The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1879-09-27
1olraloso,rbille Gbief.
Our BrOadbriIn Letters.
New York, Scrt. 20. 1879

New York, Scrt. 20. 1879.
EDITOR CHIEF:
sometimes think that there is no
a people OIL the face Of the eartl
as easily gulled as the people of New
York. They are about as easily taker
in and done for as King Cetewaye
was when Sir Baltle Frere made him
a present of get Of brass buttons
assuring him that they were jewels
from the crown Of Her Most Graciens
Majesty, the Queen. Deception, to
the average New Yorker, is very
much like skinning to the eel and
it is recorded Of the eel, that after
being skinned five or six times, at
Hast he begins positively to like it.
No amount of disastrous experience
seems to profit the New Yorker the
value of hair. Take him in today
with the most fragrant and transpar-
eht humbug, and You can catch him
tomorrow just as easily if you will
only alter the bait. If there is any
thing that New Yorker likes, it is a
Count, Lord or Duke. Dukes,
Earls and such like game, are rather
scarce at present, but Lords and
Counts are plenty, without there be-
ing positive glut OH the market.
In the absence Of titled personages,
We IRE satisfied with the younger
sons OF nobility, who sign their names
-. Fitzboodlc, s. Takemin, Fitzboo.
die Hall, Hertz, Eng" or II. Angus
tus shortweh Pump, Pump Abbey,
Wilts.' There is style about this
sort Of signature which is positively
charming, and our lion hunters, who
make it business to watch the hotel
registers "a hours after new arrival.
can give you his pedigree, certainly
as far back as Noah. 1t is marvellous.
after the number of times that New
York has been taken in by titled hum
bugs, that its eyes are not opened at
last, but every week furnishes a new
example and new warning, but still
the ball rolls on. If it were merely
the humbugging of some old fool, and
his wife, having an itching for fashion
able notoriety, it would be matter Of
very small moment, but unfortunate
>ly it has too frequently resulted in the
ruin OF whole families, the blighting
OF young lives, ard the wrecking of
ambitious hopes, built on foundation
of sand. To show the facility with
which this thing is done about five
years ago. a distinguished looking in.
: dividual made his appearance at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, claiming one of
the proudest titles in Scotland. The
man was known to be charlatan to
everyone Of our police, but it took
over six monts to root him out of orr
fashionable society. Nor did lie leave
TIL nc had swindled his confiding
friends out of fifty thousand dollars.
when he fled to Manitoba, where he
was killed: The very next week af-
ter his flight; the entire Fifth Avenne
was a blaze of excitement, caused by
the arrival of a distinguished Russian
Count, the last syllable of whose un-
pronouncable name was wlliskey,
wliiskey, whiskey, itckskey. His
name and his titles filled nearly half
page of tiia hotel register. He had
fourteen trunks aud a valet de place.
He tooka magnificent suite of rooms
opposite Madison Square. The rarest
of .wines'w washed down his anboyies
aud oysters, and altogether he ap-
peared like most distinguis he'd
Russian mob. He had scarcely been
twenty four hours in the hotel, when
he had received basketball of cards.
proffering the most friendly atten-
tons. Husbands, whose wives had
travelled from St. Petersburg to Mos.
COW, were urged to call on the Count
and offer him their hospitality. His
English was vile, his French was ex-
ecrab)e, his Russian was good, aud
he conld read the German. Within
week OF his arrival, grand party
was given in his honor, and several
hundred guests were hidden to the
feast. A number of designing mama's,
with eligible daughters, made a dead
set at him in hopes Of securing d lien
on his magnificent castle of Kirtz-
ENTHUSIASTICALLY % tile banks Of the
Nolga. Next morning after the party,
his Countship suddenly disappeared,
and it then TRANSFERRED that he was
valet, who had robbed lis master at
st. Petersburg, and the timely arrival
OF Il Russian detective had possibly
saved lot of ambitious fools from
ruin and disgrace. 50.
We had hardly got rid of the BUS
sian valet, when we caught Turk,
i bashaw with three tails, Abdul Ha-
fez lbriam Mulytzkau. He was dig
nnteA eastomer, with coal black