Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-09-11
"Tbc yespucci..

The ". Y. Express devcses article to The 100
celebrated America Vespucci, who aPPiIed TO Con-
gress sumo years ago for grant of little bit OF the
continent baptized by the of her great ancestor
1t notices the fact Quoting from the Detroit Adver
tiser,) Of her reputed residence with wealthy nge
gentleman at Ogdcnsburgh, in this State, in SEMI
Italian villa, which is thus described:
"0ut Of the business Iine its most noticeable lion IS
the cx-Ceuness America Vespucc who has taken smell
ter from The ingatitudu OF Congress under the wing o.
Mr.. - single gentleman Of Ogdensbnrgh. The
residence OF the so-disant descendant OF old Amercus
is n semi-ltalan villa, enclosed by convent walls From
the top Of hotel ebod look down into its superb
arranged garden with pleasant arbors, ana iis onei
windows with gapds .cbiored, projecting curtains
giving most indolen and Italian air TO the ianso, and
bearing testimony TO the national habits and tastes OF It's
excluded from sight of thing hut the upper of
a building, by wall at least ten feet high. III Miss
America be indeed she pretends descendant OF the
ltile rcspecor her renowned ancestry as for the
nv fashionable and distinguished people 10 this country
who Toasted and ioIlosssd her, few years snce.'
| Mr.. Lester, our Consul at Genoa, has thus noticed
the VespuccI family in recently published letter;
"rhe vespueei family poor Two daughters are
al male descendant is employed In the Treasury Depart
ment of the government, salary less than hundred
dollars. The Duke of Tascany, however, supplies the
wants OF the family from his pocket. Mr. l.. was
the first American that had ever called on the family
and they deeply affected by the compliment they
had been before mortified at the neglect Of country
men, They deeply chagrned at the conduct of their
men, had the impudence government for
grant of land herself the only descendant of the
lVespucc family
| The Express thereupon remarks:
$50 are ever destined TO be humbugged, in this
country until our ridiculous mania for every thing for
eign shall be fully cured. We recollect very well The
figure that this woman cut, through two seasons, Al
Washington how hatiered by the men, how enyied by
fha hav kvf srrb hoxuf tall
by the poor, how coued by the cabinets how gallaned
by Senator'S how lonized by all She was, and sup
pose still is beautiful in person. accomplished in mind
and engaging manners She had the address TO push
her interests almost 10 the successful point but de
TERED by the interposton Of Of those lucky incidents
in legislation which often defeat the best laid plans of th
kind We have reason, indeed, congratulate oursese
this case that such obstacles do sometimes intervene
1t would be very credabe record in annals that
had been bejugged out OF large grant of the natona
domain by the merericious arts of "the mistress of
hundred men,"
alt this title at the time Mr. Lester was in Italy, wa
plainly and proverbially applied this person, how
came it III is pertinent to ask that such fact no
earlier known in this country that it did not transpr
during the time that this adventures experimenting
on the gulliby OF the great folks at Washington AM
elsewhere, in the United States' Her application 4
Congress was public enough-her position sat Court
notorious enough she talked about, and writer
about enough. Was there not who could have spok
en-, had he istedand saved society from such conpro
mise of lis character? We fear that there were thos
there, who knew all about it, yet spoke not, for saou
ressotsreasots disgracenI to them men, Amer
leans What the true character Of the person aud
ed appeared, once after the total failure of her
pertinent upon the Treasury of the Government. Th
next hear of her, and all hear of her, since
that she is living in a walled villa the frontier
the country, the Kept mistress Of its A pretty
position for the descendant of the who gave hi
name continent-for claimant, in his name, of tn
grateful bounty Of the nation called after bm-Amer
icar'
Now, we notice this disagreable topic, only for tn
r il l.4t1o
Justice which has not, we believe, been before mete
to the gentleman whom the responsibility rests 70
the introduction of this accomplished and beautiful
but very improper person, into the most respecabl
society al Washington. 1t was M. de PoNToIs, tn
then French Minister, who introduced her into GU
society almost officially; the lady having been sen
out from his Court as it was afterwards generally
ported to put an end to the influence of her fscina
fnps upnn the young Duke of Orleans the heir an
parent to the throne. Ihe French Minister behave
shameully in this respect, acquainted he could
but have been with the truth of the case; and it
only his own return to France (Which happened I
follow Immediately after this occurrence) that save
him from being dismissed in disgrace from Washing
ton by President Van Buren, for the insult thus Offer
ed, not alone to all fhe American female society
E Washington, but to the American People. M
Pontos afterwards became the French Ambassador
|, Ccnstantinople. Whether his departure from Wash
ington at that particular time was accidental or moi
we do not know. II was at least fortunate coinc
dence for him. Had he remained little longer, hi
going would not have been altogether voluntary.
So long as the lady in question was supposed
worthy and respectable person, from the respectable
y of the introduction by which she was thus guarar
tied, nothing was more natural than that she shoul
have been object of great interest and attention
nothing more proper and praiseworthy. 1t is only
pity, thousand pities, that the honor of her gran
historical name so uhworthily preserved, in PEI
haps the most beautiful clever and interesting perso
by whom it has been borne.-N Y. Ners.
. SEDUCTION, ADULTERY, AND SUrcDE.-A respectab