Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-19
0blo Statesman,
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SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. 10
The blind Primo .ss.

The blind young Princess Of - was
presented to the Empress Eugenic, at
Schwalbach. few days ago, and the ut
most interest and sympathy were excited
bv her story. The lady is well known all
over Germany; her princely domain is vis-
tied every year by crowds of Strangers
The beautiful portrait, by Cornelius, in one
of the salons, is examined with much inter-
est, and every one departs little dreaming
that the large and soft blue eyes seeming to
look from the picture so full of sweetness
and benevolence have in life no power to
return the glances of sympathy and kind
ness directed toward them.
The story of the, Princess is, perhaps, the
most touching romance of the nineteenth
century. As child she had been stolen
from the gardens Of the very chateau she
now inhabits. A careless nurse, bent on
her own enjoyment, had suffered her mas
ter's child to stray toward the river, and
when, in answer to the frantic appeals of
the search made in every direction, no sign
Of the infants presence could be discover
ed, it was concluded that she had fallen in
to the river and got drowned. The despair
of the mother was beyond all description;
but the idea of the child's death, accepted
by all besides, was rejected entirely by
her.
The river had been dragged, no trace OF
the corpse had been found, and so. after
few years time, when the death of the
prince, her husband, had released her from
the obligation to remain in the chateau, she
gave up the domain into the hands OF her
brOther-in-law, and set out upon strange
pilgrimage all over the continent, fully con-
WINGED that she would find, one day or
other. the object of her search The sums
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the toll. the anxiety absorbed upon every
high road, need not be described, During
the embassy of Prince Talleyrand she came
to London, and was received by Queen
Adelaide with the utmost kindness and
sympathy.
Soon afterward she went once more to
the South, still bent on finding her lost
child. One day, the carriage climbing slow
ly up the steep hills in the neighborhOod Of
Lausane. she was accosted by beggar-wO-
man, holding by the hand a poor blind girl,
for whom she was imploring alms. The
girl looked gentle and eet-tempered, re-
sembling in no way the harsh vixen whom
she called mother. The inmate of the car
riage had fallenintO dOze, and the woman
bade the girl sing to arouse the lady. The
song was vulgar ditty belonging to the
district, with no romance to insure atten-
tion. and yet it woke the lady from her
trance. Something in the voice reminded
her of a sister lost many years before, and
she stopped the position while she ques-
toned the girl as to her origin. The day
and hour were come at last: every word
uttered by the maiden confirmed the sus-
picion of identity.
Memory was confused-it had vanished
with her sight-but by dint of threats and
promises the woman was made to confess
that she had purchased the girl when quite
an infant from beggar-woman like her
SELF who owned to having deprived her of
sight in order to excite compassion. The
locality whence the child had been taken
was 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 shehad done before
to.that of discovery. But all attempts fail
ed, and the mother then gave herself up
entirely to the education of her helpless
charge. In this she succeeded perfectly,
and the princess is considered one of the
most accomplished reciters of INLAND and
Schiller in all Germany.
Before dying, her fond mother reaped hel
reward in the marriage of her daughter
with the young prince, her nephew, and
this consolation is the greatest which could
be felt by her friends.
The young princess recited with the most
exquisite clearness and pathos two scenes
from Count Egmont' and THE Diver,
on the visit of the Empress, while the inn
perial lady listened entranced, and the large
tears rolling down her cheeks as she gazed
on the wreck which the wickedness and
cupidity of man had made of one of the
most beautiful works Of Gods own crea-
tion.-LOndon paper.