Nebraska advertiser., 1860-01-12

In connection with The foregoing, ws
print the following letter, which has baeI
sent to US, and which, we suspect Was
written by the same cool scoandrel. "A
more impudeni swindler We have never
met with:
| "WAsHIweToN, Dec. l5l
'To begin with. may IS wei Cell you
thaiI am an uncompTonising rascal, fact
of which you will be convinced if you
take any trouble to inform yourself OF
all my meanness, / only regret one act,
and that was the marriage and desertiOn
of a lady worthy Of a far better fata--
Miss Julia F. Klnsleyi Of hontgQmery
county, Illinois About the 1st of No
vember, 1857, for urgent reasons, ] tho't
it necessary to go into retirement for a
short time, and selected the above named
county as the asylum, where I taught a
school during the winter, over five months
quitting in April, 1853. went TO SAINT
Louis, Missouri, where had some drafts
printed for an Orleans house, as said /;
but which ! intended to use for the Pur-
pose of swindEng somebody.
II then went down to Jackson, in Cape
Giredeau county. where | pretended 10 be
a merchant, hunting a location IN which
to sell goods. / eventually, and in less
than two weeks, purchased the entire lot
of goods belonging to George III. Beatty,
paying $4,000 in fictitious drafts. and CIV
ing nv note for the balance, In the name
of John Williams.
While Beatty was gone to St. Louis
with the drafts, borrowed all the money
| could, and sold a check in the town of
Cape Giredeau, and pocketing the pro-
ceeds mysteriously left.
Inext turned up in Hillsboro, the coun-
ty seat of Montgomery county, illinois,,
the county in which l had taught school
the previous winter BY representing
that had received $4,000 from New
York, where / hailed from, was con-
sidered a good deal more "pumpkins"
than when was teaching for twenty-five
dollars per month so much so, that one
Robert w. Davis, Clerk Of the Court and
Master IN Chancery, proposed thalwe
should. with DR.. A. S. Haskell, form
copartnership and go into the banking
business, to commence the first day Of
January, 1859 and that till that time |
was to have place as clerk in his Office.
/ remained in his Office till the 9th of
October, when | married the lady allud-
ed to. The next day we set out on a we'd
ding tour to her sister and other relations
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Her
sisters husband has been member of
the Massachusetts Legislature for several
years, and voted against the removal of
Judge Loring. We were in the East for
nearly two months. and should have
been happy had it not been that / had
deceived a kind and aGectionate woman,
and one that l believed dearly loved me.
"She, no doubt, had a presentiment
that all was not right. for several times
during our visit she suddenly woke from
sleep and inquired if | was hurt, and She
once said she thought l was in chains
ut is these recollections. dear sir, that
are continually looming up before me,
and make me miserable, yes, miserable!
[ did not love her when we were married
and only did it for the qualification Of a
vile passion.
81 again say, Of all my rascality, this
alone troubles my conscience, for have
continually before my mind that dear,
sweet face, turned sadly up to mine, as
f asking, did / deserve this}'' She
vas so kind and so good that did love
Ter as 1 never expect to love another.
"But what could l do? / had deceived
Ter, and could not possibly avoid detec
ion, fer l had not So, 900 TO 90 into the
,anking business with, and, of course, / ]
must be exposed. As have not room
N this sheet TO tell the manner in which
raised over one thousand dollars before
left, / will refer you 10 A. A. Kings
,ury, Robert w. Davis. or James NJ.
Davis, for all have not told. v
"In Illinois my name was,
"RoBERT NJ. CLARK"