New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-20

| lars, being rlt1ed. NO traces to The muir
| derers were ever found.
Mrs. Coale left the hotel and went to
private boarding-house, her circumstance
being much reduced, SO she said. 1t i
| ascertained, however, that during the mex
eighteen months she was very frequentl,
on Wall street, one of the boidest ant
largest operators in gold, and one wh'
never lost. In October, 1864, at whicl
time she went to Europe (under suspicion
OF being connected with large embezzle
ment OF government funds), her winning
at the Gold Board were generally supposed
to exceed 100000, and it was know
that she had invested extensively in five
twentics.
After this Mrs. Coale eau not be trace
with any certainty for quite O number G
years. There is, however, legend con
nected with her history which ma
or may not have a foundation. This Is
gend relates that in the spring of 1865, SD
married Russian of rank, who took be
| with him to Honlbourg and there lost al
his money and all she would let him have
She, with her devils luck, won back al
she lost, but refused to give it him to los
again; SO he flew off with her to hi
estates out on the steppes somewhere, in
know not what desolate, God-forsake,
region, and there, an imbruted savage
led her dogs life, between brandy
women and the whip. One day in ii
Of delirium tremens, after scourging hi
whole household, including pail
faced Greek priest, named Crbaii
Callamachi, he drew pistol upol
his wife and was instantly murdered b!
the priest. There was trial, but the
| proof of self-defense was sufficient
| Aglae and Crbain were acquitted, but the
| latter was sent to monastery and Agiat
| tanished When she reached Buda, OF
| her way to Italy, the priest met her at the
hotel door and flung himself at her feet.
| He had escaped. She sent for the Anse-i-
| can consul and married the priest. lie
was an ium eater, this Urban, and a
| year later, sailing down the Nile, the
| hymns of the Coptic monks at vespers so
| crazed him with despairing recollections
| of a holy past, in TIE light Of a damned
present, that he slipped over the
dahabeeah's side into the gurgling flood,
and was drowned.
This. mind you, is only legend What
is known is that in the winter OF 1o12-13
Nine. Aglae Callamachi came to Wash
ington, spent the season there and the
next summer was seen at many OF cur
fashionable watering places. The next
winter she passed in Florida, and upon
the return of spring established herself IN
that lovely Southern spot which shall
call here the city of Cupressina.
Aglae Callamachi was not yet twenty
rI of
ness. She was q dark brunette, with just
the slightest tendency to embonpoint: a
perfect Spanish face, with the clear porce-
lain complexion OF that style Of beatty
large. dark, full eyes, fringed with lashes
long, curved, with grace to drive q poet
mad-eyes melting and languishing, II
she chose, with passion or quickened and
vivid with appreciation and intelligence;
the daintiest hand and foot, and Shout
der and bust just statuesQUe in their lines.
This lady dressed in dark colors and with
exquisite taste and culture; she was well
read; she had infinite world experience
and sqroir fare: she was rich, kept her
house with regal magnifcence, entertained
charmipgly; SIZE affected and indeed, I'M
loved the society OF handsome
young men, and defiantly snapped her
fingers in the face Of every woman who
questioned her character in any respect,
or showed the slightest aversion for her.
You may be sure such presence was not
wholesome for Cupressina, a place not re-
nowned for its sensations.
A universal favorite in the town was
young Pole, named Julian Karpofsky,
who had settled there since the war and
engaged in business, which very respect
table foreign connections enabled him to
pursue both with success and enterprise.
Julian, man of fine presence and some
accomplishments, good dancer and good !
inguist, fond OF music and skillful as
performer, seemed to graVitate naturally |
toward Madame Aglae, and famous
sprang up between the two,
upon which scandal did not scruple to lay |
is unsparirg tongue, calling the intimacy |
me which it needed a priest to hallow
The chronicler has no business to sitt and |
Weigh opinions, however, and / will not |
top to particularize the gossip of pro-
7incial place like Cupressina Madame
enjoyed Julians society and |
much of him, and Julian must have taken
pleasure in Madame Callamachis car
iages and dinners, her grand tetes and
,etIe souDers, even if be took no particular
lelisht in herself. The rivals for her
ayor gradully drifted of-all save one.
This one was q kentuckian Of very
Iearly the same age as Julian, who estab-
ished himself at the bar OF Cupressina
ince Julian had come there, and indeed, !
ince Aelae had made it her residence
Walter Sorel was quiet young fellow, yet
oticeabie vithal; Of medium size, some
aches shorter than Julian, blond, with
oft voice. pleasing manner, a woman-like
louth, and calm observant gray eye
here was not nearly SO much dash about
IN as about Julian, he attended to busi-
e>>, I'D not mix much in society, but it
Il, Observed Of HIN that all the friends |
e mado he kept.
Sorel seldom visited, but Lad somehow
cen thrown within the vortex Of Aglae
allamachi's destinations, and yielded in
ant!y. Aglae did not give him any COM
ensations worth speaking about, indeed
is probable she rather scorned him, bat
does not take an experienced woman OF
lie world long to know her slave, and that &
as the relation Sorel was unhappy
lough to have toward Aeg,lae. He bore
e chain willingly but not cheerfully, for
CALLED him. There was no intimacy be-
;een him and Julian, but o quiet, re-
ryed courtesy, as became brave men {
40 knew themselves to be both good ]
Iots-Julian rather boosted of his skill
it'll the pistol and the small-sword, and
alker was Kentuckian who felt
emselves to be rivals.
Things went on this way for several
onths-Julian the accepted favorite,
alter the distant worshiper " when {
lother actor came upon the scene This {
IS a young and brilliant heiress who {