The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-21
| From the Nely York Post, JAM '19.
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We have to-day received information of the
death ofLola Montez, one of the most remarkable
and versatile women of the present age-one whose
life is romance-whose career presents the yari-
Gus phases of a countess and public lecturer of
kings tavorte and dancer in a second-class
theatre.
The real name of Lola Montez was Maria Do
lores Lorrisey Monies. Was she born in Seville
in 1918; in Montrose, in 1920; or in Limerick, in
1924? Was her father Spaniard or a creole p
No one knows. 1t has been ascertained that her
mother was a creole, and that she was brought up
in England.
She visited Paris for the first time in 1910, Civ
ing herself out for the wife of an officer in the
British army, whom she married, and quilted in
India. She obtained an engagement, ddpseUse,
at the theatre of the Porte st. Martin, and lost
this situation through an eccentricity of department
that was voted intolerable even in that region.
Lola Montez soon obtained admittance to the
stage of the French Opera, but was hssed on her
appearance. In fit of contemptuous fury at this
disgrace, she kicked of her buskins into the
parterre, creating an uproar in that aristocratic
house, "more easily imagined than described"
She was, of course, prohibited from appearing
again upon that stage.
Having become the mistress of Desiarrier one
of the editors of La Presse, Lola Montez next scan
dalized Paris by appearing in deep mourning at
the trial which followed the duel in which Desjar-
rier had been killed.
In lS47 she went to Munich, where she speedily
captured the affections of the old King who had seen
her, by chance, in the house of an officer of his
Guard. She was officially introduced at the
Court and created, by royal letters patent, first,
Baroness of Rosenthal, next, Countess of Landsfelt
In her arms were crowned lion, silver dolphin
and a rose. With her new rank she obtained a
pension of 90 900 forins. The Ministers having op.
posed the exaltaton of the favorite, the Cabin ct
was dissolved by the King. The Countess nom i
mated new Cabinet, and soon afterwards dis
solved it.
The University was divided into two camps; one
of these being for the faVorite, the other against
har A nt hrpR cut tbao tnda ToIo
MonteZ FASTENED without escort to the scene of the
tumut; the King hastened after her, offered her
his arm and led the way. The monarch, irritated
by this outbreak against the favorte, ordered the
University to be closed for year, which the
municipal authorities waited on the King in a
body and implOred him to dismiss the Countess
from Court The King refused to grant the prayer
of the civic fathers, but yielded to the energetic
remonstrances of the House of Peers. Lola MOnteZ
received the royal order toquit Munich her palace
was pillaged, and the King, who, unnoticed in the
crowd, was sorrowfully watching this outburst Of
popular indignation, was wounded in the forehead
by stone. The ex-favorite went to England,
where she married a second and third husband,
though her first was still living. She then went to
America, where she is said to have married several
times.
Her first literary attempt was the publication of
her own Memoirs, in 1849, in the Pre8se newspaper;
suppressed, as scandalous, by the authority of NJ.
de Grardan, after the publication of the first half
of the first chapter. On arriving in the United
entitled "The adventures of Lola Montez in Bava-
ria" In 1853 she married the editor of the
San Francisco IVhig. In 1856 she appeared
the stage of the Melbourne Theatre in Australia.
She came to this country in the year 1851, and
after continuing the erratc course which made her
so prominent in larger field during her previous
life, she was some months since attacked by par
tial paralysis, since which her health has been
gradually decaying. A correspondent, who saw
her few days since, she expecting soon to
die, says:
"Far from the members of her family, and repu-
dated by those who had been the friends of her
youth, she was far happier than she could have
been had she died in the midst of the pala-
tial splendor which was so long her glory and her
shame.
''That merciful Providence who so constantly
sends his blessings alike upon the good and the
evil threw this poor outcast during her last days
upon the kind charities of Christian lady, who
had chanced to be her schoolmate in Scotland, but
who for many years ignorant that the Lola
Montez of the newspapers was the innocent school
grl of thirty years ago.
"Though disabled by sickness, and deprived of
all claims according to worldly principles upon any
such association, she here found a self denying
friend, who soothed her dying moments and led her
to take refuge in the consultations of the Christian
faith. The Rev. DR.. Hawks, on being requested to
attend her, frequently at her bedside and gave
her the benefit of his pastoral instructions. as If
she had been one of his own flock. He othciated
at her funeral on the 18th instant, and Mr.. Brown,
who has attended so many funerals and weddings
in his day (Inay he live many yearsl, was to
wipe the tears from his eyes he heard the cler-
gyman say that he had never known case of more
sincere penitence than evnced in the present
instance. ''Let him that is without sin cast the
first stone her."
FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN TALBOT CoUNTY.-On
Saturday night last about O'Clock, fire broke
out 10 the quarter on the farm Of Mrs. CatharRe
Denny, near Royal Oak, and burned up four negro
children, they being the only persons in it at the
time. We learn from rumor the following circu ,.;-
stances, and it should be warning TO persons that
use hot bricks.
The weather being quite cold and the mother Of
the children being engaged at the dwelling of Mrs.
D., several hundred yards distant she sent or car
rled hot brick to put in bed with her children to
keep them comfortabe-b is supposed that the
brick was SO hot that it set the bed on hre. Inc
fire spread rapidly, and it is said that the quarter
nearly destroyed before was discovered py
famly.-Edston Gazette Jan. l9.
Mr.. LINCOLN TO BE IN WASHINGTON BY THE FIRST
OF FEpRUARY-The New York Express correspon.
dence states that "the friends of Mr.. Lincoln have
arrived at the conclusion that he cannot possibly
be well informed of the actual state of affairs in
Washington go long as he remains at Springfield,
and hence they have determined to urge him to
come on to this city. with all possible expedition.
If Mr.. Lincoln complies with their request, he will
probably arrive here by the lst of February, il not
sooner, and be will be the guest of Mr.. Trumouli,
in Eighth street, opposite the Post once, which
has been handsomely furnished for the occasion"
1t is stated that Mr.. Thomasson, cotton-spinner,
of Bolton, England, has expressed himself willing
to allow his work people to invest their savings
with him, for which he will pay them liberal inter-
est, and moiety of his concern in addition.