Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-03-09

snowy and tight waist, ,cut low in tn
neck, and with bare arms ;sasYery. shor
skirt, open worked stockings, with CO oret
embroidery. and very small. embroidere.
tslippers. When she appeared in the cir
Gus, she was saluted by all the torreadors
and exchanged with them the most cor
dial greetings. To thee, Countess d.
Teba, L dedicate my love and my powersl'
they would exclaim. waiting kisses to the
young lady. bravo Antoniol Brave
Jose j Well fought my boys" and othel
words of the most liberal appreciation
were the answers. In all such scenes
there was considerable display of Spa
nish frankness, which would have beer
very shocking to the sense ofpropriety o.
| American ladies.
Like all fast women. our Countess found
matrimonial establishment difficult to
obtain. Once she courted the Duke OF
Ossuna, the richest grandce of Spain. but
he declined the honor. Disappointed in
this scheme, she received the addresses
of a Young noble of CASTLE, and was near
ly engaged to marry him. But she could
not help flirting at the same time; and
once, when this young man was IN her
drawing room, she went so far in coquet-
ry with another, that the former aspirant
for her hand seized chair and threw it at
her head, saying with the most opprobri-
Gus epithets that he would not marry her
for the world. The insult was resented
by the last object of her attentions, and
two or three duels was the consequence.
The result of all these acts of dashing &C.
centricity, and of all these scandals, and
of others quite as notorious, was, that it
would have been less than impossible for
Mile. de Montijo to marry gentleman
of her own rank in Spain.
For three or four years past, Mademoi-
selle de Montijo has been wont to spend
the winter in Paris, wht re her conduct
has been much more circumSpect than at
Madrid. Still, she has never gained an
entry into the aristocratic cirlces of the
Fauburg st. Germaine. But she was
compensated for this exclusion by the
cordiality with which she was received at
the Elysee, and by the profound impress
sion she made upon its master. From the
first, she inspired Louis Napoleon with
an ardent passion which justified her re-
solution TO become his wife, and share
the glories that destiny had reserved for
him. In accordance with this datermina-
tion, she steadily rejected other proposals
without regard to their magnifcence. 1t
was currently reported in Paris few
months ago, that her reply to his protes-
tationS oflove had been Prince, am
of too good a family to be your mistress, -
and if the saying be not exactly true in
fact there is no doubt that it is SO in the
spirit. Laterally, the attentions Of the
lover have increased in zeal, and the po
sition of the lady in his Court has been
more marked than ever. She was the
heroine of every festival during the re-
cent excursion of the Court to Campaigne,
she stood at the head as the bright, par
ticular star of the imperial admiration,
and there were not wanting those who
predicted her marriage with Napoleon
Still the lover hesitaIed. He adored, he
worshipped her, yet he didn't come up to
the mark But the Countess was not dis
couraged She is too skillul an actress to
be at fault il such an emergency. She
announced the approaching departure of
herself and her mother for Madrid. The
result was the proposal of marriage, the
appointment of the day, the aununcIaLion
10 the Ministers aud the world that thta
doubt, ere this, the Tonne OF Madrid anu
grand daughter of the former U. S, Con-
sui at Malaga, has become Eusenia, En-
press of the French. 1t is stated that a
gypsy once predicted that size would be
Elevated 70 "a throne, after the fashion OF
the famous prediction OF the negress to
Josephine. 1t remains to be seen how
tar the future will complete the parallel
between the wives of the two Napole-
unS.