Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-06-07

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lieve that he was dead, and as martyr
TO the cause she loved was he mourned.
When, however, war had ceased, and the
scattering fragments of Southern chiv-
airy came scattering back, she learned
that her husband had been taken pris-
oner near Norfolk, and had enlisted in
company OF United States volunteers,
composed of deserters from the South
ern army, and had with them been sent
up into Minnesota for duty on the bor-
der. This was tragical termination TO
her romance, but it did not quench the
love which had grown up from nothing
in her heart, and few months ago she
left Charleston, selling what little of her
jewelry was left to raise the necessary
money went to Washington, searched
through the rolls, but could not find the
name of her husband in the list, and if
he had ever been there IL was under an
assumed name. She had expected this,
but, laying her case before President
Johnson, she was furnished with the
necessary instructions to the command
ing officer of the department in which
her husband might be, to secure his re.
lease from service, and she came West
with the intention of proceeding along
the track the troops had taken, until
she could obtain some information OF
him.
Arriving in Chicago, she was fortu-
nate enough to meet there man whom
she had known in Charleston, when she
was the belle of that city-a man who
had deserted the rebel flag and joined
the Union army with her husband.
From him she learned that which she
had heard was true-that both had been
mustered out on surgeons certificate of
disability and had come back to st.
Paul, after the Indian campaign was
over. Both had too much pride to re-
turn to their home now, and while he
had come on to Chicago, the husband
had remained at st. Paul, to pursue his
reckless course by gambling, under the
assumed namelof Burke GRAVITY, and was
either there or travelling on the river.
Unpleasant as was the intelligence, it
was welcome to the poor woman, who
at once set out for st. Paul. While at
the depot in Chicago she had her pocket
picked of nearly all the money she had,
and when she arrived in this city on
Wednesday, it was in destitute condi-
ton. Yesterday morning, she went to
the Office of Mayor Talmadge and told
that gentleman her situation, and the
desire she felt Of at once proceeding to
st. Paul, iu hopes she might there find
the object of her search. She said she
was here without a friend to apply to,
and, as humiliating as it was, there was
no other course left for her. A slip cut
from the Charleston Courier gave the in
cident which we have related above.
Although older in years than when she
was guilty Of the romantic act, and ex-
hibiting every trace of sorrow, she still
looked beautiful, and her sincerity Of
manner, still controlled by remnant of
Southern hauteur and pride, spoke the
truth of her assertion. 1t is needless to
say that she was provided with the
necessary means to reach st. Paul and
we trust she will find her husband, who,
if he has one remnant of humanity left
in him, will take care of and kindly
treat this once proud, but devoted and
unhappy wife.-.Na,0aakee Wisconsin.
THE EUROPEAN WAR.-Europei is await
ing, almost brcathlessly, the first blow
of the continental war. Four days later
news received by the arrival Of the
steamship St. David at Father. Point,
aud the Persia at New York, make the
war-cloud blacker than ever. Austria,
grown strongerIand more confident by
delay, refuses to Join in the Peace Con-
gress which Russia, France and England,
with more or less sincerity, are prOpos-
ing; and Marshal Benedek has issued
his first order, declaring firm confidence
in the Austrian army, and firm faith in
the Austrian cause. Earl Clarendon has
admitted, in the British House of Lords,
that confidential communications, look
ing to Congress, have been sent to the
great powers, but expressed his cOnViC-
ton that there was no hope of peace
full solution. Every other indication
points the same way. Victoria, about
to make visit to her daughters in Ger
many, abandons it for the present.
Italy declares through an official organ,
that an attack by Austria upon Prussia
will be resented as an attack upon her
self; and if Austria does not take the
initiative, Italy will boldly begin the
war by sending large force OF Garibal-
dians into Venetia. She will have no
lack o. troops to do it. Enlistments 60
on in Italy by hundreds, and that power
will have 100000 men under arms, and
800, 900 on her northern frontier by June.
miscellaneous Items.
The Chicago and Great Eastern rail-
road has adopted the use Of passenger
cars constructed OF iron, believing them
safer and cheaper in the long run than
any others. Some of the western cars
run so steadily that passengers can write
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