The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-05-09


exceeded Jeferson md that Clark and Jefferson
are indebted for the requirement of Louisiana@
DANIEL CLARK was native Of the pro-
vince of Ulster, in the north Of Ireland
and was of a family in very good circum
stances, with some high prctepiiohs to hon
orable and eminent lSfisih and connections.
Daniel CLARK was sent in his early youth
to England, to receive complete university
education. He is said TO have passed
through his preliminary classical ih9truciion
ut the ancient and celebrated school Of .Ea-
ton, near Windsor Castle, Qoinded by Hing
Henry w., and was thence transferred TO
the University Of Oxford, where he 10 sup.
posed TO have graduated in due coqrse.>
Soon after s' finishing his educat' on" he
was induced 10 emgrate 10 the city of New
Orleans. in Louisiana, Qhen province un-
der European dominon,} by the invitation Of
ain uncle who had for some years resided
there, and had acquired in commerce props
eriy Of 100000. With the expectation and
promise of becoming his uncle's heir, he ac-
cordirgly left the country Of his birth, and
that of his education. and went 10 Louisiana,
where he BECAME merchant and Planter-
He soon acquitted large property indepen-
denily of his expectations. His uncle, dy-
ing few years after, left him ak his wealth
and with these sdditional means, Daniel
Clark went on, increasing his business, rap.
idly augmenting his estates, buying land and
land-claims, until he became man of ex-
tensive possessions, great in actual amount,
but Of infinite greater prospective value.
On one of his frequent journeys 10 the
north, Daniel Clark became acquainted with
very young and beautiful lady-a thcre
girl in age, though already, as she had sup
posed, married woman. She was native
of France, originally named Zulime Carr-
ere, and had been, in due form, manisd TO a
Frepchman named De Oranges, whom she
had accompanied liom Paris to New York.
Not long after her arrival here, she ,ascer-
tained that he had lawful aife still living;
and Of course she Immediately separated
from him, remaining III very peculiar posi-
tion--neither wife, widow, nor maiden, and
yet ofa perfectly innocent and irreproacha
BE character.
Z Il was when she was known as victim. TO
these remarkabl. and ,uel mislaHGnes, that
Daniel Clark first saw her; and such were
her charms such her inanifcst Innocence
and moral Puriiy--that all the puculiariiies
of her condition, SO far from checking the
Satural and spontaneous movement Of his
feelings Of admiration towards her; only
Heightened the passion and affection with
which she inspired him. He loved hef; and
slse, stranger in a strange land, foreign in
birth, in speech, and in associations-.-ffiend.
less ard alone, overwhelmed BY the dread
sul calamity to which she had been thus sub
;Ycted in the very dawn Of her youth, (for
Siie was but fourteen years old at The time
her fictitious marriage TO. the villain De
Grainges,) soon gave willing car to the
ansolations which her distinguished and ac-
psnplished admirer so iavishly administered.
shS sincerity and respectful devotion, as
sell as ardor, Of the affection Of Daniel Clark
j tie unfortunate but innocent Zulime,
ire doom demonstrated by a proposal Of