New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-01
SAD HISTORY or A YOUNG LADY.
ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF II. W. BEECHER


F,o.. The MI,gagkec H'isco1sic.
We have some painful facts 10 narrate about
woman who recently found ia thiS CITY III most
DEGRADED and Wietched condition. simple sketch of
her antcceden. will show how rapid is ones going
downward after the frst step is taken aud how meci"
essy retribuon follows sher wrong doing aud CRIME.
The woman a question lew years since
yorg lady in The Cmiuary of Professor Cnttenden, IN
Brooklyn, y. \. She then p,0ttgt of Henry
Ward Beecher, lived with his family, aud was being
educated by him Of course, she was placed under the
most favorable circumstances, aud had her every
want that reasonable grati1ed. She was sur
rounded by the very best Of associations, and had
he en- adopted by Mr. Beecher because OF her natural
brightness of disposition and intellect In the school,
though che regarded as an eccentric ard wayward
being, vet she was admired by all OF her companions
for her superior quality Of mind.
No young lady in Prof. Crtepdens school lone of
The beet in the East could write 50 brilliant an beau
10 intellectual superiority. We have this ffon one
who was schoolmate of hers, that all Ter com posi-
,ions were gems of thought and language, and she
promised TO become prominent as female winter.
Now comes the first circumstance that poisoned hey
happy heat.
She became a passionate admrer If one who recip
rocacd her affections but forbidden to tender his
hand 10 marriage. He already married to another
This fr,t disappointment OCcosi0ned violent BRAN
fever which completely prostiated her, and in the
course ,f her recovery was obliged TO resort TO
stimulans, by which she acquired taste Tor what
has since plunged her into = depths 0i degradation
Aterward she ,ht TO Boston, aud became teacher
in House of Refuge. IL was an Advantageous ste
on lady of education ard character, ami she Is
said to have filled at first with geat promise oi use
funess. Soon, however, she yielded 20 the appetite
which she ad planted within herself when covering
from her previous Illness, and she was picked upn the
streets OF Boston one night in state of inoXloatIon
! F0c,hs drsccRjuS AreTH'. Ehots were made 10 re-
deem her, but it was almost impo -sibe to reclaim
| woman once dis9faced She soon married, ani ss we
| lave been informed, married against the wishes of
those who had been her former friends aud protectors
| From this time she sinks rapidly, and whether by
meous of aNenging Deity, or from the natural laws
Of cause and effect, others msy decide for Themselves
Three four years elapse, and she came with her
| husband to ChiCSgO last year lie found employment
there but in the great fire last Fol- his situation WAS
lost 10 him. Pretty much sill Winter long he remained
de.titute Of woik, pawnirg away bis household goods
| and clothing meanwhile, and when Spring came they
| dctern iued 10 come to Milwaukee. They had one
| child and on their way here that was taken away
| from them az kenCshs. Their poverty had now BE-
core smeut6ble indeed, hut undoubtedly their sus.
ton might have bee much better but Tor tie ac cursed
| article of rum to which they had both now become
| addicted Having buIiec their child Il. kenoeha trey
came ON here and hired miserable room IN the lhird
| Ward of this city. few days passed and the
| wretched woman whose career we have been sketch
ing, forced TO 60 out and beg from door To coor
| In the Of her ams-seeklne che CHANGED upon
one who bad been her schoclmate in Brooklyn, sni
upon another who had known her in Boston. Fearln,
tie won't, but still ignorant of what wreche1 cres-
ture she had become, they went to her room where
she and her husband were almost freezing and stary
irg She confessed to them that she had had nothing
TO eat for three long days and their ckety old bed
thee was but single sheet to protect them from the
cold There was single chair with but three legs to
it in tie Ioon sod scarcely any other srtc les of idu
TUE cumbeied up The room.
These friends 1T orce began 10 exert themseves in
her behalf got Others interested to aid her and her
| husband, gave clothes and flod promised them both
plenty Of work. and 1t seemed now that her d.stin
was taking favorable turn. The woman wept oy er
her poverty, manifested touching tokens of reanima
tion but here too ths fire was only being snothersd
few days, TO break out again the first favorable
| opportunity. The money that wa given her to buy
bread was spent al the rum hole and when sho wa
| rext ' ised she was found s.l dementsd By ntoxc.
| ton From that time she turacd her back upol a,
friendly offers of assst6Dce abandoned her frst quar-
| tera was aterwaTd found by the authorities in low
hoGs,s Of prostitute D. and has now again prcb ably of
de city in company with her husband. She ha
orre cited Young lady rn adopted daughter OF Hen r,
| WaId I,escher WI! soon fad tast peace n deau
which she rad been Gnab'c TO 6ai 70 'oec a'i
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