The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-09

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Death Of yerome Benaparte.
The intelligence received by the last arrival
from Europe annou noes the death of JEROME
BoxApARrR. the youngest and last brother OF
the Great NAPOLEON. He was. we believe.
the only one OF his family who lived to wit
ness the restoration Of the BoSArARTKs to
the soil Of France, aud the revival Of their for
tunes under the auspices Of NAPOLEON III
JEROME was born at jaccio, In Corsica. on
the 18th day OF December, i's4. He was edu-
Gated in Parts, at first under the direcuoh u
the famous Madame CANAAN, and afterwa'os
at Juiliv. When still a boy Of fourteen OF
fifteen. he entered the navy, and In ieui ~o"'
with The ex petition OF IAxcLERc 70 son
m,nSo As a I.ieutenant but was soon sent ofoA
;, rr.pce as bearer Of dispatches. On MS ar
-I.,.. .s .,pointed to the command of
sh,n destined to cruise in the west Ihoia wa
Tor. aud xxhen the war broke ont afresh, in
,aoa no lef, his station, went to New York,
and travelled extensively through the country.
IN thu oath December, of the same year, he
married Miss ELIZABETH PATTERSON, lady
of great beauty and accomplishments, daugh-
ter az a wealthy Baltimore merchant This
marriage was highly displeasing to NAro-
Iron. at that time First Consul, bat already
meditating the assumption OF the Imperial
title. Before JEROME returned to Europe, ma
poLroN rad already been declared Emperor,
and when he entered the Texel, at that time
under the dominion of France, with his
bride, she was not permitted to land
A decree of the Council Of State annuiied the
marriage but the Pope, who alone had any
mower in the premises, proved superior 10 All
tho Establishments of the great Emperor, and
refus ed positively to sanction the divorce
Madame BosAPARTEwentt to England, where,
in July, 1905, her son, the present JEROME Ma
poLgos BoNAPARTK, Of Baltimore, was porn,
As for JKRoM q hi nseif he returned to France,
where he was made, first, Captain, and after
wards. Admiral After the battle OF Trafal.
gar had ann Inflated the French Navy, he was
transferred to the land service, and, in 1907,
IN ade the campaign of Eylau and Friedland,
with the rank of General OF Division, and in
command of body of German troops of the
Confederation of the Rhine. After the cam
paign was over, his brother compelled him,
greatly against his inclination, TO marry
FREpRRICA CATHERINE, daughter Of the King
of Bavaria, august l2th) Six days after, the
Kingdom of Westphalia was formed out Of
slips of various German kingdoms, and
JEROME was proclaimed King of Chestphalia
by his all-powerful brother. His gov
erument so far as he was himself per-
sonally concerned, was popular among the
Germans He was careless and extrayapant
beyopd measure, but he was kind hearted and
good. natured TO a fault Had he been le,
alone in spite of the manner in which he
came to the throne, his subjects would have
been perfectly content to live under him. But
situated as he was, he was but the tool of his
brother. and the country was governed from
Paris. Consequently it was drawn into all
The projects of the Emperor, and called on to
furnish troops and money for his wars, with
which they ought to have had nothing to do
In 1912, JEROME commanded a body of West
phalian troops in the campaign of Russia
He behaved we'll during the greater part of the
campaign, and distinguished himself by his
courage on several occasions. But NAPOLEON
became dis satisfied with him for some neglect
which in terfered with an intended mannuvre.
and sent him back home before the campaign
had begun to assume the disastrous character
by which its termination was marked The
events of 1918 compelled JEROME to leave
Germany with his family. 1t has been
said that after the fatal battle of Leip-
sic, the Emperor, knowing the careless
ness of his character, and fearful that he
might fall into the hands of the Allies, who
were rapidly advancing upon his capital, sent
an officer to compel him to retire. The officer
arriving at night TO his surprise, saw the pal
ace illuminated, as if for festival, and upon
entering it. found the Court engaged in a game
of blind-man's-bluff, JEROME himself being
the blindfolded person. With great difficulty,
and only by presenting the positive orders of
the Emperor, he succeeded in forcing him
away. In 1914, he, with the other BONA
PARTEs, was compelled to leave France his
wife having been arrested on suspicion in
Paris. During the ensuing year, he divided
his time between several parts of Germany
and Italy, and was at Trieste when he
learned that NAPOLEON had landed from
Elba. He Immediately repaired to Paris,
where he was received with great affection
by the Emperor, and appointed to the com
mand of a division of the French army
He was engaged at Cigny, and at Waterloo his
division was one of the three which formed
the first line of the French left, the other two
being commanded by General BACHELU and
General FoY, the whole being under the or
ders of General REILLB. He behaved with
great bravery on the occasion, and for several
days after the rout it was supposed that he
had been killed. This report turned out not
to be true Equally false, we presume, is
story which we have seen in print, TO the eff
feet that when the last charge of the guard
under Marshal NEY was repulsed, he drew his
sword and told the Emperor that all the BONA
Parties ought to die on that field. The En-
peror, as is very well known, was at that mo-
ment at La Belle Alliance, near the centre of
the French army, while JEROME was with his
division half mile off TO the left ...- .
After the entire downfall of his family in
1915, JEROME wandered about Italy, Switzer-
land and Germany for several years, and at
last settled near Vienna, where he went under
the name of the Comte DE MoNTFoRT, a title
bestowed on him by the King of Wurtemburg.
He was recalled TO France in 1852, and upon
the ascension of NAPOLEON III. was made
President of the Senate, Marshal of the En-
pire, and, failing the issue of the present Empe-
Tor, heir to the Imperial Crown, according
to the settlement of the succession made by
NAPOLEON I. -
TERRIBLE WEATHER AT THE SoUrH.-In
s. G., on the 4th instant, the Their
stood at 102 degrees in the shade
Eight persons died of n-stroke, including
two mem bers of the German Fusiliers and two
members Of the German Artillery, who died
On parade. At Augusta, GA. the heat was
terrible, and there were six deaths from SUM-
stroke. Jesse B. Kent died from the heat
while on the cars going out Of the city In
Savannah. the thermometer was 90 degrees at
midnight. and five persons died from, thu no. +.