The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-09-22
French Royalty.


predecessor, helped to point the NOR
al. The accent deposition of Napo
leon LAND the vicissitudes ofhi
career, cali to mind some rhistorica
recOllectons, which, If not instruc
tive, in this age ofrepublicanism, ar,
at least interesting. French historl
is specially replete with the inisfor
tunes Of royalty. in112 n9s>s- '.7t !
Louis Philippe, the royal predeces
sor of Louis Napoleon, began b,
fleeing for his life from the republi
cans of'S9 and ended by fleeing be
fore The republicans of 4S. His ear
jly experience taught him to put n,
faith in the tender mercies of an ex
cited people, whose enthusiasm
might easily run into fanaticism.
Charles y, true Bourbon of tn
direct line, who had learned no gooi
nor forgotten any evil in the exil,
and adversely ofhis race, ordonnance
against the press and the advice O
the Polignaces brough the revolu
ton of 1920 and the three days o.
July upon Paris, and Charles Y wal
again an exile.is. srE --5r -- i-s
Napoleon, the man of destiny ani
favorite of fortune could only be hur.
led from his pride of place by the
combined power Of all the kings
He abdicafed once, broke faith, was
again Idepesed, md ended his career
at st. Observation-Disclosures bound tc
the rock, deyoured by ceaseless re.
grets and memories. -.., ..--F
Louis XVI perished by the guillo.
tine. A helpless, harmless man, up
on whose unhappy head the sins Of
his ancestors were visited. .H F.'
Louis XVI, baby king, q mere
legitifnist phantom of royalty, died
in the temple from priYatiOn and
neglect. .--...'
Louis XIV le Desire a minister OF
profligancy the friend of PompadOur
and Dubarry, the proprietor lie Pare
aux Curtis, died king, and in his
bed, but with none to close his eyes,
for every attendant was away from
the dying couch, either on pleasure
or to pay court to the rising sun.
Henry ", the great King, the
Frenchman's royal IDEAL. lived a
youth of courteous captivity, and af-
ter. q manhood of war attained his
crown by adjurlng hi, religion, and
died by the knife of Ravaillac in
1910.
Charles TX, the abettor of st. Bar
tholomew's Day massacre, died OF
disease Of body and mind, brought
on by remorse for the horried crime.
. Henry Ill, profligate and unpri-
cipled ruler, was assassinatcd by
Jacpcs Clement, Dominican monk,
in 1889, and masses were offered in
church for the assassin.
Henry III, brave and noble prince,
to whom was owing the annexation
of Metz, Verdun, and Toul, with the
adjoining country, as the price of his
alliance with Brandenburg (now
Prussis) against Charles V and Aus
tria, was killed by the stroke of q
lance in the eye, in 1853.
Francis l., the last of the kings of
chivalry, fell before the astute policy
and vast power of Charles V, against
whose combinations Of Spanish in
fantry and German Lanzknecht, with
French generalship, the brilliant
victors of Marignan were pOwerless.
He was taken prisoner at Pavia, and
confined at Madrid until conditions
of peace were forced upon him so
humiliating, that he refused to be
bound by his own compact, and o
terrible war of extirmination was
waged, both countries wasting
France with fire and sword until
they laid down their arms from
sheer exhaustion.
Charles VII, during whose reign
Joan of Arc rescued France from the
English, closed mot inglorious reign
by falling into a melancholy and
starving himself to death.
Charles vi, during whose reign the
desperate civil war Of the Armagnacs
and Burgundians ragged, became in
sane, and was virtually a prisoner in
the hands ofeither faction.
John. the prisoner of the Black
Prince at the battle of Poitiers, 1856,
and taken away to England, was not
liberated for many years. These
wars of fdynasty led to frightful suf-
fcring in the people, amid which
Charles the Dauphin, afterward king,
wandered up and down the country a
homeless adventurer.
Louis IX, or st. Louis, famous for
his piety and crusadcs against the
Moslen, was made prisoner by the
Egyptians The same king, persist
ing in his conversion OF the Moors,
was carried of by plague at Tuni..
Charlie. the int, Louis ", and
other Louis, the dnbonnaire kings of
that asc, were alternately c.ptives
and cOnquerrers. In tho,e outrage
Gus days Of fraud and violence, when
every evil passion ragged with impu-
nifty, the Imprisonment or murder
even of kings was a small matter,
and it is scarcely worth while TO ell
umerate the inglorious vicissitudc of
such succession OF weak tyrants and
brutal marraudcrs.
Calcutta merchants nave a nOycl
way of willing away idle hours. Ac-
cording to loc,l paper, betting on
drops of rain is just now the fash
ion there, even respective native
business men wagering large sums OH
the raiii-fall. When the weather be-
comes cloudy wagers are laid Us TO
the time within which the downpour
may be expected. The wager being
laid, the crowd wait patiently TO see
The water run out of the spouts, for q
drizzle is not recognized, and unless
the water drips from the spout the
party who bets that it will not
rain has not lost. Sometimes the ut
most confusion prevails; !; it rains for
a few minutes and the crowd looks
at the spouts : if the water
does not drip the yell is terrific, losers
attribute it to foul play, and boys are
Immediately sent to the top of the
house to see whether the spout has
been tempered with.
Western conversation.-Stranger:
i'How did he die?" Resident:
sHung." S. "Hung! All, huug him
self?" r.: "No; he was hung by
s.: "Why?" r.: "He
had been notified to leave the town,
and he came back" 6: .When
man has been notiGcr - cave, can't |
ba pouor nNvno l. -