The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-02-19
THE ELoPEMENT.
A ROLAND FOR Am oL1ynR.

A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. .
In the items of gossip on the pave, is the
Elopement, ay, awell authenticated elope-
ment, decidedly racy, and passably roman
tic, which came off or rather pent off this
week.
At Oberlin, sort of factory where they
spin out low-pressure parsons, and dub the
girls +" Mistrcsses of Arts," was our heroine.
She was quadroon from the South; such
graces as hers-an elive complexion; the
red bursting through the brown--hair black,
and long as nights in winter, limbs delicate,
and form straight as sugar cane, and eyes
like deep flowing streams-would win "lov-
yers' any day in upper-crust society, any
hour in Oberln.
Well, Rose Two must call her so, though
by any other name, Sc, you know had two
of them. The first was colored theolog-
an, of the dark and mystical brotherhood of
divinity students, the pride and boast of the
faculty, and prospectu, the profession of
preachers. Intellectual melancholy, blue
broad DIZZY, long face, spiritual minded. He
made love by mathematics, talked Latin, and
as the Hoosers say, laid himself out" and
did his prettiest. The most potent, grave,
and reverend signiors, backed him; but Rose
didn't fancy him. He might be "nice
young man." ga moral man'-and sac
quainted with the dead languages" but he
couldn't come in.
Rose loved another, her heart, like a
young swarm of honey-loving bees settled
on another sun-fower That other was
trarelled gentleman of color. He had sun
ned himself under the tropics-rambled in
Mexico, vagabonized in Texas, and overran
all the States of the Union-was a bird of
passage-plays the guitar like Spaniard,
and sung like a troubadeur. Talked Span
ish--iabbered French, and had the gift of
tongues-had had adventures, and moving
accidents-hair breadth 'scapes-told tales
Of bis travels history.
Wherein Of antics vast, and deserts wide
i was his hint to speak, such was the process;
And of the Cannlbals that did each other eat,
The anthro pophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow upon their shoulders.
To which, Rose, like Desdamona, did Sc
riously incline. The "down river songs"
end his parody on " Oberlin gals, wont ye
de moon," finished the work.
But every body knows that the course of
true love never did run like railroad, more !
like genuine corduroy turnpike with toll
gates every half mile, our hero tDould have
Rose, but the Faculty and the revalry, the
trouble, and all, sent him to Cleveland.
Here he taught music, wrote for the pa
pers, translated Spanish, ,longed to translate
Rose out Of the Vulgate Oberlin, in the We
ry regions Of the matrimonial paradise, and
he told her so--for he,cultivated the bellies
letters with her. So they appointed meet
ing-our hero is on the spot-just in the
Suberbs" of Oberln, with one of Gurley's
inside-of.ttree-raiaute-nags, and Rose walks
out, jumps into the buggy, and away they
whirl towards Cleveland.
But the spiritual, young theologue is after
the " lowers" in hot haste; he arrived at
Cleveland, ransacked the town, but the pair I
were on their way to Pittsburg, that Gretna
green of this Buckeye country. But "Night
is Cupid's day" the poets say.
There was "pretty considerable sprnk-
ling" Of stars, abroad, though not the first
shadow Of moon. Our hero dashed on to-
wards the Pennsylvania line
g He rode all night,
Till broad day light
And married that gall in the mornngn
That's the story. The poor disappointed
thsologue, went back to Oberlin with dark
cloud on his brow. Blessed are the peor
IN spirit"
Z .Jem," said he to classmate-"C Can
you tell me without your voculbsrry, why Pse
like de man wild dc two wooden legs?"
Giv's it up preemptorily, Sam, | can't tell
your
swell, said Sam, bekase--as how
somebody else is standin in my Joots!r'
"Yah, yah! " sensitire to de last" nigga!'
The Palmer (Mass.) Manufac turing Com
pany have made,a dividend of only thirteen
per cent on their capital stock, being the
profits of the last months. Who wonders
hat the manufacturers love protection?p-
How much have Ohio farmers divided in the {
same timef Itissfrom the products of their
abors, and those of other agriculturists, that
hese enormous profits are drawn, stolen by
pecial Legislation for the benefit ofcapitalins.