Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-03
The Ups and Downs in this Life.

About five years ago, among the fashionable
boarders at one of our prominent hotels in this
city, were two fascinating and well dressed lades
and their husbands who mingled in the good So
eiety of that day apparently the most attractive
OF the circle in which they moved. The hus-
Dandsof both being in the common parance of
the times, clever, wholesouled gentlemen always
"hail fellow met with everybody and occupying
prominent positions, their society was courted in
their circle OF friends and associates Every law
ishing expenditure indulged in to pratify the
wishes of the ladies in extravsgant dressing, and
entertaining their friends in the rounds of fash
ionable dissipation. Life moved along seem
ingly all sunshine, and to the less favored, not
cloud could be seen to mar the pleasure Of their
gay and happy enjoyment. few short years
passed, and are of the enchanting and once happy
wives In her grlish days the pride of dotiDg
father and mother, resident of a Southern city
educated in all the accomplishments of one of
the first Female Seminaries, after dragging out
miserable existence of sickness and disease the
result of former imprudence and dissipation, be-
came the inmate of our country poor house,
where death terminated her career Her husband,
an actor of considerable reputation throughout
the country, who years before separated from her.
last season, in a bar room alteration in New Or
leans was shot dead
The husband of the other lady, q few wears
ago, was detected in a forgery, or swindling ope
ration, Tor which he Is now serving out term in
the Auburn prison. And now comes the last
actor in this domestic drama. A few DAYS ago,
in passing through the Work house on tour of
inspection, among the inmates of that institution,
our attention was called to one who bore the ap-
pearance of having seen better days, and ON in
quiring, we found it was the unfortunate wife of
the imprisoned confidence OPERATOR and the last
of the once favored and attractive quartette.
Reared in wealth and luxury, she left her happy
home and parents in Philadelphia to follow the
fortunes of one she had sworn to love- honor and
obey. She, who once shone so conspicuousy at
concerts, balls and amid the festive scenes, and
by her accomplishments beauty, and all that goes
to make up bewtching woman, sunk so low,
seemed almost impossible! Step by step she had
fallen in her career of dissipation and vice. until
from the former enviable position she occupied in
the gay world of fashionable life, through the in
huence of the intoxicating cup she became the
associate of the vulgar and abandoned characters,
such as fill our prisons Her health being so
bad, through the humanity of those who execute
the laws, on Saturday she removed to the
County Poor house, there to receive the atten-
tons of those who minister to the wants of the
poor and unfortunate.
This is no exaggerated, sensation item, but a
plain, simple story of facts, as hundreds who read
this paragraph testify to. 1t is one of the
every day acts in the drama of life, and illus
trates its ups and downs. To-day occupying a
high round in the ladder; to morrow, who knows
where? And still on moves the busy world
Buffalo Republic.