The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-09-09
AMystery Cleared up.

A great deal of excitement has been Gre
ated recently in Lafayette, and much has
been said in the newspapers of that city,
about the mysterious absence of Mr.. Pat
ton, a respectable merchant of that city, who
had left home to visit Chicago, and had not
been afterwards heard Of The Lafayette
journal clears up the mystery in the fol-
lowing article:
Ii appears that eight or nine years ago Mr..
Patton formed marriage engagement with
Miss Adeline Potts, living near Dayton, in
this county. They had known each other
from childhood, and their reciprocal passion
seems to have been unusually strong. Pend
ing their engagement, Miss Potts visited a
brother at Charlottesville without previously
advising p. of her intention to do so, and
against his wishes, as her brother and he
were not friendly The former, for some
cause, was opposed TO their marriage; and
during this visit of his sister successfully in-
tercepted their correspondence. Piqued at
the apparent indifference and neglect of his
affianced, p suddenly commenced paying
his addresses 10 an estimable yonng lady of
this city, and after brief courtship married
her. Shortly after his marriage, Miss p.
visited this city, and sent for Z. to demand
an exchange of their letters and some to-
kens of affection that had passed between
them. An interview took place, at which
p. for the first time became aware of the in
Perception of their correspondence, and the
agony of his emotions at the discovery is
said TO have been terrible. He cried like q
child, and begged Miss p. to allow him to re-
tain the letters and tokens, declaring that if
he were deprived of them, or Of her love, it
would drive him mad. He at that time pro-
posed an elopement, but she refused TO en-
tertain il, but she consented for him 10 re.
tain the letters aud tokens, and to continue
their correspondence.
She shortly afterwards removed To Chica-
60, and from that time they have corre-
sponded regularly. About four years since
she visited here for several weeks, when Mr..
P.'s attentions to her were unremitting, and
excited come remark, though his irreproach-
able character forbid any serious suspicion
as to their relations. Since that time she
has resided partly in Illinois, and partly in
GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin. At the latter place
il is known that P. visited ber last winter,
aud obtained her daguer:eotype.
Of the character of their correspondence
nothing is certainly known, although it is
believed that, until within a few months, il
has not been an improper one. \ couple of
years since, Miss P.'s brother-in-lsw, with
whom she resided at Janesville, wrote P. a
severe letter, requesting him to discontinue
writing to her. and threatened, in case he
did not, to send his letters to his wife. He
affected to feel much aggrieved at this, and
complained about it to some Of her relatives
here. He protested that there was nothing
in his letters that he would be ashamed for
his wife to see, and would not object to their
being sent to her at any time. He stopped
writing, however, for awhile, and no letters
passed between them for several months.
During all this period, embracing as it
does the last eight or nine years, Mr.. p. has
uniformly declared to lady of this city,
who Was a confident of both parties from
the beginning, that he loved Miss P. better
than he did his life, and that he was ready
at any time to sacrifice property, position,
family, friends--all that he held dear in
life-if he could only be permitted to call
her his own, and that he would fly with her