Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-13

ing, that bis only daughter, beautiful young
lady, in her seventeenth year. had suddenly
and mysteriously disappeared during \the
night leaving the following note, found in
her room:
FATHER: leave you tonight, never TO
see you again. Your heartless NJ"
The father was a widower, his wife having
died when his daughter was in her ninth
year, and from that period he trained and
watched his child with doting tondness and
parental tenderness. A few months previous
to the young lady's sudden departure she
had graduated in one of our city schools
with much honor.
AS soon as her absence was discovered.
every possible effort to learn her where
abouts was put into execution, but all proved
futile, and inIa few months time, her fatber,
sorrow stricken, and broken hearted, passed
into eternity, bequesthing to his inconstant
and misled child his sole effects, amounting
to sum of almost $4,000. The matter was
placed in the hands of one Of our city law
yers, with an injunction to use all his en-
deavors, in years to come, to ferret out the
wayward and faithless girl, and if at the end
OF ten years, the search had proved uusuc-
cessful, the money was to be retained by the
attorney as reward for his labors.
More than three years have passed since
the death OF the father, and the lawyer, true
to his promise, has left nothing undone in
attempting to leavn what had become of the
young lady. A few days ago letter came
to the city, addressed to the father of the
unfortunate girl, post-marked New York,
which was placed in the hands of the attor-
ney, who has given as the facts OF the affair.
The letter ran thuswise:
mo. - CUSTOM HOUSE, STREET,
NEW ORLEANS, November 10, '6l.
"MR. -: Sir-Your daughter who has
been residing with me for the past six
months, under an assumed name, was taken
i'll on Sunday night last, and died on Mon
day. In her room l found the inclosed in
structions and letter, which she desired to be
sent you as soon as possible. The Coroner's
jury rendered q verdict of death from poison,
"Very truly, - -,
The letter, it appears must have been car
ried to New York from New Orleans by some
person escaping from the South. 1t tells the
old story, and the not unfrequent termina-
ton:
'NEw 0RLEANs, October II, '6I.
Wy Dear, Dear Father Supplicating
pardon, write this letter on my knees, al.
most heart broken, and on the brink of the
grave. Oil my dear father, can you forgive
your erripg child, your Nj, who has
never, never, never forgiven herself and who,
IN anguish and remorse, Graves dying
requestf Let me tell my sorrows, and sinful
as have been, pray you dear fither-for
can pray to no one else-to pity aud forgive
your once pure angel child. The being who
brought me to my low and degraded stu
atlon was young man, whose name with
hold, for know, just as sure as there ia a
God, be will, on the final day, be adiudged
my murderer. He won my affections and
love, and lived in his existence onlv. He
influenced me to leave you clandestinely,
promising to marry me upon our arrival at
Lexington, KY. l need not tell you he failed
In his promise, and that he allured me on
still further, and we travelled together as
man and wife, visiting the cities near which
state Fairs were being held. soon learned,
to ADD to my misery, that he was gambler,
and that we were travelling under a false
name. He was successful; would he had not
been; and we soon left New York City for
London, and from there we went to Ger
mapy.
six months was passed in the latter
place, when we returned again TO our ma
tive country, landing at PHILADELPHIA. I
urged upon him time and again to fulfill his
promise to marry me, but he steadfastly re.
fused, and one night deserted me, leaving
me with helpless infant and about one
hundred dollars, to be used by me, he said
in note, how pleased could not come
to you as l was, and took steamer to
Charleston, s. O., and while at that place
my child died. need not say more. left
Charleston and came here, where have ar
rived in shame and sorrow, but will not live
so longer.
"Pity me, my dear parent, and by the
love you bore my mother, copjure you to
pardon and forgive me. l have suffered
long; and oh! the misery have endured,
can not tell. My letter is blotted with tears
Of repentance, and by those tears l crave
from you, what Jesus gave being like my
self
Good BY! long farewell, and an adieu
that knows no end. God forgive me! Your
once loving and sinless daughter