The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-01-25
LANCASTER H. SOUTH WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 25 1854

man though hale and robust parsonage
had been visited by such severe attacks
upon his feelings, as to quite supplant his
health. He could not bear to hear of
the success OF our forces, but worse to him
still, was the misfortune of his daughter {;
he had vainIy hoped that Frank would
return and although opposed to him in
party views, he nevertheless would have
given his consent to their marriage. But
the intelligence of Franks death, about
six months after his enrolment so deeply
affected the old gentleman that he rap
idly and irrevocably sunk. lie died a
melancholy death; lingering on the verge
of the grave week after week, the weight
OF grief that overhung him, finally broke
his heart.
Thi, circumstance, though the loss of
parent was to Amelia, the regaining of
that home which the wounded feelings of
her father some fifteen months previous,
ndu CauSSu ucT W dN'nuou' WIN heI
widowed mother and her little brother
she lived secluded life, rarely going be-
- one convicted of murder and yet she
WAS not certain that her babe was destroy
ed; again she rejoiced. that she had sent
it away alive, as some guardian angel,
might hover over the spot, where it was
left and shield it from danger, or send a
benevolent hard to move it, rs was Moses
Of old, to congenial place Of rest.
We now recur to the time, we left
Frank an invalid in the hospital at Balti-
more. The victorious engagement at the
Crescent City released the volunteers of
the Southern Division from their enlist
mrnt, and those who survived the war,
fastened to their homes. The wound in
Captain EIvanc's breast was nearly healed {;
he was furnished with the necessary con-
vcyances for the journey, and he arrived
u, home, among his friends, about the first
"f February, 1915. He lid not long re-
mlin still after his arrival; as soon as
practicable he was by the side Of the dis
consulate Miss Shipman, endeavoring to
raise her dropping spirits. She scarcely
knew him; the ruddy face of the youth
had heightened to the austere visage of
the war-worn soldier, yet that love which
knows no control will soon recognize its
own, though three years Of toll and suf-
fering may intervene to estrange it. We
need not recount the sorrows and affiic-
tions of these two, now comparatively
happy beings. Their separation was like
unto death, their meeting was for life. In
few weeks time the ceremony of their
marriage was solemnized. Amela's health,
both physically and mentally, was in a
great degree restored, yet one painful
haunting thoughtstill pursued her Franks
sympathetic tenderness was an effective
panacea in relieving her conscience from
the sting inflicted by remorse, at the in
human act of placing their babe in the
wild valleys of tie Blue Ridge. BY their
marriage, the odium which attached itself
to Amelia, and which hastened the de-
mise of her father, was partly removed !;
their days passed over with the full fond
ness of heart that characterizes new mar
riages. Being thus restored to each other,
we will leave them for a period of fifteen
years, during which time we will unfold
the history of one, who was the delight of
all, and yet a mystery in her own feeble
and imperfec: conceptions Of herself