looked particularly sharp,
and his "imperia" as though it had
just come from the barber's. 1t requir-
ed a steady hand aud quick eve to
guide those dashing horses through the
immense throug Of vehicles Of every
description which filed the avenue,
particularly as the driver, while keep.
ing one eye upon the steeds, was oblig-
ed with the other to acknowledge the
salutatiOns which he received on every
side, aud he kept up a continual bow
ing. l consider myself a tolerably good
democrat, but 1 took my hat entirely
from my head as he passed. A great
man is he-he has been successful. and
cant as pseudo philosophers may about
it, success is the true measure Of great
men, after all. The Emperor gives as
yet no signs of age, Che will be ffty-
two on the goth Of April next,) but
looks as fresh and young, think. as
when | saw him five years ago, before
he had the whole weight of Europe on
his shoulders, and the Pope down on
him"
A short distance behind him came
the Empress in an open carriage, with
outriders. She was dressed very plain
ly, but with scrupulous neutness, bow
ing TO everybody, and moving her lips
to the form Of what seemed to me Bon
jour." She has faded very much with
in even the last year, and there is no
doubt that the perplexing condition of
European affairs has affected her phys-
ically, even more than it has the En-
peror She will be thirty four on the
5th Of May next, and it is one of the
on dts that she is in the same interest.
ing condition, which four years ago, led
her to hide her increasing figure beneath
mass Of crinoline. She is good and
kind.hearted. A few days since she
sent a nice, newly invented bed and
mattrass, intended for invalids, to an
officer who was wounded at Solferino,
with her personal hopes and wishes for
his speedy recovery.