The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-22

anr Cstae rs un' year ago IN Wasbirg-
tom. At cha time VI dame Catacnzv re-
wed a s.ari stab which threw the Ru..
VI mister on the defensive. and m4dp
~ de- tie lresch IT. the 6ip.on, ic crrus
ever q aed Vrcyen friend ' relntion.
again return.
Last November Mrs. Fish gave her
| grand diplomatic dinner. Every foreign
Ambassador and Minister, with their Ia.
/ dice. were invited. for the dinner was Civ.
en- to the honor of the Joint High Commis
/ sion. Mrs. Catacazy alone was unlimited.
/ The omission fell like bombshell in the
/ repub lican court at Washington
Why didn't yon ask Madame Cataca.
! zyt every ono asked Mrs. Fish
What i, the matter2'
Mrs. Fish looked ominious, the gossips
were busy, the old secession families of
/ the West End, those parasitical relics Of
/ an ancient regular army aristocracy. were
I ready to hurl their darts of calumny at
/ Madame CatqcAzy; but the dreadful sc-
cret wa'.kcpt close shut up in the bosoms
off, few of tn" diplomatic and old family
arstccracy
Sometimes some gossipping woman
would whisper about Bladensburg .-sn
Italian Count, but the foreign Legations
generally maintained their friendly re-
la'ions with the beautiful wife Of the
Russian Minister.
SAD STORY.
Madame Catqcazy is a French lady
her name was Berwick. Eighteen wears
ago, while she was scarcely in her teens.
She was the most beautiful chid-woman
in all France. Her father and mother
were titled people, and the Berwick blood
IS the best IL Europe. At this tender age
she was thrown into the company of an
Italian Count-Count F.. He was
handsome dashing man of the world
knew all it. wiles and snarcs. and could
assume the face and tone of an angel.
Count F-won the love Of this beauti.
ful. innocent child, Mdle. Berwick. NAL
Red her and took her to Rome TO live
They lived happily for awhile when he
became dis,ipatod. gamblcd. and became
! a bad man generally, treating his wife,
! first with indifference. then neglect then
with positive cruelty. Colonel Baria. tho
Italian Charge d Af'aires. Il year or so
! ago, knew the character Of this bad Italisn.
and frequently said, He Wa, country
man of mine, but he was a very bad man
and do not Shame Ma lame Cata aly
when she did run away fom him.
SHE MEETS MIR. cArAcAzY.
In Rome, eighteen years ago. Mr.
Catacazv saw the abused wife - then one
Of th" most beautiful women of the italian
| capital He felt n sympathy for her.
! Aiterward they met in Paris, when she
| tired and sick Of the bad Count, her hu.-
| band, had abandoned him and sought shell
ter under her fathers roof
Mr.. Catacrzy was appointed by the
Russian Government as Secretary of Lega.
tion to Washington under Minister Bodi,-
e.. Before he came To this country II
warm attachment sprang up between him
and th" unhappy Countess. Their fond
ness rlpcncd into love-warm. cor fding.
and pure From he French, and c,pcc-
ally III" Russian indpoint, where aims
every Minister, aud wen the Czsr HIM
elf, supports plurality of household. the
Countess could never he questioned.
THEY COME TO AMERICA.
When the time came for Mr.. Catncnzv
to join B"disco, her poor lover was desn-
late. What was to bee DONE She could
not live with her husban3, md she had
u" divorce. To stay was living dnth
She could not brook the intermittent visits
and abuse from her husband. whom she
despised. TIL" Western s<v looked full
OF happiness. for there she could fly from
! every rumnr and hc happy with one
whom she loved more than her life.
So they were married and came to
! america. This murriagc was not strict
/ ~ legal. FIR she was not divorced from
her lrst husband but j. was n moral
marriage, md never has doubtful rum1r
ever cloud.d the moral sky of that conve.
nant with Mr.. Catacazy,
Thy arrived IN this country rs Mr..
and Mrs. Cutacnzy. After staying awhile
m New York, Mr.. Cutacazy went on 10
Washington, taking with him Mr.. Cata-
cay. The young secretary rented for
MS beautiful companion "a pretty cottage
IN Bladen-burg, eight miles from Washing
ton, whore he spent most OF his time-he
with wild, loose notions of q Russinn
Count, ard she simply coniidinC in the
only mar she ever loved-and the only
man, she thought, who could dare so
call her his wife.
RETURN TO RUSSIA
Eight years ago Mr.. Catacazy returned
to Russia, They were both received at
the Russian Court feted by the nobility
and the little spot which had caused them
so much uncnsiness was forgotten in their
mutual happiness and prosperity
The Czarina of Russia is a tall. grace
iul woman, like the Queen of Denmark
terribly devoted to the Geek church. and
paying very l'ttlc attention 10 society
Bat it Is true that She, with MI her ortho-
doN scruplc', received Madame Cata-
cay.
BACK 70 WASHINGTON As MINISTER.
In 1865 Mr.. Constantine de Catacazy
was appointed by Car Alexander a. En-. |
voy Extraordinary and Minister Pcnipo- |
emit .ry To the United States Accompanied |
by his wife, b" arrived on the Vile de |
Paris, md proceeded at once to Washing. |
ton, relieving Baron Stock.
lie WI, received everywhere in official
circles with -rrat friendship, his beautiful !
wife sharing in all the honors of her nus. |
band. | myself have seen them together
at President Johnsons, and also at Sccrc-
tary Seward 5.
RECEIVED IN NEw-YoRK.
Mrs. james Brooks threw Ncw-York
society INTO an excitement by giving
Madame Cataca2y RECEPTION ut her beau
uiul residence on Fifth avenue, near Thir.
iN-lourth street last autumn. Here she
was greeted by the best blood Of the me-
tr"pplis, Mrs Judge Roosevelt, who had /
been presented to the Court Of St james,