The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-24
The Blind Princess,

presented 10 The Princess Eugenle at
Schwalbach few days ago, and the ut.
most interest and mpathy were excited
by her story The lady is well known all
over Germany; her princely domici is
visited every year by crowds of strangers.
The beautiful portrait by Cornelius in one
of the salons is examined with much in
tcrest and every one departs little dream
ing that the large and soft blue eyes SEEM
ing to look from the picture so full of
sweetness and benevolence, have in life no
power to return the glances of sympathy
and kindness directed toward them
The story of the princess is perhaps the
most touching romance Of the nineteenth
century. A. child she had been stolen
from the gtrdens of the very chateau she
now inhabits. A careless nurse, bent on
her own enjoyment, had suffered her mas
ter's child to wander toward the river,
and when, in answer to the frantic appeals
and search made in every direction, no sign
of the infants presence could be discover
ed, it was concluded that she had fallen
into the river and got drowned.
The despair of the mother was beyond
description but the idea of the ch!d's
death, accepted by all beside, was rejected
by her. The river hal been dragged, n,
trace of the corp1e' had been found and
80 after IA few years time, when the death
Of the prince, her husband, had rele lsed
her from the obligation to remain in the
chateau, she gave up the domain into the
hands of her brother-n-aw, aud set out
upon strange pilgrimage all ovrr the con.
tinent, fully convinced that she would find
oan day or other, the Object of her search.
Tue sums of money spent in the pursuit,
the time, the toll, the anxiety aosorbe
upon every high road, need not bo de-
scribed. During the embassy of Prime
Tailyrand, she came to London, aud was
received by Qleen A lelaide with the Ut
most kindness aud sympa by.
S mn aiterwlrd she went once more to
the South, still bent on finding her lost
child. Ole day, the CARR lge climbing
slowly up one of the ste p hills in the
neghb'rhood Of Lausanne, she was atcos-
ted by b3gglr woman, holding by the
hanl poor blind girl for whom she was
impIoring aims. The girl lo,ked gentle
and sweet tempered, resembling in no way
the harsh vixen whom she Gale mother.
Tne inmate OF the carriagt had fallen into
dose, an | the wom,n blie the girl t.
sing to arouse the lady. Tle solg was IA
vulgar itty belonging to the district, with
n r'm tnco to insure attention, an Yet 1t
woke the lady from her trance som ething
many years years b,tor,, and she stopped
the po>tillion while she questioned tn
girl as to her origin. TIE day and hour
Ware cnme at last every wor uttered by
the maiden confirmed the suspicion OF
iie"rity. Memory WIS confused-jt had
vanished with h''r sight-but by dnt Of
threats and promises the woman was made
to confess that she had purchased the girl
when quite au infant, from begy,r wo-
mau like herself, who owned to have de-
prved her Of 81 ght 10 order TO excite COM
passion. 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 she
had done before to that of discovery. But
all attempts failed, and her mother then
gave herself up entirely to the education
of her helpless charge Iu this she sue
ceeded perfectly, and the princess is con-
sidered one of the most accomplished re-
citers of Unland and Schiller in all Ger
many. Before dying, her fond mother
reaped her reward in the marriage of her
daughter with the young prince, her neph,
CIV, aud this consolation is the greatest
which could be felt by her friends. The
young princess recitc1, with the most ex-
quisite cearncss aud pathos. two scenes
from Count Egnont' and THE Diver"
on the visit to the empress, while the i'm
perial lady listened entrarced, and the
large tears rolling down her cheeks as she
gazed on the wreck which the wickednesS
and cupidity Of man had ma lie of one of
the most beautiful works Of Gods own.
creation.-LonRon Paper.