The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1842-11-17

tered' "Dans un instant &C sern tina"
might have been spoken in a prophet
ic spirit. Not minute had elapsed,
and he was already corpse.
4a INTERESTING SToRY.-A wealthy
merchant of Paris, whose name the
Gazette des Tribunaux-from which
we take the following interesting tale
-conceals, it states, from motives Of
delicacy, having made some disastrous
speculations on the Stock Exchange,
was obliged 10 fly to England to avoid
his creditors, leaving behind wife,
who though young, was the mother OF
three children. Unfortunately, her
husband had involved her 100 in his
ruin by inducing her to put her name
to bills of exchange, which she had no
means of paying when due. Unable
to follow him, and dreading separa-
ton from her children by arrest and
confinement in prison, she gave up
her honse and furniture 10 her credi-
tors, and retired to humble dwelling
in an obscure quarter of Paris, with on
y small sum of money and her own
personal jewels and pharaphernalia.~-
In very few weeks after her retreat,
her miseries were increased by the ar
rival of intelligence of The death of her
husband. When her money was gone
she continued 10 maintain herself and
her children (the eldest but very little
above the age Of infancy by the pro-
gressive sale Of her jewels, and these
being exhausted, she was reduced to
the abject necessity Of disposing Of
even her wedding-ring. Encouraged
by the uniform kindness of manner
with which she had been treated oy the
ieweller TO whom she had trans
ferred these valuables, she confded TO
him her forlorn situation, and consul
ted him or the best,mode Of disposing
Of small quantity Of fine linen, as the
only resource left her. The worthy
man, TO save her from the exposure oil
going TO other persons, agreed to take
From week to week she went TO him
with sometimes a damask table-cloth,
sometimes a pair of sheets and at
length even her own chemises. AT
last some weeks elapsed without her
again appearing at the jewellers shop.
The master, who had become in
terested in the fate of one whose
manners proved that she was above
the humble condition in which she had
appeared before him, sought out and
discovered her wretched abode. On
entering it, he found her lying sick,
and almost expiring land her three chill
dten crying around her from want Of
bread. On asking why, as she was
unable to come to him, she did not
send her eldest child, she told him that
she had not single article more to
dispose of, and had been living up
on the allowance granted by the arron
disement to its INDECENT inhabitants
After gently blaming her for giving
away to despair, the jeweller told heE
that he had been mistaken in the esti-
mate he had made Of diacsond cross
he had purchased of her and it pro-
we'd to be of so much greater value
than he at the time believed, that he
was her debtor to the amount of 2 200
ifr., which sum he insisted upon hel
receiving. Not content with this res
titution, if such it really was he pro-
posed to her,nntil fortune should smile
upon her again to place her at the heac
of his domestic establishment, and he
Iwould have her children brought uf
and educated under bis own direction
Gratitude and her maternal feelings
would not allow her to refuse an otte
$50 a1irs--.eeaalls43n 4hersalf and chill
dren, and SO honorable and dislnteres
| ted in him by whom it was made. Th
arrangement was carried into execu
| ton. and the distressed widow ha
| now every prospect of comfortable
though comparatively humble, suosrs
tence, and OF seeing her children q
| least pnAinto a way Of providing hon
estly for daemselves.- LGalignan'
!. Messenger.
The following is an Official order {
s the Post Office departa~suAs