The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-03-07
LOUIS NAPOLEON IN NEW YORK.

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in his drama, there is q peculiar interest at
tached to his visit to New York This took
place in 1887. He had been held for some
time prisoner of war aboard q French frigate,
and, BY orders of Louis Philippe, he was re-
leased at Norfolk, Virginia. From this port
he hastened to New York, where he remained
for two months He boarded at the Washing
ton Hotel. second-rate establishment, which
covered about two-thirds Of the plot now 0c-
cupied by Stewards downtown warehouse.
He is said to have been very disspated and
lcentious while in the city, but OF this
there is no proof. Among other incidents of
this period, he called on Washington Irving at
Sunnyside, in company with a young French
Count, who, as Irving says, appeared to be the
superior of the two. In fact Mr.. Irving was
surprised at the quietness of one who had cut
such dash at Strasbourg. s.fh9 s-3 2s:3tH4
The history of the recent Empress (who is
now nothing more than Madame BOnaparte) is
a very peculiar illustration of the freaks of for
tune In 1853 Irving writes thus to- lady:
II knew the grandfather of the Empress,
old Mr. Kirkpatrick, who had been American
Consul at Malaga. a. / passed an evening at his
house in 1857 A week or two afterWard
was at the house of his son in-law, the Count
Teba, a gallant and intelligent gentleman of
Grenada, much cut up in the wars, having lost
an eye and been manned in leg and hand.
His wife, the daughter Of Mr.. Kirkpatrick,
was absent, but he had a family of little girls
about him. Several years afterward when
had recently taken up my abode at Madrid,
was invited to grand ball at the house of the
Countess of Montiio, one of the leaders Of the
ton. On making my bow to her, was sur
prised at being received by her with the
warmth of eagerness of an old friend. She
claimed me as the friend of her late husband,
the Count Teba subsequently Marquis Mon
tijo) who she said had often spoken of me with
the greatest regard. She subsequently intro
duced me to the little girls had known in an
early day, who had become fashionable bellies
of Madrid One of these now sits on the
throne of France.
A short time afterward, Irving writes thus
to another niece, Mrs. Storrow, who was then
residing at Paris:
"You give an account of the marriage pro-
cession of Louis Napoleon and his bride to the
church of Notre Dame, and one OF your letters
speaks of having been presented to the En-
press Louis Napoeon and Eugene Montijo,
Emperor and Empress of France! one of
whom have had as a guest at my cottage on
the Hudson, and the other, when child i
have had on my knee at Granada. 1t seems
to clap the climax of the strange dramas OF
which Paris has been the theatre during my life
time. The last saw of Eugene Montijo, she
was one of the reigEing bellies of Madrid, and
she and her giddy circle had swept my charm
ing young friend, the beautiful and accomplished
Senorita - into their career of fashionable
dissipation. Now, Eugene is on the throne,
while - is voluntary recluse in convent
of one of the mOstrigorous orders. Poor -.
Perhaps, however, her fate may ultimately be
the happier of the two. With her the storm
is over and she is at rest, but the other is
launched upon dangerous sea, infamous for
its tremendous shipwrecks. Am / to live to
see the catastrophe of her career, or the end
of this suddenly conjured up empire, which
seems to be made of such stuff as dreams are
made off r.Ase.,.. ..,.,..rf
"My personal acquaintance with the indivld-
uals who figure in this historical romance gives
me uncommon interest in it but consider it
stamped with danger and instability, and as lia-
BILE to extravagant vicisstudes as one of Dumas
novels. You do well to witness the grand fea-
lures of this passing pageant. You are prob
ably reading one of the most peculiar and event
full pages of history, and may live to look back
upon it as romantic tale"
Irvngs words now sound prophetic, and, to
add to their force, itmay be added that although
he is dead, the lady to whom they were ad-
dressed, has lived to witness that catastrophe
of which he spoke. Eugenie's grandfather,
Mr. Kirkpatrick, although American Consul
at Malaga, was Scotchman by birth, and was
of plebeian extraction. A schoolmaster of the
same name, living in Glasgow, was commonly
styled the "cousin of the Empress" The
wheel of fortune by this turn only brings Eu-
genie back to the level of her ancestors. Troy
Times. IL tG.g1ea Wau
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