Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — Romauce and Reality. [ARTICLE]

Romauce and Reality.

A most cx’raordinarv case is about to occupy the attention of Judge Culver, involving circumstances nearer akin to romance than the naked truth, as developed by the affidavits which, as we are intormed, are nowin progress ot being submitted for legal judication. The following are the principal facts set fourth in the dorttipent alluded to: "About five years ago there came to reside in Brooklyn a lady of rem irkably genteel and prepossessing appearance, who represented herself to be a widow Iron the vicinity of M ibile, Ala., and who evidently had tne.«n» sufficient'y ample to enable her to occupy a respectable social position. She was accompanied by a little boy of seemingly mulatto or negro parentage, then about three years old, which she invariably spoke of as being the only surviving child ol a favorite servant of tier deceased husband. In the course of time she (being yet young and active) was “wooed and w .11” bv a gentleiuan who formerly was engag'd in mercantile pursuits in New York, out ah > (bee tilrng unfortunate in business) is at present in the employ, as a book-keeper, o; an fiii.ii-nt firm across the ri\ -r. T.ie I'ni'ts oi this marriage are two fair-h lired chiidr.-n, and up to within a recent period the parents have lived harmoniously and affectionately togther. "A sad blight has, however, ov-rtak n their dream of happiness! On the in "o ;-,g ol the 14i Ii inst., a man of stalw-ir; orop-.f-tiolis, and somewhat handsome presem.t —- but of marked ebony hue— call, d at tl;.* lem-e o' the party alluded to, acc- mp»nicu by tv.i>. N "A York law ers, and dem;*n.ied tiie rm.session of the apparently neg r ; b-.-y, ,'slh‘ging liimseh to be the father oi the pretended sLve child, and declaring th t it- irmale custodian was its mother, and h s dtvorcrawife. So start ling a disclosure h is. •>.'c..«irse,. created til' utmost consternation ar, ! al rm among the friet ds of those who ;re ti» st. deeply interest d in unraveling th-* truth this "strange eventiul history” —the ladystating in th m >st emphatic te. amer ’li >t tjfic; stat’.'inents 01 her at t user are in lamotis iy false, and originate in a p 1..! to dt slioy m r‘ peace. On th? other I and, the ;*.l!cg--u hi sb.rnd a.id father ot t!ie b,.-y li.ts -worn to tt.e truth ol his averment, and say- ‘u .t -.'. itmbsst's v.ii! be product d from S' !. .u:s. '! . . where he is well known - t r <!<r find property owner, to susfa'ii turn in the proceedings which lie has (only thus tar par ly) iiisiituted. Th ' : rdy is ;>: Gr*. imiti ■ tractio'n, and the tiers >n v. h-> claim t- ■ once been her “liege lord” is eitlu-r ct C ole or aemi-fii' 1 ian breed. !!*• st t - thii'-. the separation betwe-ii them a .;s c.u !by detected infidelity on h. r part. am! tb it until within a .short period past he was led to he-li.-re tiiat she was in Europe. _Vt-u* lor.-. Tribune.