The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-11

the only bed my cottage contained. /
bathed and bound up his wounds, in sus
pecting the source Of which had been
right.
"He was fugitive from Paris, seek.
ing to escape from France for, after he
was able to speak, 80 he told me, and OF
the terrible events which had recently
taken place there. He related that the
Prince President, aided by st. Arnaud
and Fleury, had resolved to cOerce the
ConstitutiOnalists, and with this view
had swept into prison at Paris every
statesman and general who was in any
way eminent for public spirit and ability;
that he, General Baron LOisel, would have
shared the same fate had he not success
fully found concealment. Louis Napoleon
was then declared Dictator of France,
and the selected regiments were marched
into the streets by General Canrobert,
who commenced an indiscriminate mas
sacre to strike terror into the Parisians,
two thousand of whom were shot on the
Boulevards, though barricades were
thrown up and resistance offered by many
armed men.
MThe 10th Chasseurs Pied--how my
heart leaped at their name - had thrice
stormed barricade which he with all
who adhered to him had thrown up in
the Boulevard Poissonneire, using in its
construction omnibuses overturned and
filed with stones, beds, pianos, and other
furniture from the adjacent houses
thrice it was stormed, and twice retaken.
With his own hand he Baron Loisel)
had sabred or shot down four officers OF
the Chasseurs; but the barrier was carried
at last, and all its defenders fed for shell
ter into the nearest houses Then the
Chasseurs poured volleys of musketry
through the shutters of the closed win
dows, compelling all who were therein to
lie fiat on the floor.
"The house in which he had sought
refuge was forcibly entered, the doors
being blown open by musket-balls, and
every human being in it was bayoneted,
save himself, regardless of their prayers
and screams for mercy. He lay secure
and unseen under a shop-counter till
darkness fell, after which he made his es-
cape from the city, and was on his way
to the frontier when assailed at night by
some armed peasantry, who, in pursuance
of their fued within the army, had fired
on him in mere wantonness because he
was in uniform.
$50 there had been fighting in Paris,
the 10th had been severely engaged, and
at least four of their officers had fallen,
and by the hands of this man. All this
gave me cause for much terrible refec-
ton.
Perhaps this mans weapon had
hA Af hpro otan nd -,
whose very bed was now nursing and
restoring him that he might continue his
fight to Switzerland, though horrors and
alarms had brought him to Avignon out
of his direct route. He further told me
that very hopeless exile was before
him, unless his old comrade, st. Arnaud,
to whom he wrote without delay, stood
his old friend with Louis Napoleon.
"None of his wounds were very severe,
so he recovered rapidly.
zone night, when he was GONZALES
cent, little Louis in his night dress was
kneeling on my knee, with his rosy dim
pied hands clasped before him, and
teaching him to beg God that when he
died he might join his baby brother
Rene, who had gone to Heaven before
him. After pause, the child turned to
where the baron, seated in chair, was
regarding us with mingled interest and
emotion.
"I shall Fray for you too, monsieur,
said Louis.
"Why for me, child? he asked.
"'Because you are soldier, like my
father
"And after he had lisped few words
after me, the baron rose and said:
"'What is his name, madam
"Louis, monsieur
"On this his eyes filled with tears
and taking the wondering child in his
arms, he kissed him, and said, Il toohave
Louis, a little fellow just his age, whom
/ have left in Paris, and never more may
see, unless st. Arnaud befriends me and
there too 1 have a young wife, who
doubtless mourns for me as dead
awe had now a kind of common
sympathy between us, though there were
times when foreboding seized me, ant
1 could not help shuddering. Oh, could
it be possible that my Louis was one O
the four officers who had fallen by hi
hand?
"One morning amessenger reached my
cottage bearing letter, the contents O
which filled my heart with joy. 1t was
from st. Arnaud, and enclosed the full
pardon of Louis Napoleon; so the baror
prepared to return at once to Paris
where he promised gratefully and faith
fully to search for my husband, of whom
l had heard nothing for two months.
"a fortnight more passed away In
aching and grinding anxiety, and then 9
letter came to me from the general. II
was brief and said:
"T have found your husband; come
to him without delay
"He had found my dear, dear Louis
but how ?---dead or alive, wounded or in
captivity2 The letter was painfully, tan
talizingly curt; but there was not a mo
ment to be lost now. Collecting all thu
little money ] had, took my child il
my arms, and locking the door of my
beloved cottage near the Rhone, with it
roof and walls leafy mass of climbing
roses, creeper, jasmine, and vine, al
blended together and alive with ittl'
singing birds, without visiting poo
baby's grave at st. Pierre, set out TO
Paris, with heart swollen by one grea
and absorbing anxiety-my husband
fate.
81 had often to travel afoot, for wa
too poor to take the rail always; bu
Heaven supported me, otherwise / know
not how should have got over the vas
distance which lies between Avignol
and the capital, when my foreboding
proved to be fearfully correct.
"Baron Loisel, true to hispromise, ha,
searched and found my husband, lynn
n \
of the city, wounded by four balls fire,
rom his refvolver at the barricade in tn
Boulevard Possonniere, and had conveys
him to his own house in fashionabl
suburb, and there found him, but Oh
how changed d!---carefully attended to b
the best surgeons in Paris, surrounded b
every remedy, luxury, and applianc
that the grateful baron could provide
but, alas, he was sinking fast.
"Why dwell on thisT
UHis wounds were mortal. he did no