Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-03-04

happy many years, raising family of sons,
two If whom are TO cay residents Of the city
OF Chicago.
| Iu the natural course of events. Mr. s
l,moved to the West many years ago, and
became one Of the seekers after fortune,
upon what was then considered almost The
frontier. Chicago was then but small
and comparatively unknown town, though
the tide OF emigration was beginning to set
rapidly in this direction. He was shrcwd
| and speculative, aud his former experience
had lendeted him well qualified to turn to
advantage such opportunities for the og
graDdizement of whatever he possessed as
came in bis way. lie prospered in business
aud year after year accumulated additions
70 the gains Of the previous year Chi
cago and the Nortbwest sprang from an
Insignificant village and sparscly settled
country TO great city aud prosperous com.
monweallh. His own pecuuiary advance
mcnt was no less rapid, and from that time
until the present, his life was marked by nc
mo~e important eras than are common to the
story of business men in this community J
aad N ght be written of hundreds of others.
Some years ago this second wife died, eS-
teemed by her lends and wept aud loved
by those 10 whom she was nearest aud
dearest.
We will not say that during this lapse Of
years the mind Of Mr.. S. did not frequent
ly revert to the scenes of his ea:ler days,
and 10 the strange vicissi,udes through
which he had passed 1t would have been
wonderful indeed if be had not pondered
upon them or Often thought Of the JOYS aud
sorrowS attendent upon bis residence il
New Ohcans He held no CORRESPONDENCE
however, with any one resident the e, aud
accepted for truth the newspaper announc
meut of The death of his former wife child
by il bis entire life had been changed, he
himself seeking new associations, new seues
aud different avenues Ue trade
After the capture of New Oyleans by
Gen Butler, aud the opening of the Mssis
sippi river by the surrender of Vickshurg
d desire seized Mr.. S to re visit his old
home, and look ouce more upon n O,leans
Thirty years bad elapsed since his residence
there and the occasion Of his second visit.
On the second day after bis arrival he dis
covered among the ladies Of the st Charles
Hotel, Que whom he tecogn zed as his for
mer wife. He Immediately sou 5bt an in
teryiew with her, but was refused, she re
turning the application by the no means
consollDg information that she had no in-
terest in common with him and no desire
to lock upon or speak with him. The sue
ceedipg day she had left the hotel and be
lost all trace of her. Mr.. s. was shortly
after taken severely i'll, and having occa
ii to call in n physic; an, Judge of his as
tonishment TO learn from the conversation
which passed between them that The gray
baird med cal attendant had been advised
Iof the family of his former wife, and from
him he learned the residence Of the lady
Promp ed by feelings o! Curl s'iy, even il
case the old love had wholly died out in hi
heart, he again sought an :: interview an
was al last successful.
The story of the lady was a strange ont
After the departure of Mr.. S. for the mort
she returned to her fathers home, an
to the cicles in society she had fOrmerl
fIequenled Her father had purposely ii
Se'eI in the paper the announcement OF th
death of herself aud child, aud forwarded i
; to M. S that be migmt believe them for
ever lost to him. She paSsively waited lh
lapse OF time until divorce was procured
on the ground of abandonment, and fey
yesrs after entered upon her SECOND mar
rage, in obedience to the wishes of her pal
ents. The son of Mr. S and herself wa
then colonel in the Rebel army Sh
had 10 desire to renew intercourse viii
him, and closed the interview as soon {
possible. 90 a. ..-s .a.... la" ~
Mr.. s. determined if lie could not ha'
the wife at least TO have the son. BY p
tieut labor his discharge was procured fro
from the service of Jefferson Davis, and
: returned to the north with his newly four
father.
! Mr.. S. is again in the city of Chicag
and again fills bis accustomed place in b
: siness circles. Yet few would suspect thi
in the life of this man. fami lar to hundred
novel events had mingled and circumstance
transpired, the like whereof we seldom fiu
save in the pages Of fiction aud romance