The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-12
BALTIMORE.
THURSDAY, APRIL IL, 1860

BEAUMARcHA1s, the witty author OF 1he Mara
age of Fiddro, who was sent by LOUIS ANl. TO
England to treat with the once famous Cheyalier
D'EoN for the purchase Of some important official
papers which were in the hands of the latter, re-
turned to France firmly fixed in the belief that
D. EoN was woman in disguise. In London, where
D'EoN at that time resided, that mysterious per-
sonage, who then wore dragons uniform, and
"drank, smoked and swore like German pos
"tillion, was a constant subject of discussion in
fashionable coteries and with the wits of the clubs
and the coffee-houses Some stoutly contended
that he belonged to the sex that shaves Others MS
warmly maintained that he--or rather She-was
Of the sex that wears fris and furbelows and -
sometimes-paint and powder. Bets ran high
upon the question, one Of which, Tor seven nun
bred pounds sterling, led to n law SUIT. Inc
nlaintiff rained his cause by bringing forward
witnesses who swore that the pretended Chevalier
was no other than woman. LOUIS XVI, whose
secret agent D'EoN had been, some years subse-
quently, peremptorily ordered the bold dragon 10
exchange his military garb for the pctticoat and
coife, lest The revelation of his (her) at some
future day should bring scandal upon the
Courts of London and Paris. D'EoN COM
piled, and wore thenceforth TO the
day of his (her) death the female costume, though
mixing with it something of the masculine dress.
One might have supposed that the question of sex
was definitively settled by this resumption
Of womanly attire. Strange, however, as it may
appear, this D'EoN, who in early youth, had
Russia as an accomplished French woman and
was engaged by her in the capacity of reader; who
in his (hcr) subsequent career, had distinguished
him (her) self as doctor Of civil and canon law,
as diplomatist, Captain of Dragons, and as Sc
cretary of Embassy, and Minister Plenipotentiary
near the Court of st. JAMES; who, with many
bushes and tears, confessed to BEAUMARCHAIs
that he (she) was q woman, and in answer to
whose passionate TRADES, BEAUMARCHAIs in writing
of her (him) to LOUIS XVI, remarked that ''she
twas of that sex to which everything is forgiven
Gin France'-this military Amazon, whom NJ.
DE FLAssAN the grave historian of French Diplo-
macy, pronounced "a species of phenomenon, F"
was, after death, declared, by "THoMAs Cope
GLAND, Surgeon" 10 be no phenomenon at all,
ton similar in many respects TO that which
agiated the world of London thrce-quarters of a
century ago has recently sprung up in New York;
but which, in the latter instance, is simply worthy
of notice from the fact of its being a re-produc-
ton, in different form, of the old story of the
Chevalier D. EoN, and rs Illustrative of the shifts
to which theatrical and other managers sometimes
e., H.
ton. 1t is not matter that can be treated
gravely, for it refers to dashing equestrieane,
who has stimulated public curiosity by exhibiting
''new and thrilling" feas OF equation, but more
especially in consequence Of the rumors that have
been adroitly circulated with regard to her sex.
So well has the trick acknowledgement as it is
that upon this point Broadway and the Bowery
are alike at issue, and are alike undecided. j.
Md'lle ZoYARA male or female? That is the mo
mentous question upon which numerous disputes
have arisen. Lorgnettes have been put in requisi-
ton to determine the problem, but like the
riddle of the SPHYNX, no one has vel
succeeded in solving it. Some there are
who imagine that a closer inspection would
enable them to spy "a great beard under the
''mutter;" but whilst the partsans of the male
theory are numerous, their opponents are equally
firm in the conviction that the provokingly puz.
zling ZoYARA is legtimately entitled to display
her equestrian skill in voluminous gauze and gilt
tering spangles. 1t is said, however that Md'llt
ZoYARA is not, in point of fact, Md'lle ZoYARl
at all, but like the ANNE PAGE of Master SLEN
DER, nothing more than-''a great lubbery boy ,
For the truth of this statement we, of course, Dc
not youch. If it should be confirmed like Nor
TONS reported discovery of an Open Polar Sea
by subsequent explorations, we can only sa,
that her powers of deception are not NOR
wonderful than her powers of ubquty; 70
while at this time she constitutes the leading at
traction at Niblos Garden, New York, she i
nightly exhibiting her feats of horsemnnship a
the Front Street Theatre, in this city. A know
edge of this fact complicates the matter to an e,
traordnary degree; for if she possesses the gift
omnipresenc@, and can appear bodily in .tw
places at one and the same time, who shall sa
that she cannot transform herself into woman q
man at pleasure, or perform any other equal
remarkable exploit, for the still further mystiica
ton of the play-going community?