The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-09

which Mrs Quincy possessed N her own right under
The Judge Ordnary-Then suppose the settlement
inserted because II was supposed that might be
although IL had nothing to do with the His lord
ship also suggested that some evidence TO the hus
bands income should be laid before the court There
could not be much difficulty in the matter probably
the facts were not controverted The proper course
would have been 70 nave prayer as 70 tbs
The Solicitor General petition shall be made
more full and more short.
The decree Vas accordingly suspended.
From the London Telegraph, Jan. 24l
II has been said that journalism s mirror OF modern
human lfe Undoubtedly reflects every phase Of the
passing day. but II does moreit opens up the interior
Of social existence and amongst the saddest Of all the
sad exhibited those Of that mournful
obscura the Divorce Court Many and bitter complaints
urged against procedure OK this tribunal on the
ground that its Jurisdiction Is so complicated and anoma
lous That petitioners, in extreme need Of relief from
ing while probate argued aud VIII causes liti
gated BY hungry fortune hunters And yet must not the
lures who enter this court or whose are branded
in It's books, 70 have their marriage pledges cancelled
them the Scarlet Letter wrought in ndelbe embroi
derry upon their hearts? Could Mary Jary Quincy
ever upon her cheek the word and send hor
forth in her shroud Of pentence to be, until her desh
living monument Of shame in the eyes Of the worldS
Her 70 which would gladly pass over
without comment, were 1t not that the circumstances
too startling, and the moral too solemn to be lightly
forgotten What the facts adduced Tuesday last
before Sir Gre swell Crcsswelp The very first was OF
ominous import Mary Jary Quincy became wife when
she was not yet seventeen years Of age-when she
child-when her will not her own--when she had NO
power and no right TO determine upon the choice OF
husband companion and friend, with whom To pass, it
might be, nifty sixty years Of her future Two
children we're born TO this Inflated coupe-the one now
about thirteen, and the other scarcely five years old In
doned her home and family, absconded with menia
hid herself In obscure lodgings and then wrote letter
most degrading TO herself, most pitabe and yet
Now It Is impossible to conceive fcw lines expressive
Of more concentrated wretchedness and self abandon
ment than these What did the abased woman think
Of her ''poor husband when she quilted his
roof, confessed that she had long been guilty,
asked for her boxes, her littls dog and her
wife, II too late then to repent TO reflect upon the
past to cast glance upwards from the bottom Of the
gulf OF shame. But what, in days TO come viii be the
destiny OF this hapless creature bound by criminal and
adulterous ties TO lacquey whom she must and
dus What will be TO her the Of wealth. of parent
age, OF social position? Mona could redeem her
lost name the penitence Of the longest life could
her to the honorable companonshp Of her sex
has sacrificed oil for the sake of gross diseased reck
less and passion and what Is she now and
but an example, warning and breathing symbol Of
We would not accumulate too heavily the scorn OF 80.
