, 1864-04-30
Terrible Results of Licentious.
ness.


penitentiary hospitals, which casts q terri.
Bile light upon the tendency. Of icentious-
ness to produce crime. She had been Q
woman of exquisite beauty and elegant cul'
ture. Her father, wealthy merchant oi
New York, failed in business, apd gave up
everything to his creditors. She was re-
duccd to the necessity Of learning the trade
Of dressmaker, to earn her daily bread.
She became proficient in the business,
and her taste and skill demanded liberal
wages, which enabled her to provide an am
pie wardrobe for herself. She had been
intensely devoted to the glitter and gaiety
of fashionable life, and hope which springs
eternal in the human breast" whispered
that fortunate marriage might restore her
to the charmed circles whose delights she
hsi once tasted, and which she longed to
re-enter. She used every effort, by the
charms of person, dress, voice and man
ncrs, to attract the notice and win the af.
fections of eligible young men.
At length, she thougt she had succeeded
in her object; but the young man, whose
affections she dreamed she had won, proved
to be cold-hcarted villain, who was in
pursuit only of amusement and qualification
for the passing hour. One evening he in
vited her to ride. Driving into the country
he alighted at house Of refresbment in
the neighborhood of that city. He offered
her d glass Of wine, which she drank.
The liquor had been drugged. 4 profound
stupor ensucd, and she a@oke the following
morning to find herself ruined. With re-
turnitig consciousness the magnitude Of the
injury burst upon her. She instantly re-
solved On revenge, and the plan for its ac-
complishment flashed upon her mind with
the suddcnness and rapidity Of Lightning,
She betrayed no emotion. She uttered no
reproaches. She treated what had hap
pened as harmless jest, and invited con-
tinuance of the intimacy.
The young man exulted in the case and
completeness of his victory; but from that
moment she became the evil genius Of his
life. Protesting the tenderest and most in-
selfish devotion, she drew money from him
continually, with which she hired shaips TO
furnish him with pruvocatives TO drinking,
gambling, aud all the forms Of vice and de-
bauchery. At every rally of his better ma
ture, by skilfil alienation Of persuasion
banter and menaces, she chokcd the rising
impulse of virtue, chained him 10 the car of
dissipation, and confirmed him in His career
Of vice.
Full well did she know whittier all this
would lead him; nor was she disappointed
in her malignant expectation. Drunken
ness clouded his understanding; debauch-
cry ruined his health, and gaming reduced
him to poverty. Not until this point, the
goal Of all her prayers and efforts had been
reached, When poverty and disease had done
their work, aud he was unable to procure a
wretched bed or scahty meal, except
through her charity, did she wreak upon
him the full measure Of her vengeance
Then it was her daily delight to visit him
to load him with reproachcs, and to re-
veal to him, in bitter exultation, the whole
scheme 80 cunningly devised aud so steadi-
~ pnrsued, by which sshe. had wrought his
RUN. And when the closing scene d ew
near, she sat by his bedside and mingled her
cxccrations with shrieks extortcd by his dy-
ing agonies.
Nor was her vengeance yet satisfee.
Her warfare was against the whole sex,
whom she regarded Us accursed; and her
insatiate revenge cried out for still other
victims. Whenever she could fasten her
fangs on a young man Of gentcel family,
whose unclouded prospects forctOkenfd .
brillatit catcer, she never relaxed her hold.
She studied, with keenness sharpened by
experience, every point in his character
his tastes, his passions, his hopes, his fears,
whatever attracted and whatever repellld
him; and then, with an almost unerrihg sas
gacity, adapting the means to the end, she
seldom failed in her defhobiac purpose.
She claimed III this node to have hunted
down 32 young men, involving them in dis
grace, crime and ruin. Some Of them
ended their days in prison. and Others. hope
lcssly fallen, were on tho road to the drunk
ards aud felon's grave.
When asked whether al her sisters in in
fanny felt the same hatred to mankind, she
replied that she thought the feeling to be
general If not universal among them; ad-
ding, that when a woman had once fallen,
she desired to revenge herself, not only
on her scducer, but on al his sex; that no
game was followed with greater relish than
that involving an who came within her tolls
in crime and its consequent punishment;
that the most Of them could number at
least two or three victims whom they had
ruined, and that many Of these victims went
to the length Of the actual commission Of
crime. a usUa aff a
The only thing Of the kind in which Mr.
Barham was ever personally engaged, was
as boy at Canterbury, when, with school
fellow. no% a gallant major, famed for
deeds Of arms, he entered a Quakcrs' meet
ing house; looking around at the grave as
sembly, the latter held up penny tart, and
said solemnly: slls
whoever speaks first shall have this
pie"
"Gotky way" commenced drab-colored
gentleman, rising; 'go thy way, and
"The pie is yours, sir" exclaimed d
placing il before the astonished
speaker, and hastily efiectipg his escape.
An accomplished English lady, in re.
cent contribution to FroEer's Magazine SAYS:
"If any time needed to find gentleman
,,h, ehr,,ld aid mo in my liffla diffeulties