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CHARLOTTE : FRIDAY MORNIKG, Nay 25, 1855, &0T VV. S. LAWTON A: CO., (South Atlantic Wharf,) are our authorized agents in Charleston. S. C, and are duly empowered to take Advertisements and Subecr.ptions at the rates rcquirrd by us. and grant receipts. FOR CONGRESS, HON. BURTON CRAIGE, OF ROWAN. CHARLOTTE QARKET. Charlotte, May 24, 1S55. Cotton coming in briskly, buoyant with upward tendency. Extremes ranging from 7$ to 10 cent. Flour not much on sale, from 0i to 10. Corn fl to $1.05. Meal 81 to $1.05 Bacon hog round, 10c. . Sail f2 50. CT Since the overwhelming exposure of tin tendency of Know Nothingism, hy the H'HS. Mr. Craig, in this town on Tuesday ol our Superior C'Uit, we have beard nothing of the spreiii!, though candor compel u tr say we have heard much ol the contraction of the order. The house was so densely crowded, during 1 perch, that we had not room to take no'e, and our engagements were such itiat c Ji'J wt have time to cdhnmu our iu press ion hi wri ing at the t me it was delivered, and we know i.ur incapacity too well to attempt to supply hi arguments. ithout boasting, we hope we will be permitted to s'iy, that Mr. Craige 's effort on the occasion was maserly, ami his denunciations of the order while it whs calm and respectful was writhing, and more brads ol the monster than one was strangled in the struggle. Mr. Craige's speech more than met the expectations of his friends, who are proud ol the intellectual prowess and high bearing of their champion, and will do more than heretofore to secure his triumphal return. He is just the man for the crisis; bold, well informed and above the considerations of mere party. His career in the next Congress all feel must redound to the good of the common country. As yet the Know Nothings are without a can didate in the field. It is rumorcrl that the council had a meeting in some dark, out of-the-way place, on Monday night of our court, and attempted to make a nomination, but failed ; but of this, of course, we know nothing." All elTorts to distract and divide the democratic party by wringing out a man who formerly acted with them, will end in smoke. One of sufficient influence to do harm cannot be induced to take the track. Mr. Caldwell, who is now a candidate, distinct ly staled that he is the candidate of the whig party, that he is not to be transferred, and there fore he does not expect the Know Nothing vote. While we are willing to admit that some wishey washey democrats have deserted and gone over to the midnight o.der, we are well satisfied that we will gain more whigs than we will loose demo crats. The chivalry of the old Clay party is with us, and with us they are determined to. Strike till the midnight foe expires, Strike for their altars and the r fires, Strike for the green graves of their sires For God and Liberty." 07 We sh pped a few days since into the ex tensive Saddle and Harness establishment of Shaw &i Palmer to look at a sett of harness, put up for a gentleman of this town. They were made ol the most superior leather, trimmed and mounted with heavy silver plate, and the workmanship will compare, (or elaborate finish and tasty execution, with any done in the Union. It is with pleasure we call attention to this elegant specimen ol do mestic manufacture, because it proves that e ur ar tisans only require the patronage to supersede the necessity of ever sending North or elsewhere for any thing in their line. - Still Axotiieb. Tiio II n. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, the most brilliant member of the Whig party at the South, has come out against the Secret Conspiracy, in and address of remar kable eloquence and power. Mr. S ephens is dis tinguished for an ardent attachment to ihe Union, and a true devotion to the rights of the S'iu h. He has the sagacity to discern and the courage to denounce the anti-slavery aim and tendency of the Know Nothing Order, Hick. Eng. Mr. Stephens Letter. The Macon Tele graph, speaking of Mr. Stephen's letter, says: It is a powerful assault upon the Know. Noth ings logical, thoughtful and eloquent in no way evasive or ambiguous but plain, pertinent and conclusive. He is opposed to them to their principles and to their mode of organization op posed to their Macon Resolution opposed to them through, and out and out. "It is a letter of which he m ay be proud a letter worthy of his reputation as a deep thinker and a profound politician a letter which will keep thousands of patriotic Whigs from the Order a letter which hes may point to, throughout his whole life, as a proof of his defiance to secret proscription, and a noble instance of his fidelity to the great principles of civil and religious liberty, It will keep well. Many years from now it will be read with interest. It is one of the most en during monuments he has erected to his fame." Tbe Kansas Troubles. Chicago, May IS, l?55. George S. Park, late of the Parkville Luminary, publishes a letter in the St. Louis D-mocrat, stating that Atchison and Stringfeliow huve organized a scr t society, pledged in force of arms to expel all Freesoilers from Missouri and Kansas, even at the risk of disunion. All the Whig nd B.mton pr sses are to he des Iruyed, ana cannon were being conveyed to des troy tin hot;l at Kansas, aod the presaes at Law rrne. He says Atchison instigated the destruc ios of tbe Luminary. Je baa telegraphed Gov. Price aod President Pierce on tbe subject, and promise further developments. (Jcaso. The Baltimore Patriot announces, 'by authority,' that the Peruvian Government con tern prates making a radical charge in its manner of conducting the guano business, and the price of I he article is to-be soon reduced to $15 per ton. One Week Later from Europe. