Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-08

/ not to hurt him, and said that he had 200,-
900 francs in his pocket, which he would
give to them. He was landed, and begged
| NJ Adam, the Marie, to take the 200, 900
francs Adam said that he would take
care of them, but, with business-hke
habits, chose to count them first. 1t was
| lucky for him, for, when they were count
| ed in the presence of the crowd, there were
found to be only 100000 These l2O, 900
francs, when he was on his trial before the
Peers, he claimed, and the cruel Govern
ment of Louis Philippe let him have them.
| Senior-Did he not show courage at
Magenta?
| Changarnier-He never crossed the
Ticino. He was smoking in house dur
ing the whole time. At Solferino he did
not move or give an order, but he smoked
| fifty-three cigars. We know this, as he
always carries with him little boxes, each
of which contains fifty cigars. One was
quite exhausted, and three had been taken
| out of the other Once spent bell came
near him, but that is the only occasion on
which he could be considered as under fire.
| saw letter from one of the Cent Suisses
to his mother 'You need be under no
anxiety" he said, ''about me- | am with
the Emperor, and therefore out of dan
GER" In fact, none of them were ever
| hit.
Barrot-I hear that he has now become
naughty, irritable and inaccessible that
was not his character when | knew him.
He was then mild, accessible and always
ready to listen. So little effect was gen..
orally produced by ones arguments that |
sometimes doubted whether he really
heard me. When he made me his Minister,
he sent for me, and said that he wished to
talk over with me his system of govern
ment. l said that nothing could be more
satisfactory to me. When man." he
| said. :" is at the head of such nation as
this he is bound to do great things" l
bowed 60 You have read, he said, "my
/ book on pauperism ?" | was forced to ad-
init that | had not. g 1 will give you,
he said can outline of it. l propose
to take all the common lands and to divide
them among the poor families which
want relief" Sc In the first place., | an
swered, "you have no right to take them;
and, if you do take them-if you take the
land on which the peasant feeds his COW
you will create more paupers than you will
relieve And how do you intend that the
paupers will cultivate these lands? Who
is to supply them with capital? Who is
to supply them with industry and with
skill?" Well, he replied, what is to
be done? How am | to provide for the
poor ?" You are not, l said, 'to pro-
vide for them at all. All that You have
to do is to give them peace at home and
abroad, and they will provide for them
selves. This is not brilliant policy it
produces no sudden results, but 1t is a safe
one; and if you follow it, you will go
down to posterIty as one Of the benetactors
of France"
Senior-Do you believe that his italian
policy is deep-laid scheme in order to
have pretense for taking tue Rhine
Barrot-I do not. do not believe that
any of his schemes are deep-laid ] do not
believe that he has any Italian policy. He
hates the Austrians and the Pope. He is
not sorry, perhaps, to see them upset. He
hates the King Of Sardinia too, but is
afraid to stop him. He hates Garibaldi,
but he fears him still more. He would
like to extend our frontiers to the Rhine.
1t would remove the stain on the Bona
parties, that they lost all that the Republi-
cans had gained. But do not believe that
he feels. He is a man in the dark, IL
tdtohne.
called on Madame Cornu,* and found
there NJ. Maury, of the Academy of In
scriptions. He is assisting Louis Napoleon
in his work on Julius Caesar. | asked
after its progress. 7
Maury = Much is finished, and the
materials for the rest are collected. He is
still on his introduction, and is now at the
times of the Gracchi. But some subse-
quent portions are completed, particularly
the story of Catiline.,
Madame Cornu-C atiline was always
one of his favorites. He maintains that
Cicero and Sallust were unjust to him. At
one time he almost thought him patriot
incompris, until he found that he had pill
LACED Africa as Governor, and escaped con-
demnation only by being defended by
Cicero.
Maury-He says, with truth, that if
Catiline had been, as Cicero makes him
out, mere robber, who wished to burn
and pillage Rome he would have raised
the slaves. The Emperor treats him as
the leader of political party-an extreme
one, but not band of robbers and assas-
sins.
Senior-Is the Emperor still absorbed in
his literary work?
Maury-As much as ever. To day when
1 entered he was debating a portion of it.
He thinks much more about it than about
Italy. He does not like the theater, ex-
cepting sometimes farces that amuse him.
He cares little for society. His delight is
to get to his study, put on his dressing
gown and slippers, and work at his his
tory.
Senor-What sort of scholar is he?
Maury-In Latin, far above the average
of educated Frenchmen; perhaps on a par
with educated Englishmen he reads it
without difficulty.
We continued to talk about Louis Ma
poleon after Maury had left us.
Madame Cornu showed me a vase OF
jade, taken from the palace of Pekin, which
he sent to her the day before yesterday.
1t came without the cover. This morning
Thelin, the Emperor's servant, who man.
aged his escape from Ham, brought her the
cover "The Emperor" he said, "spent
all yesterday in looking for it. y
Madame Cornu-Louis Napoleon is
strange being. One who did not know
him would think that he had enough to do
without wasting a day in looking for the
cover of vase. But it is just like him.
His mind wants keeping. A trihe close to
his eyes hides from him the largest object
at a distance. have no doubt that what
Thelin said was true and that he did
spend three or four hours yesterday hunt.
ing for the cover of that vase. He wished
to send it to me, ard for the time that wish
absorbed HIM.
Senior-What are your relations with
him now?
Madame Cornu-We do not meet, but
we correspond. l am his intermediaire
with many of the German literati. get
for him information for his books, as | did
when he was at Ham for his book on ar
tillery. We lived together from our births
till | was about IA and he was about is.
During the first seven Years of this time
he was surrounded with all the splendor
OF court. During the last eight he was
in Germany, looked down on by the Ger
mans-who would scarcely admit the