Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 03, May 8, 1858
General
Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 03, May 8, 1858
New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
Time rolls! Mr. Perkins, a young lawyer, (formerly of Natchez, but who
had removed to New Orleans,) comes North, and marries the daughter of
the Rev. Dr. Potts, and they sail for Paris, where he discovers in her
trunk the very letters that Dressel wrote her while at Mrs. Mitchell’s,
in response to her “drop notes,” and also letters from Dressel that
she had just received in Paris, which were enclosed in her mother’s
letters from New York. Terrible scenes transpire, resembling those
between Othello and Desdemona, and she flies from him in terror, and
conceals herself in Paris, and writes to her father, who goes to Paris
and accompanies her to America, when he immediately sends for us, and
weeps in our presence, and deeply regrets that he had not adopted our
advice, and driven Dressel into the street, who, with the imprudence
of his own wife, in inclosing Dressel’s letters to his daughter in
Paris, had plunged his family into irremediable ruin. Perkins returns
and goes to the Irving House, at the corner of Chambers street and
Broadway, where we had frequent interviews, when he cries like a little
child, and denounces Mr. and Mrs. Potts, but defends the chastity of
his wife, and regrets his passion and his furious anathema of her in
Paris. The matter is thrown into the Courts, and Perkins employs Daniel
Lord, William Kent, and Benjamin F. Butler, and Potts engages Wm.
Curtis Noyes, Ogden Hoffman, and —— Staples, and both Perkins and
Potts strive to induce us to testify in their favor, and because we
peremptorily refused, and assured them we should disclose the truth on
the stand, they dared not call the case for trial, lest our testimony
would overwhelm both parties, and consign them to eternal odium and
misery. Perkins obtained a divorce, and was elected to Congress, and
married a Southern lady. Miss Potts remains single, and is a noble
ornament of society. One of Mrs. Mitchell’s nieces was seduced by a
monster, and had a child, and she soon became a prostitute, and her
mother a lunatic. Julia Mitchell married a Southron, who professed
great wealth, but proved to be a pauper, and a villain of the deepest
calibre. Julia obtained a divorce, and married a Mr. Moffat, who was
also supposed to be immensely affluent. Mrs. Mitchell died, and her
other niece resides with Mrs. Julia Moffat. And thus ends the first
Chapter of this mournful narrative.
O whence have we come?
And where shall we go?
And why are we here
To combat woe?
O come fair spirit
Through the air,
And tell us more
Of this affair.
Stephen H. Branch’s Alligator.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1858.
Ice Cream.
_The toiling million starved by the heartless Politicians, and the
Fifth Avenue Robbers of the Public Treasure, who are the source of
Oppressive Taxation, and Exorbitant Rents, and Fuel, and Food, and
Raiment, and Prostitution, and Suicide, and of Theft, Rape, Arson, and
Assassination._
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