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The Heavenly Guide.
I gazed down life’s dim lahrynth,
A wildering maze to see,
Crossed by many a tangled clew
As wild as wild could be:
And as 1 gazed in doubtand dread,
An angel came to me,
l knew him for a heavenly guide,
F kne w him even then ;
Though meekly as a child he stood
Among the sons of men,
l>y his deep spirit loveliness,
f knew him even thuds
And as I leaned my weary head
Upon his proffered breast,
And scanned the peril haunted wild.
From out my place of rest,
1 wondered if the shining ones
Os Eden were more blest
For there was light within my soul,
Light on my peaceful way,
And all around the blue above
The clustering star-light lay ;
And easterly I saw upreared
The pearly gates of day.
So hand in hand we trod the wild,
My angel love and I,
His lifted wing all quivering
With tokens from the sky,
Strange my dull thoughts could not divine,
’Twas lifted but to fly !
Again down life’s labrynth
I grope my way alone,
While wildly through the midnight sky
Black hurrying clouds are blown,
And thickly, in my tangled path,
The sharp, bare thorns are sown.
Yet firm ray foot, for well I know,
The goal cannot be far,
And ever, through the rifted clouds,
Shines out one steady star —
For when'uiy guide went up* he left
The pearly gates ajar,
4 *ln those Jast two unsurpassed lines—lines in
the golden cadence of which lay the lark song of
her own then dawning morning in heaven—Em
ily Judsou has expressed the faith of which the
imaginative world is now zealously contending
—spirit vision across the grave. 1 should be re
luctant indeed to relinquish my own hold, instinc
tive rather than philosophical though it be, on
faith so precious.”
—* •
A Kissing Lyric
FROM THE ANCIENT SPANISH.
Since for kissing thee, Minguillo,
My mother scolds me all the day.
Let me have it quickly, darling,
Give me back my kiss, I pray.
If we have done aught amiss,
Let’s undo it while we may ;
Quickly give me back the kiss,
That she may have naught to say.
Do, she makes so great a bother,—
Chides so sharply, looks so grave,
Do, my love, to please my mother,
Give me back the kiss 1 gave.
Out upon you, false Minguillo!.
One you gave, but two you toko;
Give me back the one, my darling,
Give it for my mother's sake.
COMMUNICATION.
For the Crummier.
Mk. Eiitoi< v — l wish to write for your ‘Crusa
der.” and through it to suggest to the friends of
Teinperauca, what I believe to be otir duty rela
tive to the temperance reform: and to all who be
lieve ill the doctrines of (’hristianitv, f wish to of
fer reasons, why 1 believe they ought to support
the cause I advocate. If we desire to be
good Okristians, or to lie Christians at all, we
should do nothing which we know tends to the
production, or the continuance ot sin and misery
in the world. As my object is to effect gooil, if f
can, I respectfully ask the Editor of the “Chris
tian Index,” to publish through the columns of
that paper, such of my numbers as lie may see in
the ‘‘Crusader,” and believe to be calculated, if
their doctrines upon, to make meri
better. The great objects which I desire to effect,
are, first to convihce all who may read, that it is
wrong to elect men to govern or to make laws, who
are opposed to the alteration or repeal of the laws
which give a profitable monopoly to the retailers
of liquor; and secondly* that it is the duty of all,
and especially of Christians and good men, to use
all fair means in their power, to put an end to the
evils of the dram-shops. If the drain-shop-laws
were repealed, by far, the most, perhaps niueteeu
twentieths of the evils of inteiupenance would
cease.
I shall begin with a few words of encourage
ment to those who void the temperance ticket in
the last election. This letter, as well as the fol
lowing numbers, you will please publish.
No. U
Overby’s vote was ti,2fl l. See “Chronicle Si
Sentinel” 15th Nov. 18.‘>5. To the six thousand
two hundred and sixty-one men who gave the
above in the State elections of October 1855.
