Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-07-18

SINGULAR DEvoTIoS.-We some time ago pub
lished short biographical notice OF Miss Coutts
l-the beautiful young English girl, who con
ceiyed such an all absorbing passion for Mario,
the young Italian tenor singer. and who recently
came to horrible death in Paris by herclothes
taking fire We find in our exchanges still
later and more detailed accounts of her unweared
and Unsuitable attachment:
Her love, though purely Piatonic love, was
not the less passionate nor perSeTeTlng IL OH
rinated as follows Ono night she saw IN =
dream a handsome young man who appeared
before her. As lore only attacks those VINO are
amorous and disposed TO love Miss -, as
matter of course, and ia obedience TO the dc
tates Of her conscience, fell Immediately IN love
I with this image of which she had dreamed. On
4 awakening the next morning the image OF the
/ handsome Young man whom she had seen in her
dream was necessarily before her eyes.
She contemplated with ecStacy the imaginary
; figure she conYeTsed with It wlthont opening
her mouth to give utterance To any words, she
addressed TO it illusions of the utmost elo-
auence, which were stamped with wit and as
tinguished by sentiments, flowing from an ar
dent imagination and sensitive heart Shs,
in fact, 50 completely gave reality to the VISION
of dream that she was fully persuaded that
what she saw was sort If heavenly advertise
melt TO lGF, ana Tue luGLIlAGAA OCAuE HAASa+-
she had seen in her dream really existed and
would some time or other be found by her. So,
indeed, it turned out; for one day at London, at
the Opera House among the performers, she
discovered in the tenor singer, Mario, the very
person whom, as visionary image, she had
seen in her dream. 1t was himself and no mis-
take 1t was, beyond all doubt the handsome
youth she loved and whom she saw every night
in her dreams. At sight Of him her heart was
violently agitate,l; here was the very man whom
she was already in love with before she had seen
him But when she heard him sing, her feel
ing were raised to the highest pitch. She was
literally ihtoxicatel by the vibrations OF his
voice, with which her soul entertained the
strongest sympathy, and it seemed to her they
assembled up from the deepest recesses of his
soul, lending charm to the music which it was
impossible to describe. From that day forth
her fate was decided. She was sensible, how
ever, that the love she had conceived was hope
less, and that it would be necessary for her to
keep it secret wholly confined within her own
breast.
Henceforth the life of Miss "** underwent an
entire change Before this she had been re-
marEable for great simplicity in her manner OF
living; but now she determined to live entirely
alone. But she did not live buried in solitary
retreat; on the contrary, she saw company and
visited the opera. From the tiuIe when she
first resolved to live alone, she became of ex-
paleneSs. 1t seemed as II all her
blood had left the surface and flowed back TO
the heart, in order that it might beat the more
for Mario.
From the day that Miss *+* saw Mario for
the first time in hor life, when she recognized
in him the being she had seen in her dreams,
she has always lived by herself, and alone
She has never spoken single word to Mario,
but whenever at any time he set out for any
other country, she would set out for the same
Nr,Sl
Petersburg; when he arrived there, the first
person he saw in the dress circle, i'll front Of
the stage was Miss +** When he went to
Madrid, he found Miss ~ at Madrid. When
he went to America, Miss $50 chartered ship
aud followed him to America, and she always
arrived there in time to be present at the first
performance i'll which Mario appeared. Wheth-
er it was at London or in Paris, or wherever it
might be, that Mario sang, there the young En-
glish girl was always to he seen in front box,
or in the dress circle.
She has never spoken word TO Mario, but
Mario knows her. She has had sort of mag
netic power and action upon him. The spark
which tarted forth from her fell warmly upon
him. He was not in love with her, it is true,
but he felt n sweet soft influence operating up
on him, which emanated from her. The pier
cling look of the yelled eyes of the pale faced
woman produceda strong impression upon his
feelings, and sometimes even excited him to
such degree as to inspire his mind with the
inspiration Of genius, when he would sing in
such style TO show that powerful inhu-
ence moved him.