The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-03-24

and Eas Casas,n two recent pub
locations containing anecdotes Of
Nspoieon.) eaid he, a have done
more for him than all his victories.
But, for Q man like Bonaparte, af.
ter slanghtering millions of the
human race, to sit down and de-
liberately, thank God that he had
never committed q crime shows
that the man had no kind Of moral
principle sor feeling. That man,
sir, thought,of nobody in the world
but himself" 80 S,..,.s...s
J He conducted US into another
apartment, and showed hus come
more paintings and busts. Seve-
ral of them were Scripture sub
jccts, sucfs as tie, sacrificing of
Japthahs daughter,s Peter weeping
at tile growing of the cock, DC. :
He told MS Of d Dutch piece, rep.
resenting tiie sacrifice Of Isaac
!" he, the, painter, has placed q
gun in Abrams hand; he Is ta.
king aim at his son, and an angel
overhead is y pouring wa.
ter in the pan Z Of the ire-lock." =
i begged, TO look at his library.
He said Ii was not worth seeing,
but led us into ut, IL did not ap'
pear large. rAsI told him / nm
derstood he had some rare editiont
of the classics, he showed meithem
/ saw there all the great author.
of, antiquity. He has had many
Of them bonnd up with Itransla
tions. Whist he seemed to thinl
one of the greatest scariosities
among them was an edition u
Plutarch, with annotations in mod
ern Greek "The character, >
said he, "is the came with the an.
cielt Greek" He opened il and
read some. Of the notes. He seem
ed to read Greek with facility
"Have you read many Of these
ancients2" i inquired. "Y Q Q
lnost of them" He pronounced
the Greek dipthong ot., 90. III.
spoke in the highest terms OF tn,
merits Of q Universal History, OF
Une of the shelves. 1t was thu
Ancient Universal History, com
piled by company Of gentlemen
in England, in a. dozen u or NOR,
octavos.. siIt is,n said he, !" q
, impartial, and gives you origina
authorities for. every thing---is o,
well furnished with maps aud ev
cry kind ofhelp." He has Heypei
Homer's Virgil. '.sI,. 81,
We then bid him good morning
He asked MS to stay to dinner, ano
told me il i stayed any time in th,
neighborhood, he would be happ,
To see me. aSI y. s,u..a.-s SECS. g.
| . As we passed out, We remarked
the bust of Voltaire on one side o
the door. He looks like a scorner
The face is very expressive. ]
has q kind of smile on il and al
inquisitive, satirical expression
On the other side of the door is
bust of Volney, and near at han,
one Of Mr.. Jefferson himself. Wa
il accident or design that place
him in snch company 2 y y =
Mr.. Hatch remarked, as we wer
looking at Voltaire, that some on
had said, the reason of Voltair
bore abont the same resemb!anc
to sound reason as the figure Of
monkey did to, that Of a man, 70
when yon looked on the monkey
you knew that his head was full {
mischief and his heart incapabl
of one good thing. Mr.. j. lang.
ed. He told ne Of the manner
which Houdon, the famous sculJ
tor, took Gen Washing.on's statu
and his own bust. I" We sent hil
down to Mount We non-=he mad
the General lie fat on his bacl
and then SINE red the moist pla
ter OF Paris over his face Ho,
don was very unwilling to tab
Washington just as he was. . II
wanted 10 make the statne colo
sal, and put il in Roman costnm
But / was determined that b
should take him just as he was.-
I was determined we should hav,
at least, one exact image of Il
man, as he stood before as in dali
life. This is the statue whic
stands in the capitol at Richmon
(and o copy of which, in bronz
has been placed In the Capt.,
Square at ttaleigh) When j wei
70 him to have my bast taken, }
} stripped me bare down to Il
shoulders then his wife, o bea
tiful little woman. took oil Of a