Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1859 — The Ups and Downs of Fortune. [ARTICLE]

The Ups and Downs of Fortune.

A San Francisco correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune writes as follows: “In this city there is a person who certainly took a very prominent part in effecting the liberation of Louis Napoleon from the prison at Ham. He is now poor and in difficulty. His friends recommend him to write to his imperial friend, and try to obtain some grateful recognition of his former services. “But another fact is really curious, and illustrates what strange mutations of fortune sometimes fall to the lot of mankind. A gentleman well known here as a reliable and reputable citizen, as he is a thorough and experienced business man’, states that when Louis Napoleon was in New York he was so poor that he was unable to obtain even enough to eat, except through the charity of some lew friends. Mr. was at th,at time a clerk in a large importing house in Pearl street, and was intimate with the then needy French adventurer. Napoleon was accustomed to come and sit about dinner time on a window-sill on the opposite side of the street, and tjiere waitforthe store to close, when he would accompany his friend, who usually paid.for his meals at a neighboring restaurant. Napoleon seldom ventured to enter the store, for fear of Compromising his friend, both knowing that he would not be tolerated there. Had the proprietors been able to see and brilliant change destined to occur to bis fortunes, perhaps they >yopld liaye beep Ipsq exclhsiye iq pphey tpwnr.c} the poor outcast.” things aje done, nuw-a-days,” said Mr. Timmins, "the doctor haq given Fick’s boy a new lip from his cheek.” ‘♦Ah!” said the old. lady, "many’s the time I liaye known a p.ah. taken from mine, and no very piqnfui operation either.”