Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-16
vIcIssITuDKs OF WoNAN,s LIrR.

From the " Anzeger des Westerns the
Tribune translates the following touch
ing narrative, the facts of which are
doubtless not alone in their painful sad
ness, among the experiences and sui.
ferings of European emigrants to this
country.
A few days since, at st. Louis, at an
early hour in the morning, the common
dead-wagon, which, at the cost of the
city, conveys friendless paupers to their
last home, stopI ed before house in the
southern part of the town. The driver
got down, went into the house, and soon
after appeared at the door, along with
another Indifferent looking man, CARRYING
a coffin of rough boards. The coffin was
put into the wagon, and the wheels rat
tied away over the empty streets to the
place of interment. No one followed it
with looks of sorrow no one stood with
heavy heart beside the grave, as the clods
fell upon the coffin. And vet that coffin
hid the form of q woman once the object
OF countless attentions, who was once
honored, admired, envied in society, who
controlled vast riches, ard who, but a
few years since, before she trod the shores
of America, could look forward to a hap
Ply and contented old age.
The deceased was Rosa Neschemi- the
daughter of an immensely rich Polish
nobleman. In her early youth she was
attached to the Court Of the Austrian
Emperor. where, at the age of eighteen,
she married a French nobleman, who was
also very rich. She lived afterward, for
long and happy years, partly on the es-
tates of her husband, partly in journeys
through Germany, Spain, Italy, and Eng.
land, and bore her husband three sons.
who received the best education, and on
whom the parents looked with the great
est pride.
This happiness was interrupted by the
July revolution at Paris. Rosa hus-
band was actively engaged in it, and fell
on July 18th, SHOT through by three bull
let's His name may still be read on the
column in the Place de La Bastile. OF
the sons, the soldest, young man of re.
markable talents, had greatly succeeded
In Spain, and was at that time private
secretary to King Ferdinand. After the
death of the king, he withdrew to q coun.
try house near Valencia, where, as is SUD.
posed, he was asSassinated. The second
son. who had become a priest, was a
special favorite of Pope Gregory; but be,
died shortly after this event. The third,
who was then quite young, remained with
the mother, who had found an ASYLUM in
Switzerland, whittier she brought the
relics of her fortune. When he was six
teen he left his mother and went to
America. In New Orleans he found EN-.
ployment and earned money. but bad
company and a natural disposition to ex-
cess soon led him astray, and about five
years ago he resorted to the last despe-
rate means of reviving his credit, by in
ducing his gray-haired mother to come to
this country. She could not resist the
entreaties of her only son, and came.
She was able to get together $1,000 in
Cash, which her son very soon dissipated.
Some two years ago he ended his career
in New Orleans, where he was deputy
sheriff at the time, by stabbing creole.
He fled to California, and the aged mother,
to whom New Orleans had naturally be-
come hateful, went up the river to St.
Louis.
One morning of week before last, at
carly drawn, the miserable city dead-cart
of st. Louis bore the mortal remains of
Rosa Neschemi to the place OF their last
unwept repose. Such is life."