Brothers in a good cause:—Having failed to
elect our candidates for Governor and the Leg
islature, we now propose to notice some of the cau
ses of our failure; also to present an argument,
addressed to our erring brothers of the Church
and the temperance societies, who voted against
us; and further, we wish to suggest what we
should now do, accompanied with such ob-erva
tions as may occur. That our cause is a good one,
nobody doubts. Enemies and all know it to be
promotive of goo*l morals, mercy and relief to
the victims of the liquorshops, and to (lie suffer
ing families of those who have them. All know
it to tie promotive of sobriety, peace* our coun
try’s good, and of our churches purity. Such a
cause, demands our continuing and nn< i easing
support.
YVe have tire leaders of the political parties
and their smaller demagogues to contend with,
though not a few of them have pretended to Iks
with us. Many of these, while they had profes
sions for our cause,’ ha<l fellowship and aid for its
worst enemies. One of these, in our last election',
as he had done two years before, published his
great love of temperance, but in connection with
that love, he also expressed opinions, which were
no doubt intended to be,as they really were, injuri
ous to the temperance effort then making, lie
represented the temperance cause as “100 good”
to have a party ! meaning that the temperance
men ought not to unite at the ballot-box for the
election of candidates, who wished a rejieal of the
law, which license and establish the dram-shops;
though their enemies were known at the time to
have united to force a continuance of the liquor
shops with all their evils.
The Legislature of Georgia, by licensing liquor
shops, stands in the way ot” the temperance re
form; and whenever the friends of this reform
endeavor to unite in an effort to have this license
law repealer!, so that they may have a fair contest
with their enemies, the man we complain of, be
comes so weary that he cannot hold still until he
tells us through the papers how well lie loves
temperance, but never fails to strike blows against
the efforts of the temperance people, which oper
ates to the protection and perpetuation of the
dram-shops and their business. But enough of
this.
W hat we can and ought to do. —\Y e have here
tofore voted lor temperance candidates, ami we
can do it again. YVe can do more. Wc can and
ought to have it understood, that no candidate
for Governor or the Legislature, who prefers a
continuance of tire dram-shops, to a repeal of the
law that establishes them, or who hesitates to de
clare himself explicitly in favor of repealing the
license law can ever receive our votes. If we do
this, consciences and high heaven will approve
our course. It is 1 letter to contend for a good
cause and fail, than for a bad one and succeed.
All that we have here suggested, we can do ;
and if we will perform it. ihdependantly, we will
assuredly do much for our Cause. A candidate
tbr-Governor would dislike to have sixty- two hun
dred and sixty one voters, determined to declare
against him on moral principles, as soon us his
name be announced. These added to
those who would be against him or other grounds,
he would feel to be no inconsiderable muuliep Jf
we will have these determinatioas well understood,
candidates for Governor and the UgUlature wU
PENFIELD, GA, THURSDAY, MAY 11. 1857.
soon begin to inquire whether onr support would
not I** worth more to them than they have here
tofore .supposed. If we will show that we intend
tostand by onr prine-jvles, all sensible candidates,
w ill know, That thousands who left us in the last
contest, believing that liefore the ballot box would
be reached. we should have neither candidate nor
party, would return and act zealously with us.
Early in the last canvass, many men, made
publications through the newspapers, falsely j ►re
tending to be friends of the. temperance reform,
but insisted that Overby ought and would “come
down,” as they expressed it. They insisted that
he stood no chance, ami called on the temperance
men to “take him down.” Some of these writers
signet! themselves, “A true temperance man,” ami
others, “A sincere temperance man,” Are. W hilst
the trne character of these writers were under
stood by many, there were many others, who sup
posed them to lie honest. By these and other
means, the impression was extensively made that
Overby would decline and uot run the race
through. This did our cause great harm. Many
who never belonged to either the churches or the
temperance societies, would gladly have acted
with us, if they could have had encouragement to
doso: but wlieu they saw our friends distracted
and scattering, they gave their support to the
other parties. The wonder i.s, not that Overby
was not elected, but it is, drat under such dis
couragements, he should receive more than six
thousand votes! Though under the cireumsmn
ees there were many good men who voted against
us, yet, there were others, who would do well to
reflect what they did.
