Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
ONE OF NAPOLEONS MEN.
How He Left Some of His Masters Finery
In Western Pepnsylvania,

How He Left Some of His Masters Finery
In Western Pennsylvania.
Writing of the settlement of the north
western part of Pennsylvania, a DISPATCH
contributor says:
The sober, plodding pioneers were now
and then walked up by the appearance in
their midst of people about whom there was
the interest of mystery or the charm of ro-
nance On slip in Land Agent Gsskell's s
book, interlaced between the mention of ga
panther measuring II feet from tip to tip
which Adam Long shot yesterday" and an
account of David Postlethwait's entrance
into den of wolves back OF his place the
fall before, which he says in parenthesis
(was far braver feat than that Of "Old
Put"), he makes brief reference to certain
Colonel Egmont and his wife, who appeared
in Upper Jefferson in the earliest days.
There is no date to the slip, but the Eg-
monts must have arrived about 1876 This
is their story as nearly as it can be recalled.
Colonel Egmont had charge of Napoleon's
travelling chariot and baggage van at
Waterloo. When the battle was lost and
the flight was on the Emperor expressed the
hope that he might find passage on an
American ship. Egmont said, with the ex-
pectation of joining his chief in the United
States. he, with the help of some soldiers,
got out of the van attached to the carriage
such boxes OF plate, linen, ETC., as could be
hastily seized, and, barely escaping capture,
made his way to the coast and got
on a schooner bound for America.
He did not know the Emperor had
been intercepted and put on board
the Belleraphon until he landed in
New York, and, as he had not received his
pay, and the Emperor was then on his way
to st. Helena, he concluded to make the
goods supply his temporary necessities. He
waited in New York until his wife arrived
from Bordeaux. He sold some things before
he left the city, and with the rest he and his
wife came into the woods. With the little
money he had he engaged from the agent
small, partly improved farm up the Mahon
ing creek. but knew nothing OF labor. Some
of the table linen in his possession was of ex-
quisite fneness, and had the letter en-"
surmounted by the imperial crown, en-
broidered on each piece.
After Madam Egmont had carefully
picked out the embroidery he sold part of it
to some appreciative housewives near the
agency who had seen better DAYS. An old
lady, whose daughter still has several nap
kins said that the outlines of tine n and
crown were plainly visible after several
washings. Egmont, as we'll as his wife,
always anxious and on the alert.
Their 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 tender Of
hospitality to some neighbors, 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 wildness 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 more.