The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1874, Page 7

THR PRINCE IMPERIAL, Herald Special Report from London. * Preparations for the Bonapartist Fete at Chiselhurst. COMING OF AGE IN EXILE. ‘Victoria’s Honor to Na- poleon’s Heir. a A ad MHE GARTER AND THE COFFIN PLATE. Agitation in Paris—Fears of a Demonstration. EMPRESS AND SON. Pen Portraits of Eugenie, the Prince and the Bonapartist Leaders, TELEGRAMS TO THF NEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Henatp has been received from our cor- respondent in the British metropolis: — Lonpvon, March 16, 1874. There is an enormous influx of French vis- Jtors. The tickets which have been distributed authorizing the holders to be present at the Bonaparte celebration at Chiselhurst already exceed 5,000. RUEEN VICTORIA’S PRESENT AND MEMENTO MORI. Among numberless presents which have been forwarded to the Prince Imperial Queen Victoria has sent the Windsor flag and the insignia of the Order of the Garter; also a+ brass plate to be placed on the late Emperor's Barcophagus, bearing an inscription that it is dedicated by Queen Victoria to his memory. THE CEREMONIES OF THE DAY. The programme for the ceremonial on Monday, the 16th inst., is as follows:— Mass will be celebrated’ at eleven o'clock in the forenoon; there will be a reception at Camden House from one to five o'clock in the afternoon ; the Duke de Padoue will read an | address, and the Prince Imperial will de- liver a reply. PARIS AGITATED, Reports from Paris express fears of a dem- onstration in the capital. The change which has been made in the Electoral law, | coupled with the distress which exists among the working classes, has a tendency in favor of the cause of the Imperial Prince. Dynastic Rupture with Prince Napo- leon. Parts, March 15, 1874. The Pays publishes correspondence which shows that the Empress Eugénie and her son have finally broken off relations with Prince Napoleon, because he has refused to go to | Chiselhurst on Monday next. THE BONAPARTISTS. Bkotches of the Imperialist Leaders—Tho Empress, the Prince Imperial, Eugene Rouher, Duke de Padoue, J. Pietri, Clement Duvernois, Paul de Cas- agnace-Circular and Counter Cireu- lar. Paris, Feb. 24, 1874, About the time this reaches America the wires | will probably be flashing the news of Bonapartist doings. The Prince Imperial—or Napoleon IV., as his party call him—will complete his eighteenth | year on the 16th of March, and, by virtue of the rule established on all sovereign houses, he will be of age to rule without a council of regency. | The Duke of Padua has issued a circular inviting | the Bonapartists to form committees all over France and organize the deputations which are to proceed to Chiselhurst on the 16th of March. The Prime Minister, Duke de Broglie, has replied by a counter circular to the prefects, warning these functionaries that no official of any sort who draws salary from the government is to take part in the manifestations, under pain of dismissal, This will not detract much irom the number of those who go to salute Napoleon 1V. They already promise to be’ anarmy. They may be a host, though M. Rouher, to obviate any chance of mortification, has taken care to state that he shall be content with 600 or 700 pilgrims to-day. Under these circumstances and in view of the political movements that may occur in France for the purpose of organizing a plcdiscite and an im- perial restoration, it may please Americans to | have a familiar account of the leading personages of the Bonapartist faction. Let us begin with THE EMPRESS EUGENIE. Eugénie Marie de Montijo was born at Grenada, Spain, on the 5th of May, 1826, and is conse- | quently—although no one would guess the fact | Those who | from her face—forty-elght years old. ‘believe in the omens of dates will note that the Sth of May is one famous in Bonapartist annals, for it is that on which Napoleon I. died. However, when Eugénie was born nothing seemed more im- probable than that she would ever marry a crowned head, for her mother did not occupy the brilliant position which court biographies and memoirs would have us think. Her maiden name was Kirkpatrick-Uloseburn. She was de- scended from a Scotch family, and was married to the Count of Montijo and Teba, who was a grandee of the first class, but who had not much money, From some reason, too, the Count of Montijo soon tired of bis wife’s company, and the pair were Separated long before the Count's death. With her two daughters—ior Engénie had an elder sis- ter—the Countess then travelled from country to | country, and spent some years in London, wiere she lived in retiremens, and went little tito society. On leaving London, which, it is said, she found too expensive, Mme. de Montijo returned to Spain and resided for about three years in different parts of | the peninsula, her place of predilection being Seville. But towards the year 1845 she came to Paris, and some documents found at the Prefec- ture de Police, under the Commune, brought to light the following queer notes about her :—“There ig staying at No, 45 Rue