The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-06-17

NThlllBcs-lhhl hef OFFSPRING by MN was H.
Legitimate, aud that he had iorsNken her for
ever. In confirmation Of this horrible pre-
tended revelation, they furthermore assured
her that he was at that moment preparing for
formal public marriage with lady whose
rank and position were suited to his own
that he was, in fact, "ongaged" 10 one ofthe
Miss Cations Of Baltimore.
1t was true that Daniel Clark. known in
society only as an unmarried man, had been
Intimate in some of the most distinguished
and attractive circles of fashionable life in
Baltimore; and partly recommended perhaps
by the associations of his birth in the coun-
try of their ancestry, as well as by his good
family, education aud great wealth, was very
well received in the family ofMr. Cation, the
son-in-law of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton
whose daughters were then admired for their
beauty and dignity ofcharacter, as they have
since been almost world-renowned for the
lofty station aud envinblc rank 10 which these
endowments have raised thcm,three of them
being now British peeresses the Duchess
Of Leeds. Qate Marchoiness of Cmrmarthen,)
the Marchoness Wellesly, and the Countess
Of. To one of these ladies, Daniel
Clark had been so'assiduously devoted, that
a rumor arose that he was her accepted sutton
and that they were engaged to be married.
All this,wth additions designed TO confirm
the mere rumor into positive, undoubled fact,
was poured into the ears Of Zulime by the
o-plolters of Relic and Chew, with such
power, that she could no longer hesitate 10
believe that Daniel Clark was Il villain, that
he practised Il monstrous imposure and
fraud upon her in the form of n marriage
ceremony-thut he had not legally married
her, and that she, now IL second time wotul-
ly betrayed and ruined, was in condition of
desoaliun aud anguish to which no equal or
parallel could be imagined. AS for commu-
nication with Daniel Clark il was impossible,
for he had already refused to notice her let
tiers, and she was assured of receiving moth
ing but insult and outrage from II man who
had SO deliberately planned aud consummu-
ted her ruin by a fraud so wickedly base aud
cruel.
Having thus overwhelmed her with the
horrors of her situation, they soon contrived
IL snare in whic!. she became irretrevably
entangled. a young French gentleman,
named De Gardctte, was introduced TO her,
and being struck with her beauty, rnpidly be-
gan to feel n strong personal interest in her.
| Her peculiar multiplied misiortunes, associa-
ted as they were with the most perfect inno-
cence aud moral purity, not only excited his
sympathy and compassion, but kndled III
! him genuine passion of honorable love.
She naturally turned with grateful feeling
towards this new aud devoted friend as al
most her only refuge in her desuntiOn; and
! her hopeless circumstances forbade her TO
repel him. 1t was not long before De Gar
dettc, fully approaching her position, rs rep
resented by the pretended friends OF Daniel
| Clark, offered her marriage as her best secu-
rity against the injuries resulting from her
| two betrayals. She was encouraged and
urged by the agents ofRefe and Chew,to nc
ccpt him as the ouly person capable of res
! CHING her from intamy and distress.
| Fully convinced that she bad never been
| lawfully married, and that she was rs free ri
! that time MS size was when she accepted Dan
! iel Clark. she yielded, aud was married (iu
! form to De Gardetle.
The success of the conspiracy was ROW
thus iarcompletc.
BY The GROWING act of this singuIarly con-
tryed fraud, Daniel Clark was finally and
forever separated from his wilG,as eticctually
ms if death had parted thenI-yct without
leaving TO him or her the liberty of marrying
again since, in law, she was still his wife
and her error in regard 10 that fact, being
not criminal but merely the result OF limo
cent ignorance, wrought upon and betrayed
by the most unheard- of and artii'l knuvery-
she could not he considered guilty of that
offence which the laws of Christendom con-
situtc IL complete ground of divorce. LuIlne
Carriere had now been three times married
each of the three men TO whom she had been
married was living she had been divorced
from neither otthem she was morally bound
10 neither of them: she was the lawful wife
of one of them: her lawful Husband, even
though believing her morIally guiltIesS, could
never again honorably receive her as lis
wife from the home of another man who had
REGARDED her rs his own: he with whom she
last found hersefas IL wife, could not lawful
" retain her when knowing the facts neilh'
err could he Justly censure her or honorably
discard her, or thrust her out from INN nhd
leave her without home or protector, us
completely ruined, and as unworthy OF agall
becoming wife, as though her innocence hao
been the, most licentous guilt: neither the
first nor the last could lawfully claim her: the
other could not in honor or decency do so
to all practical intents and purposes, therefore
she was the wife of no man. To her 1t nigh
have been truly said" Thou hast three hus
bands and he whom thou now hast is no
thy husband" History never furnished 1
parallel to this remarkable case. Fiction
ever feebler in invention than truth Is IN IT.
natural development, never III It's wlIdes
fight, in poetry, in the drama, or IN romance
rose to the conception ola catastrophe so IN
extricably complicated in its results, so ap
palling, so revolving to moral sense, where
the chief victims were so free from heinouS
guilt.
To this point, Daniel Clark and Z9limt
remained ignorant of their relative position
He had cast her off as an utterly unworthy
women, who had vilely dishonored his true
affection for her and he had determined tc
spare himself the modification of exposing
her shame and his, by any public proceed
ing against her-prefering that me
(by him deemed tortunnte) secrecy OF ms
unfortunate marriage should remain and be
nnrnntnnl Though scorning to care for the