Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
Prince Salm Salm.

It has been announced that Prince
Felix Salm.Salm, Major Of the Fourth
Prussian Dragons, was killed at the
battle of Gravelotte, on the 18th Of Au-
gust. The story came from French
sources, and may or may not be true.
His life has been SO romantic, however,
tfet it is worth describing, even ifit has
not been cut short. We quote from a
sketch in the N. Y. World.
Felix Constantine John Nepomuc
Salm-Salm, born in 1928, was the second
son of Prince William Florentin Salm-
Salm, and the brother of Prince Alfred,
the actual head Of the once sovereign
family of that name. He early entered
the Prussia service; passed thence into
Austrian; and having exhausted the pa
tience,if not the purse, of the Prince his
elder brother, who thrice paid his debts
for him at Berlin and Vienna, he came
to America on sort Of desperate mill
tary adventure at the out set of our
civil war. Here hemade himself better
hAOW Ii thdu CSICClilCn III tho tOO
camps of Blenker aud about the hotels
Of Washington, till fortunately for HIM
self, he fell in with, found favor in the
sight OF, and married handsome dashing
and spirited girl of creole origin, Miss
LIE Clerc. The new princess made up her
mind to be princess indeed. Through
her indefatgable exertions of all kinds,
her husband was made brigadier in
the United States army. He served in
Alabama and Georgia with no particu-
lar distinction, but was not without ere
dit. After the @ar was over, he hesita-
ted for some time between accepting a
position in our regular army and going
back to Europe, and finally decided on
trying his fortunes in Mexico. He was
not at first we'll received by Maximilian,
then nearing the close of his hopeless
imperial experiment. But the calami-
ties of lS67threw him into close rela-
tions with the unfortunate Emperor,
who finally made him his first aid-de-
camp. He went with Maximilian to
Queretaro; behaved most faithfully and
gallantly in that dark hour of treachery
and despri;: was captured with his mas
ter, and would doubtless have been shot
with him had not his wife displayed, in
the service of her luckless husband and
more luckless Emperor, fertility of re-
sources, daring, a perseverance and
skill worthy of any heroine of romance.
The Princess finally succeeded in saw
ing her husbands life. He suffered an
imprisonment of nearly year at Vera
Cruz, from which also by her influence
and energy he was released in 1858. She
then vent With him to Europe, where
she fought and won still more arduous
battle for him by securing not only his
readmission to the social privileges of
his order, but his appointment to the
high rank which he held at the time of
his death in the Prussian army. His
brother was induced by her to make this
possible by paying once more the
Princes debts in Prussia. His debts in
| Austria it would have been too much to
expect should be unnecessarily settled;
and Prince Felix took up on his return
an attitude toward the House of Haps-
burg which made such settlement un-
necessary by making it practically inn
possible for him TO reside If he wished
to In Vienna. He published last year a
curious sketch Of his career of Maximil-
ian in Mexico, in two volumes, which is
full OF interesting personal incidents,
and may be considered, under proper
reserves" as valuable contribution to