Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-11-30
Foreign Gossip

The Paris correspondent Or tn
London Curt jan, mai gives the t J.
lowing romantic history: "The blind
yonmg Princess nr--was presented
To the Empress Eugenie at Schwal-
bach iew days ago. and the utmost
interest and sympathy were excited
by her story. The lady is Sell
known all. over Germany; her prince
~ domain is visited every year by
crowds ot strangers. The beautiful
portrait by COrnelins ia one of the
salons is examined with much interest
and every one departs little dream
ing that The large and soft blle ewes
seeming Ia look from the picture 80
tull OF sweetn,s s. and b+nevn!ence
have in LIT, ~ lOwer Ia return the
glance OF syn ,;.thy and kindness
ii towards them. The story Oi
n, = r'-.'ss is perhaps touching 10
r...hce Of the ninteeuth century. As
!, cinld she had been stolen from the
gardens Of the very chateau she now
iphabits.-A areless nurse, bent OH
her own enjoy had suffere1 her
master child To stray towards the riv
er and when, in answer e. the frantic
appeals aud the search made in every
direction no signs of ths infants pres
euce cnuid he discovered. il was con
cluded that she had fallen into the
river aud got drowned. The despair
ufihe mother was beyond all discrip-
lion; but the idea of the child's death,
accepted by ali beside, was rejected
entirely by her The river had been
dragged-no trace of the corpse had
been found, and so aflera few years
time, when the death OF the Prince
her husband, had released from the
obligation to remain in the chaeau.
she gave up the doniniOn into the
hands Of her brother-in-law, and set
out upon strange pilgrimage all over
the continent, fully convinced thai
she would find one day or other the
objec, oi her search The sums Of
money spent in the pursuit, the time,
the toll, the anxiety absorbed npon
every high road. need not be desert
bed. During the embassy oi Prince
Tallyrand sine rt,Dc tU London and
was received by Queen Adelaide with
the utmost Kindness and sympathy.
Soon afterward she went once 10 the
Sou b, still beat on finding her lost
child. One day, the carriage climb
ing slowly up one of the steep hills in
the neighUorhoad 0f LAUSANNE, she
was accosted 0y beggar woman,
holding by her hand a poor blind
girl, foriwhom she was imPlOring aims.
The girl looked gentle and sweet
tempered, resembling III no way the
harsh vixen l..J;n she called mother
The inmate OF the carriage had fallen
into doze, and the woman b ,de the
girl sing 10 arouse the lady. The
song was II vulga' ditty belonging to
the district, with no romance TO AVA
ken attention, and yet it woke the
lady from her trance; something la
the voice reminded her of sister
lost many years before and she stopped
the postillions while she questioned
the girl as 10 origin. The day and the
hour had come at last; every word
uttered by the maiden confirmed the
suspicion OF identity. Memory was
confused-it had vanished with her
sight-but by dint OF threats and
confess that she had purchased the
girl when quite an infant from beg
gar woman like herself, who owned
to having deprived her of sight in
order to excite compassion. The To-
cality whence the child had been ia
ken proof sufficient of the truth. The
princess returned home with her poor
blind companion, and devoted her
whole life to the prospect OF cure as
she had done before TO that OF discov-
cry. But all attempts failed, and the
mother gave herself up entirely to
the education other helpless child. In
this she succeeded perfectly. and the
princess it considered one OF the most
accomplished reciters of INLAND and
Schiller in all Germany. Before dy-
in The fond mother reapod her rew ,rd
in the marriage OF her daugh ter with
the young prince, her nephew. and
this consolation is the greatest that
could be felt by her friends The
young princess recited with the ut
most exquisite clearness and pathos,
two sentences from Count dEgmont
and "The Diver" on her visit to the
Empress, while the impeial lady list
ened entranced, the large tears roll
ing down her cheeks, as she gazed
on the wreck which the wickedness
and cubidity of man had made of one
of the most beautiful works Of Gods
oUn craatiOn