Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-10-31
A Romantic ReaIItY-Truth StrFnRer
than Fiction.

r atty sometimes strangely taxes credulity
for belief tEsn the mot highly colOred romance.
An instance occurred in our midst yesterday noon.
An oil man, whose few remaining hairs were
Whittne by age, retailing in Fifth sire mar
krt place, brief chapters in a cheQuered hfe-bis
travels and experience in foreign countries, his ri
ais by land and sea, his hopes and wishes for the
future.
Twenty years ago, Whereabouts, be left Lam
caster, Pa, with no particular object in view
cept rid hms II of the oppressive ills OF puver-
~ and want Without means to support his lie
and three children, with little employment,
he abandoned hom- and friends TO chance the haz
ard OF the world ,lsewhere, In hopes dane Fortune
would smil more plef sanity. At PHILADELPHIA he
shipped on board vessel Tor Live rpOOl as Il hand
b, fore the m at, and made two or three trips in
that capacity, back and forth across the Atl,ntc.
Finally, on the last voyage, he left his ship in
foreign port, and renamed Their for seVeral years,
engaged in various pursuits that offered preCari
Gus living. He sailed up the Meditrrrsnr an, visit
ed the Holy Land, came back to Liverpool, an :
again shipped for his native country. Through
some il-starTed circumstance, he did not reach his
home, tut aft bufieting about for year or more,
finally brought up IN q South American port, where
be r maiu,d for several wears, engaged 10 tracing,
and Variou- other occupations that yielded fair
living. The gold e1citem, ut on the Pacific carried
him thither and he went up "the golden Sacrament
to" With high hopes OF prosperity. years expo
rienre there brought with il frowns than
smiles OF iortunr, AMI he iet the Eur ka state Tor
China, again as a sailor. From there he shipped
10 another vessel for New York, where he arrived
several months ago. in6rm almost out with
lfr's trisls aud troubles, and sought amongst his
old friends for his wife and children.
With many doubts and hopes, he visited Lam
caster, where he had left them, but found no kith
or kin TO receive him. HIS wife had died long
years before, and son had soon followed her
to the grave. With heavy besrt, future before
him as bank as the unspored ptge, be wandered
forth again little needing life, nos caring how soon
its iiul { Yer" closed forever.
Chauce directed his footsteps to Cincinnati, in
his weary round, aud chance, a guardian spirit,
or fate, prompt him 10 relate his adventures to
halt uoz listeners in Fifth street yesterday;
and ImOugst them was young mechanic, a cabin
NJ ker, on bis way TO bis boarding hOusr to dim r
who listened NIth marked attention, and who found
on further inquiry, that the venerable old gentle
man was his JdthsT The son was but a small lad
when The parent left home; but he had hca ri
enough OF lis history to know that the wander
before i'm was indeed his .. rent Of whom he had
but oifu neoll, ctiun personally. He grasped ia,
oil man by the arm with HEARTY sood will, tool
him TO is hosrIug house aud provided him will
food aud Fsimrnt and will smOoth his footpath 90
thu gave with kindness aud devotion
Do We ots.y trul', that ghlyi olnred romano,
is often dinmed by 81 IN reality r-LiH. Gas.