Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-10-19

lcity of a life intensified and hcnutiGcd by MS
guidance, and tenderness, and sympathy; but
pride and rcmorse stayed her. She would die will
inyly for this ill-timed affection, but she was n
wife, and she could not inhct tho pnng OF dis
sruce aud treachcry upon her husband, by flight
with another. Crushed, humiliated tempted, her
pride now prompted her to escape from the pros
.ce to which her hesecching affections would have
attached her forever to escupe too, from the pres
cncc Of the aggrisred husband, whose kindness
and attentiona piorced her like two-edged awords.
Accordingly, with affected playfuncxs she con-
signed the gentlemen to the delights of hunting
excursion and camp-iife, while she arranged to
pay Il long promised visit to an old school.mste
about hundred miles away. Hastily the pre-
parations were madc,-hastily the tarcwclls we're
said on board the Steamers deck-ho ringing of
ball, smile, the luttcr of handkerchief. uud
she wills gune
Gaily the springing, plunging steamer cut the
waters of the noble Hudson, while lively groups
came up from the crowded Cabins, for tho FRESH
breath tanning down the Highlands and ripping
across the wator. The hum uf mingled voices,
bursts of gay laughter, music, and bark terri
bic crash-a boom ns though Heavens artillery
had discharged in their midst; shrcks. smoke,
raining fire, leaping flames! Tho bsiler had ex.
plodcd, tearing away decks, cabins,-huring men
women and children, mingled With fragments Of
wood and iron, shocked and MANNED, into the cold,
deep bosom Of tho river. Many swan to the shore
others sustained themselves hoating pieces of
the wreck, md some went down, in the stiffness
of death, into the gurgling watoTs. And Of this
last number was May Rivers Linwood The news
OF the appalling disaster sped with the fIghting
through village and city, and with tho first alarm
frs note, Mr.. Sinwood hurried to the acenc.
Poor, inanimnte Mny! The current had dritted her
ttho shore, and she waa arecovcred, butt Tamovof,
when tho frantic husband rcachod tho spot. Ex-
tsndcd upon the peaceful, green bnnk her still
plant form in tho attitude of negligent abandon,
her wet robes clinging to her graceful limbs, her
long, bright hair cncircling her, dripping with
shining water-drops, her marble fa:e of earthly
beauty aud heavenly reposc, turned in the solemn
hush of death towards hiu.-such meeting toT
the light parting on the steamers deck 1t broke
down the bolts of his reserve, and bnro away NIL
the calmness of his life. In passionate nsony he
chung to the puseloss form, persuasircly, carcss-
ingly entreatcd her, called her by every tender,
endearing epithet. But the wild outbreak came
too late! Her whole life had been struggle, n
prayer for VITAL eager affection, and now, when
that burst forth which would have gladicned her
young life, it fell upon tho unheciing, stony eur
of death.
In sadness tho hands of strangers composed tho
lovely form and smoothed away the shining hair,
and tho silent one was borne back to the hearth
desolatcd by her death. And together above the
sweet, still face did tho husband and the earnest,
but erriug, misguided lover, bend in anguish. But
if the husband mourne.l, what mu.t have been the
pang, shnrpened as it was, by remorse, which tor
tured the tenpter1 iet here, beside tho pale
dust of tho freed one, he would confess to his
deeply injured FRIEND his love, his temptation, and
his despair. And the wronsed aud suffering, but
generous Liuwood, gave him his hand and badc
him 30 in peace.
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A few months ago Bruce Linwood took gentle,
glod-henrtcd girl to be his second bride, enfolding
her 90 closely in bis heart that the pulsations Of
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