Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-08-23

ceremony which made her the bride Of
another was performed. Several hours
passed in dance and song. l. was near
midnight when Ellen found herself stand.
ing on the por,ico IN the bright moonlight
with Peyton beside her. The gay throng
within were still dancing, and the sound
of merry voices mingled with the bursts
of music that swept by on the dewy and
fragrant air. Ellen started as Peyton
spoke beside her, and for the first time for
several hours the recollection of her fatal
vow intruded on her mind.
What glorious night she remarked.
Il never saw the moon shine with greater
spleandor.' -
May il be happy omen to us, my fair
Ellen replied Peyton-and as ne spoke
he turned to white rose bush which had
wrea,hed itself around one Of the pillars Of
the portico, and culled several Of its half
blown flowers.
While he was thus employed. Ellen
was gazing abs,ractedly on the fantastic
shadows made by the trees in the yard
Suddenly she grapped the railing Tor sup
port, and looked with eyes fascinated with
terror on white shade which seemed to
rise from an open space on which the
moons radiance was poured without OBJ
struction from the surrounding shrubbery.
The shadow arose slowly, and gradually
assumed the waving outline of human
form wrapped in the garment OF the tomb;
1t approached the spot on which she stood
and the features of Henry Sinclair, wear
| ing look Of sad reproach, were distinct"
| " visible to her as the shade glided be-
tween herself and her newly welded lord.
With faint cry she would have fallen
had not Peyton turned and sprang forward
| in time to receive her senseless form IN
| his arms. a
Long, long was it before she recovered
from her deathlike swoon. She then rela.
ted what she had seen, and chung to the
belief in the spectral visitation with such
,enacy that reasoning and soothing failed
to calm her mind. Before another day
drawn she was raving in the delrium OF
brain fever, and in one week from her
ill-omened marriage she was laid beside
him whose spirit she believed had sum-
mond her to join him.
The incidents on which the foregoing
pages are founded are literally true. That
the supernatural visitation was the OIL
spring of an over. wrought Imagination and
supersti,ious mind, real case OF Mono
mania, there can be but little boubt. The
vagaries of an excited Imagination are
producing results on Mormons and Miller
ties quite as inexplicable TO sober reason
as the catastrophe Of The Broken Vow.
! MrpN1eHr.--The clock is striking twelve.
| How finely do the sweet full tones sweep past
through the air, as if they would take up your
: thought and carry it to the friend you are
thinking of at the moment. How many
haunts of wretchedness hid from the human
eyes in the depths of human hearts have these
cold vibrations reached while they are lying
so carelessIy under our ears! what tales
might they tell of secret misery, sickness un,
Mach ssd s 6Ga f
and feed at the very heart-st:ings.. beyond the
reach of all medicine, perhaps OF sympathy.
Many wife sits watching, with bleeoing
heart, for her husbands step, many motnel
| for her child's--and many venurons mel-
chant lies haunted with fears OF shlpwreck
and fire. mauy an Undecided defaulter iancles
voices at the door, many a young GIRL just
finding out that love is only heavlness anu
a tear. muses. bitterly over the caprice OF a
moment or an unmeant trife. And these are
the only watchers, for the happy are asleep
save the bride, on her dain,ily wrought piliow,;
murmuripg a low tone in the ear that Will
soou.tire Of its monotony, or to the Poe';
bpildinc up his dream in the darkness ano
HE mise mounting with the leaping freedom
Of an angels, forgetting the world Will
trample out his fiery spirit TO ashes' ana
laugh TO scoru the fine work OF MS ~"
ering fancy.
| A D1ssrRRssED MoTHER.-A widow
lady living in Cincinnati, formerly Dy he
name Of Earl, but now by the name o.
Henderson, has heard flying report 'ha
her SON James Earl, has been drowned on
come steamboat between st. Louis ana N
!, Orleans. on which he travelled IN the ca.
, paci,y of cook boy. He was about e
years of age, long auburn hair. weak eyes
.nd stout built. His mother who IS
Scotch laby Of respectable standing say
that his father, MIR. Earl, was drowned
, three weeks after they landed in TIL
country. Any information will De thank
$ fully received DO a distressed mother.
Gays SOUTHERN FACE -Extrac
from Henry Clay's Southern letters:
81 never was in favor of duties being 8
! hioh as to amount 10 prohibition OF aru
cles on which they were laid. hav
!, .haah. !, hest for all interests that Their
should be competition. The Prohibilo,
snoe &c lo.o;co conntries WOul