MORNY, CHARLES A. L. J. 



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agriculture and the natural sciences, and a nor- 

 mal professorship. The State University at 

 Columbia is situated in the central and a fertile 

 portion of the State. The buildings are large, 

 substantial, and elegant, and were erected with- 

 out cost to the State. This institution is en- 

 dowed with the fund arising from the sale of 

 the land granted by the act of Congress of 

 March 6, 1820, to the State, for the use of a 

 seminary of learning. Of this fund $1,000,000 

 is invested in the stock of the State Bank of 

 Missouri, and 20,000 in the stock of the Branch 

 Bank of Chillicothe. The sixth section of the 

 ninth article of the Constitution requires that 

 this stock should be sold or invested in United 

 States or other securities. 



The University, notwithstanding the small 

 amount derived for its support from the divi- 

 dend of three per cent, per annum declared by 

 the State Bank, is in a healthy and flourishing 

 condition, maintaining a high rank among the 

 institutions of learning in the West. 



The State holds in trust for the Common 

 School Fund $678,967.96, which is invested in 

 stock of the State Bank of Missouri. The Con- 

 stitution requires that this stock shall be sold. 



The Missouri Military Institute, provided by 

 the act of May 13, 1861, has not been organ- 

 ized. The Governor has not been able to find 

 the deed contemplated by the eleventh section 

 of that act, the delivery of which to the Gov- 

 ernor is a condition precedent to the taking 

 effect of the law. The buildings which were 

 erected by the Masonic Order at a large cost 

 f have been almost entirely destroyed by the acts 

 of the public enemy. 



A board of emigration, created by an act of 

 the Legislature of the previous year, has been 

 engaged for six months in disseminating in the 

 other States and in Europe information con- 

 cerning the peculiarities and capabilities of the 

 soil of the State, the numerous localities of the 

 minerals, extent of timber, availability of water- 

 courses, nature of the climate, and opportu- 

 nities for education. The peaceful attitude 

 which public affairs, soon after the war, as- 

 sumed, greatly aided the people in recovering 

 from their disasters. 



MORNT, CHARLES ATTOUSTE Louis JOSEPH, 

 Due de, President of the French Legislative 

 body, born in Paris, October 23, 1811, died in 

 that city, March 10, 1865. His parentage was 

 purposely involved in mystery, but he is gener- 

 ally understood to have been the illegitimate 

 child of Queen Hortense, the mother of Louis 

 Napoleon, and the Count de Flahault, and thus 

 a half brother of the Emperor. He was brought 

 up under the care of his grandmother, Madame 

 de Sousa, and was early remarked for his pro- 

 ficiency in his studies and the elegance of his 

 manners ; and to give him a position in society, 

 the Count de Morny, a nobleman resident in 

 the Isle of France, was induced to adopt him as 

 his son, receiving the sum of 800,000 francs for 

 the act. At the age of nineteen the young 

 Count was placed at a military school, and 

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after two years received his commission as sub- 

 lieutenant in a regiment of lancers then quar- 

 tered at Fontainebleau ; here he showed the ver- 

 satility of his mind by frequenting the library 

 of the palace, where for a time he devoted his 

 attention to theological and metaphysical 

 studies. He soon after joined the French army 

 in Africa, where he took part in the expedition 

 to Mascara and the siege of Constant! ne. At 

 Mascara he performed the feat of crossing the 

 whole army of Abd-el-Kader to join that of 

 the French ; at Constantino he was wounded 

 with four balls, and at the end of the campaign 

 was nominated Chevalier of the Legion of 

 Honor, for having saved the life of General 

 Trezel beneath the walls of that stronghold. 

 In 1837 Queen Hortense died, leaving him an 

 annuity of 40,000 francs, and soon after he re- 

 tired from the army, and with his capital 

 plunged into commercial speculations, his first 

 essay being as a manufacturer of beet-root 

 sugar at Clermont. He subsequently engaged 

 in other speculations, with more or less success. 

 In 1842 he was elected to the Chamber of 

 Deputies for Puy-de-Dome, and, after eight 

 years' service, was elected to the Legislative 

 Assembly, when he at once identified himself 

 with the policy of Louis Napoleon. During 

 the coup d'etat he was one of the few who 

 were in the confidence of the Emperor, and 

 was one of his most effective assistants in its 

 consummation. After that event he held the 

 oflice of Minister of the Interior, being ap- 

 pointed December -2, 1851, but resigned his 

 position January 23, 1852, on account of the 

 confiscation of the property of the Orleans 

 family. Subsequently he became a member of 

 the Legislative Body, and from 1854 to the time 

 of his death officiated as its president. In 1857 

 the Count was sent to Russia as ambassador 

 extraordinary to represent the French Em- 

 peror at the coronation of the Czar, when the 

 relations between the two Governments were 

 restored to an amicable footing, and a treaty 

 of commerce negotiated. During his stay in 

 Russia, M. de Morny married the young and 

 wealthy Princess Troubetskoi, who had been 

 brought up at the institution of the imperial 

 maids of honor. As a wedding present, he is 

 said to have given his bride diamonds costing 

 2,000,000 francs. He also purchased, in the 

 name of his wife, a seignorial estate belonging 

 to the Sevlosky family, situated about twelve 

 miles from St. Petersburg. Political affairs, 

 however, by no means claimed his exclusive 

 attention; on the contrary, for the last ten 

 years he was associated in numerous industrial 

 undertakings, and entered largely into im- 

 portant speculations connected with railroads, 

 canals, mines, credit, societies, etc. He had 

 also a decided taste for paintings, of which ho 

 had gathered quite a valuable collection. Of 

 his political character, it may be said that ho 

 exercised no useless tyranny. His strategy 

 consisted in profiting by circumstances, and de- 

 meaning himself courteously toward those he 



