Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-02
1nlp QldOa American
A iMysterious ase--DisappeaTance OF a

The New York papers contain the account OF the /
disappearance Of a Lady Of that city, IN most M
terious and remarkable msnner. IL Is one Of thoee
curious incidents which oooasionely occur IN lafse
cities. and by comparison make nctlon tame. II oo-
eurred hpre about month since, and as yet the
s,rie,est scrutiny and fhe most snEious search
oited bv The hope Of reward the enc hand, aud
impeIled 90 the other by the waTmest family sheo>
lion have been unable lay hold upon the slightest
clue 10 It's solution The case has been referred TO-,
in one or Of the daily morning journals but with
9 want Of careful detail and an absence Of names,
which fell 20 attract to t that attention which might
possibly lead 10 some discovery, a hope for which
alone can render 20 those concerned, publication
Of the facts at all desirable. This omission, will be
supplied in the hope that through such means the
cause Of public safety may be served, and some aid
be rendered TO 9 bereaved family, who mourn now
for one lost as without hope
Many Of our readers viii probably remember Col
Crane Of the United States Army who, two or three
years since was in commend Of the garrison at Old
Point Comfort in Virginia where his health under
mined by previous severe service in Mexico and
elsewhere, gave way and compelled him TO seek re-
tirement and rest He went to the Moth, TO reside
with son at Staten leland, where be soon after,
about two years since, died. With this son ne lett
q widow and daughter, the latter the wife Of Capt
Brennan, Of the United States Army, now Stationed
81 Key West. Mrs Brennan has one young child,
who resided with her at her brothers, al Staten
Island
daughter, Mrs Brennan, went to New York and
when they parted 20 20 upon their several errands
or visits, il was understood that they would meet
again on the boat at O'Clock. The mOtherand son
we're puncual to that appointment, but the daughter
was net. The two former returned to the island,
not doubling Of course that the third Mrs brennan,
was accidentally left behind necessarily delayed
by some engagement, AMI that she would take the
next boat 81 o'clock, but that boat arrived al the
island without her. nor did she appear to her now
wstchful friends when the last boat by which she
could reach home that day arrived a. o'clock.
So unaccountable an absence naturally created
anxiety and that anxiety grew INTO ALARM and
then into despair when they learned the next day,
that she actually left house Of friend, the after
noon before, 60 to the o'clock boat, but that she
was afterWsrd seen in Broadway, apparently on her
way TO the boat Of 81 o'clock, since which time, the
most diIigent search by her friends and the police
has completely failed to discover even the slightest
trace of her.
Il is useless to suggest any Of the many causes
which may have induced her 10 disappear, or com
PEELED her disappearance so utterly, and without
leaving sign behind her; on this point, the imagi
nation may be lett uBaided But this only should
be ssid-thst there is nothing. we are assured, in
the relation Of Mrs. Brennan % her family OF her
friends nothing in her worldly circumstance, moth
ing her character, hing in her state of mind or
state of health that admits for 6 monent the pos
Bibility Of secret departure prolonged absence
10 be voluntary acis on her part. She was happy
in retired ard pleasant home, where an aged
mother and young child required her constant aud
afeciOnate care, and the unvsrying oheerfulness
and untiring devotion which she gave these daily
duries, forbid he superstition that she could have
consciously and deliberately abandoned them. We
are left, then TO the widest mcclure as 70 what
can we happened to lady unassuning, mode t,
in the sad aad sober garb Of mourning weeds but
not uDatiractive, and in the prime Of Womanhood,
public a thOroUghfsre Broadway, in The
broad daylight Of Summer afternoon. We doubt
il the police Of London Paris would have let such
question be unsolved for thirty days.