The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-14

a -ta-i@ bal4AEAr Wuulu napoleon knew.
Joac Murat by name-whom history
viii presently record as the great cavalry
general OF the empire-Was sent with all
speed out to the Champ de Sabl0ns, to
whirl IN the batteries stationed there. In
"a few hours guns were planted around
the Convention hail, and at the nearby
bridges OF the Seine. commanding all lines
Of approach; and at the breeches stood
grim gunlers with lighted matches.
here, then, was business for life OF
death. The insurrection rolled itself I'm
great volumes along the streets. II might
be seen canning on like the sea The Sec
ton Lepelet.er leads the van. The in
surgents get possession Of the church Of
ST. Roch, ne arby, and then Of POnt Neuf.
and then bristle up face 10 face with the
guns Of the Corsican. There is not mo-
ments hesita tiou. The order to fire Is
quick and sha rp. The convention hall is
suddenly shaken 10 foundation stones
loaded with grape and canister Hsrrid
gaps are cut in long bloody alleys through
the iHsurgent mob. INSTRUMENTATION
blown by hundreds 30 horrid death. They
go back before the hail Of destruction.
The national convention is saved. Cen.
Bonaparte has the honor Of suppressing
the last mob Of the French revolutioni
Strange TO note what the effect of all
this was on the man himself. He was
In nOVvise jubis ant Indeed he had hest
tated for a hasf hour before accepting
the place Of general against the revolted
sections. In his report he covered up his
own responsibilities the facts gave him
opportu nifty to do-making it appear, con-
trary to his wont. that not he, but 9TH
ers. had put down the mob He had acted
only und Pr orders Of the national con-
vention nd Gen. Barras! Ever through
life. more over, he looked back with re-
gret 10 this hour and event of his ca
reer Doubtless, at bottom, he was a
Jacobin hin 1self. but he was an imperial
JacObin. The two elements in mis- char
acter did rot consist; the one was at
war with the other.
Thus mucll only is certain. that Napo-
leon would sadly have had mis- great tri-
umph over tie Partisan insurgents blottsd
from the 70, ,ord. No doubt he was at
heart at one with Instruction; but he
was also the friend of order. Long ago
he had witnt ssed, on that memorable
10th Of August. the great mob successful
ly assailng a nd sacking the Tuleries.
Though no adj uirer Of the ldng-though
himself at that time a Jacobin adventur-
er-he neverthel ess longed to see the mob
blown away frol n the ancient palace with
blast from L aded batteries-and said
that he would do IT!
His success in restoring order in the
capital may be aid to have made Napo-
leon famous He had already become an
y
Indeed he held hat relation before his
name was strick IN from the list Of gem
erals in active twice Eleven days after
the suppression Of the Sections he was
made provisona.sy general OF division
and four days aft erwards the provision
ally" was struck out. and he was APP
pointed commander of the army OF the
interior. having as it's central field of
operations Paris itself.
Destiny reserved for the winter of 1885,
9G another capital fact in the life of her
devotee. Napoleon fofnd Josephine. He
first met her at the house OF Barras She
belonged TO the Societe des Victimes-
Society Of the Victims" To enter this
band of tine new eIfe Parisiennes, one
must have lost recently a near relative by
the guillotne! JOsep zine had lost one
her husband The Nicomte Alexandra de
Beauharnais had married Marie Josephine
Rose Tascher. the beautiful Creole OF
Martinique, in December OF 1779. She
was then in her seventeenth year. In 1880
She vicomte came to America with Ro-
chambeau. Afterward he was a deputy
In the states-gene raj, and was twice pres
ident of the National convention He
commanded, under~Custine, at Mentz, in
1893, when that place was surrendered 20
the Germans. To surrender was death.
He was hailed TO trial, condemned and
guillotined only i've days before the col
lapse OF the terror When Robespierre
fell, the Societe des Victimes was formed
The light creatures took wing like butter
flies from the blood pools OF the Place de
la Revolution. They still wore crepe on
their arms when they began to dance anew
in Greek sandals and chignons and classic
al scarfs girdled at the waist. Napoleon
saw one Of them, and admired and loved
SO ne told Burienne, while pointing our
Josephine one evening at a fashionable
cafe. There was swift courtship. A
story goes that Eugene Beauharnais went
to Napoleon TO recover his father the vi
comte's sword, which had been taken at
the disarmament of the Sections The
youth got the sword. kissed IT, won the
generals ympathy-and Madame de Beau
harnais came in to thank her benefactor.
II this happened, she knew him already:
and he knew her. The marriage occurred
on March 9, 1886. The disparity of ages
was six years and two months To close
this chasm, the marriage certificates da-
ted her birth forward four years, and an
tedated his by nineteen months. Docu-
ments must conform to the exegencies of
the great John Clark Ridpath