The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-03-25
THE PROPHECY FULFILLED.
A TAE-E FOUNDED or FACE.

! ISONiII- euup Oi Il SIONeT ana IlaOefuaS0er
named james Harvey, a man generally
/ esteemed by his neighbors, and who was
! usually considered welI>toedo in the world.
/ Like many London tradesmen, Harvey
/ was originally from the country. He had
/ come uo 10 town when poor lad to push
1 his fortune, and by dint OF stesdnessand
civliity, and a small property left him By
distant relation, he had been able to get
! into business on his own accoGnt, and to
attain The most important element of sue
! cess in Iondon-''a connection" Shortly
! after setting up in the world, he married
! n young woman from his native town, to
I whom he had been engaged ever since
! his school days; and al tue time our mar
( ratiye commences he was tho father of
/ three children.
James iarvey's establishment was one
of the best frequented Of It's class in the
/ street. You could never pass without
sesing customers going in and out. There
was evidently not little business going
! forward But although, to all appear
/ ance, a fiOulishing concern, the proDrie-
. tor Of the establishment was surprised to
( find that lie was continually punched In
/ his circumstances. So meter what was
/ the amount Of business transacted over lie
/ counter, he never got any Tivhcr.
| At the period referred 10 shopleeping
I had not attained the degree of orgaaiza-
non, with respect TO clerks and cashiers,
which now distinguishes the great houses
, Of trade. The primitive till was not yet
/ superseded. This was tie weak point in
Harvey : arrangements and not 10 make
"a needless number Of words about It, the
/ poor man was regularly robbed 10y shop
| man, whose dextefify in pitching guinea
/ into Ile drawer. 50 as 10 make it Jump.
( unseen. with jerk into his hand, was
! worthy Of Herr Dobler, or any other
master Of the sublime art Of j1gglery.
Good uotured and uususpicioue, per
( haps also not sufficiently yigiiart, Harvey
! was long in discovering how lie was pill
! laged. Cartwright, the name of the
! gerson who was preyiug on his employer,
/ was not young man. He was between
! forty and fifty years Of ace, and bad been
/ in various situations. where he had al
ways given satisfaction, except on the
/ score Of being somewhat gay and some~
/ what irritable. Privately ne was man
( Of loose habits, and for years his extrava-
gance had been paid for by property clam
desliuely abstracled from bis too cunfiIing
employer. Slow TO believe 10 the reality
Of such wlckcdness, Mr.. Harvey could,
/ with difficulty entertain the suspicion
which began TO dawn on his mind Ar
! length all doubt was at an end. lie de
/ tected Cartwright in the very act Of carry
ING off goods TO a very large amount. The
man was tried for the offence, but through
a technical informalily in the Indictment,
acquitted
Unable to find employment, and with
character gone, he liberated thief be
came savage, reveng ful and desperate
Instead Of imputiug his fall 10 his own
irregularities, he considered his late uu-
fortunate employer IS the cause of his
ruin ard now he bent all the energies OF
his dark nature to destroy the reputation
of the man whom he had betrayed and
pIundered. OF all the beings self>deliver-
ed to the rule of INSCRIPTIONS 5nahguify.
with whom ii has been my fate 70 come
professionally in contact, / never knew
one so utterly fiendish as this discomftted
pi!ferer Frouzied with lis imaginary
wrongs, he formed the determination &c
labor, even if it were for years, TO ruin
his victim. Nothing short of death should
divert him from this the darling object o.
his existence.
Animated by these diaboIicai passions
Cartwright proceeded 10 do bis work
Harvey, he had too good reasons to know
was in debt 10 persons who had made
him advances and by means Of artfully
concocted anonymous letters, evidcntl,
written by some one conversant with th,
matters on which he wrote, he succeeded
in alarming the haberdasher's creditors
The consequences were-demands of i'm
mediate payment, aud, in spite Of th,
debtors explanations and promises. wrts
heavy law expenses, ruinous sacrifices an,
ultimate bankruptcy 1t may seem al
most too marvellous for belief, but tht
story Of this terrible revenge and It's con,
sequences is no fiction. Every incideu
in my narrative is true, and the whole
may be found in hard ouiline in the re
cords of the courts with which q few
years ago | was familiar
! The Inundated and distressed feeling!
of Harvey and his family may be left L
the imagination When he found himse
a ruined man, dare say his mental suf
feIings were sufficiently acute Yet h,
did not sit down in despair. To re .estab
lish himself in business In England ap
pearcd hopeless; but America presented
itself as a scene where industry NIGH
find a reward; and by the kindness o
some Of his friends, he was enabled tC
make preparations to emigrate with hi
wife and children. Towards the end o
February he Quilted London for one o
the great.seaports, where he was to en-,
bark for Boston. On arriving there will
his family MIR Harvey tool ,t, },is abolf