St. Antoine, in a rather shabby apartment on the third floor, a Mme. de Montijo, who professes to be the wife of a Spanish grandee. Her style of living is modest and she receives no visits from ladies; but three or tour times a week @ number of gentlemen, principally foreigners, come and spend the even- ing with her and play cards. It is presumable that they are attracted as much by the beauty of Mme, de Montiio’s two daughters as by the wish to gamle.” On the margin of this police note the | Prefect of that time, M. Delessert, had written, | “Find out whether Mme. Montijo is reaily the wife | of a nobleman; and on @ paper appended to the | above was this brief statement, “Mme. de Montijo | 1s really what she asserts she is, the wife of the Count of that name, but the couple were virtually divorced three years after marriage, and ihe [ Countess professes to live on her jointure of ; 10,000 francs a year.” The word ‘professes’? was underlined in both notes and it is evident that the authorities supposed that the foreign lady oerivead the larger share of her in- come irom the maintenance of one of those private gambling saloons which have | at all times been common in Paris, Whether this was the case or no need not be conjectured, but, | ifthe tact were true, it would entail none of the discredit which attends the encouragement of gambling in other lands, seeing that the French look upon games of hazard with a wondrous re- spectand affection, As to the note about the beauty of Mme, de Moutijo’s daughters, nothing that could bave been said on this head would have been exaggerated, for they were both lovely to an astonishing degree, and were, moreover, known as + FAST GIRLS, But not fast in any evilsense, They were well guarded by their mother, and had all the virtues and modesty of Well bred young ladies; but they rode a good deal, dressed exuberantly, and in the flying excursions which they made now and then to Spaim they delighted in bull fights, masked bails and other amusements of a dashing kind, It was during one of those excursions that, being at ,a bull fight one day, the two pretty Montijo girla were seen by the Duke of Alba, and this circumstance led toa very romantic pas- sage in the life of the future Empress of the French. The Duke of Alba was immensely rich | and bore one of the finest names in the kingdom. He was also young, handsome, amiable and charm- ing in every way, 80 that it was an exciting day for the two sisters when he obtained an introduc- vion to their mother and began to visit at their | house with assidulty. He came every day and | would sit for hours and chat. In the evenings he came again, and whenever the Montijos were tobe seen, whether at theatre, promenade or party, there was the Duke of Alba dancing attendance on them and exciting fine storms of jealousy in the breasts of other Spanish young ladies who pined to vear his coronet. For a long time, however, there was no telling which of the sisters he pre- ferred, and the point was only solved on the day when he proposed to the eldest one. Eugénie, who, perhaps loved the Duke,or who per- haps bad simply aspired aiter the manner of young ladies all the world over to make @ dazziing marriage, was cruelly wounded by her disappointment, and in the first burst of her grief tried to commit suicide. You | will not find this little episode in official histories; | but it is a true one, nevertheless, and well known to all who are versed in the private chronicles of society. Eugénie swallowed poison; an antidote was administered in time; but the drug left a trace behind it in the shape of an occasional twitching of the mouth, which has not disappeared | to this day. Eugénie could not then foresee HER IMPERIAL DESTINY, but the time was rapidly approaching when she was to eclipse her sister in @ way as startling as it | Was unexpected. Thanks to the wealth and rank | ofthe Duke of Alba the position of the Montijos ‘was now very different to what it had been betore | | the marriage. The Countess was no longer obliged to live in @ third floor lodging of asecond rate | street, nor to lay herself open to the suspicion of keeping a card saloon. She set up sumptuously for a time in the Duke of | Alba’s house in Madrid, and in 1851, when she went | back to Paris, hired a mansion in the Champs Ely- sées and became a regular frequenter of the parties given ‘by the President, Prince Louis Napoleon, at the Elysée, It should be mentioned that this re- | turn to Paris, which was to lead to such high | results, had not been undertaken spontaneously | | by the Countess, but bad been in a manner forced upon her by her ducal son-in-law. The Duke of | , Alba liked to be master in his own house: Mme. de Montijo, who had a fairly meddlesome and domi- neering temper, loved to be mistress too, so that the | Duke would have ended by leading a difficult time | of it if he bad not hit on the easy expedient | of allowing his mother-in-law 100,000 francs a year provided sne wouid live abroad. This she did, as above said, in a fine style, and her daughter Eugénie was enabled to