The Shasta courier., 1862-09-06

~~@<ss ASS~Sss's
4 bea, al and oueenly princess of nineteen,
left ths balaces Of her father in Vienna, sur
- -. khy all the pomp the Austrian mon
n confer, to meet Napoleon. her
oests > tn sband. then forty-two years Of
AagS. IL long train of carriages left vi
e,.n2 people gazed u>ournfully upon the
ls< L. arie Antoinette, the last princess
tc-;i. -lE.d furnished for the throne Of
i Francs but a few years before had persisted
miser ai}y upon the scaffold. The gorgeous
proce. sion proceeded rapidly towards the
| froutiers of France. Napoleon had never
yet seer his bride. When the princess reach
ed the- Rhine, her Austrian attendants left
her, and she was received by very bril-
liant french escort, who conducted her, in
the greatest splendor to Paris. The bells
| rang their merriest peals of congratulation.
The Austrian and French flags foated from
every bower in friendly embrace. Trium-
phal arehes, Examinations and professions
greeted her progress, while often the path
over which she passed was but a bed of roses.
Napoleon met her near Compeigne. Spring
ing firm his own carriage, he leaped into
that of the empress and folded her in his
arms. The postillions were ordered to drive
on the gallop to the palace of Compeigne.-
The marriage ceremony. which had been
performed ny proxy ~ iehua. WAS aSaiil
celebrated at St. Cloud, with reioicings nev-
er before equalled in Paris. The youthful
bride then took possession of those apart
mentsin the Tuilleries from which Josephine,
but three months before, had been so cruelty
| eiecteS. Four queens held her bridal train,
and az the ambassadors of Europe revolv.
ed in homage around her.
In 4one year from this time she gave birth
1 Vt,a nt,.. ~ tod hx,
France with the intensest interest. 1t was
announced that the cannon of the Invalids
should announce the birth of the heir II
the child were princess, twenty-one guns
were to be fred ); if prince, one hundred.
| At six o'clock on the morning OF the 10th OF
MarcI 1911, all Paris was aroused by the
boomi<g of the guns, announcing the arri-
val Cd le welcome stranger Every window
was Immediately thrown open, every ear on
the al,et Sleepers were reused from their
pillow and ali the throngs in the streets
stooi notionless to count the explosions
Tho feart of the great metropolis ceased to
heat. i in all her glowing veins the cur
i fers s.ie s-oed still.
| When the twenty first gun had beeo fired
the interest was intense beyond all concep-
ton. The gunners delayed for moment the
next discharge, and all Paris stood breath
| less in suspense. The next moment the guns,
double loaded peaied forth the most welcome
! announcement, and from the entire city one
universal roar of acclamation rose and blend
ed with their thunders Never was an earth
ly monarch greeted with q more affecting
demonstration of a nations love and graft.
| tude
When Napoleon entered upon his disastrous
| campaign to Russia, he was accom- mpanied
rs far as Dresden by Marie Lousia. At Dres-
den there was literally congress of kings.
Marie Lousia was there surrounded with
more of splende- and homage than any wo-
man probably ever received before. Napo-
! leon appointed her regent of France during
his absence. She returned to Paris, and he,
at the head of five hundred thousand troops
urged forward tine campaign in which Le
lost his army and his crown. Marie had
heard rumors of the destruction of the army,
and one night, just after she had retired to
rest in the deepest detection, the voices Of
two men were heard in the ante chamber,
and cry of astonishment from one of the
maids of honor announced that something
extraordinary had occurred. The Empress
in terror leaped from her bed, when the door
was burst opc7, and she was seized and en-
folded in the embrace of u man enveloped
in his wintry riding dress. Itwas Napoleon.
Their interview was tender and affecting.
Soon he again took leave of Marie Lousia,
for his last despairing campaign, before his
abdicatior. 1t was Sabbath evening. Ma
poleon met his cabinet in the Tuilieres A
religious ceremony was connected with the
| interview. As the Emperor took their beau
tiful boy, then three years Of age, in his
arms, and presented him, with touching
address. to his officers, many wept with emo
ton. The clock on the tower of Notre
Dame was tolling three in the morning when
Napoleon rode through the dark streets of
Paris to join the army. He never saw wife
or cnilf again.
The e1,egions of the invaders came rolling
on in ! resistless inundation towards Paris.
1t wa4 indeed a gloomy hour when Marie
Lousia, with her son, descended the stair.
of the Tuileries to escape from Paris. In
the distance could be heard the thunders OF
the approaching battle. The young Napo-
leon cluns screaming to the tapestry, refus-
| ing to be torn from the palace OF his father
Pale and sad. the empress entered her car
riage, and passed out of the gates of the city,
the crowd gazing upon the scene in melan-
choly silence. Her situation during this
contest was peculiar. The armies of Austria
| and France were arrayed against each other.
| Her father and husband had crossed swords
As Napoleon, dethroned, took his solitary
way to Elba. Marie Lousia, captive, was
placed, with her son, in a carriage. to be con-
veyed back to the palaces of her father. Ii
must have been to her an hour of extreme
anguish. From the pinnacle of earthly
splend,r she had been suddenly plunged in
to the abyss of comparative obscurity and
dependence. She was not woman of sufi-
cient grandeur of soul gracefully to NEE,
such reverses. Solicitude respecting her fu-
ture lot-the degree of wealth and power
she might be permitted to retain-seemed t.
engross az her thoughts. Alone and un-
greeted she retraced the route she had four
years before traversed bride and a queen.
welcomed by the acclamatiens of millions Of
voices.
Having arrived in Austria, she took up
her residence at the magnificent palace Of
Schoenburn, a few miles from Vienna
Here the combined despote Of Europe. with