Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1859 — A Bit of Romance. [ARTICLE]

A Bit of Romance.

That “tru’h is stranger than fiction.,’’ is fully illustrated in the following romantic story, related by the Dairo of Madrid, the government organ of Spain, if the inc’dents be true: “A lew years ago, an English nobleman, a grandee of the first water, and an eccentrician of the wildest school, honored New York with his presence and his money. He lived strictly incognito, and his sole amusement consisted in wandering in the streets after nightfull, and in relieving those of his fellow creatures who had experienced the pains of poverty or the penalties of dissipation. While upon one ol his humane excursions, he encountered a female who tenderly solicited alms. Inquiring, he found her to be an orpean ol surpassing beauty, with an intelligent mind and of excellent education, reduced to abject destitution by the death of her father, shot in the Mexican war. The titled Howard, wearied by his bachelor existence, and won by the romance of the beggar’s history, tendered to her his heart, his coronet and his bund. The sequel is, that at a recent all given by the Russian Emperor, a dutchess, rudient with beauty, and sparkling with diamonds, won the hearts of all observers. ” The distinguished lady was the cidevant mendicant of the New York streets.” The Anti-Au.strian •Feeling, in Tuscany.—The old Marquis Capponi, who was once styled by ;Y.r. Their “the first citizen in Europe,” cmue dpwn to the Paluzzo Vocchio, in Florence, to give his vote for the down? fall of the U‘'Use of Lorraine. lie- is stone blind, and as he walked along, leaning on the arm of his son-in-law, many of the Assembly were affected.to tears. It was remembered that this illustrious man said to the Grand Duke Leopold on the day when he revoked the Constitution: “Your Highness, listen to the last counsels of a iriend. Do not lean upon the House of Austria, for if you do you will surelyfall with it.”