Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-09-04
The Lady who Believed in the Zouase'

The Cleveland Herald furnishes short olo-
GRAPHICAL sketch of Mrs. BlOunt, the lady VINO
believed the extravagant story OF DE REVERE
the French Zouave, and ran away with her
daughter and the Zouave,.. TO aid them IN get
ting married.
Miss Blount is a s'chip of the old block. y
Her mother, Mrs Emily j. Blount, nee James
was in girlhoOd, sent from Alabama, 10 sem
mary at New Haven, then under the care OF
Prof f.. A. Andrews. There she was wild
daredevil. the leader of all mischievous or rO-
mantle intringes smuggling cards, liquors and
biets into the seminary, exchanging notes
for herself or others, even under the nose OF
the accompanying duenna, with lovers whom
she met when permitted to go out Many
wild pranks of hers in New Haven, were
the talk of all the city. a lady, resident of
Cleveland might narrate from her recOllec-
ton the ''adventures of En-. James at a boar
ding school," enough to make quite bro
chure of yellow covered lterature:-ho the
heroine, under the inspiration of punch, once
stood upon pedestal in broad daylight as a
living statue duly placed and draped, in front
of a onnfaotionary on Church street how
they kept Christmas holiday in their cham
berS upon profuson of egg-nOg, the materi-
ais for which were smuggled into the semina-
ry, and mixed into potent nog by Miss j.
how once on winters day, when sleighing
was lively, she with two or three companions,
marched down tbs middle of Chapel street to
| Wooster Square where the seminary was To-
Gated, shouting and singingin Bacchante style,
compelling the sleighs to turn out right and
left and give them away ;-hOw tropical
fruits innocently bought by the daughter OF
the South" were often found to be of some
thing more than tropical richness of pulp and
flavor, yielding ardent epistles from ardent
Young men, &c. To one so defiant alike OF
authority, propriety, and vigilant restraint
the end could be in expulsion, and she was
expelled Until her mother should arrive
from the South to take charge Of her, she
was placed in the family of a highly respecta-
bic gentleman of New Haven.
TO the affliction of, one knows not how
many, signing young gentlemen in the pin
feather stage of existence, her mother rcmov-
ed her at once to Alabama. One, now the
grave and staid head Of a family in New
England, was almost in phrenzy Of griet at
the inevitable separation, as were perhaps a
dozen others, who, like him, had exchanged
with the enchantress, VOWS of eternal affection
and fidelity.
Soon after her return to Alabama, Blount,
the present husband, met her and was capti-
vated Miss j. was taken to her maternal
home in Clark or Monroe county, Alabama,
where, for some reason, Blount's visits were
forbiddea. Ills prohibition however, as might
be expected in such cases s,proved but an airy
obstacle to interviews. TO prevent the young
lady was finally placed in a nuunery near Mo-
bile, in che strictest restraint and surveillance
of the sanity sisterhood. Ilenc in a short
time she escaped and was married to MIR.
Blount
Lola Montez has remarked, that run away
matches, like runaway horses. and generally
in a smashup. 1t would hardly be fair to
bring into public notoriety the past and early
eccentricties Of a lady, but that the publicity
her present situation, and the meo dramatic
adventure of mother and daughter, with Cap
tain ID: Riviere, from fitting sequel to the
precedent history now told. Col. Blount al
eceS that his wife is insane. Evidently, her
insanity, if anch it hA ia i;f, long, and hcroii-
tary in Emily the daughter.