Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11
NJ. MILLISON.

GB Perhaps, some of our readers may have
heard of the Atheneum, a literary journal
once published at San Francisco. To keep
the memory of that journal fresh in their
minds we publish few extracts from it. 1t
reached, we think, about three numbers:
We are happy to state, that to-day (Thurs.
day, Mrs. Weekes, whose illness is noticed on
another page, is much better though still
confined to her apartments. Her physician
thinks she may be out in day or two.
She was out in a day or two, and the result
was that a good many other people were ont
(of pocket to the tune of five, ten and five
hundred dollars, each, by way of subserip-
tions, loans, ct cetera, for the benefit of IT, e
excellent literary periodical that Cora Ann
was going TO establish
SAcRAMENTo.--Mrs. Weekes proposes visit
ing Sacramento, in the course of few DAYS,
if her health should permit, with the view of
making arrangements for the circulation of
The Atheneum in that city.
She did visit Sacramento, as nearly every
member of the Legislature then in session,
was amply able to testify, for there was
scarcely one of them who did not raise his
"bottom dollar" for the literary Cora's bene-
fit
series of interesting Letters from Scot.
land will be commenced in our next No
They will contain gossiping sketches of the
lives and characters of many Scotch nota bles
among whom wemay name Alexander Smith
Thomas Arid, Prof Blackie, George Gilfillan,
and others known to fame.
Cora could easily promise big things, mas
much as she never expected to fulfil them.
To our astonishment and notification, an
unprovoked, open and most brutal assault
was suddenly made upon us, through the col
umns of a protessedly immoral weekly sheet
published in this city The abusive article
was pointed out to us by a gentleman at the
bookstore of Mr. lie Count, where we had
called on business. AT first we were too
much overwhelmed to fully comprehend its
signifcation. We could not realize that we
had thus been made the victim of the malice
OF an irresponsible and shameless editor
How we reached home we know not. We
only kio'0 that 'ce are noao Tying on a sick bed
complete physical prosiration having been
the result of the mental shock occasioned by
that cowardly blow.
The above was called forth by an exposure
Of her true character, we believe, as an un-
scrupulous female adventurer, plagiarist, &c,
dc. How she reached home she knew not
But how she reached Australia, afterward
with two or three thousand dollars in her
pocket, heeced from distinguished members
of the Legislature and other gullabilities Of
California, she knew very WELL What pa.
thos, taking everything into consideration,
there was in her exclaiming that she was
now lying on sick bed" even as she wrote
complete physical prostraton having been
the result of the mental shock she had sus.
tanned by the attack that had been so cruelty
made upon her How sensitive the poor
harmless creature was, truly.
Well, Cora, it will be a long time before
we look upon your like again. If however
you establish literary paper in Australia
please send us the first four numbers. if YOU
should issue so many. and they shall have as
good a notice as we can give them.