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SFL Cat · 12-31-2013, 11:25 AM

The Republic
January 1858

International News

Napoleon III Survives Assassination Attempt

Paris, France -- On the evening of 14 January 1858, as the French Emperor, Napoleon III, and his Empress, Eugénie de Montijo, were on their way to the theatre in the Rue Le Peletier, to see Rossini's William Tell, when they were attacked by radicals, who threw three bombs at the imperial carriage. The first bomb landed among the horsemen in front of the carriage. The second bomb wounded the animals and smashed the carriage glass. The third bomb landed under the carriage and seriously wounded a policeman who was hurrying to protect the occupants.

Eight people were killed and 142 wounded. The Emperor's hat was punctured by shrapnel and the Empress was spattered with blood, but they were unharmed. They then proceeded to the performance and appeared in their box. Upon leaving the opera, they were cheered by a large crowd.

The following day, Felice Orsini, an Italian revolutionary, was arrested and charged with the crime. Orsini was found in his lodgings tending to wounds he suffered from the explosion during the attack.

National News & Politics

Last President of Texas Republic Found After Apparent Suicide.

Houston, Texas -- On 10 January, Anson Jones, who served as the final president of the Republic of Texas, was discovered in his room at the Old Capitol Hotel lying across his bed at half past 8 o'clock in the morning with a discharged pistol in his hand and his brains blown out.

Jones, a physician by training and a veteran of the war with Mexico, has mostly been out of the public eye since Texas became a state in 1846. At the formal ceremony held in Austin to bring Texas into the United States, then president Jones delivered a speech that he concluded by declaring, "The final act in this great drama is now performed. The Republic of Texas is no more." In his final official act as president, Jones lowered the Texas flag from its pole.

Jones had returned and stayed in the Republic's old capitol for four days. Friends and acquaintances say he returned convinced that the Texas legislature would send him to the U.S. Senate to replace Senator Thomas Jefferson Rusk, who had vacated his seat by committing suicide in July of the previous year. However, he received not a single vote. The seat instead went to former Republic attorney general James Pinckney Henderson, a man who friends say Jones had dismissed as a "gamester and a sot."

It is said the former president was bitterly disappointed by this rejection and spent his final days alone in his room brooding.

12-31-2013, 11:25 AM	#36
SFL Cat College Starter Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: South Florida	The Republic January 1858 International News Napoleon III Survives Assassination Attempt Paris, France -- On the evening of 14 January 1858, as the French Emperor, Napoleon III, and his Empress, Eugénie de Montijo, were on their way to the theatre in the Rue Le Peletier, to see Rossini's William Tell, when they were attacked by radicals, who threw three bombs at the imperial carriage. The first bomb landed among the horsemen in front of the carriage. The second bomb wounded the animals and smashed the carriage glass. The third bomb landed under the carriage and seriously wounded a policeman who was hurrying to protect the occupants. Eight people were killed and 142 wounded. The Emperor's hat was punctured by shrapnel and the Empress was spattered with blood, but they were unharmed. They then proceeded to the performance and appeared in their box. Upon leaving the opera, they were cheered by a large crowd. The following day, Felice Orsini, an Italian revolutionary, was arrested and charged with the crime. Orsini was found in his lodgings tending to wounds he suffered from the explosion during the attack. National News & Politics Last President of Texas Republic Found After Apparent Suicide. Houston, Texas -- On 10 January, Anson Jones, who served as the final president of the Republic of Texas, was discovered in his room at the Old Capitol Hotel lying across his bed at half past 8 o'clock in the morning with a discharged pistol in his hand and his brains blown out. Jones, a physician by training and a veteran of the war with Mexico, has mostly been out of the public eye since Texas became a state in 1846. At the formal ceremony held in Austin to bring Texas into the United States, then president Jones delivered a speech that he concluded by declaring, "The final act in this great drama is now performed. The Republic of Texas is no more." In his final official act as president, Jones lowered the Texas flag from its pole. Jones had returned and stayed in the Republic's old capitol for four days. Friends and acquaintances say he returned convinced that the Texas legislature would send him to the U.S. Senate to replace Senator Thomas Jefferson Rusk, who had vacated his seat by committing suicide in July of the previous year. However, he received not a single vote. The seat instead went to former Republic attorney general James Pinckney Henderson, a man who friends say Jones had dismissed as a "gamester and a sot." It is said the former president was bitterly disappointed by this rejection and spent his final days alone in his room brooding. Last edited by SFL Cat : 01-01-2014 at 10:23 AM.