Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-03

How GIrl's Pride Lost Her Husband.
Senator FosrER, of Connecticut, is about to get
married. The Life Illustrated says
If reports are correct, this is not the first time
Mr.. Foster has been wounded bv the little rod
When we lived in Connecticut, recollect hearing
story that run in this wise: During his period Of
law study in the south eastern portion of the State
he became acquainted with young lady of pre-
possessing appearance and more than ordinary ae-
complishments, daughter of parents of the highest
responsibility, and moving in the most fashionable
circles of the vicinity With her he entered one of
his earliest pleas and commenced his first suit
That ne successful is evident from the fact that
shortly after his admission to the ba-, and having
obtained an honorable position and business CON
nection, arrangements for concentrating the mar
rage were made, and all went on tremendously UNI
til a short time before the appointed day. During
his visit one evening, he remarked that he believed
all necessary arrangements for the wedding were
made and the route for their bridal tour decided
He added "0n our return we shall be obliged co
devote a short time to our friends here, after which
Il you please, we will pay visit to my old father,
and mother and spend few days with them" /
Now Lafayette was always good boy, and was
taught to honor his father and mother, which early
became to him pleasure as well as duty. He
had received from them words Of love and encOur-
agement, which had done for him without money
(for they were poOr) what money could never have
DONE and through all his prIvaOns and struggles to
obtain an education and position IN lite, ne mad
been stimulated and supported by thought Of the
pleasure his success would give them and he look
ed forward to the day when, with his chosen one.
he should meet them beneath their humble roo and
receive again their blessings, to be one OF the hap
| pest he should ever experience. She then SAID !:
" Mr. Foster you know have been educated with
different ideas from yours, and have always asso-
GATED with people whose manners and style OF Nv
/ ing are different from those OF your parents, and
although shall make no objection to your prOpos-
ed visit, wish you to understand that | shall not
expect to repeat il soon often and that | shall
not desire to associate with people of their class"
| Nothing could have surprised him more than to
hear these words from her lips. For few minutes
he walked the ROOM seemingly half bewildered
Then taking his hat in his hand he turned and with
words more emphatic than refined, said Madam
| am glad have found You out in time. You may
go to the ID! The last we heard of the lady, she
was still living, ancient maiden, having the
son of parents she considered beneath her notice.
filling with honor the highest public offices to which
| his feIow-eitizens could promote him.
THE PoTATO RoT-We notice from our exchanges
that the ravages of the potato rot is spreading pref
| ty generally over the county. Very few people in
the South raise Irish potatoes for a winter vegeta-
bic, and we hear but little said of the rot in this re-
gon. But the Irish potato is favorite vegetable
and we planted and cultivated with extra about
a fourth of an acre of this esculent Six weeks
ago calculated to harvest about fifty bushels for
winter use, but the rot has paid patch visit
and knocked this calculation into a cocked-hat Now
we don't believe there is five bushels of sound potG-
| toes among them, and at the rate they going.
| two weeks hence there will not be a single sound
| one left-PlTdy Banner, Sept. 20.
| A GANDER GOES UP u A BALLOON.-The Purdy
Banner of the 18th ult. has an account of balloon
ascension in that place from which the following
paragraph is extracted:
| loon last Wednesday evening about dusk. He took
with him passenger in the shape color and size of
a gdnder-the same one that the old gray goose
smiled so complacenty at away over yonder y
and when at the altitude of about a quarter of
mile, for some cause-whether it for refusing
to pay his passage, noisy conduct something else
not particularly our business to knOw-his guar
dianship was thrown overheard, and landed safe
and sound on terra frma, amid the boisteroUs con-
CALCULATIONS of the assembled crowd.
The most attentive man to business ever knew
was he who wrote on his shop door "GOne to bury