Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-01-17
Death OF Louis Napoleon.

The ex-Emperor Napoleon died at CHS
elhurst, England, on Thursday morning,
the 9th instant, at twenty-five minutes past
ten o'clock, in the sixty-ffth year of his
age. The Baltimore .S,sn remarks: ''Thus
has ended career as remarkable as that
of any modern ruler except that of the
marvellous man, his uncle, whose unsur-
passed military and administrative ability
and prodigious energy place him almost
alone among the governors of mankind.
The life of the late Emperor has been one
extraordinary from his very childhood for
its vicissitudes. Basking when mere boy
in the sunshine of the first Napoleon's i'm
perial splendor, with bright hopes of one
day occupying his throne; then overwhelm-
ed in the ruins of the empire, and the last
"a child Of seven years-to embrace Ma
poleon I. when he left Paris forever from
1914 to 1848 an exile, and sometimes a
the French throne, which were not only
abortive but ridiculous; yet, after this long
interval, securing foothold in the French
government and welding the sceptre of
authority for longer period than any rul-
er of France since Louis the XVI; and fl
nally, when he seemed secure of a lifelong
tenure of power, hurled by the commissions
of war from his throne and compelled to
find home in England, where he had
spent so many years Of exile before his ele
vation to empire. It is idle to look at
present for any uniformity of judgment in
regard to the character and capacity of
Napoleon Ill. That he was man Of SUI
perior ability and requirements, of cour-
age and fortitude, reticent and industrious,
patient, and full of expedients cannot be
denied. He developed greatly the mate
rial interests of France, and managed her
finances with marked success. But a
change seemed to come over him in his
later years. His personal government ap-
peared to demoralize himself as much as
his people. He understood the material
wants and desires Of his subjects better
than their Intellectual and political needs.
He became blind to those highest interests
of France, and through inflated ambition
and luxury his really superior abilities,
developed in school of severe experience,
no longer made themselves felt. No one
can contemplate his fall, as astonishing as
his rise, without being impressed with the
instability of all human greatness. Had
he died four years ago, ere the fated war
of France with Prussia, what momentous
results would have hung upon the event.
Then in the zenith of his glory as reign
ing monarch, revolution may have resulted
by his demise amidst the struggle for the
perpetuation of a dynasty in the person of
his minor son, and all royal potentates
would have sympathized with the cause of
the latter. Now, fallen from his previous
high estate, he dies, and France is undis-
turbed, and Emperors and Kings are in
different, and the once great, having lived
to effeteness, passes away as does any other
man of humble station"
The funeral took place on Wednesday.
Queen Victoria was represented at the flu
neral by viscount Sydney, Lord Chamber
lain. Among the mourners were Princes
Jerome Napoleon, Joachim and Achille.---
The ex-Empress, vas too ill to attend the
obsequies. A delegation of Paris work
men, wearing inamorteues, had the right Of
the procession. About thirty thousand
persons were present.
The compositors of the New York
Tribune Office, proposes that the printing
offices of the country shall all contribute
one or more pounds of old type for the
purpose of making statue Of Horace
Greeley, to be erected over his grave, and
that all the compositors of the country
shall give the proceeds of one thousand
ems, Set up on February Sd, the sixty-sec-
ond anniversary Of the birthday of Mr.
Greeley as fund to carry out the design