Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-01-22
From the Metropolitan.

niGu dhu tCcpOhoiOiC OhS, Aob bopO
you appreciate it as such. You are
Justly considered as kind of custoS
morun., and should not only be man
ofexemplary conduct yourself (Which
I must do you the justice to be believe
you are) but should have the spirit and
independence TO declain against every
vice injurious to the great interests OF
society. Ii is TO be regretted that the
excellence of your own heart, and the
purity fyour morals, should lead you
/, to increadulity respecting the defaica-
tons of others. am at lossto nc
count for your silence, but that you
may not have like excuse for the lu-
ture, give you concise history Of
myself and my humble endeavours.
[ was married at an age when low
er's dreams were sweetest, in other
words when all The more refined pas
sious had full scope-my husband was
youth of education and flee mind,
and his only pleasure was to render me
happy. Alas | too quickly learned
the lnsubstantiali.v OF human bliss
The first six months of our union was
was one continued refund OF joy and
hir mony, and 1 fondly thought ! had
secured anicsta,e in Elyslum an fec
SimDle. was so devoted to, and
wrapt ppin my husband tina! bis mo
mentary absence even on his neccssa-
~ pursuits, occasioned me the sever
est pain, ! can never forget the (irst
night he absented himself from my
bed, it was long, long night of l,or-
ror, and odlous fancy seemed particu-
iariy busy in conjuring up to my al
frighted Imagination thousand herrid
phantoms and nnsccmly sights /! AT
the dawn of day he returned; but
how altered-with mien wild and dis
ordered, his kind manners gone, no
look of love beaming from bis eyes,
he fastened to his bed, regardless of
my tears, and the agony of my feel.
ings. / could scarcely believe it was
my oncc fond husband-his habits be-
came entirely changed, and for months
and years the same course OF pro-
figacy was pursued. / could not for
my life conceive how l had forfeited
his affections, for it was evident his
heart was estranged. l wept myself
asleep, and awolie only to renew my
sorrows; my health became Impaired
and that gazette de e1ur fee which
was once so remarkable, was no lon.
ger mine.-To aiimy cndearing ques-
tons, morose and sullcn silence was
observed, and when / sought to en-
brace him, was repulsed with brutal
GOODNESS; but | iorcborc to reproach
him; l was convinced some hated ri.
val had his heart, and at last de
termined in my own mind to surprizc |
him in her company, tax him with
his treachery and baseness, and kill
myself at bis feet.
One Of those "good naturcd friends"
(which every afflicted wife has, in
formed me, that / might make my
self easy that The only rival 1 had,
were few queens a0d knaves paint
ed on pasteboard, and that her bus
band had amused himself SO for ten
years without occasioning her any
uneasiness. fnow became as much
mortified as my heart had been before
wounded, and / determined, cost
what it might, no piece OF painted
pasteboard should inirlne my privi-
ieges. The fury of the woman mount
ed in my heart, and bribcd the wal.
ter. to conceal HE ~ the pandcn.o-
mum, before the arrival of the party
II was lost in ama2ment TO find
nearly every member present marri-
ed man, some wore spectacles, by
way of alIectation; some from the dim
ness of age-shocking, thought |, that
grey hairs should lend the sanction Of
sieir presence tosuch awful dcprayiiy
thick clouds of tobacco smoke al
most suffocated me, the most horrid
imprecations and the most ungentlc.
manly epithets were continually inter
ehan ged; ebuilitions of passion weuld
burst forth which changed them into
the appearance OF demons, and in
their paroxlsms of madness they would
rend to atonns the instruments Of their
ruin. Sometimes a fixed and horrid
despair sat on their countcnanccs which
said emphatically "my poor atnhuppy
aoifc, my beggdred and ruined
childre My husband was the
noisiest in the company, and il gricv- |