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FROM The Cisvsisad { oAie) Dsiis .idrsrtissr.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

"o". An incident has lately come 10
our knowledge in this city whiel. goes
to verify the correctness Of tais remark.
Some days since q gentleman arrived
IN Cleveland, in pursuit of a fugitive
debtor, and having here leaned tina, the
runaway could probably be found in
Detroit, went on in pursuit Of him to
that place. He there discovered the
object of his search, and with a very
beautiful and interesting young female,
who was living with him as his wife.
Knowing that he had wife residing nj
the east. our friend was some what sur
Prised at this new accession to the do
mestic circle Of the fugitive, and still
more so when she assured him. in n
manner too sincere and innocent to
leave room for a doubt, that she had
been legally married to the person with
whom she was found. Not TROUBLING
himself, however, at the time, with an
inquiry into the matter, the creditor
arrested has debtor, and brought him to
this city, where he was lodged in Jail.
Hither the lady followed him, and here
the circumstances were disclosed. which
have doomed poor young creature 10
broken heart, and will probably ter
inmate in her early death, or a life
more horrible than the grave.
From the information we have re-
ceived, and il is furnished us on un-
questionable authority, it appears that
Nj. A. j., the lady OF whom we have
snOkPn waa an ,nu,ata 80 .
school, at Lewiston, U. c. when she
became acquainted with the man to
whom she was afterwards married.
She was an orphan, and il is said in
herited large fortune. which was I'm
der the care Of an uncle, her guardian.
Delicately bred. and ignorant of the
world, II is not cause Of wonder, that
her feelings were strongly tinctured
with romance. She was Young too.
only sixteen, and in addition to extra.
ordinary beauty. possessed of every ac-
comPlishment Of intellect and educa.
tIon. The villain who deluded her
was introduced 10 her relatives as a
gentleman of standing and respectable
~ and by his personal graces and con.
summate tact, was we'll calculated 10
win tue affections oil an inexperienced
and unsusPectIng bosom.
Unable 10 accomplish his object by
any other means, he proposed mar.
rage. and contrary 10 The earnest re.
monstrances Of her uncle and friends.
she listened to his entreaties, and final.
~ eloPed with the fascinating stranger
to hom she was married IN Detroit
IL was not till 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 beheld a more
heartrending scene. The conviction
that she had been duped by him upon
whom she had placed her hearts rich.
est affection, with whom but moment
before, she had expressed her willing
ness to die in prison. together with the
thought that she was not his wife, pro-
uuced an alternate struggle between
pride and love, such as can only be I'M
derstood by those who have learned its
horrors by experience. Nature, ever
kind to its ienderest flowers. left Miss
J.. Long lnsensible 10 her fate. Ano.
Their, and perhaps little less bitter az
hlctIon, was in reserve. The unprin-
cIPled villain had circulated far and
VIDE report that they had never been
married, and that che was only one Of
the many, whose love he had won with
out the ceremony Of legal union. This
story too reached her ears, and the con-
v'ction Of its truth gave another and
deeper pang to her wounded spirit. =
For him she had given up all-the
house Of her father, the associates Of
her childhood, the friends abe loved.
and how had the wealth of her heart
been repaid lie, for whom al had
been sacrificed, determined on a still
farther sacrifice Of her only remaining
treasure-her good name. and by
Pitiiul and malicious falsehood. endea-
Vored TO complete the ruin his arts and
wIekedness had devised.
In the meantime, the author OF her
sorrow and disgrace, having procured
his liberation from prison. has gone we
know not whittier, and escaped for a
while the consequence Of his offence.
But though the Law, tardy and utterly
impoient as It Is ia matters Of this kind.
may be Intellectual 10 infsict upon such
being The punishment his crimes de.
mand, there IS an syenger IN his own
conscience, II there Is one spark Of hu.
manIty yet left, Vhica sooner or later
must award him a fetribuGon more
fearful than any human tribunal can
dispense.
Miss j., contrary 10 the orders Of her
physician, who considered her reno r
val, IN the present state Of her health.
hazardous, has returned 20 her hone IN
Canada. Poor girl If sympathy can
heal the woundso Of The spirit, no honest
heart will refuse her the balm Of ITS
pity and compassion.
There - no Lewiston IN Upper Csnsds -.
.rsision in this stsfs. on he Nisgars. - prus-
~ n'cant 1hers " high school D. ihsi piece.
y toue aots.-Eba Cos. Any.
APPoiafmsnf By ne People Of .N4o