Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-01-22

% a strange excuas for q clergy
man to put forward, but the I'M
fortunate man is entitled 10 all the
help It may give him with people
whom such stories can satisfy.
Cook intends TO keep himself
In obscurity for a short time, I'M
Ill the curiosity and indignation
which his conduct has excited
shall have time to subsile.
Miss johnson is ct home with
her parents, where she will re-
main permanently. They ere fine
Christian people, who enjoy the
esteem, confidence and sympathy
of all who know them.
[From the n. Y. Tribune. l2gh.f
ANOTHER PHASE OF THE CASE.
The sad case Of church scandal,
which was recorded in our col
umns yesterday, has developed
new facts, which materially alter
the aspect Of affairs. Several re-
ports VIII. h appear in the jour
nails yesterday are entirely incor-
rect, and incontestible evidence
Of their falsity is at hand. Our
reporter called yesterday on Mrs.
Cook, and found her stricken
sorely with the painful calamity
which had befallen her. Friends
have afforded sympathy, and re-
porters furnished annoyance, OIL
though none of the latter, except
the representative OF the Tribune,
we're granted an interview. DR..
Stevens, DR.. Woodruff, and 9th
ers Of the clergy, called on her,
and they said it was their opinion
that Mr.. Cook was insane.
The insinuations which have
been made impunihg her husbands
hitherto correct life were stead
lastly reruted. His former par
ishoners in Mamaroneck amply
testify to his pre-eminent propri-
ETY. during his pastorate there.
His companion du voyage on his
recent trip to Europe witnesses to
the clean record of his life while
abroad. And no one can point
! to a blemish in his life until this
unaccountable dereliction. That
| he was not the heartless seducer
which he is made to appear is al
r so shown in the letters which
Miss johnson wrote to him, and
! which were in the possession of
Mrs. Cook until the other even
, ing, and which Mr.. johnson now
holds. In these letters the young
! lady expresses her longing eager.
ness for the day on which she
, will become eighteen, and boasts
/. that when she arrives at woman
). hood she will hazard her life and
=. everything for the man she loves.
o The letters are full of q fervid
feeling and affection. She says in
one OF them that she lacks only =
0 little of being eighteen years of
, age, and until that time she must
I pay parental allegiance, but after
/ that she could do as she pleased.
Miss Deyoc, it seems, has been
y privy to this improper intimacy,
g and is now the custodian of let
n tiers which were written by CoOS
Q to Miss johnson. The letters are
Is all without signatures or dates,
and are only identified by the pen
! manship. 1t was Miss Dcvoe
e who first communicated the in
II telligence of Miss Johnson'S
d flight to her family. On Friday
afternoon, at about /! o'clock,
she went to Mrs. Johnson's house,
|. and told the family that Matte
IS had left with Mr.. Cook. That
d Miss johnson was not merely pas
d sive in the hands of her clergy
1t man, but that, on the contrary
she did her part to allure and en-.
d tice is clearly proven. One time
she addressed anote 10 her pas
IN tor, expressing her disappoint-
ment at his failure 10 fulfill an en-
r. gagement which he had made
II with her, and said that if he would
err send his son Baldwin to play chess
with her she would be satisfied,
Dr. Mr.. Cook told his wife that he
" was about to elope with q young
n lady, and that when they had
4. made their escape she would be
at surprised al the choice he had
10 made. He left with but 5000, ant
left his family without q cent. The
* strange willingness he showed 70
ID have his wife know all that wa:
/. concerned with the matter, and
q the reckless improvidence il
which he left, the disregard which
t, he exhibited for a wife and family
le which he has always cherished, il
IN evidence of a mental alteration
IN When last seen he was at jersey
lie City ferry at j;2OP. NJ, Friday
d He was seen by \ man who know.
le him by sight only, and who re
d members the hour so distinctly
le as he had just arrived from Phil
adelphia on the train due at tina
le time. Detectives arc on the tract
d, of the party, and the brother
eli have constituted themselves thu
le avengers of their betrayed sister
&c Mrs. Cook thinks that, because o
a. his slenderly stocked wallet, h
naulI not hov,n ~A~a - E.wAvno