Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-03-09
she seemed reluctant to leave even 70 re-
turn to her mother and her native city.
She was not as kindly treated in this

she seemed reluctant to leave even 70 re-
turn to her mother and her native city.
She was not as kindly treated in this
vessel as she was in the other. although
great confidence had been placed in the
benevolence of the captain. The voyage
to Philadelphia was performed with grea,
difficulty and danger; the weather for most
OF the time being boisterous and severe
This vessel was owned in Philadelphia, and
while there the owners concluded to change
her trade and send her to the West Indies
The Captain, therefore notified his youth.
tul passenger of the course the vessel was
to take, and of his intention to put her on
hoard another vessel going direct to New
York. She appeared very uneasy at this
intelligence and wept bitterly, saying,
she had rather go TO Havana" whittier tie
vessel was bound, The Captain finding 1t
utterly impossible 10 change her determin-
alton, acceded 10 her wishes and she ac-
companied the vessel TO Havana. The
crew had become better acquainted with
her, and so much attached that she was
treated with the greatest kindness. She
was perfectly at home on board the vessel
and would ST for hours at the windows aft
and fish for the numerous rudder and pilot
fish, with small line furnished her. She
was delighted with the southern climate,
and would have been content to remain in
Havana, Notwithstanding her unacquain-
lance with the language Of the people and
their strangeness Of manners, had not the
Captain accepted freight for New York
and insisted on her going with him.
After staying in Havana near a month
tho vessel set sail for New York, and ar
rived there in eight days. On nearing the
wharf in her native city, our little traveller
was so overcome by her feelings she burst
into tears. She Immediately left the YES
sci and went to her mothers house. How
joyful was the meeting Of the mother with
her only daughter. She had given her
up as lost. Upon her being missed she
made every search and inquiry in vain,
and had naturally supposed her drowned;
or that she had met with some other fatal
accident. The child having recovered
from her agitation related to her astoDsh-
ed mother her adventures and promised
obedience thereafter.
A month had scarcely elapsed however,
before she again hid on board of a ship
bound Tor New Orleans. The Captain Of
this vessel had his wife on board, and if
the story of the little girl, when she arrv
ed at New Orleans, it is to be believed,
that she was not treated by them as she
ought to have been.
She was picked up on the Levee bv one
OF the Gen de drmes and delivered into the
custody Of one Of the 2nd Municipality,
and taken before the Recorder. She was
in wretched condition; her clothes being
dirty and ragged. When taken up she
was searching, as she said, for the vessel
she came out in, but could tell the name of
il, or at what part of the city she was ly-
ing, she stated that she had been in Phila-
delpha, Charleston, and Havana, and that
her mother lived in New York. Her sto-
ry was evidently CLOSED, and a mystery
hung about it which could not be unravell-
ed. She was sent to the Catholic Orphan
ASYLUM, in the upper part of the city,
where she probably is now.