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER BALTIC. The steamer Baltic, with dates from England io the 5ih inst., arrived at New Ycrk ou Friday night. Throughout England a strong feeling against the ministry is being manifested ; indignation meetings" regarding the conduct of 4 he war have been held in Derby, Shcffv Id and other pla.-es. The Emperor of the French narrowly escaped assassination on Saturday evening, April Lord John Russell and M. Drou) n de Tlluys have returned to London and Paris, the negotia tions having tailed. There is some talk of a mediatory proposition on lb part of Austria, with the consent of Prussia, being likely to be accepted. With regard to the seige of S- bastopol no ad vantage decisive enough to warrant an assault has been gained, and it is generally b-lnved that the siege operations must be abandoned for ihe pres ent, THE ATTACK ON NAPoLEON. The Emperor of the French had a norrow es. cape from assassination on the evening ol the 2H h, while on his way to join the impress on i her usual ride, in the Champs Elysees. The Em peror, accompanied by two officers of his bouse hold, when nenr the Barrier de ffitoile, was ap proached ly a well dressed man, with an acfon indicating a desire lo present a petition, The lat ter advanced to within five or six pace of ihe Emperor, who had not observed him, when he v. as discovered by a policeman. As the police man was approaching towards him a cab was r pidly driven between them ; and in the in terval the individuil had drawn a double-barreled pistol, and, aiming at the Emperor, dis charged lioth barrels, hut without efl-ct. He was immediately seized by the police, but Hot until he had drawn another pistol ;.nd made an attempt to shoot again. It is said that one ol the halls grazed the Emperor's hat. This would be assassin is an Italian, named 1'iain zi, nnd was formerly in G r ibaldi's army. He was in London while the Em peror was there on his late visit, and would then have made the attempt had he not been prevented j by ihe great concourse ol people, i After this incident the Emperor proceeded with his ride, and visited the Opera Comique in the evening, w.Vre he was greeied with imtmnse out bursts of loyalty and "Dthusiam. The Emperor has decided not to receive the formal address of congratulation, though tin exception was made in n gard to the British residents in Pari. The cor poration of London have adopted an address. Pi Hi' zi is in cl.e confineim nt and w ill he tried about the middle of M ly. The Fusionist and Or leanisl papers publish the official accounts from the Moniifcur without one word of comment. THE WAR. The position of the Allied forces in the Crimea is exciting the greatest anxiety and apprehonsion at home. Immense Russian reinforcements are spoken of as hovering near Sebas:opol, ready to throw them, i selves at any time along the whole line of the Al ii' d operations. The fire of both the Englih and French armies had been continued before Sebt"pol ; but, th"Ugh superior to that of the enemy, Lord R iglan admits that it had not produced that effect which miyht have been anticipated from its constancy, pawer and accuracy. T'ie Russians have been making fierce and vi gorous sor ies, and the fighting had been severe I on both sides. Telegraphs from Sebastopol to the 28h ult. ; state that on that day the Allied commanders had suspended their fire, so as not to exhaust their ammunition, and that they were nwaitmg rein 'Qrcements which were hourly expected. No general attach has vet b"cn made by the fleet on the seaports, though each night a single steamer has been enabled In approach sufficiently near them to throw both shot and shell to advan tage. The army before Sebastopol is in good condition ; the troops are healihy, well-fed. boused and clothed. Though reinlorcements were con stantly arriving up to the latest dates, the allies were neither numerous enough nor sufficiently well provided to undertake a long campaign in the interior of the Crimea. The French reserve of 60,000 men at Maralall, near Constantinople, it was expected would be transproted to BalaKlava, so soon as transports could be found. There is some talk in Paris about the recall of General Canrobert to take the place of Marshal Vaiifanl as minister of war. General Pelissier would, in that case, succeed Canrobert in the Crimea. A Russian despatch, however, dated the even ing of the 29t Ii. says : The fire of the enemy is moderate. Their approaches progress slowly. We have established at 100 yards from Bastion No. 4, a row of rifle pits which serve to form a continuous branch of communication. It is believed that the seige will be abandoned for the present, and that the