The proper way for u* to act. is to stand firm
ly up tor our principles, and to vote for men in
favor of repealing the license law, or not to vote
at all. Why need a Christian man care whether
the leaders of this or that political party obtain
the office? tor which ever it may be, the conse
quences are precisely the same to all hut the of
fice seekers. The leaders of these parties, do not
so much as even promise to do anything for
the common good. They promise to }*> true to
their party ; so that is, to promote jts strength
and influence, so that it may control the bestow -
inent of the office. Beyond this, they neither
promise or aim to do anything, except that they
pledge themselves to protect the retail liquor sell
ers against a repeal of the law 7 that gives them
license.
We ought to have nothing to do with >r for
the retailors or their candidates. In our next
we wish to reason w ith those members of the
churches, and the mem hers of tlie temperance so
cieties who voted for the anti-temjKimice ..can
didate in the last Ktale election. 11.
Tiik I>ki nkard’s r>AtqttrF.H.—That- night l
was out late, I returned by Lee’s cabin, about 11
o’clock. As T approached, l saw strange look
ing object, cow ering under the low eaves. A cold
rain was falling—it was late in autumn—J drew
near—and there was Millie* wet to the skin.—
Her father ltad driven her out some hours before;
she had laid down to listen for the heavy snoring
of his drunken slumbers, so that she might creep
back to her bed. Before she beard it, nature
seemed exhausted, and she fell into a troubled sleep
with rain-drops pattering upon her. I tried to
take her home with me; but no, true as a martyr
to his fate, she struggled from me, and returned
to the nowr dark and silent cabin. Things Went
on for weeks and months, but at length Lee grew
less violent* even in his drunken fits, to bis self
defying child; and one day, when he awoke from
aslumber after a debauch, and found her prepar
ing breakfast for him, and singing a childish song,
he turned to her, and w ith a tone almost tender,
said, “Millie, what nmkes you stay w ith me
“Because you are my father, and I love you.”—
“You love me’” repeated the w retched raiuij “yo/i
love me?” He looked at his bloated limbs, his
soiled and ragged clotlreS. “Love me!” lie still
murntttred, “Millie, what makes you love me? 1
am a jw>or drunkard ; everybody else despises me,
why don’t you ?” “Dear father,” said tin? girl,
with swimming eye*, “my mother taught me to
love you ; and every uigh.tshe coinesTrom heaven,
awl stands by my littlebed, and says, ‘Millie, don’t
leave your father, lie w ill, get away from that rum
fiend oue of these days, and. then how happy you
will lx; T Christian News.
■
A Temperance Story. —Oneevenin'g last week
we took our place at the supper table ot a Oiuchi
natti and Louisville packet. • Supper and con versa
tion had progressed some before we were seated.
An animated discourse was going on ’twixt an oUL
gentleman and an exceedingly sober-laced lady,
not less than 30 years old, on the subject ot tem
perance.
“Oh !” exclaimed she, with horror depicted on
her thin lips, “I do despise the whiskey drinker.’
The gentleman dropped his knife and fork, seiz
ed her hand giving it a hearty shake; we thought
team were going to drop from his winking eyes.
“Madam,.’ said he, “l respect your sentiments
and the heart that dictated them; l no
person to go beyond ine in despising whisky drink
ers. I have been disgusted on this very boat,
and I say it now, before our worthy captain’s face.
What, 1 ask you, can be more disgusting ‘than to
see well‘dressed, respectable, ave, virtuous looking
young men, whose mothers hiv probably even now
praying that the tender instnictioruby which their
youth was illuminated, may bring forth precious
fruit in their maturity*—l say% to see young men
i step up to the bar of this boat, and withotft-the
fear of observing eves, or . the condemnation of
L enlightened opinion, brazenly ask for old Bourbon
or Rye* or Monongahela whisky, when in that
bar they know there is the very .best of Old Cog
le A
[ ‘ [Prom the True Witne-o.]
Will Tim Vote for a Drunkard?
(dhristian Voters: —ln taking up my pen for
the purpose of calling yotir attention to what 1
conceive a subject of momentous importance, i
felt at a loss for a caption that would ensure your
attention to a few thoughts which I propose -üb
mitting for your consideration. 1 shall submit
Wtew’propositions and questions, and when you
have candidly and fairly considered thorn. Answer
them according to your decision, at the ballot box.
