Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1867-11-07
NO. 6
Mr. and Mrs. Charles sumner.-


A pubic man sometimes becomes so
public that his private affairs command a
publicity which it would be an a6scle.
tion Of the press mol to notice. Hence
send you the following:
Not two years ago, the long known
bachelor. Charles Sumner, became a
benedict. A highly educated. and, in
many respects, an accomplished man, sf
good manners, and better appearance,
naturally enough, he stood high among
the ladies of Boston, and he had no diff.
fculty 10 winning the hand of widow
(from one of the F. F. of Boston. who
sacrificed no inconsiderable jOinture in
marrying him. The Honeymoon had all
the apparent charm that honeymocns
usually have, when Mrs. Sumner went
with her husband to Washington, and
new scenes. ensued.
Among the accomplished men com.
posing the Diplomatic Corps in Wash
ington was Baron Holstein Of Prussia,
whom the Prussian King had attached
to The Prussian Legation there "tO spy
out the land" Naturally enough, be
courted the acquaintance of Charles
Sumner, the Chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs in the SenaIe--Who.
al dinner party, introduced his wife to
the Baron, and who was placed beside
her at dinner. An Acquaintance ensued,
and friendship followed, such as natu-
rally and honorabIy springs up between
the sexes with kindred tastes and aspIra.
tions. The Baron. attended to the lady
in Daatinsss and SOiTess. ana in other
public places, and occasionally escorted
her from the Senate, where both had
been to hear the Senator speak. Mr..
Sumner, becoming cIspleased with the
/ qualntancesh hip-it cannot be properly
called intimacy wrote a letter to Baron
Holslein, IN which, while complaining Of
it, repor! says be .nsIaulted something
no! honorable 10 his wife. The Brron
wrote back q Letter, 10 which, Ia sub.
stance, he said there was no cause Of
ofiense whatever-he had been polite to
Madame, as he was to other ladies' Of
similar accomplishments, and nothing
had ever happened which proprieiy or
good taste forbade. But if the Senator
was not satisfied with that, he was ready
to give him any such satisfaction as a
man of honor demanded.
This correspondence was the begin
ming and end of part first, but Mr.. Sum
ner, report says, then became cool 10 his
wife, and the lady and the Baron be-
came more reserved in their intercourse.
Then Mr. Sumner. as Chairman of our
Committee of Foreign Affairs, wrote to
the Prussian Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, the distinguished Bismarck, that if
be { B } would recall Tie Baron, he (S.l
would be obliged The adroil Bismarck
yielded to the potential position Of the
American Chairman of Foreign Affairs,
and the Baron was recalled 10 Berlin.
Mrs Sumner became acquainted with
this CORES pondence, and, naturally
enough, was indignant beyond all power
of description. Her Indignation natu-
rally rested upon that part of the corre-
spondence which, it was alleged touched
her honor. The end Of this is that Mrs.
Sumner has gone her way 10 Europe,
their common establishment ia Washing
ton being given up. and another taken
by the Senator for The inter. a. 49,,
There is some scandal ahoat beyond
all this, relating both 10 the oemIIOf ana
the lady--such os may be expected from
early dsHoumeRts IN such a marriage ,af-
fair-but the basis Of the reports in Bos-
ton is such as | send YOU What have
written is in everybody's mouth, and it
may possibly be erroneous in some Of the
details, hut in substance probably cor
rect. | send it to you for publication,
because what, if anything, is wrong
here, bad better at once be set right, TO
stop the tongues Of the thousands that
are making more out Of few facts.-
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