Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-31


 then ieutenant-eolonel in the alleged National Guards, he had undertaken to get possession of the citadel of Ajaccio, and had failed His leadership, like rod of glass, broke to fragments in his hands He and the whole Bonaparte family were discountenaneed, and he was glad to get away-being careful to carry with him military record which he himself had prepared and the colonel of the Second Battalion had signed, showing his patriotic military services and his rank as an officer. With this he would regain his lost position in the French army.
 At Valenee, there was still much in Napoleon $ favor. The royal army was literally going to pieces. The organiza- tien of the National Guard in various parts of tie kingdom had drawn off many of tka officers and infected many more with the disease of patriotism. The colonel of the Fourth Regiment was an old royalist who had gladly cut off the Jacobin Bonaparte from his con- mand. It was useless for the latter to return to Yalenee, hoping to be rein stated at such a court. lie therefore made all speed for Paris, where he would have hearing before the minis ter of war.
 By the summer of 1792 the roaring winds of revolution were shaking not only the pinnaoles, but the very founda- tions, of French civilization The old order was already in ruins Paris was in an uproar The King and court had been obliged in the preceding autumn to leave Versailles and come, ill the most remarkable procession in history, to Paris. The starving populace had gone out to the royal palace, invaded it, hooted around it, drawn forth the King and Queen and their ill fated scion, and had hurried them off into the city, danc- ing about them en route and shouting in wild jooularity that now they had the baker and the bakeress and the bak- CTS little boy All this wreck of royal ty and nobility heaped itself up in the Tuileries, out of which the ancient monarchy of the Bourbons looked with wan face at the weltering world.
 It was to this Paris that Napoleon came, with billet of dismissal and pe- tition for reinstatement. One war min ister after another, to the number of six, had now filled the important office before which Bonaparte stood a peti- tioner for rehearing. The new minister was Nationalist and favorably dispos- ed towards the Corsican adventurer; for the latter came with a haggard revolu- tionary face and long hair hanging to his shoulders. There was delay in the office; and Bonaparte, with his former Aschoolfellow and future secretary, Bour- eienne, was well nigh starving in the treetS.
 To add to his distress, the Royal Pchool for Girls at Saint Cyr, under the Immediate patronage of Marie Antoi- lette, went to pieces, like other exist ng Shings; and Elise Bonaparte was arned adrift with no friend in France scepS her sullen brother. To the credit
 the latter, he elung to his sister, and esently took advantage of her presence
 get another leaUe Of absence, lin or-
 to conduct her home. But he did
 ldo so until his cause in the war-of-
 Tad, on the Both of August, been
 oted in his favor. He was exoner-
 a'vestored to rank. promoted to a
 callcy, and to crown all the new com
 nl was dated back to the preceding
 Feby
 vas great victory for the man
 ol u. He was Captain Bonaparte.
 iaHilhse by the hand, he sped away
 to hy nd Yalence-where he paused
 ~ v 5n his new regimentals-an
 snen vsseilles and Corsica. His re-
 'uln = Altogether at Ajaccio all the
 meiiipe os. the family of Bonaparte.
 1o l1l nd in Paris the Countess
 oosepn' ieauharnais, aged twenty
 Hapsburgla nina montbs old lios
 the girl-basr;a T,onisa T Thase - t,ro Ire,