The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-04-17
~ Rsosn the Milwaukee, Daily wisconsin
sAn ilIsrORY or A YOUNG rEMALA

ward after the frat etep 10 taken, and how
mo,c;,a.slv ,etr;hntion follows after wrong
do;nr snd crime. ;.l5
Tke voman n question was, few years
.;rce . vouno iady in the seminary Of Pro-
fssso, Cy;ttenden. of BROOKLYN, N. Y. She
~ then 4 proleoe of Henry Ward Beecher,
lived v;th h;s family. and was being edu-
Gated nv him. of course. she was placed
under tie most fayo orabls circumstances, and
had her eyery want, that was reasonable,
ersti6ed. She was surrounded by the very
best Of associations. and had been adopted
by Mr.. Beecher. because Of her natural
brightness of disposition and intellect. In
tho school, though she was regarded as an
eccentric and wayward being, yet she Was
admired byan Of her companions for her
superior quality Of mind. s5s@
No young lady in Prof. Crittendsn's school
Zone Of the best in the East,) could write so
brilliant and beautiful composition as she,
and all had to yield to her in intellectual
inferiority. We have this from one who
vas schoolmste OF hers, that al her COM
positions were gems Of thought and language,
and she promised to become prominent - 9
female writer. Now comes the tirst circum-
stances that poisoned her happy heart. II
is the old story OF love. She became . pas
sionate admirer OF one who reclprocafed bel
affections, but who was forbidden TO tender
his hand IN marriage. lie was already mar.
ried to another This hrst dlsappointnen,
occasloned violent BRAIN iever, wnicn
completely prostrated her, and IN the course
of her recovery she was advised to resort to
stimulants, BY which she acquired taste for
what has since plunged her into the depths
of degradation. III, "a. 5.ss -.
Afterwards she went to Boston, and be-
came teacher in the House OF Refuge. II
was an advantageous station for lady Of
education and character, and she Is SAID to
have filed it, at first, with great promise 81
usefulness. Soon, however, she yielded to
the appetite which she had planted within
herself, when recovering from her previous
illness, and she was picked up in the streets
of Boston one night in a state OF intoxica-
ton. Facilis descensus Aresni. Efforts
were made to efectually redeem her, but il
is almost impossible to reclaim woman
once disgraced. She soon married, and al
we have been informed, married against the
wishes of those who had been her former
friends and protectors. From this time she
sinks rapidly. and whether by means of m
ayenpipe Deity, or from the natural laws Of
cause and effect, others may decide fol
themselves. ..... - ....-....
Three or four years elapse, and she came
with her husband to Chicago last year. He
found employment there, but in the great
fire of last Fall his situation was lost to him.
Pretty much all Winter long he remained
destitute Of work. pawning away his house
hold goods and clothing meanwhile, and,
when Spring came, they determined to come
to Milwaukee. They had one child, and on
their way here, that was taken away from
them, at Kenosha. Their poverty had now
become lamentable, indeed, but, undoubt-
edlv, their situation might have been much
better, but for the accursed article of rum,
to which tbey had both become addicted
Having buried their child at Kenosha, they
came on here, and hired miserable room
in the Third Ward of this city. A few days
passed and the wretched woman whose ca.
reer we have been sketchinp. was forced to
90 out and beg from door to door. In the
course of her aims seeking she CHANGED upon
one who bad been her schoolmate in Brook.
lyn, and npnn another who had known her
in Boston. Fearing the worst, but still ig-
norant of what wretched creature she had
become, they went to her room where she
and her husband were almost freezing and
starving. She confessed to them that she
had nothing to eat for three long days, and
on their ricketty old bed, there was but a
single sheet to protect them from the cold.