If you are a Christian, yon pray. When you
pray vou implore the conversion and salvation of
sinners. You are earnest and sincere, ami von do
realty desire what you ask. or else you area hyp
ocrite, spurned of men, and despised by God.—
Such lam not addressing. 1 set out, calling you
Christian. I put the question to you. Is tlie
conversion, salvation,or Christianity of the world
as probable, or is it as likely to hapjten when in
temperance stalks abroad in the earth, and when
drunkenness “sits in the high places,” as when so
briety hold its sway, and virtue, morals, decency
and merit become the passports to the “post of
honor?”
Is religion as likely to prosper in a drunken
community as in a sober one ?
Would you expect a revival in a neighborhood
where the “dram-shop” was more frequented than
the. “meeting-house ?”
I already hear your answer to these questions.
I l.en you admit that intemperance is a great bar
rier to the mild teachings and geurie influences of
the Gosjrel. Druukeuuess is a great harm to the
Church. Y r ou desire to mitigate this evil. Y’ou
wish well. Now go to work like a sensible man.
Begin in the right place, and apply the proper
remedy. Let us trace the sources of this mighty
river of intemperance that bears on its tut bid ami
tempestuous current so much of hoj>e and happi
ness; sweeping on in Alpine torrents, to a wide
vor.ex of destruction many a tossed and wrecked
< raft, freighted witli tlie innocence of childhood,
the fated (reality of woman, the exiled endear
ments of home, and the robbed loveliness of earth;
You have consented to look to the origin of this
moral malady—to apply the proper remedy in the
riglrt time and place. In considering the remedy
lam proposing, it will he useful ami instructive,
to review the influences and means, that have,
from time to rime, Treen brought into requisition
for the mitigation and suppression of the evils of
intemperance. These have been moral suasion
and legal prohibition. To the first of these, he-,
long pulpit ineulcfttions—the various organizations
acting under siy-h names as “Washingtonians,”
“Sons,” and “Daughters of Temperance,” “Social
Circle,” Ac., <foc. To the latter, those statutory
enactments of the State Legislatures, town incor
porations, and police regulations, which have beep
prompted as an obedience to that public sentiment
which has been eliminated ands imulated hv the
teachings and inculcations Os the former. Great
good has already been achieve.) in this behalf.—
The, world is being sobered. The-, “desolate pla
ces” have been “made glad,” ami “the wilderness
has bloomed and blossomed as the rose.” Look
abroad upon the earth, and tlie evidences of ame
lioration are everywhere conspicuous. Go to our
National Metropolis, and we are not now so likely
to he characterized as a “nation of drunkards,” as
formerly, \*isit our own (Capital, ami you w ill
see grave-Sena tor* ami dignified liepresontutiw-.H
not so besotted, as of yore. Legislators arc jfow
chosen as the representatives and exponents of a
class of principles, ami in party nominations for
office, the slang and blather of a grocery is made
to succumb to merit and sobriety. But though
our law-makers, expounders, and executives :vtv
for the most part sober men, yet, unfortunately
for society, there are too many of this class who
are addicted to habits of intemperance* and this
is tlie evil which 1 propose to correct.
It cannot he denied that our Governors, State
officers, Legislators, find those generally “high in
authority,” arc looked to as the examplars of
morals and respectability; they determine, in a
great degree, the status of the conduct and actions
of men. Who that has not heard the flippant
and facile “Y'oung America” tell how “gloriously
drunk” was the Governor at tin-’“reception,” and
how elegantly “tight” was the Secretary of State,
the Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General; hew
the Senator from A., and “the gentleman from o,’k
were “fuddled and “Y’oung America,” to air
proximate the sfatu* o( these dignitaries must get
drunk tho; he is licensed to do it, because lie lias
the “seal of the State /” lie can’t be respectable
without it; and thus it is, that influences are pro
pagated from our metropolitan centres, both State
and country, which, like the pebble throw n upon
the bosom of some quiet and placid lake, sends
out its widening and increasing undulations; until
the remotest circumference feels the shock. Who
that has not seen and felt that evil wavs and bad
habits have been dignified by men who have per
verted the confidence and partiality which should
have made them patterns of morality and so
briety.
