The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-04-04


An affecting object of charity was examined
On Monday by the Mayor, in the person of a
girl OF seventeen years of age, who stated her
name to be Rosa il Is nneceSsor,, -
mention it in full. She came into the of;ce
TINS morning picture of poverty and desola.
tlon, having been found Sleeping on one of the
market stalls IN the rain of Sunday night
he watchinan stated that he found her in a
SOUND steep, though the clothing with which
her body was scantiiv covered, was drinping
wet On rousing her, she opened her eyes
slowly, and was with difficulty got entirely
awake, so much had she been overcome by the
cold and rain. He inquired where she lived.
ont received no satisfactory answer, though
her behavior was modest and respectful: and
at his request she accompanied him to the
watch house, where comfortable quarters were
provided for her during the remainder of the
eight. Her appearance this morning presented
the curious spectacle of girl oil seventeen, 70.
bust and blooming in health, without any indi.
cations of a familiarity with crime of any kind,
modest and retiring, yet covered with rags that
bespoke the extremity of poverty. When ask
ed how she came to be found in the street un. |
der the above circumstances, and what was her |
mode OF lie, she related, but not until great |
persuasion had been used TO convince her that |
she must in some way give assurances that she |
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tory in which the romantic formed very con- |
spicuous half She came from the neighbor
hood OF Pittshurg, TO meet a young man now |
IN this city, between whom and herself there |
existed an engagement of marIage-which
was to be consummated on her arrival here
They were both of humble but respectable
parentage, he being engaged as clerk in a store
here, with a salary sufficient to support them
both, though his business prevented him leay-
ing it TO marry her at home She had come
on by appointment, about week before, but
had heen robbed on the way, of every thing but
the clothes she wore, including small sum of
money which her mother had given her on
leaving hnme. To add to her misfortune, she
d'd mot know where TO find her lover, having
lost the the direction he gave her, though she
remembered part of the merchants name where
he was employed. She had wandered up and
down the streets for nearly week, searching
in vain for it, and had supported herself by
pawnng her clothes in exchange for the rag
ged suit she now wore, being unable to bring
her mind 10 begging. On Sunday night, driv.
en- to despair, by her desperate situation in a
strange place, having expended her last six.
pence in paying for lodging the night before,
she lay down in the market house TO Sleep not
having tasted mouthful the whole day. This
relation excited the strongest sympathy among
a considerable number of respectable persons
| who heard it, and purse Of twenty five dollars
was Immediately subscribed for her. with which
to procure her new clothing, and pay her board
for three weeks at respectable house, while
endeavors were made to find out the residence
of her lover. When she was appraised Of these
| liberal arrangements on her behalf, she was SC
overwhelmed with the unexpectedness of the
relief, that her full heart relieved itself in a
shower of tears. She said also, that she was
unable TO write, and could not therefore have
| informed her friends of her situation, and that
she was afraid to communicate her story to any
one here, lest she might be considered an I'M
poster.
Since the above was written. suitable meas.
ures were taken to discover the young man,
and on Tuesday afternoon he was found the
meeting between him and Rosa was of the
most affecting kind, for he had been made ne-
quainted with her sufferings and trials. The
same evening their vows were sealed for ever
! on the hymeneal alter, and tho sunshine OF the
present abundantly compensates them for the
darkness of the past.
J MAGNIFICENT CYPRESS Tree. In the
gardens of Chapultepec, near Mexico, the
| first object that strikes the eye is the mag.
nificent cypress, called, the cypress Of Mon
tezuma. 1t had attained its full growth, wheI
that monarch was on the throne, (l520,) s,
that it must now be at least 400 years old
yet it still retains all the vigor Of youthful
vegetation. The trunk was forty-one fee
in circumference, yet the height is go males
tic as to make even this enormous mass az
pear slender. At Santa Maria de Tula,
Oaxaca, is cypress 93A English feet
circumference, which yet does not sho
the slightest symptom Of decay.
, Wards Merico.