The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-26
'Crder Betrayal Of Young schvvfs|
IsasherIHer Trials and safsrings


In the Metropolis. = : m iIV
Large cities seem to be, from their very ma
criussj nd fSs5 arb lofss1 & tSs L ihsstsrs % HI,
the deepest tragedies Of life are enacted.
This is not strange, for It has long since been
established ass fhcs, that mem are true TO
their natures and themselves only when alone,
and that hypocrisy and deceit always enter in
company with the second party. In solitude
1t Is impossible for man to wrong any but
himself, and if he does that it Is little matter;
but when persons congregate the wrong is
always done to those who are the weakest, and
therefore the least able to suffer It.
Heartlessness is universal, and whenever
two individuals meet each other, IL sppsafs to
be inevitable that one must suffer from the con-
tact. Cities therefore are most productive of
crime, simply because moro persons meet in
them; but the country village, however small,
has in 1t the same elements, and is likely at
any hour to produce drama that will startle
the scWilized world when. it Is known and its
different scenes have bsen rehearsed. s@T
Something oyer year ago q young and
intellectual girl, who had graduated with the
highest honor at one of our High Schools,
thrown entirely upon her own resources for a
livelihood, after receiving a certificate from
our School Board to the effect that she was O
competent and worthy teaensr, was offered o
situation In q little town some miles north of
this city, and she entered at once upon her
duties. ts -
Her heart was still joyous with youth, and
her nature ardent, fresh and buoyant; lively
and witty In conversation, but withal modest and
refined, she soon won her way into the esteem
Of all she met and took that place in society
to which, by her talents and attainments, she
seemed to have been SO admirably fitted.
Here she met young man and like all
women, felt somewhat fattered by the atten-
ton bestowed upon her. He seemed generous
and was courteous, and with these qualities
her fancy combined honor, until at length
idealizing what she knew Of him he came TO
be regarded, by her OF least, as Hamlet was
by 0phelia-gthe glass Of fashion and the
mould Of FORM"
He saw tho attachment she had formed
and with goodness in his voice and smile, but
with deceit and villainy lurking under both,
he soon won his way into the innermost temple
Of her heart. Under the promise of marriage
he assailed her chastity, and by cunning
which seemed frankness, and heartlessness
that seemed kindness, he at length induced
her TO place in his keeping the one pearl which
to all women is beyond price.
Her ruin dated from that moment. After a
liaison has been once formed, 1t Is hard indeed
to break 1t of, and as long as woman can be
induced to belieye man honorable, no matter
what his excuse, no matter what his fault, the
former wiltafnd one who will bslieve the
latter, one who will pardon it. t'
1t 10 needless to say that the promise Of
marriage was not kept, but how to record that
which follows is indeed task. Her misfor-
tune ;was not that which is usually the lot Of
the betrayed one, and maternity was not the
result Of her fall. It was som ethinR more
terrible still, and the blow fell upon her with
. force which makes it almost wonder that
she survived; for he impaired to her con.
tagion that interrupted the regular functions OF
nature to such an extent that before che was
fully aware Of her condition, she was COM
PEELED to leave her duties to seek for health.
An advertisement In one Of our. CITY papers
which promised her. immediate relief and q
| speedy otre, induced her to come to this city
aud give aphysician-whose name, fofreasons
that are evident, we withhold-the sum Of
twenty dollars, all the money she had, being
assured that under his care she would soon Be
enabled to reapme her place among her pupils
AS might have been expected ,she was duped
the second time, and since August last, al
though. under his treatment all the time, she
has Not as yet experienced the slightest i'm
prcyernent, bnt, on lths contrary, has besn
growing worse, Her condition at length came
to be sueSfhat lt1Was iApossible fafher to hide
it from the gaze of the world; her pride would
not allow her to ask for sympathy or aid from
a society she knew would abhor and loathe
erwhen'the truth was known, and she re.
turned to this place. --.,''' .',, ,'s
On Tuesday morning she took her breakfast
sats the expense of the city, at the Hammond
stfset' Station. house, and told her 'storyto a
member Of theapoliae force, who kindly as
sisted her and procured certificate of admis-
sion into the Commercial Hospital, where she
y now lying suffering extremely both in mind
and body, 7 's,...zs''. ....,-,a .'IAg
pa Our story, which Is but simple relation oi
an event, carries With Il its own moral. tits
true in every particular, and it is not necss.
sary for us to say here that the heroine of this
terrible drama deserves the sympathy of oil
who have hearts and love justice.