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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
sting the landing of the French in Mexico. At a still more recent period, he directed with consummate skill and energy the resistance of his degenerate countrymen to the conquering armies of the United States. He now finds himself an exile in St. Thomas, where he dwells on one of the lofty hills, occupying an elegant establishment, surrounded with extensive grounds and luxuriant shrubbery. He is fond of sweeping the horizon with his glass, and discourses to his visitors with somewhat of the majesty and grace of a small Napoleon. St. Thomas is the Elba of the Mexican exile; only it is the French who have clipped the wings of this eagle, and banished him from his native eyrie, He is still create, his eye has lost nothing of its former fire, and he handles his wooden leg with considerable case and dexterity. He is said to look upon the Austria-French Empire as a very temporary affair. he says that the French are a very polite people indeed, and that when he was in Mexico, Marsh