The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-04
THE PRINCESS RAH.NAssAENT.
a FIueky W0nan WhG Went Through
Three wars and Three Marriages
HJMsCatHseN.

A FIueky yV0aman who Went Through
Three wars and Three Marriages
UMscathed.
Princess -sal1n, who has not been the
| Princess Salm-Salm for the past two years,
but plain Mrs Charles Heneage IL dead now.
| The English newspapers have a good deal 10
say about her queer life; and 1t was queer
| life ass,lredlv. Who her father was seems
| somewhat uncertain: in 9 general sort OF way
| the books OF geneaIogy dismiss him nirily as
! the "late Col. LeClerq." The to-be Princess
was born in Baltimore on Christmas day, 1910,
and was christened Agnes As she grew up
she developed into Q handsome, dashing
woman and q bold rider Not content with
ordinary riding, she took course Of lnstruc-
| ton at the old National Circus, on Walnut
of 1861 IS, and before spring came she had APP
peared in public and made 9 success. She
starred in the Southern and Western cities as
a circus rider and dancer, In the autumn OF
1858 came North and established herself in
New York. She had a fair amount Of money
and abundant good looks, very naturally,
she got married. Her husband was good
article, as husbands go, and they got along
| together eapitally. But married life OF that
hum-drum sortdid not suit her, and one morn
| ing she quietly walked out from her home
and never came back to 1t. By way OF making
| the business regular and proper, she got q
divorce after while. After living for some
months at the Havana she came up to Wash
| ington--just after the war broke out--and led
q lively life, half the military men at the CAP
ital being in her train of admirers. In 1862
she made her game. To the establishment Of
everybody, she married the Prince Felix Con-
stantine Alexander John Nepoumcene Salm=
Saln, second son OF Prince William Floretin
Salm-Salm He was genuine prince, though
@ prince Il good deal down at heel, and the
ambition Of the ex-crcus rider was toler
ably well satisfied. She had the in
iuence to secure q brigade command
for her husband, and without distinguishing
himself by anything in particular he fought
along quietly until the war was at an end.
Then the Prince and Princess went down to
Mexico and offered their sword-it was quite
q partnership affair-to poor Macmillan.
The first and last Emperor Of Mexico was dis
posed to fight shy at first of this brace OF
prlncely advpnturers; but the Princess won
him over without much trouble, and the
Prince soon was made the Emporor's first
aid-de-camp To do them Justice, they stood
by the sinking Imperial ship right pluokly.
! and the Prince came unCOmmonly near
being shot alongside of his master. The
he had been year behind iron bars she
| begged him out OF prison and carried him off
in triumph to Europe. She patched up a
peace with the elder Prince Salm -Salm, and
| made 1t valid bya clause providing for the
payment OF her husbands Prussian debts.
! Having clenred the decks by this CLEVER move
she had the Prince appointed to q command
in the Prussian army; and when the war be-
|
the Grenader Guard and in an excellent posi-
| ton to win the bubble reputation at the mouth
of the cannon OF France. Poor fellow, no
doubt his intentions were excellent towards
wife had secured for htn-but he was shot
almost at the beginning OF the war. at Grave
| lOtte.
It was hard upon the Princess to lose her
husband in this off hand sort Of way. but she
| was made Of too good stuff to fall to weeping
weakly over her loss. Instead of giving way
to grief she braced herself up and went to
work like the plucky,- good-hearted little
woman that she was. In the midst Of her
diplomatic negotiations for the advancement
Of her husbands interests she had found time
to study medicine and had graduated with a
very fair amount Of honor. Until the Prince
marched off with his regiment at Graveotte,
never to come back to her alive, the Princess
served with him in the field. When he died
she turned her medical knowledge to account,
offered her services to the government and
| was made medical director of camp hos
pitfalls, with q regular rating on the sur
she played the part OF s. Germanized-AmerI-
can Florence Nightingale, In a way that won
for her the love OF many poor soldier, sorely
wounded and in grevous pain, who fell under
her tender care. The war ended, she settled
down at Anhalt-where the Salm-Salm people
have their headquarters tried to be staid
and un-Bobemian AS WAS to BIZ expected, she
found it very hard work. and by way of steady
| y
Il Mr.. Charles Heneage, an attache OF the Eng.
fish Legation at Berlin. They did not get along
we'll 1t was q case OF an eagle In adove's nest
Heneage was u very good sort Of fellow in his
way, but, after living with such splendid
Bohemian as was the dead Prince, the ex-
Princess could not find much comfort IL
} living with u seelnIy social law abiding citi
) zen as was this uuderling of the Foreign
Office. or course they had rows, and things
came to a climax when the spirited Mrs
Charley sued her so-caled lord and master
for the $1,000 u year that he had settled upon
her, but that he had failed to pay. They sep
aratrd, but Mr.. VICE Chancellor Malins dec
ded the suit in her favor and the money has
been duly and regularly paid. And now the
: pluc|y little woman has left the world alto
gether, while still in the richness of her life
and Of her beauty. Lot Us hope that she has
ere this rpioined her dear Prince. in Paradise
and is leading true Bohemian life amidst
the saints abuve-the only sort of life thai
ever agreed with her. and which she has de-
seribpd so we'll in her charming book (pub
lished in 1876, s'Ten Years OF MY Life''-a life
such as has fallen to the lot Of but few women
. to live.