Rutland Herald

A romantic case of villainy is related in the N. O. Picayune. of the 25th ult. as having recently occurred in that city. The facts are given as follows :

A short time since a gentleman and his lady arrived in this city and put up at one of our fashionable boardinghouses.

The utmost connubial harmony existed between them, which throws the more interest and mystery over the circumstances that follow. The husband soon after his arrival was called from the city on business, and anticipating an immediate return, the wife remained behind. Her beauty was of that luxurious order rather appertaining to the robust than the sylph-like.- Her figure bespoke health, her countenance innocence. Some days rolled by and no intelligence was received from her husband. At length a stranger called at the boarding house bringing a letter to the anxious wife from her absent partner. The letter represented to the lady that her husband being detained by the business which took him away, wished her to come to him immediately under the protection of the bearer. Her preparations were accordingly made, her own and her husband's baggage safely packed and conveyed to the steamboat, and the lady departed with the supposed friend of her husband. This is the last known of the lady, the baggage, or the bearer of the letter.

A day or two since the husband returned and hastened to embrace his wife at the boarding house where he had left her. No open arms were there to receive him, no glance of affection, no gentle caress, no baggage. He of course was told of the circumstances connected with the lady's departure. He had written no letter. he had commissioned no friend, and his distress may be conceived by those who know the joys of domestic life, and those endearing ties which bind together man and wife.