Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-09-10

Partisan GOSSIP.

IUritten for the Home Journal from Material found
in Pirate Correspondence, French Papers, and
the '.Eiats Unis" and ".Noureau Monde. y
The RESIDENCE OF RACHEL THE ACTRESS.
Poor daughter of Israel so fragile and
so pallid, when singing your melancholy
strains in the streets of Paris-who would
have predicted, for you, the sPlendour
which is abou: you now 1t is not
dwelling-house in which you live. It's
= palace-a creation Of fairy architecture
and Oriental luxury-such as the lamp OF
Aladdin could not have out-conjured. Ii
is a poem in marble, an unprecedented
miracle of art, everything that the lmagl-
nation could conceive that was fantastic
and startling. What fairy. o, "Athalie,"
has wrought out for you this splendid ex,
is,encel Whence comes this palace; these
draperies of silk and gold; these purple
hangings; these Etruscan frescOes; these
groups of angels these caryatides; this
bed more sumptuous than the bed of Louis
the Fourteenth; this dais of gold incrus-
fed in the plafond; this panel in the wall,
so secret and complaisant; this Chinese
bUudoir in the third story ; (why so re-
mote y this incompatible saloon; this
dinng-room, which puts the ghost OF Lu-
culns TO the blush this library in sculP-
rured ebonyi this ante-chamber guarded
hy knirhts in armour; this black table
covered with poignardS, yatag ghans, krees-
es, stvlels and misercordes these vases
ceaseiessly supplied with fresh flowers
these gigantic servants in livery, who
keen molionless watch al the door OF the
hall. stately as the attendants OF mon
arch: these accumulated miracles OF SCI
cnce and art, and luxury, of wealth and
e,egancc--whence come all these, y, mag
uiicenl "Athalle Z!
"Ceque j'ai fait, Abncr j'avais dro' dc le fare
Je ne prcnds pas pour judge un rival temeralre'
Quol que son insoIcnce ait ose puoller
lie ciel meme pri, sion de me Justlticr.'
But come with us TO the saloon of Nd
dcmosele Rachel, and letuS study II III
lis personal and moral aspect
Singular anomaly! In the drawing
room. Of this grand coquette by Prolessl"n'
YOU see none of the frlvOlIeS, the prl'li-
ICED lree,ioms, the departures from cere-
monv and etiquette. which mark the man
ners in the saloons OF other celebrated wo-
men Of the same class. If | were To char
ac,erize Il. | should say it bad rather the
air Of hiqh court of literature than OF
,oircc Of gallan,ry. The habilnAl socici!
Of the wallace of the Rue Trudun Is com
losed of the pure-hIond arislocrais ct
France; hc Scientific Acadcmlclans the
reuown d military men; III" Cabinet NJ M
l>Irrs oc the Govprnmcut; the most dis
r#ga.ara a"horS ANA artists; the five or
81 f,smonah.c ami Respectable ladies' oI
Po,i> vino do not fear 10 der"ga;e from
'brir d,sni,v by visiting here; he etieb,
r@ of III klnds, AM Dhr choicest ol 'hr
ltery ,r,resses ol Paris. Aud, wouid
zen h.hpve lllar. lrom this m'ngIcd Fir' lc'
- 'hr uor.eascs cf society are more O"nIsii'
cd ,tmr !son any o!heE! and that, here.
lerc is no c..!Ym.sy noI IL Wlll. ne sill
'"'ss nor uifine! |, would = en- as u
q ar. visitor. in entering, tlad irtr hehIn"
''' That is commonplace a"d med'osfs'
''G l"al pv, II lie. who cou.d De tr'iier'
'' rynic ,I,cwhe g her; III cInnblta 't
'Dc lEes acc -oi thC rot actress, "Ao'