Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-29
MISS KELLOGG, THE cANarArR1eE.

EELD. CONN. TF1URSD. MISS KELLOGG, THE CANTATRIcE.
 EccENTRIcaTIEs OF FANA1ERIcAN Pn1,fA DONNA
 The following which we clip from New York paper, was originally published ir
 the London Morning Herald from a New
 York correspondent. The lady is a native
 of New Hartford in this county and the ex
 aggerations of the press will very likely
 cause smile among her numerous friends
 and acquaintances there:-
 ''We have just developed an American
 prima donna-what Yankee backwoods-
 man would call 'san ut-and-outei, without a drop of turin blood in her veins;'' for tshe is Connecticut girl, springing from
 the old Puritan stock. Her .ncesters. doubtless ate their first breakfast in Amer,
 ca on Plymouth Rock, and her immediate
 progenitors were cultivators of Wethers- field onions, manufacturers of basswood
 cheese and wooden nutmegs, and fishers ot
 shad and men. She seems designed, from
 her eccentricity, as well as from her unmis- takeable musical talent, to become one ot the most remarkable characters of modern times. Theyoung person to whom refer is Miss Clara Louise Kellogg now perform ing and engagement at the Academy of Music in this city, efClara Louise" is the is the toast of opera-going young America who srstwhile swore by the eyes of 'Little Piecolomini." What with her remarkable personal charms, her viyacity on the stage her magnificent voice, indescribable win ming manner, and her extraordinary idio- syncrasies, she has easily aoated into the position of the Musical sensation" of the metropolis. ~o4
 Miss Kellogg's father is msthodical, hard working, pains-taking, photographic shorthand writer, and has adopted a very curious method in the education of his daughter. He brought her up as if she were boy, and trained her in style which has at least the merit of novelty, and might prove useful in other cases. Like all first class photographers, MT. Kelloggis famil- far with the sixty and odd elementary and primary sounds which constitute the basis of every known language He educated his daughter in all these sounds, previous to making her apply herself to the study of French, Spanish, Italian and German. As g consequence, she has become the most perfect inguist, so far as pronunciation goes, of any of the professional women of America Miss Kellogg has always dis played remarkable musical appetite. She can thoroughly master an opera, the most difficult, both words and music, in three days time. One of her oddities is 8 pas sion for learning to perform upon all sorts of curious musical instruments. She is an excellent drummer, as any one who has heard her in Marin, '.La Figia del Regain ente, " can testify. She is proficient with the violin, French horn, bassoon, trombone and her treatment of the banjo is pronoun- ced by amateurs .ssuperb."
 A story is floating about musical circles that three or four years ago certain min strel band, now doing hourishing busi- ness upon Broadway, had among it's mem bers a person, apparently boy, whose re- markable performance with castinets, or the clones, became the 'ssensation" of the minstrel loving portion of the town. This person, it was observed, never indulg- ed in the :jokes, " as they are called, which have become, from custom, contingent upon the gentleman who wakes the echoes with translated tibiae, and after time the seat of the silent "Brudder Bones" was vacant. This brilliant castinet player. it is said, was Miss Kellogg. Of course it would not do to repeat this story to the frequenters of the Irving Place Opera House, for our petrole- um and codfsh aristocracy profess to have a great horror of anything so vulgar as 8 !" negraw minstrel" Still the tale-if true, and I must say there isigood reason to be- ieve it-gives very fair idea of the char acter of the young lady, and if one half the strange gossip afoat about Miss Kellogg's room in Fourteenth street be founded on fact, she certainly is capable of greater ec- centricities than this. It is, of course, nei- ther the province of 8 correspondent nor else but the owner to invade la- dy's boudoir. but if the writer seems to in- trude upon that of the fair prima donna it is because it is so much like the chamber of a wild young gentleman, just come into his property, that his mistake might be very readily accounted for.
 Boxing gloves and foils hang against the walls; pictures of famous horses and dogs are placed in the most favorable position to catch the eye of the spectator; beautiful little black and tan terrier. unfortunately dead but very happily stuffed, dominates the centre of the mantle piece, and two statues representing American Zouaves, support over the fireplace the national en- sign. Photographs of military chieftains decorate the wall of the room the spells (such at least as will not perish) of hun .dred triumphs on the lyric stage, deck in profusion this extraordinary chamber, and a thousand little articles, distinctive more of masculine than feminine taste, are scattered about. In short, if the room is a criterion by which to judge the owner, she is 8 person of strong masculine proclivities, softened and subdued by an exquisite fem mine grace.
 "Miss Kellogg is one of the most dashine horsewomen of New York, and may be seen riding or driving any fine afternoon in Cen. tra1 Park, the wonder of her own sex, and the admiration of its opposite. With all these oa,,e accomplishments (for such they would be considered in this country), she is one of the most delicate of our American women, as fragile, apparently, as an Etrus- can vase. Probably, however, the most singular characteristic of the asfiste in ques ton is her undoubted dislike for the socie
 ty of men; she is perfect misanthrope, SC far az that is concerned, and, aside from her own father, has no intimate friends and only such acquaintances as have be- come necessary in her profession among persons of the opposite sex" ,4
 AnAmerican and an English sailor vert lately before London magistrate for pro
 farifv- -fbe American for curSin0 her Ma