New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-26
r.aw,eal Romance of Real Life.


slates and heard his voice dying away IN the DIS
| tanse as he vanished into Mr. Trotter's planta-
| tions.
| A Tragical Romance of Real Life.
In the San Francisco Bulletin of the 10th ult. we
find the following strange story of love- misfortune
and death:
| Nearly two years ago, as our readers will re-
| member this city was thrown into intense excite
ment by the report that respectable French mer-
chant, Monsieur de Galley, had been assassnated
in his own office by young woman whom he had
seduced. As Monsieur Galley was married man,
and passed among his friends for an extremely up
right and retiring gentleman, great establishment
was manifested at this news: and it was hoped
there had been some error or misrepresentation in
the story, as originally circulated. This was never
made to appear, however, and the sympathy of
the public as was very natural under the circum-
stances, set strongly in favor of the young woman
who had stabbed her seducer. This sympathy was
strengthened when it was found that Galley's
wound was not fatal one and as he fled from the
city to avoid appearing before the courts to testify
against the girl-who, during her Imprisonment,
had become the mother of an infant-everybody
thought that Galley had only got what he deserved.
At any rate the affair ruined him. in social as well
Us business point of view. His customers fell
off, the public lost confidence in his integrity; and
he soon quilted the city, and started for Mexico,
bankrupt man. -. I'D. .....ss
During all his misfortunes his legal wife adhered
to him, and never lost faith in his honor. She and
a few of Galley's closest friends always believed
that he had been more snned against than sin
ning'' and they stated that he had been made the
victim Of wicked woman, whose design was to
extort money from him, and who played upon his
fears of exposure after she had been equally guilty
with himself in the commission of a sin. We do
not pretend to believe that those who thought thus
were right; but probably no man was ever so
was Mons. Galley. His wife followed him to Mex
leo, and they stopped at Acapulco, where he at
tempted to make living. The next news of
him was that he had fallen under a sunstroke, and
died within few hours. This was in April last
The overland mail, just in, brings us the following
narrative, which closes the tragedy of the Galleys
In the month of August last says the Courier du
Hdvre, there arrived in this city, BY shipboard
the remains Of her husband who died at Acapulco,
Mexico, in the middle of April, preceding. Her
reserved department. absent air, and eyes swollen
by secret tears, evidenced the profound grief that
had pressed upon the widow since the death of
her husband. She took modest lodgings in a small
furnished apartment at st. Adresse; and as it was
evident that her financial resources were not very
considerable, her first care to attempt to pro-
cure the transportation of the body of her husband
to town in the department of Ardeche, doubtless
the birthplace of Mons. de Galley. But afterwards,
having given up that project, she caused to be
built in the cemetery of St. Marie vault for two.
This vault was recently finished, and ready to re-
ceiye the body, which, up to that time had been
deposited in a temporary resting place at the CEN
etery.
On the morning of the day before yesterday, at
half past O'Clock, Nine. de Galley left the cham
Der she inhabited, and went to the church of the
ST. Marie, where she assisted at mass. During the
sacred ceremonies she was observed by several
persons to weep bitterly: and after their close,
she went directly to farm in the neighborhood,
named the 10us Fe,as, and seating herself under
tree, took from her pocket revolver, which she
placed against her right temple and fired, the ball
piercing her brain and causing instant death. The
pistol was a seyen-shooter, and it was found with
six of the chambers charged, after the suicide had
been committed.
MARVELLOUS GYMNAsTIC FEATs.-Gaignani de-
scribes most extraordinary performance witch
j. now nightly attracting crowds to the Cirque
Napoleon. Three trapizes or pieces of wood about
five feet long, suspended from ropes attached to
the extremities, hang from the roof of the circus,
one in the center and the others at about forty feet
distance at each side, young man named Leo
above the place where the musicians sit, over the
passage for the horses into the ring. The trapeze
nearest to him being put in motion he catches it
it flies up and then, after balancing himself care
fully, he seizes it with both hands and darts into
open space. After flying to the utmost extent of
the ropes, he comes back with the recoil, and
aghts in safety on the spot from which he started
When he has done this two or three times to show
that the exercise is mere sport to him, he again
launches himself into mid air, but not this time to
return as before, for when the trapez has reached
its furthest point he suddenly lets go his hold and
borne onward by the impetus impaired, seizes the
second trapeze, which in its turn carries him for
ward to the length of its rope where he again quits
it, springs to the third trapeze, and born forward
by it, aghts on another platform at the opposite
site of the circus and in face of that from which he
had started
The performer again seizes the third trapeze and
finging himself forward BEFORE flies to its fur
therest limit, and then quitting it springs to the
second, which, however, he does not leave, but
permits it to fly back towards the third, then as it
descends, since his back is still towards the trapeze
which he quilted the moment BEFORE he all at once
lets go with both hands, and turning in the air
sezes it again in time to meet the third, by catch
ing which he again reaches the platform. Once
more ascending to the platform above the orches-
ira, he springs forward, hanging by the hands to
the trapeze, and quitting it as it approaches the
end of its range, he gives somersault in the air,
and seizes the second trapeZe as he descends.
When it is considered how truly brain, eye and
muscle must respond to each other in these per-
formances, the whole exhibition must be pro-
nounced one Of the most extraordinary that has
ever been seen of its peculiar description.
LED by THE NosE.-Many years before the name
of Madame Scarron DIETER known to English
readers as Madame de Mantenon) was familiar to
the ears of Louis XIV, the court was at St. Ger
main, and very busy with conjurors and divna-
tons, magic and magicians. The king himself was