Democratic banner., 1845-02-01
Romance Of Real Life.

ins, who as cashier of the Franklin
Bank OF Baltimore, embezzlsd Il large
amount of its funds. oa.e three
years since. The announcement of
this pardon prompts The Baltimore
correspondent Of the Boston Atlas
{" relate Tie io!!nwing. We know
not how ii may affect o,Eiers.'b but tins
simple unadorHed narrative Of wo.
mans integrity and lore, and that
nice sense 81 honor which could hide
a stain only by the deep covering o!
Inc grave has touched cur feelings
aore thun the most highly wrought
romance:
HIS defaications were large, and
run through a long series OF years.
They were concealed by many inge-
NOUS devices, and were only discov-
cred by accident, during q Temporal.
ry absence of Hawkins from the
Bank. On the discovery of the de-
~falcation, Hawkins Immediately gave
up all ais property OF every kind. and
his vile noble woman, without So
~lici.ation. and even against some re-
monstraacs on the part of her rela-
tives, executed a deed .enouncing her
right Of dover in a very valuable re.
al estate. They were thus, in their
Oh aye reduced to poverty. with all
the attendant evils Of crime upon the
husband. Those OF your readers
Who remember the account | wrote
YOU, will reco!leci that as soon as
Mrs. HuwkIns had execnted the deed
renouncing her dover She went 10
her bed, ana in 4 few DAVIS pined a.
way, literally dying OF 4 broken
heart.
(which kill. more than are numbered in
the lists OF fate"
Those whe were present at the sick
bed Of this good lady, say that tie
scene was the most impressive it il.
possible TO conceive of. There she
lay. slsibiy fading away before all
eyes-the physicians stood coniUund-
ed by The rapid progress OF tho dis
ease, and the eyes OF all baliied in
tears while hers were dry with sor-
TOW. She never ever cast 4 look Of
reproach upon her poor guilty hus-
band, who stood by, all unnamed;
and when her eye rested upon the
face of her daughter sweet girl.
then just bursting into womanhood-
the,mother would manifest herself on
ly in a deep drawn sigh. The emf
nent physicians who were called to
her aid. cwned their weakness. and
shrunk almost appalled, q, the sutul
manifestations death had made of his
work. upon the woman. They had
see death in almost every shape.
They had seen it suddenly striking
down the young and beau,iful--,hey
had seen it wasting slowly, day by
day, the lie Of Some beloved daughr
Ter. until at length, after the ravages
Of years the light was e1tinguished,
az a candle burnt 10 its socket, and
then shedding forth its rays more bril-
,iantlv than ever, 60 out in beauty
hey had seen the strong, the aged,
The weak and the old die-bu, never
hfd they seen a death like this.
The mind of the.dying woman was
at peace with all tho world, beyond
whose portals she had, seemingly,
passed, before death had released her
soul from the body. Health was up
on TER cheeks-her pulse full and
ocular, and her voice sweet and me-
tedious. She WAS n woman who had
shone in socie,y-she had flied her
place at the head of m opuIent tami-
~, with a grace which had won ad-
imitation from all who knew her,
And there she lay, in form, in face, in
voice unaItered. ave that the eye,
which was indeed, in her, the glass be-
lore the heart. showed that death was
upon her. and had already dried up
tn fountains of her lie.
But finger ,oo long upon this re-
markable death her death which, un-
der al circumstances, Of its time and
place. and cause, proves that truth,
indeed, as the master Of the human
heart has said, "is strange, stranger
than fiction"
Shortly after the death Of Mrs.
Hawkins, a bill of indictment--with.
out movement on the part OF those
who had lost money by hia-was
fonnd by our grand jury, and he. Their
being out of the city fed the State
His daughter. who as | have said, wa!
then just bursting into womanhood
has now reached the age wher
sho c,o f,l,y feol oil that she h.s los