The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-12-15
LOCAL MATTERS.

Mn. HALE AND MISS MifcaHLL.-We have 70.
ceived several letters from Fayetteville, North
Carolina, the headquarters Of the mysterious
relations Of Mr.. Hale the Biologist and Miss
Mitchell, and the vicinity of that venerable
gentiewoman, Mrs. Brock, mot Blosh) the mo-
Their of Miss NJ. The writers of these letters
seem to understand fully the nature of the Hale
and Mitchell mysteries. They give some lively
hints touching Mrs. Brock who placed her daugh-
ter under the care of the Distinguished Prefessor
Hale q she departed for Philadelphia, there to I'm
nish her education. We could obtain sumo highly
interesting particulars from the aforesaid vicinage
of Mrs. Brock to elucidate the journey of the Pro
fessor;aud his youthful charge, so untamey ended;
but the truth is, the parties not of sufficient i'm.
portance to make it worth the time sod space it
would require.
When the poor girl, SO simple and young, and SO
poorly clad, was left at boarding house in this
city, she became the object of humane sympathy;
and deeming her an injured and abandoned female,
the Reporter for the Dispatch stated very briefly
her case and her own story, with the hope that it
might be the means of bringing either her friends
or relatives to her rescue. That story involved
Professor Hale and that gentleman posted off from
his Lectures in Charlottesville to indicate his re-
putation. His v;udicaton was, in the estimation
of the Reporter, no viniication at all, and he re
fused TO make an article acknowledging Professor
Hale to be indicated, aa that gentleman desired
him to do. The Professor then published his own
defence-if that which was no defence can b be
called. In this he attacked the Reporter who then
sat forth his for his conclusion, that the
mystery had not been cleared up, and that PROBES
sor Hale was just as deeply inculpated as before
his publication appeared. As it has turned out,
however, the parties concerned in the adair-the
Professor and Miss Mitchell and her mother and
uncle-are such as to rob the circumstances OF
nearly all Interestingly become not at all impoI-
tant, and regret that we have been in some sort
compelled to devote as much space as has been 81
ven to them.
The story that Hale could have become the OBJ
ject of a conspiracy of the Brooks to palm CT on
him an illiterate, simple girl, without change OF
clothing or baggage. upon preteace Of her going to
Philadelphia to school-that he could have brought
her as far as this city cithout DISCOVERING the trick
if such it had been-the story about the brother
that as to have met such a girl in Petersburg, or
here, any where, TO go aith her to Philadelphia
the miserable explanation of the manner MISS
Mitchell got possession of Hale's trunk-the con-
duct OF Hale in introducing into private boarding
house such girl, SO poorly provided, to wait for
brother, whom he had not seen, and knew net
where he was all, all with the X mark OF Mrs.
Brock besides was enough to excite IN any Impair
tial mind not only utter disbelief but contempt fol
Hale himself. 1t was contempt for the man and
his subterfuges that induced ntleman-who fell
the more that the girl had been introduced where
his family boardeo-to express himself to Hale in
terms of severity not fit for ears polite and to con-
upon him superadded indignity. Hale denies
this extreme comment on his conduct; but We
have positive information that it was administered
from gentleman of this city, whose name is a,
the command of the Professor.
But we repeat--the mystery becomes urimror
tant when We consider the chara cters involved
and unless something new turns up that may de
serve notice concerning it, we shall not recur te
the sub ject again.