The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-27
.GBf 9ailg gourml.
THE RACHEL. nIAmoNns

THE RACHEL DIAMONDS
We know were valued by General LLOYD, the
Judge of precious stones a. the London Exhibi-
ton, and one of the best lapdists in Europe. at
| S245,0O0. This dazzling array, blending Asiat-
lie splendor with European elegance, throws,
when she enters as Adrienne, such lustre
lover the stage that you almost fancy YOU see
one of the heroines clad in precious stones
who are pictured around the Court of Solo
mon But far beyond the jewels that gleam
round crowns and courts are those diamonds
of Rachel's; for they are every one homage
offered to genius; and the admiration of them
is sanctifed by identifying the splendor of the
stones without with the splendor of the intellect
within. No possible greater proof can be
afforded ofthe electricity which Raehel's per-
Isonality exercises upon the mind than the
fact that her royal sets Of diamonds and of
brilliants are, with all their power of splendor
not powerful enough to detract attention so
much concentrated upon the lights and shadows
of her eontenance that the attractions of her
ornaments only strike us as an afterthought
Still was it full ofstrange interest to US as we
Hooked on that Tearl and diamond bracelet
those brooeh-rubies and earrings of diamond
land the pearls which she wore on her turban
i'm the second act Of Adrienne, to think that
they were presented to her by one of the most
lsainted women who ever beaut.fed the earth
the widow of Louis Philippe, the pious and
igood Queen Amelia, In the neighhorhood
around Clerinont She may now be seen going
labout with one or two Sisters of Charity, do
ing good by stealth; and as she passes many
may be seen to turn and send after her that
holiest of blessings, the prayer of the poor.
1t speaks the noblest answer to the lying Ca
nards which small ours bark after Rachel like
all others who are great, that she has retain
ed through life the love and regard of this mo-
ldel Queen, that she is one of the few friends
with whom in her exile she corresponds and
that Rachers last act before leaving England,
was to visit her fallen mistress, to whom in
her sorrow she pays even deeper homage
than in her royal hour.
Again the little sparkling bandeau of dia-
monds which she wore on her head in the same
Iaet-is it not replete with tenfold attractions,
wheI it carries the virtue Of being the gift of
the City of Marseilles, whose business-like
citizens, with the enthusiasm which belongs
to the cultivated merchant left their ledgers
and counting houses to do homage for a time
to true genius, and presented to her this gar
land of admiration, which as the gift of a peo-
pie is higher even than the gift of the Queen,
The two bracelets in diamonds ansl rubies
which she wears in the same act, were pre-
sented to her on the stage of the Theatre Fran
cais at St. Petersburg, by the Russian people,
who, rot satisfied with pay ng munificent-
lily for intellectual value received, gave her
this additional mark of their appreciation of
her genius. Others of her ornaments in the
second act, diamond pin representing the
French eagle, a diamond ring and rems rkable
bracelet were presented by the present En-
lperor of the French, who though she has never
Icourted imperial favor, has the same admira-
tion of Rachel's genius that his uncle had Of
Talma's. In the third act we at once recog-
nized .in the collar Of pearls and the bracelet
serpent enameled in black and set with
diamonds, the presents of Engands Queen.
Victoria's generous sympathy with genius
and womanly love ofart find delicate express
ion inside this bracelet, where with fascinating
simplicity the Queen of one empire recognizes
the sisterhood of the Queen of another, and
all sense Of difference in their position is feict-
ously harmonized in the simple inscription:
i"Victoria a Rachel" The diamond earrings
are present from the Queen of Saxony, and
the collier Louis XIV in diamond on velvet,
and the two corresponding bracelets, are pres
ents from the King of Prussia, on the occasion
of her performing at Potsdam. All these
she wears in the third act, beside the de cor
by the late Emperor Nicholas, on her first per-
formance in an imperial residence at Czatchina
In the fourth act we saw her wear a rubis or
nament which we think was presented to
her on her benefit night in the st. Petersburg
Theater by his gentle Empress while the
wonderful collier turquoise, which she wore in
bracelet, was, as is known to many, a pres
ent made to her by the Grand Duchess Hele-
na of Russia, after soiree dramatique in her
palace These are, we think, the most cele-
brated of the brilliant trophies of her genius
But she has received from cities, from princes
and from private individuals of the highest
and noblest minds ineyery country, many 9th
er such beauteous emblems Of admiration
There can be no filter embIems; there has al
ways been to US harmony between the mate
rial beauty of these glittering stones and the
spiritual beauty of woman, when the soul
shines through her.
A WORD ABOUT WINES.
| own af he