Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-25
OstenlatIous and silent sorroyys.


On this subject Dinah Maria Muloch OBJ
gserVes:
1t may seem a cruel word to say, but
long-inGulged and openly displayed sorrow,
OF any sort, is often an ignoble, and invari-
ably selfish feeling, being sacrifice of the
many to the few. If we look round on the
circle of our acquaintance, with its percent
age, large or small, of those whom we heart
ny respect, we shall always find that it is
the highest and most affectionate natures
which conquer sorrow soonest and best;
those unsefsb ones who can view a misfor.
tune in its result on others as well as on
their own precious individuality; and those
IN winch the great capacity of loving acts at
once are bane and antidote, giving them,
with Keen Susceptibility to pain, power of
enduring it which, to the unloving, is not
only impossible but incredible. It is the
weak, the self eDgrossed and sell. important
who chiefly make to themselves public altars
of perpetual woe, at which they worship,
not the Dbl names Of departed joys, but the
apotbeoses Of living illhumors.
Mention has been made of those griefs,
wholly secret and silent, which are never
guessed by even closest friends; the sacred
self-eontrol Of which makes them easier to
bear than many lesser anguish. In con-
trast 70 these may be placed the griefs that
everybody knows and nobody speaks Of
such domestic unhappiness, disappointed
love- csrking worldly cares, half guessed un.
kindnesses, dimly suspected wrongs mis-
cries which the sufferer refuses TO aeknowl
eoge, but suffers on in a proud or heroic
silence that preeludes all others from offer
ing either aid or sympathy, even if either
were possible, which frequently it is not.
In many Of the cOniunctures, crises and
involyements OF human life, the only safe, or
wise course is this solemn though heart
broken silence, under the shadow of which
Il ftnHn gfg.. Al
slowly work themselves right; pains lessen,
at all events to the level of a quiat endur-
aneei or an unseen hand, by some strange
and sudden sweep of destiny, clears the dark
and thoTny pathway and makes everything
easy, and peaceful, and plain.
But this does not always happen. There
are hundreds Of silent martyrs in whom a
keen observer can see the shirt of horse-hail
or the belt of steel points under the finest
and most elegantly-worn clothes; and fol
whom, to the short-seeiDg human eye, there
appears no possible release but death. The
only consolation for such is the lesson-sUb.
lime enough To tighten little even the worst
toIment-taught and learned by that majes-
tic life-long-enduTance which has for its sus-
tenance strength celestial that we know moi
OF, end fer which in the end await the mar.
tyr's bliss and the martyrs crown.
A JEALOUS HUsBASD-C Co0hiding affair
a huspano, supposed 70 ne III fhlladelphla
returned home 70 Brooklyn, N. Y, few
! nights ago, and found his wife absent at tn,
Academy Of Music with a clerical friend
Her heightened absence did not tend 70 quel
his rising indignation, which was increased
when be found an sffectiOnate letter from
the pastor, inviting her TO nice little gam,
supper after the performance was over tha
evening.
Aiming himself with rawhide, he waitst
Ia lafff ha afN at hfa H.
fell upon the astonished missionary with
zeal untempered by discretion. 1t last
tying the offender up in a buffalo robe, b,
fupg him into the sleigh, and giving tht
boIse furious lash with the whip, he dis
sppeaTed beneath the star light. The hus
hsrd Is still implscable, and threatens I
divorce.