Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-09-14
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We take the following remarkable and af-
fecting story of four little children, the oldest
ten years and the youngest four years of age,
from the N. Y. Times:
Three years ago Mr.. Matthew McCarty en-
igrated from Dublin, leaving his wife and four
little children in their native city, but expect
ing soon to send for them to join him here
The war had not, however, opened so many
avenues to wealth as he had been led to sup
pose were open, and he found nothing more
inviting than the army He accordingly en-
listed He served faithfully and fought like
hero until, having received bullet in the
knee, he was sent back to this city with an
honorable discharge; and having again come
hither, he became once more drop in the
ocean of New York life--but distinguished
above the mass of us by the thrice honored
insignia of q soldier cap and crutch. Mean
time he; had sent money to his family in Dub
lin, bidding them to be of good cheer and
look hopefully forward to the happy hour
when he should bid them embark to meet
him. But they it seems, applied this money
as he little thought they would The mother
had fallen into consumption, and felt that her
course of life had nearly run. She had no
relatives--there was no refuge for her chill
dren, save the paupers home; and she knew
that if they could reach their father, whatever
his lot might be, their future would be bright
er than it would be in their native isle: she
therefore husbanded the means which the faith
er sent, until she had accumulated sum suf-
ficient to pay their passage to America, and
then, committing them unto the Father of the
fatheress, she babe them adieu forever. Of
the transit of the Atlantic, the children have
a very confused idea. They only know that
they landed in Montreal, friendless and alone;
that some humane person, learning that their
father was in New York, had sent them hith-
er; that at the Hudson River Railroad Depot
they were quite as far from their father as
though they had been in ireland; and that,
after they had wearied of waiting they knew
not what for, and planning without tangible
base for any PLAN, a policeman-unknown to
them, but known to us as an officer Hills, of
Captain Brackets force--took them to the
headquarters Of the Metropolitan Police, and
there entrusted them to the care of Mr.. Geo.
Washington Ewing, the Janltor, guardian of
lost children.
The little family were received at Police
Headquarters on the 22d of July, and the fol-
lowing record was made: Received, Mary Me-
Carly aged 10 years; Elizabeth McCarty,
aged years. Matthew McCarty, aged years,
and Timothy McCarty, aged years. Be-
sides their father they had heard of only two
persons. in the city. namely, Professor Nc
Dermott and Captain Mahoney. To find Ell
ther the father or these two persons, whom the
fathers letters home had mentioned as his
warmest friends in America, was difficult
enough; but Mr.. Ewing undertook the task
and after much inquiry, found one of these
gentlemen, and was told that Mr.. McCarty
lived somewhere up town, the gentlemen
thought in Harlem. Mr. Ewing, therefore.
went to Harlem, and caused inquiry to be
made by the police; but the search yielded
only vague intelligence of McCarty having
recently moved to Eighteenth street, and Mr..
Ewing went thither and prosecuted his inqui-
ries, but without success, returning to Police
Headquarters dsheartened. Meanwhile, Nc
Carty's neighbors in East Eighteenth street
heard, through Policemen, that man had
sought him and left tidngs of his children,
and they informed the astonished parent that
his offspring were in the apartments for lost
children, at Police Headquarters. The meet
ing of the father and children, on the Sth
lust, we shall not attempt to describe.