Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-07-26
MORNING LEADER.
De Riviere Uase-seusibIe TAn OF the Tri-

bune.
The scandaloUs case in Mobile and New
York of Mrs. Blount, her foolish daughter, and
the imPudent foreigner called Capt. De Riyiere,
has afforded sensation papers about as many
morbid morsels for their readers as did the
Cunningham and Bardel tragedy. The end Of
the sensation, however, approaches, for De Ri
Were has fed oris concealed. Mrs BIount and
her daughter are about to return to the South
with Col. Blount, and Hlnkle, the keeper Of the
hotel at which Mrs. Blount and her daughter
were first secreted. ard whence the daughter
was abducted in a carriage, is in the Hudson
county jail for contempt Of eOurt in making
false answer to the writ Of habeas corpus sued
out BY Col. Blount Mr. Mulford, one Of the
counsel for Riviere, has given bail for trial, and
should the bogus Zouave be arrested in Col
BIount's absence, the Tribune says he would
probably only be held for contempt Of court
1t is now asserted that Riviere is the identical
Signor Don P. L. Dc MOreto. who TUNED so
many of the hears of the Chicago bellies year
ago, created sensation in fashionable circles,
borrowed money, and then left creditors and
sighing misses in the lurch, the only assets left
behind being two trunks filed with dirty linen
and eravats.
The n. Y. Tribune of Friday gives an epitOme
of the Blount and De Riviere farce and folly,
followed by comments and counsels parents and
daughters should give heed to- We quote, and
trust everybody will read
The De Riyiere romance" as It has been
most absurdly styled, seems near It's end. In
cholera times, we should consider It in the
blue stsge;" according to the latest slang, it is
nearly "played out" Anything less romantic,
except (Perhaps) on the part of the young lady,
could hardly be conceived, A penniless, char
acierless adveHturcr, flying from conviction for
completely in very vulgar swindle in Paris
who does not appear TO be even " Zouave,r
bad eminence, in the way Of character, as his
being one would argue-comes among Us, with
out any credentials, SO far as we can learn, and
soon msrries one woman, whom be maltreats
and deserts shortly after. Pursuing his travels
to Mobile, he gets decent man to tight duel
with him, and, on the strength Of this quasi IN
dorsement induces matrOn Of middle age, nov
ing in respectable circles, to second his designs
upon her daughter, an educated girl of seventeen,
mOvingIin good society and reputed worth $780,
O00 Ali that tfollowed-ifwe eharitably presume
the mother to be a monomaniac-is but matter
of course.
The career of this French swindler must
deepen the impression prevalent IN Europe that
we are semi-b1Tbarians. There IS no country
in Europe where transparent a vagabJnd,
without even a face TO recommend him. could
have been enabled even to speak to such
Young lady as Miss BlOnnt He could no more
have obtained access to q gentleman's family in
London or Paris than he could singly have tax
en- Gibraltar Such dukes may possibly strut
their brief hour in some rude hamlet or very |
low suburban cabaret, but they have never the |
audacity even to mediate admission into gen
tleman's household. And the European rule ia |
undoubtedly safer and more rational than ours |
" Who Is this person What is his standing |
at home On what Endorsement does he come I
among usi Who guarantees his personal re- |
speetability i'-Such are the questions instinct
lively asked whenever one Of these blazing com 7
ets makes is appearance on the verge Of sooie-
ty. Il is not poverty, as the vulgar and the !
vicious pretend, against which the doors of hos ]
pitable mansiors are barred for men are vel |
coined and priced in the most aristOcratic circles
who are known TO be not worth dime but
swindlers and vagabonds are excluded, as they |
should be. By-and-by, our people viii see the |
prOprety OF adopting the same ruie--or rather, /
the thousands Of reputable people who now dis /
regard will be compelled to observeit.
But in the matter Of encouraging the atten- /
tions of dubious Foreigners, with reference to |
matrimOny, our people are pre- eminently lax /
If we are TO suppose this Riviere case but one |
Of q thousand, We know that there are many 4
less glaring in which intimacies have been un- I
wisely permitted, and even encouraged, which /
have had far more disastrous results. There is /
not a city, there Is scarcely a township, which /
does not number among its inhabitants women
who have marr;ed on very short acquaintance, !
only to be abused, deserted, and len a burden /
aud lifelong sorrow to their families in which ]
they were born and reared, and which they most |
imPrudently and improperly deserted, to shAIe /
the frotunes Of relative strangers. If young /
ladies could realize how grossly in6elieate as !
well as culpably reckless such marriages appear
in the eyes Of the observing, they certainly /
would forbear A years thorough aequaint- !
anee, with the most circumstantial accounts, |
from disinierested snd reliable witnesses, Of the
anteeedents from childhood, are the very least /
guarantees which any woman who realizes what /
marriage is, will require of q stranger. Even
then, if her parents are not fully satisfied as |
well as herself, she should still hesitate
Marriage is an undertaking in which no delay |
can be SO hazardous as undue precipitation