The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-08

same ones which DearlV cost Prof.
Charles White his life two wears ago
Wills travelling with thu Thaver and
Nnvfs narfv1 and were known 10 he q
varv Al uarns,s s,.;;sye of animals Ev&
~ sftontion is brinc mid the ss,fyefeir
~ the Kind and 'hcsnifahlel citizens at
NiSjsotcxvn and "a To hss hns,ed thew
will scon recover fronr their wounds:
AZ lat accounts thew were ali .pro-
nounced ont IF danger, - -
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MADAME BONAPARTE, OF BALflMORE.
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The Story Of Her Courtship Told over
sSnsn-IMow ~ 81 F9k.eS rs. ss,,s Unmsinn,nr n.y
F6friTn Fiirts In Wnshinrfoi,. -
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The recent death of Jerome NapOle-
on Boneparte, at Baltimore, gives Pc
culiar interest to the following, which
we clip fron, Washington letter to the
New York World: !. .-.,i..t;,C- =. IN.
Among the residents of. Washington
are. some. charming old ladies who
could fill column after column with the
"sociaI gossip of other days. One of
these was a schoolmate Of Madame
Betsey Patterson's" conquest and
the way in which it was accomplished.
OF the brilliant beauty and remarkable
conversational powers of this woman,
whose history had so much of the trag-
ic romance. about it, her friend says too
much cannot be affirmed. She was
Justly entitled to all the admiration she
received, aud even now that her beauty
is gone, her intellect is perfectly clear,
and her wit and readiness in converse
ton have lost little of the fire of her
youth. "Mary," she exclaimed in an
earnest address to her friend few
wears ago, ssto think of q woman of my
ambition being SO cr,lshed!" She
showed a most beautiful likeness of
herself. as she was, tosome ladies, with
a perfectly innocent and surely not
wonderful pride i'm its loyeliness, and
said. "do YOU see how pleased and hap
py / look? That was because all the
time was sitting the artist was telling
me how much he admired me, and
how handsome was.u She was told
she ought to allow the picture to be
copied. but she Indignantly refused to
do so, saving it was for her grandson
and no one else should have it. The
captiyating of Jerome Bonaparte was
done of malice 1rcpcnse. She had
heard of his arrival in Baltimore, and
when the lady who tells the story went
to visit her at her fathers country seat,
q few miles from the city, on the York
road, the conversation turned upon the
newly arrived Frenchmen. Said the
visitor: '.
"You must come to see me soon,
Betsey, and meet Bonaparte.n
"I shall Gomez replied the young
lady, "prepared for conquest. Oh, to
90 to France as his wife, and be the ad-
miration of all Europe" -.
T A few days afterward she went to
Baltimore. .@
"I heard voices in the street." says
the friend. /" and looking out the VIM
dow saw Betsey coming on q jack
ass.n
In this way it seems the beauty rode
on to glory. The next day there were
races, and Betsey attended them wear
ing o white wig. 1t was the fashion
in those days for ladies to wear wigs Of
every imaginable color. A belle might
appear i'm the morning with red hair,
at noon with white, and at night with
brown. her own, perhaps, being black,
as was the case with Miss PattersOn's
which. was of a beautiful shade of black
mot the inky black, or vet the blue
black. Wearing her white Wig, and
seated in the carriage with other ladies,
she was introduced by Commodore
Barney to Jerome Bonaparte, who was
at once struck with admiration of the
"Grecian beauty" as she was called,
whiIea rival belle, who afterward mar
ried one of Jerome 'ssuit, General Rubel,
was known as the Roman beauty"
The same day General Smith, "the hero
Of Mudfort,T gave dinner TO the
Frenchmen, at which Miss Patterson
appeared, wearing her own hair, and
comnleted her conquest on the spot.
Jerome told her she was SO much more
beautiful when adorned by her natural
tresses than She could possibly be in a
wiu that she never again donned one of
| those monstrosities. -. 4, :. -.51'..Ir ssa
In the course of a few days Young Bo-
no,arta gave a grand bail. and Miss
! pattorSon was 6is mariner. In the
donco he threw over her head a gold
ohn;,, 70 which was attached n minia-
t,,ra III, o,,ess of himself set in dia-
s"lo .n1,,is' anJ The. lady lore IL off in
% tr;"m,nh - Miss Patterson,s father.
hn,rnIar ,,;sannroved. and sent her to
whst nJ" ia tsrme,1 fhe wilds of Virginia.
/ Toror,o,s love nenetrated even t0 that
.~,dd sea,uded snot and. he succeeded i'm hay-
;~% letters carried to. her, When Mr..
| ppt.o,.,o,, DE- d;scoyered this no made mo
~ f,sthar u;oiant onnosifion. INIT brpnoI,t
h;s Is . dourhtar bo,pa and IN n short time
,s tho r"arr;aca TOOK nlace When the
un',n1 ,me - co,,n5e were ready te GO to Eu-
yyo,ea y fr Patterson who was a mer.
aHS,t aS,e,,,t an aud ebin-owner. fitted ont one Of
| f.;s ,s'.,,, ~ rosaats IN convey his da,Iuhte,
- -. ro~ai o~ stvie tn that Frnnce which she
hnneS ~ 70 cona,,or nv her beauty. Alas!
,psi nT. s,'o 70 roacbad # only to find every
snst al.' o1oso,s Js aoa;nst her bv reason of the
Ennaror,s E Order. messare from
NnnoIe.,n that his brother sbon1d come
~ "et d,oe 70 paris was conveyed tn the
sh;,, onJ honinp ali things. the bride
~rnpr, orp, denarted. making sure Inc could
ss,,;, sh; h;s saverirn,s consent to his mar
I .;ana IN Z nersonaI inferyiew. He new.
- n sow his wife AGAIN. The Emperor
%rhoJe his retnrnl and she. after await.
~, h;s,, in vain was taken TO I,ondo,,
e hy harl ~ hroti,er = There her son was
\ horn She met Jerome once, wears af.