The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-07-03
THE Ladies'. REPOSITORY.

statement which We think best made IN lts
own language:
NoayoIK, June2ssh, 1855.
Mn. EDITOR You will please state 10 the CO.
lumns OF your paper, that MARTHA HAiSKs BUTT;
from this day forward. withdraw myself from al
no personal interest whatever 10 the paper, put
merely entered my name a. the ASST tant edifress.
Il was nominal. nothing more
Respectfully yours, MARTHA HArsKs Butt.
Penny Post please copy.
Miss Butt is not unknown to the literary
public, some other tales having been insert
ed in the monthly journals.
Of course we understand this announce
ment to be the result of some recent scandal
with regard to the young lady who started
the Ladies Repository" under the nomme
de plume of "Lille Linden" For ourselves,
we know nothing about these matters. we
only know that we have been beses with a
great deal of volunteer newspaper testimony
concerning the career of the gentle Lille.
We also know that she is Systematically pretty.
Some months since she made her appear
ance in our streets, dressed very tastefully,
and presented herself at every counter, So
Letting subscriptions for paper which she
proposed to publish, and which was to be
edited entirely by females. Her jet black
eyes, her ruby lips, her musical land beguii-
ingl) tongue, her radiant smile, and an ex-
ouisite genius for solicitation, the whole com
bined with the utmost propriety of manner,
achieved success for her applications where
ever they were made. She hardly failed IN
a single instance to obtain dollar from
every one to whom she applied for her
| naonthly ouarto journal. The old bachelors
especially came down to Lille with unanimi-
ty and enthusiasm The sternest OF their
fraternity yielded to her fasclnations as
readily as icicles surrender to the sunDea"s
Against long and lank gentlemen, redoien'
of Goldfish and talking through the nose 'ney
would have been on their guard. But VINO
could resist the appeals of q pretty woman'
struggling alone against the frowns OF for-
tune? Well, Miss lille Linden pubhsheu
her paper, and has continued to publish II
for several months, exhibiting in its columns
good deal OF talent and taste, and much ex'
cellent morality. Whatever may be said OF
Miss Lille, her paper contained some hne SEM
iments, and she knew how to point others to
the right road. if she sometimes got lost her
self. Richmond was her head quarters, and
she published her journal simultaneously at
several Virginia cities and Charleston. She
seemed to have had taste for horticulture,
as well as literature, and complimented US in
May with a bowl of very fine strawberries
whether the Wilmot or the Hovey, We forget.
The bowl is still in our counting room; it is
cracked Is it a type ? When we saw the
scandal about Lille and received the budget
Of reports about her, we looked at the bowl
and pitied it. 1t may be mended. Can Lille
mend her reputation? We hope she can
1t would be a pity that the impression she
made of an enterprising, handsome, virtuous
and talented young lady, boldly struggling
with fortune to build up fame and earn an
honest support, should prove delusion! 1t
would very much grieve many worthy bach
elors, who really patronised her from the
most generous and gallant motives
AMERICAN TRAVELLERs ABROAD
steamers, is so easy now, that vast numbers
of our countrymen avail themselves of the
opportunity to visit Europe, and it is no Ion
ger distinction to have travelled. We
could wish that the quality of our represen-
tatives abroad were equal to their quantity
Unfortunately, mSny of our tourists from the
large commercial cities, are of that class
whom Thackeray has shown up so pungent-
ly under the name of snob5, and their perso-
nal department abroad has confirmed in the
opinion even of intelligent Europeans, the jus
tice of the ill-natured criticisms of Mrs Troll.
lope and others, upon American charac ter and
habits. They are mostly coarse and vulgar
people woh, by successful speculations, extor-
ton, and fraud, have amassed fortunes and
thereby achieved a position among the sup.
per ten" The European gentleman reads a
glance these pretentious persons but is too
hasty in jumping to the conclusion that they
are fair specimens of the intelligence aud
refinement of their country
1t appears that there are no such worship.
pers of nobility and aristocracy abroad, as
the cockney travellers from our large com
mercial cities. They are said to be the most
servile and obsequious of all fiunkeys. A
smile from a lord throws them into ecstacies
and they reverence Duke more than their
Maker. They come home to despise and
speak slightingly of their own country, and
its society. They would willingly sweap off
the civil and religious liberty of the United
States, for institutions under which tn, v
could possess the chance of acquiring title
of nobility.
REASONS FOR GRATITUDE.
The grumblers on this side the Allan
tic are the most unreasonable and I'M
grateful of men. Let them compare their
condition with that of the inhabitants Of
Europe, and thank Providence that their lot
Is cast in such land. On one side Liberty,
Law, Order, Plenty, and Peace,-on the
other, none of these blessing save Order
and that enforced at the point of the bayo