Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-16

LOLA MosrEz AND rsE CR1rIcs = The spirited Lala
Montez having been charged with plagiarism ia Ter
lecture on . Beautiful women. denies the soft inn
parchment in "eards to the New York papers, in
which she uses up the malignant critics in the fol
lowing manner:
Anybody who has brains enough 10 read ny book
inteFently can zee that an the impoitan parts 81
that lecture were drawn from nay own personal OBJ
servati0n, and reic persons and events ofmy own
tine and ssora ntance. ] shculd net refer publicly
to this matter bur foT the noise Of some brainless
sninper sna1pers. WHO bear be same reletiou TO
literature and to itaTry people thsf snesk rossips
and back biiers 90 to respee s5le ans we'll bred peo
pie-One 81 lhem, 7obatly the most starved and
aged Of the demen.ea Crew. has ventu ca 90 at
tempt 70 levy black mail upon me- though It we're
possible for me 60 stand ia sny fear Of twenty thou
sand such coUardiy robbers. When lived in Paris
az aitenp1 Of the sane kind was made upon a cell
e5ra;ed literary gentleman Of my Acquaintance. but
before he could find tha culpri en- off his ears,
ne had been seized by the police for steaing coat
/ believe the same class Of vseab 'n0s often share
similar fate in this country.
The St Louis ReDu5iela Of The LIST instant re-
cords singular and fatal accident the result Ct
somnambulism: Friday evening a farmer named
John Bray, from Indiana, who was removing 10
some point on the Missouri river with bis wife
father-in-laW and four children. came in on the
Ohio and Mississippi railroad. Being IN s'ratened
circumstances the family obtained permission 10
stop for the night in small room the ferry dock
OF the foot Of Carr street Between twelve and enc
O'Clock in the night Bray arose IN his slep and TAX
ing bis youngest child, aged three years, in his
arms, actually walked from the room and into the
Fsteri The piteous wailng cries Of the child and
the loud calls Of the father for help, soon drew
number Of persons TO the melancholy scene from adj
jaeent places the levee This frantic grief Of the
family partook of the incoherence and Hildness Of
the maniac and is described to he Of the most heart
rendiRg description. Before ingenuity could resolve
On any means Of rescuing the droFRing objects,
both had sunk, 10 be seen no more alive.
TERRIBLE MASSACRE IN MEMco-Ths Browns
vile Flag, Of the 9th ult has tie following in re-
ference to the reported massacre Of 400 Of yidaur-
ri's men, taken prisoners by Gen Miramon in the
late engagement before San Luis:
In the euga gement between the Reactiouist forces
and those Of VdauTri, 400 Of the latteIs men were
captured by the former, who after seeing them dis.
armed and taking from them their most valuable
equipments, ordered his second IN o0mmsnd 10 take
them from his sight and do with them az he thought
st. This iuhuman wretch who well knew what
would ensue from such course, placed them in the
hands Of his soldiery. who we're just then IN beast
" state Of intoxcstion They fell upon the capves
who we're entirely dsfenceless and horrible mss
sacre followed At the end Of the terrible scene ths
found stretched upon The ground, mauglsd and vel
tering in their blood, patent sacrifice to the h9ly
cause Of liberty