The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-28
z The ESnscH ,isxaoR. -rLou Napo-
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= The ESstScH EslrxaoR. Louis Napo-
a4a,ii aaction puzsles the London, Times
II, say4 th FfHiSg gerersSEhe Ed
;cr has regaihek his iSalth .his idler
nsse u not only pefplexint butt may lead
nest serious lsulle, Ach aa the5 5re-
asyAi milling of the iegisiasive-botdy With
outsh se0untenance. The policy of the
third NAPOLEON has ever been Q tortuous
one, and he has we'll earned his right to
the designation of the modern Sphynx.
But then he has been very sick OF late,
and there is much virtue in the II EN-.
ployed by the Times. His usurping
Highness may be too ill to do anything,
and hence his puzzling inactivity in i'm
portant matters of state. In this con-
viction, London correspondent of the
Philadelphia Enquirer writes, under date
of the 11th: ftU
"That an important crisis il impend-
ing in France seems no longer doubtful
Where there is so much smoke there
must be some fire. When O universal
uneasiness and anxiety exists concerning
the health of the Emperor, and the
slightest rumor respecting his physical
condition shakes the Bourse to it's GEN.
tire, it is quite clear that the fate of
France hangs upon bis individual exist
ence. 1t must not be forgotten that the
Emperor is an old man-not so much,
perhaps, in actual years as from the
effects of his former dissipated habits
and that for some time he has given I'M
mistakable evidence that his mental as
we'll as physical powers were fast waning.
In spite of the severity of the Imperial
laws, there has for some time existed q
strong party violently and openly hostile
to him and his dynasty, and that party
is steadily gaining strength. The EN-
press, in spite of all she has so ostenta-
tiously done in the way of apparent phi
lanthropy and charity, is personally un-
popular, and her excessive religious
bigotry and intolerance are repulsive to
the liberal sentiments gradually making
their way in France. Towards the
Prince Imperial there appears to be no
feeling of attachment or respect, and the
French people are not just now in the
temper to tolerate us their supreme head
either woman, whose conscience is
wholly in the keeping of her priests, or
q mere child, about even whose origin
there has always existed very grave
doubts. According to the last accounts,
the Emperor's medical attendants have
determined that he must pass the coming
winter in another climate, possibly in
the extreme South Of France, but more
probably in Algeria or Egypt. If the
necessity of the case demands this, the
Emperor's case is indeed critical. for his
personal presence in Paris alene keeps
Paris md France in anything like quiet
and subjection. He away, with the EN-
press as Regent, though it has answered
once by reason Of its novelty, the coun-
try will be pretty much ut the mercy of
the disaffected party, and crisis may be
precipitated at any moment. I doubt,
myself, whether Prince Napoleon, with
all his apparent liberal and even Demo
cratic proclivities, would be acceptable
even rs Regent to the mass of the French
people. I do not think that the name of
Bonaparte is so popular as it once was,
but rather that increasing intelligence
has led the masses of the nation to re-
gard the first Napoleon more or less as
IN usurper, and that the third will be
the last of his name who will ever reign
in France"
TESTIMONY FOR THE SoUTH.-Mrs. II.
Waddinger, lady of high social posi-
ton and much intelligence, from Hano-
YER Germany has recently made tonr