The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-04-27

and in fact, great part of Europe, enjoyed
the advantage thereof. Travelling usually
in a four.horse carriage, with the lovely
countess by his side, and host OF courl-
ers and beef-eaters before and pehlhu,
all in Partisan liveries, the great count
enters in succession the cities of the con,
tinent, recommended to the high -birthed
dupes of one place by those whom he
had left in another, to awaken at leisure
from their dream Of eternal youth. Ar
rived, he fixes himselfin some splendid
hotel, and shows full and open purse,
Man and wife soon address themselves
to business. For ladies, he had lotions
beyond all that the Imagination could
conceive; and for faded gentlemen OF
quality, he had a Wine of Egypt, and
other potions, washes and charms lnnu-
merable. 1t may be thought that princes
and mobiles would be apt to deem it de-
grading in count to sell things for mon
ey, like common quack-saIver. No
such thing. The count, generous man,
never gets his own money for them. lie
travels the world to do good; and how
readily would he give the precious drugs
for nothing, were it not they are brought
from far at great expense Much OF
this he himself really defrays, but to re-
imburse him to a small degree he is
forced to take a consideration. The poor
he visits gratis. Thus run the tale and
practice Of the arch.quack.
Cagliostro and his countess were not
always pampered, however, in fortunes
coach-and-four. Sometimes their stores
ran low; and on unwisely attempting to
figure in the eyes of old friends at Paler-
mo, the count was sent to jail by the re
vengeful goldsmith, He had the address
to induce Sicilian prince to interfere,
and he was freed Then, again, we hear
of Cagliostro in London, in the obscure
character of common painter, and bear
ing the title of plain Signor Balsamo,
This was in 1772. He returned to the
continent, and must again have climbed
the ladder of fortune; for we find him
once more in England in 1776, with a
stock of L3000. The count here com
menced as usual with his elixir and phi
losopher-stone annunciations; but it was
necessary to the success, both OF himself
and his helpmate, that they should OBJ
tain access to society. A false friend
undertook this task, and introduced
them to mock lords and ladies, by whom,
ere long, the arch-plunderer was plumb
cred of all his means. A prison was the
end. The count gained his freedom,
however and left the unCongenial air OF
England. Yet the visit was not thrown
away. Far from it. He had been initia-
ted into some obscure mason-lodgt, and
the most brilliant idea Of his life struck
him in consequence-the idea of the
"Grand Egyptian Lodge of Masonry" of
which who so fit as himself to become
the head, or, as he called himself, the
Grand Coptha? AS for the female lodges,
again, who so well suited for the Grand
Priestess ship" as the fair Lorenza?
Full of this new idea, the count recon-
menced his career on the continent.
The repute of the wonderful Egyptian
who knew all the secrets of the
brotherhood from the time of its institu-
ton by "Enoch and Elias" soon flew
abroad. arrived in any city, he has
but by masonic grip to accredit himself
with the venerable of the place; and, not
by degrees as formerly, but in one night,
is introduced to all that is fattest and
foolishest far and near; and in the tittest
arena-a gilt pasteboard masonic hall"
Mr.. Carlyle, to whom we are indebted for
part of our information, describes the
quack as having been received with loud
shouts under steel arches; as holding
three-hour discourses on all things fit
tingly unintelligible; and as founding
Egyptian lodges in all manner of places
with ceremonies of such dark, DEATHS
head description, that it makes ones
hair stand on end merely to read of
them. The elixirs sold now at double
quick rate; and in consideration Of the
expenses Of the Grand Coptha,
in correspondence and the like, the
money flowed into his Golfers in full
streams.
Passing in splendor from place to place,
the count visited Warsaw, and finally |
Strasburg. Hele he met the greatest Of
his prizes-the Prince de Rohan, first
class peer of France, and Cardinal Arch
bishop of Strasburg, itch as Cr9sus, and |
gullible to excess. Knowing well his |
man, the count at first wrapt himself up
in reserve, while he at the same time
gained character by literally dispensing
medicine (brick-dust pills, possibly to
the poor and even showing them, now
and then, his purse. Prince de Rohan
sought an interview again and again. he
was refused. His anxiety grew greater,
and at length he was INDUCED. At once
he became an obedient dupe, and hi9
purse was emptied freely-in payment,
chiefly, for the profound predictions
which Cagliostro gave the cardinal to
serve in guiding him in all his affairs
This period, 1888, may be called the
brightest in the career of Cagliostro,
whose reputation was now European.
He was asked by the Prince de Rohan to
70 to Paris, and went; but he stayed at
his time only few days, being anxious
o drain a little further the dupables of
Itrasburg. But the enthusiasm was past,
md he found it advisable to try Bor-
leaux Here, for the period of a year,
le was so eminently successful in magi-
al and elixir practice, that the authori-
les at one time granted him guard to
.eep his doors clear. Bordeaux ex-
lausted, he thought fit to quarter him
elf on Paris. 1t might have been ex-
,ected that he would have shrunk from
xposing his magical pretensions to the
yes of The savans in Paris. Not he. He
here openly professed his ability to
metals; and, by handicraft de-
options, he practically convinced the
lily and unwary. He-when half paid
Or it, for the dead would not rise for
othing-called up spirits, though they
eem not to have seen, but merely to
ave spoken to him from under glass
ellis. The countess supported him ably
4 these deceptions.
But Cagliostro suddenly fell in this {
cry zenith of his glory, and fell irrecOv-
rably. Happening to be somehow in
olved in the celebrated necklace case of
Iarie Antoinette, where one of the {
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