The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-10
Death of the Ex.Emperor, NapO'
leon III.

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yesterday, we have the announcement Oh
the death OF CHARLES LOUIS NAPOLEON
BoNAPARTE, ex' Emperor ottrance' winch
eventtook place at 1O:45 A. NJ, January
9th, at Chiselhurst, England. he was q
son Of LOUIS BoNAPARTE and HoRTENsE
DE- BBAUHARNAIS, and was born at Paris,
in the Tulleries, April 20, $685. and was
therefore in his 65th year. he was In
scrlbed atthe head Of the register OF the
family Of the Napoleonic dynasty the
EMPERoR having recognized LOUIS and
his heirs as successors to the crown IN
preference to his elder brothers. lis
mother being compelled TO quit France
In 1916, took this son with her in her
exile, and gave him for prcceptors 2. LE'
pAs and Colonel armand. He passed sew
eral years of his youth at Arenenberg, in
the Swiss canton ofThurgan. On the &C.
ccsslon Of LOUIS PHILIPPE, in 1880, LOUIS
NAPoLEoE requested permission torelurn
to France, which was not granted &c
and his brother then went 10 Italy and
enlisted in the army of insurgents, who at
firsr gained some advantages over the
papsl troops, but were defeated and dis
persed by tho Austrians in 1881. On the
death Of Due DE REICHsTADT in 1882,
LOUIS NAPOLEON became a pretcnder TO
the throne Of France. He published
work entitled political Reveries," and a
Manual Of Artillery" lin 1880 His
ambition, his name, and his unsorupulous
sudacity urged him TO enter career.
which presents the most wonderful vi,
ciasitudes Of fortune. Having secured
the aid of Colonel VAUDREY and other
officers stationed at Strasbourg, he made
an attempt on that place, with few ad.
herents, In October, 1885. He failed, was
arrested, and was banished or transported
TO Tie United Slates in November OF that
year
In 1887 he returned to Europe, attend.
ed Queen HoRTENsE in her last illness at
Arenenberg, and took refuge in England,
where he passed about two years. In
1880 he published his NAPoLEoNIc
Ideas" which hos been described as u
"melauge of liberal principles and prae'
toriau domination" 1t is an apology for
theregime Of NAPOLEON I. The unpopu'
lar measures of LOUIS PHILIPPE encour-
aged LOUIS NAPOLEON to engage in an.
other rash and desperate enterprise. At
tended by about fifty partisans and u
tame eagle, which was expected to perch
upon his banner as the harbinger OF vic
tory, he sailed from England in 1910, and
entered Boulogne, where he obtained but
little support, and was speedily arrested
by the soldiers who he had hoped would
DO induced 10 join his standard. He was
tried on charge Of treason by the House
Of Peers, and, after he had made speech
10 his own defense and prOfessed his de-
votion to the principle Of popular sover.
eighty, was sentenced to perpetual i'm
prisonment Be was confined in the Cas-.
tic of Ham, where he pursued his political
studies and wrote several political and
historical treaties. Aided by his physt.
clan, DR.. CoNNEGu, and disguised as a
laborer, 10 escaped from Ham in May,
1916 and retired to England.
The revolution Of 1913 afforded him
an opportunity to return to France, and
thus opened new field to his impressi-
bic ambition. In June, l848, he was
elected to the National Assembly for the
Department o: the Seine. He was ex-
cluded from that body by LAMART1NE
and his colleagues for n time, but he took
his seat in September, 1s4S, and became
a candidate for tho Office Of President Of
Franco On the 10Th of December 1s4s,
he was elected President for four years,
having received 5569,s34 votes. His
chief competitor was General CAvA1aN-
Ac, who obtained 1,489, 100. &c soon be.
came involved in contest with the Con.
stituent Assembly, the Republican major.
ity OF which regarded him with hostility
or suspicion. In April, 1s4O, he sent an
armyto Rome to intervene in favor of
the Pope, who had been expelled by the
Republicans. The French army took
Rome, and continued to occupy that city
until 1886.