Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-07

w" anu then a suppressed grOan was
heard, and occasionally the voice of the
monk encouraging them by CALCULATIONS or
by short passages from the Bible. Some
tiEscs the organ struck up, and the poor
wEetches tried, in faint voices, to join in
the Miserere.
The sound of the scourging is hides
cribable. At the end of half an hour
little bell was rung, and the voice of the
monk was heard calling upon them to
desist but such was their enthusiasm that
the horrible lashing continued louder and
hercer than ever. In vain he entreated
them not to kill themselves, that Heaven
would be satisfied, and that human nature
could not endure bevend certain point
No answer, but the loud sound Of the
scourges, rs their sharp iron points entered
the flesh.
At length, as if they were perfectly ex-
hausted, the sound grew fainter, and, little
by LITTLE, ceased altogether. We then got
up in the dark, and with great difficulty
CROPPED our way through the galleries and
down the stairs till we reached the door
and mad the pleasure Of again feeling the
fresh air They tell us that the church
floor is frequently covered with blood after
ore of these Penances, and that man died
the other day in consequence ef his
wounds"
This awful penance was known as the
desGgrdpids, and it must be remembered
| that each man scourged only himself; If
they had scoureed each ether the terrible
energy displayed would seem less astonish-
ing. THE season of desagravios used to
continue thirty-five days of every year
The women attended church in the morn
ing, no men being permitted to enter and
the men in the evening, when women were
not admitted.
THE PESAECE OF THE WOMEN
Was much less cruel, and consisted chiefly
in kneeling for half an hour, with arms ex-
tended in the form of cross-a very
painful position after the first five minutes
Whoever comes to Mexico in search of
female beauty is liable to meet with disap-
pointment, for-though the dreamy dark
eyes and raven hair of the Castilian- Next
can type is very attractive-the truth is,
one sees more handsome women on the
streets Of any Northern city in half an
hour than he can find in year at the
Aztec Capital. One reason for this IS that
autocratic DANES and damsels seldom go
upon the streets at all, except in their
closed carriages, and women of the lower
classes are too hard-worked and unkempt
to retain beauty beyond their. early youth.
In the exclusive circles of Mexican
upper-tendom are some very beautiful
women. The wife of President Diaz has
claims to that distinction, and few others
in official circles The loveliest girl in
the City of Mexico-indeed, the prettiest
creature ! ever saws
EUGENE BAZAINE,
Daughter Of that notorious Frenchman
(now dead, | believe), who figured here
so conspicuously during the brief empire
! of Macmillan. Hers is a romantic story.
Bazalne, you know, was the representative
of Napoleon Ill, when the latter tried to
| keep the Austrian adventurer upon Il
throne in Mexico and marshalled the
French troops in this country in the name
of the French Emperor, till the fortunes
| OF Macmillan began to wane.
Mar dial Bazaine took possession Of a
| palatial residence in the City of Mexico,
| and levied tribute off the richest haciendas.
Here he fell in love with beautiful
Merteaad, Senorita de la Pena, whom he
married, and who bore him son and
daughter. When he became an exile in
Spain, his son joined him there, and is yet
an officer in the Spanish army; but the
Mexican wife and daughter have always
remained here. All his once vast posses
sions " ere confiscated by Juarez and the
Liberal party, so that the income of Mrs.
and Miss Bazaine is exceedingly limited.
They live in very quiet way, on the
north de of the Alameda, in fine sub
stantiai casa which the Government has
generolsl given them; but an air of deep
] est glo)m surrounds and overshadows it;
Eugeni's is only twenty years cid, combin-
| ing all he best traits of her French father
and Mexican mother, and is well
educatei-as education goes in this
country where women are supposed to
need ms higher learning than little
music, embroidery, and the lives of the
saints.
Next to the Bazaine mansion is that
once occupied by
THE PRINCESS sALM-sALM.
All niddlc-aged Neutrality-suspicious., and
especially veterans in the Army of the Po-
tomac, will remember this daShing adj
ventures She was Agnes lie Clerq, a
native Of Baltimore, who in early youth
was circus rider, danseuSe and star actress,
| by which accomplishments she accumu-
lated quite fortune. When the war
broke out she was making great scread
in hington-though rather on the
shady side of society-and was prime IA
vorite among officers of the Army of the
Potomac.
Finally she married genuine Prince, Il
German. Felix Salm-Salm, who had vol
unteered in the Union Army The Prince
did not amount to much, but his wife was
a Princess all the same, and through her
still powerful influence he was made a
Brigadier-General Many will remember
| her spirited style of beauty, as she APP
peared in the reviews of those days, al
ways dressed in semi-military garb, and
riding magnifcently upon a splendid black
stallion.
When the war was over, and while the
army was being recognized, she passed a
winter in Washington endeavoring to OBJ
tain for her husband a Coloners commits
sion. But she was unsuccessful, for really
the Prince was not worth n row of pins,
and there were too many would-be
| ColOnels most of them belonging to the
noble army of invincibles in peace and in
yisibles in war. If the complete history of
Madame Salm-Salm's inpigues, in pursu-
ance of her purpose, were dragged into
print, many fair reputation would suffer
among the shining lights of the United
| States Capitol
Afterwards she came to Mexico, where
the great Macmillan was easily won to
her cause, and soon Prince Salm7Salm was
made aide-de-camp to the Emperor For
| time they lived in clover but when the
crash came, Salm-Salm barely escaped be-
ing executed with his masters. Doubtless
he would have been, but for the energetic
lntercessions of his wife, who went on
horseback, all the way from Queretaro to
San Luis Potosi, and on her knees besought
the Indian President Juarez to spare both
| the Emperor and his aide.
She could not save the former but the
royal family Of Austria were duly CRATE
ful. So it became to her advantage to re-
turn to Europe, where the Prince was APP
pointed a Major in the Grenadier Guards
of Prussia. After he was killed. at
Grzvelette, his irrepressible widow raised
a hespital brigade, which really accom-
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