cety upon this deploraby misguided woman, and, in
deed there every nducement to spare the feelings Of
her unfortunate husband but than scandal APP
pears the narrative of the Quincy divorce In the FIRST
place, IT iS commentary upon the error OF early
rages upon the sin and folly Of binding childrenfor
racter almost invariably a chNd-by life enduring
pledges upon the madness Of believing that these young
expermentalists In lne-who know nothing Of the world
who ignorant both Of happiness and Of the
highest aocepation Of the terns-shoud BIO capable OF
vowing themselves TO husbands veetals vow them
selves to the church. under penalty more awful
than that Of living entombment or burning
at the . stake Blu; If :, Mary Jary Quincy was
a woman when she stole away In adultery with
scoundrciy footman; she was MORE indeed, than wo-
man, she was a mother-and her two children-the
Just rpening into boyhood the other Just blooming
of infancyare left with the stamp of her infamy upon
their brows II not for her, however unhappy 10
forget and immediate Them to embit,er their
through life by the knowledge that they think
Of the woman who gave them birth without a blush OF
shame Well 1t is TO be presumed that the publication
Of these cases has it's moral effect Perhaps schem
ing parents impatient TO barter away their daughters,
may hesitate to feer girls OF sixteen seventeen for
life in bonds which they may ultimately spurn. Per-
haps men, when anxious to marry, may be more reluc
before they sincerely tell whether they have placed
their affections where their hands have already
been given for them Perhaps, also, women Of pas
sionate and mpulsve disposition, who have suffered
their magnatons TO stray, and discontinued with
the incoDsolable anguish which this Mary Jary Gurney
must suffer for the rest OF her days, and halt the
brink Of ruin. Could she not have parted from her hus
band had she desired ii, without dshonoring him and
her family Could she not have reeoncIed herself
unsatisfactory position for the sake OF her chdrens
happinessY II was passion-blnd impetuous and
whelmingthat forced her that gave her up her
ignobe tempter, that made her slave, victim and
cnlprt that bent knees to max before her husband
confession OF her shame The Divorce Court presents
but many parallels TO this melancholy case although
it is seldom that English lady falls from such emf
nenco as the wife of high minded English gentle
to become the toy and traffic Of fellow, whose
most ambitious crime against the master who employed
him. might have been supposed TO be Of nchng
the butler pantry II would be absurd TO mulct him
heavy costs, for he is menia promoted into eervilc
sloth by the caprice OF wanon mistress Neither the
OF Parliament the temper Of society permit that
he should be arred and eathered shaved and tttooed
BY his late fellow servants Then what Is TO be done
with hmY He has position to Lose his name ID worth
less he pay nothing he s but the spaniel of this
quondam lady the hawk to perch upon her finger, her
dwarf her page her jester and having perpetrated this
incapable social treason the plush parasite OF Mary Jary
Quincy s responsible to no law whatever. time may
come when adventures this description may be held
worthy of serious punishment but in the meanwhile
would be grievous truth to reflect upon that the pub
lie should simply regard divorce cause, so mournfu in
all its details nothing than subject OF scandal
and gossip.
Garibaldi and the Vigilance Committees
In Italy.
General Garibaldi has addressed the following impor
tant letter 10 the Central Committee of Vigilance at
Turin
HoSoRAME CoxnuIyTs--Considerng the OF the sth
COMMITTEES, sum up my reply in the following man
ner-n accepting the Presidency Of the association of
the Vigilance Committees and in giving my adhesion TO
three articles drawn up by tho General Assembly the
4th appoint General Bxio my representative the
said committee, authorizing him at the time TO SUBJ
possessing his entire confidence The Central Committee
In appealing to Italian patriotism viii theoretically urge
the other committees 70
fellow citizens, and TO procure all the necessary
means OF facatingto Victor Emanuel the enfranchise
men Of the rest Of Italy Another Of the principal du
ties of the Central Committee should be TO form commit
tees upon all the points Of the Peninsula where
exist in order that from extremity Of Italy to the
other not excepting Venice aud Rome, the association
may be organized and act simultaneously In concert and
promptly obeying one impulse.
The Central Committee ought, the mot d ordre Of
every day and every instant increasingly 10 repeat 70 all
the committees and to seek BY means 10 penetrate
every Italian with the idea that in the spring OF this year
1861 Italy must have million OF patriots under arms
a means Of making US powerful masters Of Our dest-
Mes and worthy q the respect Of the world whose eyes
fixed upon believe IL right TO the volun-
eers that enrolment is formed advised by me for
the moment
journal entitled "Rome and Venice sh ,uld be at
once established at Genoa. Inspired with the above
ideas should preach holy and remove the shame
which weighs upon rally IL should also incucate upon
electors the hest OF attaining this object
the choice Of deputies who having their first thought
the Acknowledgement and integrity of Italy, shall obtain
from the government the arming OF the nation.
q. GAiuBMDL