Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-13
THE GAZETTE.
5i7 ! NoY ! LEFT. HANDED MARRIAGE.
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 49,, 1860.

Z A ROYAL LEFT. HANDED MARRIAGE.
A morganatie, or leit-hand marriage, IN
continental Europe, is one in which a man OF
4 title wedsa woman of inferior rank, ana,
while bestowing on her his hand, does not
invest her or her children with right 70
share his title or inherit his possessions
This understood. the following account OF the
career Of the LADY to whom the King OF Den
mark Is automatically married IS interest
mo. "The career of the Countess banner
has been one Of the most extraordinary.
Originally milliner of third rate pretension
IN tbe town of Hanover she was induced to
leave her native place in search OF better for
time by a member of the family OF Blixen,
and went to settle in Copenhagen, where
She took a small shop in a shabby quarter
Of the town leading to the waterside, glad to
turn the caps and kerchiefs for the fair ones
who work on board the boats and barges,
and whose complication of head-dress dehes
any efforts of the milliner's art, and Is only
acquired by long practice. The little sign
board she put up on her first ARRIVAL at 20
penhagen has been raised up from OBSCURE
tywhere thad lain rotting for years IN gar
ret, cellar, orrubbish-heap and paraded be-
FIRE the kings windows, to serve as banner
10 the insurgents, and the name OF 'Ruttmus-
SEN, painted thereon, has been bestowed 10y
the :populace on a certain class OF females
who abound in Copenhagen, as In every
maritime city. 1t was the Minister Bllxen,
lately deposed, and now residing IN Paris,
who first made the discovery OF the Hanoye-
rian treasure which had arrived TO grace the
town. lie took her from the shop and m
troduced her to the corps de 6attet OF the
theatre, where she figured, although with
out much success, in the ballets the king
loves best. But, hewever much she may
have bent on captivating the royal heart,
even at that period, she might still have been
dancing in the front row of the eaf,ee OF The
Hamadryad,' if chance had not favored her
Intentions, and delivered the royal captive
bound hand and foot, willing. admiring
self-sacriicing slave. One silent summer
night the whole city OF Copenhagen was
aroused by the cry of fire, and IN an instant
the fremen were astir, the population atoot,
and as usual, the king himself on the spot,
His maiesty's love of attending spectacles
of this nature is so well known, that he IS
Familiarity called by the population the
.'Brant-mayor of Copenhagen lie is al
ways frst on the scene of action, and last to
return home. In this case he found his re-
ward for once, for in one of the rooms of the
house ON fire stood the Ruttnussen, looking
so lovely in the little lace night-cap which OF
course, she had made herself, and behaving
with such GOODNESS and heroic courage, d.
recting the firemen with the greatest self
possession and leading them to the spot
where the focus of the fire existed, that his
Majesty. perhaps. detecting in such marked
behavior on the part of a female sympa-
thy oftaste, Immediately yielded to the in
terest she had inspired. and she returned to
the ballet. As Countess banner she became
highly popular, a daughter of the people
She always patronized the peoples claims,
and it is only of late, when although will
ing to elevate the people, she opposes the
intriguing which seeks to lower her to the
! level from which she sprung, that she has
become an object of hate to her former ad-
mirers -