The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-12-18

en- back from l 200, to 800 miles, we found
more favorable weather. | mention this to
show you how utterly it was out of my power
to help or relieve the poor suffering child
The effect Of the Storm was only injurious:
aud to make the sad tale short, this dear
Charge, whom was anxious to restore to
liIeEaS who could bring her up properly-to
her father to watch over hcr--dicd in mid
ocean, many hundred miles from any land
ana there was no alternative, no hope, but to
conform TO the cuStom-the ncccsSity-and
much as it pains me TO state it, the sea be-
came her tomb.
This occurred on the 10Th of July, 1865
The uncertainty the time required for pas
sage of trading vessels such as this one on
which | write, will, fear, cause much delay
before this reaches you.
| might stop here YOU may say that
have tortured you enough hut am not lost
TO all sense of propricty, feeling or daty, not.
outstanding all my sins against you, to say
nothing of the violation Of the most sacred
ties of life. God knows that feel it deeply
and awluly. have debated long and any
iously i'll my own mind whether [ ought to
| reopen wound in your heart which can
never lISal; but feeling. as do severely. that
suspense is the cruclest IF all conditions. that
certain evil, even fatality, is better than hone
less uncertainty, and that this sad avowal is
all can do-all the reparation can make
| have been induced for these reasons to write
IL Is better that you know it than remain for
lite in certain suspense. An intelligent Eng
llsh sailor, to whom have shown some kind
ness Ill the iar-o!f and almost savage land in
which have resided for tie last year. has
promised TO convey this letter to some Euro
pean seaport and mail it there. He has also
undertaken to yet the two deaths adver-
Used III some English or American new spapcr,
SO that IN case this letter never reaches YOU,
her trends may not always remain ignorant
of her fac.
| now think best to address this to the
most probable person can think of to know
your present place Of abode | mean YOUR
| father, where he, or some OF your brothers in
W sconSin, will be most likely to find it, as
shall enclose to him, with an urgent request
that ne viii send it to you, wherever you may
be. BIT must ever remain in uncertainty
as to whether it ever reaches you. or ind, ell h,
whether you are in the land Of the living. -
rs to my own family and former friends,
hive no wish to recall myself to their memory
And TO poor Cs outraged parents do net
| dare address myself.
- 'hlo iliectS tul eyes, lct me beg OF You to
believe that, however much have outraged
your feelings and Lighted your life, ever
had the strongest regard lor your high moIa al
worth, ana your integrity and goodness of
heart and the bitlcrrst reflection have ever
been made to fee! so far, has been the an
SnSh aud regret of having foiftitcd your for
lner good opinion forever; and now the rum
| have brought upon all, and the fate that has
fallen to me by the decree Of just Proy
dcnce, comes heavier and more dreadful to my
prospect Of the future.
Painful as all this, and how eve, disastrous
to me. | cannot feel at rest until have done
| what little remains in my power, and this
packet leaves my hands. | shall have dis
charged the last sad and mechanically duty
now suffer only from feelings of remorse and
olSh'ed hope i'll the fate that ii is hcncelorth
my lot to endure. Bat will add no more :
and all can or could say, NAV only disgust
you the more toward me.
For obvious reasons it is not, and cannot be-
my purpose to speak of any details or paric-
| nals as to the past or to tie luturc. or indeed
OF myself, in any way. trust you may never
hear lroIn me aeain,a hd only wish TO bore your
future life may ail1ld you, even yet. less of
anguish than The past few years. If my life
depends upon my present health, or my now
limited means, my memory must he blotled
out very soon. But yet l remain hnlnbly,
your unworthy, HARLOW CASE.