Show I 1 cis it is good sometimes to be looking after this world and see bee where it is going I 1 to therefore I 1 we quote the f following ol lowing 0 from a I 1 late eastern paper which will show the value in I 1 which dukedoms Duke doms are held though their anten dents deats be rabbits or monkeys and also that spiritual wives are not so unpopular as might be supposed in the temporal world who would not fight for a a monkey ii duke or a spiritual wife al all about the same if he be could not get a temporal one casper hauser the dukedom of baden the tae grand duke dake of f baden charles leopold fredirick frederick a feeble died on the alt at theace the age of sixty two years his eldest son is I 1 an idiot and the last news received by the transatlantic mails mail was that this man the hereditary prince renounced the D dukedom in favor of his younger brother it seems however that there I 1 are for the succession in the reigning family of bavaria whose pretentious were put forth last year by king maximilian I 1 this claim together with the demise of the duke of baden revives the romantic and as yet unaccountable mysteries attendant on the life of the celebrated casper hauser an english journal gives the following narrative in which is interwoven the thread ot of caspers lite life which will be read with much interest how notwithstanding withstand ina the existence of apparently direct and legitimate male heirs to the ducal throne the bavarian sovereign as the head of the house 1 of ibach can put pat f orward forward any claims at all is a curious and most interesting question in the year 1806 the emperor napoleon compelled the then grand duke dake of baden duke charles frederick to marry his son duke charles to Sto stephanie phanie do de la pagerie a niece othe of the empress josephine the fruits of that mar marfine marri fige ige were two sons and three dauo daughters 0 aters all of the latter are now living one is m married to the marquis of douglas 0 the first son died very suddenly and wh when en the second son disappeared or died very suddenly no records of either were to be found duke dake ludwig the younger brother of duke charles was e exiled from court for a considerable period by his f father a the then reigning 0 grand ouke A fate seemed to attend the m male ale children brought into the world by stephanie suspicions of foul play were very general at the time and were directed solely against duke ludwig who was known to be ambitious of succeeding his father and who hated the duchess stephanie and her children duke charles died and on the death of his father duke ludwig za ascended the ducal throne duke ludwig remained unmarried leading a life of the wildest and most criminal character some years previous to his succession his father the ile grand duke D like charles frederick hav il ingest fosi his first Arst wife contracted a left handed or morganatic marriage with madame geyer von geyersberg a lady ot of bad reputation about the court after their marriage madame adame Nl geyer was created countess of hockberg while married to the grand duke charles frederick the countess hockberg gave birth to four children the eldest of whom was the grand D duke ake charles leopold whose demise is now recorded rumor was mysterious about the parentage of these children and dark hints wa thrown out as to ikiri their relationship duke ludwigs name being much complicated in these statements during daring the reign of this ludwig it happened some of our readers may remember the circumstance that a wild idiot youth was found one morning morning sitting in the streets of leipsic and unable to give any account of himself his tongue gave forth only unintelligible and indistinct sounds taken care of and instructed by a kind samaritan nili ritan this youth who had given to him the name of casper hauser gradually made known to his friends that his previous existence had been passed in a cell under ground in which he had only seen one person that he had hannever never seen the daylight until a few days before his d in lei leipsic e when his keeper carried him out of the cell ell and transported him to the place see in in leipsic elphic where ere ho a was found inquiries public bublic and abid private were made in all directions without any result suspicions of vario various lis kinds arose arose apayer war some authors treating casper hauser as an ingenious impostor others enunciating boldly the suspicion that he was heirty heir to the IBS baden throne facts however were wanting to prove the connection and wb while ile the in inquiries viries were still pending poor casper hauser was as suddenly murdered at the wanting facts have nev never ek been supplied tho the ugh the chain of circumstantial evidence has been increased and strengthened it was known at the time of we th e paper war alluded to that a pamphlet I 1 on the subject announced fr for publication os as containing some bome of the wanting proofs had been drought db bought ought off by some unknown person this ui unknown person peron was subsequently proved in a court of justice to have been een major hennenhofer the creature and confident of ludwig the minister to and participator in all his di dissipations major hennenhofer was also seen saen in iii on the evening evening CL when casper hater was murdered were an inquiry to be made wis it is possible that mor more evidence on th the e subject would be forthcoming and the identity of casper hauser with the missing son of the Duches be clearly established the duchess has bar preserved on this subject the strictest silence her present position and influence in paris might perhaps if the suspicions which have pre prevailed wailed are well fo founded induce her to break that reso resolution lut on and visit with vengeance the family for ase whose advantage her own sons were made away with ludwig succeeded his bro brother and death the reigning family of bavaria laid claim to a portion of the duchy founding their claimon claim on the illegitimacy or rathor rather the unequal birth of the children of the grand D duke like charles frederick by the countess hochberg according to the law in germany these children of whom the late grand duke was one are excluded froni from taking sovereign rank and succeeding to sovereign rights at his marriage duke charles frederick inserted a clause in the marriage contract declaring the wife and bh children ildren wo who might result from the mig marriage to be of equal birth when duke ludwig died a sitting of the eriv privy y coun council oil was hold held at which the grand V duke ake charles leopold declared that he would 01 only carry on the government until it should be settled who was the real h hir heir ir the baden succession I 1 cession has been enquired into by federal commissioners I 1 ners with the view of regulating it and providing ding against difficulties in 1818 and 1830 when the deceased grand duke dake succeeded to the dobal damal throne the federal commission sat in frankfort th ue latter decreed that in order to procure the unity guity of the duchy the children of countess Hoeb hochberg berg should be considered of equal birth the f family amily bavaria bavaria disputed that debrea ceareo then than and en entered their p protest cotest against it that protest will it 4 is ig reported P be now it is known that of all t the he rulers of bavaria not one assumes a higher and I 1 moie more ambitious tone than king maximilian Maximilia nj I 1 and if ithe it be renewed and followed up all the facts musts must again be inquired into the baden with its accompanying romance and arimes will be a fit subject to be settled settle dby by the great powers WIVES the last number of the london news odthe f the world gives us the particulars of some strange doings doing os o s at an institution E known as the Agas semone near bridgewater in england that paper says some curious I 1 a stories tories are went res tins place it is said that mr prince t ph founder on ona ta recent occasion drove castle inn nn at taunton in the carriage and aud four which belonged to the late ques adelaide and which he has purchased for his pr private ivatts use A servant at the door of the inn war warned off some idlers standing in the way vay with the words take care heres heren sir mr prince coming he ardithe expression and on alighting froia from the carriage said to the servant in a solemn tone mr prince once jesus christ now 11 he then entered the i inn consumed a cigar and a bottle of wine and returned to the abode ot of love amonn among 0 other strange regulations observed in the fee institution is the election of mrs prince arthe bribe this is the distinction which falls to the lot of one out of fifteen women whoa who with their hus bus bands are members of the sect A large aan is erected on which are placed a number of seats according with the number of candidates 1 i for the espousal this stage revolves round a I 1 j chair in which sir mr prince seats himself at a given signal the husbands of the women enter and each stationing himself at the back of his better half begins to force the stage sag e round 1 1 this is cont continued i aued until it has attained a pretty good speed when at a sign from mr prince ria the husbands retire and the stage is left to itself when it stops the woman opposite to mr prince becomes become 9 his bride for the week at ai the end of which time the same ceremony is is repeated on one oc cassion mr prince happened to catch a bride as she was bein being g kissed by her husband As a punishment f for or t this his unfaithfulness faitha ulness she was divorced from her heavenly consort and put pat to menial labor and the i husband was sentenced to wheel a barrow full of stones up and down the yard for three days |