, 1859-08-03

A Young man made Ills appearance in Justice
Pnsdy's Office last evening, in company with ~
officer. whose very fair complexion and general
lY pttits appearance at once attracted attention.
lets, melting blue eyes, and such winning
little mouth, with dimples ut the corners, that
no woman could hare resisted falling IN lore
with him on the spot-A circumstance that, TO
experienced eyes, sharpened with long familiar.
~ with femeniue ecentrcities, suggested doubts
Of sexual neutrality-suspicious. &hat the pretty
boy was no boy Il all but oniy pretty g gu IN
firmatiou in the account Of the officer, who
stated that he arrested his prisoner ut the
instance of clearinghouse keeper On Ran
dolph street, named Mrs. Murray. who alleged
that she WINS runaway girl in boys clothes.
She wns quite abashed ut her detection and at
the iuquisitivc eyes directed upon her. and' TOR
some time, dcclined 10 mike nny answer to the
questions put, except By spltetul little Pouts,
but she finally regained her temper. and gave
N account Of herself. with many hesltatious
and half frightened glances at the listeners
gathered around. Sue said her name was
Minnie Harris, and that she belonged in Canada
some where near Woodstock, il anybody knows
where that il, md that her father was master
mechanic, who had no appreciation oi the tron-
bles Of young ladies Of Il romantic disposition.
She had received tolerable education, The
PRINCIPAL element of which WIS m extensive
course Of novel readiug, from which sue had
gathered enlarged idcas OF the sphere designed
ior the deve1oPment Of young ladies IN ne 6ud:
She thought that washing dishes was the last
thought some Of becoming = heruine, and told
her father 50. He did not appreciate her roman
tic sentiments, aud sent her 10 bed ut aundown
for being obstinate md talkiu: trast,' az he
down and morning in reading lsiuaido Rinaldino,
By the light Of tullow dip. Being unacquaint-
ed with the plot Of this Intensely Interesting
work, we are unable to state its substance, but
gathered from her naratiTe that there Wus a
young lady in it who ran away from home in
boris clothes, climed over mountain. rolled Up
her sleeves to 6ght big giant, but succeeded in
subduiug him With glance Of her mild eye,
and then fefried herself ncross broad sea, in
q dug-0ut to q great city, where she had many
charming md successful adventures, and finally
married rich. Minnie awoke in the morning,
with her blue eyes aufused with tears at her
hard fate, which were not done away by the
events Of the dny, consisting. as they did, Of
several hours' application to the wash tub, in
compliance with the demands Of her parents.
Her mind was made up that night to follow in
the footsteps Of the bfaEe and Tirtuons Geral-
dina No more wash.tub for her-no more dish
cloth to disturb her romantic yisions-no more
mental soul-all should be noyelty, adventure,
aud SUCCESS. Size would 60 and teach school,
sell dry goods. embroide1tancy work or engsge
in any other light diversion, until some rich
gentleman came and threw himself ut her feet,
offered to kill all her prosecutors, and married
her in a halo Of happiness.
She went, in the best suit Of her youngest
brother, and arrived in Detroit couple of
waeka ago. Here she found herself alone and
frieud'css among multitude Of strangers, not
one of whom cared u straw's ralue for her vel
fare. What on earth to do she did not know,
and IN despair she went to the boarding house,
5ree she .et,ed
listless, bewildercd state Of mind, and made
no effort whatever to hrlp herself The conse-
quence was that sharp eyes soon discovered her
secret, and she was speedily handed over to the
police 80 here she was. and that was her story
and all she wanted was to get home. Glad
enough she was 10 hear that she would be sent
there By the first train in the emorning.-Dts1oit
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