The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-22
INCIDENTS OF PARIS LIFE.

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tween m aristocratic Count, over whose heart
eighty five winters have passed away without cool.
ing the ardor, and the widow OF naval oaacer,
lirle younger than thiry-two. The difference Of
the ages OF the parties excires no surprise and
would give rise, but for some circumssauces To
nothing more than the pointed sarcasms and the
glittering notsl which usually attend all the aess
that take place here. At that age men are in the
state when ft b perhaps natural to doat on wo
man when they doat on great many objects:
and women are rarely more sensitive to the yaIue
Of money than shortly after the age oil thirty.
when the last drees of boarding school and youth.
hearts, and writing desk by lustres attrion with
the world although must do the French women
the justice to sayihey are very slightly troubled with
that cash which with Us almost run mothers mad
and greatly damage fathers bank accounts They
are early initiated into the arithmetic of francs
and centimes From the first they stake to III won.
derfully; they are ardent neOphytes In everything
appertaining to money. Money is the root of ali
evil-marriages included. Nothing but the on.
impotence Of money could weld together in man
and wife this frosty winter and this genial spring
The wooins wintry wijower has heirs, two sons,
the youngest OF whom is q great deal older than
the wooed willing widow. They very naturally
oppose the marriage, for they dread one of the
consequences OF marriage, which Napoleon said
was inevitable when the husband was upwards OF
sixty five, children, each OF whom would be nu.
mueral added to the division Of the paternal es.
tate.
They bring in play every influence to avert this
soemniZation Of matrimony. They engaged the
Minister of War to interfere (he old Count is at
tached to the army to enjoin this fatal marriage,
and the Grand Chancellor OF the Legion of Honor
at their suggestion has used all OF his authority to
dissuade this octogenarian candidate from matri.
mony and finding these unsuccessful, the heirs
have offered ten thousand dollars to the bewitchng
widow to veil her charms she desires twenty
thousand and there the affair rests for the present
although the notares kept quite busy by the old
man, the widow. and the heirs Precedents are
not wanting to palliate the old mans desire to be
celebrating his marriage when he should be or.
daining his funeral Marshal de Caumont La.
force, who was wont to follow the stag hounds un.
til he had passed his eighty sixth year, married the
widow of Dutch gentlemen. named Langherac.
in his eighty ninth year, and after she died. nine
months after the marriage, he began to court the
ladies again in his ninety-second year. and would
have been again successful had not some fortune
teller predicted that he would have two more
wives, and no lady could be found bold enough to
venture to be the last wifes predecessor.
A circular letter. addressed to several ycrv opu.
lent gentlemen here, has been handed around In
the clubs, but am afraid the lady defeats her own
ends by tho too business like way by which she
exhibits her story. Cupid carries arrows, and not
ledgers, 10 his quver. 1t runs somewhat in these
terms: Monsieur N. or NJ l am twenty years old
am foreigner my parents placed me at the age
OF fourteen in - Boarding School, Rue de- -,
No. -. have heard nothing of them for three
years. and the Information have obtained about
them persuades me that henceforth am alone in
the world My education is completely termina-
ted; the boarding school keeper does not know
what to do with me; do not know what to do. /
owe three years board, tuition, and fees-say ak
hundred dollars. If no one comes to nv aid do
not know what will become of me. l dare crave
your aid, ," &c. She is said to be beautiful Wal.
lachian girl Women are sold to the most unhaI.
lowed purposes outside of the Southern States
One of the saloons OF our city is closed now az
having been unlucky to its guests. At Its last re-
ception day cushion fell from the petticoats of
lady! cushionl Yes sir, an air cushion! You
know how ample the ladies wear their dresses now
adays-many fold of linen, and crinoine, and
silk lying between US and them. Ell bcia Nine
Aurelie has the misfortune of having an extremely
short bust although she looks extremely well
when she Is standing; she no sooner sits down than
pouf she looks like Tom Thumbs wife, and at the
dinner table her plate is on q level with her mouth
and to go from soup to cheese she il obliged to use
some OF the most ungraceful gestures. A prolonged
reflection and several consultations with her man.
tua maker, engaged her to adopt cushion to Ger
tain portion OF her petticoat (excuse me from ven.
turing into too minute typographical details which
her ample crinoline concealed while she was stand
ing, and which keeps the right position when she
is seated Her success at the dinner table was COM
pete. She was afraid Of mo chair. Unhappily that
fatal and perfdious saloon exercised it's occult in
huence over the strings that secured the valuable
cushion in its place-they broke, she blushed-and
the cushion fell!
A rather touching story Is current here, and is
said to be true; the names are given, but do not
feel warranted to use them Suffice it then to saw
the hero of the story is very wealthy person, a
parUenu, who by the force of his wealth moves 10
the best society here In his youth one of his Tia.
sons made him the father of daughter-her moth
er died few years after giving her birth. He mar
ried in the duo course OF time and was afraid to
avow to his wife that he had natural daughter
The unfortunate child was consigned to hireling
cares This abandonment of the orphan reached
his mothers ears-he, being parvenu, had with
the morbid pride of an upstart engaged his mother
to quit his house, and to live in remote quarter of
the city on a modest pension he allowed her and
she resolved to adopt the child; 1t thrived under
her tender cares, the child became woman she
was taught means of livelihood, an art for which
she had evident talents. The mother wrote more
than to her son for an increased pension, her
letters received no reply; while the son and father
lived surrounded with all the appliances of wealth.
his daughter and her mother dragged out painful
existence-at the last the old woman died at the
age OF seventy.eght leaving the daughter alone at
the age of twenty. Her son paid for Q modest flu
neral and plain tombstone and-the mother was
forgotten, and the daughter too. One evening he
gave splendid ball. Cheyet had furnished one OF
his thousand dollar suppers; "every body was
there; in the height of the ball. while the parasites
were the most busy with their f1attery, q servant
gave him letter-he turned pale and came near
fainting-he recognized his mother's-his dead
mothers handwriting, and 1t was signed by her: it
begged him TO aid his daughter, TO give her bread
to eat to enable her to exercise her art The next
morning he sent the poor girl two hundred francs
1t was not long before the tyrant fashion decreed
the usual estival emgration- went to some fash.
ionable watering place; while there he received
another letter from his mother he sent to his daugh
ter 1--WE hundred francs and when he returned to
Paris he gave her little rente which will enable
her to pursue her profession without ever being
affrighted by the gaunt wolf-poverty-which has
chilled many glowing soul. His mother had fore
seen the miseries to which her grand child would
be exposed. and had adopted the expedient OF wrf
ting several letters of appeal before her DEATH for
her grand child to use when she should be no Ion
ger near her. This young lady 70 working ON
grand painting for next years exhibition.
A WArERMELon, weighing fortyiour and hall
pounds, was sold in YorkvlIe, 8. c., last week. for
one dollar.
The antislavery conference ut Manchester, Eng.
land, was failure. The Liverpool journal says
so, and remarks-"As benevolence seeks opportu-
niiy for exercise perhsps the speakers at the con-
ference might find employmentin IN looking after the
condition OF white female slaves In Turkey. Two
ship leads of beautiful women ON their way 70 con-
cubinage, were captured last week.
Llewellyn G. Tallmadge Harvey wss executed
q Exeter, England, on tho 4th, for the murder Of
Mary Richards. He was man Of some educa.
Inn nndv trt . I'D Aun.