The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-06-27


"You call back memory, sir" said
Almena, to the days of misery; but
as can at this distance look upon
them without terror, l will endeav-
our to describe them to you.
when ! was first taken by the
my distraction was so
great, that I retain no idea of what
passed, III III the captain of the vessel
me on shore &C the castle
Of Sevasir, and presented me, terri
fed and almost frantic as I was, to
the detested governor; who, as l
have been since informed, received
such kind acknowledgements from
the seamen, for protecting them in
their illegal and piratical captures.
"The wretch, as well as I remem-
Der, seemed totally insensible to my
misery; and, with smile upon his
countenance, ordered his domestics
to convey me to my apartments
These, indeed, wanted neither elc-
gance nor convenience; but | des-
pissed the one, and neglected the
other, The first evening ] passed
in the most painful anguish for the
loss of Solyman, and the most
dreadful apprehensions of injurious
treatment from the governor. The
women that were abont me, seemed
the wretched remains of ruined in
nocence, who had first been victims
to the desires of the tyrant, and af-
forwards made his slaves Dreadful
was the scene I had before me
Some of these unhappy creatures
seemed to pity me, and to be con-
cerned for my approaching misfor-
tunes; while others, who with their
virtue had lost their humanity,
looked upon me with careless
scorn; pleased, 1 fear, with the
thought, that they should see one
woman more, as miserable and as
dcspioable as themselves.
early the next morning, the gov
ernor came into my apartment; and
casting his eyes upon the bed, on
which | had not reposed 1t seems,
madam. said he with q scornful
smile, that you approve not of your
lodgings; but little time, it is to
be presumed, will reconcile you to
us These morning visits he con
stantly paid me; and as he always
found me in sullen sorrow, he be-
haved much in the same manner
At last he changed his address
seemed to pity me; asked me for the
story of my misfortunes, and, | be-
lieve, wept when he heard it; but as
Twas aware of the hypocrite, I was
equally regardless Of his pity, as I
had been of his scorn; and still con-
tinued to look upon him with the
same forbidding aversion and dis
dain: E
"Thus passed my days in this
confinement; but they would have
been more intolerable, had l moi
found harp in my apartments
which probably had been left there
by some unhappy lady, who hat
possessed them before me. Witt
this instrument / amused myself fo1
many a melancholy hour, which
must otherwise have passed away
in the miserable languor.
The travellers had now proceeded
on their way to the valley Of Irwan
as far as the village of Abdat; where
Solyman proposed that they shoulC
visit the lovers who owed their pres
ervation to him OF this he was th'
more desirous, as he had never seel
them since he had first recommended
them to the protection of his father
but the pleasure he proposed to him
.self from this. visit, arose not from ;
desire of being fattered with thei
acknowledgements, but of beholdinE
and enjoying their happiness.
The lovers received their benefac
tor with the greatest ardor of graft
tude; but at the same time with tina
delicacy which proved it to. be sin
cere they were not loud in their &C
acknowledgements, nor offlcious il
their compliments; but yet their at
tention to their guests showed hoY
much they were delighted with thi
opportunity of expressing. their res
pect to Solyman. The travellers, i
the meantime, were not less please
to behold the peculiar happiness Q
the lovers, who seemed to have bu
one heart and one inclination. SO
yman and Almena beheld in them
picture for themselves; and fel
more seassibly their own felicity
when they had before them so pleas
ing an image of it.
The Merchant too was delighte
with this scene of conjugal happ
ness. 'Such,'' said he to SolymaI
''are the genuine fruits of those a
liances which are made by love-
When / behold them, | blush fo
myself and for my countrymen; fo
love, genuine love, as if it were n
longer a passion essential to huma
nature, is looked upon as an Utopia
idea, existing only in the imagine
ton of poets and enthusiasts : hence
every tendency to it is ridiculed 8
romantic, and modern marriages al
only contracts Of convenience.
British lady is exposed to sale; an
if she has a good person, as well 6
! an ample fortune, she hopes by ths
addition only to fetch higher pril
and make better market. Thi
however, it must be owned, is not th
foible of women only; the men al
equally, if not more mercenary an
have, if possible, more selfish view
in their marriages so that, in thi
case, cunning is only opposed t
cunning. All this proceeds frol
that mischievous opinion, whic
measures happiness by the posses
sions of fortune. Hence, that MI
tual GOODNESS and Indifference whic
4 both experience before the marriae