Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-10-26

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IA IA, s sn:tSsy Aipafa - Dress-s'ory Of
| A lady who lately visited Eugene
writes to CasselPs Magazine: -03tI q.
I! She booked what Tenuyson calls
"divinely fair but as one who had
suffered much There was worn
weary look inexpressibly pathetic in her
eyes, Just touched over the lower lids
with black; her cheeks were thin and
very pale, her fair hair simply arrano.
ed on the neck behind, drawn back ct
the sides, and with cuTls at the fore
head, and it was her own hair-dis.
tinctly and palpably her own. Her
dress was of black paramette, self.
trimmed with general scantiness
about it. She wore white shlrt-collar
and CUTS, and not single Jewel, save
one diamond star that held the
| little collar. Her manner suits her In
perial presence - simple, courteous
earnest. 1t is as of ready witted wo.
man, sweet-tempered, full Of human
interests and feelings, impressionable
mobile, fascinating; emphasizing ali
she says with her grandlv cut Spanish
! eyes, that might almost indeed stand
Her in lieu of speech, so eloquently do
! they converse There is a wonderful
and varied charm about her, Cleopatra
7 like, that neither age nor custom can
wither or stale. To see how the wo
man struggled with the Empress, and
how it brought her down TO claim sym.
pathy and pity from solitary stranger,
was very touching
After some preliminary conversation
! the ex-Empress spoke Of her last days
III Paris Il was forsaken by all the
ministers. Trochu, whom the Emper.
or had appointed, left me. They all
left me and betrayed me. What could
! | do? was alone Ah," she added,
with an inspired look, It was my pas
sion ~ .s a..
She turned her fearful eyes to heaven.
Her passion!" Could anything be
more touching' .....#
Il was alone" she repeated, as
though in Justification, " utterly aban
doned. What could do bat fly? |
was not afraid. could look death in
the face bat all had left me-"
"Were the details OF your majesty's
hiSoiio' "hASA oPPSAiNN Ia WIZ AS"sph'
pers, accurate
YES" said she, tolerably so. For
| thirty days was guarded by those men
OF Belleville. Oh, it was horrible !
They took possession OF the Tuileries.
My only happiness was, that J. suffered
alone. The Emperor away and my boy
safe. MOI / could not have borne it
had my boy been in danger"
"By what door did these wretches
enter the Tuileries, maGaiae ~
{" Exceptionally all the doors, and
the windows, too They came down
from the Place de la Concorde. saw
them coming through the trees. Then
they broke over the fepces rato the re-
served garden, and at last smashed the
lower windows and broke open the
doors. They caTne. too, on the other
side, from the Place de C.arrousel;
'black masses of men, pressing closer
and closer; they, TOO, broke in every
where. No one opposed them; the
guards were gone There We're horn
bic cries, and screams. and oaths.
Ftpm these thief dogs expected death;
saw it in their faces, the Belleville
mah they wanted nay blood. was so
weary did not care; to live or to die
Was the same to me-. For the last three
days there was change; more savage
men came about me never left my
room; / lay down little on my bed for
rest, but dId not uadress; Iwould not
be murdered in my bed in my night
dress. - asa aga.f .
She made little motion with her
hand as she said this that / cannot de-
scribe. 1t told of the delicacy OF the
woEaan, and the lofty deoorum of the
sovereign, that carefully gathered her
robes around her ere she dies
Madame, said l, chad you fallen
by the hands of those wretcbes, yon
wosld have lived forever in history and
poetry. Every art would have been
evolved to celebrate your memory.
Yea would have united the beauty and
fascination of Mary, Queen OF Scots,
to the virtuous for1tude OF Mare
Anoinette. It would have been
glorious immortality y
"Yes," she said, melting into the
sweetest, merriest smile eyes, chat Is
all very wei; but / would like to enjoy
yst little in my life.