Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-07-24

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The late Prince Louis Napoleon.
killed By the Zuius in South Africa,
celebrated his twenty-lhird birthday in
March. born three years after Nap0-
leau'a marriage to Eugenie de Monii-
q. he was ccnfded to N English purse.
about twenty-five years old. strong.
handsome, Of very j0vial disposition and
pleasing manners. People who have
seen Zamacois' beautiful painting,
eThe E1neation az = Prince, have
sesn good likeness II Der: = Ar ~
regards The costume Il is perfect ptT4
trait. The prince was slender and had
> mild, pleasing countenance; his ears
we're rather TOO large, and on this ac-
count the Parisians, for whom nothing
Is sacred, and who always find nick
name for everybody, called him Prince
OreiIlard." His christening by Cardi-
nal PatrizI, as representing Pope Plus
TX, was gorgeous court display. The
empress showed herself real mother
TO the boy, often spending her entire
days and nights beside his cradle in
spite Of court etiquette and the empe-
r0r's remonstranees. She had her re-
ward in the boundIess affection that the
child learned to feel for her-a love
which has known no diminution.
His father, though be loved the boy
very dearly, rarely Petted him save in
public. One day the boy, then perhaps
Eve years old, was crying with tooth
ache. The emperor scolded him, say
ing that the future emperor Of France
should be above all such weakness.
'sBut it hurts me awfully, papa" re-
piled the boy. 'fNo matter" sternly
rejoined the hero Of Sedan; "stop up
your ears with your fingers, and you
will not feel the pain" The boy
glanced at him in amazement, but fol-
lowed his fathers advice, and ten min
utes later announced that the pain was
over.
Mild and amiabIe as he was, he oc-
casionally yielded to temper when his
pIaymates, the sons ofDr. COnneau and
Gems. Fleury and Espinasse, were not
ready to obey his whims. ''I am Ma
poleon," he said one day to young Es-
pinasse, who had refused to race with
him; "woe TO him who will not obey"
His father overheard him, and the boy
was condemned to bread and water for
twenty -four hours. The young prince,
when little BOY, could not be induced
to mount pony until he had been
threatened with the severest punish
ments, so much did he fear \ tumble.
Afterward he became iine horseman.
His favorite pastime was to listen to the
music that the band Of the Imperial
Guard played daily in the court Of the
Tuileries. He took such strong lik-
ing for the cornet player of the band,
Dufour, that he would not consent to
the latter's retiring with the others.
Often, when all the others had gone,
the colossal M. Dufour was seen either
standing before the diminuiive prince
to play the cornet, or carrying him
around n his arms for hours and hours
in succession. One day the empress
was talking with some Of her ladies' Of
honor about q certain marriage which
had recently taken place. al, too, will
get married." said the boy; 81 will
marry M. Dufour." Young Louis was
frequently requested by his tutor, Gen.
Froissard. 10 be prudent; "a prince"
he was told, "shouId never commit him
self one way or the other" A short
while after he had been reminded Of
this duty, the son Of Gen. Fleury asked
him whether he was hungry. al
would not like to express any opinion
on the subject" young Louis gravely
replied.
Some two or three years ago Prince
LOUIS accompanied hIs mother on a Jour-
ney through Austria and Italy. They
travelled as the Countess and Count Of
PierreIonds. but their identity was no.
where q secret, and they were received
with the highest consideration every
where, except at Vienna, where, IL is
said, the ex-empress was.reiused an au-
dience at court. Perhaps the memory
of the campaigns Of 1859 and 1865,
which deprived the Austrian crown Of
Lombardy and Venice, was still too
fresh in the mind OF the Austrian SOW
ereign. On their way TO England the
empress and her son had asked peFmis-
sion 10 cross France, but they were po-
IiteIy advised 20 take another route.
On the Belgian frontier young gen.
lIeman was arrested because Of bis re-
semblance 20 the prince imperial, espe-
cialIy in his thorough English style Of
dressing. Il was said that this journey
Of the prince abroad had as its object .
marriage; another rumor was that IL was
undertaken for the purpose Of forming
an alliance between the Pope, Austria
and the Bonapartes at the expense Of
Italy. Though with little profit, pro-
paganda has been constantly carried on
ia France foT the destruction of the re-
public. Prince Louis lent himself ton
intrigues, but be certainly intended 10
recover the throne that hss father had
lost. For The peace Of Europe and The
triumph Of the republic has death is pro-
vidential.-.F. Y. Sam.
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