Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-02

i AcHILLE. MURAT, or FLORIDA.
In last Tuesdays issue Of the Sentinel,
we had local paragraph reporting the
still critical condition Of the good Princess
Murat after three months illness from
/ typhoid fever. Believing that our readers
will be glad to read whatever is published
concerning her history, we transfer to our
columns an article which we find in the
Savannah News and Herald, Of the lst
4 inst, under the heading above.
Related 10 General Washington through
both her fathers and mothers family, and
born Of wealthy parents, accustomed from
infancy to the luxury and elegance Of
Virginia household Of z the olden time,"
Kate married at fifteen, and returned ere
seventeen summers had passed over her
head, widow, with one child, to her pa
rents. Sorrow followed the young mother.
Her baby died, and once again Kate re-
samed her old habits and went to school,
and the girls almost forgetting the sad ep-
isode OF Kate's lite, regarded her as one
of themselves.
4 Her father was at this time involved in
a lawsuit, which, ere long, reduced the
family to comparative poverty. Unable to
bear so great change in the land of his
forefathers, he determined to emigrate to
Florida, and there finally he settled, living
in log house, consisting of two large, low
| rooms, The dark fores. all around, with its
birds, its flowers, and its almost unbroken
solitude. And now Kate's bright elastic
/ spirit and helpful hands became invaluable
to her mother; she was her chosen COM
panion, and the principal duties of the
household devolved upon her.
Col. Gadsden, formerly Of South Caro-
lima, was one of their neighbors and fire.
quently spoke Of his intimacy with Achille
Murat, then an exile from France, with a
price set upon his head, living the life of
an Indian on a plantation close by.
Col Gadsden had endeayored to per-
suade him to call on the new family lately
arrived in this vicinity. The reply was
-" No; don't care to go among women
II hate them" Some days after he was
accidentally introduced to Kate's father
who was practising as physician. Murat
delighted to find his acquaintance mar
devoted to literature and science, lover
of the poets, and above all of Shakespeare
sought the society of the good doctor, ant
finally called at the log house and was in
troduced to the young widow with whom
he fell desperately in love.
Kate must then have been very lovely
her eyes still retain great beauty and soft
ness of a shadowy gray almost merging
into blue when she becomes animated OIL
excited her eyebrows dark and pencilled
. while the soft brown hair curls round heI
fair face, the contour of which is extreme
ly pleasing; added to which she possesses
q gracefulness of address and dcmeanol
which in her younger days must have beer
3 perfectly bewitching. The Prince soor
:, showed his admiration by the most devot
Z attention to the young widow, who still
,e wore mourning for her first husband, ant
n disliked the idea of any other filling hi
place in her heart. She studiously re
: PEELED Murat's advances, upheld by hel
mother who needed the assistance and loved
companionship of her eldest daughter, ane
besides he was an exile and a foreigner.
Her father, on the contrary, charmed
with the keen perceptions, versatile mind
and thirst for knowledge evineed by Mu
rat, courted his society, while Kate refus
S. ed to listen to his professions, and, finally
Murat left the house in despair, much t
the vexation of her father, who strenuous
ly endeavored to overcome his daughter
objections, and succeeded SO well that Kat
- promised to allow the Prince to renew hi
visits. Nothing, however, was said I
Murat on the subject, but, several day
afterward, riding through the plantatio
NluTdt lOuHA dCfOoS HIS pam q NCsAu AatiAS
snake. "A good omen,' he exclaimed
still beautiful. but deprived of venom .
He turned, rode to the house of his Il
=. dy love. She met him as he entered, wi,
a smiling face and extended hand, and eI
:, long the compact was sealed. Thre
- months afterward, the young widow, /" ii
I
"a, American beauty" was married by ju
IT. tice Of the peace, to the Prince Achil
es, Murat, son of the late Knight of Maple
ur- but not before he had written to his exile
L family, obtaining their full consent to h
marriage, which was recorded in the Tui
cries thus, on change of dynasty, o
ali Il, tanning his wife's recognition among Il
+ ! ia = crowned heads Of Europe.
"a, At After her marriage, Madam Murat r
ssw moved to her husbands plantation, al
f,st s gradually took charge Of his affairs. 1
Sns was of most generous disposition, an
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