The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26
Stockholm Oscar Coronation Cores pond-
ence New York Herald.
The Royal Family of Sweden and the
Newly Ano:nted King.
THE FAMILY OF BERNADOTrE.

The man who is to be crowned to day
King of Sweden, ''as we'll as OF the Cloths
and the Vandals, and the woman, his
wife, who is to be crowned Queen, are
Oscar Frederick Bernadotte, and Sophia,
a Princess of Nassau. He is a young
man-that is to say, he was born in 1929,
and is forty-four years Of age. His wife
is seven years younger. His brother
was the late King, aid left no child, but
one daughter, who is Crown Princess of
Denmark He is grandson of the IA
nous Bernadotte, Napoloen's Marshal,
and great-grandson of Bernadotte who
lived humble tradesman's life in Pau,
under the shadow of the castle of Henry
of Navarro This famous Bernadotte,
the grandfather, was Red Republican,
and left his home to make war upon the
coalition Of tyrants against whom Dan
ton was laundering. lie joined the
French ranks with a musket and chanted
the 'Marsellaise," ike the rest Of them,
and probably had 10 shoes and very lit
tie to eat. But as this VS. an army in
which every soldier was said to carry a
field Marshars baton in his knapsack,
and as in time it came to be commanded
by one Napoleon Bonaparte, Bernadotte
attained great honors. He found the
baton. He married sister of one of
Napoleon's sisters-in-law. He was made
a Prince, Republican as he was But
he did not continue well with Napoleon
Some say the great Emperor was unjust
to him and meanly deprived him of his
glory. At Wagram he displeased the
Emperor so much that he was censured
by name in a general order of the day.
1t happened that body of Swedish pris-
oners came into his hands. He was kind
to them. The fame of mis- kindness spread
through Sweden, and as the King then
on the throne had no heir, why, who
should be his heir but Bernadotte He
was a Prince and famous man of war.
Napoleon furiously opposed his accepting
the di, unity but he accepted it, was
elected Crown Prince, and became COM
mander of the Swedish armies. When
the coalition against Napoleon was made
he joined it, assurance being given that
he could retain bis crown i'll spite of his
fathers calling and be "Sire, my brother, y
to heaven-anointed Georges and Alex
anders. In the overthrow Of his old
chief he bore an important part, and in
1918, when Napoleon was chafing his
bitter life away at ST. Helena and quar-
reling with his keeper about his wine, his
title and green cloth for his coats, Ber-
nadotte assembled the throne of Gustavus
Adolphus as Charles XIV, and was ac-
knowledged ''Sire, my brother" by the
crowned heads of the Holy Alliance.
Bernadotte was in his fifty-ffth year
when he attained this supre ne, sublime
felicity, and his republican head was
Ground impaled with a glorious crown.
He reigned many years, and died a very
old man, even fourscore. He was a good,
sensible king. So likewise his son, who,
oddly enough, married the daughter of
Eugene Beauharnais, son of Josephine
and the adopted son of Napoleon This
lady still lives and is called Queen Dow
ager, and was first cousin to the late En-
peror of the French, So that until Sedan
history-and shall we say also Gods own
beautiful and sweet justice-showed two
thrones occupied by lineal descendants of
the divorced and discarded Josephine
two houses of the line of the abandoned
Beauharnais This son, Oscar his
royal name Oscar L-died in 1889, and
his son succeeded as Charles XIV. Charles
was very French-fond of painting and
and coins, and specimens of firearms, and
chinaware and wine and women, with
black, swarthy, eager face-some traces
of the Creole blood which his grand
mother, Josephine, brought from the
West Indies. | remember him we'll, as |
used to see him, two summers since, in
his beautiful summer palace of Drott-
ningholm, just beyond the town, on beau
tiful Zofen, one of the loveliest islands of
this charming Lake Malar. He was a
restless, unhappy soul, and wrote poems
and painted landscapes. He came to
this prosy theme with EMISSION" He
would unite these three kingdoms; he
would make a great Scandinavia; the
three crowns would be one crown; he
would recall the glory of Charles XII.
and Gustavus Adolphus, and be king
worthy of the seat of Odin and of the
golden time when the Norwegian ban
ners foated the skies of Scotland and
famed the people cold" He would be
king whose voice would be heard in Eu-
rope, and assist Napoleon and the other
kaisers in the business of peace and war
So he took to drilling and military exer-
cises, his brain much infiamed with the
"career" that would come to him wor-
thily as the grandson of the fiery Berna-
dotte. But the dream was only dream.
The "three crowns" all told could not
embOdy eight million of men, no matter
what stress he put upon Scandinavian re-
sources. Scandinavia would be no more
than Belgium and Holland. So the re-
representatives. ceased to give him money
His army could not grow The honest
Swedes preferred to till their soil and find
iron and leave ''the bslance of power"
to the kaisers. So the dream vanished.
KING OSCAR.
And now comes a group of guards, sa
bered and spurred, and eight distinguish
ed Swedes carrying canopy, eight army
Colonels supporting them, Prime Minis
ter splashing at the side, and under the
canopy, secure from the rain, slowly
walks Oscar H., King of this land. His
Majesty wears the mantle of prince of
the royal house-on his head a princes
corOnet. Rather above the middle stature.
with compact, serious, sincere face,
beard tinged with gray, and
heavy black hair cut short, rusting like
wise with premature years; manly eyes,
IN one of which you note the slightest
possible imperfection good face-you
say mot great face-no trait of Scandi-
navia In any line of the countenance, but
French in every motion and sign and |
bodily token-French of the Pyrenees
and the Mediterranean. As he passes,