The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-07-07

her own, nor that of the proud peer who
had wed her, 1t was the old story,
says the narrator. "She sacrificed al
for him, her first love, German baron
and as very hound as ever missed his
proper place, and was born into life as o
man. So soon as the House of Lords
had granted .he divorce. which her hus.
husband applied for, she went to Italy,
and met this Rhenish dog. lie made hel
the toy of an hour, and then abandoned
her forever. But the. change had come
over her, which comes so often over the
wronged woman. She was child no
longer, and she who had been the delight
of royal assemblies, the gentle girl OF
Cumberland, the young and radiant bride
of the brilliant Court of St. James, wor-
SHIPPED as star, beautiful, but unap-
proachable, glorious, but distant, warm,
loving, maddening in her radiance, but
yet pure star of those azure distances,
she became the wild devotee of passion,
the priestess Of sin, a beautiful. magnif-
Gently beautiful, BacchantnN There was
no limit to the extravaganza and reck-
lessness of her life. Possessed of an in
come blythe terms Of divorce, sufficient
to maintain style Of living equal to her
taste, she was the leader of that large
class which is to be found in Italy, made
of the victims of modern soci ct 4,
and of their own sins, in whi c h
beautiful women find no difficulty in sur
rounding themselves with circles of bril-
liant wit, and all the accomplishments
which make the passing. life one of gaety
and pleasure. ! do not testify to hear
say when say that she was beautiful,
for have seen her on Her white Arabian
of Khamsa, stately in her decay of splen-
did beauty, and | have seen her picture,
by an artist of no small renown, taken
when she was eighteen, and the bride of
one of the proudest lords of England
Her face was one Of gentle and exquisite
beauty
After a description so glowing as this,
the curious reader naturally asks, who is
the English Hebe who fell thus headlong
III tuC UIdCh NOIttA VI CliulO
Leaving Italy, where she had again
married and ran away from her husband,
she was next heard of in Greece. AT
the Court of King Otho, a nobleman in
the employment of the Greek Govern
ment, become fascinated by her personal
attractions, proposed, was accepted, and
the twain were married. But the Queen
grew indignant, and demanded that he
should separate from his wife, or imme-
diately leave Athens. The nobleman
hesitated. On one hand were seven thou
sand pounds per annum and woman of
rare loveliness, on the other disgrace and
royal displeasure. AT length
court position and official cmoluments
decided the matter, and the Greek and
the Briton parted. Disguised with this
sudden termination of matrimonial felic-
ity, the woman of three husbands turned
her lustrous eyes towards Syria. And
why not, since Lady Stanhope, weary of |
European society had donned the habit |
of an Arabian; reigning sort of Zeno-
bia of the Desert, dashing over its hot |
sands Oh her blooded charger, and sleep
ing under the palm trees II the soft and
skies@of the land Of the
SUM-"
Ho then, for the glorious land of Da-
mascus and Palmyral its silyery moon
light, its groves Of palms, its fiery des-
arts, its sleepy hills clothed with green
vegetation to their SUBMITS, its sloping
valleys veined with laughing water, its
Wild, picturesque, and bird-free life.
The "gentle girl of Cumberland" is
1ow wanderer, an exile--a bad, beau
,iful, dashing, reckless woman.
Says Prime, again, in his interesting,
way 4" Going down to Da-
nascus from Palmyra. she was attacked
BY Bedouins. Her guard was small
party Of Anazees, under one Medjuel, an
Inferior skeik-if skeik at aha misera-
Die, uhcouth little Bedouin, whom one
would kick out Of his way, and who, if
,nce caught on the mountains of Leba-
ION by the Druses, will have bullet
through his head in twinkling, and die
unknown. and rot uhburied. According
o the lady, be performed prodigies Of
,alor in her defense, and brought her
'afely back to Damascus"
The Countcss-her last husband was
Count Peritoki, the Greek--was now re-
,olved to marry the sheik. She informed
he little fellow Of her intention, and be
became alarmed and took to the desert.
But the marrying mania had again seized
Ter, and she employed number Of Arabs
o hunt him up. and bring him back to-
Damascus. He yielded to the gold the
Countess poured into his lap.
But there were difficulties in the way.
rhe British Consul objected, and finally
he Turkish Governor interfered Med
uel was warned and threatened Three
husbands were held up before his eyes.
md threats sofsummary punishmentfright-
med the valiant Bedouin back 10 the