Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — Napoleon to His Bather. [ARTICLE]

Napoleon to His Bather.

A curious letter, said to have been written by Napoleon 1 to his father, when the future Emperor was a mere child, and a pupil at the military school at Brienne, has just been published in France. It is dated April 5, 1781, and runs thus: “Father, if you or my protectors can not afford me the means of living more honorably in this house, bring me back home at once. I am tired of proclaiming my indigence, and of seeing the sneers of insolent scholars whom nothing but their fortune elevates above me, but there is not one whois not a hundred ‘pikes’ below the noble sentiments which animate me. Is your son to remain the laughing stock of a few palloqueti, who, vain of their own means or enjoyment, insult me by smiling at my privations t If you are unable to afford me any improvement of my position here, take me away from Brienne. and put me into some mechanical position. From this offer you may judge of my despair. Please believe that my letter has not been dictated by the vain desire of indulging in expensive amusements, which I have no taste for. I only want to be able to show that I have the means of procuring them like my companions. Your respectful and affectionate son, Bonaparte.” ___

I The Rev. James Walsh, of Long Branch, N. J., pastor of the Catholic church of the Lady Star of the Bea, has made another severe attack from the pulpit on Thomas McKenna, a member ot the Catholic church, and a candidate for town commissioner, denouncing him as a Free Mason- Much public indignation exists to regard to the matter. Indians near Ehrenburg, on the Colorado river, Aiozona, have murdered Mr. Calloway- Ibey have sent their women and children north, and defy the small force, sent Trom Ehrenburg to arrest the murderers. The agent at the Colorado Indian reservation has withdrawn to Ehrenburg for safety. 7 There has been some more political riot ing in Ireland. r