Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-03
A Fcmnle Adrenturcr.


stood upon her grave.
Female Adventures.
Some four weeks ago there arrived in this
city, and engaged apartments at Barnums
Hotel, a young and unprotected female, who
called herself Elizabeth Bushnell, arrayed in
the peculiar costume of the Shaker communi
ty, of New Lebanon, New York. It was
enough to engage the sympathes of the ex-
celent host, Mr.. Mclaughlin, that an unpro-
tected female was in his house, and appealing
to him for direction i'll a trying emergency
She had recently escaped from the community
above named; had eyaded designs upon a
large property to which, in a short time, at
her majority, she was to come into possession.
She had an uncle in the community who
would spare no efforts to discover her where
abouts, but she had also lover in Shaker
dom, who would himself, in short time,
elude the vigilance of his brother celibates,
escape the bondage of his tribe and HE upon
the wings OF love to her and matrimonial de-
lights
Till then the hopeful maiden resolved to
wear her Shaker dress. Upon her arrival, she
confded to the host a package of money,
which she desired to be safely Kept until her
departure. In the meantime, she had pro-
vided herself with number of dresses, of the
choicest material and style; she has been
quite fayorite with the ladies of the house,
and in the enjoyment of their confidence,
freely given to one so peculiarly situated has
had familiar access to their apartments. In
the name Of one lady she purchased gold
chain and presented it to the housekeeper as
an appendage to gold watch which the
housekeeper already possessed.
For four weeks the Shaker lady has been
feature at Barnum's has distributed her ia
a FREQ ~ in fbo
| ronized the best establishments and of course
| vindicated her gentility by invariably taking
the air in McClintock & Eaton's handsomest
coaches. The most interesting feature of the
| whole affair, however, was reserved for last
! Saturday, on which day the fugitive swain
from New Lebanon was to arrive, the queer
toggery OF Shakerdom was to be put off for
ever, the bridal robes were to be put on, and
the happy pair, the nuptial benediction said,
were to be inaugurated into the fullness of
those joys so cruelty interdicted by the an
| choritical community from which they had
| escaped The eve Of the important day had
come; the weather was intensely hot, and the
lady quietly left the house for stroll She
never came back. The denouement is with
the reader.
Perhaps it may aid conjecture to say, that
the Shaker swain has not arrived, and the
bridal feast, to which all the guests of the
house were invited, has proved the vanity of
all sublunary hopes. The package of money,
securely deposited in the private safe, has been
opened, and that also has seriously impaired
the faith of the excellent host in external
evidences of things not seen. One of the I'M
kindest cuts consists in the fact that before she
lett she borrowed the housekeeper's watch.
and that gold chain she had presented to her,
in the name and at the expense of a lady in
bO1gn 70 II,
chain in the precipitancy of her retreat.-BaS-
timore Sun, July 10Th.
The PRETENDED SHAKEREss. = Elizabeth
Bushnell, the supposed Shakeress swindler.
who acquired so much notoriety at Barnum's
HOTEL III Baltimore, and hailing from New
Lebanon, was arrested at the Meichants' Ho-
tel, in CORTLAND street, N. Y, Friday, and
committed to the rombs; to await requisi-
ton for her return to Maryland. m n
After her arrest, parties whom she had de-
trauded III Baltimore signifed, by telegraph,
their unwIlllngness to appear against her, and
she was discharged from confinement.
I w 7ftiA 7t|
Col. FREMoNT's STATEMENT OF THE /" IN
suit TO Mr.. BoRLAND.-Col. Fremont was
present at the time when Mr.. Borland was
''lnsulted' at Greytown, and has given an ac-
count OF the affair to the correspondent of the
N. Y. Times. Col. Fremont says that great
prejudice against the Americans existed at
Greytown, at the time, and that no pains were
taken to conceali it, OF the homicide commit
tedIby Capt. Smith, Col. Fremont saws: m
Notwithstanding published statements di-
reetly the reverse, this homicide was consider
ed by the Americans, almost without excep-
ton, deliberate, cold blooded murder. with
out a shadow of palliation" Set
The warrant for the arrest was issued by
the Mayor Of Greytown, and the officer who
attempted to serve it was resisted bythe pas
sengers under the lead of Mr.. Borland, not be-
cause they did not believe that Captain Smith
was guilty, but because they would not recoa-
nize the authorities of the town. As for the
Captain, Col Fremont says: ~
1T would have been very easy matter to
have had him hung on brief notice by sCom-
mittee of Vigilance had either of the ac-
knowledge leaders proposed it. But Mr.. Bor-
land, in a speech he made to the crowd, as
well as in private conversation, told them he
was instructed not in any way to recognize
the authority of Greytown deriving its au-
thority from the Mosquito King,) as separate
and distinct from Nicaragua" a
1t follows, of course, that if our govern
ment recognized the sovereignty of Nicaragua
over Greytown, and regarded the ''insult' to
Mr.. Borland as the act of lawless and usurp-
ed authority, the proper way was to apply first
to the government of Nicaragua for redress.
Suppose the Spanish government had sent a
fleet against New Orleans when the Spanish
Consul was mobbed in that city. The case
would have been parallel one.
The TINE OF DAY.-Two Irishmen vera
in prison, one for stealing COW and the other
for stealing watch. Nike said the cow
stealer one day, what o clock is itp
.Och, Pat, haven't my watch handy, but
think it's about milking time
FRAUDULENT RAILROAD pIcKhrs have been
detected in Boston, They were for throagE
tickets on the New York Central Railroad, n
and We're discovered BY an officer of that cor