Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-06-03

meals, IS just concluded, numberless e3e
giant trifes delighting the eye are scat.
tered around; the bright fire blazes on
the hearth, but its presence is more con.
ducive TO cheerfulness, than necessary
for heat, and to temper its effects, the
French easement window is partly
! thrown open, admitting the soft spring
breeze, bearing on its wings the perfume
of the flowers in the balcony. The
Herald" whose racy columns have won
many smile from her ruby lips has jus,
been laid down, and with glance more
eloquent than words, and lingering
grasp of her little, soft, white, ring-ladef
fingers. the happy young merchant tears
himself away.
He had not been an hour in Wal
street before he knew himself to be a
ruined man absolutely beggart The
suddenness Of the blow, had for d time a
stunning effect upon his faculties, but still
amid the chaos Of his thoughtsone idea
was ever recurring to him. "My wife,
my wife r How could he break to her
the dreadful news, which Twas to dash
from her lips the cup of joy and happi-
ness and consign her to indigence and
want, and worse than all the pity of the
heartless crowd. He could not do it
But he must meet her at dinner, there
was no avoiding that. He prolonged
the dreadful interview till the latest mo-
ment, and then with countenance
schooled into calmness and heart al
most bursting with despair, he bent his
steps towards Monochrome that would
soon cease to be his. He resolved to
keep the secret 10 himself to enjoy one
more happy day, and then-who can
tell the dark and desperate thoughts, sug-
gestions of the. "busy meddling fend,''
which rush on the mind at such a mo-
ment. But he knew not, none can know
the depth and strength of a woman's, Of
a ,oife's affection, until it has been tried.
When he entered his doomed roof, with
brain almost maddened by painful ef-
forts at dissimulation, The was met on
the Threshold by her, the object of all
his solicitude. pale indeed, but calm and
soberly cheerful. "Dearest -," talk.
ing his hand and pressing it to her lips
al know all, be comforted, all may yet
be weIlp What a relief what re.
vulsion in his feelings did that short
speech create A weight was taken
from his mind, to which even the heavy
loss Of fortune seemed light. To meet
with comfort where he despaired of be-
ing able to administer it; encourage
ment from source whence he expected
pinings, if not reproachesl'
'"Oh woman! in the hour of ease, Wxp
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please
When pain, and sickness wiring the brow
A ministering Angel thou"
The sudden reaction produced feel
ing Of almost merriment in his mood
He felt inclined to exclaim with Jafier,
"I thank the Gods,
am not now worth ducat,
Yet still am in love, and pleased with ruin"
This was the tale to which we listened
in the deserted halls of departed gaitey,
amid the din and chatter Of the thought
less crowd, drawn together like vultures
to the scene Of ruins, tossing about with
rough and careless hands, tie delicate
ornaments of the 'boudoir. Even the
sacred nuptual couch,. .
(" The very bed which witnessed their chasto
Joys" sv,- erE7'-7e
-wasmade the subject Of coarse jests, and
vulgar witticisms.s And by what malign
influence, was this sad reverse effected.
What evil genius of the magic lamp,
had changed these beautiful bright bios
SONS of love and happiness, TO the black
and bitter ashes ofbankruptcy and ruin ?
The mad spirit Of speculation. This
was but one example of the thousand
victims, that have been, and are to be
sacrificed at its unholy shrine.