The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-13
Bride OF thu Black Ven.

matt, gives the points Of a little romance
IN reality. which deseryesJ narration II
on no other account than because II
Is thoroughly un-American. During the
summer OF 1869 an only SON Of one
OF the wealthiest merchants Of the civ
above named, while %rurafizing for the sea
son IN Adams county, same State. had his
ISo,atlle fancy strongly attracted by q village
belle OF more than ordinary beauty and ac.
COMPLIMENTS, and forthwith devoted him.
self to what he intended should be mo moro
Imam a harmless sentimental pastIme.
Ftbe young lady, however, was not
person to be. firted with and then
forgotten, like the ordinary co,,ntru
lass, and early In the acquaintance the
city beau found himself too serionsly intar.
ested to carry. out his first s~elf-conceited
idea. In fact, before returning to the citv
he made an explicit avowal Of bis un-
changeable affection, and, after persistent
solicitation, induced the maiden to promise
him her hand if his family should anrroye
the engagement. This latter was a consid.
[~eration which had not yet entered into the
| speculations Of the hasty sutton, and the
more he thought of it after the reminder the
less became his confidence in the likelihood
of it's favorable result. Still, upon reioin-
ing his fatheri in the city, he manfully related
all the circumstances Of the case, explain
ed that his sweetheart was a well-educated
! orphan, with $4,000, and earnestly besought
the p~aternal consent to his proposed al
lance. The old gentleman was an invalid,
! very anxious that his son should be well
! settled in domestic life before succeeding to
his patrimony but the idea of that only
sons marriage with q country girl of
neither family nor appreciate estate was
| not at all agreeable to him, and, upon
! finally eXacting the supplementary informa-
ton that the daughter-in-law proposed to
him was q Roman Catholic, he fatty refused
to sanction the misalliance. Furthermore,
his arguments were of such force, or the filial
/ mind to which they were addressed of such
| weakness, that the son himself began to
| doubt the wisdom of his w choice, and in
| consequence wrote to Adams county q let
ter of implied retraction not to be misuu-
| derstood by any high-spirited girl. In
| short, he required her to change her reli-
| gion and her very proper II was q
| formal release of him from all engagements
| with the writer. While, however, the girl
had the self-respect and virtuous strength
/ of mind to accord such release to another,
she could not as readily free her own
| heart from the absorbing love TO
! which it had been committed for life /; and
| accordingly, soon after acting as above, she
withdrew quietly from her native village
| and entered O convent in 3 neighboring
| State as q boarder, thus seeking the conSo-
lation of religion for her grief, and prepar-
ing herself, as she contemplated, for an ulti-
mate retirement from the world for life.
| So, the tickle lover, with his dying father,
| and the rejected lady in a nunnery, the two
/ remained virtual strangers to each other
! until q short time ago, when, one day after
receiving q letter, the fair novice was SUR
| prised in her room by one Of the sis
| terhood on her knees in passionate prayer
| for a soul departed and another almost
| ready to follow. The letter, in tremulous
| characters, was from the unfaithful loyer of
two years ago, relating bis fathers recent
| death and his own critical illness, and i'm
| ploring the only woman he had ever loved
to come to him at once. He was being
| cared for by his two sisters in Il country
| house belonging to the family, 4 short dis
lance from Cincinnati, and thither. at
| his summons, repaired the one of all the
| world whose presence ana forgiveness were
| necessary to the peace Of his s~elfaccusing
| soul. The reunion of the lovers took
| place beside the %death-bed of the merchants
| son, who, in his conscience-stricken impor-
tunity, would not credit the pardon Of his
| visitor unless she should consent to wed
| him as he lay there dying. His mourning
| sisters joining in this entreaty, the orphan
cOlllu no. nalIlIalu neI ufst felusal anu
| so, with death at the door, n priest
performed the ceremony Of marriage,
! and in less than an hour thereafter a
| widowed maid wept With the sisters for
| her dead. After the funeral it was
! made known that the departed bridegroom
| had bequeathed q full half of his rich inner.
itance to his wife, who, it is understood,
| will endow with it the convent in which it
is her intention to assume the black veil.
| Thus ends a romance of 4 tone and color
ing sayoriug far more of Europe than Ame-
| RIGA, and not altogether insignificant, per-
haps, OF the transitional religious changes
assimulating us more and more every year
|! to the spiritual systems Of older countries.
TIE CONDITIONS OF CONSERVATIVE SUc-
! oEss.-Commenting ON a sensible article in
tthe New Orleans Picayune concerning the
| condition of political affairs in this country,
II klo So1,orrnh po,,,, bJ'on "A rarnnrl-S 4.