Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-08-10

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Supreme Court of the United States. | think tue
Judges would decide in bruins favor, by this mo-
dern principle of law. One thing is certain, viz.
they would decide that they had jurisdiction by
impiication-per force Of which, what is it that
cannot be nuhifed? S. ii.
THE YOUNG GIRL WITH GREY HAIR.
.!After three years absence, / saw her again,
two weeks since, at the theatre. Every eye was
fixed upon her but mine-I dared not look. The
sight Of her produced in me a painful and indies
cribabie emotion. But l soon turned towards
her-her appearance made me weep.
Poor Henrietta" said l.
A person sitting near me, pulled IRE by the
sleeve and said. " Is it not strange, that a girl
so Young should be grey?'
at is such a pity" said another; Z" she has
such beautiful black eyes"
"if there was a poet here" said a dandy,
. am certain that the sight of this beautiful
monster would inspire him TO write a splendid
ballad"
fl had had a dirk with me, the fellow should
have tasted 1t.
| made no attempt TO escape-but an %irreslstl-
bic force nailed me to the bench. At length the
curtain rose-whO could tell me what was pas
sing on the stage. | knew nothing Of it, except
Ing that a gentleman behind me observed, that
it was 4 very pleasant farce. |, IN the mean
time was choaked with grief.
Between the acts the people around me began
again 20 converse about the young lady with grey
hair.
.Ill bet any thing said one that the poor
girl mas met the devil in the evening, face to
face, in the woods"
.'N0ta at ALL" said another; ''there is no devil
in the case. | am a physician, and will explain
to you how it happens that certain kinds Of
hair"-
.sAh. you are going TO explain the matter Sci
entifcally," interrupted a third person, "my
dear sir, you waste your science here. 1t is I'M
possible that a whole head of hair, on a young
girl, should turn grey without some extraordina-
ry cause. This interesting victim must have ex-
perienced some violent shock"
Her husband perhaps, was killed in her arms
on the goth July"
"Ah, that is quite possible" murmured a
man who had been a ge~nd'arme-"or perhaps
while she was playing at the edge Of the window,
the child has fallen from the fourth story, and
been crushed upon the pavement"
Beg pardon gentlemen, but your suppose
tons are wide from facts. You, can easily see
that she is neither a mother nor a widow. How
old do you suppose such a girl to bes-sixteeu,
sir,ss"
eighteen, sir"
.sPerhaps you know her., :" said the man to me.
shrunk back into silence, and the man con-
tinued-''Itis evident to any one that has
studied the physiology of the passions, that this
young lady owes her early grey hair entirely to a
violent disappointment IN love
turned suddenly towards the speaker. and
pressing his hand cOnvulsively in mine, | ex-
claimed, "Ah sir, | am Il guilty wretch"
| know not what the company must have
thought of this exclamation. torn from me by the
remembrance of my crime; but luckily for me,
the music struck up with all its force, and the
drop curtain rose again.
During the remainder of the farce. l could
think only of former days, recalling to my mind
the image of Henriet,e-Henriette, so young,
SO beautiful, and so cruelty betrayed-Henriette,
the lovely mistress If my youth, whom l now
found in three years, with the grey nairs of age.
Wretch, said | to myself. what has thou not
made her suffer-with what a most shameful ne.
elect has thou treated the most tender love.
/ tore my breast with my nails, such was my
anguish.
quilted the boxes. Itappeared that the per-
Torrance had closed. One of my friends came |
up to me. and without paying any attention to
my p~aleness, he took me gaily by the hand
81 have just seen Henriette." said he.
"How said |, you have also seen her,"
Undoubtedly, my dear fellow; she is terri
bly, changed though"
"Oh horribly" cried l.
edo you know how that has happened!"
"Hush," said l emplorinsly, '!husb, l be-
seech you; | am the monster"
"What!" said he, laughing, {" are you the rob,
ber?'
" What robber:?" demanded, L.
I" know nothing of thats"
He then told me that Henriette passing at Bour-
yes about a month since, had purchased in the
square. Of mountebank, a powder for CO.
the hair auburn or black-and that was
the reason her hair turned gray.
Diamonds Sluce the discovery of a part Of
Inc Jewels of the Princess of Orange, we were in
from a desire to know whether there was
accurate rule for the valuation of diamonds,
10 glance over a memoir of this unique gem. which
,as been lately published in England by Murray.
The work contains some amusing particulars re-
'pecting the adventures Of the principal diamonds