VY hat is the remedy ? Teach men that if., is
not respectable, or popular to be a .Inuikaof.'—
Moral suasion, has almost exhausted Its artillery.
Legal coercion has found its appropriate limits in
popular sovereignty of communities. The re
maining remedy resides in the bnllot-box.
Now wc recur to the caption which stands at
the head of this communication—“ Will vou
vote for a drunkard ?” In this State, those con
ventions ot the people that are to determine who
are to be the candidates for the different offices, are
soon to asse.inl le. Let none but sober men receive
the nominations, and sul>sequ@ntly at the ballot
box, casf your votes only to sober candidates. If
Conventions, reckless and regardless of these
considerations, should, in nominating a ticket,
place A. B. and C. upon it, and C. is a drunk
ard, when, you come to vote, ratify your good
■ resolution by erasing C.’s name from jour ticket.
Suppose that in a contest of opposing parties,
► where the voting strength of each is very nearly
I equal, and A. and B. are the candidates of one
party, and (A and D. are tlie nominees of the
f other party, and D. is a drunkard; if in the
summing up after the election, C. is found to be
uy fifteen votes, and D. i defeated by a
like nuniU'i’. i? it probable that the latter party
in th>* iifx-t nominating ‘convention, will foist I).
upon bis party for a repetition <>f .latent t
lit us it is seen, that the sober men, hv n |er
sisteme in me policy recommended, may cure the
evil, by withholding their suffrages from the
drunkard. Men w ill be forced to learn that it is
not respectable, and coffherjitenUy not jKjpular to
drink, and in this way, -tire fountains that send
forth such .deadly influences will l>e dried up, and
the streams tliuL water the green vales of home
with showers •rippling with joy and gladness, will
continually chant with angel's music to a happy
“••rid, that praying men have not voted for a
drunkard, . - . • %
From the Charleston News.
The Author of “Sweet Home” and the
“Georgia Guard.”
Ukai fokt, South Carolina, April 3, *57.
Mkskrs. Km to ns:—A notice of John Howard
Paine, which l saw in the Courier a tew days since,
brings to mind another adventure in which the
song “Home sweet Home” was touchingly brought
to bear upon the feelings of the kindly author. I
met the poet for the first time in 1836, in the lit
tle town of Athens Ga., at which he stopped a
few days on,his wav to explore the then “ frontier ”
counties of North Western Georgia. I found him
a general, pleasant and intelligent traveled gentle
man, who had seen much of the world, strange
men, ami strange things, but yet bad seen nothing
which surprised him so much as the extreme apathy
of the southern people on all subjects connected
with arts and literature. Thai be did not know
us, was evident in the fact that he was seeking
patronage for a work to be published in London,
in which Ameiican, European, Asiatic, African,
Polynesian, Malaysian, Australian, Austral and
Boreal affairs were to lie laid out for the general
enlightenment of tnankiud, and which was to be
called the “Nam-Jehan-Nitna,” a Persian work he
said, which meant‘“The Mirror in which one sees
the world.” But as it was twenty years younger
then than now, the world was so much the wiser
than at present, for it never give the new 00*1110-
ftoiitan journal even a trial, and Ido not know
‘hat it reached as far as a prospectus.
Some months afterwards I met him amidst the
gjyiions scenes of our inoiuuain regions. He was
enchanted with them and revelled in the bracing
air and in the purple sunlight of the Indian sum
mer; and though the Alps, tlve Apjienines, the
Csaiskill and the White mountains were fainilirfr to
him, be acknowledged that “such solver cenaintv
of waking bliss he never felt before,” as when re
clining on (he brow of the “ocean view,” he listen
er! t<> the thundering of Tallulah, rising over the
moaning of the pine {rets at his feet, and through
the mist of a Havana segar, overlooker! the more
misty distance of the middle country of Georgia
and Garopna. before him the pyramidal form c 4
the Cnrrahee rose iike Egypt’s lesser mounds from
the plain, isolated and alone; l>ehind him swelled
up the ne;irer top of the Hickory Nut mountain’
whilst about and around the short leaf pine and
the numberless dowers of the fall waved their
modest beau ies. Our conversation Utrnerl on the
sights and scenes of other lands,’ hut whilst 1 ad
mitted their real beauties, I exclaimed vet after
all, ■ • *
“Be it never so humble, there is no place like
fi<uae.”
