The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-12-03
fHE DAILY DISPATCH
A Il RI LING NARA TIVE
The Murdered BrIdegroom.
IFrou Beptler,. n;.,a,

tFrom Bentley's aiscellanyl
There is a trait in Irish character which
nave always conceived to be naturally chi.
valrous, and that is, general dislike ~ ssaL
| IN courts OF law momentary compensation
ior honor outraged through woman's foIlv. In
England, reparation for loss of services ia com
sldered thing as correctly reclaimable as loss
| ofprotlt on broken contract for a cargo of
seaioii or guano, while in the slstertkingdom,
IN nine cases out of ten, the man who works
| upon 'he weakness of wife, or trifes with the
ahechons OF sister, is not subjected to the as
sentiment or mounts of injury to the computa-
ton of jury, but summoned to give personal
satisfaction in the field. Many a fatal case,
recorded IN the annals OF Irish dueing, will
Tell now frequently prohigate success has paid.
in turn, bloody penalty.
In carieaturing Milesian manners and feel
Ings, 1t has been asserted that you could not
look at Cork lady at supper table but she
graciously murmured, sport, if you please ~
,n T1 oance second time with mans sister
| tnat ne was not certain 10 drop in the next
morning, before you dressed, to inquire wheih-
eryour intentions to the young lady were ma.
| lrImo NAL. That number of unhappy mar
riages have been effected by pistol-intervention
Is too true; and l recollect one sad case,
where the love was on the lady's side, and
me, spirited and honorable young fellow, with
all before him that could promise happiness,
was suddenly removed from existence, ere the
third week closed that followed as bright a
union as could be fancied.
II was remarkably handsome, and
those personal advantages were enhanced by
| the total unconsciousness that he possessed
them. ia young lady saw, loved-and, remem.
bering what Viola's friends suffered from con,
cealment. she saved the damask of her cheek,
and Iniimated to the gentleman the state of
her affections. In reply, poor R candid
ly conhded his situation TO the lady. He had
wooed and won the only woman he loved,
and the next Monday would bless him with her
| hand
Harrette NJ was handsome, selfwilled,
rich, and proud as Lucifer. R., in for
tune, was her equal, but in birth a caste below.
| The circumstance, however, that embttered
her reJectIon-and it rejection be humiiating
TO man, how fearfuly must it agonize the
sues when she should be sought-suppicate
what she would conceal, and is rejected!
| "Heaven las rage like love to hatred turned
| Eor hell Jury like womsn spurned."
| And for whom had her hand and fortune been
declined? The daughter of village curate-
rich in nothing but youth, and innocence, and
beauty.
The devil never prompts delinquency tha,
he does not manage to supply q tool. George
Pemberton was Harriettes kinsman, a Lieu.
tenant in the -th, and wreichedly poor, and
his regiment ali expensive one. His manners
were assuming and, with an empty purse,
how many sights will an i'll lltempered indivi.
dual experience, should he have the nisfor-
tune Of being gazetied to the crack corps p
George Pemberton was returning, on leave be.
tween returns, to raise a small sum of money
or, failing, to sell out; and he found his cou
sin Harriette all alone, five minutes after the
-- Chronicle had been received, detailing
in glowing language, the beauty of the bride
as being in perfect keeping with that of the
handsomest man who, for many years, haC
sworn conjugal allegiance at the altar. "The
happy couple" the paper added, "had gone
to - to spend the honeymoon"
In such frames of mind, and under such cir
cumstances, the cousins met. Pemberton, in
right Of his relationship, would have saluteG
his fair kinsw oman; but she drew her facs
away, and, looking contemptuously at his shor
and shapeless person, coolly observed:
"PaIm TO palm must do George; for, i
faith. you are too ugly even for cousin to
kiss"
Gas handsome and as insolent as ever,-
Why, Haniet:e, expected to have seen q viii.
low wreath and palid cheek. You bear your
throw-over patiently"
The lady's brow contracted, and she haush.
tly waved her hand.
| "Euoueh no more Of this. l know your
business here. You want two hundred pounds,
and my father will not advance as many pence,
were il to save your neck, and not your COM
| mission"
"Then l must send in my papers and leave
+! the -th."
| "Unless some foel is found who will lend
money to a gentleman, who, on six shiliiDgs
| a day, keeps pair o! hunters" observed the
lady.
Pemberton looked sulky and displeased.
"Nay, George, on my conscience, thou art
| il-favored enough, without knitting those bee
l ,Ie-brows together. have the money; would
you earn it7'
81 would 90 to the devil" was the reply, cor
rather auit the -th from sheer poverty. What
shall do 7"
She turned her dark and lightning eyes ON
his, and after a pause OF half a minute, pointed
| with her finger TO the paragraph which announ-
ced the hated marriage. Then dropping her
voice to an emphatic whisper, she laid her lips
close to her kinsman's ear
| "Read Spoil me that honeymoon, the mon
| ey's thine !"
| And without waiting reply. she hurried to
| her own apartment.
| Never did the arch enemy of man select a
better agent than George Pemberton. To o
curri h temper he united enough of animal
| coura ge to make him dangerous; and secret IN
fuepces with which his revcngefui klnsn oman
was totally unacquainted, fitted him for the
task, He knew that his retirement from re-
giment, oficered by men OF property and to
whom he had made himself obnoxious, by the
ale attempt of yelling poverty under insolence,
would be fsIta triumph. But deadlier feelings
towards the husband OF Lucy Meadows, urged
h;,n to vengeance. He had secretly, but pas
sionstelv, loved her; and she had neither tact
nor prudence TO conceal personal dislike,
amounting to aversion. Keeping in the back
pround the real causes which induced him 10
attempt the life of one against whom he could
plead no injury, an alleged slight TO hls fan
cousin would form "a very pretty quarrel and
with a eongenial spirit as demoniac as his own
he set off without delay, to the retired water
ing place, where the handsomsst and happies
| 80 thnt Cnnnauph BIZ could produce, were. il