The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-07-23
L IL E DISPA III.
ppIa.v O.,. S,1,. ,,,, =. 80,

TnEss BLorSr DE- RivIEax AFFAIR IN NEW YORK
The Heroine In CbstYf.Tbe de Riviere affair is In
court At Hoboken, N. Y, In suit brought by Col.
Biount against Mr.. Huncke. proprietor Of the ho-
tel at which his daughter has been stopping. The
Herald says:
There was . very large attendance to witness
the proceedings, among them quite q number of
ladies'. Miss Emily J. Bsonnt appeared leaning On
the arm OF her father, Col Biount, who conducted
her TO the witnesses stand adjoining the. udge's
bench. Miss Biount wore q veil on entering the
court room, but on taking her seat on the witness
stand threw il up over her hat. She looked
very pale, but did not appear agitated She was
tastefully dressed. She had on blue dress, over
which was n thin embroidered gauge Grape
mantiia. During her examination she gave her
evidence In plain, straightforward manner, and
without any appearance Of embarrassment. Her
testimony went clearly to show that she had been
abdu cted by her mother.
Judge Whiting remarked that they merely want.
ed to establish the fact that when she left DR.. De
Wees she intended to return Her answers were
we're given ard, without hesitation, and
bore the impress Of truth. Those who know Miss
Biount say she is gcod, kBd hearted girl, and so
innocent that she could be readily imposed upon
by such a smooth toDgued VILLAIN as De Riviere,
for whom she never entertained any serious affec.
ton, but was induced to encourage him by her
mother, under whose instructions she was all
along acting. Her own simpie answer was enough
II went away because / was foolish and perrua-
ded by my mother" 81 never was consulted on he
subject" and Il intended to go back to my father
from the first"
The defence introduced Mrs. Blount as a wit
ness. She was very richly dressed, aud wore a
pink hat, lace maBtilla, blue silk dress and flesh
eolored gloves. She appeared somewhat agitated
on taking her seat. Her evidence not of i'm
portauce, The case was adjourned until Wednes-
day. Mrs. Biount going TO her hotel and Mics Emi-
iy with her father.
The Cleveland Herald has the following "remi
absences of Mrs. BIount when at school:
Miss Blount is a ''chip Of the old block" Her
mother, Mrs. Emily j. Blount, James, was iD
girlhood sent from Alabama TO a seminary at New
Haven, then under the care of Prof, L A Andrews.
There she Was a wild dare DEVIL the leader of all
nischievous or romantic intriaues; smuggling
cards, liquors and billets into the seminary; ex-
changing 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 prauks of hers III Sew Haven were the talk
Of all the city. lady, resident OF Cleveland.
might Dsrrate from her recollection the ''adsen-
lures of En- James at boarding school," enough
10 make quite brochure of yell Nv cover ed litera
ure; how the heroiue, under the inspiration OF
punch. once stood upon pedestal in broad day, as
= living statue, duly placed aud draped, in font
OF confectionery on Church street-how they
Aept Christmas holiday in their chambers upon II
profusion OF egg nogR, the materials for which
we're smuggied into the seminary, and mixed into
potent nogg by Miss J-how once on winter s
lay, when sleighing was lively, she with two or
three companions marched down the middle OF
Chapel street TO Wooster square, where the semi
uary was located. shoutino and singing in Bac-
chante style, compelline tn sleighs to turn out
right aud left aid give he way-h0w tropical
fruits, inuocenty bought 10y the daughter of the
south" were often found to be of something more
than tropical richness OF pulp and flavor, yielding
ardent epistes from ard MT yonDg men, &c. To
one so defiant alike of authority, propriety and
vgilant restraint, the end could only be expulsion
and che was expelled. Until her mother should
arrive from the South to take charge of her, she
placed n the family of q highly respectable
gentleman of New Haven.
Soon after her return to Alabama, Elount the
present husband. met her and was captivated
Miss j. was taken to her maternal home In Clark
or Monroe county. Ala, where. for some reason
Biounts visits were forbidden. His ambition
however, as might be expected in such ca SEES
proved but an airy obstacle 20 interview VS. TO
prevent these the young lady was finally placed
nunnery Mobile, in the strictest restraint
and surveillance of the saintli sistetb hood. Hence
in short time she escaped, eloped, and was mar
led TO BounI.