The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-26

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"Reminiscences ~ the Emperor I'm
America.
rqas Habats and Eaanls In H0b0kcn.
From the New York worId.l
A few years ago it was announced
through the newspapers that present
of q golden chalice had been sent by
Napoleon III,-the Emperor of the
French-to the Rev. Mr.. Cauvin, Of
Hobokep.. Many no doubt care but lit
tie to inquire the motive of this freak
of neutrality-suspicious. of gratitude
It should be called. The ruler of France
no doubt has many faults, but lack o.
gratitude, since he has obtained means
Of showing it, cannot be fairly imputed
to him. Since rising to his present
dazzling position he has never been un'
mindful OF benefits receive lin the houl
Of Aflvensity, and of this the above
mentioned present is an instance. II
was sent to the good father In return
for kindnesses and hospitality received
at his hands in the swamp town of Ho-
boken, and when Napoleon III. was
wanderer i'm America, poor and COM
paratiyely friendless, not knowing Of
ten were to get bed or breakfast, In
the unhappy days of his youth, long
before the coup dc'etdt, when he was
Main louis n. Bonaparte. The good
EefhoIic priest of Hoboken can even
now. in his declining years, be made to
Iiuht mn and sparkle into something OF
the bygone French yiyacity of his
vouti, when the name Of Napoleon Ill.
Il mentioned. He has many anecdotes
Of the modest and somewhat taciturn
young man-even then 50 fond OF
smokfng-whom he received often at
his house, and who often set ut his
board and drank q bottle of his modest
claret. before imported wines reached
the exorbitant figure they have to-day.
The writer has often seen the French
Emperor riding on horseback with his
Guard, in an open barouche with the
Empress, or sauntering apparently
alone in the gardens of the Tuileries.
49, CONTRAST.
What contrast the bile-cOlored, to-
bacco-stricken, paid cOuntenance o
fine ruler of 20, with the reins of an
empire in his hands, and that small
pray. passlonless eye, that never
cleaned or frightened, and seemed ca,
pable of but one expression, and that
as if it was never looking at anything
near, but straining and peering at some
thing in the distance-thes heavy, long
nose-the heavy:jawed, sensuous, but
clever mouth-the square, rather low
forehead-the long body-big, laborer's
hands-the stumpy, bowed legs and
small feet-the square set OF the shoul-
ders, to which a short, thick neck at
taches head covered with auburn hair
what q contrast to the young man
who spent SO many years of mis- life a
wanderer and an outcast i'm America.
And vet the man has changed bat lit
tie in reality since he assembled the
throne: and, instead of speaking OF
contrasts, we perhaps could note more
marks of similarity between Napoleon
III. of the Tuileries and Louis n. Bo-
napart of Ho5oken. a-
,ft SKETCH OF THE YOUTH.
He was then as now taciturn with
strangers to an embarrassing degree,
but with any with wi nm. me was init
mate, and whose confidence he relied
on, he was as free of speech as man
need be. He was never even then with
out his cigar or cigarette, and was
fond of smoking on the streets or in a
ramble on the Bergen Heights. He was
never weary of admiring the view OF
the Hudson, Staten Island, Long Is
land and the Bay, that was to be OBJ
tanned from Q spot here and there. One
: of the greatest privations of his royal
or imperial state Is that which compeis
him on SO many occasions during the
day to forego his cigar. OF his own
viii, it would never be out oil his
mouth. 49,. ars-s e. ,1fi.a7s
5- HIS RESIDENCE IN HoBoKEN.
He lived i'm Hoboken at time when
Hoboken had not attained its present
dimensions and did not even seem like
ly to rise at any time from its quiet
ducklTke rest on the sea shore, to ex-
pand It's wings over the swamps of the
hill beyond-when, in fact, it was a
mere village and nothing more. His
abode MAS for many years on Bloom.
field street-or what Is now bloomfield
street--in quarters of no pretensions
to aristocracy or even gentility. His
room was on the attic of a large frame
building, the first basement and first
floor of which were occupied by stores,
and the intervening stories by mechan-
les boarding and lodging.
The room looked to the east. There
were no decorations on the wall but
such as the plain boards afforded, ana
no furniture except a small iron bed
stead, three chairs-two small ones and
q kind of armchair, i'm which be sat
when he wrote.
HIS WARDROBE
was of the scantiest material, and some
times he presented as sorry specimen
of seedy gentility as you need look at,
i'm q WORKOUT and thread-bare coat.
How he succeeded i'm appeasing the
wants of the inner man was n,yste-
nv that soon attained solution in the
neighborhood when he, was seen under
cover OF the night to steal out and buy
some loaves OF bread at the adjoining
bakers.
WINE AND TOBACCO.
He always managed-how, few could
tell-to have a good bottle of wine in
his room and never to be out of tobac-
co. All! this inveterate smoker
nephew of his uncle-in this respect,
too, how different from the man who
drew the smoke of the Persian Embas-
sador's chibouk into his stomach and
was laid up for q week in consequence
of that solitary attempt smoking.
b. ~ IRE A FAvoRITE HAUNT.
He was the very best customer of a
little Alsatin Frenchman named Sam
glot, who kept tobacco store opposite
him, and many discussion took place
between them. Napoleon, who Is, per-
hans, i'm temperament the least of a
Frepchman Of all men to-day living,
SEEMED to take huge delight in drawing
out his excitable neighbor ON topics
that were likely to excite him.
II was amusing to see even then the
quiet mastery with which the young
controller of men, because controller of
himself preserved his empire in dis
cussion with lis white-headed but
highly-irrascible opponent. or all
things under the sun nj. Sangiot
loved the exiled Bourbon family, and
though he could not hate tine Little
CORPORAL who had done SO much for
France, vet he found much difficulty in
reconciiing his love for the Bourbons
with the hero of Lodi and the conque-
ror of Austerlitz. 1000 80
$ And the contradiction in which he
involved himself so unwittingly gave
intense amusement to the quiet young
man, who puffed away ut his cigar
with scarcely change ON his counte-
nance, if we except a CLEAN of laugh
ter lighting up the small, expression
less eyes. His favorite lounge of an eve
ming for long time was into the Asa
fianfs fol,acco -sfore where he would