Litchfield enquirer., 1855-10-04
NisceIiaqy.
THE FATE or \ 20 nGER.

10 tW0 Xs0nGef, . Oa.hOfOia mOntuty magazine. wc find the following melancholy story. contributed to that periodical by Hon. Y. Gopld Du6am. The editor of the N Y. Csmmeyeial Adreriiser psonousces the sto- - true, and ssys: .Ms could iii np tlss blanks with the real names. if any good ob jecs wss to be thereby attained"
 J.I,ad beea to West Point in tho summer of is46. engaged in writing series of letters for the Morning -. with which ! had been connected as reporter for some two years previous. UpOn my return to tho office found sitting at ny desk young ssen. apparently about twenty y.6v~ years of sge, dressad in the ,aost scedy ssyse imagin- able, and indnIging ia that 1ull-bfeastrdaess of coat which usually covers . shirt 6osom of rather suspicious wlliteness. A glimpse st his face, howes,s, removed the aatasoe- able opinions which his dress had imrAnet His iosehead was high and iasellecia4l. his head unusuatly larye in propostioa to the tares wee cass Ia that classic mould which gives No much beauty to the prp6lss of Michaca Angelo. He struck me ai once as are.narkablS maa, and suhsfqn~a, acqnaini. ance and events showed me was no. mis- taken. He had been engaged as the office xt smat salary, was inisesahly poor. and upon my introducing myself .o hisa. = ! immediately did. he Sskrd me 10 sb'p aside, upon doing which he cravrd small loan so enable him to purchase breakfast. l lei hi,H have the money, snd at night took him home ts ay third story back-room in my hoasding house, where he shared my narrow co, he'd, not quite wide cnoagh io ono. Ia ehc close connection into witch our duties brought us, we soon became xs intimately AcQuaiated hs any oae could become wish ssch . singular being as he was.
 had not known him many days hefote found h~ was maa ef grnius ssrely ever met with. and that graitrd apon t were attainm-nts such as seljosa are s<em in one se young. Hs had been educated Ut - Culieg~, here he stood at the head of his class, and besides ths masty iose of Gseek and Laiia, he had made himself thosoaghiy conversant with Hebrew, and of ite modern languages he spoke nuenily French, Span- isl,. German, and Italian. iie skr,cl.cd and painted. too. with an artists skill; and
 
 one day showed mr a portfolio of paintings iH wasrr-eolof os sce0ea tsosn natas~s of wild, tropical sceaes, wl.ere ihe towering palm-tsss east shadow over the painted earth. .an& where gosgeossly y-colored tropical Aox~ss and birds of golden piu,nags 6lled tho ricsnsss ned shen sonss sacirnt ssins--- shs rvmains aprarrnLy of sacs of which my history -reading had never tsught me- ctlnca.liks palaces. aud srmplrs.snd iomhs and then scenes upon tho hroad. desolats ocean--.ike waving pa,npas; md then again pictures ef domestic beauty snd content at doors of little huts. within which the 6g. tree aud the cocoanut cast thvir retreshiny al,adows; and then sunset scenes, on which hts pencil had left ihe gosgeoss colors such n iinxer on the hiliowy clouds of the tropics. wlaAn the sinking san is ,inain2 them with his farewell rays. One of tlsrss sunset scenes he showed me WAS ' fancy- sketch such n oniy the pencil of m artist. and not my pen. ran describe. Bai it was . sceae of quiet. calm, pr.~~fni, ana nn elouded rest. whcEe sha very ssillness of shs siF seemed painted -whese the sFee-leaves siood n mosicnless ~s though no brpese had ever ruslled them. and where silver slseasp W1S BuusWX tutUuBW V WWW0t CW~sssStSN plain. Fly iss eide, sad and melancholy. and xasing into iss limpid waters. vas . young tnsn. Alihosgh ihs piriuse was . tancy, casily reeognised his own form shd portSHil | asked him what h~ called the picture, and he said it was < Lethe ' <
 Hu was singular being. Al tisnes hs was flowing over with wit and h0mor. but thrse occasioMe wers rase. \ setslsd glooa 5 hunR oyer his counssnanre, and sil kts con verssticn wcse m air of s~dneHs. IA plain ly n though is wsrs stamped upon his hrow h lesles areply-est as the brand af Cain wau wnsirn ahs eusss of his fife -mrmasy Csriasily. and she deep and ardent fiiend ship hsd aequired for hius. ollen Prompae' sns e esdessos to lill shc veil whirh. like darkeninG cloud, hung oses his heart m l.is life, bns alNays 10 m paspose. OccA sianally he weald rpune n thu oliirs lpnel ~xhiIaraied wilh drink, and then hN woull sis down and dash oG oae Il ilose GowirlI scAthinx. pishy. ~ psorLsiia articlsss ~hirl at shas sims made she lorninK r- . etle6mled. npd which wer6 quoted ap' eosnmented spoN throughout tho co0psF.. and lhe wcsla. n ihs pfoducsions of th eelebFated e0i(os. So thinRa progressed fc noashs, sRa ,sepgA VI ssss in eonssal