CHAPTER XVIII.
_My last effort to recover my family .-- Sad tidings of my wife .-- Her degradation .-- I am compelled to regard our relation as dissolved forever._ In view of the failure to hear any thing of my wife, many of my best friends advised me to get married again, if I could find a suitable person.

They regarded my former wife as dead to me, and all had been done that could be.
But I was not yet satisfied myself, to give up.

I wanted to know certainly what had become of her.

So in the winter of 1845, I resolved to go back to Kentucky, my native State, to see if I could hear anything from my family.

And against the advice of all my friends, I went back to Cincinnati, where I took passage on board of a Southern steamboat to Madison, in the State of Indiana, which was only ten miles from where Wm.