Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-13

4 SAAnL9e
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
There is a Fomance-a /" sensa
tional" romance, if you will-undel
lying the appearance of Joseph A
Young in San Francisco. tits sal
that he has come in pursuit of
young lady, who, not long ago
made her escape from Salt LAX
City. The lady is pretty, attractive
vivacious, accomplished, and pos
sesses extraordinary talent as al
actress, though that talent ha!
never been illustrated anywhere
except on the boards of Brigham's
theatre at Salt Lake. But though
lovely and young, she had strange
objections to becoming Mrs. Young
When the saints brought a power
full pressure upon her to induce her
to be " sealed,' and solemnly as
sured her that "she should be
damned if she didn't" she replied
that "she would be id If she did. u
Accordingly, as she wouldn't marry,
she had to get out Of Utah. She
came to California, and Joseph
came after her. Our fnanciers,
bankers, merchants and newspaper
men have been led to believe that
Joseph came here on business con-
nected with the Utah Central rails
road, and has been extensively
feted, and dined, and wined in con
sequence of that impression-our
hospitable and disinterested mer-
chants being beguiled by the pleas
ing illusion that their attention to
this scion of the Brigham's dynas-
ty might possibly result in the in
crease of trade between the city of
the saints at Salt Lake and the city
of sinners at San Francisco. o i,
But the facts, Joseph is regarded
at home as lost sheep and prodi.
gal son. He does not stand high in
the good graces of his august father,
who would never dream of insrust-
ing him with an important business
mission. He has no influence or
standing at home, where he is re-
garded simply as a particularly fast
young man, more addicted to pleas
ure than to business and better
qualified for distinguishing himself
at billiards than at bargains. The
very pleasant gentlemen, therefore,
who have been paying particular at
tention to this branch of the Young
family, under the idea that somes
thing was made out of it, will find
that they have slipped up.
Our readers will remember that
Miss Alexander, reputed to be an
actress of more than ordinary tai
ent in soubrette parts, was to have
made her appearance at the Metro
politan theatre on last Saturday
night. She did not appear accord
ing to announcement. Why not !?
Because of Joseph Young's arrival
on Friday. This caused a change
in her programme. She dares not
appear while he is in the city.
Why not? Because she has been
warned that she cannot succeed and
will not be permitted to succeed on
the San Francisco stage. They
want to compel her to return to
Utah, and to accomplish this pur-
pose she thinks they will resort to
the most desperate measures.
Young, however, has already dis
covered that San Francisco is no
place for the accomplishment of
any purpose he may have cherished
of using force in securing Miss
Alexander's return to Salt Lake.
He has discovered that she has a
multitude of friends who would be
prompt to avenge any outrage that
might be attempted upon her. Con-
sequently he has seen that any
scheme of forcible abduction, or at
tempt to influence her by threats,
would not only be futile but danger
Gus. 1t is understood that he is
already convinced of the impossi-
bility of effecting the object of his
and left San Francisco on
his return to Mormondom yester-
day, so that Miss Alexander will
make her first appearance in this
city at the Metropolitan theater on
Saturday evening, she having been
impressed with a conviction Of the
power and unscrupulousness of her
sanity prosecutors that she would
not dare to appear in public until
Young and his companions had
left the city.
Though brought up from her
childhood in the midst of Mormon
society and under Mormon in
fuences, Miss Alexander always
entertained a strong repugnance to
Mormon ideas. Having a decided
talent for the stage and an early de-
veloped taste for acting, she was in-
duced to appear at Brigham's thea
ter. She made her debut in the
character of Matilda PeppercorR,
in the farce Of Marriage at any
Price," in October, 1863. Her
beauty, grace, and vivacity, together
with the talent she manifested, made
her first attempt complete success.
Several of the Mormon magnates
fell desperately in love with her,
and she Immediately became the
victim of "attentions" and persecu-
tons, which she could not have re-
sisted had she not possessed remark
able individuality and strength Of
character, and had not Brigham
himself, who admired her talents
and considered her an indispensable
ornament of his pet theater, ex-
tended to her a certain measure Of
protection. At length, however, the
pressure brought to bear upon her
became so strong that she was
obliged to make her escape from
the city of the saints. .
A veracious citizen of Middletows,
Ohio, arriving at the railway station late
at night, recently, and walking up to
town, saw a ghost. A pale light seemed
to hang on the gable of the new river
bridge. This slowly resolved itself into