Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
THE ECCENTRIC PRINCESS.

Courts have their treacherous friends rs we'll a.
causes, and one Of these ,treaclierous friends La,
betrayed the secret of the delay in the journey Of
a crowned head THE king of Sardinia y whose in
tention was to have paid us an autumnal visit il
order to enjoy the pleasures of the chase in tax
imperial forests with the imperial hosts. This de-
lay. falsely attributed TO i'll health by the innocent
is ascribed by report to domestic perplexity occa
stoned by the vagaries of a mem5er Of his family
to whom he is much attached, and for whose con.
duct he considers himself in some degree Iespou-
sible. The young lady in question, perhaps the
only one in Europe bold enough TO claim her indie.
pcndence, has given her relations much Dispute
tudc by her decision to remain unmarried, to tray.
cl where she lists and with whom she lists, taking
the care Of her own reputation upon herself, and
asking for no protection or patronage from any
member of the other sex belonging to her family.
Her affection for the last sovereign Of the country
was unbounded; and the first symptom of friskness
which manifested itself in the young lady's beha.
vior was on the occasion of his Majesty's death in
Il foreign land, She Immediately repaired to The
spot where lie had died, purchased the hotel where
the sad event had taken place, had the entire eli-
fee pulled down, built a magnificent chapel on the
spot, in the midst Of which the death bed of the
king, exactly in the sam state in which it was
lett at the moment of his dissolution, rises in gay
and gaudy colors with its trumpery hangings and
tawdry fringes striking the stranger who beholds
it for the first time with establishment to behold
such an object in such a place. Last year the
young lady repaired in grand ceremony to the
chapel. and there upon the bed deposited first the
royal robe she is entitled hy her birth to wear
on al State occasions; then the broad ribbon, with
the jeweled star she wore upon her breast; and f.
nally, kneeling down by the bedside, whie the
tears streamed in a torrent down her cheeks, she
lifted the crown from her brow and placed it on
the pillow, publicly declaring her vow to live and
die Il maid, ana never to omit, on every anniyersa-
ry Of the death of her royal relative, raging a Wis.,
it to the chapel in order TO offer up a feryent mass
for the repOse Of his soul.
Tie bystanders were moved to tears by The scene
when presently the young lady arose from her
knees, and standing erect before the multitude as
scmbled in the chapel, she deliberately drew from
her pocket a pair Of scissors, and, loosening her
magnificent tresses from the bands Of velvet which
confined them, she cut them off to the very root,
and laid tLcm beside the crown she had just be-
fore deposited upon the pillow which had received
the last breath of the king. To describe the as
produced by the event would be i'm
possible-a mixture of the sublime and ridiculous
in the scene prevented any further demonstration
of sentiment ON the part Of the bystanders. The
princess is a small person, and she tripped down
the chapel to step INTO her carriage. Invested Of
the long cloak with which she had entered-her
hair cropped and bristling, her eyes flashing right
and left with a singular expression of satisfaction
at the trick she had been playing; it was impossi-
bic not TO enjoy the mystiiication to its very ut
most.
Ever since that day che has adopted male attire,
and travels as the Prince de -, paying her
promised visit to the bed around which hundreds
Of tapers are burning night and day. 1t will readi-
ly be believed that a person of this character has
passions Of love and hate equally strong. She las
taken Queen Christina en- grippe, and vows that
her relative shall not visit France without her so
long MS that talented lady remains at Malmaison.
There is one daughter unmarried yet" says the
princess; christina has the diaJle an corps. If |
am not there to protect my relative, be will fall a
prey to that all-devouring intriguGnte; therefore /
desert him not, he is the sacred legacy Of my be-
loved sovereign and master, and | will defend him
at any risk and peril" 1t is said that the king is
so alarmed at the threat of aid and Profession that
he dares not move forward until his fair relative
can be br, ught to reason.
Paris Letter, Oct, II.