The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-31


From the New York World ]
It is understood that at the recent Bonapartlst
council held at Arenenberg, in Switzerland, IT, was
decided that Empress Eugene should abdlcate
the regency which she has held ever since her
imperial husband left Paris, in the bright sum
mer weather Of 1870. fer the last time, and that
the young Prince, Louis Napoleon, who under.
went in that fatal summer his baptism OF fire.,
should take upon himself the responsible leader
ship of the imperial cause OF France.
Whatever the reason for this decision may be,
it is quite certain, we suppose, that the Empress
Eugene, 30 long as she lives, Will commune 10
exercise great influence upon the fortunes OF
the son and OF the party which ls so openy'aho
so audacously laboring for his restoration to the
throne of France. Our readers, therefore, VIII
read with interest, we are sure, al account when
has been forwarded to us from England OF
visit recently paid by an Enghshwoman OF posi-,
ton and of Intelligence to the dethroned and
widowed lady, who tor so many years commanded
the admiration and the homage, not OF her own
sex and of her countrymen only, but OF bosh
sexes and Of all civilized peoples.
The Empress has for some time past been lv-
ing at Arenenberg, where the Third Napoleon
ptssed 80 many years of his life with his mother,
the lovely and unfortunate Queen Hortense.
Arenenberg is charming chateau standing
little off the direct road from Schatfhausen to
Constance. 1t was SO in 1913, alter the death
of Louis Bonaparte, ex-KIng OF Holland, to a Cit
izen OF Nuremberg, for $4,000 forins and IN
1856 this citizens heirs sent to Paris and sold
there it's fine collections OF pictures and works
of art, and many souvenirs of the First Napoleon.
This led the Emperor Napoleon Ill to re-
purchase the estate, and it now belongs to bis
son. The ex-Empress (who always, by the way,
alludes TO the disasters OF 1870 as the events y
has passed her autumns at Arenenberg ever
since the end of the Franco-German war. The
chateau stands on hill nearly 1900 feet in
height and commands a lovely view over the
upper valley Of the Rhine. The house is fur
nished now with perfect simp icity, the only
spiendor anywhere kept up being about the
chapel of the chateau, the altar furniture OF
which is decorated with ancient and very costly
trees.
Z In this chapel is kept the Golden Rose sent
BY his Holiness Plu. TX some years ago to the
Empress, then reigning at the Tuilerles. This
"Mystic Rose" by the way, is rather rose tree
than a rose, and is wonderful piece OF gold
smiths work. 1t represents bunch OF roses
wi buds al d leaves, the whole about twelve
inches in height, being set in an antique vase OF
exquisite pattern, adorned with 6dSsl-relteua or
scenes in the life Of Plus TX. The roses, the
leaves, the vase, are all of the purest
gold, chiseled with delicacy and free
dom and force worthy the best ages and
schools Of art. The vase is set upon base OF
lapis lazuli is enriched with alternate medallions
in gold of the papal and the imperial arms, and
in its turn is supported four small steps of lap
is-lazui. or course the ex-Empress sets the high
est value this precious memorial of her sover-
eign days, and OF the favor with which the head
OF her church then, as now, regarded her. alike
as woman aud a sovereign. Equally treasured
with the Golden Rose" however, ls the Tails
man of Charlemagne," curious souvenir OF the
two greatest Princes who ever swayed the destl-
MES Of modern Europe.
The Romans were passionately fond OF tails
MANS" which have been sometimes called che
Nero, from the multiform fabulous monster Of
that name-goat lion and dragon in one-and
sometimes synplegnadta, as being made up Of
discordant elements embraced in one form, and
which have been known in more recent times as
gryRi from the Italian griUo, which signifies at
once "cricket" and caprice. In the latter
days of Rome and the earlier days of
modern history the use OF such symbolic
devices, carved in stone OF various kinds
and worn chiefly in rings, became very
general They were thought to operate as
charms and to secure to the wearer the mystic
protection Of he deity or deities, either symbol
lzed or set forth plainly upon them. The stone
known as the Talisman OF Charlemagne Is
species Of conundrum, and is believed to have
been held very precious by that great sovereign.
1t was long pl eserved with the rest Of the relics
belonging to him, at Aix-la- Chapelle, and the
chapter Of the cathedral there presented it, not
without cogent reasons, to the modern Charlie
magne, the First Napoleon, who constantly car
ried it about with him.
The King of Rome, afterward Duke OF Reich
stadt. treasured it not less, and from him it
passed to his cousin. Louis Napoleon who had it
aDOuI Ills peT5Ou Wutu he ulduo coCdpc lIOH
the the prison OF Ham. He left it behind him,
however, when he quilted Paris in 1870. Who
knows what might have happened had he taken
it with him to the field? On the I'd of Septem-
Der, when the Empress made up her mind to
fly from France, it was enclosed in a reliquary of
rock crystal shut in by secret spring, which the
Empress did not understand and had no time to
search for.
So with a woman's decision she caught up a
pair Of tongs from the chimney-piec and dashed
no onatlv nj fra Shortly altar.
wards she confided it, with large sum of money,
to faithful official, with orders to find the En-
peror at Wilhelmshohe, and give them to him.
The official lost his head, and, instead OF setting
out at once, went to his apartments in Paris
There he put the money and the talisman into an
drneorie, the key Of which he had lost, and the
double doors of which he fastened together by
pinning over them map OF the Notifications Of
Paris with four pins.
Then came on "the events" one after mother,
with tremendous rapidity. The official, caught
one day out Of doors, was obliged to fly for his
life, without going back to get either the money
or the talisman. OF course the Empress in her
exile, when she heard of all this, imagined that
up for lost and with the talisman the fortunes of
the Napoleons, the more particularly as it
was made known to her by the public jour
mails that the apartments of the official
to whom she had confded them had
been repeatedly ransacked both before, dur
ing and after the commune. Fancy her a.tonish-
ment then, and delight when this official, at last
returning to Paris and to his long abandoned
apartments, found the map of the Notifications
du sty indeed, but undisturbed and the conten' 8
of the drm,orle precisely as he had lett them 1t
can hardly be thought strange that this should
be regarded not only by the ex-Empress herself,
but by her son and by not a few of their psrti-
sans, as an omen of unquestionable promise for
their now fallen cause.
INSTINCT OF ANTs.-A writer in Hdrd,oicke's
Science Gossip communicates the interesting
fact that the ants inhabiting his garden have
in several instances constructed nests in an
edging of dwarf box that is about nine inches
high and of the same thickness. The little
architects carried soil up into the bushes in
sufficient quantities to build their abodes. In
one of these they had been so long domiciled
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