Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-07-02
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Rhine as at Baden, where the seasons lasts IN al
its brillianey and throng of visitets until the last
DAYS of autumn force Tie company home. Baden
has singular good foltllhe and It's immune at
fractions have Increased and secured its popular
favor. Elsewhere the company began to decrease
de Chambord took his departures Wiiesbaden was
Instantly deserted and grass will shortly grow in
the large and monumental streets of that city
which resembles " ersailles. The season lasts a
little longer at Ems, but early in September it is
easy to see that it cannot be Of long continuance
At this early date the circle of rsiters is not re-
newed; the ranks daily become thinner, and soon
that beautiful spot will be Invested of its ornaments
the trees of their leaves like them to rejuvenate
and be terminated next spring
The story, or rather the true history, which will
shortly be narrated, was communicated to me, as
shall presently relate, at Ems some years ago
Of all the watering-places of the Rhine, Ems most
resembles Baden by the charms of the surround
ing country and the choice of the society which
faithfully returns there year after year. Besides,
Ems has the reputation of being the diplomatic
watering place. The most celebrated statesmen
gladly give themselves rendezvous there to treat
secretly about their most important affairs M. de
NesSelrode frequently makes his physician prescribe
these waters to him. NJ. de Metternich may, while
taking his mornings walk, come to Ems from his
chateau of Johannesburg, situated few leagues
from it, and in the same Duchy of Nassau. The
chateau of Stolzenfels, belonging to the King OF
Prussia is also placed in the neighborhood of Ems,
being distant from it only three leagues and the
Prince, as well his Ministers, often come for a
promenade to Ems during the stay the Prussian
Court annually makes every summer in the Gothic
Manor, picturesquely reconstructed on the banks
of the Rhine
There were great many persons this year as
usual at Ems and consequently anecdotes were not
wanting. 1t was easy to amuse ones self there !;
Young ladies were in decided majority; all, all
the Partisan ladies who were returning from
Weisbaden or going to Baden, made halt here,
where fetes succeeded each other, without inter-
ruption. Apart from this joyous throng upon the
terrace which borders the pretty river called the
Lain, elderly lady, evidently in i'll health, might
be seen two or three hours every day, seated
in the sunshine and breathing the pure and balmy
air of the mountains. This lady, whose physiog-
nomy was exceedingly arstocratic, and whose suf-
ferings excited great deal of interest was called
the Countess de NJ. She was known to be
very wealthy, but certain mystery hung about
her.
Among the Partisan sojourners Was gentleman
who for the last fifty years has been great deal
in fashionable society,-M. de Del, whose
youth hourished somewhere about the year 1910,
and whose old age is adorned with all the charms
of talents, furnished with many souvenirs. NJ. de
Bel was struck with the physognomy of the
Countess dc M. He thought she was an old
acquaintance, and. taking advantage of that tacii
ty authorized by the customs of water places, he
took the liberty of saluting the countess in very
respectful manner, and of asking her if she had
never lived in Paris.
g Neverp she replied, in manner which show
ed considerable embarrassment.
The inquisitive gentleman did not make another
attempt, but he did not give up as defeated. After
searching all the recesses of his memory after re-
viewing all the incidents of the past he met the
Souvenir of history which he at first resolved to
keep secret. But some days ago we heard that
) the Countess de M, who had just quilted
= Ems to return to one of her chateaux, becoming
more indsposed during her hOmeward journey,
had been obliged to stop at an inn on the roadside
where she had breathed her last. Too curious
himself not to know how to sympathize with the
inquisityeness of his fellow-men and women, NJ
de Bel related to US the other evening, upon
the terrace overlooking the Lain, and upon the
very place where the Countess de n was
wont to sit, history which is at the same time
retrospective sketch of Partisan society.
1t was during the most brilliant days of the
Empire, at the period when Partisan society, gath
ering the scattered remains of the revolutionary
shipwreck, reconstructed itself with the elements
of the old society, commngled with the new glori-
es and the new fortunes. The past and the pres
ent met upon the ground of etes and pleasures.
The former sought to compensate themselves for
long and cruel trials; the latter were jealous and
anxious to display their new splendor. Both riv-
allied each other with enthusiasm nerve and eclat.
The fusion of the two aristocracies which the En-
perors endeavored to cement by intermarriages,
was formed in less grave and more extensive
manner in the drawing rooms of the distinguished
foreigners who then abounded in Paris In the
FIRST rank was Count Demidoff, father of Prince
Anatole Demidof, who married the Princess Ma
thilde, cousin of Louis Napoleon, the Emperor of
the French, and from whom she was separated bv
ukase Of the Gar, his gracious sovereign.
Count Demidcf possessed an immense fortune
and it to that fortune that he the grandson of
simple gunsmth, owed his nobility, his title, and
his position at Court. His wealth, which he be-
queathed to his two sons, principally consisted in
the working of iron, copper and gold mines, stu
ated in the Ura mountains the mines were his
property in fee simple.
This has been bad year, said he one dav; nv
mines have brought me in only eight hundred
thousand dollars.
LIE pGuvre honans! The average revenue was
between one million and one million two hundred
thousand dollars per annum-without reckoning
the returns from other estates belonging to this
magnificent lord, which he had purchased with
his economies on the revenues from the Ural
mountains It must be said Count Dernidoff made
an excellent use of his colossal fortune he foun-
ded useful Establishments, he encouraged the arts
he kept one of the most splendid and most aoree-
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