The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-19
Itter world, where man could not separate

: lem.
She loved him with the disinterested fer
N'br Of woman's first and only love. When
Very worldly maxim arVayed itself against
I'm; when blasted IN ertune,and disgrace
nd danger dafkened around his name, she
sJ5ved him the more afdently for his very
|suferipgs. If then his tate could awaken
the sympathy even Of his foes, what must.
have been the agony Of her, whose whole.
soul was occupied by his image Let those
who have had the portals Of the tomb sud-
denly closed between them and the being
they most loved on eaFth-who have sat at
its threshold, as one shut Ontsin cold and
lonely world from whence all that was most
lovely and loving had departed.
To render her widowed situation more
desolate, she had incurred her fathers dis
pleasure by her unfortunate attachment, and
was an exile from her palernal roof. But
could the sympathy and Offices of friends
have reached spirit so shocked and driven
in BY horror, she would have experienced no
want Of consolation, for the Irish are pro-
verbally people of quick and generous
possibilities. The most delicate and cher
ishing attentions were paid her by families
of wealth and distinction. She was led in :
TO society, and they tried by al! kinds of oc-
cupation and amusement to dissipate her
grief, and wean her from the tragical story
of her lover; bat twas all in vain. There
are some strokes Of calamity that scorch the
lsoul-that penetrate to the vital seat of hap
lpiness-and blast it, never again 10 put
forth bud or blossom. She never objected
TO frequent the haunts Of pleasure, but she
was as much alone there as IN The depths oil
Esolitude. She walked about in a sad rove
lrie, apparently unconscious of the world a
round her. She carried within her an in.
ward wo that Knocked all the Establishments
Of friendship. and ''heeded not the song oil
1.-THE charmeF, charm he ever so wisely.''
On the occasion of a masquerade at the
Rotunda, her friends brought her to it,
There can be no exhibition of far gone
Indebtedness more striking and painful thar
TO meet it in such scene. To End it wan
deTing like spectre, lonely and ioyles.
where all around is gay-tO see it dressed
out in the trappings Of mirth, and looking
so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried il
vain TO cheat the poor heart into momen
taTy forgetfulness of sorrow. After stroll
ling through the splendid rooms and giddl
crowd with an air of utter abstraction, sh,
sat herself down on the steps of an orches
ira, and looking about for some time with
vacant air that showed insensibility to thi
garish scene, she began, with-the capricious
ness Of a sickly heart, to MARBLE a it'll
plaintive air. She had an exquisite voice
but on this occasion it was so simple, s
touching, il breathed forth such soul {
lwretchedness, that she drew a crowd, nut
and silent around her, and melted every on
into tears.
The story Of one so true and tender coul
! not but excite great interest in a countr
remarkable for enthusiasm. Il completed
won the heart OF a brave officer, who pal
I his addresses to her, and thought that on
$50 true 10 the dead could not but prove a
b fectionate to the living. She declined b
attentions, for her thoughts were irrevocab
u engrossed by the memory OF her former love
He however persisted in bis suit He sol
id cited not her tenderness, but her esteem.-
He was assisted by her conviction of b
al worth, and her sense of her own destitu
and dependent situation, for she was exis
~ ing on the kindness OF friends. Ia wor
81 he at length succeeded ingaining her han
/ tHNN6H VIII TIC SOl6tltus aSSHt altSo t5ios -
heart was unutterably anolhers.
he took her with him to Sicily, hopn
ME that change of scene might wear out 4
IS remembrance Of early woes. She was
Re. amiable and an exemplary wife, and ma
dSs an effort TO be happy one; but MOTH
Ms could cure the silent and deyourlng mels
L. choly that had entered upon her very 50
by She wasted away in slow but hopeless {
w cline, and at length sunk into the grave, [
IL victim of broken heart.
lf NEW ORLEANS.
'pt The love which citizens Of this pla
yPi have for il, is mysterious in It's strength,
s5- transient Visiers. PEOPLE who come IL,