Litchfield enquirer., 1841-12-02
From tue B4Dalo Commercial Advertiser. THE PARTED FAMILY.

mong the advertisements of city papers, how
 many stories of domestic anguish are hid den The absent and lost one sought for perhaps a husband, or wife, or child, or pa- rent-once united by many and tender ties to those sorrowiRg relatives or friends, who would fain seek through the world the ob- ject of their solitude, may be pining in bit terest sorrow, suffering the bangs of cruel want, or have found that last refuge of the lorn waNderer-the grave-far from those who once loved and still mourn over the
 missing link in some chan-l ke circle of
 family affections. How often, too, that little
 anxiously inquiring advertisement goes forth
 like the dove that left the ark. over the wide
 waste of d strange land, to return again, af-
 ter a weary and truitless quest, back to the
 sad bosom whence it came. Yet not always
 thus-sometimes they bear gladly back the
 olive branch of hope and joy, with tIdlngS ot
 the lost and sought, soon to be restored to
 the embraces of love and friendship. Such
 a happy contamination we have the pleasure
 to record in the following little sketch of the
 fortunes of separated family, respecting
 whom an advertisement appeared in this pa-
 per last month.
 About three weeks since, a pretty and in-
 teresting young woman, with two fine chll.
 dren, of the age of one and three years, call.
 ed in the office of our City Clerk, inquirlng for the Mayor. That officer was absent
 but her sorroWful demeanor spoke so affect
 ingly in her behalf, and although evidently
 in humble life she seemed so intelligent and unassuming in her distress, that Mr. Lacy, the Clerk, was humanely led to ask the cause of her troubles, when she told him her
 brief story.
 She said her husband-whose name was Evans-left their native place, Breckinock, in Wales, year ago, to seek new home for them in America, leaving them to follow when he should have found the desired spot, and earned the means to enable them to make the journey. He finally settled at Oak Hill, Jackson county, in the southern part of the state of Ohio, where he worked industrl- ously at his trade, that of tailor, until he had laid by eighty dollars for the passage money of his family. This amount he en- closed to his wife, with directions us to the best route to reach her destination, which would be via Liverpool and New York. She accordingly bid adieu 10 her birth place, and started on her lone and distant voyage, cheered with the prospect of soon rejolnlng her husband in their new western home.- On arriving at the nearest seaport on the coast, she was persuaded by the mercenary captain of a trading vessel, that it would be much cheaper for her to go by way of Que
 bee, where he was bound, and she therefore took passage with him. It was two long months after they set sail before the tardy craft reached port, during which time her stock of provisions had been exhausted, and she was compelled to purchase of the cap. tain, at his own rates, to supply the wants ot herself and children. The extortiOns to which her inexperence rendered her an ea- sy prev, and the increased expenses of the inconvenient route she had ignorantly taken, left her without a shilling on her arrival at Buffalo. Sae was still five hundred miles from her journeys end, without friend or a truly helpless "stranger in a strange land," with her little children de- pendent upon her for bread.
 The energy of Q woman s nature, so stri- kingly developed by necessity, did not leave her to despair. She obtained shelter for Trowbridge block, for which she had to pay five shiIlings a week, and succeeded in pro- curing a little sewing from clothing shop. which barely sutliced to purchase their coarse and scanty fare. She sent letter to her husband, informing him of her arrival and destitute situation, and patiently awaited l his expected relief. Daily did she ask, with heart at the post office, for the l wished for answer, and daily did she turn | away, with heavy heart, as the same cold | "no" responded unvaryIngiy 1 to her anxious inquiry. She wrote again | and again. Weeks wore away in this cruel suspense, and the thousand fears that agitate 1 the female breast in such crisis, may be to have swayed her mind. The 1 fearful apprehensions that sickness or death, or even his possible desertion of the welded wife of his bosom and their little ones, might have left her to the sharp miseries which are 1 the common lot of woman in such utter des- titution, were more poignant than the bangs of hunger. At length her employer had no pledge articles of her clothing to procure ne- ccssary food. Several weeks rent for her poor accommodations was due, which she was unable to pay, and in her extremity she thought ot applying to the Mayor for advice and relief.
 MT. L. became interested in the poor wo- mans behalf, at the recital. He instituted the necessary inquiries as to the sum neces- sary to tako her and her children to their sought for home, and drew up a subscription paper, which he placed in the hands of Mir. W, one of her countrymen, who is a worthy mechanic residing here, and who with prompt philanthropy took the suffering family to his own house. Here he found on talking over matters pertaining to their "tR- ,her land" that his guest was born within half mile of his old home, which he had l left twenty years before; and the long chat which followed about the familiar scenes and incidents of birth. place the family histories of the entire neighborhood us far back as her earliest recollections which had to be told may we'll be imagined to have repaid the kind Welchman for his hospitality.
 Mrs. Evans remained with her new found friend for three days, during which time he