Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-15

LOST LOST.

L n tAesft Tragedy from aAat7tthAstesS 40
Misery Fate Of a Reign
ing Beile-A Warning 80 be Needed.
There is a gentleman 10 this city in
whose history there is indeed melancholy
chapter; it is q melancholy story OF the
soul and of the mournfulest character, be-
cause his once brightest heart jewel is
Immediately, deeply and sadly concerned
His name or hers We forbear TO mention
suffice it 10 say, they had both been hon.
ored in another day.
In an interior county of an adjoining
State there budded and bloomed into ioy,
Gus womahood young lady of rare at
fractions and accomplishments. She was
all that was beautiful, pure aud good /;
merry as the wild bird whose song she
exeelled-gushing over with happy smiles
and gentle expressions. She was queen
Of the community in which she reigned
undispnted belle. ,AliPaid homage TO her
Joyous young beauty, and she was as good
as beautiful. No arrogant haughtiness de-
traeted from the queenly graces of her
carriage, or showed itself in manner, act
or word. Her face was speaking mirror
wherein happiness vas reflected, and over
which her heart forever played in Joyous
smiles Her girlhood had passed amid
devoted friends and kind parents, and
nothing but flowers had ever bloomed
about her pathway. Near four years ago
she was led to the altar, joyous, happy
bride, by one whose very boyhood
was made glad by the light of
her smiles, and one whose heart bowed to
her with a wild alteration. These two
warm, impulsiVe hearts were made one
amidst the congratulations of many
friends. The future opened before them 80
bright and so happily. They went to
distant city, and the husband applied all his
energies TO the carving for himself a name
and the accumulation Of life's comforts
Fortune smiled upon them, and he was fast
reaching the goal of his aspirations. Bright
" the weeks and months of their welded
life went by, with nothing to mar the bliss
of their happy hearts. Happy, too happy
in the love and joyousness of his young
wife, the husband dreamed not that the
gaities of city life were blighting the sweet
flower he had gathered and thought secure
in his bosom. But, alas, the serpent had
crept into his eden, and was insiduously at
work to blight all the blossoms ofthe home
paradise. Without suspicion or a warn
ing, he found the light of his home sud
denly gone out, and the idol of his soul
gone, he knew not where, with a guilty
paramour. We shall not dwell upon the
bitterness of misery, the intense agony that
took possession of his soul, and that finally
froze up all its genial fountains, and settled
into calm, sulien end subdued melancholy
that no attempt at cheerfulness could con-
ceal. Months passed by and brought no
tidings of his lost one, over whom if the
grave had closed theshock would have been
more tolerable. At length be heard from
her. She who had been all the world
to Uncomfortable and repentant- wrote
to him letter after letter. Some have
been received, Others have not. Her heart
is bankrupt, her hopes biighted, and from
those of the letters which we have seen she
clings but to one hope-that is the for
giveness of him she has so deeply Wronged.
Last week came the appeal from Texas,
and from Louisiana, breathing all the
agonies of a tortured God "forgiye me-
oh do forgive" Tell me you forgive me,
and oh, l would willingly die" Your
hiseIdDle unhappy lHeSe are int
tones Of anguish wrung from that heart
who, in a misguided moment, threw all Its
pearls away" Alas, what change in so
short time. Surrounded with all that
could make existence dear, and beloved by
all, the early part of her life was passed
calmly and gently, and happily as dream
ofthe best" Plunged by one false step into
the depths Of despair, and away from those
who nursed and loved her, her present life,
blighted and miserable, lie passed amid
sighs and heart-burnings that breathe in
accents trembling from the lone bosom,
like the wild walls of lost soul"
And thus have the affections of these two
people been forever blighted, and. TINS
these two lives that might have been SO
full of hope and promise are made I'M
happy. How strange that such a fate
should be theirs, and that their lives should
80 end-the Zone in Madness" both Gin
misery" It should be a warning TO those
similarly situated, not to set at naught the
holy seal of affection and the solemn VOWS
they have given.