Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-09-22
How Women sometimes behave
to Men..And the other way.

! to 1Ien--And the other way.
! The following account of CONDITIONER
and his wife illustrates one point Of NAL
character not Of the most illustrious de
scription- particularly when compare'
with its opposite in the conduct Of hi
wife:
! The Wife Of Gontalionieri-[F From tn
National Intelligencer. The death o
Gonfalionieri the former idol of the re
| publican salons Of Paris, has not created
one single expression of regret, nor givel
birth to single "Ode to Liberty" Of
"Lament for the brave, in any of the Re
publican journals. He was among the few
survivors ofSpielberg Tyranny. His his.
tory is romance, mol 20 much for his ad.
ventures as for the extraordinary affec-
ton and devotion he had inspired in his
wife, who was one Of the most lovely and
! accomplished women Of her day.
i From the very hour Of bis arrest, which
took place at ball in Milan, she left him
not, save to intercede with his prosecu-
tors. She spent her youth, her for
tune, in her ceaseless endeavors to soften
the hearts Of his enemies, and finally laid
down life itself, worn out with her efforts
te save him from captivity and death. She
followed, alfred in her ball dress, all
through the night Of horror which changed
his existence from powerful leader OF a
popular party to that OF miserable and
neglected captive; she cared not for the
cold or the rain, which fell in torrents,
but at each relay she descended from the
carriage which conveyed her TO hover
round that which contained her husband,
needless OF brutal jeers and rebufs of the
gends d armes, who repulsed her with
drawn sabres. At length, when, after
some days journey, they reached the gates
OF Spleluerg, she fell upon her knees in
supplica,ion for one last word single
word-before the dungeon closed upon
him, perhaps forever. She was refused;
and then she gave the cushion on which
her head had rested during tina, long and
weary journey into the hands of the least
feroclous locking of his guards bidding
him deliver it to the Count, and tell him
that she had been in the carriage which
followed him so closely; that it was her
voice which he must have heard at each
relay in waillng supplication and lament;
and the pillow she sent to him to resi- his
head upon was wet with tears shed for
him alone.
And the guard took the pillow, and with
cruel laugh at SO much ingenuity vast
ed, cut it open before her face, fully ex-
pecting to find some important papers,
some clue to conspiracy within. And
Gontalionierl knew not for years tina; she
had even thought Of him once after he had
left her side; that she had lowered, dis
guised in peasants dress, for months to-
sether, round the bleak mills of Spielberg;
that, by the sacrifice Of her fortune, she
at length obtained the promise Of his llo-
erty. and then died. What must have
been his feelings when he learned all 'hl>!
What must have been lis love, his graf
i,ude to her memory. And how did he
prove II? you will say. Why, he marrl-
ed again! and has died the victim of his
avarlce, al the foot of the lips, ovsrtak.r
by the cold which neither his age nor his
feeble health was able to encounter in the
cheap conveyance which he had chosen.
He has died enormously ricn, his proper
ty not having been conilscar ed, but allow
ed to accumulate during his long imprls-
onmen'. He haH ou,livrd popularity aud
leaves no regret behind; he had suffered
his fellow martyrs to ianguish in want,
nor extended kindly hand to aid them, in
spite OF Ills wealth; 50 shat the utter ST
lence OF The p.rtlzans Of his cause is but
just, and conveys strong lmpressi.
moral.