Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05

. Aub EHpEeHB BuHeu1e'a HenutifuI HtVnl-
I Romantic Adventures of Fascinating
Countess. ...o..r
The London correspondent of the New
Orleans Delta gives the history of certain
Countess from Italy, who is initiated O., and
who has caused heart-burnings to Eugenie.
She is Countess "as much as my mother
as the fat Joker Of Spain hath it--being the
daughter Of o very worthy cobbler Of Milan,
who 'waxed" liquorish (vinous) land spiteful,
and drove his daughter to seek the protection
of her "uncle," a priest of Ancona, and
here the young lady matriculated in her
charms, and became that rare and beauteous
thing an Italian blonde. Not the downright
red hair of the Highland lassie, nor the
fteckled skin of fairness with which il mates
in the North; but golden, glossy tress, that
scended--in luxuriance which would rival
Macassar's best growth--to the knees, and a
fairness that was alabaster, with running
undercurrents of many streams of blood red.
She was too fair to be unnoticed. She ran
off with sailor to Sicily, and was-not
married-but her sailor was, and a mauUdis
stget, and when she asked about marriage he
laughed in her fair face, till it grew as
auburn as her hair; and she tried, in her
distraction, the other service, with an ad-
vance-a Major of the Metropolitan Guard !;
and she was married to him, ay, and she
loved him, and was faithful But death
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widow-a widow bathed in tears-and in
the guise of distress, to which pecuniary
embarrassment added q double incentive to
| grief, q real, live Italian Baron had the good
| fortune to see and relieve her, and, better
| fortune still, at the end of three months, to
marry the lady. Here the reader may, per-
haps, be a second time disappointed. She
was faithful, but the husband died. Now,
there is q superstition about taking widow
for q rl in oil rrbf fba A 81
Saxon race would try the one-down-the-
other-come-on principle, till the score was a
dozen. d"
The lady found herself beautiful still, with
few hundred francs per annum and sol
diSdnt Countess and she resolved to see the
world and enjoy the world. The rather
| jealous Italian husband did not let her go
ahead very fast, and though she was a little
! renowned as the fair Italian, she had not
been able TO work the capital to any great
extent. In Vienna she lived in the best
society, and no particular account of her
killing capabilities was heard of there. They
do not care much for sentimental beauty in
Austria, and are matter of fact in love as
they are in their social intercourse, even
lately in politics. HnF
From Vienna We trace her to Baden, where
she played the prude, and got European re-
nown at once by the old recipe, the duello.
A red-faced Prussian and smart petit-maitr1
of a Frenchman quarreled for the honor OF
her smiles, thinking each of them--deluded
men that they were-that they were going
to make husband number three The Prus-
sian, with SaEeherie truly national, gave
the Frenchman rattling slap on the head
and coffee and pistols for two next morning
was the inevitable consequence and the
little Frenchman being shot, the inevitable
was also the fight Of tbesoi-disant Countess;
but with confiding appreciation Of the
character of the Frenchman, she did not
like others might have done, shun the soil OF
France, but made straightway for its capital
whittier fame, in the shape off .feuiILeton, OIL
courier, from Baden-Baden, the columns o.
the Figaro or the Chronigue, had preceded
her, and the ball the Frenchman received in
the poitrine brought her an inpo1ring o.
cards from the grand world for whole
course of balls. etTE tE',
The lady was nothing 10th, and appeared
in all her blonde charms-that is, the hair oil
gold streaming down to her waist in lux
uriant ringlets, quite mode unknown tt
the Partisan dames-and setting them all a
their wits ends to follow fashion. One lady
succeeded, and cajoled the heart'of gentle
man by the means of her fair locks but tht
wife, in overAowing spite and revenge
watched the moment when Ia belle wa
waltzing with her husband, close locked, ant
hooked on to the floating tresses, giving
tug enough to lift the Great Eastern anchor
when pop, off came the "superabundant,
and the lady lay fainting, in her morti6ca
tion-so the Italian Countess was left thu
mistress of the field, seeking no conquest
apparently, but making them by shoals o
'fiopsp at time; such is the perversity O
mankind. But she was cold in her latte
days, and had changed her beauty for Wen
ham Lake ice-till, oh what viii not am
bition do at a certain age in woman.
The greatest in the land Of France came
saw and was conquered, and the fair En-
press had to yield to fairer she, but her
the piquant history closes, and whether tn
lady yielded ss quickly as the Emperor, his
tory sayeth not. As a true defender o
beauty, and man Of the world, / say sh
did not. But for all that we have the Em
press of the French among US, in higl
dudgeon, and she sings she won't 60 hom
till Christmas-till tother's gone away.