Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-07-26
COUNT CAVOUR.

There is a strange feeling abroad in
Paris that the death of Cavour is destin-
ed to break the chain Of circumstances by
which the affairs of the empire have, up
to the present moment, been bound to-
gether. The effect of the event upon the
Emperor personally, is said to have been
that of creating the most troubled and
terrible state of perpelxity. The fact of
a great coup having been in preparation
by Cavour is generally believed, and the
insistance with which he has for some
time past been urging the Emperor to a
decision in the matter Of Rome, is per-
fectly we'll known. The end of the ca,
de sac is near, and statesmen of all coun-
tries are cropping their way hopelessly in
the dark towards solution of the diff
cultes with which the diplomacy is sur
rounded. 1t is certain that for some
weeks a correspondence, active and bit
ter, has been carrying on between Cavour
and the Emperor; and the means en-
ployed were quite of the old school, in
spite of the pretensons so frequently
urged by the new, OF having discovered
another and better method of secret trea-
ty. A certain lady well known in diplo-
matte circles, although entirely ignored
by the worIl-as the names of some ar
lists and literary men are perfectly ia
miliar to the world of art while the pub
lie is ignorant of their very existence
This LADY, small and plain in appearance,
with, moreover, faltering, as it were, in
the step of the left leg, has for many
years stood high in the esteem and good
graces of Count Cavour, and so sensible
was the salesman at his last hour of the
sacrifice Of existence which the lady had
made to tie maintenance of his dignity
and powe., that the codicil of his will by
which, after having left her a competent
income when he executed the document
some time agc, he adds thereto the gift Of
a charming little estate near Montserrat,
his own favorite retreat form care and
toll during his most trying years OF ia s.
manship. This codicil has not surprised
any individual who was present during
the last few hours of the consciousness
of the dying statesman, and listened to
the wailngs of anxiety concerning the
lady's future fate, mingled with the ra-
wings of delirium. This lady was in Pa
ris during the whole time of Cavour's i'll
ness, and it was not until the last ex-
tremity that his relations thought proper
to execute his urgent request that she
might be sent for. So suspicious had the
frequent disappointments rendered him,
that almost the last act of which he was
cognisant is known to have been the sem
ding off before his eyes the Geographic
dispatch which summoned the lady to his
bedside. The earnest entreaty of the
dying man, that certain papers locked up
in his desk might be deposited in no hands
b, Lors IN nnSa &c lie Iontb Jor
arrival has not been attended to, although
the request was contained in the very last
words ever written by the hand which
has signed the independence and glory Of
Italy through future ages, were traced in
pencil on the back of that prescription
which on the continent is always looked
upon as the last which the doctor is cali
ed upon to scrawl-that for rubbing the
chest and bowels with camphorated es-
sence, and which is supposed to have no
other effect than that of relaxing the
nerves and muscles so that the convul-
sive throes of death may be less severely
felt. King Victor Emmanuel, immedi-
ately on the dissolution of his friend, caus-
ed the desk in question to be carried to
the palace, where it still remains. The
perfect order which reigned throughout
the whole of Cavour's private life ena-
bled his executors, however, to know by
the list found of his documents and pa
pers, that the letters contained in the
"little rosewood English desk, with the
key of Gothic pattern" as designed by
bis own hand, are nothing more than the
outpourings of heart long since cold
and still-the remembrance of one whom
he had loved during his stay in England
and whose early death had left him soil
tary and hopeless for many years.
HAPPINESS AND DUTY.-We know of
nothing more contemplate, unmanly or
unwomanly, and craven than the ever