New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-05

Madame -, the lady employed for the last
seven years in the diplomatic negotiations with the
Tuileries was formerly a pianist of some little
reputation, who, having been addressed to Count
distinction at Turin, where she was seeking to give
a series of concerts during the dead season in
Paris, was seized upon by that gentleman for the
conveyance of certain important dispatches, the
transmission Of which with celebrity and discretion
concerned in a great degree the prosperity of the
Italian cause. To the great surprise and JOY of
the poor artistic, Pontevaglia volunteered to pay
her expenses to Turin, with the promise that,
should she succeed in delivering a certain letter
safely in the hands of the person to whom It was
addressed, a generous reward should pc. the re-
suit. y - .s,s.,a-.,s3,&a., sslss.
than Ponteyaea discovered, by certain signs
known only to the old hands OF diplomacy, that
the conversation he had been holding had been
listened to with great assduity and he therefore,
set out Immediately to warn her of the danger in
which she stood. He arrived the very moment
after she had left. telegraphc dispatch preced-
ing her at Lyons, merely containing these words:
sThere is danger; destroy the prescription; it
must not be administered
The whole fortune Of a life hung upon the pre-
sence of mind and comprehension of the little in
experienced artist. But French women need not
much schooling in the science OF intrigue. Cavour,
who was given to pleasantly in his unne ending
hours, was wont to say that the little pianist OF
course, could not be slow to seize the key Of that
diplomatic note. Instantly she understood it all.
possible and, undoing with great patience the ball
Of worsted which was enabling her to beguile the
long and weary hours of travel with the harmless
pursuit of anti macassar work. she wound the skeln
upon the mssive - 5. 80 sss,
fAll this took place at Lyons, and ,snre enough,
no sooner had she crossed the frontier than the
police surrounded her, seized upon her trunks and
searched them with most persevering care, while
the baskets bags and haudboxes were admitted to
a like scrutiny. Everything was overhauled-even
the petticoats and stays the pockets and the ker-
ed and she sat weeping in corner at the affront
upon her, with nothing but her crochetto comfort
her. while the authorities who had arrested her
awaited the result Of their report concerning the
small reward they had obtained for their pains.
The pianist loves to this day to tell OF her emo
ton, when, by an unguarded movement, she
suffered the ball Of worsted to fail from her lap on
the floor, and how she thought she ssbuld have
fainted when, with uncouth gallantry, two OF the
gendarmes ON guard rushed forward at once 70
pick it up, and began to pnl it from each others
hand, in their gr0tesque attempts az playing tne
I agreeable to the young lady. Iheg alps were
I crossed--the rubicon was passea-iottuhe Tas
I conquered. ..s-e,....
The triumph of the little pianist was so COP lplete
| that Gayour. on listening to the history of the
periis encountered by the creased ana S' .nfnplee
letter which bore the good tidings for which hs
had been waiting so anxously telt q uriosity h
500 the hold messenger. In money he beheli
tho immense resource which this meek pnpre
tending looking little lady, with the form of fair
and the courage of a warrior, eoata be in the pc
cnliar stage of Italian affairs at mt period whe
silence and discretion sare Of IL # more value tina
the most loud and daring acts of bravery.
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