Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1861-01-11
MISCELLANEOUS READING.
A TRAGEDY.

A TRAGEDY.
y y Turning from the Continent TO
London, | may mention-as it has bcen tho
matter of constant comment in all the clubs
and West End houses for the last few days
that London may soon look forward to the
strange and solemn sight Of the trial Of
British poer by his brothers peers in West,
minister Hall. The Marquis of D-s
yacht now at Naples, has beenst scene
of one of those tragedies of real life which
we are apt to think, in these dead. level days
lie far away from the region of real life, i'll
dramatist and the tale writer. The Marquis
had been for some time cruising with some
members of his family, including a youth
full daughter Lady Alice. The yacht
was commanded by a halt:pay lieutenant of
the Royal Navy. The Marquis coming on
board unexpectly, from an excursion ON snore
if am rightly informed, found his captain
at the feet of his daughter, kissing her hand.
The indignant tather-a man Of herculean
strcngth-sezed the offender, and, let it be
hoped, intending only to tear him away from
his unseemly place and action, flung him
over the bulwarks of the yacht into the sea.
when he went down at once, in spite-add
some versions of the story; both of the Marquis
and his sailors efforts to save him. l
would hesitate to repeat story SO like the
invention Of Of a French romance writer, had
| not such information from persons just re-
turned from Naples as leaves me satisfied
OF it's substantial truth. 1t is, as have
said, already generally current, and cannot
fail to be in very short time the subject
of newspaper comment, and, | fear, of solemn
legal procedure.
SriMULAyTs.--The Louisville Journal
says:-There are times when the pulse
lies low in the bosom and beats slow in the
veins; when the spirit sleeps the sleep appa-
rently that knows no waking iu its house of
clay, and the window shutters are closed, and
the door hung with the invisible Grape Of
melancholy; when we wish the golden sun
shine pitchy darkness, and very willing to
fancy clouds where no clouds be- This
is state of sickness when physic may be
thrown to the dogs, for we will have none
of it, What shall raise the sleeping Lazarus?
What shall make the heart beat music again.
and the pulses dance throughit it to all the
myriad thronged halls in our house OF life!
What shall make the sun kiss the eastern
hills again for MS, with all his own awaking
gladness, and the night overflow with moon
light, music, love and flowers? Love itsellis
the great stimulant--he most Intoxicating
of alI-and performs ali these miracles; butit
is miracle itself, and it is not at the drug
store, whatever they say. The counterfeit
is in the market bnt the winged god IS not
a money changer, we assure you. Men hayo
tried many things-but still they ask tor
stimulauts. The stimulants we use, but re-
quire the use of more. Men try to drown
the floating dead of their own souls in the
wine cup, but the cnrpses will rise.-We SEQ
their faces in the bubbles The intoxicatlon
of drink sets the world whirling again and
the pulses playing widest music, and the
thoughts gallcping-but the fast clock runs
down scoaer; an the unnatural stimulation
only leaves the house it fills with wildestr re.
velry, more silent, more sad, mere desert
ed, more dead There is only one stimu-
Duty. Duty puts a blue sky over every
man--upin his heart may be-into which the
skylmk, Happiness, always goes singing
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