Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-23
Avery ttSsn0ntie Fact Sensational Eiobe-
ment-A Young and Beautiful Hciress,
Worth Half Nillioh, Runs Away with

A Very ttSsnNntie Fac Sensational ktobe-
ment-A Young and Beautiful Hciress,
Worth Half a NIilIIoh, Runs Away with
her nTusic-Tea6Rcr.1 lhH
A day or two since, a beautiful and accom-
plished young lady, one Of the reigning bellies
Of Louisville, KY, and q member there OF
the beau monde appeared here at the Spencer
House with middle-aged gentleman of Ger
man extraction, a well-known music-teacheI
in that city. They were travelling COM
panions it was evident; but the extreme
affection they manifested for each other in
dcated a closer relationship than the dis
parity of their circumstances seemed to
admit. ~ % seat .l.
The only daughter and heiress Of drug
gist in Louisville, worth at least half anil
lion, she was possessed Of youth, beauty cul-
ture, accomplishment, and the grace, refine
rnent1 and elegance of mind and manner
that render position brilliant and circum-
stance poetical. @
Fs He was q very good-natured and amable
person, but without fortune, a professor oi
music, by which honorable though not lucra-
tive calling he had supported himself com
fortably in the city of his adoption. With
out apparent personal attractions, and in his
fortieth year, it was hardly to be supposed
he could so csptivate the fancy or intoxicate
the senses of a young and romantic girl as to
which feminine hearts at eighteen usually
dream, until fact and reason arouse them to
the practical inexorabilities of life.
| But so it was. He had been her music
| teacher, and by that mysterious eroticism
which, either from the peculiar eloquence Of
the man or the peculiar weakness Of the wo.
man, effects miracles, he won her heart, and
made her completely his. Her romance,
which ordinarily would have rejected him al
her lover, transmitted by flash of sentiment
rendered him the marvellous proper man,
destined to win and wear her.
If he was poor, so much the better; for SHE
was rich; if he was not handsome, his hear
was good, and that outweighed all beauty; j
| his profession was humble, was it not The
province of love to lift him to equality will
kings? Then, she thought of "Jane Eyre" thu
noble, suffering and peculiar Jane, and hei
stern, strange Rochester with his withereC
limbs and sightless orbs-and the heires
was conquered by the woman. .-..
| The beloved, petted, spoiled daughter
reared in the midst of luxury, forgot all bu
him who had filed her soul with divin
emotion, and she placed.her hand in his 70
| guidance through the world.
One morning at early dawn, the fair CIR
was missing, and q note informed her parent
of the step she had taken. They were morti
fed and grieved, of course but they had n
remedy. The bird had flown; they could no
call her back without her mate; and the
wished her mateless, or not at all.
The elopement created sensation in Lou
sville, and caused as much surprise as indig
nation among many of the young gallant
there who had aspired to her lovel But tn
| agony must soon subside: the twain, unite
as closely as law and priest can max
them, are now en- route to Europe. To Jun
and the destinies that preside over connubii
fortune we commit them, with the beS
wishes that a union thus unwisely perfecte
may result not unhappily to those who truste
flaming torch that leads so often throug
loveless Lybias and Saharas of spiritual de-
olation.