Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-11-14
an EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
THE soANDALoUs STATEMENT RECENTLY DE-
MED BY MR.. eoTTscHALK.
Correspondence of the Chicago Times.

! ringing LOT numDef Ot Gays Win the details
Of Il scandalous transaction that occurred
at the Pacific Female College, near Oakland,
just across the bay from this city, not long
! since. The parties to the affair were two
young ladies of this city, Miss Peck and
Miss Able, and Louis NJ. Gottschalk, the
pianist, and LIE Gay, fashionable halter
on Commercial street. A brief history of
the affair may not prove uninteresting to
your readers, as showing something of San
Francisco life. The two young ladies,
whose names are given above, were the
daughters of respectable parents in this city,
and had been attending the Oakland Col
lege for considerable time They were
there when Gottschalk came to this country.
How lie made the acquaintance of the girls
is not clearly establishes; but he did know
them 10 their eternal ruin. One evening
Gottschalk and Le Gay left this city in an
open boat, crossed the bay to Oakland, q
distance of eight miles, and proceeded in a
carriage to the College, short distance
from the town. The girls were apprised of
their coming, and got out of the College by
a deception played on the Principal. They
were dressed only in their night-clothes,
their other garments being hid on the out
side. The tender damsels were assisted into
the carriage and away the party drove to a
| hotel kept by Frenchman near the bridge,
which spans an arm of the bay that runs up
between Oakland and San Antonio. Here,
in separate apartments, the girls and their
lovers passed several hours in a manner
known only to themselves, and then drove
to another hotel, where they remained until
near morning. At the College, in the mean
time, storm was brewing. The Matron Of
the institution had missed the girls, and they
were diligently searched for all over the
building. No trace OF them could be found.
Young misses were reused from rosy
dreams and questioned as TO the where
abouts of their fugitive schoolmates; but none
of them could tell whittier they had fiown.-
Every scholar in the entire building was
awakened in hopes that some tidings of the
absent maidens might be cleaned. AT last
the matron concluded that some love affair
had taken them away, and so the principal of
the college was placed on guard for the 'pur-
pose of detecting the runaways should they
come i'll. The stars were growing pale and
the east had been tinged with gold ere the
guilty girls awoke TO their true position and
became anxious to return to the college,
They got into the carriage and were rolled
away toward the institution. AS they were
trying to steal in, they were confronted by
the principal Alasl their secret was known,
and their names blighted and blasted forever.
The trembling girls were taken before the
matron, and they acknowledged their guilt
They were expelled from the college, and
their parents took them home. The story
soon got on the streets of San Francisco,
and finally the newspapers told all about it.
The Indignation of the people against
Gottschalk and his halter companion was
great, and tar and feathers were freely talked
Of
The terror of Gottschalk was perfectly
ridiculous He saw pistol in everything,
and an avenger wherever he went. His
fears grew upon him at such an ALARMING
rate, that he sneaked to the prison one eve
ming, and requested to be locked upto save him
from the fury of the populace. The prison
keeper complied with his request, and took
the poor trembling wretch, inside, and closed
the ponderous door, Gottschalk was still
afraid that he might be caught, and wanted
TO get in cell The prison was nearly full,
and the keeper was compelled to put him in
with negro and Chinaman. There he re-
manned, groaning and walking his cell till
morning, disturbing the Chinaman and ne
| gro, until they cursed him again and again.
He said he did not seduce the girl, but she
seduced him.
Not content with destroying her fair name,
he must say all the fault was hers, to screen
his own vile and cowardlY person. The
steamship Colorado was advertised to sail on
the following day for Panama. Gottschalk
was afraid of an avenging bullet, and he re
solved to leave on the Colorado and go to
New York. He had advertised to give a
farewell concert-about the tenth one he
had given in this city-and use thirty ol
Chickering's pianos on the occasion; but con-
cert, Chickering, everything and everybody
were forgotten in the one wild, intense de
sire 10 ''git up and gitn from San Francisco
The advertisement relative to the concert
had already been published containing the
names of leading citizens who had requested
Gottschalk to give the Concert. The pianis
did not even bid adieu to those kind friends
but procuring hack, he jumped in, CLOSED
the doors, let down the screens, and went
tearing down to the steamer at break-neck
pace. Disguised as an ''honest miner' from
Dutch Flat, the ''eminent pianist' walked
across the stage-plank on board the steamer
Not even the "leading citizens" who had
rendered him so many farewell concerts
could have detected the fascinating rOue the
irresistible gallant, the distinguished Cots
chalk, in the dirty looking individual who
went limping across the stage-plank of thu
Colorado. AS soon as he got on board the
ship he procured stateroom, went into it
and hired man to keep guard over him unit
the ship left the harbor. This was the way
in which Gottschalk left us. How differen
from the manner of his comingl Everybody
here regrets that some one of the relatives o
the girl he ruined did not kill the cowardll
dog before he got away. imagine he will
not rest very easy, let him go whithersoeye
he will The girl has brother, and an
informed that he will hunt this strolling, lib
tine minstrel TO the death, sooner or later
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THE SILVER MINES OF THE UNIOV
p MINING COMPANY.
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