Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-28
THE PRINCESS MURAT's CAREER.
How Kiss Fraser. Of Philadelphia,
Came to Marry one OF the Bona
paFtes-Tke Fallen Fortunes
OF the Family at the
TiEse-NapOle
scandal.

Paris letter March 1st) to the New York
Tribune: the late Princess Murat was
one of the maDg links between the United
States OF America and the imperial court of
France, where she was allowed to rank as
wife of prince of the blood. She made a
love match. The year she exchanged the
name of Fraser for that of Murat, the for
tunes of the Bonaparte family were at low
ebb. Caroline, the widow or KING Joachim,
the youngest sister Of Napoleon, and the
mother-in- law OF Miss Fraser, was dying in
poverty at Trieste. Louis Napoleon was
incoming adventurer, IN debt and difficulties,
and dependent for nerve aud sustenance on
the beautiful Mrs. Gordon, whom at Ham he
charged Louis Blanc to kiss for him. Charlotte,
the widow of Louis Charles, eldest son of the
king of Holland and Queen Hortense, and the
daughter OF Joseph Bonaparte, was follow
ing her scandalous down hill career in the
Eternal City. She has been the Delilah of
Leopold Robert, the painter, who died in a
paroxysm OF Jealousy which she excited.
The pope contemplated banishing her from
the states of the church. Nine. Bouaparte
Wyse was the pafamOur OF IA Irish officer,
Captain tombstone, IN a garnet IN Rue de
Riyoh, along with her two daughters-now
Nine. Ratazzi and Nine Turr. Lucien s
sons, Pierre and Antoine, were flibusters
with no fixed home, and held In opprobEium
wherever they went. The one bright spot in
the darkened sky was the marriage at
Florence of Jerome Napolean's daughter
Mathilda to the Prince Demdoff. MathIide,
then a young woman OF superb baauty and
brilliant accomplishments came with her
wealthy and barbarous Russian husband to
Paris TO agitate for her family and to open
a Bonapartlst salon to which Theirs prom
ised to bring his friends. While she was
shining III Partisan society, and as q subject OF
Gar Nicholas and a cousin of his sOn-ln-laW,
defying the police of Louis PHILIPPE to expel
her, Lucien Murat was trying to exc oct a
subsistence for himself and his young wife by
teaching French TO American Quakers. She
was an estlmaole but not loVeable woman.
Tne Scot is the most respectable but the
least amiable member OF the Celtic family,
and there was much of Scotland In the men
tai complexion and the instincts OF tins prin-
cess OF the blood that was 10 be. She was
imbued with the prose of the Quakers, among
whom she lived. The CALIFORNIAN redness
bad faded INTO drab at Philadelphia. she
was very prim ard reserved, ana 4 sharper
wOmaI about money never lived. The ra-
paClty of the Murat family, OF which, after
Prince Achilles death, she VAS the head,
pressed severely on the lazy princess. Lu-
Glen prohtted by the favor which her daugh-
ter Anna enjoyed at the Tuilieries to make
hauls and enrich herself and her other chill
dren, one Of whom had married a Mr.. Gar
dan Il is to the nonnr of the princess that
she never abandoned the religious PRINCIPLES
VI ntE youth huel elupfO Opaplsn superStl-
ton, which was incarnate in the empress,
reigned at the Tuilleries. The American
princess brought her children up to believe
In a rational form OF christianity, but was not
able 10 induce her sons to practice IL. They
are sad scamrs, with the vices of the differ
ent countries by winch they are connected by
blood and education, and few of the
virtues. One of them having outrun the
constable in France, has gone TO live on his
wile's relatives, In Mengreiia. Another
serves as a soldier In Algeria. Their mother
lived in CONJUNCTION with the Reformed church
of France, up to the eve of her decease. 1t
was then decided that it would be of political
utility TO transfer her to the Romish fold, in
order to take her remains to st. Augustin' s
and have a mass, attended by B0napartists,
celebrated for her souls repose. Anna, her
youngest daughter, and at the present time
Duchess de M0uchy, to disarm the jealousy
OF the Empress Eugene, embraced the Cath
Ole religion. As a neophyte, she was IN
structed in it by the illstarred Able Du-
query, who, at the same time, catsehised the
prince imperial, and prepared him for the
first communion. The American princess
and her sister, Miss Fraser, resided together
after the breakdown OF the empire. Their
lodgings were near the town house of the
Duchess de Mouchy, for whom the old ladies
overhauled the buffers and cooks accounts,
looked after the nurses and governess, and
saw that the chef applied his skill in the in
tprastS Of economy -