The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-28
The simmer scandal.
THE CAUSE OF TEE SEPARATION OF SUMNER AND HIS
WIFE.

THE CAUSE OF TIE SEPARATION OF SUMNER AND HIS
WIFE.
public man sometimes becomes so public that
his private affairs command a publicity which 1t
would be an afsctation OF the press not to notice.
Hence send you the following: Not two years
ago the long known bachelor, Charles Sumner,
became Benedick. highly educated, and IN
many respects an accomplished man, OF good
manners and better appearance, naturally enough,
he stood high among the ladies of Boston, and he
had no difficulty in winning the hand of widow
(from one of the F. +. of BOSTON,, who sacrificed
no uncomfortable jointure in marrying him. The
honeymoon had all the apparent charm that honey
moons usually have, when Mira. Sumner went With
her husband to Washington, and new scenes en-
sued. Among the accomplished men composing
the Diplomatic Corps in Washington was Baron
Holstein, OF Prussia, whom the Prussian King
had attached tosthe Prussian Legation there Ito
spy out the land" Naturally enough he courted
the acquaintance Of Charles Sumner, the Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Affairs IN the
Senate who at a dinner party introduced his wife
to the Baron, and who was placed beside her at
dinner. An acquaintance ensued, and friendship
followed, such as naturally and honorably spring
ND between the sexes with kindred taste and
aspiration. The Baron attended to the lady IN
matinees and soirees, and in other public places
and occasionally escorted her from the Senate,
where both had been to hear the Senator speak,
Mr.. Sumner, becoming displeased with this &C
Quaintanceship-lt cannot be properly called IN
timacy-wrote letter to Baron Holstein, IN which,
while complaining of it, report says he insinuated
something not honorable to the wife. The Baron
wrote back letter, in which, in substance, he
said there wes no cause of offence whatever-he
had been polite to the Madame, as he was to other
ladies of similar accomplishments, and nothing had
ever happened which propriety or good taste for
bade. But if the Senator was not satisfied with
that he was ready to give him any satisfaction az
man Of honor demanded. =. -.
This correspondence was tho beginning and end
Of part first but Mr.. Sumner, report says, then
became cool to his wife, and the lady and the
Baron became more reserved in their intercourse :.
Then Mr.. Sumner, as Chairman of our Committee
of Foreign Affairs wrote to the Prussian Mrister
of Foreign Affairs, the distinguished Bismarck,
that if he (Bismarck) would recall the Baron he
(Sumner) would be obliged The idiot Bismarck
yielded to the potential position of the American
chairman of Foreign Affairs, and the Baron was
recalled to Berlin.
Mrs. Sumner next became acquainted with this
correspondence, and, naturally enough, was ln-
dignant beyond all power Of description. Indig-
nation naturally rested upon that part OF theco
respondence which, it was alleged, touched heri
honor The end of all this is, that Mrs. Summer
has gone her way to Europe-ther common es7
tablishment in Washington being gwen up, and
another is taken by the Senator tor the winter.
There is some scandal ahoat beyond all this,
relating both to the Senator and the lady-such
as NAV be expected from early denouementsn such
marriage affair-but the basis of thereports in
Boston are such as Isend you. What have written
is in everybody's mouth, and it may. possibly pe
erroneous in some of the Details but in substance
probably correct. 1 send it to you for publication
because what, if anything, is wrong here had
better at once be set right to stop the tongues OF
the thousands that are making more out OF a few
facts.-Boston Cor. n. Y. Express.