main force of the al lied armies will be obliged to p netrite into the Crimea, engage the different divisions of the Rus sian army, cut off, if possible, supplies and rein forcements, and endeavor to invest the city and fortress. The Russian nnd French and English accounts of operations are, in some inslunces, widely vari ous. The following is r-RINCE GOKTSCIIAKOFf's ACCOUNT. The Invalid Russc publishes Prince Gor'scha koff's account of the bombardment to the 24th of April last. Princs Gorischakoff describes the canonade which was opene'd by the allies on the 9lh as tremendous ; its object being evith ni!y to dismount the Russian guns. Tbe besi- ged re- j plied With success; and on the 1 0 Ii . in less than j lour hours, silenced fifty of their opponents' guns, j From this circumstance Prince Gortschakoffjudges that the loss of the enemy must have been consid ! erable. Some of the Russian guns and gun-car-, ringes were dismounted, but were immediately ! replaced by others, and all the damage done to j the epaulments and batteries was successfully re ; paired. From the Hih to the 15th, he says, notwith standing that the enemy continue In cannonade , the fortress with the greatest energy during the dav, snJ to bombard it during the night, we have not had manv guns dismounted, owing to the for tifications having a sufficient number ol traverses and to the batteiies being sheltered by blindeyes. All our damage is actively repaired during the night; the dismounted guns are replaced hy new ones, and the losses ol the garrison Blade good by reinforcements, so that on the 15th Sebastopol was as strong as before the bombardment. The allies, ho states, mount 350 guns, 80 of which are mortars. He also states thai the skirmishes un- i deriaken to defeat the trench and mining opera- Hons of the beseigers are generally successful, and that they are "quite to the taste of the Rus sian volunteers, as they offer them an apportunity of displaying their valor. The garrison, he says, m intrepid, and even gay. The loss sustained bv the garrison from the 11th to the 5rh of April is set down at 7 subalterns and 453 men killed, and 6 superior and 34 subaltern officers and 1899 men wounded. In his despatch of the 24th, Prince Gortscha koffsnys: The fire of ihe enemy continues, but it is slacker. The damage; done to our fortifica tions, and tbe lives of Ibr garrison ore also Jess in proportion. F NUl.ISJI AND FRENCH ACCoUSTS. The official despatches from Lord Raglan are to the 17iS Aprii only, and from (general uinro bert to the 16th. Lord Raglan states 'hat the con dition of the army before Seba'opo! continued to improve, and mortality from disease to decrease. The corre spond nee which has come to h uid since our last gives a description of Mie furious sortie from the Flagstaff Battery upon the French lines on the 13th. A long and desperate struggle took placp. Twice the Russians succeeded in entering the pa rallel in advance of the battery, and twice they were repulsed the second time with such loss as to compel an immediate retreat. The French made no attempt at pursuit, as the enemy were within a swie's throw of their own batteries. General Bi&t was wounded in this affair, and having been sru k also with a chance bullet after the close of the fight, has since died. In this sortie the French loa: 50 and CO killed and woun ded, the Russians a far greater number. On the 14th the French find three mines un der the Flagstaff Battery; with partial success. The R'jssinis, fearing an assault, op' ned a furi ous cannonade along the whole line. On the night ol the 17th the French succeeded in making a lodgment in one portion of the battery, but on the 19th they were compelled to yield their posi tion. One the same night the English succeeded in capturing the first of the enemy's nfl" pits, fro.y which much annoyance and loss to working par ties h is been c .used. Col. Graham Egf-'0". the field officer in command of the trenches, w ho led the attacking parly, was killed in th- desperate action of the tre nches. In this last affair 50 Brit ih sf.ldiers secured the trenches against a column of Russians 1,000 strong. The total loss to the English was 2 officers and 21 men killed, and 5 officers and between 40 and 50 men wounded. The enemy lost about 50 kill ed and twice as many wounoVd, On tin? night of the 20ih an ntlack was made upon the second nfle pit, but the pit was almost immediately abandoned by the Russians. The Turkish corps took part in a reconnoisance on ihe 19th, which was undertaken towards the valley of the Chernaya, with the view ol showing Omar Pacha the ground. 