Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-08-05

REAL LIFE-THE INSANE BRIDE AND
BELLE.--A correspondent of the ST. Louis
lnteIligencer, who recently visited the Gin.
cinhati Asylum for the Insane, gives this
brief sketch Of one OF the inmates;
Here is now confined the young lady
who has so often been seen within the past
few years, promenading FouIh streets, in
this city, dressed up in insane fnery, nten-
ded for bridal habliments, Enthusiastically de-
Corated, and inquiring occasionally of
passers-by for the fathless cause Of her too
fatal sorrow. She had completed a lonely
pilgrimage from Europe, to unite her for
tunes with those of her betrolhed, who had
preceded her twelyemonth or so. After
a weary search, she found him doing busi-
ness, and marricd. The shock deprived
her of her reason. Every passing day IS,
since, indicated by her disordered fancy,
as the one upon which her Henry is
coming to fulfil his vows, and she arrays
herself to meet him accordingly. Her
nightly disappointment yields easily to a
brighter hope for the morrow, and thus her
becIouded existence is wearing away. When
| called at her room, she was not dressed
in her usual paraphernalia, Upon being
informed that gentleman wished to see
her, no earthly inducements could prevail
on her to appear, until after she had eabo
rately arrayed herself with every single
device and adornment of her fancifu COS
tune. She evidently imagined that the
object OF her long expectation had arrived,
and when at last she met me, manifested
her disappointment in way that was any
thing but flattering TO her visitor.
The same correspondent furnishes the
following
Another object of singular interest is
Mrs. M, who was formerly known as the
belle of Madison She does not seem
now to be over twenty-four years of AGE.
Not long after her marriage her father died
and very soon thereafter her husband also,
The double blow was too heavily char
ged tor the tenderness of her affections.
aud dethroned her reason forever. With a
countenaDce the most beautiful have ever
seen, she sits almost motonless, from day
to day-an inexpressible sadness beaming
from her soft and ustrous eyes-whie the
whole expression of her face conveys if !
may SO speak, a sort of intensified sweet.
ness and resignation. She never speaks
but yields instlnctvey to every sugges.
uon or lntimallon OF any kind from the
keepers, and signifies only affirmative or
negative replies, by motion of her head
Soperiect picture of deep, unulterabIe
sorrow, | had never before seen or been
able to imagine. | feel as if it will be like.
ly to haunt me for month to come. This
unfortunate lady is pronounced incurabIe.
"There is another beautiful young woman
here, who, under a promise of marriage
accompanied young man from her fathers
residence in Illinois to this city, and was
here deserted by him in the streets. She
is one OF the most furious and uncontrolIa-
bic inmates Of the asylum. When her cell
door was opened, she was raving terribly,
and shaking at the iron fastening Of her
window. She turned upon me with a
savage Vlndlctlveness which rather inclined
me to a sudden leaving, when nv comm.
sure was comparatively restored bv view
OF the strong chains with which she was
confined to the wall. In few minutes
her Jury was sottened down to pathetic en-.
treaty, and she made the most toncb;n,
and fearful appeals against her uDneces'
sary and cruel confinement. turned
away, thinking that the sight might, per.
haps, be profitable one to her DESTROYER
If he has not yet sufficiently repented ofbis
crime" " MS