Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-02-20

At twenty-one, tOung Beauchawpe was
admitted to to th8rotherhood of the Bar,
and at once assuIh position among the
most promising al brilliantly talented
young lawyers Of Z State. A short time
subsequently to hiselease from legal tutil-
age, young Beauchnpe became acquain-
ted with Miss AnnCooke, who, with her
widowed mother, resed near the house of
the former. The aldied seclusioh in
which Miss Cook lifl, furnished agrees
able stimulus to the lbitual curiosity of
country town, and 81 became the theme
of general conversation The ardent and
impulsive nature of ytng Beauchampe
prompted him to brea through the re-
straints of so unneighbly an isolation,
and to form the acquaintce of a Recluse
reported to be as beautiA as she was re-
served, and he succeeded. A colder heart
than that of BeauchamI might vainly
have striven to resist th fasination of
Miss Cooks manner and apoarance-uni-
ting in her person all the elnents of ply
steal beauty and grace; herace is describ-
ed as having been lovely to aegree which
could suggest additional clrms to the
most exquisit ideals of painte or of poet.
Her mellow tone, and smiles tught with
the most powerful magnetism love, soon
won not alone the love, but Il worship,
the IDoLATRY, of BeauchamB. Exis-
tence without Anna Cook wouldave been
to his soul life without light--bug with
out directing thought or emotio to warm
it into more than passive conscio5ness of
existence. He revealed his love.D her
poured out the homage Of his het with
the unreserved and gushing fullneschara-
oteristic of the South; sweet land i'm
pulse and of fervid feeling-ascaained
that it was responded to with all the rdor
of his own affection; and he askethat
his bliss might receive the culmining
blessing of mrriage. She had too his an
appreciation of the noble and lofy hon &c
she had gained, to practice upon it O. Ell
deceit; and Beauchampe learned VIII
paralyzing horror and surprise that ,e
hand he claimed had been foully dishont,
ed-that the love he asked, to offer in pun
alteration upon the shrine of his hear
had been deceived, betrayed and tramplc
upon.
But all conquering love triumphed ovC
the colder conventionalities of societ
and over the promptings of manhood
pride-he renewed his offer of marriag
and was accepted-wedded upon the TEL
rible, though sacredly sworn condition
that should he ever meet the early betrayt
of her from whose hands he had receive
the weapon of vengeance, that he woul
sacrifice his life-would immediate him uy
on the alter of her wrongs. Brief perio
of happiness was permitted him, an exc
ting political contest was then in progres
and Col Sharp, his friend and tutor,
candidate for the Assembly of Kentuck
required the assistance of his youthful an
eloquent pupil-to obtain that he, for I'll
first time since his marriage, visited BeaI
champe, and then and there, after SCI
aration of five years, met as the wife of h
friend, Orville Beauchampe; her, who
five years previously, : it is alledged, i
had under an assumed name, seduced !
the recognition was mutual, and Ann
Cook, Mrs Beauchampe, in whose heal
the morbid desire for vcngenance had coo
ed before the more ardent fires of love an
cOnnubial happiness, revealing TO her III
repentant wronger the terrible oath (
vengeance by which she had bound h
husband to slay him, expressing her ca
nest wishes for peace-commanded, in
plored the absence of Sharp-but in vail
aud tbs asserted by the friends of Beal
champe, the privileges, and the sacred ritt
of hospitality and of unsuspecting frien'
ship were prostituted and Violated to SUI
serve the meaner promptings of passion.
Mrs. Beauchampe revealed to her hu
band the identity of Col, Sharp his frien
with Alfred Stevens her seducer, and G,
acted from him the fulflment of the obi
cation which he had SO solemnly assume
Beauchampe arming himself, met Shal
by appointment on bank of the Kentucl
river, and demanded, with protfered wea,
on, the sole reparation which the natu
of the wrong permitted. Sharpe, thoul
professedly willing to arbitrate upon Il
field of honor any difficulties, though !
courage had been severely tested in Sc
eral duels, an this occasion secifs Il. ha