1 he account of the Russian reinforcements is obtained lpm a telegraphic despatch from Lord R igl m. The despatch itsell has not been pub-li-hed, but it was stated in ihe House of Com mons, n the night of the first, that it contained an announcement of the Russian armv in the neigh borhood of Sehas'opol, between Bal iklava and Mackenzie's farm having been reinforced by two divisions of fiesh troops. According to the state ment of two Polish deserters, there are 100.000 Russians in the vicinity of S bastopol, 60,000 of whom have arrived from Simpherpool. LATEST. A sharp engagement t-tk place on the night eif the lsi, in the front and left attack. The whole of the Russian rifle piTs were taken, eight light mortars, and 200 pnone-rs. On Wednesday night last the French, under General Pelissier, having taken up a position be fore th" quarantine bstin, attacked the advanced works the Kussians had raised to protect it, and earned them at the point ol the bayonet. Twelve mortars were taken from the enemy. The French have establ.shed themselves in the conquered positions. On Thursday night the Russians rnnde a sortie to regain their positions, and afier a sanguinary encounter were driven back. The; last price of consols in London wis 88. Money freely offend on Government securities at 2 per cent., and in consols there is no difference between the price for money, and account. The King of Prussia is ill of fever. The m surrection in the Ukrine (Russia) has extended to three other governments. Two thou sand proprietors, with their wives and families have been destroyed. Commercial Intelligence. Liverpool, May 4'h, 1855. Cotton. Herman. Cox &Co.'s circular says : The sales for the wee k amount to 106.700 bales, including 48,720 on speculation, and 4;240 for export. The large business reported in our last circular has this week been even exceed- d, and prices have further advanced l-8d. pe r lb. The quotations are : Upland, Mobile. New Orleans. Middling, 5 5 16d. 5 3 8d. 5 7-161. Fair, 5 7-8d. 5 7 -8d. 6 l-8d. The stock compared with that of last year now shows a deficiency nf 160.000 bales in American descriptions, and in the total of jill kinds the de crease amounts to nearly 300,000 bales. From the Salisbury Banner. Col. John F. Hoke. As we expected tho report that this sterling Democrat would be the Know Nothing candidate for Congress in opposition to Mr. Craige is like the many false tales gotten up to distract ihe; Demo cratic Party. The following letter nails the re port to the counter as false. Lincoln May 13th 1855. To he Editors oj ' t(e Banner, Gentlemen : In your issue of May 4th you say thai Mr. Fisher and myself are spoken of by the "Knew Nothing Party" as the ir Candidate for Congress. I Hin aware that such a report has been in circulation lor some time past, but have paid no attention to it legtrding it as a matter ol very little consequence. It having however git into the public Journals, and seeming lo be con sidered a matter ol some importance by them 1 deem it proper to make a public disclaimer on my p i rt of any such intention, as being a candi drtte lor Congress, or of pei mining my name to be used by that party for such purpose, under any circumstances whatever. It is not my desire to be a member of Congress, nor could I accept a seat in that body if tendered to me. Rut even if I sought h seat in the national councils 1 should certainly not seek to supp'ant the Hon. Bintoii Craige. with whose course in Congn.-ss 1 am perfectly satisfied. Very truly yours. J. F. HOKE. Judge Loring. The Union considers Ihe re fusal n Gov. Gardiner to r- move Judge L 'ring in obedience to the vote of the Massachusetts Leg islature a mere trick lo allVcl the Virginia election, and in another article shows that the Governor voted for h is removal freni his position of law pro-fesso- at Harvard, and is as bitter in his denun ciations ol Judge L.'s inflexible execution of the fugitive lave law as any man in the S;ate. In this connection we may not inappropriately add that it is well understood that Governor Gardiner, withheld his signature from the removal fiat only in the hope of securing the defeat of Wise by so doing ; not hesitnting to give that reason to his political Iriends who have conversed with him on the sobject adding that the cause of anti-slavery has at this tune far more lo gain by securing the defeat of Wise and bis friends in Virginia than by 'he removal of Judge Loring -- Wash. Star. A Business Maxnr. When you bay or sell, let or hire, make a ch ar bargain, nd never trust We shan t disagree about it. Mr. Stephens and tue Know nothings. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, has wrinen a letter lo Thong VV. Thomas, E-q , " which, after declining to be a candidate to repre sent his district in the nrxt Congress, he enters into a full, expositiou of his views of the "olij cts, purposes and principles" of the Know Nlhing order, which he utterly repudiates and condemns in the most unqualified terms. The letter is very long, making upwards of four columns in the Au gusta papers. We have only room at present for u brief extract. Mr. Stephens says: ' 1 am at piesent, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, literally one of the people. 