The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-11-04
Correspondence Of the NempIis Enquirer
An Episode I'm ReaILffe.
New York, Sept. 20

New York, Sept 90
Floating around with the current of hu
manity which one encounters. or rather
ming 'es with, in a large city. is many an
isolated individual whose heart history, if
uncovered to the gaze of the world, would
surpass IN its intense reality all the ro-
nance ever invented. While | write an
instance Is passing along in the crowd un-
der my window, in the person of wretch
ed looking man, after whom people turn
10 gaze, and wonder show human form
divine" came to be reduced to a deorada
datlon so complete and irredeemable. Rao
ged, begrimed with dirt, hair uncombed
and hanging in tagIed masses to his shoul
ders, face haggard and unshaven, head
bowed down, and eyes rowing restlesslv
from one object to another, and scarcely
ever fastened upon the face of man. uncar.
lng and uncared for, he moves deiectedIv
along with the crowd, as if his WORLDLY
hopes had fallen from him like so many
wlthered leaves. lis story, as 1 heard it
from person who is familiar with the cir,
cumstances, is long and sad one, but !
will be brief.
Llttle more than five years ago, this
poor unfortunate was thriving merchant
IN New England city, honorel by all who
knew him, aud with wife and two dauoh-
ters OF seven and eighteen years Of AGE, en-
Joyed the comfort which successful enter
prise had secured to him. About this time
there was introduced in his family circle
one OF his clerks, between whom and the
eldest daughter and intimacy spranq uD.
Suspecting nothing, no objection was made
to his society; but suddenly one morning
he was missing. He had gone to far. and
the Old story was re enacted. He had won
the daughters affection, effected her ruin.
and deserted her to escape the punishment
he anticipated. Discovering her condition,
the gIrl efS home to conceal her guilt. The
mother, broken, hearted at the shame of
her daughter, was taken i'll and diei. and
as II the hand of Providence was laid in
wrath upon them, the Youngest daughter
IN few weeks was also laid to rest be
meath the chancel-stone. Only little
while elapsed, and an infant was one morn
ing found upon the river bank with note
pinned to its dress, containing its name and
few words of penitence and farewell. Its
wretched mother had terminated her sor-
row by suicide. From that hour the faith
er was an altered man. Revenge became
the only object Of life. and, forsaking his
business, he started III pursuit of the author
of his misery.
Months passed without success, but he
finally learned that the young man, under
an ASSUMED name, was in remote town of
the West, and following with all haste he
there found him. But it appears that the
seducer, far gone with consumption was
confined to his room, and, when the brok
en-hearted man he had SO deeply wronged
abruptly entered and stood before him, his
own terror and the fearful agony aud de
nunciations of the almost maniac father so
worked upon him that a hemorrhage Of
the lungs was brought on, and he died dur
ing the ensuing night. Since then, the
father has been the miserable wanderer |
have described" the world forgetting, and
by the world forgot" The only momento
OF the past visible about him, is a dirty
cord around his neck, which suspends a
leather case enclosing a locket with the
hair and portraits of his family. His home
Is among the squalid tenements of the
Five Points, his daily wants are supplied
by a remnant OF his former property but,
with hopes crushed, ambition destroyed, a
bitter past behind, and rayIess future be-
fore hun, his use to society gone, he moves
among men humble ruin
"a granite cnstle crumhl Il into sand