Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-06-20

| or sublimer sentiment, or one that appeals
more directly and powerfully to the mascu-
line heart, than did Sir WALTER Scorr when,
in fearful lily contemplating the fraiities OF in
constant calico, he exclaimed:
go womanl'
We have been led to the utterance of these
solemn, impressive, aud painful remarks by
bit of scandaous romance in real life and
Sumner county which was played out last
week,
In the town of Gallatn resides Mr.. A. II.
CoATs, the proprietor of, an eating house and
confectionery, who by years of labor and
economy had managed to accumulate the
snug little sum of one thousand dollars; and
at the same time he had also accumulated a
wife and probably (as the accumulation of
the Que generally tends to an accumulation
of the other) several children. He was get
ting on comfortably in the world, especially
in that part constituted by the town of Gala
tin, and had every reason to look forward to
life of uninterrupted domestic happiness
and business prosperity. But alasl how like
the golden tints upon the slumbering clouds
of the West; how like the fire-baired meteor
sweeping athwart the summer heavens; how
like the beautiful
''Triumphal arch that fills the sky
When storms prepare to part"
or the September position of the sham Demo-
cracy on the currency question, are mans
brightest dreams and sunniest hopes! To-
day they fit like birds of Paradise through
nf tb.. ~. fbar
vanish like the picture of hell which the
lightning paints upon the brow of the storm,
and return no more forever-at least they
return ye~y seldom.
Thus vanished the dreams of Mr.. COATs. One
fine morning last week he walked up to find
his wife gone. And not only this but to
find that his one thousand dollars and one of
the bOardcrs at neighboring hotel had gone
with her, or what was the same thine. that
she had gone with them. The absquatulatng
sconndrel-the scOundrel who thus so smooth
ly shaved the unsuspecting Mr.. COArS was
named BARBOUR Having robbed the hus-
band of his wifc's affections. and induced her
to rob him of his hard earned cash. which
under the circumstances must be regarded
as the unkindest cut of all, the whole pile
wife, BARBOUR and money, went aboard the
cars and
But all this fine writing must close. The
Gallatn Examiner, which knows more about
the affair than we do, dropped down upon us
at the word which ends the last paragraph
above, and we shall draw upon it for the est
of the facts.
Immediately opposite the residence Of Mr..
COATS stands the GalIatin Hotel For some
weeks past there has been boarding at the
Gallatin Hotel an indiv idual who registered
his name as C. J. BARBOUR, Leon, Fla, and
himself as a son of Ex-Gov
BARBOUR, Of Va. Mr. BARBOUR sometimes sat
at the window of his room. and Mrs CoATs
BARBOUR one day while sitting at
his window that Mrs. CoATs was a deuced
good looking woman; and it struck Mrs. COATS
while sitting at her window that Mr.. BARBOUR
was a mOnstrous fine looking man. Mr.. BARBOUR
telegraphed his impression TO Mrs. COATS, and
Mrs. COATs telegrdphcd her impression to Mr..
BARBOUR. After while Mr. BARBOUR walked
across the street and called on Mrs. CoATs in
the absence OF Mr. COATS. The next day Mr..
BARBOUR called on Mrs. CoArs twice in the
absence of her husband. After short time
Mr.. BARBOUR became 50 delighted with these
visits that he took to calling about three
times day.
One day Mr.. CoATs presented Mrs. COATS
with fifty dollars worth Of silk to make her a
"gound." Mrs. CoATs was unwilling to spoil
so costly a dress by having it made in Gala
tin, and proposed coming to Nashville and
having it done up brown by one of the city
mantau-mNkerS. Mr. COATS unsuspectingly
consented and put Mrs. CoATs aboard the
cars. Mrs. COATS was to spend a week with
IA relative in the city and go back with her
new silk dress ready for church.
The next day Mr.. BARBOUR left Gallatil
and came to Nashville. Here he met Mrs.
CoATs. They Immediately drove down to
the depot of the Chattanooga Railroad. where
they vanished with the train, and havnt been
heard from since.
Runaway wives and Sickles affairs are
getting TO he quite TOO common. Under the
present state of things. young men couldn't
be blamed much for listening to the advice of
The epigramatist:
"Whenc'cr you marry, CrGsus said,
Take rich widow or rich maid;
For any VITO NAV turn out m,