Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-07-21
"COME LANES


A lew years ago, (says the editor of
the Herald when but single steamboat
made It's semi-monthly trip on Lake Erie.
from Buffalo to Detroit, touching at Erie,
Cleveland: Sandusky, &C., and when its
arrival or departure at either place was an
incident that created no little hustle, we
were standing among the crowd upon the
wharf at Buffalo, watching the passengers
hurrying on board the Superior, Captain
Sherman, which was in a few minutes to
take lis departure for Detroit. There was
a large number of passengers, mostly con-
slStlng Of emigrants to the then latest
found land of promise, Michigan. Among
the different groups upon the deck were a
couple somewhat past the meridian Of life,
who were in earnest conversation with a
young man, while female Of ''blooming
seventeen," their daughter, stood listening
to the discussion with look of deep alb
sorption, which betrayed the intonse inte-
rest she felt in the subject.
We learned altcrward that the couple
had long been attached to each other, but
the young man had been unable TO obtain
the consent of the parents to marry their
daughter. She was an only child and the
circumstances of her lover were not such
as answered the views they had formed.
Business had called the young man from
home for several weeks, and on his return.
10 his great surprise and chagrin he found
that Mr. s., the father Of his beloved, had
sold his farm, and with his wife and daugh-
ter had departed for Michigan. James
thought he saw through the motive Of this
movement, and learning that they had
| been gone bat few days, his resolution
was at once taken to follow, unprepared
as he was for the journey, either with
ready money or change Of apparel He
gave no sleep 10 his eyes nor slumbcr to
his cyc-lidS, till he was on the way, and
lessenlng as he hoped, the distance be-
| tween himself and the object Of his affec-
ton. As the departure Of the boat did not
take place until two days after the arrival
of the parents and their daughter at Bufa-
10, fortunately for the young man. he ar
riveI before they had placed the Lake be-
tween the two lovers; and when the de-
| Jectcd maiden stepped upon the boat, she
was more surprised and ovcrioycd 10 be-
hold him, than her parents were vexcd.-
| ITO iottSi tOStiiACu tiICii us PfCdSulC al Ills
| thus following them, in terms little calcu-
lated to strengthen his hopes of final sue
cess, and though he urged his suit with
them with all the eloquence he could COM
mand, he still found them inhexible.
At length the moment of parting arri-
ved-''the last BELL was rung-the word
was given for those who were not going
with the boat TO leave, and the word to
"cast off, from the captain was heard
With a mingled look of affection and re,
greet James extended his hand to Mary,
from whose eyes streamed the fast falling
drops. What was the whole world to them
at that moment!-they forgot the gaping
multitude, and every thing but each other
their hearts now about to be sundereC
chung the closer. As the farewell was
uttered, Mary held his hand with a nervous
grasp. while quick as thought she threw
her disenga ged arm first round her mo-
theirs neck aud then round her fathers
imprinting burning kiss upon the cheel
Of each, and calculating" farewell IA
Their, farewell mother-come James'-ere
her parents had time to demonstrate, she