a Fallen Female

Genius') The Omaha Republican gives the

following history of this production,

which the Landon ?Spectator has

pronounccd the finest poem ever ?written

in America. In the early part of t! e

war, one Saturday night in tho dead of

winter, there died in the Commercial

Hospital in Ciuoinnati, a young woman,

over whoso head only two and twenty

bummers had passed. She had been once

possessed of an onviable share of

beauty, and had been, as she herself

says, ' flattered and sought for tho

charms of ber face ;' hut, alas 1 upon

her fair brow bad long been written tbat

terrible word ? . Once the pride of

respectablo parentage, her first wrong

step was tho small beginning of the same

old Btory over again, whioh has been the

only history