Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-30

A SAD HEART-HIsToRY-A You've
LADY DRIVEN TO DEsPAIR.-Another one
Of those sad histories, opening wide the red
leayed volume Of the heart to the rude
touch, and sting Of all that's dark and sor
rowful and bitter, has just been unfolded 10
the publics unsympathetic eye.
About two weeks since, a young lady of
good connections and personal refinement
came to this city, as she thought, to con-
summate that felicity which is the happiest
episode in the life of woman-the unison
| OF her destiny with that of his whose life
and fortune she had chosen to trust. She
came from the vicinity of Pontotoc, in the
noble State of Mississippi. In that sunny
region, amid the snowy cotton fields and
rustling cane her affections budded,
| bloomed and ripeued to maturity. Alas
how unworthily bestowed She formed
| the acquaintance Of a Federal soldier,
and gave to him all that wo-
man has to give-her affections. He
| promised TO make her his wife, and she
| tzdstingly believed. He came TO this
/ city, and the two kept up cor
respondence-sh she in good faith. She was
| induced, also, TO come here, expecting the
| fell fruition of her long blossoming hopes.
As stated she reached here two weeks
since, and stopped al one of our most re
spectacle hotels. She had little trouble in
| finding her supposed alliance, but deep an
| guish when she found he was married and
the head of a family. Hers was now I
bankrupt soul; her hopes had gone of in
| vapory phantoms, while her bright heart
| L har
! lips Wretched in hope, crushed in spirit,
and far from friends, she gave herself up to
| despair. She remained al the hotel, still
a. the untuned strings Of her broken
| heart and silent as the smothered sighs Of
| her troubled breast Her cup was too full,
and on last night about nine o'clock, she
| cent the landlord the following note, full OF
| pain. Of woe and sadness: Ny body will
| soon be buried beneath the waves Of the
| Cumberland when am gone You will
please send letter to Mr.. John Davis,
| who lives eight miles from Pleasant Hill,
| Cass county, Missouri" Accompanying
this shcrt sad note, there were several
miniatures. which she requested should be
sent 10 the same address. City Marshal
Brantley was informed Of the case, and he,
with friend called on the lady. They
! found her in a state of distress bordering
on madness. She stated that the Mr. Da-
vie referred to was her uncle, and that she
had a brother living in Texas. Her man
ner and actions showed that she was
suffering the very intensity Of agony.
She is of good appearance, well dressed,
and has refined manners. She was, II Is
hoped dissuaded from perpetrating the
rash act indicated in her note, though she
declared she did not wish TO live. She eX-
pressed a willingness to 60 to her brother
in Texas, but declared she never wished iC
return to her home-iriends.
This is another sad history, similar tC
which there have been a thousand told
She came here with love on her lips anC
her heart in her hand-the love iswiihereC
to bloom no more the heart is broken anC
its fragments are on the sand, never agaiI
to tbriil or throb with tonU emotion
May the ccnsoling influences Of a Diyin'
inspiration heal, If il cannot cure the deel
wound so ruthlessly made.