The Arkansas advocate., 1831-07-27

days was away upon the waste ot Wa ters, speeding my course to another cline, chcered only by anticipations ot
 the future. received regular accounts
 from ny friends; and nothing transpired
 to interrupt, in the slightest degree, ny felicity, save that the language of my
 betrothed spoke of sorrowing spirit; and even that, if our separation was the attribute cause, was far from producing disagreeable feelings. Atiength ceas- cd 10 receive letters from her, and others told me that she was wasting away to the tomb-that the freshness of her beau. ty had faded, and that she remained but as the wreck of departed loyeliness.- This Intelligence determined my con- duct at once, and ] embarked to re- turn.
 F < I was there. Years have passed over me, yeti have not for gotten the calm beauty of her eounte- nance, as she lay in her dreamiess slam- Der. sat down beside her, and cold deadening sorrow took hold upon me. The foundations of my heart were parched and dry my brain throbbed and my heart swelled, as if 1t would burst with the mighty agony. l laid my hands to my aching temples, and prayed--yet not one blessed tear drop came to my relief. There she lay be- fore me, and her mother, broken heat ed, bent weeping above her; and the young ard proud came, ono by one, to gaze their last, and shuddercd as they thought how soon they might sleep ia death 5 cold arms ike her. And the crowd, and mirtl', and beauty, were for gotten, and they went away sorrowing, with that grief which sanetiEes.
 The morrow had come, and knew the sun shone not upon her; conscious ness had come bact<to me, and ] Eremem- befed all the sad preparation-the fu- neral procession--tAe grase-the hol- low sound of earth upon the coflin--Aef coflin!--Oh God! lost, hid forever from my view, the looks a:4d smiles Of her to whom l bowed down, as the worslIippef of worth and beauty.
 One placed in my bands paper, di- reeted by her to mc--the dead 10 the living. ] read, and 1t revealed truths, which called for blood for the injured, and death for treachefy. l. was along letter, apery long one, and ittold of sor- row for my departure, of falseleoed ard blightcd affections. lnt will give q transcript of the hateful truths uliiclit revealed.
 Allen Murray had come to her as q comforter, and as my friend. lie showed herlettcrs which he pretendcd were from myself to him, in which had spoked lightly of her, and in high terms of new faces where l then vas. lie managed to intercept all my letters to ner, and at length narrated, with all the coloring of truth, my marriage with an- other. By degrees he succeeded in transferring her affections from me, as an unworthy object, and fastening them upon himself ,as all that was cstimable ard praiseworthy, she had often looked back upon the past, which had been so bright and beautiful; but she learned to view it with ealm sadness, dceming the object of her first affections as in reality dead. since she believed all the nobler dispositions of heart were extinct. The future was again fall of glad anticipa- tien-her onward path was again made gay with flowers and sunshine, and usa- happily the present was yelled and shut out-all hcr thoughts were centcred iii one object, which hertrusting heart wor- shipped with all the dolatry of woinan's affection. Unhappy, say-for how may the weakness of contiding love tri umph over the wilcs of the betrayer.--- Poor Bertha! she loved to sec Alien Murray, who had assumed the guise of an angel, stand before her in his own form, made hideons by the deyilish ex- pression Of gratiied Rfrenget Upon this rejection he had sworn to offer meet sacrifice to that demon of hell, which had made his bosom it's rcvelling place. But the angel of Mercy had not entire ly forsakenthe unfortunate deludedmaa; and when he beheld that high-souled girl dropping to the dust, the blight that was oyerhis spirit passed on,and the bro- ken tics were brought back to his heart.
 He remembered the. patient meekness that murmured not at his taunts and scof ling her faithful love as she stood before him for years. He remembered her voice in the still soiitudes, when he over lleared her pray CTS as she lSnelt down