Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-19

the command for hin (c.
parte was speaking 10 ua .N, @""
which is already causrs mr. Ia
his professional brethren, ait -,
granted DO they believe w
protection to rise They vii. 81. 0s onl
too glad one Of these DAYS N haye u
deigr to grant them mine. Nv sword
by my side, and WITH j, | hal & far iri
loin, memorable boast, recalling tbs
Of Wolfe on the eve OF MS departure tc
Quebec, when he so alarmed and disguise
Pitt. Nine. de Remusat mentions tn
fact in rather less complimentary way
According to her IT,, AL, instead of JC
sephine getting the army for taking tn
husband, popular rumor made the hu,
band get the army Of Italy for taking hcl
at has been said, " she writes, that sh
was the price attached to the command {
the army of Italy; she has assured m
that at that period Bonaparte was real
in love with her. She was undecided be
tween him, Gen. Hoche, and NJ. de Cav
laencourt, who also loved her.
| have seen Napoleon's letters to his vii
during the first Italian campaign,
in an almost undecipherable handwriting
the photography faulty, the style odd an
confused. But in them there reigns s
passionate a love, In them are found senti
ments so strong, expressions so animated
and, at the same time, so poetic a love- S
different from all other loves, that there i
no woman who would not have prize,
such letters. They formed piquant con
trast with the elegant and measured goo,
taste of those Of NJ. de Beauharnais.
= On the eve Of one of his creates
battles, Bonaparte wrote; Behold m
here, far from thee! | seem to have fallel
into the deepest gloom. | need the deadl
light Of the thunderbolts we shall launc
upon our foes, to grope my way out of tn
obscurity into which thine absence ha
cast me. Josephine, thou vast weeping
when ! left thee. Weeping! My who'll
being shudders at the thought, but, ther
be calm; Wurmser shall pay dearly 70
the tears l saw thee she'd. And next da
Wurmser was beaten" Now, poSsihl
because we have read so many of Napo
Icons bulletins, which were in prccisel
this "Ercles vein, and because we know
how he concocted them, we are not in
clined to attach much importance to thi
lovc-letter as n proof Of Bonaparte's rea
passion for Josephine, though we are will
ing enough to admit that the reception o
such letter would impress a susccptibl
and somewhat vain woman. Let us not
here, by the way, commonly ignore,
detail-at the time of their marriage botl
Napoleon and Josephine falsiiicd the rec
ord, he adding year to his age and sh
deducting four years from hers.
Napoleon letters, Nine. de Remusa
tells us, reveal the agtations Of a jcal
ousy now brooding, now threatening.
"Mme. Bonaparte, in that life Of triumphS
victories, and license, sometimes inspire,
her victorious husband with uncasiness,
while, when he went to Europe, he carrie,
with him suspicious, fed for their own pur
poses by his brothers Lucien and Joseph
and when he returned his mind was har
rowed by the reports the former had sen
him in his letters. She posted to NEE
HIM, but missed him, and, returning
found him already arrived and locke,
within his room. She called to him +
open the door, but he answered that h
would never again open IT for her. Sh
fell on her knees, and lmplOred HIM IN he
name and in the name of her children, Lu
IN VAIN. Not TILL 4 clock IN the morning
did he open the door and appear with
stern face, but one marked with evidence
OF tears, to reproach her bitterly with tn
wrongs, real or invented, enumerated b
Lucien, and announce his intention t
have separation; Il Will be your pro
tector, however, he said to Eugene
NO, General, | will share my m 1ther
fortune, replied the SON, 50, fare we'll.
These words shook Nap. leon iirmness
he opened his arms weepingly to Eugene
his wife and Hortense clnng around HI
knees. and In q little while all was fol
given. Indeed, Sd completely did Jose
phiue regain her sway over him that sh
induced him to send for Lucien at
O'Clock, when the brother was brough
plump into their bedroom, where tn
couple, having made 1t up, at that momen
were occupying the same bed.
Of this manifestation Of Napoleon jeaI
ousy Bourrienne has left us striking pic
ture. II was in Syria, in 1893, that Boul
rienne saw Junot walking with BonapartC
who was more pallid than usual, with hi
features convulsed and his eyes wild, an
subsequently heard him vow to "extermi
nate all that race of dandies, and for her
divorce, divorce, public and conspicuou
divorce" Bourrienne declares that, il
stead of the coldness between Bonapart
and Josephine lasting only some hours {
one night, it was not until after thre
DAYS, during which Bourrienne did tn
pleading, and not Josephine (whom h
would not see), that the husband gay
way. According to Bourrienne, Junt
had mentioned to Napoleon the name
Murat as the adulterer in this particula
instance. Bourrienne, however, adds h
belief that Josephine had affected an il
terest in Murat so as to captivate hin
marry him to Caroline Bonaparte, an
have an ally against her sister-ln-law.
his Notes on the Hundred Days" 81
mondi has an interesting passage, as fc
lows:
"Nanoleon greatly loved his wife ar
was tenierIv beloved NV her. novertbeIe 10
she was n creole Of nassionnie and arde,
tamnerament an % and sbe was an,Itv Of mn, ,
in6delitles Nanoleon knew II md II
knowledoo threw him into sr;ohtfnl Sts
anger 6ur;ng his t;rst car cam mnaiou % in W Ito
ba J;sr;ssad from ms his % staff sevaral % 81 Ios Ss
nb;ne's odm;rer,. he m ban;sbod otbers ". 1T III
his b return from Egvnt on hnt none T' Of ths s
we're denrived of iife or libertv V When Vi @ /
came hack from Egvnt snndry roonio 4;
nIaved n GOOD deal If mal;cs irVgai IN Iait;n in
him know all that his wife had don lon