The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-07
BALTIMORE.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1858.

A' -. CO. nersons in the UNITED STATES VINO
lhere "i' - ,rbollv ignorant of her eccentric
-. very reputable career. For htteen years
anu ~ Fame has been busy with her adventures
'o.i''iO" ,.;,s Indeed, she herself, has made a
"iO .itlo commodity of her notoriety. She has
ma, :, vcll-set phrases, all that we care to
toi" "' sLor birth, parentage, education, and mar
&C her VOYAGE 10 India; of the subsequent
.,~,orort of her husband with announcer irali
80. orher own return to England, and OF her
,.,ol;rc herself for livelihood, 10 the profession
A,n,e,se, This, and much more than this,
,bo has made known to us from the rostrum ana
rrbIisbed to the world at large in book. But
;fber confessions are many, her reservations are
not few. The full length portrait OF LOLA, as
drawn by herself is but an outline sKetcn AFTER
al and, were it not that the details nave oeen
Sled in by other hands, we might nave taken her
eimplv for rather audacous dancing woman,
with mild favour of Professionalism, ana an In
tense hatred of the Jesuits. a dozen or more
,oors 400. she went curvetting and pirouetting
over the continent of Europe until 1a'e, OF ior-
tune brought her to Munich, when LUDWIG OF
Bavaria found. at his accession in 1925, "a quiet,
s.rporol somewhat dull and unattractlve city,"
but which, in due course OF time, by pullullng
new palaces, and by restoring all that Was worm
restoration in the old, he not only transformed and
identified. but rendered, by his example, one of
the most immoral cities in Europe. He was sixty
years of ACE when Madame LOLA made her debut
in tho Ravariau CAPITAL, and turned the heads of
its inhabitants by the nimbleness of her heels, and
tbe dasbing manner in which she conducted her
self The proverb tells us that ''there is no fool
s1ike an old fool l." and in King LUDWIG of Ba-
vara, the provert was verified. LOLA, herself,
has gracously informed us that she became his
confidential friend and adviser. More plain
spoken writers use different phraseology. One
of these tells u.s. that King LUDWIG "openly took
'under his protection the notorious woman, LOLA
ssNoyrrz. He created her Countess of LANDS
t,vrrnr and insultcd his wife by intimating his
Contention 10 have the Countess presented at
"Coprt" The Queen had long lost the power to
control his shameless infdelity; but she
raf,sod TO submit TO this personal indignity.
trTbe foolish old man consoled himself by
Gsubm,ting. in his turn, to the ridiculous
spreensions of LOLA, until the popular hatred OF
the dancing woman was only equalled in intensity
by the contempt expressed for the King. But
Io1A's influence was not easily shaken. Like
second PoMPADoUR, she undertook the management
of State affairs. "There was scarcely a folly
(which LUDWIG did not commit at her bidding.
tFor her sake, all order of government, rule of
t'police. and social regulations overturned
She intrigued against the JesuitS, upheld
the Liberals, and advocated the cause of the
D,,+ .l,o 1aGa1 har- H.
erals rejected her. and the ProteStants declined to
sstake her proffered arm and walk with her in the
ssface of dav" She insuted the Queen; insulted
the noblest of the land, and was herself in turn,
openly execrated by the people in the public streets.
In retaliation she used, with equal vigor, her
tongue and her horse-whip, until, at length in an
outburst of popular Indignation her superb
1qaisoadte in the Barer Srasse was destroyed by
mob, and she herself after narrowly escaping with
her life was compelled to take refuge in SwitZer-
land, swhere she found an English friend, younger
than LUDWIG, and twice as foolish;' while King
LUDWIG, for very shame of his infatuation, abdi
Gated his throne in favor Of his son MAMMALIAN
and retired from the Court to his palace of
LudpigShote in the Paatinate How many times
since then she has been married and how many
times she ought to have been married when she
was not, it is impossible for us to say; but we
know that her subsequent travels have extended
over three quarters of the Globe, and that her
adventures have formed the subject of many a
''Scandalous Chronicle But life of excitement
cannot last forever, and, in these latter days the
"dancng woman of the Art-City of Munich,
after exercising her hexor and exrensor muscles in
and her castanets, to discourse TO crowded houses
on Love, Beauty, Lola Montez, and-the Scarlet
Woman. We should scarcely, however, have I'M
dertaken to revive these incidents in the career of
this woman, had it not been for delicious bit of
correspondence which we recently published from
the New York papers. Fresh as it must neces-
sarily be in the recollection of our readers we
venture to reproduce 1t, for the sake of the COM
ments we desire to make upon it. Thus it runs
NEW YORK, Sept 90, 1855
REV RALPH HoYT: The account which have seen in
the Gay press of the great loss sustained by the
sructon of the Church of the Good Shepherd and of the
sacrificing devotion with which you trying rebuild
it, have awakened in my mind the strongest desire to do
something to aid you in your worthy but hard under
taking
Had not been Frustrated with sickness should have
expressed thus sympathy at earlier day; but now
by the blessing of Heaven far recovered as be able
TO lecture again, and will give great pleasure to
read one OF my lectures perhaps the on Rome at
any time and place within the next two weeks, the pro-
ceed to be added fund for rebuilding your Church
With the utmost respect
Your obedent servant
LOLA MoNTEZ.