The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-08

iAlIeF tHo kIeIl, the WeQQlng DGIIS,
After the bud, the radiant rose
Joyful greetings from sad farewells
After our weeping, sweet repose.
After the burden, the bissful need;
After the flight, the downy nest;
After the furrow, the waking seed;
After the shadowy river-rest
n Sad StOry--AUautzonn I3esu3,-
ity, md Probable Suicide of q scaool
Girl.
At gainesville, Ohio, is a very popu-
lar female seminary, where the young
ladies are kept under the most careful
surveillance, and where one would nat
urally suppose a tempter could not gain
admission. Except on Wednesday after
noon, male visitors are not admitted,
and then no opportunity is afforded for
obtaining private interviews.
Attracted by the reputation Of this
school, Mr.. John Colwell. a farmer, liv-
ing near Erie, Pa, sent his daughter
Della, q very pretty girl, some sixteen
years of age.
During one of the Wednesday recep-
tions, "a young man named Henry Brand,
plausible and well dressed, yet having
no regular occupation, became acquain-
ted with Miss Colwell, and from the Sc
quel it IS apparent succeeded in MAX
ing a favorable impression. Evading
the rules of the school, stolen interviews
were managed between the pair, and
a clandestine correspondence kept
up some weeks without detection.
They at last became careless, and the
matrOn of the seminary discovering the
affair, forbid Miss ColWell leaving the
house after dark, and put stop to the
visits OF young Brand upon reception
days. The precaution was taken to
late for the happiness of the poor girl,
who, loving the young man, had placed
her honor and her life in his keeping.
She determined not to be debarred the
pleasure Of his society, and a rope lad
der having been procured, he was en-
abled, under the cover of darkness, to
ascend to her room, which was i'll the
second story, and there pass hours in
her company, sometimes the entire
night.
Excitement, loss of sleep and the pre-
occupation Of mind consequent upon
the spirits and habits of the young
girl and she surely and rapidly retro
graded in her studies until her posi-
ton became one of the worst and most
unenviable In the school, Such a course
cold uot be carried on without exciting
suspicion and remark, and watch being
put upon her, Mr.. Brand was detected
while in the very act Of entering her
window. After such discovery, it
was Of course a matter of impossibility
that she could longer be retained in the
institution, and she was the next day,
after being formally expelled in the
presence OF the school, confined to her
room until her parents could be sum-
moned to conduct her home.
IY,n l, Il
found means to communicate with her.
Miss Colwellm met him at one of the no.
tells in the town, and arrangements for
an elopament and marriage were per-
iected between the two, they having
settled upon Cleveland as their future
home. Before this plan could be car
ried out, Mr.. ColWell arrived, and found
his daughter at the depot waiting for
the train upon which she contemplated
leaving gainesville. He at once took
charge of her and after delivering a
we'll deserved chastisement to Brand,
started with her for home. The pun
ishment he had received aroused all
the worst passions in the breast of the
young man and he determined to sue
coed in attaining the object of his de-
sires at any cost or trouble. He there
fore, unknown to Mr.. Colwell, took the
StIllC Will ullttIuS
means to communicate the fact to De-
liza, who, in obedience to request from
him, managed to evade the vigilance
of her father, where train moving in
the opposite direction met them, to
change cars and return with her lover
to gainesville while her father was rap
idly being whirled along in the oppo-
site direction. At the first station at
which the train stopped, they left it,
and on foot proceeded to place whence
they procured u conveyance to Conneaut
Ohio, and there took passage for this
city on the scow Sea Bird, which was
bound for Saginaw for a load of lumber.
Arriving in Detroit about the LIST OF
July, they procured board at a Ger
mans on Hastings street, and there
lived together for a short time as man
and wife, although they had never been
married, and Brand refused to legrlize
their connection. The natural results