The Shasta courier., 1865-01-07
The Stolen Princess.

| The Paris correspondent Of the London
Court Journal gives the following romantic
| history -" The blind young Princess Of
was presented to the Empress Eugenie at
| Schwalbach few days ago, and the utmost
interest and sympathy were excited by her
story. The lady is well known all over Ger
many her princely domain is visited every
| year by crowds of strangers. The beautiful
| portrait of Cornelius in one of the saloons is
examined with much interest, 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 kindness directed towards them. The
story of the Princess is perhaps the most
touching romance of the nineteenth century.
AS child she was stolen from the gardens
| of the very chateau she now inhabits. A
careless nurse, bent on her own enjoyment
had suffered her masters child to stray to-
wards the river, and when. in answer to the
| frantic appeals and the search made in every
direction, no signs of the infants presence
could be discovered, it was concluded that she
had fallen into the river, and got drowned.-
| The despair of the mother was beyond Aide
scription; but the idea of the ehild's DEATH
accepted by all besides, was rejected entire
ly 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 obligations to remain in the chateau.
she gave up the domain into the hands of her
brother law, aud set out upon a strange
pilgrimage all over the Continent, fully con-
vlnced that she would find one day or other
the object other search. The sums of money
spent IN the pursuit, the time, the toll the
anxiety absorbed upon every high road, need
not be described. During the embassy of
Prince Taleyrand she came to London, and
was received by Queen Adelaide with the
utmost kindness and sympathy. Soon after
ward she went once more 20 the south, still
bent on finding her lost child. One day, the
carriage climbed slowly up one of the steep
hills in the neighborhood of Lausanne, she
was aceosted by q beggar- woman, holding by
her hand poor blind girl, for whom she
wassimploring aims. The girl looked gentle
and weet-tempered resembling in no way
the harsh vixen whom she called mother
The inmate of the carriage had fallen into a
doze, and the woman bade the girl sing to
arouse the lady. The song was vulgar dit
ty belonging to the district, with no romance
to insure attention, and yet it woke the lady
from her trance, something in the voice re-
and she stopped the postillions while she
questioned the girl as to her origin. The
day and hour had come at last every word
uttered by the maiden confirmed the suspi-
con of identity. Memory was confused-it
had vanished with her sight-but by dnt of
threats and promises the woman was made to
confess that she had purchased the girl when
quite an infant from a beggarwoman like
herself, who owned to have deprived her of
sight in order to excite compassion. The To-
cality whence the child had been taken was
proof sufficient Of the truth. The Princess
reclted with the utmost exquisite clearness
and pathos two scenes from Count d'Egmont
and The Diver on her visit to the Empress,
while the imperial lady listened entranced,
the large tears rolling down her cheeks. as
she gazed on the wreck which the wckedness
and cupiditv Of man had made of one of the
most beautiful works of Gods own CREATION