Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-18

Cialata ana other places may not see
the ladies at their lonely prom
enades. Aided by this see-saw, she
dropped over the wall billet, to Sal
moni. desiring him to procure ladder,
ga steel-yard" to fix to the masonry, to
make arrangements with ship captain,
and when all was prepared, to wait her
beneath the wall OF that terrible Seral
Bournous, which no slave-w woman had
ever yet left alive.
Salmoni promptly obeyed her in
structions; he discovered ship for
Levant. and by a note tossed over the
wall, informed her Of the night, and
the very hour of their departure.
She vas in the very act of reading
this note-probably not for the time
when the Sultan Achmet suddenly en-
tered her apartment; and she had
barely time to toss it, unseen, into a
porphyry vase for this billet, ii dis
covered, might have consigned her to
the bowstring OF the copi89ibashd, or
the sack of the black chu,lRdtor0go,
and its concealment forms an important
feature in the story Of the fugitlyes.
The hour-almost the moment-fOr
flight had arrived, and Salmon, she
knew. awaited her below the garden
wall; yet, amid all the terror and anxi-
ETY. Of the time, SO strong was Emllla's
love for the little babygirl of whom
she had the chief care, that she resOly-
ed to convey the child away with her,
and hoped eventually to rear it rs Il
Christian. Collecting all her jewels,
1 IL ,,l AL laI oh nj ~
lavished on the infant, she took with
them the silzen tcttd, or record OF It's
birth, and, to be brief, escaped unseen,
by means of the steel-yard and ladder.
As she descended, the latter was held
for her by person in gray cloak,
whom she believed to be Salmoni, and
into whose arms she was, consequently,
about to throw herself, when another
man started forward, and plunged n
sword into his breast. He fed. and Il
cry escaped Emilia, who fell to the
ground; but at that moment the cap
tain Of the vessel, by which Salmoni
had arranged they should escape, rush
ed up, and tearing off the muiilmgs Of
the fallen man, merely exclaimed, 1T
is not he ~ and bore her off to the sea-
shore.
An alarm had been given. There
was no time to wait for the absent Sal
mOui she was placed ut once on board
the vessel, which immed .ately sailed
and made all speed to leave the Golden
Horn behind. She proved to be Il
small craft belonging to BayOnne, COM
manded by Il Young captain from dep
pc, who ultimately landed Emilia and
her charge at Genes, where her first
care was to have the little TtWqUe bap-
TIED according to the rites of the Cath
Ole Church.
This, it is recorded, was done by the
cure of St. Eulaelide Genes, who
named her Marie Cecile; and, in honor
Of an event so remarkable, salute was
fired 10y the cannon of the chateau and
those of the ramparts of the fort and
three rciigCuScs, named respectively,
La Mere St Agnes, La Mere st. Mod
este, and La Mere de l'Humilite, are
mentioned as having taken a deep in
terest in the escaped fugitive and her
charge, who was kept in Ignorance of
her origin till her fifteenth year.
We know not how many daughters
Achmet Ill is said to have had but
in a letter to Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tagu, dated from Adrianople, she writes
of his eldest being betrothed in mar
riage to Bohram Bassa, then the reign
ing court fayorite, and translates Il
copy OF verses he had addressed to her.
Cecile was now taken to several Eu-
ropean courts, sat which," according
to the narrative" she was received
with all the houors due to her illustri-
ous ranks" In Russia she was pre-
scented 10 the Gar Peter l., lwho died
in that Year,; but in England she
would seems to have contented herself
with a short residence Mt n coffee
house tcaic) in Covcnt Garden. Among
ether sovcrelgns, she WAS presented to
Pope Clement NJ ut Rome, whore her
beauty, which she inherited from her
Georgian mother especially the pro-
fusion of her exquisite hair, began to
surround her with suares and perils
Ia Rome. her guardian, Emilia, had
the Joy of once more meeting Salmoni.
The man who had been stabbed be-
meath the seragGo wall had not been
he, but the turkish corsuir, through
whom he had first traced her there and
who had hoped to make profit ont Of
he intended escape Ivy treacherously
revealing it to the sultan; and for this
purpose he had plotted with female
slave attached to the palace, This wo.
man, through whose hands the lmpor-
tant billet passed, had artfully erased
the hour of twelve, fixed by Salmonl.
and substituted cjcyGA Hence, though
the sailor had full time tomake the at
tempt, he failed in the execution of his
purpose; SO now, after all their perlls,
Salmoni and Emilia were married in
the Eternal City. where the love affairs