Litchfield enquirer., 1836-09-15

years 0gos young BeusAelM8n, q n1etcuAt in m eastern city, Belonging tOa very respec able family, became unfortunafe in busineg and his creditors being very imp0rtunate, h
 was obliged. for personal safety, to leave th
 place. He finally settled down in South
 merica, sometimes living in BuenoS Ayrei
 and at others in Montevideos and other Span ish and Portuguese cities. He left at nom,
 a young and beautiful wife, to whom he nae
 been married a fewmonths only, wno e. yeCa'., ., very soon dependent on her own exerslol.s, - the assistance of her relatives for me sup
 rort of herseIf and mn infant daughter 70
 whom she had given birth, subsequent tO .ne dena rt,Ire off her husband. His buslness was l not verv flourishing abroad, ana rom long l absence he had become, in some measure. aI
 last. weaned from the affections oI ms WlIe,
 who was pining in comparative solitude at 1 home his remittances 1T ever ne made ner anv. became less and less frequent; and his letters. few and far between, breathing little or no consolation to her afflicted bosom. He
 occasionally visited this city and Philadel-
 phia, but if she was not aware of the fact at the time, she had not the strength or the ti- nancial means to bear her hither, though her love for him remained unaflayed and un- abated. It was not till about twenty years after his residence in BuenOs AyreS that it was known or suspected that he was man of family, and it was only from the fact that one of his tOwnsmen, who met him in his boarding house, and told him that he had re- gently left his wife in good health at home, that the fact became known. His daughter, who of course had never seen him, frequently wrote him in the most affecting manner, im- ploring him once more to visit his family To these complications he paid little heed, either making some frivolous excuse, or pay ing no regard at all to them. During the last spring the daughter was assured her father was in Philadelphia, and taking the advan- tage of visit which a young gentleman to whom she was attached was about making for Washington, she repaired to the former city, and was quartered in the same hotel with her parent. A message was sent to his room, stating that young lady wished an i'm terview with him. This was granted, and in a few moments the father and daughter were clasped in each others arms. It is sufficient to say that her eloquence and tears subdued his heart, that he immediately repaired to his the afectionate feelings of her nature, and they are now living in the same harmony as though he had never abandoned her.
 W. Y. Gazette
 A Lore Story.-Some days since MT. Ed ward M., about thirty years ofage, arrived at Paris from Auxy le Chateau, to pay his court to young and charming lady, Mademoiselle residing in rue de BOndi, in consequence of matrimonial plans concerted between the .wo families. MT. M. had never seen his fu- ure bride, and hastened immediately on his arrival to pay his respects to herself and her amily. The uncommonly arniable manners ,f the young lady, who is moreover said to pc of great beauty, joined with the gracious reception of her friends, turned the head of he lover, who after this first interview, went o his hotel intoxicated with love and hope.- The next day, after a family dinner party giv- ,n in honor of him, by his future father in-law, md where the melancholy and reserved man. lers of the lady left the unfortunate lover in loubt as to what impression he had made up- ,n her, MT. l.. employed by his daughter, to transmit to him her fatal declaration, went to he hotel of his future n-in-law, and opened o him, with all the caution customary on such occasions, that his daughter, while she 9rofessed the greatest esteem for his charac- CT, felt herself too young to marry. Then after having mentioned his hopes of renew ng at future day projects which he should personally be most happy to see realized he father of the lady retired very much griev- d to have been compelled to fulfil so painful ! commission. Half an hour had scarcely elapsed, when great noise was heard in the chamber of the young man, and the door having been forced open, he was was found lung by means off napkin to the door of the :abinet. At his feet was table overturned, ,n which he had undoubtedly mounted, to ac- ,omplish the plan of his death, and the noise # which, when he kicked it away, was heard, md had attracted the inhabitants the house, who were unfortunately too late to be of any lse-for he had ceased to live. Mr. M. was he only son of a widow; he had fine man. ,ers. an agreeable countenance, and would nave received at a future day from his moth-
 4 Floating Farm Yard-The following sketch of family floating down the Ohio on raft, is at once highly graphic and charac- teristic of our inland emigration.
 Io-oay we have passed two large raffs, dashed together. by which simple conveyance several families from New England were themselves and their property to the land of promise in the western woods. Each raft was eighty or ninety feet long, with D small house erected on it. and on each was a stack of hay, round which several horses and COWS were feeding, while the parapher- nalia of a farm yard, the ploughs, wagons, pigs, children, and poultry, carelessly distri- buted, gave the whole more the appearance of a permanent residence, than of a caravan of adventurers seeking home. A respecta- ble looking old lady. with spectacles on her nose. was seated on her chair at the door of one of the cabins. employed in knitting; an other female was at the wash-tub; the men were chewing their tobacco with as much complacency as if they had been in the land of steady habits and the various avocations seemed to go on with the steadiness of clock work. In this manner our western emigrants travel at slight expense. They carry with fHss.a fhasr ev.vu yap1,vri<,s,e fha;r vo A fCoHs