Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-15

itants is not supposed to be such as
would afford MUCK feief to fstiffering
Humanity. Indeed, from all the ac-
counts which we have had of Virginia
tCity and its surroundings, the people
who compose its population are of the
E.ost lawless and brutal type of human
beings which are to be found anywhere
TOM the face Of the globe. &A6y who
might have feelings Of humanity left,
cannot long retain them, when coming
in contaet with this class of people.
| 4 Tt was among such people as these,
and in such a country, that little Emily
was leftorplianed, homeless and friend.
less, cas-. ont upen-the worse. than cold
charities of an unfeeling and unsympar
4 thizingsworld. 1t is n0iwonders that She
should, in her own language be kick
ed abont" as she went from house to
house begging and entrea1sng Tor some-
thing to- appease her hunger. Months
passedon in this way, and the time had
nearly come Swhen, with her copstitu-
tiop shattered by exposure and bard
\ ships, Hseemed unable much longer to
bear upunder its load of anguish and
suffering, just at this. time, when her
powers of enduraat 4. which had Inirac-
/ fail-when she had endured all and suf-
fered all, bothnebody ana mind, which
twas possible fer her Young aud ten
] dersframe to withstand, CLEAN of sun
/ shine, as it were, flashed across her de-
! jected mind bright oasis in her des-
ert life appeared to her in the person Of
her deliverer.
AS she wandered one. day along the
back streets of Virginia City, seeking
among the filth of the street some NOR
sci of food to appease her appetite, she
.attracted the attention OF. a, family liy-
ing in the vicinity, Sto whom, upon their
4 request, she related the sad tale of her
sufferings. Her detected appearance,
her apparent innocence, and the straight
| forwardness with which sheirelated her
story, touched the hearts of these good
people, who agreed to take her in and
adopt her as one of their own family
! While she remained with iherinew pa
rents her treatment was kind in the ex-
treme. Nothing, she says, that they
could afford to get for her, was denied
to her indeed, it was in every sense, a
home for her; and she says If it had not
been for the fact that she remembered
another home far away in Minnesota,
where she had mother living whom
| she could mot forget, she, would, have
been contented.t But las It was, there
was no contentment for her there. In
April last, after she had been in her
new home some months, she CHANGED
to hear of d party of 1elnigrants who
we're about to leave Virginia City for
the States, and having ascertained that
by accompanying this party she could
return to her homo in st. Panly and
4 having found ont some of the party, and
obtained their permission to go with
them, she accordinglysstole away from
herspew protectors, aud on the Dist day
of April last, bade adieu 10 Virginia
City.
5 The party consisted of about forty
five teams and were about two weeks in
reaching Fort Benton, up the Missis-
sippi River. Nothing of Importance oc-
! CURED on their trip to Fort Benton.
When within days travel of the Fort
they saw party of three or four huu-
dred Indians at q great distance, but
were not molested by them. Upon ar
irving at Fort Benton, the party with
whom she had been travelling gave up
the notion of returning to the States,
and concluded to stop at a new place
Just being laid out on the~Upper Mis-
souri, River called Moria. s Emily, who
still fondIy cherished the idea OF return
ing to her home, and who accordingly
declined the invitation of her travelling
companions to remain with them, was
again left alone, and still long distance
from her destination. AS good luck
; would have it, the steamer Yellow Stone
had Just arrived from below, and being
about to return, Emily was allowed tc
take passage Oh her for st. Joseph, Mis-
souri,.
Only one incident worthy of note oc
Cured ON their trip down the Missouri
which was an attack by party of In
dams.
The Indians fired their arrows into
the boat. but without injuring any one
Upon a discharge being fired from q
cannon which they had on board, the
Indians took to their heels, leaving
horses and everything else behind. Sucf
a sound they were sunaecustemed tc
hear, and supposed of course, that il
must have @emanated from< the Evi
4 Spirit himself. The Yellow Stone was
four weeks onher trip down to st. 10
seph, having laid up every night, it be
4 ing after dark. Upon arriving at St
4 Joseph, Emily took. the cars for Chicago,
from whence she came to this city Ui0
La Crosse, and is now with her mother,
Mrs. Paddock, who resides on Pear
street. - - So 81
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