Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-10
THE INTELLIGENCER.
The Amours ID orSYarren IrnarInun.


Ton sailed difor the South Seas, and in it Warren
Hastings, who had been home from the East
on visit, returned to India. This celebrated
parsonage was born in England, and of noble
blood; but through some reverse offortune new
er succeeded to the patrimonv and estates ofhis
fathers: His earliest and lifelong ambition.
through all his checkered and eventfll career
IN India, was to possess himself of the means
necessary TO redeem this ancestral home. While
q lad of only dozen summers, he used to re-
cline on the green banks of one of those pure
streans that fertIllzed its gardens aud parks, in
Inll view OF the old baronial palace, and mature
plans by which to realize this great object
Ille plan upon which he finally determined, and
winch he atterward pursued with such signal
success, s. was, to secure employment from the
st-Indla Company, proceed at once to India,
ana there press everything into service that
promised success. He accordingly embarked
Tor that far country, went to work for the Com
pany, labored four or five years without any
thing special "turning up" to mark his history,
returned home on brief visit, and has now
taken, passage eonce more for the lind of hisadop-
ton. 1l6e
Z An ! uninterrupted voyage of fifteen thousand
miles may be easily conceived to present as mo-
notonous a2phase oflife as can possibly be other
wise afforded. Cut otfentirely from the world,
the limited community ola dozen individuals,
perhaps, affords the only resources for that va.
rety which gives life zest, or renders it in the
least degree Supportable. With this 5communi--
ty, good, bad, or Indifferent, one must come in
contact daily, hourly; circumstances eminently
proPltlous for contracting the most invcteratc
aud lasting g9disikes, or; on the other hand the
most interesting connections. d
Among the passengers ofthe Duke of Grafton
1t appears, was one German portrail-painter,
by the name of Imhoff and wife which latter
IS described as an individual in whom was tity
blended outward beauty and accomplishments.
with nobleness of mind, and interesting and
engaging manners. a
With this individual-the wirc-Hastings,
very naturally, was not long in forming an ac.
quaintance, and one which, under circumstances
ed to little less than intimacy. Pretty much
the hrst thing, Strange as it may. appear; of
which he became fully satisfied was that, whcth-
er with good reasonor otherwise, she most
heartily despised her husband; aud but little
later, what more particularly concerned himself
that she was fast actually becomingzan object of
special favor aud regard in his own eyes. Start.
ling discoveries, indeed!-discoverics which
rendered his situation one at once of interest
and peril, of interest, because his own future
happiness, or course in life might be affected by
1T; orperil, because the only individual whose
companlonship could in the least degree afford
any antldote for tue enuui and mortal irkSome-
ness ola long and tedious voyage, in spite Of
himself, was fast making him her slave; gaining
possession, indeed, of all he had in the world,
his heart; an estate with which he was not so
ready to'part, and least, for the sake Of augold
married woman But how was he going to help
himself? Circumstances utterly precludGd, on
the one hand, the possibility cf avoiding, much
less fleeing the object of his passion, while no
secret ocean cave, provided in the hazardous ex-
tremity an eopement were determined upon,
offered the asylum of a Gretna Green to the
'enamored pair. He seemed by Internationally
hemmed in. Flee from temptation lie could not
then iSnC1f n lpnp hat bn fnlt
most keenly its t'crucl power?n And what man,
let the ask, can long remain in the presence of
beautiful, Intelligent, fascinating, and, there
fore, woman ofPotcer, and not feel her intlu>
encc2 Aslikcly would he be 10 resist the intiu-
ence of the sunlight with success, though cx-
posed to the Iull blaze of noon-day. No; as icez
must OF necessity melt, if exposed TO the inau-
ience of heat, so against that subtle powerwhich
woman holds, that anonfls lspaElIleS in her eye,
mellows in her tones, beams. upon her face,
"mantling through its beauty" in which, when
intensified, is aptlv defined by Tuppcr as ''a
volume ina word;n s'an ocean in tear;" "a
seventh heaven in glance;n "a wairlwind in
sigh; the lightning in touch" a millennium
In q moment;" it were, altogether vain, and
worse, to think of making successful resistance.
Such, then, was the dilemma inswhich Hastings
found himself Nor was it AIRY longer worth
while to deny it; an attachment fostered by ev-
cry little kind Office performed, every glance,
every word, by almost every circumstance of
everyday life, was springing up-an inexora-
bic duty.
at this juncture events which transpired
operated to preciPitate matters very considera
bly,; nay, bring them pretty decidealyito an is
sue. Hastings fell, seriously ill. Now, of all
the places to be sick, the worst we,are told, is
on shipbcard, where every lurch and leap ofthes
reeling, staggering vessel wrings another pang
from the tortured victim, andlwhere the con-
slant motion affords never respite for perfect
and natural repose. Thus circumstanced, haun-i
ted with the loneliness of his situation, and rack
ed with pain, who, with all a mothers tender
ness and assiduity, administered TO all his wants
and necessities? Who, while others, slept,
through the long wcarisome watches offthe
night Walbedl over hin? Who, with her own
band, gave him all his medicines, smoothedEhis
pillow, supported his aching head, cooled his
feverish brow in the interims of his deiirinm,
and connted as days the doubtful moments of,
his recovery? Whose was this ever present
spirit, this ever constantsheart that thus so un-
expectedly hovers, watches, andwaits about the
sick bed of this friendless boy at seai Who
would not love it, indeed! Alas the power of
kindnessl especially when its object is atpoor
orphan boy, homeless and ffiendlesS, aud the
benefacter beautiful woman, whose looks are
so fulofl loVei Ike Marvel saws we can some