The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-05-26
9ailp Mountalneer

ter of March 2Stb, to the New York
Times, contains the following interest
ing bit Of gossip:
OF course you know that the Prin-
cess Helen, third daughter of Queen
Victoria, is soon to espouse the Germ
an Prince Christian, of Augustenburg
but bcrhaps you do not know that this
marriage will make a Princess of the
royal family of England d niece to a
lady in New York, whose maiden
name was Lee. The relationship is
very easily explained Some years
ago seven or eight, ifmy memory,
serves me CORRECTLY ly-there resided in
Paris New York family of the name
of Lee, one of the daughters of which
was married in the United States
Minister'S (Judge Mason's) house, to
Baron Wachter, Minister Of Wurtem-
burg This lady's sister, some years
subsequently, met Prince Frederic,
brother of the reigning Duke of Aug
MISUNDERSTANDING, who fell des-
perately in love with her. The prince
ly swain of the young Manhattanese
was not precisely the beau ideal one is
accustomed to encounter in novels, and
was, in sober fact, an antiquated Gel
adon, or past sixty, and widower at
that, his first wife, who belonged to
the royal family of Denmark, having
died inlS58. The Prince was, how
ever, SO deeply enamored of Miss Lee
that he renounced all pretentions to
the Crown,(a necessary preliminary
to contracting what even the most i'm
significant " sovereign families" of Eu-
rope regard as mesalliance,) and tho
marriage was duly solemnized, as be,
fore, at the Legation of the United
States. Immediately afterward, the
happy pair set out for the East on their
wedding tour; but the fatigues of the
journey were too great for the BRIDE
groomof sixty, and upon arriving at
Beyrut, Syria, he quietly gave up the
ghost, whereupon his bereaved widow,
the Princess, returned to Paris, and
took up her residence with her sister,
the, Baroness Wachter. And this is
how New York lady became aunt to
the Princess Helen of Great Britain.
MY CoURTsHIp.-When I was six>
teen, / fell in love. There is nothing
remarkable in that, for most all young
men of the above age do the same
thing. But what am going to tell
you is, how my courtship terminated.
It was at party / saw Sallie B,
who was one of the sweetest girls in
TicktownJ and, I'tell you, she looked
sweet In her white muslin ballsdress,
with her hair falling loosely over her
shoulders. got an introduction,
danced with her, once, twice, thrice
and 1 was just the happiest man in all
Ticktown. Well, at last the party
broke up; but had an invitation to
call on Miss b. That was ell
wanted, and didn't sleep mnch before
Sunday evening-for that was the
time I'd fixed to call. l called, saw
Miss Sallie to church-saw her home;
and when / left / had a pressing in
vitation to call again, and did not
forgetit assure you. At the end of
month I was completely gone. At
last, 1 resolved to-" pop the question:"
and fixed on my next visit for the time,
studied /" Courtship Made Easy" thor,
oughly, and concluded was ready for
the task. The time arrived. Here /
was, sitting by the side of my beloved,
with my arm around her waist I
took her hand in mine, and screwed
up my courage to say, !" Dear Sallie,
do you love me ?" She made no an