appear everywhere dressed with | the grace and richness suited to her wonderful | beauty. It became a marvel to everybody at | this time how a girl of such attractions as Mlle. de Montijo remained so long with- out finding a husband. She was twenty- five, and yet seemed in =no- hurry | whatever to be married. An English earl, an | American banker, @ young cousin of the Duke of Alba’s, both wealthy and titled, all proposed to her, and go did shoals of Frenchmen, among whom was & famous novelist, who ts still living. But to all of them Eugénie said ‘no,’ not heartlessly, but with a firmly settled purpose, as if her good genius were whispering to her that she would lose nothing by being patient, And so it befell that at a ball | given by the President at the Elysée, some nights | only before the coup d'état, Mile. Eugenie met HER FUTURE EMPEROR AND HUSBAND. The manner of meeting was somewhat romantic, Louis Napoleon did not much care for the crush of | | ballrooms, and he had chosen a propitious moment to escape with his friend, Edgard Ney, the Duke of La Moskowa, into the Elys¢e gardens, when he came suddenly upon a radiant, blushing girl, | who was trying to do up her hair alone, opposite a glass in the conservatory. Her | hair had come down during a waltz, and the crowd | was too great to admit of ner girl’s reaching the ladies’ dressing rooms, 80 she had glided in here, hoping to be unobserved. Louis Napoleon, seeing her in this strait, gallantly gave her his arm and | | led her round by the private apartments to the | aressing rooms in question, and from this day there was mutual regard between the President and the fair stranger. During the following | twelve months Mme. de Montijo and her daughter | were lnvited as guests at all the Presidential resi- dences —Fontainebleau, Compiégne, St. Cloud—and it escaped nobody that the Prince paid Mlle. Eugénie an inordinate amount of attention. No | one supposed, however, that these attentions could end in marriage, for the President, having | performed his coup a@’état, was on the point of be- coming Emperor, and it was no secret that his | ambassador at Munich was trying to arrange a | match for bim with a princess of Bavaria, The King of Bavaria refused to give away his relative to a prince whom he styled an ‘“adven- turer,” and then it was that Louis Napoleon, | | much mortified at heart, resolved not to expose himself to further rebuffs in courting royal prin- cesses. Possibly Mme. de Montijo had been wait- ing her opportunity, for, two days after the news of , the Bavarian snub had begun to get bruited, she begged a private audience of the Prince, and told bim that as his attentions toward her daughter were beginning to excite comment, she had the intention of leaving France. This was at St. Cloud where the mother and daughter were both stay- ing. The Prince asked Mme. de Montijo to tarry one day more, for he might then have something to say to her, and he employed these twenty-four hours in acquainting his Ministers with his deter- mination to marry Mile. Eugénie. The news tell upon them like a shell, Nothing of this kind had been apprehended by any one, and both Count de Morny, M. de Persigny and Eadgard Ney earnestly implored the Prince | not to contract such a mésalliance. But | Louis Napoleon was inexorable. The communica- | gon was made tothe Cabinet on the 25tn of No- | vember. On the 2nd of December the Prince was proclaimed Emperor; on the 23d of January the coming marriage Was officially notified to the | | French people, and on the 30th of January it was ' golemnized at Notre Dame. It is certain that | NAPOLEON NEVER REPENTED OF HIS CHOICE. ‘Yhe new Empress possessed all the charms of | manner and person which can adorn a throne; and | of the signal gentieness and tact which she always | discharged in sovereign duties it ts needless to | speak here, These ate only notes on the less well- known side of the Empress’ career. Napoleon IIL’s consort grew popular at Court from the first as a lady of infinite kindness, quick but generous of temper, brave and simple minded. {tis asingular | always exerted in an unobstrusive way, and was | cite, there is scarcely one that is not paid for by the | made a vow that | less Greek, but a good deal of horsemanship and | to the Bar Le speedily acquired the reputation | | of fact that, although she ruled eighteen years over the French she never so mastered their language as to speak it without Spanish accent, nor learned to write it without faults m spelling, Perhaps this was because she had litte time for study. and was not of a mood studious enough to avail herself of time even nad she had it, Her favorite books were the novels of Edmond About and Arsene Houssaye, and her pet paper the Vie Varisienne, There wis always an impression abroad that she took an ardent part in politics, and the Parisians disliked her in consequence ; but it may be said that her political inntuence was characterized by good sense and prudence. This was owing probably to the fact that she had not her mother by her to pour too energetic counsels into