Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14

were anxious TO set up q rival against
the intriguers of thePalais Royal, but
they found tie Count impracticable
He had quarreled with the dynasty II
1852, had set himself up as a Red Re
publican candidate for the election al
Saint Denis, where he resides, and
limited in his profession de foiat the pos
sibility of being named as President. o.
the Republic.
Of course, at this pretension the EN-
bryo Emperor expressed himself thor.
oughly Disguised, and, declining all
further communication with his degen
crate cousin, left him to the obscure
fate for which it is but too apparent he
was intended The Count, turned mis-
anthrope, lives in a village on the banks
of the Canal de'Oureg, near st. Denis,
in a mud hut, like dethroned monarch
OF the olden time. The gentlemen who
waited on him to make propositions on
the part of the cabal at the Tuitleries
on the occasion above alluded to, ex-
press themselves SO greatly shocked at
the restitution visible in the household
arrangements of Napoleon's son; but
their condolences were received with
defiance by the Imperial Timon, and
they were hidden to wait until the host
had finished frying the fish for his break
fast in such very gruff terms that they
scarce had courage enough to fulfill
their mission.
Perhaps Count Leon lad been waiting
all these years for this one delicious
moment, for it is certain that when the
gentlemen unfolded the errand with
which they were charged, he started
forth into burst of such rude elo-
quence, so completely in accordance
with the wild scene, the low rooted
peasants hut, the stagnant waters, the
denuded state of the whole building,
that they rushed from the place, not in
fear of the gridiron with which the host
pursued them to the gate, but in the
actual dismay at the sight of all the
passion so long pent up in the mans
bosom, and which found it's vent on this
occasion. Nevertheless, Count Leon is
the Emperor's cousin. His mother was
friendly with Queen Hortense, and
much of their gay youth was spent to-
gether. Overtures have been made to
assume the charge of the children, of
whom no less than five figure in the in
vitations to the funeral of their grand
mother, the Countess de Luxembourg.
But the refusal has always been more
sharp and peremptory than even that re-
turned to the offers of assistance for
81 am a proletdire, and so
shall my children remain is all the
answer obtained from the obstinate mis-
anthrope; and he feeds the family by the
result of his shooting and fishing, while
his wife cooks, washes, makes and mends
in order to keep the children decent
enough to attend school. Count leon
has been regarded as one of the great
thorns in the Enperor's side. His
authenticated birth might have rendered
him invaluable as an ally against the
enemy always supposed to be lying in
wait at the Palais Royal, to pounce upon
a better lodging at the Tuilleries. But
Timon's grim reception of the idea has
put it to fight, all the more
that the peasants and country folks
who remain about st. Denis are not
averse to the possibility of their com
rade and fellow laborer, Count Leon,
becoming one day President of the
French Republic after all.