The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-09-08
The Remarkable Story of Four Little
Children


Three years ago, Mr.. Matthew Nc
Carly emigrated from Dublin, leav-
ing his wife and four little children
in their native city, but expecting
soon to send for them TO join him
here. The war had not, however,
opened so many avenues of wealth
as he had been led to suppose were
open, and lie found nothing more in
viting than the army. lie accord
ingly enlisted. He served faithfully
and fought like hero until, having
received bullet in the knee, he was
sent back to this city with an honor
able discharge; and having again
come hither, he became once more n
drop in the ocean of New York life
but distinguished above. the mass of
us by the thrice honored insignia of
a soldiers cap and crutcn. Mean
time he had sent money to his fam.
lily in Dublin, bidding them to he Of
good cheer and look hopefully for
ward to the happy hour when he
should bid them to 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 Children, save the pauper's
home; and she knew that If they could
reach their father, whatever his lot
might be, their future would bo
brighter than it could be in their ma
tive isle; she therefore husbanded the
means which the father sent, until
she had accumulated sum sufficient
to pay their passage to America, and
then committing them unto the Faith
er of the fatherless, she bade 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 hither; that at
the Hudson River Railroad Depot
they here quite rs far from their
father rs though they had been in
Ireland, and that, after they had
wearied of waiting, they knew not
what for, and planning, without tan
.gible base for any plan, policeman
unknown to them, but known to us as
Officer Hills, of Capt. Bracllett's g
force--took them to the Headquar-
ters of the Metropolitan Police, and
entrusted them to the care of Mr..
George Washington Ewing, the Jan
itor, guardian Of lost children.
The little family was received at
Police Headquarters on the 22l OF
July, and the following record was
made: Received, Nary McCarty, aged
10 years: Elizabeth McCarty, aged
years; Matthew McCarty, aged
years, and Timothy McCarty, aged
years. Beside their father they had
heard of only two persons in the
city-namely, Professor McDermott
and Capt. Mahoney. To find either
the father or these two persons whom
the fathers home had mentioned as
his warmest friends in America, was
difficult enough; but Mr.. Ewing un.
dertool the task, and after much in.
quiry found one of these gentlemen
and was told that Mr.. McCarty lived
somewhere up town, the gentleman
thought in Harlem. Mr.. Ewing
therefore, went to Harlem, and caused
Inquiry to be made by the Police
but the search yielded only vague IN,
Itelligence Of McCarty having recent.
ly moved TO Eighteenth Street, and
Mr.. Ewing went thither and prose
cuted his inquiries, but without sue
cess, returning to Police Headquar.
ters disheartened Meanwhile, Nc
Carty's neighbors in East Eighteenth
street heard, through Policemen, that
a man had sought him and left tidings
of his children, and they informed
the astonished parent that his off
spring were in the apartments for lost
children at Police Headquarters -
The meeting of the father and chill
dren, on the Sth instant, we shall not
attempt to describe. - Mem Yoih
Times.