Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-20
{ .oFEBRUA AIRY 90. 1860.

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Ia third an intant. in arms she siE9s q
meek, lowly wot14n1 apparently. absorbed
in her Christian and domestic duties;
member of fashionable church in the
avenue, and seemingly much wrapped mp
in her self-impOssd work in the sabbath
school. She was brought up under the
roof of an ex-member of Congress of New
York State, andln railroad magaate, whose
honor and fair name in private liIe have
never been sullied. She was adopted by
him; her generous dover furnished by
him; his sensible ideas of dress were i'm
planted in her bosom, for she WAS reninrk-
ableiin our streets for her neatnsss of ap-
parel. while her unoStentations manner
was the theme of comment. Many times
she might have been seen drawing the
baby carriage through the streets with her
own hands, although she WIS surrounded
with servnnts, and lived i'll villa-built
palace of Milwaukee brick. on Michigan
avenue: on the graperies and hOthouSes to
which, alone, 100000 had been expended
by her generous and too cOnhding huS-
band. She was Il plain, modest, courteous
woman of more than 1t ordinary 5inteiIt-
gence; and her fall is certainly more than
if she had been a young, gidtly, pretty
woman, badly brought up, and suddenly
arisen to fashionable life and all the blau-
dishments ofp new and flattering position.
The seducer is a lawyer of some elo-
quence, of considerable ability and of
marked success. He was n member Of.
a neighbOring State, and is u husband and
father of eight children, and resides in the
North Division. ysrasl -t rr -eEl@
Any one who has attended Our courts,
has observed tall. thin man, with r. tnrn
up nose, light hair, sprinkled with gray, a
face almost covered with hair, and shaved
in the English or Lord DundreHry style,
with rather an affected, but nevertheless
able manner, conducting cases before the
several tribunals. This is the man who
has brought ruin and shntne upon this
woman, who has crushed the heart of one
of our best citizens, and who seems now
by his hrazen parade of our streets, to be
without shame. The reasons for such fall
are as difficult for US to comprehend as it
was for Hamlet to account for his moth
ers crimes, the numbering of her noble
husband for his craven brother.
What makes the crime still worse, much
of the business of this honorable ~ man
was gained through the man whom he has
so basely wronged; and the best of 1.-THE
lucrative railroad attorneyships he held
| were gained through the wronged mans
influence with his unfortunate wife's ndoP-
| ted father He WAS likewise the bankers S
attorney. his confidant, his friend, and was
not only. received into his home, but
through him gained access to other talni-
lies of note and fespectability. Shall we
sermOniZe upon base iHgTatitude? No. Let
this suffice. For eighteen months the villain
Inns been defiling the home of his best friend
Besides being n ibertine, he lost some
| S., 900 Mt play, some two years since, ut
I 1..ar IL In ~
| Washington he was the subject of II rumor
as being one who tried to ruin daughter
or niece of a now Cabinet Minister; in
1857 he effected the -uin of q married wO-
man on the North Side; and while lie was
betraying the bankers wife, ibis ugly To-
.hario was recently, seen dancing 1T the
| hops gotten up by abandoned women. We
need not dwell on the hypocrisy of this
! man, or this woman, who, when Il neigh
! boring female was accused of Hdson, she
"cast the first stone, and said she world
not recognize her in society, even While
she was receiving and returning the visits
of this wretch in the form of Il man, aye,
and meeting him in his Office. --.....i p
Il, This affair was discovered strangely
The bankers jealousy WAS aroused by the
familiarity of young Englishm"n, an in.
surance agent residing here, with his wife,
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their part, caught in company with her his
| friend, his counsellor, under circumstances
which led him to charge his wife with dis
LOYALTY to her marriage vows; and she
confessed her acts of criminality, not only
with the larwYer,, but also with the insu-
rance agent, and q distinguished artist
well known i'll this city and in Washing
ton The confession was acknowledged
before a notary public.
We have it from good authority that the
banker set his confidential clerk to watch
the guilty pair, and one Sunday, while he
was supposed to be attending to his mis-
sion-school duties, he, with his clerk, took
part ..inthe watch. The clerk SAW the hon
orabIc ri enter the house and SAW him en-
ter the room of the wrctched woman
The clerk then left, returned with the hus-
band, and caught the pair .tad"EGnts aeitetu.
The husband of the bruised heart then
repaired to their devoted pastor, and COM
municated all. As soon as the ministers 8
| surprise was over, he bade the brother join
| him in prayer, so that the Lord might
counsel them upon the course to be pur-
sued; aud upon their. hendcd knees they.
| earnestly prayed for many minutes, AMI
| the husband arose refreshed, strengthened;
and somewhat comforted.' -lf.ul sHi
His plan was soon arrauged-a sep'Ira-
ton Was the hrst step. sue WAS sent 70
her adopted parent, rcsigning all claim to
the children, saveuthe baby. He told her
that he, would make, such settlement of
property as her. adopted father thought
| right. lie wrote thus to the person re-
fcrred to, and subsequently went East to
make the necessary settlement.
Such are the main facts of II case of the
truth of which there is too little reason to
doubt. The ingenious attempts of the
willy lawyer to cast over the whole an
appearance OF doubt. ard meat it with
positive denial, only tell more plainly the
departure ofevery redeemiug quality from