her ear. Napoleon III., who had early formed the same opinion of his mother-in-law as the Duke of Alba had done before him, had finally stipu- lated that this clever lady should betake herself away from Paris and never return to it, Nor did she return to it. When the Empress wished to see her mother she went to Biarritz, and met her, as it were, on the Spanish frontier. At other times she resided in Madrid, keeping up such high state that her mansion was a rival Court to Isabella's, Since the fall of the Second Empire the Empress bas been living in England, at Chiselhurst, and spending a great deal of money to enliven the Bonapartist propaganda, Despite the declarations which have been made to the con- trary, the Emperor was very rich. He had saved enough to insure his son a truly princely revenue in case of adversity; and for some ume after the war those Bonapartist papers in Paris, the Gaulots, Pays and Ordre, were supported wholly by sub- sidies irom Chiselhurst. Tue Ordreis so supported still, and of the innumerable Napoleonic pam- phlets, songs and tracts which are at this moment being circulated over France to advocate a plebis- Empress. Her Majesty has a firm faith in the restoration of her son, and it is whis- Pered among her intimates that believing, as she does, im _ Spiritualism, she ‘has frequently consulted the spirits through the medium of Mr. Home and has been assured by them that sie ‘will die in her bed at the rebuilt Tuileries and that Napoleon IV. will avenge the misfortunes of Napoleon III.” So be it. Mean- while the Empress in her widowhood has been sur- rounded by the universal deference of English” men, even of those who feel no sympathy for the cause with which her name is identified; and Chiselhurst has thus been not wholly a house of mourning to her. She speaks English very well and writes it better than she does French, A few words now about THE PRINCE IMPERIAL, OR NAPOLEON IV. Louls Eugene Napoleon was born on the 16th of March, 1856. When two years of her married life had passed without the birth of an heir his mother if a son were given her she would build a chapel to the Virgin, and this votive church was built on a grand scale at Vincennes, in 1857, The young Prince had an English nurse provided for him, and he re- mained under her charge till his seventh birthday, so that he spoke English before he could pronounce his own tongue, and he speaks It still with remark. able fluency and a pure accent. All through his childhood and boyhood the Prince Imperial had an inseparable companion in the person of young Louis Conneau, son of the Dr. Conneau who abetted Louls Napoleon’s escape trom Ham, and this boy, who ig his daily companion to this hour, as been as good as a second tutor to the Prince, 80 keen witted is he and so frank, Inhisearly tutors the Prince was not very fortunate. One man was found who began teaching his pupil re publicanism; the next one turned out to be allliated to the Society of Jesus, and was dis- missed before he could mould the boy’s mind to ultramontane ideas. The Emperor then fastened on General Frossard, who was popularly supposea to be a military eagle, and who proved himsel! at Forbach to bea military goose. Under this warrior, more courtly than eruaite, the Prince Imperial learned a smattering of mathematics, little Latin, fencing. Ae also learned history, but that was be- cause he liked it and studied it by himself, A quiet-mannered boy, naturally shy and disposed to become more so by the diplomatic reserve contin- ually inculcated upon him, the Prince had, never- theless, from nis earliest childhood, a considerable fund of shrewdness, and he used often to say, “I always take off my hat tothe Parisians because they take of one’s crown so easily when they are offended.” He was entered on the roster of the Imperial Guard when he was three years old, was promoted to corporalship at five, to sergeantship at seven and bore his sub-lieutenant’s epaulet for the first time when ne started witn his father for the German war. After the peace, when Napoleon III, was released from his captivity at Wilheimshohe, the young Prince, who had been spirited away to England at the first French defeats, was entered at the Wool- wich Academy, and he has just completed his two years’ course there. No favoritism was shown him in the matter of studies. Although py two or three years younger than most ofthe other stu- dents, he worked up the same subjects as they, and has recently passed with credit an examina- tion which would entitle him to a commission if he desired it. The chances are that he will not make up his mind on this point till after his eighteenth birthday and the events that may at- tend the celebration of it in France. If in @ montnh’s time the prospects of a restora- tion seem remote, it is probable he will accept the offer made him by Queen Victoria and enter the army, waiting, like Mr. Micawber, “for some- thing to turn up.’ He is a handsome, amiable boy; @ capital horseman, ready with his money, unaffected and much liked by his brother pupils at Woolwich. If left to himself he would have gladly joined them in all their amusements and rambles; but this he was only allowed to do as regards the amusements neld within the coliege grounds, From fear that he might be assassinated by Com- munalist refugees he has never been suffered to go out without the escort of Viscount Clary and M. Bachon, his two equerries, while a couple of pri- | in politics, he was soon enabied to buy himself an vate Corsican detectives follow him about every- where, well armed, ata distance of fifty yards or | so. These precautions are necessary in the case of all who would wear a crown nowadays, and with a Bonaparte more particularly so. It is known that throughout the Second Empire Napo- leon III's greatest fear of revolutionists was on ac- | count of his boy, whom he loved with an affection | unusually deep and watchful. If the Prince | went out in @ carriage not only might | an escort of cuirassiers be seen gallop- | ing before and behind, but equerries, with | | | holsters open cantered at eitner carriage door, throwing watchful glances about them as they | rode, What does the Prince think of all this? If | one believes nis courtiers one must take it tnat he | 1s fireful and eager to be up in his saddle and jand- | ing on French shores, to be acclaimed of the | people; but if one draws inferences from the boy's | thoughtful mien and melancholy eyes he shares | the common fate of pretenders and ts not happy. | 1 now proceed to give some sketches of the | principal leaders of the Bonapartists—the men who | are pulling the wires of their manifestation tn the | hope that it may lead, and that speedily, to a third | First and foremost we have | M, EUGENE ROUHER, | long time Prime Minister of Napoleon III,, and so powerlul that he was called the Vice Emperor, He isa blu, bald and stout man, just sixty years | old, who was born at Auvergne, the province | which supplies France with the greatest number | of water carriers and coalheavers, Of poor and | humbie parentage, he had in himself little of the | precocious merit which marks out a boy for | high destinies, but more oiten gives point to the proverb, “Soon ripe, soon rotten,” At school he was known as a hard;fisted lad, and when he went empire. being the loudest talker in court. | There was no barrister like him for | shouting an adversary into silence or for deafening a jury with blatant arguments, The man perspired, brought down his fist with bangs upon his desk, tossed the sleeves of his gown about as if he were in a frenzy; but on the whole he was 80 successful with his briefs and he plied such a sturdy knife and fork when he was asked out to | and deputations, | tary to his brother, and he brought his department | over, the “International” commenced tts opera- dinner that he rose in public esteom and was ad- vised to become a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies. This was in 1846, under M. Guizot’s Premiersnip, Rouher came forward, but failed. After the Revolution of 1848, however, he made another push, and, succeeding this time, entered the Constituent Assembly as a stanch conserva- tive, He was re-elected in tne following year to the National Assembly, and then began the career which was soon to lead him to honors, In Parita- ment, a8 at the Bar, Rouher displayed qualities essentially vigorous. At the time when repub- licanism was most in the aseendant he never missed the occasion of having his fling at it, and if his adversaries yelled at him he showed that he could yell even louder. Louis Napoleon soon set eyes on him and he on Louis Napoleon. The two sulted each other, and in 1349 Rouner was appointed Minister | of Justice at one jump, having never served in any subordinate omfce under government. It was doubted at first whether a man so plain spoken and unconciliatory would work weli in such @ post as @ Cabinet Ministership, which requires tact and @ considerable amount of social varnish, But Rouher worked so well that from 1849 to 1870 he retained office without more than six months’ in- terruption. Vice President of the Council of State, Minister of Commerce, President of the Council, Home Minister—all these ofices were successively held by him, until finally he was promoted to be Minister of State, or Premier. One would think that Rouher caught the social) varnish as he grew inured to the atmosphere of courts, but he never did s0, and he has not done so yet. A hale man- ner, @ business-like capacity for work and figures and & promptitude in giving tmportunate persons a touch with the rough side of his tongue, these were the characteristics which kept him in office even as they had helped him to attain 1t. He was, ava is, a determined free trader, and took the principal part in traming the treaty of commerce with England; but, as regards politics, his maxims were for ab- solute Ceesarism, with no such things as free press, free municipalities or rignt of public meeting. To Rouher belongs the main credit of having {earned how obedient an instrument universal suffrage may become in clever hands. The country con- stituencies never