1 hold no office nor sock any, and as one of the peo ple I shall speak to them and to jou on lft'3 and on all occasions, with that frankness end in dependence w hich it becomes a freeman to bear towards his fallows. And in giving my views of "Know Nothingism," I ought, perhaps, to premise by saying, and saying most truly, that I really "know nothing" about the principles, aims or ob jects of Ihe party I am about to speak of- ihey are all kept secret being communicated and made known only to the initiated, and not to ihese until after being first duly pledged and sworn. This, to me, is a very great objection to the wfiole organization. All political principles, which are sought to be carried out in legislation by any oody or set of man m t. republic, in my opinion, ought to be openly avowed and publicly piocla lined. Truth never shuns the light, nor shrinks from investigation or, at least, it ought nver to do it. Hiding places, or secret covems, are natural re soils for error. It is, therefore, a circumstance quite sufficient to excite suspicion against the truth to see it pursuing such a course. And in republics, where free discussion and full investi gation by a virtuous and intelligent people are al lowed, there never can be any just grounds to fear any danger, even from the greatest errors either in politics. ll questions, therefore, rela ting to the government of a Iree people ought to be made known, clearly understood, fully dis cussed, and uuderslHtidingly acted upon. Indeed, 1 do not helie.ve that a republican government can last long where this is not the case. In my opin ion no man is fit to represent a free people who has any private or secret objects or aims that he does openly avow, and who is not ready and wil ing at all times, when required or asked, candidly nd truthfully to proclaim to tbe assembled multi tlde not only his principles, bu this views and sen tinents, upon all questions that may come before him in his representative capaci'yT It was on this basis that representative government was founded, nnd on this alone can it be maintained in uriiy and safety. And if any secret party shall ver be so far successful in this country as to bring the government in its departments and unc tions under the baneful influence of its con rol and power, political ruin will inevitably ensue. No truth in politics can be more easily and firmly established, either bv reason or from history, up on principle or authority, than this. These are rny opinions candid Iv expressed. Kansas I'S Otli!'!. Abolition agnation, so lli'lllsilioU ly arid fero- ;iously persisted in lor years, is bearing its legi'i mate Iruils ol viob uce. In another column will be lound some late intelligence from the west which shows an exasperated feeling that i ripe ;or bloodshed and w.ir. This cannot be helped, neither in our judgment is it to b" regretted. The abolitionists have made up an issue wiih the Southern States of the Union which it is impossi ble to avoid or long postpone. There is no back ing out on either side. Fanatic revolutions never go backwards, and for the South to give way i destruction. We must resist, we must fight, or we must abandon our homes and country to the fate of Jamaica, The sooner our people make up their minds to these inevitable consequences and set about preparing them ihe better. The cries ol " Union" and "fraternity" have lost their po tencies, and abolitionism sweeps on over them an-! every other consideration of patriotistnism and humanity with a savage disdain and with blood shot eyes unblinkingly fixed on the end. Delen da est Carthago is its bailie. cry. National par ties are no longer available to defend us or post pone the issue. Southern know-nothings, who now tell us they are preparing to breast the Jor rent, will share the common fate, and be swept away before ihe on-coming torrent. The South can rely upon itself alone, and it becomes her magistrates, her legislators, her good, brave and wise men, to be setting their houses in order for the event. The crisis re quires coutnet, courage and promptitude. The whole people of the Souih united in one great homogeneous patty may yet save the Union. They can, at least, save them selves. The first blow has been struck, and blood has been spilt on the borders of Missouri. The cause of that S'ate is the common cause of all the Southern States. She must not be permiited to be overwhelmed. Massachusetts, in her leei-da-live capacity, has already pledged the "whole force of the commonwealth" to sustain the nboli. tion emuiissaries of Northern emigrant societies, who were sent there for the express purpeise ol establishing an abolition robber community ot the borders of Missouri. If she sends an armed man there, two should be despatched to resist him. This is a bad state of things for a country such as ours has been, where public opinion h'is hereto fore had the force of armies in sustaining the de crees of law. But it is not of our seeking or ma king. The quarrel has been pushed upon us against our entreaties and protestations, and if spite of all our appeals to brotherhood. Both honor and sell-preservation command us to pick up the gage of battle and prepare for the inevita ble issue. Mobile Register. We saw a Yankee, who had just arrived at Kan sas a few days ago, minutely examining a darkie, who was driving a yoke of cattle attached to a water sled. The negro hud one end of a large rope around the horns of the near ox, and then coiled up, resting tbe surplus over his own pIioiiI- der, as a hunter wears his shot pouch. Yankee seemed lo be at a loss to understand the relative positions, ol ox and in gro, and we u ill wager a 'shilling' that a Itt'er is by this time en its wny to the East, inlerming th' friends of Yankee ha", among other things he has witness; d amomr the j v i Barbarous Southerners, 1 he saw a yoke of oxen working a negro.' Kansas G'c7?. The Rail Road. The Rail Road Bridge is now completed and the cars are rum, ing across it. The tiniber is laid dow n as (aras Le xington ; the hands wiil now go ahead and will soon hve ihe Road finished to that place. We hope the citizens ol Lexington , will have a jolly jubilation on the arrival of the cars to that place, and give us all an invitation printer's devils and all. Salisbury Banner. The Chops. From all .quarters at the North and West and the Middle States the accounts of the growing crops ere full of promise. 