Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-02-28
c. OIL L NJ 3 L S:
wednesday Morning, February a5, 1852
For tie Southern. ,Staudard.

from beneath our window, familiar voice to
few evenings since. We arose from that truly fe
minnie occupation, OF writing thrice-crossed letters
and opening the blind, perceived young friend
equipped for an evenings walk.
''Foila, - cried she the beauty awaiting you
see the skies have put on their most gorgeous
robes; the departing sunlight is tipping cloud
and spre, and tree with gold, and the air is as
soft and fragrant the spiccscented gales o
Araby-while you are immured in your depart
ment, like some enchanted princess in her castle
Come. "
We descended, and joining our gay young
friend, were as enthusiastic in our admiration ol
the fine evening, as she could have desired. In
deed its uuwonted beauty led to take longer
stroll than usual, and we soon found ourselves in
an obscure suburban street. and surrounded by
domics with which we had but little acquaintance
\ short distance in advance of us,-we noticed a
lady, whose distngue air and peculiar gracctulnesS
of form led US to watch with eagerness, for a
glimpse Of her features Nor did we look in vain,
for as she turned to enter an humble abode, a
face of such regal beauty flashed upon us, that
grasping our companions arm, We exclaimed,
"Who, who can the divine creature be?'
Well, 4" said our friend, laughing at our i'm
passioned manner . calm yourself, and you shall
hear 1.-The tale as twas told to me. " But It's
AN old story after ALL and few words will suffice
To put YOU in possession Of Ii. The beautiful girl
we have just seen, as her appearance sufficiently
indicates was not born to the station in which her
plain dress and lonely dwelling places her at pre-
sent Rank, BIRTH wealth, all were hers, only
two short years ago-but the destroying breath
of calumny, like the simoom Of the Sahara, swept
across her path, and like the flower urrooted by
that deadly wind and borne on It's fiery bosom far
from lis native bowers, find hcr here trans
planted.
Her father received no dover fom lis parents,
but good education and deeply impressed senti-
ments Of honor and integrity. With these advan-
tages, fine person and pleasing address, he soon
was far up the ladder ot proSIc Icrity, and by the
time that his only daughter had completed her
scholastic cGu 81, fortune promised to place at heI
command all that wealth could bestow. Nor was
she unworthy Of the fayors Of Fortune. The
sunshine around her, instead OF rendering hen
naughty or mPcrous, but served to unfold the
lovely buds oI virtue which adorned her, and
thus blessing and blessed she circled in her orbit
the light aad ornament OF her fathers home
Nightly when BE returned from his counting-roon
weary and listeas, would her sweet smiles and
gentle mi@iStiatons, FL his heart with peace and
his eye with love. Many suitors, Of course, bow
ed around her; among them, the serpent that
crept into this domestic Eden, poisoning its beauty
and marrng its blsG--a son, descended from d
family of the same city, who were distinguished
more for their wealth and want OF refinement,
than intelligence or worth 8 To the unworthy
there is no insult 50 intoerable as merit, " and
consequently they looked with 10 approving eye
upon our whilom heroine, who owed her populari-
ty more to her intelligence and amability than tC
her beauty or over flowing purse. Very indig-
nant were they, accordingly, when the fair daugh-
ter, whose father g started in life without dol
lar, dared refuse to ally herself with desccn
dant of Major General Quat.lebom of the Missis
sippi Militia
mans reyenge--may it not be even excelled by
that of purse proud, weak minded, rejected
suitor? To reach the object OF his revenge
through the mislortunes of her sire, was the nat
ural instinct of a mind, educated to depend upoI
the accidencv of fortune, for respectability. Ac
cordingy backed by the influence which wealtl
and pride of family always exert, he lost no occa
sion to impair the credit and diminish the busl
ness, from which wealth was fast rewarding The
industry and integrity Of her honored father
He even became the secret reporter Of one o
those agencies at the North, Invented by reckless
cupidity and fed by malicious defamation, every
where) for the express purpose of destroying hi
good name and credit with these commercial Ii
cense-shoPs, and by long course of fraud, per
fdy and SANDER, unnecessary now to relate ia
vored by the casualties of commerce. at last sue
ceeded SO entirely in alarming his creditors ant
destroying their confidence, that in course of
doning his splendid establishment and retren.
to the humble house we have just passed Un
fortunately, he suffered his reverses so to prey up
On his health and spirits, that he is now quite in
tirm-whie his noble daughter proved full we
that adversity is womans hour . With a
energy of purpose, lofty determination and sell
sacrificing devotion, that puts to shame her fatt
er's weak submission to his fate, she at once SUI
pressed her instructive decacy and retiring sens
bility of feeling, and crushing in her heart all
early aspirations-its pure young hopes and delu
sve dreams, went forth into that world who
ne'er till now, had worn aught for her, but II
sweetest smile. The laborious and thankless o.
fee of Teacher, is hers, and her daily pat
leads in front of her former home where reside
the guilty author of all her calamties. Such
her story-the moral, g he who runs may read
But see l have chatted on until | have brougt
you in safety to your own threshold-so, Au re
vCir. %
1t was the recollection of this brief glimpse
the busy and ever-changng life around US ths
made US sad and thoughtful as We joined tn
family circle, and sent us at an earlier hour froI
their midst. AS we sat in our secluded apartmer