Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-11-24
From the ClcavcIand (ohio) Advertiser.
ROMANCE IN REAL LEE


Some days since a gentleman arrived in
CLEVELAND in pursuit Of Iugilive debtor
and having here learned that the runaway
could probably be found in Detroit, went on
N pursuit Of him to that place. He there
discovered the object OF bis search, and with
him a very beautiful and interesting young
female, who was living with him as his wife
knowing that he had wife residing at the
east, our friend was somewhat surprised n,
this new accession TO the domestic circle OF
the fugitive, and still more so when she ms.
sured him in manner too sincere and limo.
cent 10 leave room for doubt, that she had
been legally married to the person with
whom she was found Not troubling him.
sell however utthe time. with an inquiry in.
10 the matter, the creditor arrested his debtor.
and brought him to this city. where he was
lodged in Jail Hither the lady followed
him, and here the circumstances were dis
closed, which have doomed pure vounp
creature TO broken heart. and will probablv
terminate in her early death, or life more
horrible than the grave.
She was an inmate of boarding school.
at Lewistown, where she became acquainted
with the man to whom she was afterwards
married m4
She was an orphan, and it is said inherit.
ed a large fortune, which was under the care
OF an uncle, her guardian Delicalely bred
and ignorant OF the world, it is not cause
Of wonder that her feelings were strongly
with romance She was Young
too, only sixteen, and in addition 10 extraor-
binary beauty, possessed Of every accom-
plishment OF intellect and education The
villain who deluded her was introduced TO
her relatives as gentleman Of standing and
responsibility. and by his personal graces and
consummate tact, was well calculated to win
the affections OF an inexperienced and unsus-
pecting bosom.
Unabie to accomplish his object by any
other means, he proposed marriage, and
contrary to the earnest circumstances OF her
uncle and friends, she listened TO his entrcat-
les, and finally eloped with the fascinating
stranger, to whom she was married in De-
troit. 1t was not until her arrival in this city
that she discovered the fatal secret of her
husbands former marriage. The person
who gave her the information, states that he
never behed a more hear-rending scene -
The conviction that she had been duped bv
him upon whom she had placed her hearts
richest affections, with whom she had but
a moment before. expressed her willing
ness to die in a prison, together with the
thought that she was not his wife, produced
an alternate struggle between pride and love
such as can only be understood by those who
have learned its horrors by experience
Nature, ever kind to its tenderest flowers,
left Miss J. long insensible TO her fate An
other, and perhaps Iitlle less bitter affection
was in reserve. The unprincipled villain
had circulated far and wide, report that
hey had never been married, and that she
was only one Of the many, whose love he
had won without the ceremony OF legal
nnion. This story too reached her ears,
and the conviction OF its truth gave another
aud deeper pang 10 her wounded spirit
In mean time. the author of her sorrow
aud disgrace, having procured bis liberation
from prison, has gone we know not whittier.
and escaped for while the consequences OF
his offence But though the law. iardy and
utterly impotent as it is in matters of this
kind, may be Intellectual to in6ict upon such
a being the punishment his crimes demand,
here is an aveneer in his own conscience, il
here is' one spark Of humanity yet left,
which sooner or later must award him
retribution more fearful than any human tri-
ounal can dispense,