The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-07
A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE

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The facts which follow Furnished US By a
reliable correspondent, and contain sufsci-n Mt q
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assured by the narrator that the statements are
literally correc':
Some sixteen years since. a g.n lr,nan in New
York city contriyed to pay his addresses 10 .
beautiful girl there, the daua hter Of a worth,
but obstinate Pearl street merchant, who wa.
opposed to The young mans visiting his dau I'll
ter. tie persisted in h $ cndeavors 10 win thu
young lady, and was at last forbidden 10 ente,
the old man house
Still the lovers continued 10 meet. occ,sion
ally, atterward-and at the expiration of some
six months, matters having been previously SO
arranged-the girl consented to marry the youth
who loved her, and for whom at any time he
would have periled his lifr, NO deeply rooted
was his affection for her. He did not seek hei
fortune, for he WAS in the enjoyment of hand
some salary as principal book keeper in a lob
bing house, and his prospects, ppcuniarily, were
very fair. But the parents were obdurate, and
he was driven from the house.
As we have hinted, at the end ofa half tw. I've
month, they agreed to be married, and ali the
requisite arrangements were made the evening
was fixed upon, even the chaplain had been en-
gaged-but on the morning OF the day proposed
secrctely for the nuptials, the whole plan was
discovered, and the match was broke, off per
emptorily-by the absolute authority OF the par
ents
Time passed on. The daughter was sem to
distant part of the country for awhiIe-the
young man disappointed and diskeartened--and
he left New York for the West, where h, Re.
mained two years. Meantime person TO sui,
the taste Of the parents turned up-a man o.
hrt pld pvb a..
young girls frther-and match was arranged
after long persuasion, between Emma and This
man, she welded him at last
Three years subsequently the young mar
found himself in New England, where lie set,
tied and took wife and settled also--fndiny i
''not good to dwell alone"--and some dozer
years or more passed away with their thousanc
changes ofplace, of circumstanc and fortune
From the time Of their separation the orgina
lovers had never met.
The young man became the father OF three
little ones, and then lost two of these; which
bereavement was SION after followed by the
death of his wife. Time flew by-he had beer
widower for several years and his eldes
daughter had got 10 be quite Miss He hac
been fortunate in his business, and resided 8
few miles out of the city, in sweet ",il.le cot
tage unclouded by sorrow,' for the day of hi:
sorrow had long since passed by; and he endeav
ored TO be contended and happy surrounded BY
The comforts of liie and in the enjoyment oi
the society OF his dear little daughter
One day last month he was returning home in
the afternoon, and upon entering the cars found
them full. He sought seat and found one oc
cupied by lady about thirty years of age-be.
side whom he sat down, and the cars soon NOV
ed out of the depot. As they immerged into
the light, he suddenly turned to the lady and
exclaimed
Madam Emma Is this voue"
He didn't know exactly what he s1d but il
was a fact that he was on the same seat with
the girl to whom he had been engaged to be
married, whom he had really loved, and whom
he had never seen since the day Of their cruel
separation.
mutual explanation soon succeeded Our
widowed friend ascertaind that his former in
tended was on her way to the North upon visit
to her friends. That she had been married
about eleven years, had but one child living,
and her husband had been dead about two years
He pointed TO his pretty cottage, as the cars
passed on, but did no. leave the train
He proceeded forward, rene wed his acquant-
ance, found the lady her own mistress, propos-
ed to her again-for he believed her quite as
lovely as overland won her sure this time
And we record the fact with no ordinary de-
gree of pleasure, that within three weeks the
lovers were actually united together in marriage,
in the city Of Boston Long may they live to
enjoy their wealth, and the happiness which we
know must follow their union.-.4m Union