The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-08
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we nave some pdinlul luCtS W udTIdtV huOuI
a woman who was recently found IN is city
in a must degraded aud wretChed condition. A
simple sketch of her ant.cedents viii show how
rapid i ones going downward after the first
step is taken, and how mprclesSly retrbutIon
follows after wrong dong and crime.
The woman In question was, few years sin Ce,
young lady in the seminary OF Professor Crt-
tenden, in Brooklyn, New York. She was then
protege of Henry Ward Beecher. lived with his
family, and was being educated by him. Vi
course she was placed under the most favorable
circumstances and had her every want that was
reasonable gratified. She was surrounded ny
the very best of associations, and had been
adopted by Mr B9rcher. because OF her natural
brightness of disposition AMI intellect. In the
school, though she was regarded as an eccentric
and wayward being, yet she was admire by
all of her companions for her sup rIor quality
OF mind.
No Young lady in Prof Crittenlan's school
Zone of the bast in the L ,sD could write so
brilliant and beaut full a compost ion she, and
all had to yield to her i'll Intellectual ElerlOrIy "
We have this from one who Was school mae e
of hers that all her com positions were gems oi
thought and language, and she promised 10
become prominent as a female writer. Now
comes the first circumstance that poisoned er
happv heart 1t is the old story OF love. She
became passionate adrnirrr Of one who recip.
roc4ted her aft cions, but who WAS forbild IN t,
tender his hand in marrag-. He was aredd =
married to another. This first disappointment
occasoned violent brain fever, which CON
pletev Frustrated her. anlin the course Of her
recovery sha advised to resort 10 stl mu!ants,
by which she acquired a taste tor what has
since plunged her into the depths OF &grada tion.
Afterwards she went to B iston, and became
teacher in II House OF Refuge. 1t was an ad
vantageous 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 app tlte which she
had planted within herself, wh'n recov ring
from her previous illness, and she was picked up
in the stree Is of Boston on-night, in stat of
intoxication Faciiis descensus AUsrni. Efforts
were made TO eifrctually redeem her, but IL l.
almost impossible 10 reclaim IA woman once dis
graced. She soon married. and as we have been
informed, married against the wishes of those
who had been her former friends and projectors.
From this time she sinks rapidly, aud whether
by means of an avenging d ity, or from the
natural law of cause and effect, others may de-
eide for themselves.
Three or four years eapse and she cana with
her husband to Chicago last year, He found
employment there, but in the great fire of last
tall his situa ion was lost TO him. Pretty much
all winter long he emained destitute of work,
pawning away his household goods and clothing
meanwhile, and when Spring cana they deter
mined to coma 10 Milwaukee. They had one
child, and on their way here chat was taken
away from them, at kenosha. Their poverty
had now become latnantable, indeed but uu
doubtedly their situatio" might have been much
better but for the accursed article of rum, TO
which they had both now becoma addicted
Having buried their child at Kenoska, they came
on here, and hired miserable roam in the Third
Ward of this city. A few days passed and the
wretched woman whose career we have b,rn
Eketching was forced to, 90 out and big from
door to door. In the course OF her aims Seek,
ing she CHANGED upon one who had been her
schoomate in Brooklyn, and nPon another who
had known her in Boston Fearing tn worst,
but still gnors Mt of what wre lche1 creature she
had become, they went 10 her room whore she
and her husband were almost freezing and slarv-
ing. She onlessed to tn m that she had nothing
to eat for three long days aud on their rlckrty
old bed there was but single sheet to protect
them from the cold. There was single chair
with but three legs to it, in the room, and
scarcely any other article of furniture cumbeTed
up the ROOM
These friends at once began 10 exert them
selves in her behalf. aud Others in crested to aid
her and her husband, gave them cloths and
food, promised them both plenty OF work, and
1t seemed now that her destiny was taking ia
Vorabe turn. The woman wept over her pow
erty, manifested touching tokens nf rednina-
tion, but here too the fire was only being srnoth
cred few days to break out again the first ia
vorable opportunity. The money hat was Civ
en- her to buy food and clothing with, was spent
in the rum hole, AMI when she was next visited
she was found all demrned by intoxication =
From that time she turned her back upon all
friendly offers of assistance, abandoned her
first quarters afterwards found by the du-
thorities in low ouses Of prostitution, and has
now again probably left the city in company
with her husband. Size has almost reached the
lowest round of misery, and this olce gifted
young lady, an adopted child Of Henry Ward
Beecher, viii soon find lhot peace in dearh
WHICH she has been unable to find in the cup
and IN the corruption of licentiousness. Nil
loaui. Daily Wisconsin
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