ITe smiled and replied :
“The authorship of Jerusalem deliverer!,”
saved Tasso from the hands of the bandits of the
Appenrnes. My humble little song, popular only
because it touches a litile nerve that vibiates in
every heart, got me also out of prison a short
time since, and then he gave me a most amusing
account of his adventures in the Cherokee country.
It will be recollected that about that time the
notorious “Georgia Guard” was in existence. A
band of mixed nature, and under the leadership
of a bitter partisan, it became offensive to one part
of the community, whilst the other held it as nec
G*sary for the safety of the squatters of the disput
ed territory. Now it happened, as usual, that the
question between the Cherokees anrl Qeorgianshad
been seized by a portion of the northern people as
a fit occasion to meddle with southern affairs;
and the invention of the Suprenng Court and of
the military arm of the government had l>een in
voked against Georgia. The report ran, that em
issaries of various characters were at work among
the Indians and the Guard had particular orders
to take up ail suspicious persous and hold them
till farther orders from Milledgeville. Now, just
at this time, the leported beauties of the Anna
Collola, and the splendors of Nickajack reduced
Mr. Pique to risk the rough roads, the feather
beds, the dough biscuit, the three grain to the gal
lon coffee, and the cindered bacon of the moun
tains, in pursuit of these wouders.
A broad cloth coat, a civilized hat, a neat porte
mauteau, but above all a traveling writing case, a
pocket comb and a tooth brush, marked our trav
eler as a “suspicious character ;” so after due ex
amination before the “Bishop” he was committed
to a log house there to abid.e under the surveil
lance of a sentinel till the Governor’s orders could
be received in due course of mail. Night and day
the sentinel his weary round, and the long
rifle was visible on bis shoulder from room to dewy
eve, so the captive, however unwilling to stay, was
forced to fret and waste away behind the closed
shutters of the rough paling floor. But what the
most rational argument, the much boasted rights
of an American citizen duly insisted on could not
effect, “was got for a song. ’ The sentinel, who
had been from his young wife and corn feed a
whole \yfeek, began to feel home sick, and sudden
ly on his military round, there burst from him the
heart-felt —
Midst pleasures and palaces though we should
roam, die.
The captive listened —his memory flew back to
the days of his youth, when himself a wanderer
in a foreign land, liis heart gave utterance to the
well known words —he felt a community of hu
manity with his captors, be said :
“My friend, do you admire that song?”
“Don’t I, stranger,” was the reply. Next to
Old Hundred and Hail Columbia, its the pret
tiest song that ever was writ,”
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) JOHN H. SEALS
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VOL. XXII [.“NUMBER 20.
•‘Well, do you think the man who wrote that
song could be a spy and a traitor ?”
‘•f>Mn\l it I do, I’d lief believe that Gen. Wash
ington didn’t write the Declaration of Indepen
dence.”
“Well, I wrote it.”
“You did. What yer name 7*
“John Howard Payne.”
“Jerusalem P said the soldier, “that’s the very
name ! It’s printed on the song ! Hello, Cap
lain, come here; you’ve made a cussed mistake.
I his feller ain’t a clock peddler, nor a missionary,
ft’s the man as writ “Home, Sweet Home. “I
sa J let’s ask him to licker, and then let bim out.—
I’ll stand security that he’ll run away.”
“And, indeed,” continued the narrator, “they
did let me out, give me the best of treatment, and
f saw enough of the real character of the right
people, and heard enough of the true state of the
affair to prevent my regreting my capture and im
piisoument by the Georgia Guard.” H,
From tli New York Herald-
Love and Suicide—Romanoe in Real Life.
Ihe particulars of a most romantic case of su
icide by a poison, in consequence of disappoint
ment in love, came to light yesterday afternoon.—
ibe victim, a young German woman about 22
years of age, residing at No. 21 Rivingtou street,
hd been deserted by her lover, whose name she
would not reveal, but endeavored to bear up
against the misfortune with true heroism. Caro
line Juelich—for such was the name of the unfor
tunate woman—was beloved by a young German
by the name of Edward Shuster, who profferd
his hand in marriage, but the recollection of her
false lover was so firmly pressed upon her mind,
that although she received the attention of Shuster
and signified a willingness to become his bride,
still in secret she pined at the loss of the absent lov
er, and secretly contemplated self destruction.
