The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1854-08-18

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The Secretary Scllner had begun TO taste
the inst spring Of happiness with his youth
mi bride. Ihere,union was not. founded on
that vague and evancscent passion which of
ten lives and dies in almost the same mo-
ment-sym and esteem formed the
basis oftheir attachment. Timc and experi-
ence, without diminishing the ,ar,lor, had
confirmed the permanence, Of their mutual
sentiments. It was long since they had dis
covered that they were formed for each other.
but want Of fortune imposed the necessity Of
q tedious probation; till Sclner, by obtaining
the patent for place, found himself i'm pos
session OF an easy competence, and ON the
following Sunday brought homo in triumph
his iong-betrothcd bride. A succession of
ceremoDious visits for some weeks engrossctl
many Of those hours that the young couple
would have devoted to each other. But no
sooner was this onerous duty fulfilled, tlian
they eagerly. escaped from the intrusion of
society to their delicious solitude; and the
fine summer evenings were but too short for
plans and anticipations offuture felicity. Sell
ner's flute and Josepline's harp filed up the
intervals OF conversation, and with their har-
.monious unison seemed to sound the pr, lude
to many succeeding years of bliss and con-
cord. One evening, when Josephine had
played longer than usual, she suddenly COM
planned of indisposition, but concealed il from
her anxious husband; naturally susceptible
OF nervous complaints, the attention which
she had lent TO the music, and the emotions
1T excited in her delicate frame, had increas-
ed slight indisposition to fever, aud she
was now evidently i'll. a physician was
called in, who so little anticipated danger
the. se promised cure on the morrow
But after night spent in delirium, her dis
order was pronounced nervous fever, which
completely baffled the efforts of medical
skill, and on the ninth day was confessedly
mortal. Josephine herself was perfectly
sensible of her approaching dissolution, and
with mild resignation submitted to her fate.
~, Addressing her husband, for the last time.
she exclaimed: any dear Edward, Heaven
can witness it is with unutterable regret that
Idepart from this fair world, where have
found with thee q state Of supreme felicity;
but though L am no longer permitted to
live in those arms, doubt not thy faithful
Josephine shall still hover round thee, aud
as q guardian-angel encircle thee till We
meet again." She had scarcely uttered
these words when she sunk on her pillow,
ana soon feil into a siumoer, from which she
awoke no more and when the clock was
striking nine, 1t was observed that she had
breathed her last. ahe agonies of Sellner
may DO more easily conceived than describ-
ed during somo days i appeared doubtful
whether he would survive; and when, after
q confinement Of some weeks, he was at
length permitted to leave his chamber, the
powers Ut youth seemed paraiysed, his limbs
were enfeebled, his frame ernaciatcd, and he
sunk INTO state OF stupor, from which he
was only TO be reused by the bitterness OF
greet 10 this poignant anguish succeeded
a hxed melancholy; deep SORROW eonsecra-
ted the memory OF his beloved: her apart
ment remained precisely in the state in
which 1t had been left previous her death !;
Ion the work table lay her unfinished task;
the harp stood IN Its accustomed nook, un-
touched and silent. every night sellner
went IN q sortof pilgrimage to the sanctuary
OF his love, and taking his flute, breathcd
forth, in deep plaintiye tones, his fcryent as
pirations for the cherished shade. He was
thus standing in Josephine's apartment, lost
in thought, when broad CLEAN Of moon
light fell on the opon window, and from the
nei9hborin0 tower the watchman proclaimed