, 1861-02-18
Lights and Shadows Of Life, Love and

Lights AD0 ShEuoVB OIL Al1es Love ana
Conetancy, versus Crime.
The New York correspondent Of the Bofla-
10 Commercial Advertiser, writing under datc Of
Feb. 1lth, tells the following story:
The steamer for Liverpool on Saturday list,
took out US passengers two persons whose
histories for the pest two or three years would,
If worked up BY the pen Of even medic
ere novelist, create q sensation. Truth is in
deed stranger thaa fictien, as I think your
readers will Fay when they read these tacts,
youche1 fur BY your cuErespo1dcnt-by the
Superintendent Of Police, and substantiatcd
by Gov. Morgan. Without any necessary hiia-
lutiu or literary paint, will proceed to dish
up the facts, promising that the names Of the
principals, for obvious reasons, must remain
secrets with those whom have named, end
perhaps half score Of Others who are con-
vrrsant with tho circumstances. The story
Will haptize with the home1y title Of
TUE HISTORY OF TWO pn1Es.
In 1856 Thomas Snotwel', a young m:n of
respectable tamiiy. and the son Of wealthy
manufacturer Of Lccls, England, tecnme &C.
quantcd with and married Julia Tillotson, the
only daughter Ut another rich manufacturer
Of Shtt filed. The union was sanctioned By the
Iaters and -1aters Of both parties, and for 4
few months the course OF true lore run
smooth, and preparations were being made By
the ytung people to set up for themselves up
on tne funds expected from their respective
governors; bnt 2 year after the wedding the
elder Shotwell succumbed to the financial
pressure-he beca1ne bankrup!-and his !ami-
| ly worse than beEgara. The young wife's
llther, finding his son-in-}aw penhiless, SIT
shout derisin, eo,lc means to get rid Of him,
| quietly but etlectaally. The army In the East
| WAS in want of recruits, so commission was
purchased ior yousg shotwcIl aud he was o.
| signed TO the - Regiment Of Horse. Old
| Til1otsoD, finding himself free from the lncu.
bus Of = "poor relation" devised how he
shoull make the separation between his
| daughter aud her husband perpetual He
| frst procu, Q to be published in tue .S7rie!
Goaste' report Of the d.ath OF the soungv,
Shotwcll, and b. conspiracy with postuth
GERS clerk in London succeeded In intercept
ing all Communications between the young
s,grs. In less thin . year alter the puhlica
tion Of yonng Saotwell's death, his supposed
widow was induced to ma,ry again, snu hi!
nn,ned Post, engaged in the American trade
| whom she accompanied to New York il
March last. They had scarcely been there ou'
month when her srcond husband died leavin:
her fortune Of e12,000. For come reasol
Mira. Post remained in this city and boarded .
| Ing house on Twenty-;ourth street, where #
viii leave her to give history Of her first bus
! band af1er his arrival In 1utlta-. Not being abi
to gain any intelligence from bis wife, whom
he truly aud deyo!edly lOred, he gave way =
bis passions and endeavored TO drown his grie
| In dissipation. The first news he receive
from his wife wns her marriage, TO Post. !
career Of dissipation followed this INTEL
| gcDcc and In drunken brAwl be attacked an
MANNED superior brother officer who plsJ
fully rallied him on his domestic trouhlcs, &c
/ which be was court-martialed and sentenced
but upon the circumstances OF the case oeln
made known to the Governor General, his Eel
tepce was suspended, but he cashlered an
dismissed him from tho service. He too foun
m asylum in New York almost simultaneou
II with his former wife
Having never been schooled to labor, an
; having no vocation by which to earn q LIVING
stranger in a strange land, outlaTed By
government, his case excited the sympathy
: | AE, Wight Of tho Park Hotel, who gcue1ous]
gave hun home until he cou1d DO put In
| condition to earn for himself living. b
. | finally WIS Offered and accepted \ place as po
ter in 4 large dry goods house in Dey stree
= bat his continued dissipation 80 entirely III
| fitted him for his business that he renalnt
| but q eho1t time his discharge necessarily &c
lowing.
} Under tho circumstances it is not stxant
: that he should commit crime; 3 forgery
employers name, his arrest and txih thereto
his conviction thereof, and sentence aud II
prisonment followed ID September.
=, On the DAY he Left the city for the Sta
Prison he was visited by 8 reporter Of Ne
York dsfty, whose acquaintance he adform'
! | at '.the Park" and to whom he entrusted
! narrative of Ills life, and the custody Of son