, 1873-02-13

immense wealth, and still in active busi
ness in a great Broadway establishment
The wedding of Stokes with Miss South
wick seemed to lack nothing that wealtl
position and social surroundings coal
bring to insure happiness. They mad
their sumptuous home in the Hoffma
House, and moved among the most bri
liant life of the metropolis.
/ The next scene IN the drama brins
the Infamous woman Mansfield into the
plot. Solomon described her many cen
turies ago, and Ue fear Solomon knew
what he was writing about But his
paintings has never been surpassed, and
if some one could have slipped into Mr.
| Stokes mind this little pen-pertralt,
made two thousand years ago, of dose
phine Mansfield and her Infamous SIS
ters, If might have sptrsd the commnni-
ty the fruits Of the new acquaintance.
Here are some of the wise mans
coiorings of his subjects:
She Iieth in wait for her prey, and in
creaseth her transgressions among the
men.
Her feet go down to death; her steps
tahe hold on he'll.
Her house inclineth into death, and
her paths into the dead None that &c
unto her return again.
He goeth after her straightway, as an
OK goetL to the slaughter
She hath cast down many wounded,
yea many strong men have been wound.
ed by her,
Her house is in the way to hell, going
down TO the chambers of death.
The dead are there. Her guests are
in the depths of hell
Aud just precisely that happened
which the son Of David predicted; from.
the house of the harlot the path turned
downward. A quarrel between Fish anG
Stokes followed 1t was carried into
affairs of business. Fisk refused to al
low the Hunters Point concern, to
make dividend, and thus cut eff Stokes
supplies. This disgraceful relation Will
Mansfield became more shameless, and
the father-in-law, Southwick, sent hi.
daughter and her child to Europe early
in 1871, TO remove her from the scene
of the scandal. Stokes, enraged ut FISH
used his position as secretary to collect
! $50 600 from Devoe, an oil merchant
which sum he held openly AID defantl,
rs his share Of the profits. Fisk caused
his arrest on criminal charge. Stokes
turned TO his wealthy relatives. No onc
OF them would bail him, and he was
1 forced to make terms and submit an,
refund the money. H relations to Nj
FISK were bitter. ana out OF the inten-
sity Of the evil prssi inns and CRIMINAL
ties grew murder. Turn to Solomon
again, and there is no mystery III the
chain OF sequence. 1t Is said that tbs
same steamer took out to Europe the
news of the murder OF Fisk by Stokes
carried divorce procured by her family
for his wife, who still remains abroad.
The story OF family grief aud reverse
is not ali told. The senior Stokes, after
thirty years Of retirement and eujoy-
ment Of lax rious home, Is bankrupi
and homeless ia his old age. One oi
the daughte. died Two weeks altei mar
riage. The second daughter, the wife
of a Bir. Sutton, attached herself st
strongly to the fortunes Of her brother
that her husband discarded her, and she
is inrefuge with her aged and pennile.
I parents. The second son, a young maI
Of great promise, died two months ago
of grief and shame at the family rever
ses Of the family, and the whole tale ot
The innocent md suffering victims by
this complication Of crime and shame
is not to be fully told without including
some Of the best known aud esteemed
New York families.
If young men in our communities
could only ride on express trains to th,
devil, and take no one with them, there
would be less to he said. since, aside
from these considerations, it is every
mans individual right to barter away
his life and fortune and sacred honor 1t
his own price. Satan buys great many
of these poor fellows very chep, and a
short option for seller. But every cai
is part of a family train The shocl
and crush Of shame and disgrace mus
fall on innocent as well as guilty. II
behalf Of the fathers and mothers auG
sisters Of the community, let genera
warning be made Of the case Of Edward
Stokes. Where has romance woven any
thing so sad? Where, IN modern com
mHnities have been given more abrUp
and startling variations of light ant
shade, from the brightest point of prom
Use and assured happiness to thS depths
of darkness and misery. than those OF
which the curtain talls?-GAieago Tri
buae.
u. S. MAIL STEAMSHIP
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