Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30


More of Count Le0is Fitzgerald Tasistro-
His Antcedents more Novel and Interest
ing than IRE knetU 2f'
DELAWARE, Ohio, Oct. 9, 1856.
I see by the journal of the 9Th inst. that
a Mr.. Lewis Fitzgerald Tasistro has been
making a speech in your city in which he
asserted that Col Fremont is a Catholic,
S.. | know this Mr.. Tasistro, alias Count
Fitzgerald, and will beg leave to give a
slight sketch of his personal history in ad-
dtion to that given by yourself. This per-
son. nov calling himself Tasistr0, made his
appearance in the city of New York in
1895, under the title Of Count Fitzgerald,
and gave out that he possessed large estates
in Germany, and from these derived his
title OF Count. U pom this assumption he
took apartments al the Gl"be Hote!, KEEP;
by Blancard. and for tine cut quite figure;
his host being fully impressed with the be-
lief that he was the WHILE actually honered
with live Count as his guest, and not only
subjected his Iarder and " ine vaults but his
purse to the Counts free requisition. Time
rolled on, and after various excuses and de-
Laws, certain bills which the Count had
drawn in favor of Mr.. Blancard and others
on his fiscal agents or depositors in Europe,
returned protested, with the additional in
te lligence that no such parsonage as Count
Fitzgerald was known in the quarters where
his drafts were directed. An obscure indi
vdual, Of the name of Fitzgerald, passing
some times under the alias Of Tasistro, was
however traced to the bogs of Ireland and
thence to the sea shore in search for pas
sage to America, and Who was not only pre-
sumed but ultimately proved to be the self
same Count Fitzgerald who was entertain
ing the city bloods and giving his levees in
his elegant apartments on Broadway, at the
expense of the credulcus Mr. -glancard.-
This ended the short but brilliant career Of
Count Fitzgerald. Blancard, his landlord,
deemed it his duty to issue bulletin on the
occasion, calling his late guest an impostor,
cheat, swindler, &C., and cautioning tFe
public against him. The next that was
seen of the Count he was passing down a
by street in search of room. "with break
fast and tea" for single gentleman. From
this obscurity he got upon the stage under
the plain cognouen of Mr.. Tasistro, and
after few unsuccessful attempts to per-
senate some of Shakspeare's characters was
finally hissed of. From this point in the
eventful history of Mr.. Tasistro you have
traced him down to his appearances in your
city. The fact that such renegades as this
are employed to prove that Col. Fremont is
Catholic, ought 20 be sufficient to satisfy
every intelligent person that the charge is
false, andgit also demonstrates tina! his op
ponents begin 10 see they cannot defeat his
election by fair means.
If Col. Fremont were in reality men,
Der of i:he Roman Catholic Church, not
only would POSTMASTER General Campbell
and all the renegade slanderers in his EN-.
plovment. bnt the Catholic church in gen.
eral be in his favor. and instead of ;noving
heaven and earth for his defeat, would be
doing the same thing for his success. that
they now bring into requisiton in behalf
of Mr. Buchanan, his only real opponent.
This consideration alone ought to put all
question OF Col Fremont's religion, and
that he is not Catholic, forever at rest.
X.
The above Is written by one of the most
respectable citizen Of Delaware county,
His knowledge Of Tasistro sis few years
antecedeHt to our acquaintance with him.
Better have Count Fitzgerald" come again.
II Eds. Journal.