1 1 the season should contjiue as favorable as it has been hitherto, a much larger aggregate of breadstuff's will be raised this year in the country at large than was ever known before. The mouths of the croakers will be stopped with abundance, and pri ces will come down down down. We say this will end most be so, provided the season shall con tinue ut favorable as it has been hitherto. Journal of Co nmci ce. From the Philadelphia Arnsriesn, My H Napoleon 111. and Eugenie. Dublin. April 27. l-Tlrf-guests and their welcome ill form a chapter in the romance ol history, which the men and women of the future will read wjtb amazement. Let us look at their antecedents. Louis Napoleon was an exile from infancy. He had not the advantage of a father's care, and was ihe spoiled boy of an unhappy mother, who, in her compelled obscurity, sighed after court-life. He was the second son of Louis Bonaparte the younger brother of Napoleon the Great and Hortense, daughter of tbe divorced Empress Jose phine. The father, the least ambitious and most honest of his race the mother, as fascinating in manner and loftier in intellect than Josephine. The mar. riage was concooted by Josephine, in hope that the ufT-spring might satisfy her husband's longing for a successor, and avert the dismissal she afterwards sustained. It was as ill-starred in all else, as it failed in effecting her desires. On the steps of the altar, husband and wife loudly proclaimed their mutual aversion, and invoked memories of other loves eternally to separate ihem. They soon realized their wishes; ihey separated. Hideous slanders assailed Hortense in the first months of her marriage, and ascribed the affection entertained for her by the husband ol her moiher to a guilty passion, which Bourrienne's account of the conduc- of Napoleon combines with the Em peror's indignant denial at St. Helena to pronounce Utterly inert dibie. Louis was about seven years old when the allies visited Paris. Hortense- had delighted in the education o I him and his brothers; she wished to remain. But she was compelled to depart, and settled, with her children, at Cons-ance. While there, an incident eiccurred which is worth being recorded. He was about twenty, when one day, walking in mid winter, on the banks of the Rhine wiih his cousins, the princesses Josephine and Marie of Baden, the conversation turned on French gallantry in the middle ages. The Piincess Marie pronoun, ced an extravagant eulogium on the ages of chival ry. She praised the devotion of the knights whose motto was Dieumon rot tt ma dame, and whose allegiance no danger and no sacrifice could shake. Louis Napole-m asserted that the French had not degenerated either in courage or gallantry; and that Ihey reverenced woman as highly as their fathers. "Devotion," he exclaimed, "at nt period of the world has faih d a woman, capable of inspiring it."' As he spoke, they arrived at a spot where I the Necker falls into the Rhine. The sea at ihe confluence ol these waters is always rough, and I in winter, espi cially, dangerous. A violent gust ! of wind al the moment detached a flower from the I boquet of the Princess. "What an excellent op ! portunily for an ancient chevalier," said the young girl saucily, pointing to the poor flower, which, carried off by a rapid current, had already almost disappeared in the whirlpool caused by the meeting of i be two rivers. "Ah! my cousin," crie-d Napoleon, "this is a challeitge well, I accept it;" and in a moment he leaped into the river, ami was diving m-n ully after the truant blossom. The princess, her moiher and the attendants were petrified with horror at the danger he ran ; but Louis in a lew rn hires reg lined the hank with his treasure, and present ing i,he said: -Here is your flivver, rny charming cousin. Bat lor God's sake," he addd, laughing, and touching his ? reaming garments, "let us hear no more of your knights of old." Louis Napoleon was in Rome when tfyj revolu tion occurred which made the "Citizen King" tuler of France. The shock of that revolution whs felt m Italy. Louis conspired wi'h the republcms. But the Pope was too powerful, supported by Aud iria. He was banished fled to Bologna. His brother, Napoleon, deleated heT(,t died suddenly. The news of the death of the one and the critical position of the other reached Hortense. She Hastened to Ancnna, and succeeded in rescuing L"uis from the Papal and Austrian authorises. They escaped lo France in flisguise, and so se- creiiy that Hortense was the nrst to tell l.ouisji Phillinpe of lheir arrival. She wrote to him : i am a mother. The re was but one way I could ave my son corns. In France and I have come. I