The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-24
carsou. and Intsre.tlae.

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~ The last survivor of that snail group OF
faithful adherents who accompanied Nspo-
leon /. 10 St. Helena and there remained
with him, Count Louis Marcheud, has died
at Trouville at the age OF 3d. Marchaud,
/ who was created q Count by Napoleon Ill,
{ came from respected trades family in
Paris; his mother was ::''dame honneur'
70 the young King Of Rome. He himself
in 1914 entered the persoual service OF the
Emperor, and when Constant, the first
, page for many years 70. Nspoleon,s lelt nis
= master. MaTchaud was promoted 20 the
y place. He accompanied the Emperor to
Elba. whilst his mother went with the Due
Of ReIchstad and the EmperOr's only 'child
20 Vienna and remained afterwards IN the
Emperor service until his death. Napo,
leon gave him ON his deatbbed e number of
family reliqnes, which Marchaud after
!. wards, on the restoration of the Empire,
deposited in the Emperor's museum in the
Louvre. But the favors of Napoleon the
b Crest were not limited to this. Shortly be-
fore his deAth--tbe GGul0is states-the EN-
peror called Marchaud to his bedside. He
held diamond necklace in his hand and
said: III do not know how my affairs
stand in Europe. The good HorteDse gave
me, when she left Baalmaison, this necklace
in the belief that it possibly would do me
some service. 1t may be worth two hun
dred thousand francs. Take 1t, tie it about
your person and when yon return to France,
you will be enabled to wait for the legacy
by which / have provided for you in my
Twill and IL Is codiclls. Marry and select
for yourself girl from the family of one of
my old guard officers or soldiers many OF
those brave men are in any but a favorable
condition, /" etc. Marchaud followed his
benefactor's ad vice and married On his re-
turn to France a daughter of Lieutenant
General Count Berger. His corpse il, now
TO he taken to Paris and to be buried there.
That the facts above recited are, well
founded we are assured by correspondent,
DIR. Thomas A. Watkins W no says that INA
poleon !. in a codicil to his last will, article
4. thus mentions Marchaud: ~ give to
Marchaud one hundred thousand francs
of which he Is to deposit fifty thousand in
the treasurer's chest to be disposed of ae-
cording TO my dispositions in payment OF
conscience"
q7.'I In the narrative by Bsines, of the trium-
sphant march of Napoleon |. from the Gulf
Of Juan, in the Department of the Var,
en- route from Elba to Paris IN the year 1916
General Marchaud is thus mentioned
General Marchaud, the commander of the
garrison of Grenade, was faithful to Leuis
XVIII, and had placed his whole force or
the ramparts, with the common loaded and
the matches lighted; Lusthe cannonieis, in
stead Of firing, as they were ordered, ex
tinguished the matches and Joined Napo
leon. Marchaud was arrested by the sol
oilers of the latter and brought before him
The Emperor was indignant at the insult
offered a gallant officer, ordered him to b
released, and re-assume command of the city
Gen. Iarchaud then said to Napaleon: g
appeal to yourself that once served yor
faithfully; your abdication released mt
from my allegiance to you, and have since
sworn fidelity to the Bourbons; here ID my
sword I; / can submit to become prisoner
but can never be q traitor" - Take bacl
yoHr sword, responded Napoleon. go
In Appleton's Cyclopedia the following
article appears under the head of Palm
Johann Phillip Palm, a German publisher
born at Schondor, Bavaria, in 1866, ex
ecuted at Brannau, Austria in 1906. In tn
latter year he received for transmission il
the course OF his business, as bookseller a
Neuremburg, pamphlet entitled seer
many in its greatest degradation, +" which re
Elected severely upon Napoleon l., and par
ticularly upon the French troops stationed
in Bavaria. The French Emperor caused
him, to be arrested. and conveyed to Der
nadotte's headquarters ut Anspach. aud mex
to Brannau, where he was put to death
A subscription was raised for his family AM
his biography was published in Munich i
1912"
We present these facts to show how e1
traordinary the contradictions of conduC
and character illustrated in the history G
the marvellous Napoleon. He never taile
IN aHharo ipH.vihiu IN fhOaa xvhO aHhara
to him. In this consists an invaluable les
son which smaller men of as boundles
ambition should never forget, and we Sc
in facts presented how generous " as NapC
leon to Marchaud who was only gres
soldier mot the man frss above described)
and how terrible bis terror of poor dew
ofaprinter. He had the German, Palm
who published the pamphlet against him
put to death while he honored the vetera
hero who as honestly fought against hin
Napoleon must have given origin to the NJ
cepted maxim that the ''pen is mightit
than the sword" We forgot to say tbs
from this printer Palm sud from his 50
fate and honest worth the virtues and nan
aud peculiar devotion to books of "a citize
Of Austin IRE no doubt derved, 81 III
Mark Twain's description of the happie
q
ways dressed in the cast-of clothes Of full
grown men, and they were in perennii
bloom aSd fluttering with rags. HIS h
was . vest rum, with wide crescent Iopps
out Of its brim; his coat when he wore on
hung nearly to his heels, and had the rea
ward buttons far down the back; but Oh
suspender supported his trousers; the SCI
of his trousers bagged low and contains
nothing; the fringed legs dragged in Il
dire when not rolled up. Huckleberry can
and went at his own free will. He slept
doorsteps in fine weather, and in emp
hogsheads In wet; he did not have t. go
school or to church, or cali any beiI
master, ar obey anybody; he could 60 is
ing or swimming when or where he chos
and stay as long IS It suited him; noboC
forbade him to fight; he could sit up as la
rs he pleased; he was always the first b,
that went barefoot. IN the spring and d
last 20 resume leather in the FAN; he new
had 10 wish, nor put on clean clothes;
could swear wonderfully. In word, ever
thing that goes to make life precious th
boy had" !,
A submarine carriage OF most ingenio
descraption has been invented in Paris 4
oroaA n N - ~ hannnf and for NJ her mn rnoe