Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-08-26

ror should show the principle JeoPafded
will flace aiyyeJ beyond It's conseqaen
ces."
Can you do that1"
+" can do il, and will do it; but my
heart tells me that cannot answer for the
cons quences to myseD."
The conversation was continued, bat
could not hear any more, without .becom.
ing voluntary listener.
The person WHO thus expressed bei
| high resolve was the nfIianced Of " Henry
-" 1t was evident that she had
struggled with her ceilings for that man.
and had leaned upon his promise of thor.
ough amendment, and that too when the
head was unoccupied with business, and
the heart perhaps unable 10 appreciate
what Il would fam appropriate 10 itself.
The next afternoon there was goodly
assembly in the bar room TO hear The en-.
+ dorsymsnts upon the bundles and letters
E" read out" young gentleman receiv.
ed and promised to deliver letter 10 the
+" oGanced," aud shortly afterwards saw
bin approaching her with The ePistle. -
! She was conyerslng with Il female friend,
and on looking at the suporscrption Of The
letter, said:
/ 6 1t is from my mother"
/ She sat down and opened her letter. -
A hurried glance along the first few para
graphs seemed to bring her to the inte.
resting portions Of the contents. She
crushed the letter with one hand, and
with the other grasped the arm of her
/ friend and looked towards the chamber
stairs. The face Of the young woman
seemed to have been touched by some un.
earthly power. The lips were closed,
the cheeks pale, and the eye painfully
wild.
That evening the young lady and her
! friend were absent from the customary
gaitcs, and the next morning she left the
ISLAND. ! saw her in the carriage--a SIN
gle night had done for her the work OF
months of misery.
! During that afternoon, a young gen.
tleman, who arrived from the city, re-
| marked in the course Of conversation,
that 3" Henry -" had disappointed all
bu, those who knew him well when a.
broad, and had gone back 10 his evil ha-
bits.
Somebody will say, "this is all nothing"
The story as told, as nothing, | confess ;
but it is nothing TO tread out the affections
of a young heart? to irample upon the
womanly pride Of one who has loved and
confGed! Is it nothing to sacrifice to
beastly appetites what was intended for
the good of man? Is it nothing to give
strength to the ranks of vice by enlisting
therein one who had powers to make vir-
tue doubly attractive? Is it nothing to
break down the grey hairs of a mother
with sorrow to the grave? If it is thus,
then nothing has been done-and hearts
riven, priJe BUNDLED, hopes destroyed
ambition quenched, and the grave filled
with early victims, may still be the occa-
sion Of domestic mourning, and reach te
social disquietude but the cause will not
be touched; heart may be broken, but
not haiti; tomb stones and epjtaphs vii
lie on until the crack Of doom and Con
sumption must for season yet be charg
cd with the early fate Of the strong, the
manly and the noble Of one sex, and the
lovely, the coniiding and deceived of The
other. When will truth assert her pre-.
rogative, ard declare that intemperanc,
has destroyed The constitution Of one, anC
that has crushed the heart of the other
Talk ola consumption, of the lungs Of wo'
man-it IS bruised and broken heart
and if the psychologist would sit down
carefully to post nogtem examination,
he would detect causes which escape the
eye Of the Psychologist, and introduce into
the catalogue OF Diseases, names of atiec
tons which have not yet received the ap.
prevail Of the medical faculty.
M,>xrns ar Evcr,su,,rV rowan,