The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-10
TIE FORTUNES OF 4 REMA RKABLE
FAMILY.

There is nothing in the annals Of history more
| remarkable than the extraordinary fortunes
which attended the daughter of French creole
planter on the Island OF Martinique, in the West
Indies something less than one hundred years
ago. Nothing would seem more improbab G than
that she or her descendants, surrounding the
barriers of rank and station and family, could
| ally her blood with almost every royal house in
Europe. Yet such is tho case !; and, what may be
thought extraordinary, a brilliant destiny was
predicted for her by negro fOrtune-teller on her
native island She was told that she would go to
France, make q brilliant marriage, then
fall into adversely, lose her husband by violent
death, be thrown into prison, be in imminent
danger of ext cution, but would make narrow
escape: that aftcrward she would contract rec.
Ond marriage and be elevated to still more bril-
liant position than abe had enjoyed that, in
| fact, she would become greater than a queen,
| from which she would finally fall. As she told
| these predictions OF the negro woman when she
| was III prison, and before the greater part of
| them had come to pass, there can be no doubt
that they We're made. Ii the negrcss did not
have second sight. many believe that she made
| marvelOusly good guesses.
This Martinique girl, Josephine flasher by
| name, WAS sent to France to be educated. With
out returning TO America, she married the Mar
Quis OF Beauharnais, Of the old French
notlesse. He entered the army when the French
| Revolution came on and became general, but
falling under the suspicious OF the COMMITTEE
of Public Safety" during the Reign of Terror,
His wife, Josephine. by whom he had two chill
dren, Eugene and Hortense, would have shared
his fate but for the timely overthrow Of Robes
pierre, then at the head OF the French Govern.
in state Of great penury, from which she was
was only released by forming . somewhat
doubtful connection with man named Barras,
then high in the French Administration. Thisman
married her to young artillery officer known
as Napoleon Bonaparte, who. in eight years, had
her crowned Empress of The French and Queen
Of Italy. The great conqueror looked after the
interests Of her children. The girl, Hortense,
he married to his own brother, Louis, against
tho inclinations of both parties, and he then
made the youthful pair King and Queen of Hol-
land. The son, Eugene, he made Viceroy of
Italy, and married him to the daughter of the
King of Bavaria. When The Empress Josephine
was discarded srls. and divorced because she
more children, Eugene and Hortense were
not involved in the mothers downfall. The
son of Hortense lived to become Emperor of the
French under the title Of Napoleon III, and
chances Of being Napoleon ": Eugene had a
number of children. One grandson is now King
of Sweden and Norway, and his great-grand-
daughter is the Crown Princess Of Denmark. |
of Portugal. Another IS Prince Of the Imperial
family Of Russia. One granddaughter is Prin-
cess of the royal house Of Prussia; another is the
Empress of Brazil, and another is the Countess
of Wurtemberg.
Thus the fortunes OF the descendants Of Jose
phine flasher have had as great destiny as those
of their mother, and they promise to be as en- |
during as the royalists OF Europe. They were
achieved through the Bonapartes, who them. |
selves, since the great Emperor have not fi0ur. |
ished to anything like the degree of those who
came from the maternal side of the house.
We see from this how fallacious are the boasts |
of those who have royal blood, about its being |
unmixed with what they are pleased to term the |
oh fvoch i,,y,, IS
blood Of a daughter Of the people into the old
and almost effete monarchies of Europe that gives
them their physical force and vitality.-Cmcia-
natl Enquirer.
The Germans are not leaving the new en-
pire so much a. they were. From the Stats
tics Of the New York German Emigrant
Society it appears that the immigrants landed
at Castle garden during the past month were
309S. showing falling off of $40 compared
with the corresponding month of last year,
when 1888 Germans arrived at Castle Garden. |
The whole number Of German immigrants
landed at Castle Garden since the 1st Of Jan
uary amounted to 1926 persons-a falling off |
Of 56,0S4 compared with the first eleven |
months of last year, when the German immi-
grafton at that port reached the number of
$3.50 persons.
The statue of Stonewall Jackson executed |
by the late Mr.. Foley, the well known English
sculptor, for. the city of Charleston, S. c.. is |
now nearly completed at the Manor Foundry, |
at Chelsea, near London. The general is re-
as standing with a drawn broad
sword in the right hand, The hand rests on
the sword hilt, aud the point of the weapon is
placed upon piece of rock at the side of the |
figure. He wears horseman's short tunic,
girted by a broad belt and buttoned close on
the chest, and loose trousers with riding boots.