The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-10

A RoMANTIc 'eBEAUTY" AT SARATOGA. "A
correspondent Of the New York Tribune gives the
following rich, rare, and interesting account Of
beautiful female adventurer, who assumed the garb
of the Steiner sex at Saratoga
GA most sngularand exciting instance of female
eccentFicity and daring recklessness has just tran
spired here, to The equal amusement and amaze
ment Of all. Some ten days since there arrived in
the Southern train, and took lodgings at Union
Hall, youth apparently about Is or 20 years old,
Of singular beauty, with raven locks, a sparkling
black eve, a complexion in which the lily and the
rose seemed wildly striving for the supremacy,
voice Of silvery tone and mellow richness, and an
ease maturity and brilliancy of manner altogether
unusual in male so young, and which attracted
the attention and excited universal admiration. In
short be appeared to be one Of those specimens of
boyhoOd, upon which nature is sometimes 30 lavish
rare they are pleasing and attractlve combining
all the delicacy and richness Of female beauty,
with precociousness Of mind and manner equally
marked and unusual. With a bold, yet by no
means rude familiarity, he soon made the acqualn-
lance of mothers and misses, who seemed alike
captivated with the young charmer, and cOurted
his attentions with jealous rivalry the former con-
fiding in his youth protection 10 their daughters,
aRd the latter subdued and enrapted by the beauty
Of his person and the elegance Of his address. Ia
the ballroom with his fashionable dress, coat but
toned to the chin, his symmetrical limbs, bis
tracted waist, his round, full chest, his delicate
hands and tiny feet, as he moved with exquisite
elasticity and grace through the dance all eyes and
many hearts were fastened with lavish intensity.
After thus rioting week amid the most extrava-
CANT attentions Of the mamas, and the no less ex-
travagant affections Of their captyated daughters,
the young Uriah Baden," as he booked himself,
suddenly disappeared.
From a fear Of detection or some other cause, he
retired 70 the neighbOring village Of Ballst0n and
entered the National Law School there as pupil,
under the p7etence that his parents would be on in
a day OF two with the bulk Of his baggage. Struck
with his appearance, and the ease and eloquenee
OF his conversational powers, the President J. w.
Fowler, assigned him at once performance in off
hand speaking which, with the trial and argument
OF causes, form prominent part in the institution.
In this, his speaking capacities were put to a test
100 severe for a matter Of mere amusement; and
dfeading an exposure which the presence of the
hundred young gentlemen connected with the
school might effect, and certainly would render
most embarrassing and fearful he again took
French leave, returned 70 this place, and stopped
at one of he minor holels where he spent the night
before last in silent secusion, if rejecting the
error Of his ways.
During his former visit, be had coquetted with
the feiF ones, and made three or four solemn pro-
testations of-love, which had awakened delicious
hope in as many unsuspicious hearts. Hence the
news Of his return led 20 many eager but unsueces
ful inquiries for his whereabouts Yesterday morn
ing there arrived here fine-lOoking, mddle-aged
gentleman and his lady, in a state Of anxious ex-
cltement, having traced their Grant daughter at
length TO the theatre Of her cOmicO-tragic adven-
lures and being directed 70 her hiding place. they
sought her rooms, tore off her male disguise, and
last evening left for their home in New Jersey with
as sweet and beautiful looking daughter ever
graced the proper habiiments of her sex, with
nothing to distinguish her from them but her ex-
quisite personal charms and her shortened locks,
which, TO complete the illusion, she had cropped
and subjected to the hand Of the barber. As to
the cause Of this strange adventure Of the young
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forbid inquiry, and the affair ended as it began
a mystery.