Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-11

looming up, SO that violent collision
was the result, and how Napoleon
avenged himself by hiding her new
ball dress on the day OF the ball,
were told to us with artless simplic-
ity. Once Napoleon and his youth
| ful companion were beset by an IN.
truly cow, and General Courtyard
!: added TO his other chivalrous deeds,
| in which he gloried, that also of pro-
tecting the little company with bis
drawn sword.
As the years of Napoleon's imprie-
onment went by he yielded cftener
TO fits of melancholy, when be Was
not walking passionately back and
forth, proclaiming the faults of the
marehals, the betrayal of false friends
he unworthy treatment which be
received from bis prison keeper. He
vas particularly surprised that be
was refused the title of emperor ~
| an the Emperor Napoleon" said be
20 the governor, Hudson Lowe, "and
when England and Europe are no
moie, when the name of Lord Bath.
hurst has been long forgotten, l shall
still by called Emperor Often,
hours at time, he would dictate for
his memoirs. How unworthily false
tie statements are in them, how lame
The defence for his ignominious iDju-
ries are known to those who have
read his dictations. One of bis black
ost crimes, the murder of the Duke
If Enghein, he attempts repeatedly
10 defend, or to place the guilt upon
tanother. But, the attempt against
the few faithful followers who ate
with him the bread of Punishment,
did not succeed. The last years of
his life presents an ugly and distor-
ted picture OF man once great. Ma
poleon's sun had set, and set in blood;
bis life henceforth shows only shad-
ows; and the weakness of his char
aeter come out with unplessing
prominence. The great man was
only "a skein of trifies" upon the
Island of St. Halena. He spent the
last days of bis life in continual quar-.
reling with his guards; even to his
most faithful followers he was harsh
and cruel, and in intercourse peevish
and rude. He would often sit for
hours at time upon the bleak noun
tain top, his eyes fixed upon the
broad ocean, yet, oftener, he fingered
at the bubbling spring in tho valley
below, beside which they Afterwards
made his grave. That was his favor
ite place. For him there was no fu-
ture. Bitter sorrow, picking at bis
heart like vulture, terminated his
life. The spirit which easily bears
the heaviest burdens, undermined by
the little daily auuoyances, sucoumb-
ed. He explicitly set aside in his
will the spot beside the spring for his
last resting place.
We descended into the little valley
where the now empty grave OF the
Emperor lies, surrounded by Cypress
es, and overshadowed by weeping
willows. The spring by which he
loved to finger, still flows among
ferns end red geraniums. The viii.
lowe, bent aud decayed by age, arc
scarcely held together by iron bands.
They too will soon fall. We read
these words upon copper plate, fas-
tened to one of the largest trees
Expedition de Chine, 1850 90
lie Fregate La Forte
la menOire du premier empereur
Aout so
1852.
Upon the return of the crews from
China, they visited the grave of their
g
Of the under officers, of the royal
gaufd, points out the places of inter-
est, gratuitously, but she compen.
ssces herself for her trouble by the
saic Of photographs. They carried
OF, at one time, u very lucrative busi-
ness in eli kinds Of relics of Napoleon.
That has now ceased. After she bad
sold dozens of gloves, boots ard hats
OF the we'll known style OF Napoleon,
and hair enough from the head of
the royal dead to stuff child's mat
tress, the authorities forbade decep-
tiou. Our guide complained bitterly
of the folly of English Jurisdiction.
Size had been mbermaid and
travelled much. She had seen enough
veritable crosses to build cottage
of, and more holy, rusty nails than
the merchants in the valley below
had sold in week.
ST.. Helena will never forget the
Emperor.
The COLDER stream, which, flowing
from Englsnd's Golfers, had enriched
aud ornamented the city, dried NJ
with Napoleon's death. With the re-
membrance of Napoleon's soiourn,
are attached the "Reminiscences OF the
prosperity of the inhabitants. His
death marks the beginning of its
downfall and poverty. The return
led US over the steep declivity ofrocks
which shut in the little valley in
which the city is built. Among the
loose bolders the wild geraniums are
growing, and the fieshy Good Luck,
with its red and yellow blossoms,
oreeps. Here and there bush clings
to the hard rocks. The green gar
dens lie below, almost directly be-
meath us. out of which the dark green
tops of the date trees lowered above
the foliage. We formed a truly
stanrge procession as we descended
the mountain and rode through the
city, with two boys clinging to each
horses tail, and whole troop run
ming beside and behind, talking,
laughing aud gestioulating They
had seen us from the ship, and even
pushed out the boat. We had the
opportunity, in the meantime, to adj
mire the readiness OF our youthful
followers for swimming. The light
dress is thrown off in an instant, and
the little black crowd stand around
US like pack of water spaniels, pre-
pared to jump into the water as soon
as the piece of money which we throw
into the sea has left our hand. They
nfien haun a liunlu Rnhf over thu Ettln