Connecticut western news., 1875-09-03

with his curly head resting on his father, knee and it is hard to identify that decree with the sweetness of the spirit which seems to pervsde those spots which were peculiarly his own.
 We now ascend to the low rooms above and find only one which can be caltd in the least elegant. This was the sleeping room of the empress, where also she died. A modern restoration by tue really tili,d Napoleon III has yet robbed it of all its charm, and 1t is gorgeous in silken hang ings and all the smartness of upholstery.
 Descending to the park we wander about trying to thread the old paths now almost obliterated. A pet lamb of some child about the place is tethered under lime tree. Wonder is live oak from the United States, and farther on two trees planted by Josephine and Napoleon severally. There | is statue of Cupid with bent bow aiming straight at you from under little weather stained marble pavilion; @ small sheet of water nearly surrounds it, s:agnant and de captive in its covering of decaying leaves. There is also 8 Diana of Versailles in bronze, and that is all of art in the surround. ings. ..5,.... ....... Taking one long look for remembrance | and recalling that stormy night when Ma poleon stood upon the terrace of the gar den, and pointing to the heavens said: :- Who made all that But last Sunday eve 1 was walking here alone when the church bells of Reuil rang at sunset. was strong. ly moved; so vividly did the image of early dayscome back with that sound. Religion is principle which cannot be eradicated l from the heart of man. We make our way to this same church of Reuil, where within the little simple building repose the mortal remains of tue Empress Josephine and the Queen Hortense. The tomb of the former, of respendent white marble, consists of a massive pediment, from the corners of which spring four Ionic colums supporting ar arch. Within the arch is an eff1gY of the empress, druped in the style of her hmc. She is represented kneeIng upon smaller pediment with clasped bands as if in prayer. The inscription is simply J. B. anu A. JOSepnlHS
 ,..,,,,5,.22:: ~ ?: .Eagens ct Hortense.'
 At the extreme end of the left aisle, and directly opposite, Is the monument of Hor- tense--a ltase men. adorned with bas-reliefs, \ together with the arms of the queen and
 the inscription 'A tq arejne HortenSe, sou tRs NdpoIeon TII.' 'a ,''t 4,
 She appears iu skneeling posture as if in sad thought rather than prayer, The
 artist was a Florentine. ,Wreaths of i'm
 mortellss have been hung about the monu-
 meat in side.chapel, inwrought with va riousi sentences such as SE0 the Queen IIor-
 tcnse-trom the old soldiers of the First I Empire. '- D4t IVY .l2 I9 -'-.
 We retrace our way to Paris and cannot resist the impulse to stand once more upon with the hushed crowd eyer, gathered with in the Dome des Inyalides, around the i'm
 posing tomb of Napoleon I. .G. Despite de- crees he is yet to us the husband of Joseph
 inc. His desire to sleep on the banks of the Seine among that French people he had
 loved so well,' has been granted him. Gun
 ming ar,incers have exhausted their art to shadow forth his glory sllken trophies of hot and bloody contests, stained and black ened, are grouped around his resting place;
 and there finger, watching and waiting like spectres of the past, his old soldiers, too , far gone from thls world already to give : you any intelligibIe "reminiscences of their . chief. It is not possible to stand beside : the ashes of this stupendous creation of Al mighty Power; that profound nature with it's correspondent depths of purpose, emo . tion, inspiration, joy and wretchedncss, and ! forget that his way to Empire was aided by
 the wondrous power of the womanly spirit . crushed by him at Malmaison.
 A. o. O. W. Canaan. August 18th. 1875.