Shuster was deeply attached to the girl, as a
letter which we give will fully testify, and was dal*
ly expecting to lead her to the altar, when she was
devising means to end her existence in this World.
Accouling to this young man’s story he has
been in the United States only six months, and
had scarcely known the deceased for three weeks.
Being a machinist by occupation, be put an ad
vertisement in one of the morniDg papers asking
for a situation. The deceased answered it and
requested him to call upon her. He did so, when
she stated that she had l>een deserted by her lov
er, who was a machinist also, and that thinking it
was him Who inserted the advertisement.asking
for a situation, she was impelled to answer it with
the vague hope of being restored to his arms once
more. From this time an intimacy sprang up be
leween the pair. .Shuster declares he loved her
at first sight, and ever after up to the day of her
death. Miss Juelich professed to return his love,
and led her ardent admirer to hope .for a happy
union.
Before the Coroner Shuster testified ns follows
in relation to the sad affair ;
HI ward Shuster being duly sworn savs I live
in No. 113 Kidtidge street ;I am here in Amer
ica about six months; I know Caroline Juelich
about three weeks; f got several letters from de
ceased when she lived in Seventh avenue; the. last
time I saw deceased she lived in street,
on Friday:.; I had no communication with her ex
cept to wish iter good morning; I got no letter
from deceased yesterday ; the last time t got a
letter from deceases! tvas a week ago; she never
told me she would poison herself; her letter was
all about her iove to me ; I had no idea *he would
do any injury to herself; when l first came to this
•city 1 put in an advertisement in a German paper
knd asked for a situation as a. machininst, and
received an answer from deceased requesting tne
to call at her residence, No. 118 Seventh avenue,
in a segar store; I went there, and from that time
we fell in love ; I intended to marry her, and atn
surprised at her death ; I never heard 6he purch
ased poison ; l know no more about her; she had
another lover who deserted her, but I don’t know
where he is ; she cainc across the ocean with him,
and she told mo I was of the same business with
him.
Mr. Adam Saugef, of No. 22 flKMngtoti Stfhet,
testified that the deceased resided with him as a
chambermaid ; that she had been in low spirits
for sometime past, and seemed inclined to commit
self destruction ; aud on Friday nigh the deceas
ed was discovered to be under the influence of poi
son ; that she admitted she swallowed a dose of
laudanum for the purpose of committing suicide,
and expressed her self tired of life.
Upon an examination of the petson of diseased
the following touching epistle, explanatory of her
conduct, was found in her pocket, and wan pro
duced in evidence upon an inquest. —
lam broken hearted and lonely. I feel myself
forsaken when I find T cannot discover no one to
help me. No one but myself can tell my feelings,
nor can pen describe my heart felt misery. I
trust to find an easy death. I feel that lam lost
forever. There is only one to whom I might hope
for assistance, but I fear he is incapable- The
Lord only knows what I have suffered for the laat
few weeks. The cold world may, after my death,
say bitter things about me, hut this I do not mind.
I wish all could see and read my heart, that they
might then find cause for my untimely fate.—
There is*one who was once a tfue friend.
T will not, however, mention his name. He
would be but little astonished at this rash act —
Could I but see him now, and tell him all, be might
probably save me.
lam going on a long journey and trust I may
reach Heaven, where all my worldly troubles wilt
be at an end. Good bye. Good bye.
The jury in this case rendered a verdict of “Death
by taking laudanum on Friday, March 18, 1857,
under the excitement, as the jury suppose, of dis
appointin’ ir in love.”
The corpse was put in possession of Mr. Lauger
for burial, and to day the mortal remains of the
victim of uurequitted love will be deposited in
Greenwood Cemetery.
Nor further seek her merrits to disclose,
Or drag her frail lies from their dread abode:
There they alike in trembling hopes repoet,
The bosom of her fcthw and her God.