Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-10-10
From HE Phiiodeiphia Bulletin.
EXTRAORDINARY ELopE WENT.

The business community Of Msikrt street has
been painfully Agiiated Tor the lHsf Two week
by rumprs CONGO rning th" dl.appearnn -
n merchant, iTeel, eonrecipd IN u house OF ~
doubtsd sanding aud which has been tnRags Il
On 10 this time, ina grsa, aud lucrative blsL
nc,s. The iudIyihpal retired 10 Is married
msn, and one ol the few who would not haV'
been suppos Il susceptible ol so much Infatpa-
too rs II be sednCed from the arms nf vt'a
Gus and II ctona wIir and child. by the hla0.
dishments ot 81 female young enongh 10 be bI.
daughter. itn would appear TINT abOui the
oa,, part OF Augast, he left the CITY, 10 compa.
~ us !, alleged. WI h an orphan gil, with
whom b. hgd previously been IN habits OF prsaI
! Intimacy. AMI VIM lelt he buuse oil her pr0iee-
tor f3r sumner val al a week OF two. IN the
nelghbo hood OF tue CITY, from whrnce she
joined her patsmoIr, unknown 10 her trends.
The gentleman being largely concerned IN q
business which -omeumcs equlred his pres
e1Ce IN Boston, for The purpn,e of IN t,ing pur-
chases, he left The cltV Osteashly Tor thai
| place hot ,ug le,tTs have been written
tdfther iaqHTous II he had arrived, yet so late
| - the r.ild,r Of this we'k no lldiDgs whatever
had been received IRON NM
Alter II ab en- e al week frbn the CITY, lei
| t.,- I'm bIm wsIe - 90 ,rse tIP.ct"d bs r,nse
90 whom he had entrusted the mana cement q
| his extensive business III his absence, IA
q onph 20 were received, yeI hls sll"rce ora.
toned NJ uu, a.iness ~ The cooptng house.
At his ,,~n hre5Ide, however, "a diflcI.nt aud
ago ,zng f.. mug 81 a,andonm N was rnter-
al ri, WI, h the lapse Of dat atfer day ~rh-
ou' nearing from hlm, only sersfd 10 confirm,
o"plsd =, ~ ~as With q knowledge OF cit um.
.'auees "hich appear 10 have escaped ine sora.
ins OF NJ eyes iess keen lha lhase OF an al
Ell by o,, WITHIN his domestic cncIr, a, dil-
ieTenl tom what il had b IN pIevtous To his
acqus,nia {, ih ine o,pnsn. lis growing
intimacy with her hnd Hpen observ. b, iho-e
- hose happiucss was calculated most drsY,
nHe.t, wit n pr.senlImont thu, il would
tad 10 bnler bnd heart rendmg re.ult-.
Illus, whPuu wa asccTlaIIrd that he had
raktu with hin a large amoent ~ cash-
IN H. hal otsetved an unusual silence
.ince MS deparlntt ,-'haI he was DOT To Ii.
10 md at any OF tie places WHITTIER he hal Tpl.
sent d himself bound, and moe Astounding
han all, tudt the Finale % whnm his at rutiop.
mad h en- long aud ar ent, had suddenly dl,ap-
prhrsd the same day. strong colOflng oi
truth vas given 10 the suppnsIIIon that hr had
clipped with her. aud the Suspici III va, cnmhn
ncalrd 10y h I wham he had nost injntrd, IL
Gentleman VINO he'd bond Oh the d. IL led p.i-
son \ Tor many Thousand dollars.
Painful as rnis discl Isnrr must have been 10
er - no made II, II was listened to with A.
m.zrmrnt and Iucr ',ulIty ut first WI b tn
| Enclosure of many coupborat0g circumstances
Al me served 10 d,ss pate--such was the unllal-
tied condolences rep sod III the rharectrr an /
| virtue oil the absentee. The astounding ia, /
~" spread wuh rapdty through the whole
! mercantile con m"nh,, n sensation of mingled
naze a"nl aud regrer-'naz imenr thai unr
o ua,"eIsalIy respected as an ap'ight dralrr
| should h. gnli.y OF an act so en- rely ~ OPP
position 10 his previous character, aud rpgle
20 witness he spectacle OF an nmlable family,
aud lucrative business, abandoned Tor tie go
[ ~ OF u sul OF seventeen
Ihis niHtuated man, was accommodating mo.
u rtpidW his credit was unlmprached aud
pionahl, few men oil h Standing ever enioyed
o'ore Inlly tue confidence ana respect oi n mo,l
GtrnsIVe acquaintance. Yet al have been
blasted by passtun ioT a female ot ordinary
attractions, irom " ON nhraing uld bo de.
Nv " but Inc bas' pIeasur oi a criminal Intsl.
! 'oufse.