The Yazoo Democrat., 1860-05-12
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A ROMANTIC PAsSION-A HUSBAND ES-
CAPES WITH HIS MISTRESS.

CAPES WITH HIS MISTRESS.
A Paris correspondent thus writes to the New
Orleans Delta in late letter;
One of the cleverest writer's we have tells an
interesting story in which Americans are the &C
tors. The story in question is founded upon the
fact that particular box at the Italian Opera
has, this season, been regularly occupied by al
strikingly handsome young woman, always ac-
CON panied by fashiOnably dressed, foppish
looking individual, apparently her husband
These two persons are Americans, and the beauty
of the one aud the affection of the other never
fail to draw upon them che attention Of the
audience at the Haliens, during the long and tedi
GUS entr'- -actes. Upon this basis, our imagna-
tive Journalist tells the following meodratnic his
tory.
Miss Alice w., a charming American, had been
married at "sweet SIXTEEN" to q millionaire
PLANTER, Of Virginia. The difference between
the ages Of the welded couple was forty
years-to the disadvantage Of the husband, Of
course The planter superihtehded his own
business affairs, and owning plantations in vari-
GUS parts ofthe State, was often called away from
home, his absence frequently extending to
week He was all at once anonymously apprised
that the son of a neighboring gentleman visited
his house much more frequently when he was
away, than when he could enact the host in per
son; which hint naturally excited the old gentle
mans jealous suspicious. The real truth was
that the neighber's son had fallen desperately in
love with the nillionaire's wife; and the lady,
without positively avowing reciprocal sentiment
was inprddent enough tn sometimes accord y
her youthful adhirer the pleasures Of meeting
and even, now and then, stroll with him in the
wood which separated the two estates.
One afternoon as the party were walking arm
lin arm up and down shady avenue, suddenly D
man sprung from behind tree, drew a revolver,
fred first at the gallant, whom he missed then al
the lady, who fell dangerously wounded, andf
finally, turning the pistol to himself, blew or
his own brains. Two negroes st work near
witnessed this terrible scene. Fastening to tie
spot, the slaves at once saw that their master vas
dead, and devoted themselves in assisting the
young man to carry the bleeding and insensible
lady to the nearest house. Fortunately, medical
aid promptly arrived, the wound was found not
to be fatal, and the victims life wat saved The
lover never quit the fair ones side until she was
pronounced out of danger but she then begged
him to leave her, and cross the Atlantic: Natur.
! ally, he mnrmured-and obeyed. Six months
, ago the widows term Of mourning came to an
end, and she landed at Liverpool, at which port
Lothario had received orders to await her arrival
} They were Immediately married, and set out fol
} Paris, where they have taken up their fixed resi-
} dence. During the past summer they were daily
} seen driving in the Bois de Boulogue In hand
some green briska, with servants in elegant livery
} Since the commencement Of the season of the
0 Ltdliehs they have been invariably In their at
D tendance, and the strangers who level upon then
their lorgnettes do not dream that they were 81
recently actors in terrible domestic tragedy.