Ups and Downs in the World.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 177, 1 April 1873, Page 7

Ups and Downs in the World.

An individual was brought up at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Lawrence, on Tuesday last, the bare facts of whose history-would forme material for the most sensational of modermnovols. His name is Jacques Feuori, and he was bom in Paris during the fiercest heat‘of the French Revolution. He entered the French army as a drummer-hoy at the age of ten, was with Napoleon in the Eastern campaign, and served some time in Spain under Soult and Massena. As a sergeant of the Imperial Guard, he proceeded with the Grand Army on their disastrous Russian campaign. On the return homewards with the shattered remnant of the, French armv, 1m was dangerously wounded, and left for dead at Leipsic. Ho recovered from his wo mds only in time to see the great Napoleon abdicate, and he followed his beloved master to | Elba, where he was appointed to a situation j of'-trust in the great. Captain’s household. He was .one of .th.o ‘ party who accompanied Napoleon cn his. memorable escape, and took a prominent part in many of the events of the Hundred Bays. : He was a lieutenant in the Imperial Guard-at Waterloo ; and in the last charge upon the Highland troops, had ids cuirass smashed in several places by bul-k-ts, and narrowly escaped being destroyed by the Black Brunswickers. When the star of NapoieOu had set for ever, he entered chc Mexican service, and took part in the War of Independence. After that was achieved he returned to Franco ; and was engaged in the Cochin China expedition, and, in the sack of the capital of that'wealthy country, managed to secure a considerable amount of money. He then became a speculator in cool lies at Mauritius, and, succumbing to adverse circumstance#, proceeded to New York, where he resided some time, teaching fencing for a living. Attracted by the gold discoveries made in California, ho proceeded thither, and started the first public-house in Sacramento. He amassed a fortune of a quarter of a. million dollars there, but lost all of it speculating. He proceeded from thence to Australia, and aftewards to New Zealand, and on Monday was fined 20s. for cutting timber without a license. —Tuaoeka Times. °