voted wrong under Rouher. Large and subservient majorities of Bonapartists were persistently returned by them, and with | these steady politicians to back him Rouher could very plausibly contend that imperio-democratic despotism was the form of rule which the country best loved. It was against Rouher’s strong advice that Napoleon III. tried the experiment of liberal institutions in 1870, and when he did so Rouher made way for Emile Ollivier and was appointed to the Presidency of the Senate. His tenure of this post ended with the war, and since the war Rouher has been the leader of the Bouapartists. Too shrewd to have ever plunged France into war before she was prepared for it, ne is one of the the men who most emphatically throw the whole blame o1 the country’s disasters on that unlucky Emile Ollivier; aud in the As- sembly, as elsewhere, he never tires of insisting that Napoleon Ill. fell a victim to the too great confidence he had placed in his liberal Ministers. This is manifestly unjust, tor Emile Ollivier was a | firm upholder of peace. So was Marshal Leboeuf, | who well knew that France was not ready for a great struggle; and virtually the three sole or- ganizers of the war were the Empress, the Duke de Grammont and M. Benedetti. But M. Rouher,is Rot bound to confess this. As a party man he naturally makes most of his advantages, and it certainly is an advantage to him that France was smashed under the liberal Ministry he so cordially detested. M. Rouher sits for the stanchly Bona- partist Island oi Corsica, and he leads his littie band of twenty-five imperialist Deputies with such skill as to give them an influence alto- gether disproportionate to their numbers, Socially he supports the cause he loves by dinners and parties at a pleasant house (which he rents from the Empress) -in the Rue des Champs. He is immensely rich—for there 1s no etiquette which prevents French office holders from gambling on ’Change, and if there were any such etiquette they would override it. With the first iniormation of all political move- ments at command, large sums of public moneys in trust and credit unlimited, it 1s odds if a French Cabinet Minister does not rake up in the course of twenty years in place a few honest millions. One may conclude M, Rouher has done so; for, having | not a centime of his own when he first embarked | enormous landed estate at Cercey, in Auvergne, and to acquire a splendid gallery of pic- tures. If a third empire should be es- tablished during his lifetime M. Rouher will become its Prime Minister, and he makes no | secret of the fact that ne will Svudy to bring back the Cxsarism, pure and simple, as it fourisned from | 1852 to 1870. He has no belief in parliamentary- ism nor in iree institutions of any sort, for his argument is that Napoleon lll. was mere bitterly | assailed after he had started on his liberal course | than when he held his bridle tight. “So long as there are Irreconcilables,” said M. Rouher, “that is, 80 long as concessions fall to appease one’s enemies, 80 long must one refrain from conces- sions; which is like saying, ‘So long as the kettle does not blow up, Keep the lid down tight.” But then, as we have seen, M. Rouher was not sitting on the lid of the imperial kettle when it blew up in 1870, We come now to the DUKE OF PADUA, and can soon dispose of him, for, though a busy character, his great works were not numer- ous, The son of Genera! Arrighi, created a Duke by Napoleon I., Ernest de Padoue, was born in 1814, entered the military service as an engineer, but soon reSigned because the government of Louis | Philippe was not one to his taste, and also because 4 his private fortune was large enough to render | him independent of soldier’s pay. On the estab- lishment of tne Second Empire, M. de Padoue Arrighi, a8 he was then called, was appointed tothe | prefectship of Versailles, then to the Councillorship | ot State, and, on the death of his father, inherited the family dukedom, and was raised to the Sen- atorship which the previous Duke had held. In | 1859 he became for six months Home Minister; but did not shine greatly ia this post, and was conse- | quently shelved with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Tue Duke is a courtly, bustling French- | man, who looks well at the head of committees | Since the Empire has fallen he | has frisked about like a parched pea on ashovel, | getting sheets of vellum covered with signatures | of loyalty to the family at Chiselhurst. On all the | imperial birthdays he may be seen crossing over to England with big bouquets of violets—the Napo- | leonic fower—carefully packed in cotton ‘wool, and he is intimately persuaded that by leading | armies of other such bouquets, carried in the hands | of other people, he much advances the cause of the imperial exiles, Perhaps he does, At all events, | if these exiles return to power, they will reward Ih the noble Duke for his violets by restoring him to his Senatorship, and, perhaps, by giving him a new spell in some Cabinet office where his de- | ficiency in salient genius will not be much