The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-25

Any Philadelphia who reads the New York
newspapers, or extracts tLerefrom understands
by this time who is meant by the Princess
Bditha, the lovely lunatic who is variously
known as Edith Gilbert, Miss Moutez, Blanche
Solomon, Claudia d'Argyle, and so forth. Every
such reader will also remember that the last
theme upon which she has been creating a
sensation is a charge against the feminine bro
kers, Woodruff d Claflin. She says that some
time in May she called upon this firm, at its
office, with the design of becoming partner
and lending 1t her brains in default of money.
During the course of the interview she claims
that Mrs. Woodruff (who is melodiously known
as ''Vic." to her intimate friends) offered to
take care of for her diamond ring she wore,
worth $1,000; that she gave the ring up to
"Vic." but that Vic" never gave her receipt
therefor. Hence the scene in court which has
occupied some hours each OF the last one or two
days. The hearing took place before Justice
Bowling, of the Tombs, and quite number of
people, some of whom were celebrated aud some
of whom were notorious, were among the wit
nesses. From what came TO light 1t
was sufficiently evident that Edith is
insane, and ought to be placed under
mild restraint. All the ladies who handed in
testimony gave it as their belief that her word
was not worth accepting upon oath-that either
ny natural constitution, or the second nature
of habit, she had become incapable of telling
The truth The head and front of her romano
ing was that she was the daughter of Lola Mou-
tez and the King of Bavaria-the King of the
Belgtdns she at first said, although that mon
arch is remarkable for the purity of his morals.
Upon this romantic groundwork she embroi-
dered all sorts of contradictory fictions,
uDravelliDg one minute the skein she
had SO skilfully tangled the moment before.
She swore that she was turned out of q Bava-
rian convent for misconduct, and perhaps this
is the only part of her story which it is possible
to altogether believe. She says she discovered
four nuns there in a condition tnat is only COM
mendable in married women, and that the moral
disorders of the various nunneries in which she
rad had experience were almost as bad as those
limited at by Jean Jacques Rousseau and Gusti-
miami. She avows having been turned out of
her mothers house in New Orleans, though, of
course, this mother could not have been identi-
cal with Lola Montez, her real" ma. She
afirms that she walked almost the entire dis
tance from New Orleans to New York, and that
she pawned her watch for $40, in order to
support herself on the journey. She represented
herself to be skilful chemist and au
accomplished linguist, but closer acquaint-
ance with her of those to whom she made this
ignorant of the affinities of gases and the rela-
lions of grammar, and that the principles of
molecular attraction were as much a mystery to
ner as the ordinary rules of syntax. Since re-
siding in this city, which she had done ever
since last January, she has lived around among
her new-made friends, no one appears exactly to
know how. She appears to have had great
faculty for imposing upon people-womeD's
night women, retired actresses and brokeresses,
indiscriminately. She fosted herself on
Matilda Heron, who saws she tended her for
three days and three nights as carefully as
though Edith had been her own child.
She engaged rooms at the Astor House
at the rate of $19 per day, and ran up bills
which she was totally unable to liquidate She
borrowed a dress from ''Vic. ITO wear upon the
occasion of her lecture, and she secured the
prestige of being introduced by Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton. She went down to Washington
in order to feel public sentiment there with re-
speet to ''Vic.'s" aspirations toward the White
House, and she appears to have imposed to a
most marvellous extent upon quite quantity
of men and women who have the reputation of
being exceptionally sharp. Only three things
are known about her with any degree of GER
tainty, namely; that she is insane, that she has
no money and that she is not the daughter of
Lola Montez.
Amusements.
Theatrlcals and amusements generally have
reached their lowest point of du,ness. One
after another the theatres are closing. Wallacks
still hangs out The Red Light; the Olympic
closes next Saturday; Booths, which it was
originally intended to keep open all summer,
the Saturday after; the wretehed affair called
the Tammany departed this life fortnight ago,
and Mr.. Fox of your city has purchased the
chairs and "fxings" for his new Chestnut Street
Theatre. Mr.. DAILY intends feeding his little
flock. az be terms it, until the middle or end
of July. The only amusement people will re-
ceive during the summer solstice must come
through straw If it comes at all. Consequently
the new enterprise Of German opera boufe at
Terrace Garden promises to be the only
summer success in the way of public en-
tertainment. Terrace Gardenis the name given
to an enclosure whose entrance is on Fifty-eighth
street. little west of Third avenue. 1t takes
its name from the series of light and attractive
terraces that gently rise one above another upon
three sides. These terraces, some of which are
under cover, are fanked by profuson of trees
ana number of lamps, which disperse just suffi-
cient light to make the scene romantic Stalls
where white beer and lager beer are purehasable,
and creams and Ices are to be had, are encoun-
tered at intervals, and long bar is besieged by
thirsty drinkers to the tune of seven deep. The
chief attraction, however is TO be foundi little
summer theatre, capable of accommodating
about five hundred stters. The stage is
so very small and the height of the proscenum
so very much below the ordinary standard, that
the whole arrangement something resembles the