The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1868-12-08

Horace went 10 New Orleans, and not
having been shipwrecked by the way,
telegraphed or wrote his beloved. Thus
It went on through the sultry month of
August, the crimson period of October,
when the forests change their garments,
down to dull, chill November.
Alas. that love should never run smooth
in an even current; but love never did
and never will, so they say She respond
ed, all unknown to the healthy dad, and
he replied. Thus affairs progressed IN
til Horace announced last week that he
was of to Texas right away, and couldn',
stop for tribes like an aifianced.
Then 1t was that the girl Of the period
made up her mind and bundle. She would
follow him-yes, she would follow him
to the uttermost parts OF the earth. Be
ing of age, and no longer the slave ofpa
rental control. Miss Mary. on Saturday
night last, having habilitated herself be-
comingly, deserted the palatial mansion
on Clay street, and, casting behind her
wealth, society and friends, sought the
office Of gentleman on Broad street.
whom she importuned to buy her tick
ct to New York This gentleman. who is
the pink of propriety, refused, and Miss
Mary sought elsewhere and found the
ready means.
At all events she procured passage on
the cars and embarked on the 81 O'clock
train, which carried her northward at the
rate Of twenty or thirty miles an hour, if
not as speedily as her heart desired. On
the train, between Richmond and Acquia
Creek, she was observed to weep bitterly
by the conductor, to whom she related
her tale of woe and distress
Her departure created, ofcourse, hub
bub in the mansion on Clay street, and,
amid the wringing of hands and loud ex.
pressions of distress. the telegraph was
invoked, and parties sont in hot pursuit
1t wa. supposed that young Ford, instead
Of going to Texas Fright away as he
announced, had put for New York, there
to meet his Mary, and thither the detect
ives directed their steps.
The upshot of the matter is, to make a
long story, that Miss Mary has been heard
from; that she is now in Philadelphia,
and that upon the whole, there is a very
sorry family history connected with the
case, which it is not within our province
to reveal.
TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE, Nov. q.
To-morrow's papers will contain long
letter from Senator Fowler, Radical, to
Governor Foote, on the franchise. He
takes strong grounds in favor of imme-
date reimbursement of the whites in
Tennessee and throughout the Southern
States, and says the Republican party in
Tennessee has for a distinctive feature
the principle of equal rights of all citizens
to suffrage, it is its cardinal feature and
it is believed by those who organized the
party that every citizen must be made in
terested in the prosperity of the State.
That it is his right to exercise his voice
in determining the political forces that
shall govern him 1t is doctrine rever-
ed by all Americans that right, uninfuenc-
ed by personal fear is a guarantee ofhap
piness and liberty. lie argues that the
present franchise law was demanded at
the time, being strictly measure of de-
fence and intended to be of transient dura-
ton, and adds, "the practical question
now before the country has arrived for
breaking down all barriers to universal
suffrage In my judgment it has current
public opinion on all sides against restric-
ton, and Tennessee and Missouri, that
alone adhere to it, cannot long withstand
the force of that power.
Fowler expresses great confidence IN
Grants wisdom, magnanlmlty and
Judgment, and is satisfied he strongly IA
vors universal suffrage and is thoroughly
national in feeling, and will place none
not national in his Cabinet.