Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1838-01-09

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OF being ratified by that nNs,ic,l type a
union, the ring, when figure burst through
the collected crowd about the doors. a flo
, ure more like a spectre than a man.
: 90 great change had taken place IL
nm from wild AMI savage life that he has
: neen leading among the mountains, the pri
sauons ne had endured, and tho neglect O
nus person, that no NE would have recog
n'zed Tor the Observed Of all observers, the
f once handsome Nascalbrun,. His hair
matted like the NINE of a wild beast
s,reamed over bis face and bare neck. Hi:
cheek was fallen, his eyes sunken in thei,
! sockets, yet in them burned as in two dark
! caves, fierce and sonbre fire. His lips
were tremulous and convmlsed with passion
ms whole appearance, in short, exhibited
the d'abo'Ical rage and thirst for vengeance
That had electrified tie sale de arn.es in his
memorable conflict. He advanced straight
10 The altar with long and hurried steps, and
tearing aside the halds of the couple, the
ring tell oyer the communion rails to the
ground.
SO profound was the silence, so great the
| conservation and surprise, the sight Of this
appar't'on created in the minds of all, that
the sound of the ring as it rolled along the
Vaui'ed pavement was audibly heard. 1t
was an omen of evil augury-a warning
voice as from the grave to tell Of the death
OF promised joys--of hopes destroyed, Of
happiness forever crushed. lie stood wild
~ waving his arms for a few moments
between the pair, looking as though they had
been transformed into stone, more like two
statues kneeling at the tomb than Mt the al
tar. There he folded his arms, gazed with
triumphant and CHASTITY smile at the bride,
said, or rather muttcred. mime she is!'
then turning to the bridegroom with a sheer
OF scorn and mockcry, he howled, mime
she has been! now wed her.
'Wilh theselaconic words he turned on
his heel, and regained without interruption
the portal by which he had entered. So
suddenly had all this passed, so paraIysed
and panic stricken were the spectators and
audience of this scene, that they could scar
cely believe it to be other than a dream, till
they saw the bride extended without sense
or motion or the steps. Thus was she
borne, the service being unconcluded, to her
chamber. The ceremony was privately
completed the ensuing day.
"No domestic felicity attended the ill-fa-
ted union. 1t was poisoned by doubts and
suspicious, and embittered by the memory
IF Mascalbrun's words. shine sho has
bccn,' continually rung in the husbands
ears and TN the anniversary Of that event
full day, after lingering illness of many
months, martyr to disappointment and
chagrin, he sank into an untimely grave"
Extracts from Miss Landon's forthcoming Mo-
rel, Ethel Churchill.
A PARTY AT SIR ROBERT WALPOLES.
Midnight brought with it all the world to
Lord Norbournc's-at Ieas, that portion Of it
which calls itself the world, to the exclusion
of all the rest. His usual good fortune at
tended him; and the management of a FErE
requires as much good fortune as any thing
else. How many were in that glittering
crowd whose names are still familiar to us
There was the Duchess of Queensbury.
who had not as yet cut the King and
Queen, looking strangely beautiful, and half
tempting one to believe in the doctrine of
transmigration namely, that the soul of the
Duchess Of Newcastle had transmicrated
into the body of the modern peerless. There
she was, doing rude things, and saying ru-
der, which every body bore with the best
grace in the world then, as now, it was
perfectly astonishing what people in general
will submit to in the way of insoience, pro-
vidcd the said insolence be attended by rank
and riches. Near her was the young and
beautiful Duchess Of Marlborough, wearing
the diamond necklace she had recently
purchased with Chagreeve's legacy-Iast
memorial of the small vanity which had
characterized him through life. The mo-
new now lavished on the ostentaiion Of a
splendid toy, what a blessing it would have
been to some one struggling with life;s
worst difiiculties-poverty and pretence
Lord Peterborough was talking to her,
man sent into the world % show that the
Amads could have its prototype in reality !;
and vet all his heroic qualities dsshed with
ridicule, as much as to say, the present
age is quite unfit for them. Next came a
crowd of young beauties, who shed their
own brilliancy around and near were a
group of cavaliers, 81 fine gentlemen about
town." who, whatever else they nigh;
doubt, had not doubt Of their own irresisti-
bility- .And, crowning glory Of the cve-
ming a conquest was made-a conquest SO
sudden, SO brilliant, and 80 obvious, that it
was enough to give any fete at which it oc-
CURED the immortality of season.
AT Lord N,rbourne's express petition,
the beautiful Miss Walpole WAS allowed to
emerge from the seclusion Of Houghton,
where she had been wasting her sweetness
on the desert air for the last two years.
Very lovely. and very supplemented, she
was allowed mere Of her own way than it is
ever good for a woman to have. Engrossed
in politics, her brother left her almost en-
tirely to her own amusemepts and fancles.
Unfortunately, she was induced to accept an