The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-11-10
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hecolic ctiOns 0t ths Gayolife ota Beau-
y tifql American -womas Who Married
Warltke Prince. n1iN .HGf Nal iaiOlll
The papers are publishing brief
item of the recent marriage of the
Princess Agnes de Salm Salm to Mr..
Charles Heneage, the younger and UNI
titled son of m English lord and at
tached to the English legation at Bonn.
The Princess. now plain Mrs. Heneage,
has been lost TO the world for nearly
tn years, and her reappearance will
probably be the signal for tho relation
of her romantic history. She ia an
American woman, and there are chap
ters in her story told here in Missouri
which will bear repeating for wider cir
culation. The Confederate officers who
preferred exile 30 reconstruction, and
attached themselves to the fortune of
Macmillan found the Princess Salm
oalm at the city of Mexico before them,
and she was largely their medium with
the Emperor. They speak Of her as
woman of magnifcentp ply sique, OF bold.
dashipg bealty and familiar ways with
her countrymen. Years before she
met the Prince Salm Salm she was cir
Gus rider, and in spangles and tights
was the object of alteration to those who
crowded close to the rope of the ring.
Then she was Agnes Lie Clerc, the dar-
ing equestrienne. whose flashing beauty
and bold abandon made her conspicuous
even among the demoraliza ed class who
followed her profession. When the war
opened lie Clerc disappeared from the
ring and under new name found new
-, Va Iva
crowd of seedy Adventures from
Europe, bringing en- empty title for
recommendation and seeking employ
,nent as soldiers of fortune, came the
Prince de Salm Salm. He was an Austrian
nobleman, but impecunious. He had
no fortune but his sword, and that was
not one OF much glory. The Prince
met the graduate of the sawsust and
dressing tent, and there sprang up be-
tween them a friendly relationship.
Miss lie Clerc had already established
her footing in the war society at Wash-
ington, and she procured for the Prince
a commission. He made but an indif
ferent soldier, and his steady advance
ment in rank was due solely 70 her in
fiuence ut the capital. The war closed,
and the Prince, in token of his recogni-
ton of the American beauty's efforts for
him, bestowed on her at Mobile his hand
and title. LIE Clerc became the Prin-
cess de Salm Salm. The honeymoon
and the remnants of the Princes salary
were spent in New York in few months.
Those who knew the Prince aud his
wife during the latter part of their stay
in Gotham remember them inhabiting q
single room on Houston street, wretch
eddy furnished, and obtaining their meals
in some mysterious manner.
II not a SOLDIER the Prince was moth
ing, and the Salm Salms went to Mexico
and enlisted in Naximilian's cause. The
Prince was sent out to fight guerrillas,
and the Princess became much the salae
kind of favorite at court that she had
been under the canvas. She went about
in q dnshiug, imperious way, bending
others to her will, and holding little
court among the advennrers from all
countries who had flocked to naximil-
ian's standard. Society in the City of
Mexico was a good deal mixed, end
strongly tinctured with the warllke.
Soldiers filled the thoroughfares, and
the safest place for one of the weaker
sex was at home and out of sight. The
Princess of Salm Salm was n law unto
herself. She made her own rules of de-
corum and followed them. Salm Salm
had been sent away to the mountains
near Tampico to hunt Ruerrillas. One
day the Princess entered cafe. There
was group of Belgian officers sitting at
one table testing and laughing over their
wine. Austrian and French officers we're
scattered about, and Mt table by him.
self was sitting young American, an
ex. Confederate who had found his way
from South Carolina, his native State, to
Mexico, after the war. His name was
Hazel, and he was physician by pro-
feseion. He loved war better than med
icine, and 30 the return of peace in his
own country drove him to Mexico.
The Princess Salm Salm entered the
cafe and walked down to vacant place.
Two or three Austrians attached TO hei
husbands brigade saluted as she passed,
and several of the Frenchmen acknowl.
edged her ralutation. She sat down
and ordered some refreshments. The
Belgians, flushed with wine, turned tC
stare at the Princess, and it was easy Il
see that the conversation and badinage
were directed against her. One of the
party, q gigantic officer of the foreign
legion, Maj. Medomark, was especially
persistent. He was great brawny
yellow bearded fellow, and his lecheroui
eyes were fastened on the voluptuoui
form of the Princess from the momen
she took her shat MedOnnrk was es
pecially loud and boisterous. Withou
understanding anything that was said, thu
Princess seemed 10 feel instinctively tina
she was the object of the coarse remarks
and that her former life was the them,
of these hcenious foreigners converse
ton. Without waiting for the servaD
to return she pushed back the plate which
had been placed before her, and with
naughty tread started toward the door
She bad Just reached it when Medomark
J turning his head in her direction
laughed derisiveG, md shouted out tn
old circus slang, hoop-la!" giving to
the peculiar and meaning intonation o
the profigase. Nothing in the languag
} and no amount of study could have cor
; veyed deeper insult. Everybody i
! the cafe heard it. The Princess wheele
like q flash, with cheeks which famed j
face of white. She bent on Medic
! mark look that should have crushe