Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-04
Our smoky city correspondence.
SnnKr Cry. Feb. 20. 1858.

Miss Victoria Adelaide Mary Loulsi
Guelphi for the Prince Of Prussiawould b'
too stout a rival for the bachelor President
of the great Republic of the West. How
ever this may be, he had not, till lately, tc
cIntend with frost and icicles. Indeed
he could not suffer much from cold; for be
was and is in too hot q place. 1t is mol
a very enviable position to stand between
the cross.firing Of a Northern fanatic and
q Southern fire-eater, with some sharp
shooting from Kansas, while Brother Brig
ham, like a eowardly school boy iorthes
himself behind a strong rampant Of hoops
or lesjuponS roEges, awaiting a good OPP
portunity to hurl all the infdels, Buchan-
an and his Cabinet among the rest, into
Tophet. Whatever may have detained
him, winter is here now. The sleigh bells
gingle, ginge meriy.' The loud and
CHEEKY laugh, ringing in the frosty air,
sounds life-like, All seem happyifor
When body meets body,
On sleigbing party,
Every body mods at a body, - ..a
And every body's hearty,
But turn leaf in the history cf human
existence written by all ages, and you will
see different picture. But look on that
picture, there, little. That, there, is
poverty; that is want; that is wretchedness.
This. here, is the inprovident: this the
unfortunate; this is one who has determiu-
ed, at all haztrd, to eat at Charity's table,
bscIuse now anL then she chances to get
up a good meal, For the absolutely nee.
dy IN this city, the various benevolent So
cIetles are dong much, considering their
means. The sons of Malta have noLly
done their pat; while other societies have
not been IDLE. Hundreds of bushels OF
coal have been distributed to the or in
one week. This is IghtfuI phase of
human nature; and makes one think that
not all the redeeming qualities Of the SO Il,
which beam from the human face divine
are ted; that there is something worth Iiv.
my for leil; for who so happy as he who
helps tue unfortunate to arR5 and assert
his manhood9
1t is often said that truth is stranger
than fiction. A circumstance with which
WAS to some extent acquainted, will il!
iustrste this saying. In village about
eight miles from this city, young man
Ol uubemishe character, but who was
guilty Of the atrocious crime Of being poor,
was hit by one Of Uupid's random arrows,
A lady whose parents were very wealthy
was wounded in like manner. Mr.. Hea.
gan, for that was the gentIeman's name, J
proposed matrimony. She accepted =
But, horrible dictu, the aIy's father, Mr..
McKelvy objected The parties outreat,
but Mr.. McKsvy is inexorabIe, 'noue but
a rich man can have my daughter The
laws 10 this State favor clsndestine marr.
ages. So at picnic last autumn they
were married legally by clegymsn of the
Associate Reformed Church. After this
they 60 each to their own home, tie lady
alleging that il she left home her father
would die Of grief ~ few weeks siuce
they were again married, aud legly, too,
by Il preacner oI the Presbyterian clurch.
at private dwelling near lenperanceviIle.
In few weeks after this second marriage.
Mr.. McKeIvy was made acquainted with
the facts III the case. Finding he was un.
able to contend single handed, with the
Celestals Cupid and Hymen, he resolved
to apply to the Legislature of the State to
have the doubIe-tieJ and never-to. beloos
ed knot cut assuler. But Legislators are
sometimes honest men and do hat is
right; especially when their own interest
does not intervene. In this case they de
eided that what God hal twice joined no
man had right to put assunder without
Just cause. Therefore the divorce was not
granted. Thus did wealth in the wrong
Succumb to poverty in the right. This
case will, no doubt suggest to your young
readers the John Dean and Boxer case of
New York. Last week Heagan came and
demanded his wife. She was given to
him, with a look somewhat like ESop's
fox gave tue grapes when he couldn't get
them: and soon they were rolling away to
that state where the redouted Boon did da-
ring deeds, and where AshanPs sacred
sol! concess the famed orator from the
vulgar gaze. .r r.s.r
Your readers are already acquainted
with many Of the particulars Of the execu
tiou Of Fife and Charlotte Jones. There
was outside an intense anxiety 10 see.-
Many were on the tops of houses, hoping
10 see into the Jail yard. Crowds were on
all sides, josting each other, as if by being
near they could know what was going on
inside. Vast numbers were collected on
Boyd's Hill, hoping from that eleveticn to
get sight. An ancient philosopher de-
fined maa to be'a two,legged animal with
out feathers Had he been here on the
day of this execution he would have de.
fued him to be an animal having an over
grown propensity to pry into whst is for
biddep. These two persons died covered
with infamy, aud their names will rot
Let the young take warning. Virtue and
truth are self preserving; but vice, like
carrion flesh, has in it the elements thai
hree those loathsome worms, which rev
eI in its destruction. So greedy were tht
popuous for the unpleasant particulars
that all the daily presses could not supply
the demand. The Dispqtch threw of
1900 copies the dsy before the execu
tion. This was Increased some thousands
Such WIS the demand for the account o