New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-19
ANOTHER SPLENDID LOVE STORY!
JUDGE HAwTHoRNEs SECOND LOW
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NY ELETS AafArONEITB.
"a, xoa for whom write whose hearts n,eis
Al he soft thrilling voice whose power you prove
You know what charm, unutterahly felt,
Attends the unexpected voice Of Love
Above rhe Iyre the lute's soft notes sleeve.
with sweet erchantment the sonl ii steals
And bears 1t 10 Eiysiuui's happy grove
You bcss can tell The rapture Psyche feels
when Loves an,brosn lip the sons Of Hyncn seals
. Mos 7sghe
Jnare Hawthorne in his library stood with folded
arms and troubled brow, OF the oriel window
frontinr west. and through which the red and vel
low GLOW Of the setting summer sun streamed il
bright int fading rays The landscape without wa.
one of smiling beauty. Nearest lay the spacious
enclosure Of the pleasure ground, charmis giit
agreeable diversity Of lower-decked beds sweepinl
rreensward and clumps Of shade-trees; next beyond
tte rardcn, devoted to the utilitarian purposes o.
ne table, though even here the sable cultivato1
ia combined somewhat Of the beautiful with the
usefnl, ~ bordering the walks with touch-me-
psi,ce's feathers, four O'clocks and such like
honaely plants all Of which were gay in Haunting
color; beyond this commenced the fields, spread
M aNay Il many fair and fertile acre, now
teemine with their half.matured crops Of corn and
N cotton.
within there was every thing that could minister
Is tasts and comfort. The room was situated on
~ sscond floor Of the spacious house, in an octa
8or wing windows opened east, south and west
ia III fourth and remaining one of the alternate
me-, Wherein we're placed these openings, was oc
CAPPED W re heavy mahogany door. The inter
senIng spaces were filed BY substantial shelves
ending from door to ceiling, and on them was
-
he mantel hung one Hne picture, and on brackets
we're tho marble lineaments Of two or three who
Iivosto fame There was j. The blind old bard Of
Solos rocky iaIe, Il he who drank the hemlock
dfAngbt and he who sang till the thought Of Laura
nd M love - inseparable throughout the world
III ~ centre ii the room WAS table with its ac-
nsnts of writing materials, and around it
were grouped chairs that courte to their embrace.
judge Hawthorne was the master Of all, but he
bore ! deep grief in his bosom. He walked hur-
Il ricdly from the west window to the east. There
X = green expanse swept unbrokenly to emerald
hanks that clasped the silver current Of the Cocsa,
& = II flowed through the noble State Of Alabama.
The scene here was one Of blandest beauty, but
Judge HsW thusne looked upon it for the first time
ssAheednsly.
A moment n0re, falling into chair, his face
bowed upon the table, and sobs, convalsive sobs,
heaved his breast, and hot burning tears were
shed II bitter profusion; for the bride Of his
youth, the mistress Of his home, his helpmate in
trouble, his companion in sorrow, his wife, so
& faithfni, 50 tenderly cherished, lay dying
ls Fudge Hawthorne had been favorite Of fortune.
y Commencing the world without patrimony, he
qualified himself for the law, and followed that
profession until snificiency Of means enabled him
to gratify his inclination for planters life.
The tract Of land originally purchased, after each
years successful crop, was added to in every di-
rection, aid The humble roof-tree was eventually
superseded by the stately mansion he now occu-
pied.
His negroes increased, his fields extended, his
money multiplied, and his possessions now, while
he still numbered but thirty-sx years, were valued
Z at hundreds Of thousands. All had been accom-
Flished too, while he lived the life of truly noble
man. No one could recall an act of his by which
another had been aggrieved or oppressed. No or
phan's tear flowed because of his treachery, no
widows hands were upheld to call down judg
ment upon him; and far and near throughout the
State he was cited as that g noblest work Of Cod
an honest man..
While apparently enjoying her usual good
health, Mrs. Hawthorne had been seized with
what was Mt first supposed to be an ordinary chill
but growing rapidly worse, upon medical aid be-
ing summoned, it was pronounced to be Of a CON
gestve character.
The case proved to be stubborn: for one chill
succeeded another with rapidty, and after the
fatal third she sunk into q state of insensblity
and now lay family breathing away her few re-.
manning moments Of life.
Choked by the mighty grief that swelled within
him, Judge Hawthorne had left her room to give it
vent in solitude and to himself with strength
and composure, to support her through her last
great trial. yea
It came. When the next days sun pressed its
crimson lips on the cool bosom Of the Coosa, all
that was immortal Of Mrs Hawthorne had taken
its heavenward flight and when the second days
shades closed in, her mortal part had been con-
signed to its mother earth.
Then, indeed, was the husband desolate and as
he sat alone. again in his library the consciousness
Of the completeness Of his bereavement gathered
new force. His only child, a daughter, how with
out mothers holy aid to raise her?
And then, too a female ward, the child Of his
old friend Noble, who, when he felt himself near
lff1's boundary, had summoned him, and conjured
him ~ althe memories Of their disinterested youth
nj love, to extend over her his protection; how
soonld he rear her 80 as to answer the inquiring
apiritof tho father hereafter? " "
With his wife's cooperation all had seemed easy,
but now F,,
The misfortnnes of Judge Hawthorne, as has &C.
CURED from time immemoria did not come as
z single spies'' for before the tender grass had
sprung upon the fresh-made mound that buried so
many Of his hopes, q. letter came from Greenwood
Hall an institution Of learning near Philadelphia,