Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-05-05

center Of the gangrene that spread and spread
painless but laeVi.abie, until what had been a
scarce seen speek proved sufficient to cut short
that fair Young life. The doctor took blame
to himself for aot having inslsted, in desAnee
Of ordinary rules, on the young lady's quitting
the bail room at once, but the hope that ha
might be mistaken, and a wish to spare G.
as much as possible, made him hesitate in
Speaking out. Bat it was the opinisn OF all
The medical men on the island, that when thu
e5mprador first rallied the DOCTORS attention to
the mark Of death on the face Of the doomed
beauty, the mischief was beyond remedy. AT
length, all that skill and care could do vas
done; but this was one of the saddest of the
many eases when science stands, impotenl
to save, beside The death bed.
The Moral Of an immoral Life.
No life bss been the occasion OF greater
scandal thaH that Of one who has recently de-
parted and been laid in the Greenwood Cemste-
ry. New York-the celebrated Lois MOntez.
And yet, probably, there is no woman who has
died within the past Zen years whose life, viewed
as a whole, has afforded so striking proof
to the reflective OF the jmmntabiliiy Of the laws
Of virtue, and the imposaibiiity Of finding any
shorter cut 70 life OF happiness, even here,
than By a right adherence to them. Her past
days and death are said BY those best ae-
quaintsd with Der and them to have afforded a
striking example OF earnest penitenee, and the
conviction that such G'ate alcne could enable
one to enter with a hope on the scenes Of
another lie. It is with such characters only,
10 their relations to this world, that We have
here to do With them. And certainly, II By
regarding momentary impnlseE alone, seeking
pleasure for pleasures sake, irrespective Of
the great laws Of morality and virtue, aEd one
could have hoped to have attained to happiness,
I It vas Lola MouteZ.
/ II the character OF the Countess Of Blessing
! ton, with more intellectually aBd refinement,
I there was a luxurious ef, minacy and weakness
! that might OF itself account for much OF the
sufferings u her latter DAYS. She became the
slave Of luxury and Indulgence, where Lola
MontsE took the command. Both were OF
/ Irish birth, both highly educsted, and OF the
most fascinating manners, so that in both the
mental and social mplisbments they eT-
hibited were their chief charm. And both
exhibit the utter wrstehsdness OF straying
rom the paths Of virtue.
But there were in Lola Montez cEaraetsrist-
les which, but for that one blot, might have
raised Der to the very highest fame. The
warmth and FIRE Of the Spanish race, mixed
with the quick wit and fne constitution OF an
Irish race, Der enterprise led Der to visit every
climate, and there seemed no language in
which che could not converse with the 6ueney
Of a native. There was nothing weak m her
fascinations. England and Indis, Spain and
n
and New South Wales. she visited them ell,
and won the regard Of the very highest rank
and power wherever she went. No laws could
bind her any more than anV land. Her own
will was the law which alone she recognized.
She would not marry an old Judge, but she
would run away with young officer. Tried
for bigamv, she laughed st the law, aBd was
not convicted. Reproachea by one editor in
San Francisco, she caned him in the streets, |
and then married another in the same city.
Never did a woman 50 openly defy all the pro-
prieties Of life, and seem so completely TO con-
quer everybody and everything with which she
came In contact.
Yet she brought nothing but disgrace, de- 1
struction, wretchedness and death, 10 all who |
had anything to do with her. Indian military |
officers were disgraeed on her account, and /
Lieut.. Heald was cut, and obliged to quit bis /
regiment. Ths king Of Bavaria had the uni |
versity closed and a revolution brought abou', |
and his own abdicstion, entirely on hsr ae-
count. A Paris editor was shot, and one In /
San Francisco had to get divorce. And she /
herself, with powers like Lady Hamilton, who /
brought such scandal on Lord Nelson, died, 4
like Lady Hamilton, such death as to prove y
no courage, no accomplishments, no powers or
noble qualities, can atone In this world, or in 1
any quarter of it, for the loss Of virtue and
in woman. Cut By one hsr bounty
had educated, she fell, slain seemingly BY psr-
slysis, but really stung at last virtually by the
Of her own guilty course, and its
wretched consequences.
Yet kindly tended to the very last By enc
lady, drawn 20 Der bv the TemsmbTaee Of school
girl days, and the dicta'ea OF Christian duty,
she expressed The deepest psRitsnee for all
srrorB.-Fh Ledger.