Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-08-24
Interesting story Of Four Child
rem.

We take the following remarkable and
affecting story Of four little children, the old
est ten years aud the youngest four years Of
age, from the New York Times:
Three years ago Er. Matthew McCarty
emigrsted from Dublin, leaving his wife
and four little children in their native city,
but expecting soon to send tor them to join
him here. The war had not, however,
opened so many avenues to wealth as be
had been led to suppose were open, and he
found nothing more inviting than the army.
He accordingly enlisted. He served faith
fully and fought like hero until, having
received bullet in the knee, he was sent
back to iscity 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 a soldier s
cap and crutch. Meantime he had sent
money to his family in Dublin, bidding
them be of good cheer and look hope fully
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 children, save the
pauper's home; and she kenw that if they
could reach their father, whatever his lot
might be, their future would be brighter
than it could be in their native isle: she there
fore husbsnded the means which the father
sent, until she had accumulated a sum sufi
cient to pay their passage to America, and
then, committing them unto the Father OF
the fatherless, she bade them adisu forever.
Of the transit Of the Atlantic the children
have 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 Rail
read Depot they were quite as far from
their father as though they had been in
Ireland; aud that after they had wearied of
waiting they knew not what for, and plan
ming without tangible base for any plan,
policenan-unknown to them, but known
to US as officer Hills, of Captain Brackets
force-took them to the headquarters of the
Metropolitan Police. and there entrusted
them to the care efMr George Washington
Ewing, the Jauitor, guardian Of lost child.
rem.
The little family were received at Police
Headquarters on the 22d Of July, and the
following record was made: Received, Mary
MeCarty, aged 0years; Elizabeth McCarty,
aged years; Matthew McCarty, aged
years, and Timothy McCarty, aged years.
Besides their father they had heard of only
two persons in the city-namely, Professor
McDermott and Captain Mahoney. To find
either the father or these two persons, whom
the fathers letters home had mentioned as
his warmest friends in America, was difficult
enough. but MIR. Ewing undertook the task,
and after much inquiry, 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 intelligence of McCarty having
recently moved to Eighteenth street, and
MIR. Ewing went thithsr and prosecuted his
inquiries, but without success, returning to
Police Headquarters disheartened. Mean
while, McCsrty's neighbers in East Eigh
teeuth street heard, through policemen,
that a man had sought him and left tidings
Of his children, and they informed the
astonished parent that his offspring were in
the apartments for lost children, st Police
Headquarters. Tae meeting of the father
and children, on the Sth inst, we shall not
attempt to describe.