The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-04 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day-

LON-DON, Sept. 4.—Wind this Lday at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Maori, for
Adelaide.
DARTMOUTH, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—The Ark,
bound to Wales, having been in collision in going down
the Channel.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—A. W.
Singleton, from New York.
WARRENPOINT, Sept. 2.—Arrived—Jenny Mordie, from
St. John's, N.B. •
OFF DARTMOUTH, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
from Rio Janeiro.
CLYDE, Sept. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ailsa, from
Quebec.

THE MILITIA ACT.—An act was passed in the late
session to suspend for a further period the ballots for the
militia of the United Kingdom. The time would have ex-
pired at the end of the present month, but the making of
the lists is further suspended to the Ist October next year.
The act is not to prevent the holding of certain meetings
relating to the Militia.

A CinciN:nEaGtin NEGRO WEDDING.
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frcoomrresnpountodnenftfooafd the
July 15, says :—" Some of our party, who remained last
night at Beaufort, have been giving amusing accounts of a
negro wedding. It seems that the good superintendent's
pretty
remark—if he had only known we were coming ho would
have.had two or three weddings for us—was no idle boast.
Scarcely a Sunday passes without a marriage, and the
young volunteers who imagine their monthly pay a
good start,' for a family, are especially given to matri-
Marna-Ventures. • :Mauy-of....the_Sea Islanders, while in
slavery, came well up to the description of Brigham Young,
whom Artemus Ward pronounced ''the most married man"
he ever saw. But polygamy is a practice not permitted by
the beneficent government to the poor negroes now—only
white people, and they in distant localities, can be indulged
in so dangerous a luxury—and herewith arises one of
General Saxton's chief embarrassments. It would often
happen that in the course of being transferred from one
plantation to another, a negro would have successively
three or four, or even half-a-dozen wives. Now that
he is restricted to one, which should it be ? Moralists
and theorists would answer the first.' General
Saxton, with the instinct of a sound political
economist, says the one that has the most children.'
As for the rest, they must hunt up other husbands.
The negroes really seem to appreciate the dignity and
solemnity of the marriage institution ; and they have a
great anxiety to enter its bonds fashionably. At the Beau-
fort wedding last night the bride wore a calico dress, whose
colours were as glowing as her own was swarthy ; her
hands were covered with white cotton gloves; and for her
head, neck, and shoulders, a true history will be for ever
at a loss to tell how they were clad, for over her head was
cast in flowing folds of portentous thickness a gauzy sheet,
supposed to represent a white veil. It shrouded the fea-
tures in unnatural pallor ; it suggested no hint of neck,
and but the remotest suspicion of shoulders ; and it was
only gathered into terminal folds somewhere in the region
of what should have been the waist. From beneath this
effectual concealment, the bride made haste to give her
responses. The poor girl had been cheated out of her
marriage a week before, by some unexpected order to the
regimentwhich claimedthe services of her soldier-intended,
and she was determined to have " de ting trou with die
time." When the minister asked if he would have this
woman to be his wife, she hastily exclaimed, " Oh yes,
massa, I'll be his wife ;" and when the irrevocable words
'ye said, the huge veil disappeared with wondrous rapi-
',re the ardour of the kiss. But they got, on their
':-Re,ate, the signatures of a couple of witnesses
' born in the land would be proud to

dity beak..
marriage ecru-
which the highest
possess. 1 recently before the
A tragical incident occurre,.. woman had
Tribunal of Leibnitz, in Germany. A you, -,tmed
summoned the son of a miller of the neighbourhocm,_.
Rupp before the justices to compel him to assist her in sup_
porting a child she had by him, and when in presence of
the court the young man first spat in the face of his former
mistress, and then drew a pistol from his pocket and dis-
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charged it at her. The female .saw his movement, and by
having succeeded in his attempted crime. He also declared
Ihur;pw ags herselfthen
that before coming to the Tribunal he
had drunk largely
to obtain sufficient nerve for the act.

triple suicide has created a painful sensation in
the Rue Beautreillis and its neighbourhood. Two days
back the police found the corpses of three young girls who
had terminated their existence with charcoal in one of the
old houses of that street. It appeared that the family to
which they belonged had a monomania for suicide ; that the
father,in consequence of commercial misfortunes, had thrown
himself from the top of the Tour St. Jacques; that the son
had enlisted as a soldier, and then blown out his brains;
lastly, that Eugenie, ono of the three girls, had made seve-
ral attempts to commit suicide, and had been confined at
Charenton. It was only a fortnight ago that her mother,
thinking her entirely cured, withdrew her from that asylum
and took her home. Eugenie, being left alone with her
two sisters, took the opportunity of converting them to'
her own ideas of life and death ; the consequence of
which was that they went out., bought charcoal, and
then re-entered their room. The mother on return-
ing home fowl her three daughters dead, in a knee
jug posture, anc all attired in their b6st dres:ie§: