Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-10-19
AS wicked dew
a. e'er was brush'd bythe ravens feather,
From an unwhoIesome fen, to fall on,
And blister them all DER

AS wicked dew
AZ e'er was brush'd yths ravens feather,
From an unwholesome fen, to fall on,
And blister them all DER.
Their conversation was that Of auto-bi-
ography-relations to each other oftheir
respective lives and adventures. while
they had been parted. They talked Of
their anours, and one ofthe narratives re-
lated was this. The relator was describ-
ing mistress he had kept in Albany
"She was" he said, ga young thing and
pretty. She was married, and had two
children. knew her husband very we'll
After a while 1 got tired other, and shift
ed her off, She then went Utica where
she staid some time. She was fond Of me
| s'pose, and sent for me to come up there.
went and saw her, and finally determine
ed to- bring her back to Albany. We
took 4 boat at Little Falls, and from thence
a canal boat. Alter a While ia. few
words that we did not hear ''" had
her in Troy, and then in Lansingburgh,
- Here were few more words in
audiblel She was now taken by
a young fellow, Mr.. who became
very. fond Of her. She was the first wo-
man he had ever had, and she persuaded
him to marry her. She loved him too
His father heard Of it and was determin-
ed to break it up. He took his son to N
York, and he promised to have no more
to do with her But he was so much tax
en- with her that he got her back again,
and would have been married, but his "a
ther again got wind of it, and took him to
New York and shipped him off to sea-
You never saw how she took on. She
wentto New York. visited every vessel,
and inquired Of all the captains to find
him. If she had ascerained where he
had sailed for, she would have shipped af
ter him. But she could not She then
came back to Albany, but was very unea-
sy, and went after him again to New
York. Thence back she came to Alba
ny, and was almost crazy for him. l took
her to Troy and Lansingb1rgh, and tried
to talk it out of her. But it was no use.
We rode her about, but it did no good -
I she was quite deranged, and declared II
she could not have him she would kill
herself Finally, one afternoon she went
and got vial of laudanum, mixed It with
tumbler Of water, and drank it off
When she grew sick, she told what she
had done. A doctor was sent for, but !,
was too late. The stomach-pump did no
good. The laudanum had got fast hold
of her. and she died. We got up a fu.
neral tor her, and sent three carriages. ~
j. A.,
Such was the substance, and as nearly
as delicacy will permit, the very words
of this affecting tale of shame and sin
the Particularly and consistency Of the
details attesting its truth. And: vet this
guilty seducer related it with as much
GOODNESS and indifference as if he were
= speaking Of the commonest business tran
sactions Of life. A villain by his owr
, showing-he spoke of the injured hus
band and the whole career of the misera
} bic victim, from the commencement of hel
life of sin, until the clods Of the suicide.
t grave had closed over her, with less O
feeling than he would have exhibited a
the death of a favorite dog! Such
soulless villain, we thought We had new
er heard-for we could scarce see through
the gloom, deepened as it was by tn,
shadows of the high rocky bank of tn,
slange Kip, over the crests of which tn,
, waning moon had yet scarce begun t
e spread her silver mantle. But our male
: dlctions were checked, and our meditation
o upon the total depravity of man interrupt
< ed, by the cry of 1.-The boat r. which nov
: shot swiftly round the elbow, and cam
: putting down upon US amid clouds Of fir
+ and smoke, like floating Volcano. Al
was Of course hustle and confusion in
r moment, and the hopeful friends wer
e lost in the dusky cloud.
At We will only add, that in the fate {
,e this poor victim, hundreds now living !
Is the same vicious course NAV probabl
le read their own doom, while To- ali it a
ID fords salutary lesson of human frail,
vi teaching with what watchfulness eve
Re the first act THAT blurs the grace an
v. blush Of modesty' should -. be guarae
a. against. However accomplished or bea
n, tItuI, the woman who yields to the lbe
,r tine, may rest assured that she is soon
Or be " cast, hike loathsome weed, away
re and, although there is always room #
s. repentance, yet the grave can only hie
" her shame. while anguish-despair-
ie ENTHUSIASTICALLY too often hu
A. ry her hither!