Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1855 — THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. [ARTICLE]

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

We find the following in the N. O. Picayune, of Feb. 21st: Louis Nafoleon is going to the Crimea. —We give the following extra-ordinary-intelligence to our readers.We are not permited to name our authority. It will suffice to say that by the last mails a letter was received from Paris by an individual in this city. We have been permitportion of this correspondence. “The Emperor has foreseen all the calamities and reverses of Sebastopol ever since the allied army sat down before the city. St Arnaud -was—a4reep«r -(pandottrfcr he might have taken the place by a charge of cavalry at the first onset, but failing that, a siege became necessary.— Neither Raglan nor Canrobert were equal to their position, and Louis Napoleon knew it. He did not want Sebastopol taken this winter. He knew that short of a butchery, of which there is no parallel, that place could not be carried. He determined that Sebastopol should subserve a mighty political purpose. For this, he has been delaying supplies, while he ha* concentrated his forces in France. An overwhelming army is gathering on the Prussian frontier. Marseilles, Toulon and Algiers, a flotilla, to be reinforced by English vessels, will be ready to sail with 40,000 men on March 15th. On the arrival of this armada in the Crimea, the Emperor will leave Paris, and appear in person before Sebastopol. A coup de main , upon a gigantic scale, will be attempted. Sebastopol will fall. The elated army,flushed with the feat, will sweep over the Crimea, and occupy the Isthmus of Perekop. After a campaign which will endure a fortnight Louis Napoleon will return to Paris,- where the suddenness of his departure and the promptness of his return will find all conspiracies unprepared for development, and where the glory of his victory will scatter all further treason to the winds. “Such is the campaign contemplated by Louis Napoleon. Be assured that if Providence does not interfere, it will take as I have said. — Collaterally with the departure of the Emperor for the East, the French army on the Prussian frontier will operate upon Rhenish Prussia. A note will be sent to the king of Prussia, demanding free passage for the French troops through his. dominion, which if refused will advance to the Rhine." If the above prove to be correct, Louis Napoleon has out-played the whole world. We have only been creating a monster in Sebastopol, we have been endowing it with terrors, so as to appreciate the feat in contemplation by the astute Emperor of achieving a great Russian victory where his uncle encountered his most disastrous defeat. Strange Infatuation.— Phelps, who was to have been executed at Albany, New York, on Friday, and who escaped from prison on Thursday, was overtaken on the road to his former residence, and begged so piteously that the officers permitted him, in company with them, to proceed to the graves qf his murdered wife and relatives. He pointed out the spot where be desired to be buried, viewed the grave of his wife, and then returned to prison to await his execution the next morning.