American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-03-30
From the New Orleans Delta.
THE RECOGNITION;

SAILOR o'ERTAKEN IN sQUALL OF
SORROW.
ruth is indeed strange-stranger than nc
Ea-and the reality of every day life is more
&gnant with Incl dents of startling interest
eventful import than the minds of poets or
pages of romance furnish forth; and crowd
populous cities, where vice and virtue JOS
beach other in the pathway-where wealth
poverty, voluptuous luxury, and gaunt
berry abide in the same street, without a
=owledge of one another's proximity, are the
Eeuent scene of their development. One of
Use actual events of life, SO strange in its ma
De as to excite our ncredibility, we yester-
" became acquainted with IN the Police
lice. In each of two of the prisoners rooms
bre was an individual; in the one female
1.-THE other male. The former might be
be twenty years of age; the latter was fully
Twenty-Five. He was dressed in the garb of a
Nor, with the brown of sun upon his brow
bore about her dress and person, the uner-
p traces of dissoluteness; he was wild in his
Tx, and incoherent in his manner-she OF
kless aspect, moody, sullen and silent. And
between them both there seemed the out
les of kindred blood and common lineage
ruck with their singular looks and yet not
Esimilar appearance, we made some inquiry
lching the cause of their confinement, and
Armed it to be one of painful interest. The
Jung sailor, some four years ago, left his poor
III peaceful home in the North An aged
Lher and mother, young and lovely sister
at budding into womanhood-
being, scarcely form'd or moulded;
rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded
d himself formed the happy family circle
The homestead was lowly, but up to that time
ce never entered there: limited were their
cans, but enough to supply their frugal de-
Fes--and the first tears which the young sail
/ ever saw his fond parents or fair sister
led were those that fell at his departure from
humble home to enter on the business OF
|e in the adventurous vocation of sailor
is cruise had been a long and arduons one
1t in all his dangers and vicissitudes, the
ympass of his filal and paternal affections al
avs pointed to his beloved homestead, and
7hen the danger of stranding seemed greatest
was always buoyed up with the CLEAN oil
.nshne (which he saw in the offing-the
bpe of being able, with the proceeds of his
[brilous voyage, to administer to some of the
ants of aged parents and some of the wishes
y young sister on his return.
Last evening sailor ashore, of rolling gait
ad rollicking manner, might be seen bearing
own one Of the back streets OF the First Mu
Ecipality. He was not halfseas-over, bu
feeling a little towards the Incorporate side
br the mere fact of putting foot on terra irma
Ibr the first time in eight months, was of itsel
|nough to make him "heady." ..#
| A short distance in advance, as he wen
Hong, he saw gaudily dressed but dissipatet
boxing female, who held out to all the flag o
(tnmoralty. A - shall serve for the con
ersation between her and the sailor. Suffice
v to say, that they adjourned to neighborine
frogshop; that then she discovered from wei
nown mark on the sailors forehead, she wa
lpeaking to her only brother; and, more bite
recognition, the painful fact revealed itself tt
Him, that he was in company with his once IN
Rocent and beloved sister, and that she was
I'm abandoned prostitute
\ They became mutually so startled, the on
with shame for even some shame was lett he
En brothers presence-the other with sorrow
for great as he found her misfortune, pity b
|nad still for her-that they, without remem
|bering where they were, made conslderaDl
noise. 1t attracted crowd, and the watch
imam, as the cause of it, took them to tn
watchhouse. Such is the pair whom we saw
Hin the different cels-such is true statemen
of their eventful meeting.
A touching tale might be told--for we hav
heard the history of her misfortune-of tn
change that came over the life of that sistel
/ Gill since the sailor left her, stainless as tn
snow flake on frozen fountain, till he mi
her in --- street covered with the lepros
Of guilt and dishonor. But
"'Twere vain to tell and sad to trace
Each step from virtue to disgrace
OLp Age. William Smallwood, colore
man, died recently at Emmittsburg, Md. age