New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-06
Probabilities that Napoleon will be Rein
stated.
Aletter in the New York Post saws:

"A II II
The probability of Napoleon returning to
France and being reinstated on the throne
grows stronger daily. The German press
look with suspicion upon imperial honors
still being paid to the prisoner at Wilhelms-
hohe The Prussian official Stats An=eiger
announces that it is true that Napoleon
sought death in the fighting on the first Of
September, and fOunght on foot from eight
o'clock in the morning until three in the
afternoons; and we all know that nothing
can gain the sympathy of the world for an
expiring man like bravery shown. The
feeling cf hate once shown in Germany
against Napoleon has turned to pity, and in
many cases to amusement.
The rumOrs currently reported and be-
lieved by the people are to the effect that
Napoleon will only remain at WilhelmshOhe
until the German army shall have entered
Paris; that then he will return thither, and.
according as circumstances permit, either
seize the reins of government himself, or
abdicate in favor OF his son. Only when
the whole government machinery is fairly
in working order will peace be concluded.
Prussia will not, these reports say, recog-
nize the Republic. and SO far the latter's ad-
dresses have fallen cold upon Germany.
The King of Prussia, it is said, still acknowl-
edges the legality OF the plebiscite, by virtue
of which, the voice of the people, Napoleon
is still Emperor OF the French.
Nothing else can explain the honOrs paid
to Napoleon on his journey to Wilhelms-
hohe He was received at Cassel by com
pauy of soldiers. who presented arms just
as to royalty, the drums beating. The same
honors were paid to him on arriving at the
castle. where the Queen of Prussia had al
ready sent down some of her own servants.
The civil authorities of CaSsel met and were
presented to him in the usual manner of
royalty. He brought with him a large
retinue of lackeys and servants, and no less
than fourteen carriages and eishiy-hve
horses Some forty of the latter.
however. have since been sold for
ready cash, a material of which
Napoleon does not appear to have
much about him. since it Is said that the
Brussian General BOyen. who accompanied
him. had to lend him ten thousand francs on
the way from Sedan to Cassel. His residence
at WIlhelmshohe which is one of the most
beautiful palatial residences in Germany,
appears to be very agreea bie, and he has ex-
pressed his admiration of the little para
disc in which he has been placed. If Erl-
genie and Lulu were with him he would, in
all probability. consider himself in an Eden.
Paul Lndau describes, in Vienna paper.
the fallen EmperOrs present appearance as
an cold decaying man, spare. gray hair,
which lay on the crown as if rumped By
despair. The curl before his ears had dis
appeared. and the historical moustache.
with the impudent wax ends, hung loosely
down over the corners of the mouth. Hair
and beard were ever the only things which
gave character to Napolcon'S face; they
gave him. in their best condition, certain
fullness of expression. And now they are
wild Think for a moment of "a we'll
known beauty whom you find again as a re-
duced watering place coquette.
"A similar feeling Overcamc me, only
somewhat more tragical. NapolCon's physi-
ognomy is either capable of suppressing the
expression of every feeling, or, what is more
probable, it is no longer capable of the ex-
preston of feeling. Not a line of his face
was altered as he returned the military
greeting. He looked vacantly, now to the
right and now to the left; what or whom he
saw could not be said. His face remained
leaden and stiff, as if every human feeling
had long left his soul. 1t bore an express
sion of the greatest apathy. almost to terror.
1t produced an icy cold in me. He thanked
the few who met him mechanically, auto
matically; his movements were rs liteless as
the muscles of his face This picture re-
fers to the day after his arrival at Wilhelms-
hohe.
The same writer mentions conversation
which he had with one of the French
officials connected with the palace. And
how" asked Lindau, "dO you think this
war will end! Do you think that the En-
peror will ever see Paris again :" The
answer was: "f we had not believed this
the Emperor would certainly never have
surrendered The Republicans will get the
benefit of the Prussian bombs, it they
create any disturbance. Prussia will bring
about order if it is disturbed, and take care
that she concludes peace with 4 properly
organized government. When we give
Prussia Alsace and Lorraine, she can at
least give us back our Emperor
This must be taken, however, only as the
saying of n French imperial official Never
theless it is the view very generally ac-
cepted in Germany, and with variety of
feeling. l think, however, that a feeling OF
dissatisfaction would be manifested through
out Germany should the Napoleonic dynasty
be reinstated, and the very man who com
menced the war be placed upon his lost
throne by Prussia. Count Bismarck, III his
report to the King of his surrender at Sedan,
published in the Studts An-eigcr, says in one
place: ''The Emperor complained of the
misfortunes of the war, and declared that
he did not wish for war himself, but that
he was driven to it by the pressure of pub
lie opinion in France If this be so, says a
German paper. then the Emperor should
,nt ha 10 cartnd in his rniSfortuueS