Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — Louis Napoleon’s Courage. [ARTICLE]

Louis Napoleon’s Courage.

At Strasburg, when the Regiment on which h)e depended refused its support, he ran and was found in a state of abject terpjr hiding under a carriage. In the Boulogne attempt, when he had got halfway across the channel he became alarmed, and wished to turn back. The people about him called for champagne, and kept him to his purpose by making him half drunk. As he approached, and no friends appeared, his alarm returned. The first troops that met hint were under the command of a sensible old officer, who, when he* saw the! strange procession, accompanied by the tame eagle, and was told that Louis Napoleon was at its head, instead of joining him, summoned him to Surrender. Vaudreuil had said that at Strasburg Louis Napoleon bad not dared even to fire a pistol in his own defence. He recollected this mob kept a pistol in his hand, and fired at the officer, but his hand shook so that though the man was not five paces off he missed him and wounded a poor cook, who, in his white apron, was standing at a door toeee what was going ou. | Louis Napoleon turned, ran into the sea, and got into a boat. A boat from the shore pulled after,hlm.He gave himself up, begged them not to hurt him, and said that, he had 200,000 francs in his pocket which he would give them. He was landed, and begged M. Adam, the maire, to take the 200,000 francs. Adam said he would take care of them, but, with ..businesslike habits, chose to count thbm first. It was lucky for him, for when it was counted in the presence of the crowd, there were found to be only 120,000. This sum, when he was on trial before his peers, he claimed, and the 'cruel government of Louis Philippe let him have them. He never crossed the Ticino. He was smoking in a bouse during the whole time. At Solferino, where he was two miles in the real, he did not move or give an order, but be smoked fifty-three cigars. We know this, as he always carries ! with him li tl ■ boxes, each of which

contains fifty cigars. One was quite exhausted, aud three had been taken out of the other. Once a spent ball came near him, but that is the only oocasion on which he could be considered as under fire. I saw letter from one 6f thp Cent-Susses to/his mother: “You need be under no anxiety about me. Pam with the Emperor, aDd therefore out of danger.” Iu fact, none of them were hit, ! - :