Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-26

ROMANTIC STORY ANOTHER FEMALE IN
MALE APPAREL.-Considorsbl excitement
was created at Rockfsh village, North Caro-
lima, about eighteen months ago, by the mys-
terious disappearance Of a young lady, Who IL
was afterwards concluded was dead. She has
since turned up in a very unexpected manner,
as the following letter in the Fayetteville
North Carolinian will show The writer says:
year and a half passed by. The occur
renee of Marinda' Is fate began to be obliterated
from the mind; those friends who mourned
Tor her had laid aside their weeds and had re
signed her as lost forever.
Let US now 60 back to the eventful night Of
her disappearance, sad learn the true fate Of
our romantic heroiue.
IL appesrs she became dissatisfied with her
condition, for some csuse unnecessary 20 de-
tail, and left her boarding house while all be-
meath its roof were buried in profound slun-
her; and for fear Of being seen by some one
IN the village, she took the path leading up
the margin cf the pond, passing by the beach
near its head, aud thence through the woods
to the main road. She found herself at day
light some distance of, and determined, in
order to conceal her identity, 70 Gof The attire
ot q Ic0mae, and assume that Of the stsrav
ser. An opportunity soon offered, for seeing
at farm house near by, pair OF pantsloons
and some shirts hanging on the fence, she
nanged 10 secure them, and at once apprO-
pTiated them TO her own use. In this disguiss
she travelled on 10 Beanetsville, s. c., where
she procured work as a boy, and diligently
applied herself for several months without
exciting the least suspicion as to her sex. Her
associates were with the males Of the village,
and though she frequently went with the boys
TO the river TO wash, she never could be In
duced 10 90 in herself, always volunteering 10
watch the clothes while they were bathing
Work becoming little scarce, John, (for
that was her assumed nameJ left Bennetsville
and went to Cheraw, where she lsbored for
two or three months, until she procured funds
enough To take her to Charleston. Iu that
city she was taken sick with fever, and though
under skilful medical attendance, she managed
to preserve her iNcogntto.
John finally, like the moth 10 the candle,
ventured too near her cid range, and was dis
covered, FIRST, as one Of the operatives Of fac
tory in Fayetteville, by some Of those who
had known Miranda at Rockfsh. Finding
herself suspected, she left, and hired herself
10 an old bachelor some miles from town, do.
ing faithful man service on the farm and
about the house, sleeping with the crusty old
fellow at night without his suspectins what
kind Of a bed-fellow be had, until curiosity
brought her to town TO hear the discussion be
tween Bragg and Gilmer, when she was again
met by some Of her old sequsintanoes, and
fully recognized as Marinda, the lost "a alden
Of Rock1sh village.
Marinda has promised to assume the appro.
PIRATE costume of her sex, though she says
that the men have much more fun than the
woman; that it will be hard for her hereafter
10 sit and listen TO the everlasting gossip oe
the girls, since she has mingled with the men,
attended the elections and tsx-gstherings-
be,ome interested in politics-hesrd the can
didates, and been hugged AID treated 50
well by them.