noticed— | perhaps in the Fine Arts Ministry. M. PIETRI is the next Bonapartist figure of interest, and he, truly, is anoteworthy man. The brother of M, Jean Pietri, who was Prefect of Police during the first eight years of the reign of Napoleon Ill., Joachim | Pietri, Was appointed to the same Prefectship in | 1866, on the dismissal of M. Boittelle, who had been | thought too mild, No one could accuse M. Pletri of mildness, Just forty-six years old when he entered upon iis duties, he set to work with all the ex- pertence he had acquired while serving as secre- toahigh pitch of perfection as an agent for re- pressing political offences, He came in more try- ing times than M, Botttelle, tor the Emperor's liberal concessions caused repubiican clubs and associations to spring up in all directions, More- tions ander M. Pietri’s rule, and much of this astute official’s time was passed in unearthing its secrets and hunting down its members, prefect depended much for security of tenure or the restless zeal he might show M. Pictri was as restless as one could wish; the eyes, noses and fingers of his detectives seemed to be everywhere at once, and when political embarrassments re- ABs a) | editor of the Pays, is a different sort of man from Guired that @ little dust should be thrown into the eyes of the public M. Pietrl was the man to throw | that dust, and he did it skilfully, Thus, in 1869, when there Wasa great agitation about the can- didature of Henri Rochefort, it was found ex- pedient to frighten timid tradesmen by showing them that this agitation haa a dangerous revolu- tionary perplexion, and accordingly M. Pietri let loose a few hundred salaried workmen and police spies to break the kiosks on the boulevards, up- root the forums and smash windows. If any bona fide revolutionists had ventured thus to be- have themselves it 18 scarcely necessary to say that Paris haa @ garrison strong enough to put them down without much parley; but the traaes- people took M. Pietri’s blouses-blanches, as they were called, to be grim realities, and they were scared by them into giving the Emperor an en- thustastic ovation when he drove down the boule- vards, under pretext of showing everybody that he was not afraid, Again, in 1870, wnen a plebiscitum, was decreed, it was generally felt in court circles that if a little conspiracy against the Emperor's life was suddenly discovered it would have an excellent effect in winning votes to the dynasty. Soa little conspiracy of the sort was brought to light just in the nick of time, a week or 80 before the voting day, M. Pietri’s detectives Professed to have laid hands on a posse of con- spirators who were going to exterminate the Em- peror with shells of dynamite, and some favored ,hewspapers were allowed to punlish woodcuts of these dangerous engines. It is a strange tact, however, that none of the conspirators were ever brought to trial and that none of them were even found in prison when the Empire collapsed and M. Pietri along with it. No one ignores now that the “Dynamite Plot’ was all a hoax, for irrefutable evidence of the fact was found among the papers of the Prefecture, which M, Pietri had not had the time to destroy before hastily decamping. This lit- tle incident would have sligltly damaged the repu- tation of an olticial in any other country except France. But Frenchmen dearly love all the tricks of statecraft, and M, Pietri is universally re- spected as a clever and unscrupulous fellow. His knowledge of police matters gives him a great ad- vantage in organizing conspiracies, now that con- spiracy has become a necessity to his old masters; and M. Pietri is constantly on the move between France and England, interviewing people, paying and instructing Bonapartist agitators and in other ways planning the downfall of the Republic. This brings us to one of bis chief agencies of agitation— the press. M. Pietri has virtuaily at his orders the three imper.aiist papers, Ordre, Pays and Gaulois, and all three of these sheets are wholly or in part supported by subsidies from Chiselnurst; and it is one of M. Pletri’s functions to arrange, in concert with M. Rouher, what lines of polemic they shall adopt, either conjointly or each separately, on pub- lic questions. Nothing much need be said of the Gaulois’ editor, M. Edmond Sarbé des Sabions, who is a dandified genticman, without talent or merit of any sort, save that of obeying the orders he receives; but the editors of the Ordre and Pays are both men of importance, who must be no- ticed, The editor of the Ordre, M, CLEMENT DUVERNOIS, is no more than thirty-five years old, and yet his name has been famous—or notorious, if you will—in the press for the last ten years. He began as a radical journalist in Algeria, and was sent to prison for being bumptious in that capacity. Coming to Paris he wrote under M. Emile de Girardin, in the Liverté, waged more and more bumptious, fought a duel and was sent to prison again; but shortly afterwards he was introduced to Count Walewaki, the Emperor's intimate triend, who was then President of the Corps