Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-09-15
Loungers in the Park.
We have been puzzled says the New York Herald.


to account for the strange looking 'humans that
we can see any day in the City Hall Park from our
office window. No matter how hot the weather
may be, there are always greater or less number
olling under the shade of the trees sitting on the
chains that compass the grass plots if old Sol does
not shine too ecey they use the Hall steps for chair
bed and lounge. The men are nondescnpt race of
bipads with their heads apparently as full of phi
osophy at their clothes of hoes-fOr they Sit as
were, gravely discussing some knolty metaphysical
point with all the seriousness of those learned in the
logic of the schools. The women, (for the females
sometimes outnumber the male loungers,) still
more incomprehensble They are generally dressed
10 faded calico gowns, with short sleeves which re-
veal brawny, though usually we'll proportioned arms
One day, not long SINCE we cautiously approached
group of these male and female inerans, and while
knot discussing the Nebraska bill, the other,
a female quartette, with rosy dumpling of babe
in the arms of one of them, were on what sup
posed the all absorbing topic of love- A young
seemed to be telling story of heartfelt afec-
ton TO her three elderly sisters by her side
They listened with all the solictude which any per-
son be supposed 10 feel in another's interest
and when the conference broke up we saw tears
standing in the eyes of each. They had scarcely
departed, and hardly lost in the moving pano-
rama of heads which passed up and down Broad
way before we discovered letter lying upon the
ground near the place where they had been sitting.
We approached and took the document in hand but
what was our asonishment when we found it a COM
plaint of betrayed innocence instead of the out
gushing of love. AS we violate no ones confidence
and suppress all the attached to it we publish
it entire
DEAR Ri: | thought YOU would have kent
your promise before this. For three weeks in sue
cession [ have been at the Park fountain at & D. m
as you advertised in the Herald you would meet me
there but you have failed to keep your word. Little
did think when | left my fathers house at,
Dutchess county, that you would so soon forsake
and leave me in large unfriendly city, without any
means of support Could you look in the face of
your child and see his bright eyes, somuch like yours
when you swore you loved me, am sure your heart
would melt. God only knows how am 10 live In
going 10 the Park every day made the acquaintance
OF some females, who live, | will not say how, but
they have hearts, if the world denies the fact
for when they heard my story, tears filled their eyes,
and they took me to their humble lodgings and plo.
vided for my necessities. But | am so weak fear
shall not hold out much longer Already that fear
tul scourge, the cholera, has taken five out of the
house in which lodge; and as watch the face of
my darling babe expect every day to see the des-
tFoyer Tx his grasp upon his little features OH
hands of fahless man Alas that l was so fool
lsh, so wicked But here am. To 20 home would
be worse than DEATH for ii would be disgrace, and
disgrace which my sex, fra as it is, will never
forgive Here shall soon die; for rather than STEAL
or sell myself tor lucre, will bury myself in the
dark waves which roll around this mighty city
Dear little Willie cannot survive. | would not have
him. Let him die before the stain of sin contami-
mates his fair brow, and before he learns the bitter
truth that his father is villain Oh will YOU not
come back :! Days like months, hours like
weeks; and minutes the agony of day sometimes
appears to be concentrated into one shall wait
few days longer, when, ii do not hear from you
you Will never see me more. trust to leave this
letter in some place where you may get it after am
gone. Remember that upon your guilty head rests
the death of two human beings who, with your pro-
lection might have been happy; but without it-my
pen refuses to write the future. Farewell forever
RACHEL
Such letter tells tale of woe that no comment
can render more forcible.