The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-09-12
\ SAD STORY.

The most startling tragic occurrence of
the late war-not even excepting the
wholesale slaughter of human beings in
battle was the killing of Gen. Van Dorm,
Of the Cavalry department. of the confed-
carte army. by DR.. Peters, at one time a
senator in the Tennessee legislature. The
tragedy occurred at Spring Hill, short
time previous to the battle of Murfres-
-boro. The sad details of that affair, and
circumstances which led to it, are too IA
mlllar to our readers to render q rcpeti-
ton of them necessary here. The recol-
lection of sad story IS revived by par
agraph going the rounds of the press to
the effect that a. daughter of Dr. Peters,
young, accomplished and beautiful, had
arrived in st. Louis, where she was about
to enter a convent and take the veil
The St Louis Times of the 21st, alludiug
to her arrival in that city, and the con-
template1 devotion of herself to the
church, says feellngly, that every calam-
ity that war can beget has befallen her
family, kindred, fortune, and home. The
hoods va In which she dwelt from child
residence in the path Of a destroying
army worm that swept wide districts with
unsparing desolation. Every species of
property was destroyed and she had an
only brother besgard, and fated to en-
counter yet greater calamities, wandering
among strangers. The mother. a weaker
woman than the daughter, accustomed to
case, fattery and every pleasure that
wealth could buy, yielded even criminally,
m fha 1a%farrr Of
over-stepped the rules Of decorum pre-
scrlbed by the social habits of the Souths
The father wreaked terrible vengeance up
on him who destroyed the delights of his
poYerty-stricken home, and while the
people approved the deed there was bit
terness insuferable in the cup of grief
pressed to the lips Of the faultless daugh-
-ar. The brother bore accumulated mis-
form. .7es unsGsstained by that devine faith
which ne ver fails TO g.Te consolation and
strength. his sorrows made him insane,
and in & moody madness dragged out a
miserable existence, Life at length be-
came insufferable, and IN an evil hour he
put period to his existence. The sister
lived to sooth fathers sorrow and to
44A1lEu du uiSA kEldb dlLlD=E QELuEDucu HIS
reason. She was diYinely inspired Her
soft sweet voice never lost its tenderness,
and It's very tones we're silvery With hope.
that beamed from her lustrous eyes. She
was devlnity, to guard him in the midst
of adversely. Time sped. The fathers
grief became a fixed melancholy, and the
church his resource. The daughter, who
reached St. Louis few days since from
Southern dity, has sought repose in the
holy Catholic Church. During the week
she assumes VOWS Of a sisterhood famed
the world over for those charities for
which this daughter of the Sout has learu-
ed sa well how to practice within the pre-
cincts Of hea own unfortunate household.
We are induced to write the simple reci-
tai Of her misfortunes that sad chapter
Of personal history-an episode in that
mighty volume Of human woe to which
war gave origin-might find a place in
the memories of men, and be conned over
by the good and brave and true woman
of the land-NashUilLe Banner.