Législatif, and lo! the Count converted the journalist out of hand, He seems to have pointed out to him that @ young man of ambition might do better by serv- ing the Emperor than by tilting against him, and clement Durvernois forthwith tried the experi- ment. His conversion—“impudent conversion” every one termed it—madea@ great noise, but as writers of high ability were at that time scarce in the government camp, Clement Duvernols was made much of at Court, A newspaper, L’Epoque, was founded espe- cially for him, with funds from the Privy Purse, and he made so brilliant a campaign in it by championing the dynasty which ne had earned his golden spurs by attacking that the Emperor ap- | pointed him to a kind of private secretaryship. His Majesty was then writing the “Life of Cwsar,’? and M. Viement Duvernois helped nim to compile the materials, For this he was paid at the rate of 3,000 francs a month, and when the second volume | of the history appeared and the scride’s services were no longer needed the Emperor tound a seat for him in the Corps Législatif, But this astonish- ingly sudden rise was not enough, for on the dis- missal of the Ollivier Cabinet, aiter the first dis- asters of the war, the new Premier, Count de Palikao, called Clement Duvernois to the Minister- ship of Commerce. and this post the ex-journalist | heid for three weeks—that is, till the fall of the | Empire—his principal business in those three ¥ weeks being to victual Paris for the siege. Itis said that he contrived to clear a suvstantial | sum of money by this victualling; at allevents, the Parliamentary committee appointed | to examine the war contracts hinted that he had pocketed large percentages on the contracts signed by him for cattle, cheese and tinned meats. But he was never prosecuted, and so has the right to pretend that the pleasant fortune he at present enjoys feli to him from the clouds. He is a keen- eyed young man, with a hay-colored beard, an am- bition a tout casser, He docs not like M. Rouher, nor does M. Rouher like him; for M. Duvernois evinced for a time the desire to supplant the ex- Minister from his party leadership, and only sur- rendered this hope when he discovered that the | Bonaparusts declined being led by htm. M. Duver- nois is a Cabinet Minister of the future, and he has quite suMcient wit and energy to leave his mark | as astatesman. Meanwhile he writes leading arti- cles four columns long to prove that Cwsarism is | the fated destiny of France, and can no more be avoided by the country than distemper can by dogs or measles can by children, only M. Duver- nois compares Bonapartism to @ soothing manna from Heaven. M. PAUL DE CASSAGNAC, his colleague on the Ordre. He has never had to turn his coat, for he sucked Bonapartism with | mother’s milk and was bred up in the faith by a rabidly imperialist father, who had received sub- stantial tokens of imperial bounty, His entry into journalism was effected contrary to paternal wishes, for his father desired him to become a goy- ernment clerk, and is said to have used vigorous language when young Paul turned up unexpect- edly in a newspaper office. However, there is no withstanding @ vocation. It was apparently young Paul’s special call to write strong things in bad grammar, and he obeyed it. His prose read like the interesting slashes of a cane brought down on something tight, and the somethings tight were invariably politicians and journalists of anti-imperialist. proclivities. A few of these challenged the writer, and by the time he was twenty-seven Paul de Cassagnac had fought a dozen duels, one of which was-with Henri Roche- fort. This was five years ago, and M. Paul may have fought another half dozen since then, for he looks upon things and persons appertaining to the Bonapartes as being under his sturdy protection, and he lets neither sneer, insult, nor yet criticism pass without raising a howl. The Empress deco- rated him and talked to him prettily as her champion. He 18a promising young man, with a spoonful of black blood in hs veins, for his people | came originally from Martinique. One of these days he will rise to be something great or get hs head broken. The probabilities are rather in favor | of the latter consummation, for dueling, as M. | Paul de Cassagnac practises it, is not a safe game for & continuance, The above five gentlemen, with a few more of | lesser note, are those who at present form the backbone of the Bonaparte faction. They are five “indefatigables,” whose ever restive arms, legs | and tongues seem to nave discovered the secret of perpetual movement, “FIRE IN BOSTON. Boston, Mass., March 15, 1874, ‘Tne old wooden building on the corner of King- ston and Bedford streets, known as Garetson’s stable, occupied for storage and other purposes oy Jordan, Maren & Oo., Was burned last uight, Loss abgut $7,000, | Nervous Diseases; send tor circular. | everywhere. ve and | Vesey street. Hernia and 7 mien er BRAZIL, The Bishop of Pernambuco fentenced—Four Years in Prison. TELEGRAM TO THE WEW YORK HERALD. 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