Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-08-07

stCTIUUS tdlc VI tutiI Huu
den determination TO retire from the world ev-
cry particular of which can warrant to be true,
and whereby they leave us a legacy worthy of
the high name they have always born in the
annals of "Le Sport" we should almost regard '
their secession as mortal offence. Without lay.
ing any claim to the arislocra,ic Influence of
the Faubourg St. German, the Marquis de
.F--had always held most conspicuous
place in the Parisian world by virtue OF his
enormous wealth and TIE beauty of his wife.
This last element Of success is inialible in
place where beauty is rare and the Marquis
had become influential through this means than
even by the great pains he had always taken to|
entertain his friends in manner becoming his
great fortune.
| The origin Of the marquise herself was al
mystery even to her best and most intimate
friends, even TO the indefatigable hunters alter
news who abound in Paris more than any other
city. BY some she wus given out to be gri7|
sette with whom the marquis had fallen in love-
during the time he was a student reading in tho
Pays Latin; by others It was said that she had
been singing girl at one OF the Gales he had
trequented by some that she had been ricer1
at Franconis and by others that she had BEEN
a Lion Queen at one of the menageries on the|
Boulevard dn Temple. All agreed, howeverI
in praise Of her grace and beauty, and Of the|
admirable manner in which she did the honors
of her saloon, giving us a succession oil ietes
from January to December, each one according
to ITS season, and each in its own good time.
There was tho winter advertisement OF last
year, Of which every body talked so much,
when the ball room of the Hotel de F-was
transformed into a complete imitation OF the CO
; Palace of the Empress Catharine then we had
l endless Llays and proverbs in the little theatre
, all performed by amateurs, Snd which furnished
. us with gossip and scandal sufficient to occupy
us the whole year through; then the Summer
A fetes at the beautiful little chateau at Pas'y they
4 we're the most delightful after all first, the
. Fetes des Lilas, the Fete des Seringas, then
. the Feast of Roses, at which oil Paris assem-
t bled to 6ancs, and nrt, and make love in the
1 shade of those tall chestnut trees, beneath whiol
. Franklin had once medtated and philosophical
S All these are lost forever, and what 10 worse
q the queen of all these revels has disappears
d also, to return no more.
Q A vile decision Of the Tribunal condemns IN
9 fair marquise to exile, and her friends 10 des
}, pair and the circumstances Of the sorry are
g whimsical, that all the while we are monrnln
= the loss we have sustained, we cannot help re
d ioicng to find that the Fates have not forgotte
- US, quite, and that we are still to be inrnishe
At with subjects for te,salitons and vandevilles
l. long as there shall bs society IN Paris. 1t ap
ii pears about seven years ago upon her hrst eI
Of rance into the world as the bride of the Maj
,e quis do p, the marquise had made III
,e conquest of young nobeman from the south
n France, who, having just Inherited his father
ly vast estates, was making great noise in PAR
Q. BY reason of the tremendous rate at which Il
.. was living, and the various tollie' be was com