Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-13
NAPOLEON cRossINa THE ALPs.

NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS.
 Egypt. Thiers says that the Direotorial Republic exhibited at this time scene of distressing confusion.
 The ambition of Napoleon found in this situation a fitting opportunity. The Directors were Sieyes, Barras, Duoos, Moulins and Gohier. The legislative branch of tho government consisted of a Senate, or Council of Anoients, and Council of Five Hundred. The latter constituted the popular branch. Of this body Lueien Bonaparte. brother of the General, was president. Hardly had Napoleon arrived in the capital when conspiracy was formed by him with Sieyes, Lucien, and others of reYolu- tionary disposition, to do away by coup with tho too democratic system, and to replace 1t with stronger and more centralized order. The Council of Anoients was to be brought around by the influence of Sieyes. To Lueien Bon aparte tho more difficult task was as- , signed of controlling and revolutioniz- Sing the Assembly. As for Napoleon, Sieyes procured for him the command of the military forces of Paris; and by another decree the sittings of the two legislative councils were transferred to St Cloud,
 The 18th Brumaire of tho Year VIII, corresponding to the 9th of November 1799, was fixed as the day for the revo- lution. To Napoleon the crisis was an epoch of fate. Tho conspiracy embraced the resignation of Sieyes, Barras and Ducos, whioh-ooming suddenly on the appointed morning up the Di- rectory. Bonaparte then put out his hand as commander of the troops. Too late the Republicans of the Council of Five Hundred felt tho earthquake swell ing under their feet. Napoleon appeared at the bar of the Assembly, and attempt cd a rambling and incoherent justifioa- tion for what was going on. A motion was made to outlaw him; but the sol diers rushed in; and tho refractory } members were seized or expelled. A few who were in with the revolution re- mained, and to the number of fifty voted decree making Sieyes, Bonaparte and Ducos provisional Consuls, thus con ferring on them the supreme executive power of tho State By nightfall the business was accomplished, and the man of Ajaeoio slept ill the Tuileries.
 The new order was immediately made organic There could be no question when Three Consuls were appointed and Bonaparte one of tho number, which of the three would be First Consul. He would be that himself; the other two d l1 a alrn his unit 100. The new system was de- fined as tho Provisionary Consulate; but this form was only transitional. The s managers of tho coup went rapidly for ward to make it permanent. The Const1- tuition of the Year III. gave place quick ly to the Constitution of the Year VIII. which provided for hn executive govern ment, under the name of the CONSU- LATE. Nominally the Consulate was to be an executive committee of three, but really an executive of ofe-with two associates The three mon chosen were Napoleon Bonaparte, Jean Jacques Cambaceres and Charles Francois Le- brun. On Christmas day, 1790. Napo' leon was made FIRST CONSUL; and that slgnifled the beginning of new order, destined to endure for sixteen and a-half years, and to end at Waterloo.
 This era in Bonaparte's life marks the beginning of the union in him of great military and great political power. Henceforth he was destined, to the end of his career, to be the State of France. 10 his will all things now became rap Idly subservient. His ascendency was henoeforth the most striking example of merely personal power that the world has witnessed since the days of Julius Caesar Of certainty, History, begot- Len by Reason in the womb of Eternity.