The Evansville Journal

A MYSTERY DEVELOPED.

A Paris correspondent of the Boston Atlas details a queer story. He states that the Countess Jeanne, one of the leaders of the aristocracy of the faubourg St. Germain, died last month and the inspection of some half burned papers, which she was destroying when the grim tyrant surprised her, unraveled a strange mystery, that has always enshrined her. After the downfall of Napoleon, one of the proscribed emigrants brought with him from England the Countess whom he introduced into one of the oldest families of Paris as a lady of high rank. A request was made that her origin should be unknown, and this was strictly complied with. She was introduced into society, and soon became noted for her piety, charity, and love of retirement. Time passed on—the emigrant died. and was soon followed by the nobleman, whose will directed that the Countess should continue to occupy the pavilion, and receive the pension—while no attempt was to be made to unravel her sacred secret. She gradually mixed in society, gained all hearts, and at the time of her death was unsurpassed as a match maker, keeper of secrets and devotee. Well, the papers were not entirely consumed, the physician found enough to awaken his suspicions, and on the shoulders of his late patient he discovered indelible proofs that this model of virtue and fashion, an invitation to whose saloon had been the passport of the first society in France, was no other than Jeanne de Suz, alias the Countess de la Motte, the authoress of the disgraceful Necklace Story, in the days of Marie Antoinette She was publicly whipped, branded on both shoulders, and sentenced to the Salpetriere for life—from whence she unaccountably escaped, and her after life has been unknown until the above development. The affair has created quite a stir among the great folks, particularly those who have boasted of their intimacy with Madame la Comtesse Jeanne.