New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-19

the life of one against whom he could plead no
injury, alleged slight to his fair cousin would
form - very pretty quarrel, and with con-
genial spirit, as demoniae as bis own, he set of,
without delay, to the retired watering place,
where the handsomest and happiest pair that
Connaught could produce were, in their own
belief, entering on an elysian existence.
The barbar0us punctiiio of the tirnes-pro-
| vided man could boast gentle lineage almost
prohibited refusal his call for satisfaction,
no matter how fimsy the pretext might be under
which he demanded q hostile meeting, and Penn
| berton availed himself of it.
1t was evening R. had been engaged in
answering congratulatory letters, and had pro-
ceeded with his biltets to the post. Lucy
watched him from the inn window, and thought
her husband never looked so handsome as when,
in turning the corner, he smiled and kissed his
hand. She gazed at the sun, sinking gloriousIy
| in the far West, and food Of gold hiding his
broad disc in the boundess waters of the ATTAIN
| tic. Alas she little dreamed, poor girl, that
| s'The moon that rose
| And promised rapture in the close,n
was fated to usher in a night on whose deep
deep darkness ray Of hope should never break
again.
| Pemberton and his companion waylaid their
intended victim; but b felt himself too
blessed with Lucy to risk aught that could in
terrVpt his happiness. Against the imputed
offence he temperately demonstrated, and repu-
dated all intention Of wounding the feelings of
the lady, whose imaginary wrongs we're made
the basis to rest quarrel on. A meeting he
| declined; at least until he could send for and
consult friend From insolence, Pemberton
proceeded to verbal, and at last to personal in
suit Rs was brave and manly spirit.
| Good Heaven to feel the rufians whip upon
his shoulders, and not resent the outrage!
His temper yielded; he longed to wipe disgrace
away in blood. He urged delay no longer; de-
manded instant satisfaction; hurried into the
| inn garden, and, within ten minutes from the
time he waved a passing-little did he fancy it
as last-adieu, R was stretched, in death,
upon the bowling green!
What Lucy suffered may be readily conceived
Human misery could not 90 farther; in one
sheer plunge, to reach, from the very pinnacle
of mortal happiness, the darkest abyss Of de-
spair- The Imagination must fill out what
fancy can not pencil
And how did she-she, that guilty woman,
when ssthe ruin that her rashness wrought
was told her.
Before her emissary had accomplished half
his journey, Harriette's better feelings had re-
tgained ascendancy, and when too late, she
would have given thousands to have recalled
her hlreiing kinsman. In charity, we will hope
that her wounded pride sought vengeance short
of destruction. Indeed the effect of the sad
intelligence, when it arrived, would go far to
prove that such was the case She was con-
vulsed, fevered, delirious for two months after,
and recovered strength only by the loss Of rea-
son; and in few years after closed her
wretched existence in an ASYLUM
, often called to memory the truth of Father
Malachi's dueling deductions-for the finale
to the careers of Messieurs Andrews and Penn
berton proved them correct to the letter. Both
died violent but inglorious deaths
Frank Andrews, some half dozen years after
! he had placed the house Of Sheive- -nagarrew in
mourning, repaired to the metropolis on business
The evening he had arrived in Dublin he con-
trlved to fasten quarrel on Gnendraper,
! whose sister he had insulted at the theatre, and
hurried the devoted tradesman by the first dawn
, Of day to sc the twelve acres" A division of
the Phoenix Park, where duels have been fought
by the hundred. The hour of retribution had
come-for man whose hand never clasped be-
: fore a deadlier implement than a cloth yard,
fcontrlved to pop, par accident, quarter of an
ounce OF lead into the pericardium Of Mr.. Fran
t els Andrews.
Well, though he fell in the lap Of honor, still,
the artistic who sped him was linendraper !:
that was certainly sad drawback but if Mr..
Audrews's erit was not the thing, Mr.. Pember-
toms was even less distiRgue.
Never had homicide, by permission of Irish
q gentlemen, promised more satisfactory results
d to its perpetrator. The Transmission Of Har-
n riette and her father-the former to mad
: house, and the latter to grave, occurred within
d the month, and, as heir-at-law, Mr.. George
n Pemberton succeeded to the management of the
: estates and custody of the lunatic. Mr.. Penn
berton determined that during his life his fair
e cousin should continue in seclusion, and fate
e gave kind consent.
|. 1t was gray autumnal evening, when Penn
g berton who had taken formal possession of his
!, uncle's house, was carrying two strangers home
I to supper, whose acquaintance he had made
J. that morning at the fair of - town. 1t may
n be here necessary to remark that R had o
y natural brother, to whom he had been generous
d and kind, and who had been often overheard
yowing eternal vengeance on the destroyer o
i, his kinsman. He took his mothers name-was
9, called William Halligan, but, by the country
le people, was better known by the soubriquet o
er Liaume Paddagh IAnglce-Loane William.
Eight months had elapsed since R. wa
IN killed by Pemberton, and people began to sa,
N that 's George was safely seated in his saddle.
le To this opinion others dissented. g Liaum
Vaddagh," before his kinsman's death, had bee
held in light estimation. He drank freely
headed faction fights, and more than once ha
en- been limited at in chapel as gay deeeiver Bu
g; a marvellous change since his brothers deaf
nd had come over his wild youth-whisky nevs
passed his 1ips-no inducements, at fair or mai
at ket, could rank him in a faction fght--h
&c youthful eompeers declared he was bewithed-
n but the older men shook their heads, and dc
G a quiet exterior, was fuller of mischief tina
ITS q loaded bunderbuss.' The old folks WEI
I'D right, for Loane William only bode his tim
like the red Kirkpatrick. to strike sicker.''
,g, ;. Pemberton, although several monitory hin
of were given him, remained in false securit,
nd and yet there were times that the altered habi
ter of this wild young man, when coupled with h
Ill omnipresence in fair or market, or whatev
the else the place he frequented might be, we
of some length in creating suspicion in the mil
orn of Pemberton At the fair, on this day, he e
,py countered Lone William more than once, and
. did others, who noticed to each other chan
equally remarkable in his habits and appea
IN anee. Liaume Vaddagh had hitherto worn t
ght deepest mourning, and avoided spirits as
air would poison. On this day his sables were d
md carded, and he was gayly dressed while, wi
Pc his " inky'' garments his unsocal habits a
lin peared to have departed. He drank deep
gly his brothers memory, mentioning that this Y
the birthday of the deceased.
by, One other circumstance requires passi
ath notice. Lucy had frequently requested tt
yer Lone William would come to see her, aware
strong the attachment was which had exist
5h- between her murdered husband and his W
of half brother To every invitation the same
ant swer was gratefully returned
not "He would dutifully wait upon her when
our VOW should be accomplished what the VI
was none knew.