The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the N. Y. Commercial AaDe,r,Se''l n,, ]
- IITf,IJFI.L: THE F0RGEk.

MITCHELL. THE toe1 1n
We have been favored with the annexed
letter. received this morning b! a irieno III
MONTREAL, April p, ls4l.
4. Charles F. Mitchell, the person VINO
/. .om rnitted the fnrgeres in your city and
ph;,aJsInhia. is now in this citv.E He ar
!. -i,e5 on the 9th inst. bearing the name OF
Goodwin, and passes his time in gambling.
He was arrested a few days since ana
taken before the police, but succeeded by
feeling lawyers in getting clear. His
s trunk, however, was searched, and about
$4,000 was found in it. mostly notes OF the
G;rard Bank. He is spending 1t very
feely. A stranger called at my once
!, this morning with $50, which he had
ra.a;voI from Goodwin who he said had
J lost it i9 gambling.
he Mitchell, and said so to the stranger,
who told me that he had been introduced
/. to Mitchell in N. York about three years
= aoo and had afterwards seen him at Buff
iaio. and had no doubt that this Goodwin
w.s the same man. When he first met
him in Montreal he told him that he
: thought he had seen him before, but Good
/, win Tor MilchelD denied all acquaintance
with him. When I mentioned Mitchelfs
name, nv informant distinctly recollrcted
that this was the same person. l learn,
moreover. that he told his lawyer he was
a member of Congress, and at the police
office confessed that his name was Mitchell.
have spent the whole day trying to
have him arrested, but without success.
Our authorities say THE United States
refuse 10 give up persons who nave com
mitted the most heinous crimes In this
: country, (alluding TO Holmes the murder
er) and why should we trouble ourselves
about this man? He is spending his money
yery freely which Will do us some good"
The money that he obtained by his
+. forstries might he recovered from him by
proving the debt. He might be arrested
Z ol&a civil process. if'authority were given
some one 30 proceed against him.
Romontic-Wc find in the Cincinnati
Times, an account of female, who has
within few years seen many vlclSsltuues
or fortune. She is now an applicant be-
fore the Ohio Legislature for divorce,
and resides in Newark, Ohio. She is
: native of Lockport, New York. She was
married in 1928, to a man by the name "f
Herrick, with whom she lived about three
wears, when by dissipation, and idleness
on his part, they were reduced to want.
and the husband was obliged to leave his
home to seek employment. He went to
Cincinnati where he remained some time,
and then took itiuto his head to g. to
Texas. Herrick wrote to his wife at
I.ockpor,. requesting his wife to remove
10 Cincinnati, that she might be nearer to,
him when he was in Texas, and she lett
Lockpnr, for Cincinnati. At Cleve land,
her means failed her, and she was obliged
~ throw herself into the kitchen Of ho-
tel, To procure money to continue her
;ourney. While in this situation, she &C.
cilentally became acquainted with gem
tIeman from Columbus, who discovering
Z tbnt her accomplishments and education
-,oere those of lady, who must have
known better days, become Interested in
her behalf She laid her case before him,
/ and asked his assistance in procuring "a
school that she might earn the necessary
means to follow her husband. He request
ed her to come to Columbus, she came,
and the gentlemen procured her small
school. <ss
q ,rhis was in 1885. While teaching
!. school, she became i'll, and was confined
to her room for some weeks. During her
indisposition, man calling himself Will
J, son, visited her and told her lie was just
! from Texas, and that her husband died in
that country few days before he left
ssHe told her all the circumstances connect
ed with her husband, that he left wife in
!, S,Lockport, &c, in such a straight forward
manner, she was forced TO believe him.
she.par.ialsy recovered her health, and in
1887 became. acquainted with a worthy
oentleman-a Misunderstanding in New
ark, named Chandler. After the due forms
of courtship, and in about year after she
heard her husband was dead, Mr.. Chandler
offered her his hand and fortune-she at
first refused, but subsequently taking into
consideration her destitute situation
which was really one Of want--she con-
sented to become his wife. They were
married incog. Mr.. Chandler took her TO
Z his home at Newark, where she lived with
him, enjoying as much happines as human
aa.h ia heir TO. until last November