The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-04-06
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sad Histosy sfa Young Female.
We have some painfm facts 70 nasrate =.
hout woman, who was recently found in
this CITY in most wretchod and degraded
condition. A simple sketch Of her autece
dents will show how rapid b ones going
downward, after the frat step 10 taken, and
doing and crime.
The Young women in question was, few
wears since. q young lady in the seminary Of
Professor Crittenten, in Brooklyn n. 4. She
vas once the protcge Of Henry Ward Beech
er. lived with his family. and was being ed.
ucated nv him. OF course she was placed
un,lsr the most favorable circumstances, and |
had her every want that was reasonable |
Rrati6ed. 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
the school though she was regarded as an
eccentric and Maynard being, yet she was
admired BY all other companions for her gu
perior quality Of mind
No young lady in Prof Crittenten's school
Zone OF the best in the East could write 90
brilliant and beautiful a composition as she
and all had to Weld to her::in intellectual abil-
fcriority. We have this from one who was
. schoolmate Of hers, that all her compost
tions were gems Of thought and language,
and promised to 1ecome prominent ~ . fs-
male writer. Now comes the frs. circum
stance that poisoned her happy heart 1t is
the old story of love. She became passion
ate admiref Of one who reciprocated her af-
fections, but who was forbidden to tender
his hand in marriage He was already mar.
ried to another This FIRST disappointment
occasioned violent brain fever, which com.
p.ctely Frustrated 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.
Afterwards she went to Boston, and be.
came teacher in House Of Refuge 1t
was an advantageous station for lady OF
education and character, and she is said to
have filled it, at FIRST with great promise Of
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 q state Of intoxica-
ton Faciis descensus Areyni Efforts
were made to efectually redeem her, but it
is almost impossible to reclaim woman
once disgraced. She soon married, and as 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 an
avcnging Deity, or from the natural laws OF
cause and effect, others may decide for them
selves.
Three or four years elapse, and she came
a. L.,n H. lac Az
found employment there, but in the great
Ere Of last fall his situation was lost to him.
Pretty much all winter long De 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 undoubted
~ their situation might have been much bet
ter, but for the aceursed article of rum, to
which they had both now become addicted
Having buried their child ut Kenosha, they
came on here, and hired miserable room
in the Sd Ward Of this city. A few DAYS
passed and the wretched woman whose ca
reer we have been sketching was forced t.
go out and beg from door to door. In the
course of her aims seeking she CHANGED upor
one who had been her schOolmate in Brook
lyn, aud upon another who had known hel
in Boston. Fearing the worst, but still ~
norant Of what wretched creature she hac
become, they went TO her room where sh
and her husband were almost freezing an,
starving She confessed to them that sh
had had nothing Ia eat for three long days
and on their rickety old bed there was bu
a single sheet to protect them from the cold
There was a single char, with but three leg
to it. in the room, and scarcely any other al
tces OF furniture numbered up the room
These friends, at once began to exert them
selves in her behalf rot others interested t
aid her and her husband, gave them cothe
and food, promised them both plenty o
work, and it seemed now that her destin,
\ was taking a favorable turn. The woman
wept ove- her poverty, manifested touchin:
tokens of termination, but here too tn
FIRE was only being smothered a few days
to break out again the first favorable oppor
tunitv The money that was given her t
buy food and clothing with, was spent il
the rum hole, and when she was next visi
ted she was found all demented by intoxica
ton from that time she turned her bacl
upon all friendly offers of assistance, aban-
d.ned her first quarters, was afterward:
found by the authorities in low houses o
prostitution, and has now again prebabl,
left the city in company with her hush and
She has almost reached the lowest round o
misery, and this once gifted young lady al
adopted child of Henry Ward Beecher viii
soon find that peace in death, which she ha
been unable to find in the cup and in tn
corruption Of licentiousness.