know the dangers aifcun ; my life and my son's life are in your hands. Take them if you will." Louis had fallen sick. The mother begged a few days' rest. A week was granted, on condition o keeping the strictest seclusion ; then they were lo return 'o their edd Swiss asylum. Lotas bad never seen Paris, for when an infant, he h;id beer home away from the Ely see, his birth place. It w is the anniversary of his uncle's dea'h. From the window of his hotel, in the Plane Vendome, the column that commemorates him ws seen wreathed with flowers nnd sUTrmnded bv multitudes whose sorrowful cries alarmed the gov ernment. The mother and her s n were ordered te depart; and, carried to the vehicle that was lo remove ihem, and amitl cries of Vive Napoleon, ihey left for England. The subs quent events are known. He was of fered Poland hy the insurgents ; but he nid "I belong lo France." But he offered to fight ns a volunteer. He wrote to Louis Phiilippe, oflenig to live in France us a citizen subject. He received no reply ttjok to study, till tbe abortive attempt hat placed him in Ham ; for the hour-glass of the Orleans dynasty had neit yet run out. But the hour came ; :he light of the King, the awful scenes 'f the levoluiion, the short lived period of ihe liberty, equality, fraternity provisional republic ; and then the coup d'etat that made the ex'Ie Em peror by tbe votes of eight millions. Now for Eugenie. She is the grand-daughter of the late William Kirkpatrick, of Malaga, who married the daughter of Baron Grivi que, of that city. He was the son of William Kirkpatrick of Cowheath, Dumfriesshire, a scion of the Kirkpa tricks of Closehurn, in tliBt county ; an ancestor of Her Majesty's. Their possessions were large, and they were allied lo most of the great Scottish families. But property departed, and the owners were' expatiated. These were ihe royal persr nages who set all England in general, and London in particular. dli' last week who wr entertained by the Queen with a magnificence unsurpassed, and gietd by ihe people with an enthusiasm never quailed. But of all that ynu have, doubtless, had enough, I prefer giving you the portraits of these imperial personages, taken by an eye-wnness, and no rne-an junge. The Portraits She. As for Eugenie, she has been the theme o all t. ngues. each out-clain-oring the oher in her praise. Such b-auty, to begin with, has ne ver been seen; nt bast so ii is said, nd the saying doesn't exceed the truth as it is in the savers. R ,s a beauty that combines ail sty les, and excels in each. It unites the. romantic gravity of the Moresque Spaniard with the airy piquancy of the Parisians; the reserve of the British belle with the abandon of the continental southern. Her complexion is at once blonde and olive and comprises the charms of both. The expression nf her face is at once winning and commanding, con fid.ng and dignified. Her stature and figure are nh that could be wished in a woman or desired in a monarch, and each du,s she has appeared in puhhc, it seems exactly the one of all others tbaf she should never appear nut . L if th.. . .i . . . --. a- tv ui IttJi rrtr.ir.nnt linsl 1, L . . Moreover she is just at the precise no x the several graces of the sex seem i0 blend ' perfection, and when the diminution or atai almost of an hour, would imply a forfr,,u',HiB' some one aurinum iiwuiwi io ine comply ihe real and the ideal, the poetical and thePr' cal before you. The lady amongst Us who i' the nearest resemblance to her is the Duch? Wellington, or rather such was the casehen'ikl Intter was a little younger and LandseerN in the "Visit to Waterloo," was a faithful of the then Marchioness of Douro. There is tho same comininglement of nje Oriental, hnlf Scandinavian aspect ; the largo' nntelnoe eve. with the full drooninp f,;. once heightening and mitigating its lustre; Z same small rounded limbs and majestic pre.. and the same pensiveness in the midst of ani ' tion, perhaps arising from the same cause childishness of an otherwise enviable union. This probably is but a passing sorrow afe Empress; for the report runs that the stag hUQI at Slough, or. Tuesday, was not joined by tbelnj. perial lady, lest equestrianism, for reason in all well regulated families, should be detrimental to the probable prolongation ol the line of "ik. new Sesosiris, who, born no king, n.ade monarch draw his car:" He. Certainly he looks everything that his r passioned assailant in 'Napoleon le Petit' a. scribes and not all the circumstances of splendor surrounding him, not all the romance ol his lre and not all the effect which such consideration! produce upon the most phlegmatic and philosophic of minds, could deprive his countenance of its in. definable but unmHtakeable repulsiveness. I0 j( is disclosed no one trait of attractiveness. Indeed I U ... ... ' . I , j . , . wic ausence ui an trair is me oniy ueciaeo trait about it. It is perfectly expressionleas, whether in animation or repogp. His face is a blank, or rather a blight. J may have been capable nf conveying some ntHL. some time, but that time has gone hy, and now it really i xpresses nothing. The eyes are dea1 ; the complexion livid ; the mouth, even when smiling, inanimate; the muscles of the whole lace at