New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-15
The Man who wanted Two Wives,

1t may startie very moral people to read the
heading above; and there doubtless many Of the
hardsheli professors of mmac usteness who will not
hesitate to hur upon their pious anshemss
dueing such APPROXIMATION to the eyes of this Christian
community Is involved in the heading aforesaid But
if there be sin in the bare mention of such thing as
wishing to have two wives what that individual
be guilty of who would in cold blood set about
plshng that at which only hint II there is impro-
priey in speaking OF the matter how objectionable must
be the offence Of him who actually does that which pro-
vokes remarks These questions the puritanc
which they may solve to suit themselves. We have
nothing do with the morality of the matter and shall
only relate the facts
To begin again at the beginning discourse is of
individual who wanted two wivesn 1t may surprise
many very well meaning people that such individual
exists but that he does exist will pledge corporal
OATH and if proof is needed there witnesses avow
it-being other than ancient lady and only
daughter
But one fair daughter and more,
The whom she loved passing well"
This ancient lady the dupe of the individual who
wanted two wves and the daughter to have been
the victim They live-no matter where; but they
live in the city and cassed among that privileged
few who rustic in silks and asunt in Honiton
without the necessity of work The of the gay de-
ceiver who sought to vctmize the young lady and dupe
the old woman will MENTION but for the sake of
very expressive of his moral complexion and therefore
Ebony shall be his Ebony q very nice young
man-not young neither but he sported a jeweled
finger, and twirled nice rattan, and whal kept himself
so barbered bedzzened with the fppery Of fashion,
that he looked young and young to all ntens and
purposes He the very man of all the men of the
world captvae the imagination of rosy miss Of six
teen and the man too to walk into the affections of
an ancient lady having daughter bestow with dowry
of calico and biTege.
Ebony in u lucky hour-lueky for him, Ebony-met
young lady and like that famous fbuster dsnom-
mated Julius, and surnamed Caesar he came and
conquered The fair young creature acknowledged the
soft influence of the blind deity and gave herself
body and SOUL to the influence OF Ebony The young la
dy impressable and Ebony irresistible Ebony
had upon his front the stamp gentty and the young
lady to be impressed thereby Like wax, toe
she melted before tae hot breathing of newborn and
quenchless passion. There resisting Ebony They
engaged and the bargain sealed by long Eysiar
kiss that made the heart Ebony bound like the hrobbng
earthquake and the cheek of miss to glow like the
close of tropical day Not Leander folding whats her
name y to his drenched bosom-not Adam in his bower
gazing in the first twilight hour the face of beauteoui
Eve when Lit by the pale beams of Hepsrus, airest Of
the choir that hymned creations natal lullabynot the
Oriental when first bursts upon his view CLEAN of Par
adse and when the fsyorite Hou of his dreams
him with bouDd-not any that rake up from
the ashes Of forgotten lore be kened to Ebony
was ever like him beatfed Ebony blessed Ebony
| rejoiced
But the longest path has turning and the longest
yarn must be spun out, the Qualification OF Ebony
doomed to melancholy close The day fixed for the
cousumation of this happy adventure in the light
love- experience of the fugacous Ebony the parson
had been feed the provided and happy friend.
hidden to witness the espousas Ebony had far pro
crossed in the affections Of his fair young betrothed
the mother actually consented that he might take her
to walk It unlucky thing Ebony that he ever
took the young lady out to walk Unlucky that he
fered himself out OF sight Of his intended mother
For there ofcious friends invited to those gay
pousals, who knew Ebony of old. certain old womar
among the visitors that day to the intended mother
in-lsw-a very old woman-a garrulous old womsn--ai
ohicious old woman! An old woman, too, hintet
before who Ebony old The mischief is in thes
| old women all will agree. They know every body
business they have no bushes to know-and knowing
every body's business they can't help but divulge,
This old woman inquired for the lovely daughter
Ebonys intended mother-in-law, and told that sh
had gone out to walk with Ebony. The virtuous iudg
nation of the old at hearing this
novests say be better imagined than described
1t developed itself in every wrinkle of her wthered
lures and stuck out from her every toothess gnm sh
| was in rage. She knew Ebody said before AM
| she told the intended mothern-law every thing sh
| knew, Ebony was-and the old woman passion boile
as she told it like storm in pot of hominy-Ebon
married having absent wife and three ovel
children This his dear consor and these his dear ittl
pledges of affection had gone to Charleston ysi
leaving Ebony to indulge his too natural proclvity 70
the smell of muslin and dmity What said the ntende
motherin-law, and how the intended mother-inaw fel
we won't stop to state The veil will not bear lifting
And how Ebony when he came back from his promenad
with his gentle betrothed leaning his arm and pourn
volleys of affection from her love-t eyes-how Ebony
say, when he the old woman, refused to enter th
house under pretence Of pressing business elsewhere
will not linger to contemplate Neither will divulp
how the young lady teined when she heard the horr
truth /; how, after hours shedding of tears 81
found consolation in the embraces Of her kitten
Ebony never went there any more but returned to ii
arms of his wife and little Never either will "
whisper the real name of Ebony the man who wante
two wives" Let imagination furnish the remainir
. strokes to the picture