The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-03-29
NapOteOn'S Wandering Heir"

Scrlbner'S Magazine for March has
an article on Napoleon III, from which
we extract the following:
''For years it has been universally
believed that the direct line of the
"Little Corporal became extinct il
the person of the unfortunate prince,
and although various rumors relative
to a secret marriage were prevalent at
the time of his decease, they were gen
orally regarded as the creations of an
idle braid. Events which have subse-
quently transpired give these reports a
semblance of truth, and to render them
still more plausible, it is a well-known
fact that the late Emperor of the
French spared neither expense nor
labor in forming a complete collection
of the correspondence and private
papers of "le fills de Phonanae
1t appears, however, that these writ
ings were not the only links which
united the present with the past for,
in the summer of 1871, an individual,
who bore an extremely striking like
ness to the Bonaparte family, made
his appearance at Ischl, and was fined
by the district court and expelled from
the Austrian dominlons for having
made an Objectionable entry in his
wander book"--a sort of journey
mans passport. He was tailor by
trade, and, for several years previous
to this occurrence, had been living at
Wurzen, in the kingdom of Saxony,
and also at Stuttgardt, under the name
of Carl Gustave Ludwig, and in both
of these places he had distin-
guished himself by his diligence,
skill and modesty. His init
mate acquaintance affirmed that,
in spite of his humble occupa-
ton, he had always asserted his claim
to the name and title of Prince Joseph
Eugene Napoleon Bonaparte, and, ac
cording to his own account, it would
seem as if he was an issue of secret
marriage of the Reichstadt with a Hun
garian countess He stated that, when
quite young, his mother was induced
by Prince Metternich to apprentice him
to a tailor in Wurzen named Ludwig,
as a means of getting rid of him, and
III order to facilitate her second mar
riage In Saxony. AS a further proof
of his origin, he declared that there
was an author then living at Leipsic,
but formerly Hungarian officer, who
had been witness to the marriage,
and who would if it ever became ne
cessary for him to make known his
rank and title, supply him with the re-
qulsite documents IN order to compel
the countess to recognize his birth and
parentage. After leaving Stuttgardt,
he travelled through Germany, Swift
zerland, and a part of Austria,
earning his own livelihood as a
tailor, and maintaining his claim to a
princely rank, but never attempting to
obtain money or credit by it. On Ie
turning to Stuttgardt, in November of
the same year, he found that his con-
viction and punishment had been men
toned in the papers of that place, and
he accordingly published an explana-
ton in the Burger Getting, in which
he affirmed that be was not punished
for claiming his name and title, his
right to which the court at 1schl had
in no wise disputed, but merely for
writing it of his own accord In his pass
port before he had succeeded Ill estab-
fishing his identity before a court OF
law. The reputed prince is still living,
and the Cross, one of the leading
newspapers of Germany, in an article
written at tie time, states that not
only does he bear good character for
his steadiness and general good con-
duct, but he also produces a very ia
vorable impression by his manners.