The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-10-04

Pshaw, madam, none of your airs. But |
tell you this extravaganza neither can nor will
submit to-"
"You're brute" said the wife, "soIyou are.
Do you--can you think" she continued, bursting
into tears, 'I'd ever have married you, when l
might have had SO many better husbands, if I'd
thought you'd have used me this way!"
"Well madam so you've got up scene, "coolly
said the husband, sail wish is, that you had mar
ried some one of your other suitors."
"You do--you insult mel won't live with
you day. Oh, that should be abused in this
way" and the now really wretched woman burst
into fresh flood OF tears.
As you please, madam"
But we omit the res! Of this scene, which en-
ded with fit of Mysteries on the part of the wife,
and voiley of curses on that ofthe husband. The
difficulty was the next day made up between the
newly married couple; but from that hour their al
tercations were frequent and bitter. Charles be-
gan to think as his old friend had told him, that
there was great difference betwixt marrying for
love or for money.
Three years passed. At the end of that period
how altered were the circumstances of Charles and
his friend.
The expenses of his establishment had increased
upon the former, until his fortune not only stag
gered, but gave way under the pressure, and after
several Intellectual attempts 10 retrieve itby specu
lations which ending aboEtively ,only increased his
embarrassments, Charles found himself upon the
brink of ruin In these circumstances he found
no consolation in the sympathy of his wife. She
rather upbraided him with the loss of her fortune
| forgetting how much Of it she had squandered in
| her fashionable entertainments. Their alterations,
moreover, increased in frequency and violence ever
since the scene we have recorded above, until
Charles, unable to find even quiet at his own fire
side, sought for relief in the club. Hther he was
led, moreover by the desire of retrieving his for
tune, for his embarrassments were still unknown ID
the world, and he trusted that by lucky chance
he might place himself once more in security
| Vain hope! How many deluded victims have in.
duIged in the same delusIan before. His course
| from thathou was downward. He became gam
bler he neglected all business; he lost; his engage
ments failed to be met; and in few weeks he wa;
a bankrupt.
Meantime the husband of Lucy had been stead
ily gaining in reputation, and increasing his bust
ness, so that at the end of the third year the young
couple were enabled to move into larger and
more elegant house, situated in more desirable
quarter. This change Of location materially
strengthened the business of the young attorney; ;he
became known as one of the rising going men,
and he looked forward with certainty to the spec
dy accumulation of competency
Have you heard anything farther" said Lucy
one evening TO her husband, as he came in from
a days hard work 'concerning poor Mrs. Lowry
and her husband'"
" Yes, my love " said he, sand it IS all over"
"What! has anything alarming happened!" sale
Lucy anXiously.
"Sit down, dearest, and don't tremble so, said
her husband, teuderly, putting his arm around heI
waist, and drawing her to the sofa, "and | will
tell you the whole of the melancholy story"
CATER his bankruptcy last week, some days
elapsed before anything was known of the place
to which my unfortunate friend had gone. 1t was
supposed at first that he had fed with what funds
he could lay his hands on. This was the more
credible from the ignorance of his wife as to whith
er he had gone. She, cold hearted thing, seemed
to care little for his oss but appeared to be chiefly
affected by her deprivation of fortune. She even
upbraided her husband publicly, and it is sal G
when some iorgeries which he had perpetrated
were discovered, and strict search set on foot af
ter the criminal, she went so far as to hope he
might be taken and brougb, to condign punish
ment. But you know they never lived happy to-
gether.
"We, every attempt to trace the fugitive hav
ing failed, when intelligence was brought to the
city this morning, that dead body answering to
the description of that of Mr.. Lowry, had been
washed ashore few miles down the river. You
may well look alarmed, for the intelligence was toe
true. 1t was the body of my poor friend. ltis sup
posed that grief shame at his bankruptcy and per-
haps remorse for his crime, led him TO commit su-
icide. Poor fellow his sad fate may be traced to
his ill-sorted marriage. He chose woman whose
extravaganza always outstripped her fortune, and
who, from having brought him wealth considered
him beneath her. He did not know the difference
in wife between WORTH and WEALTH"
FRIENDSHIP.
Lieut.. Montgomery had seen much military