Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-04-18

rDentS OiaZed with Inc Jewels OF It's occu-
pants. Princes with their proud DANES,
high officers of state, mobiles whose domains
We'd in extent with kingdoms. and ordly
beauties, at whose gaze all bept in adora-
ton. had gathere at that magnificent fes-
tival, to do honor to the fair daughter of
their host. And loveliest among the love-
ly was the bride. Tall and maest tic in ev-
cry movement, with u qucenly bow and
face such as nights have been that of the
mother of the gods, sin moved through the
splendid apartment the theme Of every ad
miring tongue. No less remarkable was
her husband Warsaw beheId no noble
tread her palaces more !ordIy in his bear
ing than the Count Restchifky. The fire
of an hundred warrior ancestors burned in
his eye. The fame of his high lineage,
Of his extended possessions, Of hs (cats in
arms, followed his footsteps wherever he
went. la manly beauty the court Of Pc
land had no rival to the Count, in majes-
tic Ioveiness, the realm furnished no equal
to his bride. And now, as they stood to-
gether in that proud old hail, surrounded
by all that was noble and beautiful in the
land, the peerless beauty Of the Countess
and the pr!nceIy bearing Of her husband,
shonc pre-emnent.
Never had Warsaw seen such festi-
val. Al that the most boundless wealth,
and all that a taste the most faatidous couIi
do to adj 10 the spIendor of the occasion,
bad been cone, and the guests one and all,
bore testimony TO the success OF the prince
y entertainer. The air was laden with
incense, bowers blooming around, I'M
seen music filled the ball with harmony,
statues and carvings Of rare device met
the eye at every turn. If AIiadln had
been there he would not lave asked that
| his enchanted pa.ace should exec! in mag
! inference The one before him. No vision
arv 10 his widest dreams could imagine
! aught more beautiful. And through this
unrivaiicd hall the count and his bride
| moved, conscious that all this splendor was
| invoked for their honor, feeling that not
| hen ct Of all the vast assembly but envied
their exu!ted lot. At every step congrat
uIatons met them, until they turned away
| scl, with aduIation, What wonder that the
rose grew still deeper on the cheek Of the
bride, aud her eyes flashed with greater
|
Could any mortal wholly resist the intoxi-
cation Of that hour?
| II
Years had elapsed. That fair young
bride had become mother; but time had
passed over her without destroying one
lincament Of her majestic beauty. But the
scene had changed from that through
| H. h.. l.,I a ~
There were no longer around her wealth
and splendor and beauty, the flattering and
the proude, the envy and the fair. She
sat alone-alone with her two children
one a lovely girl Of sixteen, and the other
a smiling boy, whose birth three years be-
fore had filled her husbands heart with
ecstacy, filled a province with rejoicings.
But now that her husband was away from
her side, that province lay smoking around
her. Her own proud home, where since
her marriage she had spent the happiest
hours Of her life, had been sacked and Civ
en- to the flames, and now she sat leaning
against the shattered parapet, with her face
! buried in l.er hands, and the bitter tear Of
a mothers anguish rolling down her
cheeks. At her feet, leaning on her for
succor, and claspng her hands, sal her
daughter; while her boy too young as we.
10 be conscious Of the misery around him,
smiled as he played with the jewel!ed cross
suspended from his mothers neck. A bro
ken sword, dismounted cannon, the shat
tered staff Of lance at the group. betokened
that the vassals of the count had not yield
ed up her house to repine without dead
| y struggle. And indeed, Of the hundreds
of hearts which beat there but the day be-
fore. only those Of her mother and The two
children had escaped captivity or DEATH
Part of the palace was yet In flames, while
on the plain beyond, village threw up its
lurid connagration across the sky. Des-
oIation and despair sat enthroned around.
| Who that had seen that mother On her
bridal night could have foretold that her
after life would reveal q scene like this ?
The Polish war fo2 Independence had
broken out. Among the foremost of the
patriotic band which periled all their coun-
try, was the count Resichf Ky. His sword
| had been unsheathed at the outbreak Of
the conflict, his fortune had been poured
the first into the Golfers Of the state. From
his own estates he had raised and equipped
as gallant band as ever followed a lord
to the tented field. And for short space
the war seemed to prosper. But then came
the reverse. From every quarter the
naughty Catharne poured her countless
| legons, headed by the fierce Suwarro low,
into Poland, and smoking fields and slaught
cred armies soon told that the day of hope
| of their Inflated land was over. Yet
few noble spirits. among whom the count
was foremost, still held out for their coun-
try, fighting every foot of ground. and
though retrea;ing before the overwhelming
force of the foe, compelling hun to pur-
chase every rood of land he gained by the