American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-07-29

rent was taught to reply by tote, and well did
she perform the part of deceiver. Again the
fathers tears fell fast, and again he embraced
his daughter.
Some three years rolled on, and although the
husband did not annually make pilgrimage to
his wile's grave, or strew flowers over the
could not, for it was represented to be in dis
tant cty-yet was her image ever present to
his memory, and his feelings were absorbed in
ministering to the wants and watching over the
budding beauties of his daughter
While thus engaged an incident occurred,
unexpected as extraordinary, which told him
that he was the victim ofone of the most delib-
crate and deeply designed impositions that was
ever played off on an honest-minded and conf
ding individual. He learned, by the nterposi-
ton of Providence as it were, that his wife had
acted dishonorably towards. him-that no doc
tors had attended her-that she was not dead
and, Of course, never was buried, but is now
under another assumed name, hale and hearty,
and resident of this city. How he learned
this shall be reserved for another chapter.
In our paper of yesterday we laid baie as
foul and coolly concocted scheme as ever was
devised, to screen guilt and to deceive hus-
band and father. Let our readers not pre-
!
ton, and two at least of the principal dramatiS
persOnG are now in this city For the present
we withhold their names, because we have rea-
son TO think that they will before long come be-
fore our courts of justice-indeed they are al
ready indirectly therein the "natural way,"
at least in the legitimate way.
In our yesterdays article, after running over
the preliminary points in the dark plot of de-
ception, from its inception to its development,
we concluded by stating that by the interpos-
ton of Providence, as 1t were, the victim of the
conspiracy was apprised of the willy schemes
set on foot to deceive him, and that we would
in succeeding chapter tell our readers how the
veil which had so long been placed before his
unsuspecting vision had been removed. We
now proceed to fulfil our promise.
The story of the alleged death and assumed
burial of the "lady," we have already told
The calling on the husband TO foot the doctor IS
bill, and undertaking to make him settle with
the undertaken, had more method in it, but
| equal assurance, than even the scheme resoTted
to by the Irish student who, away at college,
from home, and DESTROYS to make ga raise''
| from his father, wrote him melancholy letter,
assuring him he was dead and about to be bu-
ried, and asking him to remit him fifteen pounds
sterling Immediately, to defray the funeral
charges! To follow her up after her reported
death and burial, would be at the present time
premature. Besides, we deem it
'Vain to tell, and sad to race,
! Each step from honor to disgrace"
Suffice it to say, that after an absence of some
time from the Western city she returned there
having in the meantime assumed somewhat
less Saxon name than that which, she obtained
on her bridal day. After remaining there som,
time, and adopting to some extent the cred
system, she returned to this city, unchanged ii
all except in name. Here had she long remain
ed without being identified by one other forme
acquaintance, excepting those who were al
ready in the secret of the mask. True it is
that some would, as she passed them, say-''I
not that Mrs. -? How like Mrs.
But it cannot be, for Mrs. - mast be dead
since we saw her obituary in the papers-an,
having seen it in the papers, it of course became
fixed fact" that it was so.
One of the lady-creditors in ST. Louis of thu
lady in question, having, to use a classca
phrase, "smeled rat,"-having understood
that if there was not something rotten in Den
mark, there was at least something wrong will
Mrs. --. She therefore hurried down her
with the view of getting her to close account
with her as soon as possible. Having presente
htlnSli W 4flls' SIG lOullu IIGT huOTJ U
available funds; but as she proved to be rathe
an memorable creditor, considerably Shylock
sh in her demands, Mrs. had no alter
native but to deposite with her, as collateru
security, some jewels and bijouterie, many
them loye-tokens, which her husband, still il
mourning for her death, had given her.
Mrs. - having rather regretted parting
with her jewels, had friend of hers to lodg
information against Miss -, at the polio
Office, in which she charged her with surrepti
tiously taking the trinkets. A warrant havin,
been issued, Mr.. - came forward as tn
friend of Miss -, to go her bail, she bein!
the friend Of the friends of his late ,oite in tn
aforesaid western city. In the police Office h
happened TO see the articles alleged to hav
been surreptitiously taken. He recognizes
them as once his; as afterwards his wfe's-hi
late wife's-as no thought. He remembers,
the hopes of happness-the anticipations O
enduring welded love-
''True source of human offspring and propriety''-
with which his mind was buoyed up when h
presented them to her. He knew all this, bu
he could not divine what the deuce brough
them there. He felt anxious to know-anxlet
begot enguiry-enquiry information; denouo
ment and full development of the strange ant
singular imposition followed, and so endeth ou
second chapter.
s'One sole desire, one passion remains,
To keep lite's fever still within his veins
VeRgeaDce!-dIre vengeance on the wretch who cas-
O'er him and al be loved The ruinous blast"
GEN. TAYLOR. Thu Washington Unior
says:-
Letters have been received in this atty, from
General Taylor, as late as the 18th inst. TIL,
number Of his troops was increasing, and HI
had received eight or ten boats, which wer
sufficient to transport his troops, provisions, ant
munitions up the Rio Grande. He is making
every arrangement to advace from Camargo t
Monterey