Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-12-07

Ye gentle, modest madens #A
May listen to loves lay
When storm from prouder sisters
Has borne all charms away.
An Incident in Real Life.
! Some months ago we entered, on Sunday
morning, one OF our hotels, and found there an Of
hcer; though to a stranger he appeared as an or
dinary guest, we knowing his occupation, thought
he paid especial attention to the stairway leading
to the upper portions Of the house. We exchanged
q nod, asked II there was anything in the wind,
received an affirmative nod, and we passed on
We did not lose sight Of the affair. Next morning.
and It was lovely morning in May, we happened
to be at the same place little before the hour for
the departure OF the Eastern cars gentleman,
passed out of the hotel and entered the omnibus;
few moments after the officer gallantly escortire
a lady, also entered 1t, and wishing to know and
see more OF the parties, we too entered the vehi-
Gle. The morning was, as we have said fine one,
1t was one that traveller would select rs an au-
spicious circumstance in his journey; the air was
balrny and refreshing, and soon the lady removed
| the veil which had hidden her features
She was young perhaps eighteen years Of age,
with countenance slightly dimmed by sadness,
but the sadness, apparently, of an innocent and
deeply injured, yet resigned victim of some unjust
suspicion The man was uneasy; he would turn
bis gaze from the lady and fix ii with baffied or
impotent rage upon the officer; occasionally he
would commence a remark to the lady but a
gllnce from the officer would not only arrest it
abruptly, but would check any response, IL one
was intended. We saw them seated In the cars, and
turned our steps homeward, wondering who the
parties were, what their relative position and why
this oihcer by the simple silent movement Of his
eye, could thus control and direct their move
ments, evidently against their will Since then
- L~--, G~.a i,uIrdrv,i urnerent sources gatneT
ed little threads of the affair." and now, with names
and localities changed, to avoid identity, we bird
these thresds Of their history together in the fol-
lowing brief story
In the spring Of 1871, the small seminary which
supplied the educational wants of one of the coun.
| ties In Maryland, on the Eastern Shore OF Chesa-
apeake bay, found itself without a.teacher in ono
OF Its branches Of instruction. An advertisements
describing the place was published in Baltimore
paper, and was answered by young man about
! twenty-five years of age, who had left d New Eng
land State IN search of some employment in land
where teachers as well MS pupils we're not as nu-
merous as at home. He was accepted, and entered
upon his duties. He was man Of ordinary cdu-
cation, but by the constant display Of what he
knew, by the continued assumption of far more
than he knew, and by the UNMARRIED exhibition Of
piety and love Of religious exercises, he soon won
| the respect OF all persons, and became the object
oil even more than respect among the country
maidens for miles around. 1
| We are not Writing romance. We regret to
say that we chronicle in tbis article the sad record
OF facts, and facts alone. II would be out Of place,
II we bad the room, TO sketch even briefly the RI
| valry and coyness with which the fair maidens
met, and received tho attentions or the teacher.
He was well sversed In all the herb remedies for
the cuts, the burns and other Affections OF human
nature, and OF course was favorite among the La
dies. He was an amateur in music, and led the
choir, and upon all such matters, az well as upon
the fsshions, was supreme authority among the
girls. One Of the young lady pupils was Mary In
gleton the only child Of the weathiest planter in
the county She was at the time Of his advent at
the seminary, but fifteen years Of age. With care
ful speech and careful unobserved manner he soon
taught this lady to love him; and, ere one year
had passed, they we're secretly betrothed. When
| the spring Of ls42 arrived, Colonel Ingeton and
wife visited Baltimore,- and while on their return
the steamer on which they had taken passage came
in collision with vessel in the bay, and soon fill
ing sunk, carrying all on board to a watery tomb
BY the laws of the State, the orphan was entitled
TO choice Of guardian; she chose her lover and
preceptor Three months later she yielded TO his
persuasions and became his wife.
Changes soon followed; one by one the slaves
whose ancestors for a hundred years had been
born and had died In that county, were taken pos
session Of by rough, strange men, and shipped
| from neighboring port 70 more Southern climes,
until in May 184S, when his wife reached her ma
jotity, there was but one left of all her fathers
| people" That one was tho nurse who reared
| her ; who had been her constant companion--her
almost second mother. Graves--as we must Sc
ect some name we give him this in lieu Of his real
one-insisted upon the sale Of the farm, and re-
moval to some Northern State. His wife demur-
red and for months held out against this breaking
up Of all her earlier associations. The sale Of the
nurse was threatened, and to avoid that, and with
promise that the faithful negress should be freed
and entailed as the nurse Of her own three chill
dren, the wife consented to the sale Of. the farm.
IL was sold and the day the wife signed the deed,
the negro nurse was sent TO Richmond.
Graves moved with bis family to northern city,
where in rioting and dissipation he squandered tie
fortune he had obtained; he then retired to an in
terror town In Pennsylvania, where by the profess
sion of his great and fervd piety, he ingratiated
himself into religious society; few months later
he formed new congregation, of which he became
the pastor. Here he continued for year or two,
when he was called to one Of the northern coun-
| ties in the same State, to take charge of newly
/ organized sect Of Christians He soon became
popular lecturer az well preacher. His lectures
were filed with that fiery denunciation, and iL-
trepid zeal in the cause Of regeneration physical,
moral and Intellectual of the whole human family,
| that an men, even those who rejected his fnat.
o;am accordinr To him the sncerest love for or