The Trinity journal., 1856-12-27
Romantic Story.

/ InOutuo uSOi pg 'lV h!SVVl louo Nool'pV"i-
ance of young lady, who, it was afterwards
concluded, was dead She has since turned
up in a very unexpected manner, as the fol-
lowing letter in the Fayetteville North Car
Gilman, will show The writer says;
A year and half passed by. The &C.
currence of Miranda'S fate began TO be OBJ
/ liberated from the mind those friends who
mourned for her had laid aside their weeds,
and resigned her as lost forever.
| Let us now go back to the eventful night
of her disappearance, and learn the true fate
of our romantic heroine.
1t appears she became dissatisfied with
her condition, for some cause unnecessary to
detail, and left her boarding house while all
| beneath its roof were buried in slumber !:
and for fear of being seen by some one in the
village, took the path leading up the margin
of the pond, passing by the beach near its
head, and thence through the wood to the
main road. She found herself at daylight
some distance off, and determined in order
to conceal her identity, to dof the attire Of a
lcoman and assume that of the aerner ser
An opportunity soon offered, for seeing at Il
farmhouse near by, apair of pontaoonS and
some shirts hanging on the fence, she man
aged to secure them, and at once appropria-
ted them to her own use. In this disguise
she travelled on to Bentsville s. G., where
she procured work as Joy, and diligently
applied herself for several months without
exciting suspicion as to her sex. Her asso-
Citations were with the males of the village :,
and, though she frequently went with the
boys to the river to wash she could never be
induced to go in herself, always volunteering
to watch their clothes while they were bath
ing
Work becoming little scarce, John (for
that was her assumed name, left BcnnctS-
vile and went to Cheraw, where she labored
for two or three months, until she procured
funds enough to take her to Charleston. In
that city she was taken sick with fever, and
though under skillful medical treatment, she
managed to preserve her incognito.
John finally, like the moth to the candle
vcntured too near her old range, and was
discovered, first as one Of the operatives of a
factory in Fayetteville by some of those
who had known Miranda at Rockfsh. Find
ing herself suspected she left and hired her
self to an old bachelor, some miles from
town, doing faithful man service on the farm
and i'll the house, sleeping with the crusty
old fellow at night, without his suspectng
what kind Of bedIelow he had, until curl
oSlty brought her to town to hear the dis
cussion between Bragg and Glmcr, when
she was again met by some Of her old ac-
quaintances, and fully recognized as Miriam
da the lost maiden Of Rocktish village
Miranda has promised to assume the ap-
propriatc costume of her sex, though she
saws that the men have much more fun than
the women and that it will be hard for
her hereafter to set and listen to the ever
lasting gossip of the girls, since, she has min
gled with the men, attended the elections
and ,gathcrngs-bcc interested in
politics heard the candidates, and been
hugged and treated so we'll by them.
A CONTRIBUTOR TO the Stockton 1rgus fur
niShes some amusing sketches of Stockton in
early times from which we extract
OuR PuoT-Thcrc were few river pilots
in those dayS-steamboats, of course, none
AnXiouS to reach Stockton in the craft which
brought MS from the New York dock. and
our captain being ignorant Of the windngs
of the San Joaquin, we secured in San Fran
cisco the services of an individual, who, in
his own language, had bin thar, and know
ed heap about the river lie turned out,
however as the sequel will show, to have
been Missouri ox-driver who, being on
spree in San Francisco until his pile had
melted away, had the ingenuity to secure
his passage free by engaging in the above
capacity Missouri was intent on playing
his part through, for as we entered the mar
row channel of the river, seeing his time for
action had arrived, he placed himself near
the man at the wheel, when the captain sur
rendered to him the command, and went be-
low. He evidently now felt the weight of
responsibility resting uponh him. After stand
ing awhile on tip-toe looking over the bow,
he walked up to the man at the wheel, and
tapping him fumiliary on the shoulder, he
whispered, Say, Mister ] reckon you'd bet
ter come hal0 a hetle' Then, running to the
other side he quickly changed his notion -
Gee, cried Missouri, Gee, gee, gee Us
to 1s mere sotP Then turning to the man
at the wheel, with hands upward, in phren
Zy oil despair, he continued Ddrn y0nr ptc
tar, If youd oniy geed 'chen you first hearn
me hoiier, ned nerer struck nary time Shiv-
cr my mzen said Jack holding on TO the
wheel amazed, if our skipper amt shipped
a native California pilot, and he'd ought to
know don't speak word ofheir language.'
And sure enough, we were hard aground
our vessel never got any nearer Stockton
in the language of Missouri nary timer
THE Pacific RAILRoAD--Dr. Wozencraft
In his late lecture before the Mechanics In
stitute, says:
The southern route has a variation, or
DETECTION, Of some seven degrees, thus in
creasing the distance nearly four hundred
miles, aud the cost of construction some $685.
000, 600 or $50 1000 900.
The central route has climate and soil