The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-07-03
Real Life-The Insane Bride and Belle.

Real Life-Thelnsane Bride and Belle.
A correspondent of the St. Louis In.
telligencer, who recently visited the
cincinnati ASYLUM for the insane, gives
/ this brief sketch of some Of the inmates:
"Here is now confined the young la.
dy who has so often been seen within
the past few years promenading Fourth
street in this city, dressed up in insane
hnery, intended for bridal habilments
fantastically decorated; and inquiring
occasionally OF passers-by for the faith
less cause of her too fatal sorrow. She
had completed lonely pilgrimage from
/ Europe, to unite her fortunes with those
of ker betrothed, who had preceded her
a twelve-month or so.
After weary search, she found him
doing business and-marrird. The
shock deprived her of her reason. Eve.
j. ny passing day, is since indicated by
her dlsordered fancy, as the one upon
which her Henry" is coming TO full
~ fill his vows and she arrays herself TO
meet him accordingly. Her nightly
disappointment yields easily to bright
er hope for the morrow, and thus her
be-clouded existence is wearing away.
HWhe called at her room. she was not
Hdressed in her usual paraphernalia.
Upon being informed that gentleman
wished to see her, no earthly induce.
mentS could prevail on her to appear
until after she had deliberately arrayed
herself with every single device and
adornmcnt of her fanciful costume =
She evident imagined that the object of
her long expectation had arrived and
when at last she met me, manifested her
disappointment in a way that was any
things but ALTERING to her visiter."
& The same correspondent furnishes the
following;
"Another object of singular interest
is Mrs. NJ, who was tormlv known
as the "belle of Madison" She does
not seem now to be over twenty-tour
years of age. Not long after her mar
riage her father died, and very soon
I thereafter her husband also. The
Edoub!e blow was too heavily charged for
1.-The tenderness of her affections, and
kdethroned her reason forever. With a
fceuntence the most beautiful | have
ever seen, she sits almost motonless
from day to day-an ineXpressible sad
< mess beaming from her soft and lustrous
keyes-while the whole expression of her
face conveys, if may so to speak, a sort
+ of intensified sweetness and resi- gnation.
She never speaks-but yields instinc-
lively to every suggestion OF intimation
of any kind from the keepers, and
signifies only Affirmative or negative re-
plies, by motion of the head So
I perfect picture of deep, Vulnerable
sorrow | had never seen, or been able
to imagine. feel as if it will be like
Ely to haunt me for month to come.
Y This unfortunate lady i. pronounced
I incurable.
here is another tbrautiitto+ young
4 woman here, who, under promise OF
amarrIage, accompanied young man
+ from her fathers residence in Illinois
| 1 to this city, and was here deserted by
him in the streets. She is one of the
most furious and uncomfortable inmates
! of the asylum. When her cell door was
Hopened, she was raving terribly, and
bshaking at the iron fasten,ngs of her
swindow. She turned upon me with a
Z savage vindic,iveness which rather in
clined me TO a sudden leaving when my
composure was comparatively restored
Xby view of the strong chains with
(which she was confined to the wall. In
Ia few minutes her fury was softened
T down to pathetic entreaty, and she
made the most touching and fearful ap-
lpeals against her unnecessary and cruel
4 confinement. | turned away, thinking
kthat the sight might, perhaps, be pro-
efltable one to her destroyer. if he has
4 not yet sufficiently repented of his
kcrimeO