Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1859 — Attempt upon the Life of Louis Napoleon. [ARTICLE]

Attempt upon the Life of Louis Napoleon.

The Florence correspondent of the Prov- ; idence Journal relates the following story: “A French officer here tells the follow imr J story: He says it has not been printed in I the French journals—and certainly we have | seen no account—hut the fact is known to | rite army, and the story is true. On Good I Friday, if at no other time in the year, all good Catholics partake of the communion, i On that day, the 2 Ist of Apri 1 last, according I to his habit, the Emperor Was to receive the i consecrated wafer in the chapel of the Tuilj leries. Before going to the chapel he was told that he must not eat the holy particle that was to be offered to him, ns it had been prepared with a subtle and malignant poison for the purpose of destroying his life. The informant was a par’v to the diabolical secret, but horror of conscience and reverence lor the Emperor led him to betray the conspiracy. The Emperor knell at the altar during the mass, but did not eat the bread. When the mass was finished, the officiating ! priest was invited into the apartment of the Empress to partake of a collation, while the wafer was submitted to a chem’cal examination. It was found tc contain, as the informant had said, a concentrated poison. The priest is now in a fortress in Algeria. The soldiers say that the priest was an instrument of the Jesuits; but whether in Italy, Austria, France, or England is nut understood, So much for the story,” g^7-“What is the best guard against an adversary ?” said a pupil in the art of sell de- | ■ense to his teacher, a noted pugilist. “Keep ! a civil tongue in your head,” was the unex- i peotoii and significant reply.