The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-06-06

from the sacred ground. An
investigation and trial followed.
Public sentiment would not permit
sentence of death, but banishment of
"a was found inevitable. De Rudio was
one OF them. On board the ship carry
ing the exiles to an inhospitable part of
Spain occurred a mutiny, and the ves-
sci was forced to land at Cartagena.
The league of Mizzini had spread into
France, and in March, 1851, De Rudio
became an active agent; or, as he terms
it, ' a missionary After travelling
over the greater part of France he ar
rived in Paris in time to see the Decem-
Der massacre of that year, and join a
barricade. From Paris he had to fly.
He found-Switzerland favorable cline.
From there he returned to Genoa, was
recognized and expelled second time.
Back to Switzerland and then to Turin,
where he was personally unknown.
Passing under another name he was all
this time "a missionary" keeping alive
the embers of royal hate. 1t was a
revolution. In 1858, Mazzini, De Rudio,
| and 19 others were banished from
Switzerland under the operations of in
ternational law. They were given their
choice, England or America. De RudiO
answered England, asitwas nearer Italy,
to which country he intended to return.
He went back, as his missionary duties
required, was arrested and banished
another time.
THE NAPOLEONIC PLOT.
Louis Napoleon had belonged to the
Italian association of patriots, had
proven a traitor, and was then, in 1853,
in the way of a successful political revo-
luton. His death would turn all Eu-
rope topsy-turvy, and give the oppressed
hearing. On the 10th of January,
1858, de Rudio dropped into Paris. He
was there by appointment. He was a
fellow-conspirator of Felice Orsini. 1t
was planned that the Emperor should
die at one of his grand balls, at the
hands of a guests dagger. De Rudio
| called that ignoble, assassination, GRIM
inal. He said: g Kill him when he is
surrounded by his lancers in the public
street, when he has every guard thrown
around his imperial person!' The plot
was changed, and the now historical
scene of January IA, 1858, followed. De
Rudio's book gives a picture of the
drama in front of the Grand Opera
House that is remarkably distinct.
There were five hand d-grenades or bomb
shells to be thrown-three into the
royal carriage and one some distance in
front and one in the rear, to keep back
the crowd until the conspirators were
sure of their work and escape. The
Emperor's carriage, with the Emperor
and Empress Eugene in it, approached
the Grand stairway of the Opera House
through file of lancers on either side.
De Rudio says he was standing imme-
diately behind the soldiers when the
carriage came up, watching the con-
spirator who was commissioned to
throw the first grenade. When
he saw his arm make a curve through the
air, De Rudio dropped to the ground;
quick as the explosion occurred he
raised himself up and tossed his grenade
over the heads of the lancers, and again
dropped, waiting for Orsini to throw
the third one, but Orsini was blinded
by the smoke from De Rudio's shell,
and wounded in the head; this miss of
Orsini kept the conspirators from throw
ing their grenades until it was too late;
one more was thrown out of its order
De Rudio's shell fell under the front
wheels, killing the horses, the coach
man and tearing out whole side of the
carriage. There was the widest dis
may. 1t was an attack in the dark. The
lancers fell back, the crowd scattered,
the horses plunged to the right and left,
and confusion confounded reigned su-
preme. De Rudio's design was to dash
through the lancers and finish his Ma
jesty with dagger if the grenades fail
ed. Orsini's blindness prevented the
execution of that part of the plot. De
Rudio knew that his own life was worth
nothing if he broke for the carriage be-
fore the third grenade was thrown. He
therefore waited until the third explo-
sion occurred The delay in
delivering it, and the fact that it was
thrown by the fourth man, instead Of
the third, demoralized the working of
the plot and gave the iancers time to
rally and surround the carriage. De
Rudio saw that personal knowledge
of the Emperor's death was
impossible at that time. He with
drew from the scene. There had been
several killed, and any amount of con-
sternation created, and our conspirator
was pretty well satisfied that the object
of his attack was dead. He rapidly
realized that all Paris was startled, and
before sunrise all France would be. 1t
was night of terror in the city. The
extent of the conspiracy was secret to
all except the conspirators. There was
universal dread of all the possibilities of
a Commune. During the night there
We're 81 killed and III wounded. The
storm passed, and the Emperor and