The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-23
The End of q Southern Romance-A
Southern Cotton Factors Daughter
In TrOuble-A Gamblers Victim.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
In the spring of 1851, when Fort Sumter
had surrendered to the mob which sur
rounded it, there was fever Of excite
mcnt in Charleston relative 10 raising
troops TO invade the North. 4 company Of
young men belonging to the first families
in the city had been organized, and the
ladies' belonging to that circle had made it
their province TO raise the money ncccs-
sary to equip the company, furnish it with
arms, and send it 10 the scat of war in Il
style which should reflect credit upon the
patriotism even of the first families Of
Charleston.
The excitement was intense, and the
young lady friends Of the soldier, were III
a icvcr-hcat as to which should do the
most toward aiding the cause and firing the
Southern heart. 4 fair was held, at which
the beauty and chivalry were present, ana
from this large sum was realized.
One Young lady, u beautiful and we'll
educated girl, daughter Of New York
merchant who had settled rs a cotton fac
tor in Charleston some thirty years before,
threw her whole Soul into the work. She
forgot her relations in the North, forgot her
father was there born, forgot everything
but her deep interest in aiding the cansc
of the South, and, with & foolish romance,
which only the excitement OF the times
could explain, al the fair spoken at offered
her heart and hand rs aprizc III the railic,
the only stipulation being that the person
who drew them should be of respectable
parcntagc and a soldier.
The novelty of the proposition added q
great interest to the fair, and IN immense
sum was realized, aided by the rattle. She
being a pettcd child of Southern society,
young, beautiful, gifted, ANA wealthy. The
holder OF the prize ticket was gambler
and spcndthritt, who had run through his
fortune, and civil war was an excitement
inst suited To his nervous temperament.
He was a member Of the company-thc
Charleston Tigers-whch the ladies were
fitting out, and was scion Of the family
Of Rhett.
After il was known who the lucky man
was, his well-known propcnslticS, notwitll-
standing his family connections, every in
ducement was offered by the lady's pa
rents TO make her rcccdc from the pro-
misses she had made. No-Shc had given
her word, and her part of the contract
should he rcligiouSiy kept. With great
eclut the parties were marricd-'he occa-
sion was the theme OF much talk Tor few
days, and then disappeared before the
stern realities of war.
War brings strange revolutions. The
father of the young lady saw his property
wasted. and he died in poverty. Poor
now, the folly and romance which had once
been the theme of all praise was laughed
at but the most singular thing OF all was,
that the young lady loved the object upon
whom she had so strangely placed her
heart. lie had gone TO Virginia with his
company. She heard of and from him
regularly until the summer of lSGi, when
all traces of him ceased. The "TigerS ]"
were broken up Is company organlZa-
ton, and the few of them left were scat
tered through other regiments. Her ceas-
ing to hear from the man led the lady 10
believe that he was dead, and as 4 martyr
to the cause she loved, was he mourncd.
When, however, the war ceased, and
the scattered fragments of Southern CHI
valrv came struggling back, she learned
that her husband had been taken prisoner
near Norfolk, and enlisted in company Of
United States volunteers composed OF de-
serters from the Southern army, and had
been with them sent up into Minnesota
for duty Oh the border. This was tragi-
cal termination to her romance, but II did
not uucnch the love which had grown up
from nothing in her heart, and few
months ago she left Charleston, selling
what little OF her jewclry she had left 10
raise the necessary money, went to Wash
incton, searched through the rolls, but
could not find the name Of her husband,
and if he had been there il was under an
assumed name.
She had expected this: but laying her
case before President Johnson, she was
furnished with the necessary instructions
10 the commanding officer of the depart
ment in which her husband might be 10,
secure his release from service, and she
came west with the intention OF proceed
ing along the track the troops had taken
until she could obtain some information OF
him.
Arriving in Chicago, she was fortunate
enough to meet there man whom she
had known in Charleston when she was
the belle of the city-a man who bad de-
serted the rebel flag and joined the Union
army with her husband. From him she
learned that what she had heard was true
that both had been mustered out on sur.
geon's certificates of disability, and had
come back to St. Paul after the Indian
campaign was over.
Both had too much pride to return to
their home now; and while she had come
ON TO Chicago, the husband had remained
at st. Paul to pursue his reckless course
of gambling, under the assumed name OF
Grantley, and was either there or on the
river. Unpleasant as was the intelligence,
it was welcome TO the poor woman, who at
once set out for St. Paul. While at , the
dcpot in Chicago she had her pocket picked
of nearly all the money she had, and when
she arrived in this city on "Wednesday she
was in destitute condition.
Yesterday morning she went to the office
of Mayor Talimadge and told that gentle
man her situation and the desire she felt
of at once proceeding to St. Paul, in hopes
that she might there find the object Of her
search. She said that she was here with
out q friend to apply to, and as humiliating
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