Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-12

RffIIi0nnire-AR Uuchaste FOrtune- gunt-
ress Thvarted By tho LAVA Strange
HIeIo- DraER Closes in a mad-HOuse.
Some ten years since, wealthy merchant
of Boston, retired TO the classic region of the
White Mountains TO enjoy, during his de-
clininR years, the qaiet he so much needed,
after having lived two-thirds OF injury
among the busy mHrts of a crowded city;
and during which period he had seldom
permitted himself TO 60 on plessure-eK-
cursion beyond the boulevards OF the Athens
of America But having acquired, not
competence merely, but fortune that would
entiile him to a position among millionaires,
he hoped TO find that happiness in retire
ment, which be had vainly sought amid the
rosy rounds of business, and the monotony
of mercantile life.
Nor, iudeing from the surface, were his
hopes i'll. grounded. Having passed his |
sixty-fnh year, he was apparently out of the |
reach of those youthful follies which so fire. |
duently 1uin Younger men not protected by |
active employment. His health was much |
better than that of most men of his age; his |
conduct had always been exemplary, and he
was not required to spend the latter half of
| his life in atoniDg for the frailtes of his
| youth. His wife, to whom he had been
| united for more than forty years, still lived
| to cheer him, and his children we're all hap
PLY settled around him. The spot he had
chosen for his retirement was peculiarly
adapted to gratifying every legitimate desire;
| The classic scenery, the pellueid lakes and
rivers, the noble forests, combined to crafty
the senses. His home was decorated with
| every thing beautiful and pleasing that
cultivated fancy could suggest. His grounds
and gardens were such as novelists delight
to describe, and artists to paint in word,
| all things around him-both in nature and
art-were all that any rational mind could
| desire.
But in this paradise the serpent entered.
He who had successfully resisted all the
temptations of the city, who had happily
overcome all the follies of youth, fell like
shattered citadel, when the danger was ap-
parently past.
1t is unnecessary to relate the manner in
which the temptress wound herself into the
| old mans heart, after sixty-eight winters
F had passed over him; but, so she did, and he
consented to leave home, friends relatives,
wife, and fly, with the greater part of his
fortune, to the West. Arriving in Cincin-
nat, he and his paramour, a beautiful girl OF
! nineteen, took rooms in a,retired quarter of
! the city, where they lived, unknown to the
world, for about two years. when the old
man, who had been rendered miserable by
his new life, was made still more wretched
I, by the intelligence of the death of his de-
serted, heart broken wife, His sorrow, the
!. computations of conscience, the prompting
, of his better nature, however, were of nj
avail to disenthfall him from the subtle col
of the serpent vice that had firmly fixed his
: worldly doom. . .. ..-..- r.-.
J His paramour has, up to this time ap.
= parentiy used every exertion to render hin
~ happy. She was playing for an enornou
70 stake-the old mans fortune-and she hopet
- by kindness to induce him to settle tn
81 greater portion Of it upon her, to the ex
oF | clusion of his children. Now that his wifi
ot was no more, she was determined, at onc'
os to place herself in a position to comman
~ that which she had hoped to win by c.
resses She therefore represented to hiI
that as all obstacles to their legal union ha
been removed, their transgression might /
3. blotted out by legal marriage, which We
ne consummated accordingly.
en- But the ambitious bride still failed to il
duce her husband to settle his estate upc
ne her; and hoping that she might, by coercio
MS compel him to do so, she changed the who
line other conduct, and was as studious no
NE to render him wretched, as she had befo
lal been solicitous for his happiness, until
sunk beneath the weight of his cares, al
'nu his once we'll balanced mind gave indicatio
-. of alteration.
ms AT this juncture, she applied for divort
w Iue having been told by legal adviser that s
CTS could by that proceeding at once come
possession of one third of the estate, witho
po- waiting for the old mans death; and as IL
ng, portion was sufficient to render her affiue
@ @lles she unhesitatingly made the applicable
49, The Court, however, on learning Jne Ia(
-, granted her nothing but life annuity
run $500 and the bill of separation, thereby
lort parently defeating her aspirations forey
But she was not thus to be thwarted,
an9 Immediately offered to be reconciled to
Oh former husband, and once more united
him.
our She was, however, too late. His rea
that i had left him, and he was taken to the Lu
DuV tic Asylum, near this city, where he eremai
until last week, when she made applicat
on, to the Probate Court for writ of hal
lllce corpus, and, in accordance with it, he
Is IL brought out with a view of trying the q
lie ton of his sanity.
When takeninto Court, he declared his v
atny ingness toberemarried to his faithless spo
and even manifested some anxiety on
tnelr subjects but the alterations of his n
- .S aS were too apparent to admit of his discha
r'iai and he was remanded to Longview, w
he still remains. What course our her
yH, will next pursue, we have no means of j.
teiul ing; but the probability is, that she will
relinquish her exertions, while any hop
most success, however distant, remains