Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-09

EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE OF A YOU'VE
LoRETTE--THE DRAMA OF "LA DAME AUX
CAMELIAs" RB-EsAcTED IN REAL LIFE
Strange as it may appear TO the orthodox
world, the human heart is never wholly de-
praved. The doctrine has very few believers
even now, and although it be preached for an
hundred centuries to come, 1t can not be es-
tablished. Wherever man is, there is SYM
pathy: wherever woman can be found, there
Is love; and with these, no matter what er-
rors fall to the lot of either, there is ever q
longing for the beautiful, the good and the
pure that can not be eradicated, and the soul
still looks with hopeful eyes to the realization
in the far-off future of the highest ideal.
Through all its years of crime, the SEEM
ingly adamantine heart of Lucretia Borgia
yearned with all mothers tenderness for
her SON. The historical Lady Macbeth,
prompted as she was to revenge by the mem
ory other murderedfather, could not take the
life of King Duncan, for as he slept she dis
covered in him likeness of her parent, the
man he had killed; and Camille Gauthier, af-
ter many years Of shame in the capital of the
world, was willing to leave all its Jetes and
variety for little home in the country with
Armand Duval.
Instances of this kind are humorous in fic-
ton, but each one has its parallel in real life.
All that the heart suggests the mind will find
the soul will find its inmost thought written
in the history of the planet, and despite all
its surroundings ofyice and wretchedness, all
its earth-born promptings to evil, it will re-
turn to its Creator, after its pilgrimage here,
better, and purer, and nobler than when il
sprang from chaos, at His command, into an
individual existence.
The following episode in the life of 10.
rette, who is well known in this city, but is
now. residing with her husband in Dayton
may serve to show how little persons know
of those with whom they should be best &C.
quainted, and at the same time illustrate the
power of love and sympathy toward reclaim
ing women who, through the peridy of the
opposite SEX have been induced to forfeit al
once their own honor and the esteem of So
ciety. r
In January, 1859, young girl scarcely
! eighteen years of age, named Alice - ar
rived in this city from small town IN West
ern New York, and after obtaining the neces
sary certificate, became an inmate of thu
| Commercial Hospital, where she became {
mother. While lying at this institution,
Faint with sense of pain-b bought happiness"
she addressed letter to the man who hat
been the author of her shame, telling him
the circumstances uttering no reproach, how
ever, but stating that il she could but retaiI
his love and esteem, she could easily afford t
| brave the scorn and contempt OF the world
To this she received no answer. MeT
always have q false idea of the woman, who
through an excess of affection, gratifes theil
passion; and her lover was no exception Il
| the rule. Again and again she wrote, speak
ing of the happiness they had known in eact
others society, and praying him to write
even if il were to inform her that what sh
had now begun to fear-the death Of hi
regard for her-had really taken place.
In her despair She adopted the only alter
native left to her, save death, and became al
! inmate of Plum-street bagnio. Here sh
remained until last February, when, one even
ing, while sitting in the parlor, man en-
tered, and, glancing around the room upon
bevy Of women whose countenances still Dor
the traces of their last nights dissipation, b
took a seat on the sofa by her side. Sh
turned her face toward him, and as the glar
of the gas light fell full upon il, looked int
his eyes, while pair of pearly tears arose il
her own, and in low and semi-sorrowfu
tone said. ''Charlesl you here2'
Startled with the recognition, he was for
moment lost in wonder, but soon recognize
in the female by his side the Alice he had .
+, cruelty deceived. Struck with remorse 10
the crime of which he had been guilty, an
being really honorable at heart he lmms
diately proposed 10 marry her II she woul
\ leave the place with him Immediately. Sh
gladly consented, and the next day they wer
legally united by a justice of the peace an
left the city for their present home. The
child, which had still been indirectly unde
its mothers care, bore them company an
the sunny eyes Of the little Alice are now II
chief delight of the fathers heart.
Purer now, because Of their former imp.
rity; each more dearly loved because Of Il
suffering they had been compelled to endur
, more closely united, because Of their sepal
tion, this couple find in each other all Il
: sympathy their souls desire, and all the pea
that love eau bring. Truly, A. Nslab
uThe same love that tempts us into sin,
\ Ifft be true love, works out It's redemPtioni
. | And he who seeks repentance for the Past,