The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-03-13
NUMBER 25.
a southern Traitress.

\ correspondent of the the NJ Y T5ib.
ufae, writing from Tennessee, relates the
following romantic adventure Of Young
Harrisbur@er in that State:
\ young man belonging to one of the
Tennessee regiments-he held the rank
Of first lieutenant in his company-was
very dangerously wounded in Saturday
mornings strife, and was not expected to
live when [ left Dover, where he Law in
much pain and in more remorse
The young man told me he was native
Of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and had re-
sided there until the autumn of 1859,
when he went to Columbia, Tennessee,
and there engaged in the practice of the
law with considerable success. While in
that State, he became acquainted with
and enamored of a young woman Of cul-
ture and fortune, a distant relative, I
understand Of Gen. Pillow, and was soon
engaged to marry her. The love-stream
Of the young couple flowed smoothly
enough until the fall of Sumter, and the
secession of Tennessee, when the afii-
anced husband, a strong advocate for the
Union, returned home, designing to wed
after the troubles were over. The be-
trOthed pair corresponded regularly but
some weeks after the lover had gone to
Harrisburg, the girl, who had suddenly
grown violent secessionist, informed him
that she would not become his wife unless
he would enlist in the rebel service and
fight for the independence of the South.
The young man was exceeding 10th to
take such a course, and demonstrated with
his beloved to no purpose, and at last, in
the blindness OF his attachment and in the
absorbing selishness Of passion, he in
formed his parents of his intention to win
his mistress on the tented field In vain
they endeavored to dissuade him from his
resolution. lie went to Tennessee raised
q company, received the congratulations
of his traitorous friends, and the copious
caresses of his charming tempter
Last December the Lieutenant proceed
cd to Donelsou, and, few days before
the fight, heard his betrothed was the wife
of another. His heart had never been in
the cause, though it was in anothers keep
ing and, stung by remorsc, and crushed
by the perfidy of his mistress, he had no
desire to live. Unwilling to desert on
the eve of battle the cause he had en-
braced, lest he might be charged with
cowardice, he resolved to lose the existence
that had become unbearabe to him and
in the thickest Of the fight, while seeking
death without endeavoring to inhict it,
he received mortal wound. Before this
the misguided and betrayed lover had
ceased to think of her who so cruelty de-
ceived him for the Lethean stream of
Death is flowing around the Eternity
bound island of his soul The double
traitress viii soon learn all for her lover
dictated a letter to her upon his couch of
pain. VIII she be happy can she be
happy in the rosy hours OF her early mar
rage, when the thought of the dead ado
,er, slain by her hand, rises like por-
-entous cloud upon the fair horizon of her
life VIII not his pale corpse, with its
bleeding wounds, glide between her and
ler husbands arms, and Danish Content
nent forever from the profaned sanctuary
If her Spirit IF that fair and faithless
woman have Conscience or Feeling, who
would envy her, though she wore the di-
.dem Of an empress And yet she will
iot suffer. Her heart is made of sterner
tuf. She would laugh and mock, though
Ter sacrificed lover stood beside her in his
winding sheet, asking her absolution for
he sins she had caused him to commit.
not the old English poet correct in
aging:
when Woman once TO Evil turns,
All He'll within her bosom burns %