The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-26

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bear the train of the new empress in
public, II such duty should be re-
CURED OF her, as it had been of the
first Napoleon.
There remained, however, an ar
rangement to be completed which,
though awkward and painful, was yet
positively necessary. In a hotel on
the hue du Cirque dWelt lady who
had been the partner of his days Of
exile and i'll fortune, who had impoy-
crushed herself in his service. and
VINO mad devoted herself to further
ing his aims with a persistency of a
better cause. This lady, the we'll
Known MIS-. Howard, was now to be
got rid OF. A frank and open rupture
was not in the style Of the ideas of
her royal and sphinX-like lover. A
pretended secret mission lured her
from Paris. She learned the truth at
Boulogne, and FASTENED back to her
home. There she found that her ho-
tel had been visited by the police,
and that cabinet wherein she kept
the letters of Louis Napoleon had been
broken open and rifled of it's contents.
Deeply wounded
she mad received she Withdrew, not
without dignity, from all attempt at
contesting the position with her rival.
II go, she wrote to Napoleon, 'sa
second Josephine, bearing with me
your star" TO do justice to the en-
per0r, 1T must be confessed that he
treated her in other respects with
royal Iberality. The title of cOun.
tess of Beauregard and fortune of
u 100000 were allotted to her. She
withdrew to England, where she af-
terwam married. In 1865 a great
longing to behold Paris once more
came upon her. Her youth and beau
ty gone, a worn. disappointed and un-
happy woman for her marriage had
turned out most wretchedly), she re-
turned to Paris only to die. Her eld-
est son succeeded to the title of Count
de Beauregard, and was made consul
at Zanzibar. Since the downfall of
the empire he has lived sort of b.
hemlan existence in Paris, where his
striking resemblance to Louis Napol-
con has won for him the nickname of
the ghos', (le rerenant). Meanwhile
the eparat'ons for the marriage
were proceeding vigorously. The
future empress and her mother had
been installed in apartments at the
Elysee. The household of the roval
bride was already formed, including
the princess OF Essling as chief lady
IN waiting, and the Count afterwards
Duko) Tascher de la Pagerie as head
chamberlain. The nuptial ceremony
took place January 80. The brides
dress was composed Of white velvet,
with veil point d'Angleterre, the
time being too short to have one of
point d Alencon manufactured. The
details OF the ceremony were closely
copied from those of the wedding of
Napoleon l. and Marie Louise. and
the state coach was the same that had
been used at the coronation Of The
great emperor. 1t was Il magnificent
vehicled, covered with gliding and Or
naments. and SO heavy that the eight
fine horses that drew it were less for
show than for actual service. The
ceremony took place in the cathedral
OF Notre Dame, which was illuminat-
ed Tor the occasion with $4,000 wax
lights. The bride was visibly agitat-
ed. She was as pale as death, and her
voice. IN making the responses, scarce
ly audible. No wonder if. in that
hour, premonition of evil weighed
upon her soul. The civil register of
the imperial family-which. preserv-
cd by the devotion of some of the
Bonapartes, had been brought forth
to be used at the civil ceremony
which had taken place the day before
might well have thrilled her with
forbodlngs. The last record inscrib-
ed on those pages had been the birth
OF the king of Rome. How had it
Jared with the scion of Il mighty faith
er! How might it fare with her own
possible offspring!