Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-25

from New York bound to San Francisco, is re.
Eported Us having foundered at sea. No date is
| given. The crew are all supposed to be lost
except one man, who was picked up floating on
the ships house. He reported having been on
the fragment of the wreck seventeen days.
William McNulty, convicted of murderin the
second degree for killing policeman Hodcon, has
| been sentenced to confinement in the State
Prison for life.
ST.. Louis, Dec 24-The New Mexican mail,
with Santa Fe dates to the 18th ult., reached
independents this morning. Col. Mclean was
among the passengers. Mail detained by deep
snow. Weather very cold. All the party, in
Guiding Col. Mclean, were badly frost. bitten
An armistice of thirty days had been concluded
! with the Narajoe Indians. Efforts will be made
to make peace.
A "NEw HAVEN DIVORCE CASE" IN LONDON
The London Journals come to US, with the GER
tainly not over DELEGATE details of diverse case
which has been making some noise IN the upper
circles of society there. The history of the
case runs through many ponderous columnsof
legal intelligence" but tho main facts are cpl.
tomized by the Times with sufficient clearness
to enable us to comprehend its general bearings
| Mrs. Marchmont was formerly Mrs. Lockett
| Mr.. Lockett, tavern keeper, in the course of
nature died, leaving behind him this widow,
VINO, as II appears became emitted alter MS de-
cease to the very comfortable sum of 100000.
! This widow Mt the time Mr.. Marchmont paid his
addresses to her was so years of age and partial
| TO sherry. Mr.. MaTchmOnt was n widower, as
the lady was widow, but he had children by
his former marriage; she had none. He was
the minister of Dissenting chapel ut Islington,
and according to his own account, what between
the stipend of his office and his gains from lit
crary sources, he made up an income of some
thing like e., 900 year. He appears to hive
considered that union between himself and Mrs
Lockett would be excellent arrangement al
though the lady was fourteen years older than
himself BE was successful in his suit: it was
agreed between them that he was to give up his
chapel-thnt he should be ut the chargetof his
own personal eXpenses-that he should educate
and clothe his children, and pay all costs OF
carriage and pair of horses. Mrs. Marchmont's
property, on the other hand, was to be entirely
settled on herself, but she engaged, condition
that her sutton would give up his chapel, that
she would build for him Protestant church,
which she would attend with his family. The
document, dated July 10th, 1851, in which
| Henry Marchmont deyotes himself to eternal
| perdition if he should ever during her coverture
in any way attempt to NEEDLE with his witc'S
fortune is probably unprecedented MS sample
of eager blaspheniy. Il is as entirely discredit-
able to the man who could write it as to the
| woman who could receive such n paper, and af-
forwards marry the author of it, Married they
Il
! honeymoon. But alas No sooner was the
/ Gordian knot tied than the disturbances began
which have formed the subject of the recent
lsuit In the case of this miserable couple
there was brief pause indeed between the mar
| ringe altar and the Divorce Court. "What
fool have been TO marry. hate married
life I! was nearly the earliest expression used
by this devoted wife to her affectionatc husband.
Mr.. Marchmont, however, appears to have soon
bad good cause to repent the precipitancy with
which he had risen to the golden fly; his mar
ried life was one scene of perpetual strife-not
mere ordinary domestic strife-but of swearing,
IcurSlng, struggling, chasing his wife about, and
of behavior so scandalouS on both sides that it
is difficult to say whether husband orwifc should
be more loudly condemned. Mrs. Marchmont's
natin and evening song was that her husband
Ind married her for her money alone; which
was true enough. Money, however, she would
not let him have; if his wife sent him to take
railway ticket for her, he was obliged to bring
back the change, and was rated soundly and
publicly if she Judged the tale incorrect. Some
times one, sometimes the other, would go out
Iostensibly with suicidal intentions. There was
row about dog. There row because
his pen made noise while he was writing
There was row about the wine. The wife in
amaudlin, sherry sort Of a way, wonld take the
lserVants-anybody, in fact, but her husband
into her confidence. Then the lady would leave
the house, and Mr.. MNrchmont would betake
flutulSSIl W OuE duectlQn-
ate entreatics to her to come back. Here is a
specimen Of one of these precious illusions -
"Rose dearest with broken heart your
dropping flower entrcats you to return. Come
back, beSeech you, without one hours DELAY.
shall not breathe your fight to living being
until | hear from you. Obi Rose, you are
more fondly loved than ever by T--p. For
lgive! Do not act rashly. We can be happy.f'
Then the "drooping flower" wanted to be re-
treshed with golden shower, and there was
disturbance. lncabs, in police-stations at the
houses of relatives and friends, the same kind
ofscenes, interlarded with oaths and blasphemy,
were of constant occurrence The result was
1 the trial Of which we have recently been COM
PEELED to give report in our columns The
Jury have decided that this miserable couple are
hcncforth to live apart perhaps it is better that
they should; but they might have done this
without the Intervention of the law. and for our
selves we cannot but regret that either ofsucha
pair should have been able to occupy the Court
| for seven days with the details Of their obscene
squabbles, and have been relieved by it of the
consequences of bad bargain deliberately
contracted and deliberately violated on both
sides
TnE Cincinnati Gazette speaks of Mr.. Hoxie
of this city as one of the most reliable and Ell
Gent Mail Agents in the service Of the govern
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