once rigid and relaxed ; and the contrmpUtion of the visage altogether leaves a most uncomfor table impression, no matter what one's predilections in favor of the man himself, or however binned by the fascination of ihe immortal deeds of his uncle, by virtue of whose name the nephew is what he is. Between the two men there is not the smallest facial or physical semblance, and certainty as for as externals are concerned, there is much coloring afT"rded by Louis Napoleon-to the popular scandal which assigns his paternity, not In the King if Holland lint to a Du ch skipper with an unpro imunceable name, and of whom Hortense was said to have he-come enamored. In the configuration of the head there om similarity between Napoleon the First and Third, nne'. the sparseness and quality of the hhir favon the likeness. rut in the laces Hu ms. Ives, and even the foreheads, the most acute phy siegnomist ce.uld detect no trace of identity of blood between lh' relatives. The Italian element is altogether wanting in the present Emperor, who is much more of ihe bd French !ype of face, what Voltaire railed Detain the tiger and the monkey, than was the great Cor sican, whose nn'iqtie b'-nuly, scarcely h s lmn his deathless exploit, univer aled his pe.rlr'.itf nrni butB, by recrh ring tln ir production a labor e.f pro. les-ional love lo the artixl as I he- finest sol ject ll.ev could be employed upon. There were, however, placnrds circulate d, and proposals m ode. by the "n d refugees" for "treat ihe usurper, oath bieakrr. tyrant, ma-sacn . r. td I ram ph-r on tbe liberties of Fiance. a be d s- i v -; that gave se.me uneasin- ss, and made iie m . of both London and Parisian policy neesriVy tt the alert. And Lord Pulmrston eaoed a rem munication to be made to the chief refugees, K t if any disturbance were created, a eher' hill m'i pass through parliament, removing the whole t4 that class from England. The impres-ion, however, in, th"! Nipel rn owes his escape from any attempt upon his Kf, more to Eugenie than to Palmerston. Ji w as im possible, they say-, lo execute the threat contained in the following handbill, widely circulated, while he snt beside so lovely a being. "England's Disgrace The Real Dat ot Humiliation. Louis Napoleon the murderer, the oai h breaker, the desire er of the French nd Italian republics, who bribed the soldier to mas sacre the peaceful citizens upon the Boulevards, exiled tlje best men e.f France, and pavpd hi wv to power with the corpses of unofT-ndirg men, women and children is coming to England. Englishmen do your duty." Smith O'Brien. The London Morning Advertiser of April 23d, has a strong article recommending 'he enure re moval of the ban of exile from Wm. Smith O'Brirji. It expresses its disgust at the 'perseverance with which British mini-iers visit their indignalios upon the head of one of ihe few honest mm this ogc ol expediency has produced.' Would,' exclaims tli Advertiser, 'that at this rpoment, when England is hurrying daily into perils which a year a(j would have appeared impossibilities, we could rf as pure and earnest n patriotism on this side ol ihe channel as that for which William Smith O'Brien is an e xile.' The Advertiser then goes on lo inform us th'-t a petition for the removal of the sentence passed upon that gentleman is in course of signature, ih"1' it has been signed by several memhers ( l'" House of Peers, and by nearly 130 member"' lha House ol Commons, and maaymHgiiat' d political life. The hope is expressed that the di jirace wil! be removed from England of peri ling a man whose sole offence was that he his country, ncl wisely perhaps, but certainlj well. The London journalist thinks that the cause fr which O'Brien suffered, is so hopeless no lb' his presence in Ireland would not Be the causf ' any difficulty. 'Ireland,' says the Adveriief 'unfortunately for England no less than for her'1'' is at this moment too intent either on emigr;,oB' or in the daily avocations of life, to underiak political agitation. We should be glad if she were alive to the dangers which threaten the ernpir! for, though she has had but a small share of 'l prosperity, he will be sure to come in for 'u quantum of its mishaps. Shehs CMHsVjJ of her poverty, lo th" millions which the Engl government has squandered and is squandering on services badly performed. She has tfent W ,n Cimea at least one-third of that gloiinu army martyrs te the tlunkeyism of this lord-loving Dl tton ; Bod ber chivalrous blood warms the hear1 of the gallant DeLncy Evans, who would hoj taken the British army into 8eba.tr.poJ month ago, had not the same flunkey ism given me cluf cemimand Ufa pen and ink. general, because P was a lord, instead of appointing to it a "'dter consummate kill. daring, energy, and fOl But Ireland look, on, while d.sa.ter follows dis aster, with jnuch the same apathy as Lngln does; content, peP8' wilh hav,n8 8en' soldiers to act, and a historian to record the bgn, with sisters from her convents to watch by bedside of the sick and wounrled at Smyrna Scutari, or disheartened for political strife by ' disunion of that band of Liberal members IP made such sacrifices to return at the last eltciwn- a
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