Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-02

attempt at disguise. The article in question
follows. 1t gives coarse, though not an in
decent account of the affair at West Point.
Next in order is a letter from Mr.. Wagner to
Mr. Grigg, dated Feb. 8, 1859 The cadet
says that Mr.. Fry first made him acquainted
with Mrs. Fry that the intercourse between
himself and the lady was governed by princi-
pies of friendship and honor; that Mrs. Fry
confided to him all the difficulties between her
self and her husband, (the narrative OF which
is repetition of that above glven) that he re-
ceived two notes from Mrs. Fry, one of which
he threw away, and daguerreotye; and that
on the 9th of September two gentlemen visited
him, on behalf of Mr.. Fry, and charged him
with a criminal correspondence, which he re-
fused to acknowledge, although he returned
the letter he had in his possession
Mr. Fry answered this memorial of Mr..
Grigg, in a second address to the Legislature.
In it he says that if Mr.. Grigg does not per-
ceive in his daughters personal endowments
sufficient attraction to win young mans hon
est love, he does her an injustice. Mr.. Fry
once more repels the insinuation of mercenary
motives. He states that the outlay of thirty
thousand dollars for house was never asked
for by him, but thatjt r as, indeed, contrary to
his wishes that he refused many pecuuiary
offers made to him by Mr. Grigg, among them
a proposition to go to Europe I'm the style of
Prince; that he never received any sum at any
time from his father-in-law that even the
house remained in the ownership of the latter.
Mr.. Fry tells who it was that sent the Police
Gazette to Mr.. Grigg. 1t was newspaper re-
porter, named Br est who had never known
Mr.. Fry, but who, after seeing the statements
i'll print concerning the matter, came forward
and related his own part in the affair
Mr.. Fry charges Mr.. Grigg with having ex-
tensively circulated another scurrilous paper,
containing a version of the affair defamatory to
Mr.. Fry's character. In speaking of the notes
published by Mr. Grigg, with the intention
of showing that Mr.. Fry was happy at first
with his wife, the husband says that this only
proves his unbounded trust in her worth, and
his willingness to give no impression of sorrow
to her parents at that early period of their
union; but he makes known the fact that he
wrote a letter to his wife's father, acquainting
him with the troubles, which Mr.. Grigg sup
pressed; that letter Mr.. Fry publishes. In
speaking of the subject of Mr.. Wagner's letter
to Mr.. Grigg, he says that the communications
sent by the cadet to Mrs. Fry, commenting
Dearest Emily" are sufficient answers to the
assertion that the intercourse between the par
ties was governed by principles of friendship
and honor. He avows his belief that the in
trigue between the guilty pair was invited by
Mrs. Fry, since few young men would have
the temerity to approach familiarity a lady
married within a week. In conclusion, Mr..
Fry recapituates briefly his case, and requests
that the Legislature will give no heed to the
petitions of Mrs. Fry and her father, alleging
that he, as the injured and deserted party, has
the right to determine when, and where, and
how the alliance shall be dissolved. Of his
wites petition he says:
'ro grant it, under these circumstances, would be
to give the solemn sanction of law to an offence
which cd and regard striking at the root of
morality of social order, and of the very life of the
family compact. Therefore, not only in my own be-
half but in that of society, do appeal to your Hon
cradle Body to set the seal of your own condemna-
ton upon this attempt to break down its hottest bar
rier; and pray you to dismiss my wie's petition
unworthy your further consideration"
Some other documents have been published,
among them affidavits of A ID. Bache and S.
E. Briggs, testifying that they accompanied
the bridal party to the wharf on the day of
their departure, saw them embark, and observ
ed no token of ill feeling ana that the bag
gage was taken charge of entirely by Mr..
Fry.
Thus the case stands at present. What ac
ton the Pennsylvania Legislature will take
upon it, remains to be divulged-BoSton
Courier