Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-15
miscellaneous.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE :


Such wa, the simple announcement in The tn.
Ntre yesterday, Of girl lost. "A good-lookirg,
"rather tall girl, seventeen years Of age, dark
" complexion and dark hair, was lost" "She was
wei-dressed, and started 70 60 from her fathers
house IN Spring-st, near Broadway, to her broth
ere, IN tue same street And she was lost
Some stranger who reads that simple announce
mcnt, one who has spent a night at one of the
three great hotels on the corners Of Sprngst. and
broadway, may wonder that girl should be lost
In such respectable neighborhood. lie does not
know that the guests Of the biggest Of the three
hotds look down upon one side upon ono Of the
worst gambng hclls and one Of the police permit
'ed gambling lottery Offices in the City and on the
other side upon still worse premises; houses
which tho vocabulary Of Infamous language has no
words sufficiently black enough to describe; hous-
es which are ever open for innocent Young girls
TO enter, from which innocent young girls never
return. They are "losi" This Is not tho first
girl lost in New-York These are hot the first
parents who have been deeply afflicted who have
appealed in vain through tie press for any inior-
nation Of "a girl lost"
We have Little incident to relate of girl lost.
A few years ago No. O0p Church-st. was accounted
the "luekiest house in the street" There are n
great many unlucky ones in that street now, and
that particular one Is estimated the most unlucky
OF all of them. II should bc SO. 1t was in that
house about three years ago that a girl was lost.
Eor the sake Of her parents brothers and sisters,
and large family Of relatives VIC will not give her
true namo We will cell her Julia Montgomery.
She was just such girl rs tlc one described m|
the Item Of yesterday. She was tall and hand
some, Just seventeen with dark hair and ewes and
well dressed. She lived in one Of the river towns
and came down upon one OF the barges that float
down such multitude of things produced BY far
mers, in company with her father and mother, who
brought some Of their own produce To- MARKET
On the same boat were two young mon who had
been up the river, they said on n sporting cxcur
sion. This was true. But they might have added
What is sport to us is death to you" They were
gamblers On the passage they made the ac-
quaintance Of Julia, and by their bland manners
completely won the confidence of the old folks.
when they arrived, they were very anxious that
julia should 60 home with them and see their sis
ters. They were not so anxious that her mother
should 60, but they insisted very hard that she
should because they knew she would not she
bad her butter and eggs and chickens 10 sell, and
lots Of shopping 10 do, SO Julia went alone She
came back to the boat towards night to tell her
mother what rice girls the Miss Camptowns were
and that they wanted she should go with them TO
tho theatre, and thcn as il would be late stay all
night. The mother consented Jas Mr.. Camptown
was such fine young man. After the play they
had an oyster supper and wine and Julia became
very much eated. Then they went home, 10 MIR.
Camptown's home, which other than that
notorious Cburch-st. den, and the sisters" the
most notorious sinners in il. OF course more wine
was drank, and Julia became obvous Of what
morning to find hersolf-"a girl lost" Almost
dcrious, she flew from the wicked scoundrel at
her side to the street door, to find it barred against
her. In vain she begged and prayed, and cried to
be let out. The soul ncarcerated in the Internal
regions might as well pray for egress. She finds
IN both cases only scofhng at the victims agony.
Then she grow wildly furious and they tied her
bands and feet and carried her down into the coal
cellar Ito let her get over her ft," "and keep her
"out Of sight till the old woman was out Of the
way" For three days, Camptown watched her
father and mother, and then they gave up and went
home with heavy hearts, for "a girl was lost
q Yes, she was "lost." Then Camptown went back
% enjoy his Country beauty" She was lost to
.hiai also. In some Of the pullings down and dig
gngs up in that street, all that remains to earth
will make another "Item" to daily paper. It will
be headed "humap bones found"
The inmates Of that house soon left II was no
longer lucky house. The ghos; of that murdered
girl walked through every ROOM One in particu-
lar II never allowed any one to occupy. II is said
that that ghost still haunts that house. 1t is still
nm uplucky house. The old haridan who kept it,
well known in that street when that girl was lost
went of to New-Orlcans, lost all her property and
then was lost herself Camptown still lives We
vnw him few days ago in the very street where
that girl was lost noticed in the Item of yester-
day. Has he any connection with her loss? Read
or, there is a girl lost. Ask where and why? Rum
and gambling can er.-TribuRe.