The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-07-31
ONE OF THE. FIRST NAPOLEON'Sj
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How Ho Lott Some Of His Masters Finery
in Western Pennsylvania. :,


How Ho Loft Some of His Masters Finery
in Western Pennsylvania. =
Writing of the settlement of the
northwestern part Of PENNSYLVANIA,
Pittsburg Dispatch contributor says:
The sober, plodding pioneers were
now and then wakened up by the ap-
pearance in their midst of people about
whom there WAS, the interest of mystery
or. the charm efroara,fce On c alip in
Laad-Agent Gaskell's book, interlaced
between the mention of "a panther
! measuring eleven feet from tip to tip
which Adam Long shot yesterday" and
an account of David Postlethwaits en-
terance into den of wolves back OF his
place. tile fall before, which he: says in
parenthesis twas far braver. feat than
that of "Old PutG he makes brief
reference to certaip Col. Egmont and
his wife. whu appeared in upper Jeffer-
sin in the earliest days. There is no
da.e to the slip, but the Egmonts must
! have arrived about. 1916. This is their
story Us near US it can be recalled:
Col. Egmont had charge OF Napoleon's
travelling chariot and baggage van at
Waterloo. When the battle was lost
and the fight was on, the Emperor ex-
pressed the hope that he might find
passage on an American ship. Fgmont
said, with the expectation of joining
his chief in tho United States,
he, -. with f.. the help OF
some soldiers, got out of the van at
tached to the carriage such boxes of
plate, linon,. ETC., as could be hastily
seized, and, barely escaping capture,
made his waYto;the coast and got on 0
schooner bound for America. He did
not know the Emperor had been inter
Gel pted and put on :. board the Bellero-
phon until be lapded in. New York, and,
as he had not received his. pay, and the
Emperor was them on his way to st.
Helena, he concluded to make the goods
supply his temporary necessities. :, be
waited in New York until his wife or.
rived from Bordeaux. He sold some
things before he left the city, and with
the rest lie aud his wife came into the
woods. With the little money he had
heI engaged from the agent o small,
pattly.improyed farm up the Mahoning
Creek, but he new nothing of labor.
Some of the tabfe linen ,in;his posses
sion was of exquisite: fneness, and, had
the letter "N," surmounted by the i'm
perial crown, embroidered on each
piece. :, = Z..s',' ~ s'.;-:''''s -
After Nine. Egmont had carefully
nica,ed ont the embroidery he sold part
of It to some. appreclatiye housewives
near the agency. who .hadr seen better
days. An old lady, whose daughter
stia has several napkins, said that the
outlines of the. n and crown were plainly
visible .a,er setsral' washings. Egg
mont; as we'll as is:,wife; seemed al
! wa rs anxious and on the alert. The
cabin was kept carefully closed and the
contents OF several chests were never
, displayed, but the use of several richly
; chased gold drinking cups in the ten
der of hospitality to some of the neigh
bors who had been kind to them, led to
the belief that the chests contained
valuable plate belonging to Napoleon.
To The refined and sensitive French
woman the wilderness and isolation Of
their retreat became insupportable.
She so pined for sunny France that the
place was suddenly disposed of and
; with few leave-takings, the Egmonts
/ left Jefferson and were never heard OF
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