Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-05-07
CHOICE LITERATURE.
From the Tobacco Plant.

From the Tobacco Plant
| have just returned from RI, and
now sit by my window, wondering if lady
ever derived pleasure from trihing with the
affections Of a true hearted man. While in
RI saw die the dearest friend ever knew.
He, the noble, the beautiful, saw consigned
by woman's heartlessness to an early
grave.-There was something that bound
my soul irrcsistibly to his. There was some
thing spell-binding, fascinating in listening
to his voice, as in its winsomn modulations
it breathed out the poetry of the soul-unso-
phisticated poetry-but deep in its concep-
tion sublime in it's imagery, enhancing in
its witchery. He saw. loved and addressed
the beautiful Miss N. They became affanced
to each other, and parted for months He
to think. to dream of her-to worship-to
idolize-adore. She to target. Other suitora
paid homage to her beauty. Then she i'm
agined she only liked, and not loved him.
When they met, she spurned him. God forgive
her that? He chided her not in words-but
! the thrilling look OF reproach he gave I will
! never forget. He never spike If hygone
| days. They met as strangers. Disappoint-
ment and despair ssTssx' 'fhair deenlines upon
! his expressive features. lie struggled on in
the splendor of his pathway, returned to his
house, and heard nothing of him for weeks.
had just entered the parlor of the E-Hotel,
aud while speaking to the lovely Miss N,
a hand was laid upon my shoulder; upon
turning around 5eheld middle aged man
grave and sedate in his department., and
wearing a confding air of kindness and
!, benevolence. Pardon this seeming imper-
tinence,' sir, he said as he forced me aside,
my name is WI am ply sician.-
, There is a young Virginian lying sick in a
house in the adjoining street. He is about
dying. His nalady is mental one.--In
his wild rawlings he repeats continually the
very name / heard you address that lady by
If you can, for Gods sake get her to come and
f save him. | knew it was my friend. The
blood seemed to leap in my very veins.
stood motionless a moment-then returning
to her said, there is friend of ours ex
tremely Ill dying, and his last wish is to see
: you again. She understood all, for she had
g learned he was there-and had followed
: hoping to reclaim and beg forgiveness. My
n conductor led the way. We reached the
;. place. There he lsy upon led OF death
The same high spiritual forehead was there
:, the same pretty, curling locks-but oh
. how otherwise changed! He opened mi
l. eyes and gazed into mine. How they flash
/ ed! How enhancing they were in their wilt
n beauty Tow they narrowed up ml
If soul in the loveliness of their delirium
, His thin lids moved, bent my ca
- close to them, SWEET beloved of m,
's SOUL" they murmured. "Oh, God sh
at -screamed he is thinking of me Oh ! it i
e bitter! The arrow of my heartlessness j
ID fostering in my own bosom. / am here, h
o. knows it not" Her soft, white arms wer
ID around him, but he felt them not. Her eye
~ were searching forrecognition in his-her re
: pentant tears were glistening among tn
- raven locks that shaded his pale, inte'lectu;
r. features She breathed his name. Repea
20 ed the vows that once had made his heart
II, leap so joyously. His own words were xii
ct ing her. He was true to her to the last
=. g He loved me- "(again she cried) "regardle
- of my waywardness. | am yet the guidin
n' star of his path-the aim Of his aspiration
OF the enshrined idol of his soul, Oh wh'
. would I not give to call him back to hapT
ra- ness and life" He died. She is beautiful
lrt vet in the warming flush of wOmanhood, ar
,;s the eve is still fascinating. though anxio'
no aud uneasy in It's glancing, but she is n
= happy. Life has no glory for her now.-
&c There is blood upon her soul. She still mi
a giles with the gay, but the shroud. the cof
lat and the falling clay, have woven asweetnes
IL a longing around her heart. And soon tn
A will lower her too, in the old church var
,ct ROANOKE.
py Senator Douglass The Washingt
Ice correspondent of the Baltimore Sun say
IN "Hon Judge Douglass has conveyed to t
OF Baptist denomination of Chicago, Illino
IN, ten acres of land-a grove-beautiful
nd situated within the city limits, for the pr
aet pose of erecting thereon university
MS with a condition that the trustees shall
tue the foundation of the edifce during t
ing approaching jail and spend annually
iol wards the bEslding s26,o0O until comp