The Nevada Democrat. [volume] (Nevada, Calif.) 1854-1863, 1860-05-30
The nohemlans OF New York.


The New York correspondent Of the Chicago
Press aud Tribune, speaks Of q certain class Of
the literat of New York as the Bohemians.
Though the title Bohemia" Is of Partisan ORR
gin, as applied to lieratenrs, the London Athe-
neum, says:
Bohemia, as we suppose every one is aware,
is. a cant term for a section Of London--the part
inhabited by clever fellows with much reputa-
ton, and pretty women with very little; by the
classes who are said to Give BY their wits
journalists aud actors, dancers and artists"
As partaking of the free and easy nature Of
this class, the Bohemians OF New York Litera-
ture take their name and glory in the title.
prominent among them" says the above
named correspondent, (who Is probably one Of
the fraternity ''are the leaders, writer's and
| hangers on Of the Vanity Fair and the Saturday
Press. II. Clapp, Jr, the editor of the latter
fast and Frenchy sheet, ia their acknowledged
Jupiter Tonans lie Is an educated, sharp,
cynical fellow, forty years Of age, brown hair
ed, red bearded, dogmatc and brusque, but re-
| ally brilliant In conversation. Disappointed in
early ambition, he has unfortunately lost oil
earnestness in life and all faith in God, man or
woman. A pipe and satirical jest are dearer
to him than anything else. His comrades and
satelites-all young, and loving life, all fellows
A
some George Arnold, poet and Vanity Fair
writer; Woed. publisher Of the said comic pa.
per; y. II. House, msgsznist, and late Charles
town correspondent Of the Tribune; Fitz James
O'Brien, Of the Atlantic and Harper's Monthly
author Of the Diamond Lens, ETC., etc. These
are all bachelors; all live In hired rooms, and
board at Pfaf's"
The above named writer's are among the most
brilliant of the Journalists and nagazinists oil
the day.
| But the chief charm Of the Bohemian Circle
is Ada Glare, who is thus introduced and de-
scribed s..l.
| Do not suppose that men alone form this
nightly circle. Les Boheniiemes--the wild and
pretty modern literary women--follow the ex-
ample of their Parision prototypes, and do moi
hesitate to come boldly down, in scorn OF all
pr0priety and usage, rap on the table for their
steaks, smoke cigarettes, sing opera rcfrains,
jest, revel, poctize laugh and weep, and so tar
ry long beyond the midnight hour with their
harum-scarum brothers of the pencil andquill.
Chief among these is she whom they have
crowned "Queen of the Bohemia" Miss Ada
Clare-now becoming well known by her spir-
tied but dangerous writings, whose morality is
that Of the most pquant French type and
whose life is an illustration OF her morality.
ada Clare' Isl pseudonym, though the public
do not know the fact. The lady who bears it
was the darling of wealthy, aristocratic south
ern family. She is tall, magnifcently beau
tiful blonde, and dresses in Marie Louis blue,
with her hair thrown back pmperataiee She
is woman Of untutored genius, and strong
personal instincts.
Some years ago, the pianist, Gottschalk, tar
ried few weeks in the southern city where she
was residing. There meeting him, she lost her
heart at first sight, and when her family dscov-
cred this and sought to restrain her, the girl
| fed from home, followed by the handsome mu-
s!cian to the NORTH and declared she would stay
with him forever. With considerable southern
spirit, she wrote to her friends that they need
never feel ashamed Oh her account, for she had
changed her name to ada Care.o She &C.
companicd Gottschalk to Europe but soon re-
turned with no other companion than an in-
fant--a perpetual memento of the truth that
she had slowed not wisely, but too we'll" To
this quotation, however, the high-strung Ada
does not subscribe, but boldly avows that wo-
man has the right to choose the father of her
own child, and that she has nothing TO regret.
She says that Gottschalk Is "a sublime soul"
and proudly shows her little one to those who
are introduced to her, pointing out its resem-
bance to the features of Its sire, which arc dis
played in a breast pin that she always wears.
She has large income in her own right, from
southern estate and lives in her own house in
royal style, being, as / said, the acknowledged
| Queen OF the Bohemians.