Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-21

her memory. Onc--thc principal of these
oiicndcrs---hod been Many Fitzhugh, her
young, fair, gentle, and only sister. In ut
ter disdain and slight of the dignity of nm.
ccStry, she had chosen 10 unite herself to n
gentleman of the name of Mordaunt. who,
though possessed of great talents, Nh un,
spotted name, and, for his age, high rank
IN the civil service Of the East India Com
pany had-incxpiable misfortuuc--o ira
der for his grandfather This crime against
her g house" Mrs. Eleanor Eitzhugh re-
solved never to forgive; and she steadily
returned, unopened, the her frequent letters
addressed to her by sister, who pincd in
her distant Indian home for a renewal of
the old sistcrly love which had watched
over and gladdcncd her life from infancy
to womanhood. y long silcuce-a silence
ofmany years succeeded broken at lastly
the sad announcement that the unforgiven
one had long since found an carly grave in
a foreign land. The letter which brought
the Intelligence borc the London post.mark,
and was written by Capt Everett; towhom.
it was stated Mrs. Eleanor Fitzhugh's sis
ter, carly widowed, had been united in sec
ond nuptials, and by whom she bore
son, Frederick Everett, now nearly twenty
years of age. The long -pcnt.up affection
OF Mrs. Fitzhugh for her once ilolizcd sis
! tel, burst forth at this announcement of her
death, and, rs some atoncmcnt for her past
/ sinful obduracy, she Immediately invited
the husband and son of her long-lost Mary
to Woodlands Manor-IIousc, to be bcucc-
forth, she said, she hoped their homc.-
Soon after their arrival, Mrs. Fitzhuch
made a will-thc family property was en-
tirciy at her disposal a former
one, which bcqucathcd the whole of the re-
al and personal property to n distant rca-
tive whom she had never seen, and BY
which all was devised to her nephew, who
was Immediately proclaimed sole heir to the
Flt2hugh estates, yielding yearly rental
of at least El2,O00. The will also provi-
dcd, in the event of Frederick dying child
less, that the property should pass to his
father Mary Fitzhugh's second husband
Some years after he went to reside with
hisannt, Frederick Everett became acouain-
ted with Lucy Carrington---thc only child
OF Mr.. stephen Darlington, a respectable
retired merchant ofmodcratc means, rcsid-
ing within few miles of Woodlands Ma
nor -liousc-and an attachment was in the
course of time formed between them. The
mt last tacit consent and approval of Mr..
Darlington and his fair daughter secured
Mr.. Everett, junior immediately disclosed
his matrimonial projects to his father and
aunt. Capt Everett received the announces
mcnt with n sarcastic smile, coldlv remark
ing, that if Mrs. Fitzlugh was satisfied, he
had no objection TO offer. But, ulps no
sooner did her nephew impart his passion
for tho daughter of mere merchant to his
amt. than vehement torrent OF indignant
rebukc broke from her lips She would
rather dio than consent; and should he per-
sist in yielding TO such gross infatuation.
she would not only disinherit, but Danish
him from her house, and cast him forth
beggar on the world Language like this.
one can easily understand, provoked Ian
guagc from the indignant young man which
in less heated moments he would have dis.
dalncd to utter; and the aunt and nephew
parted in fierce anger. The quarrel was
with some difficulty patched up by Capt
Everett; and things, after few days, went
on pretty nearly as before.
The sudden rupture of the hopes Mrs.
Eleanor Fitzhugh had rcposcd in her rncph-
ew as the rcstorcr of the glories of her an
| cient "house," furnished by Mary Fitz-
hugh's marriage affected dangerously, it
soon appeared, that lady's already failing
health. a fortnight after the quarrel with
her nephew, she became alarmingly ILL.,
Unusual and battling symptoms showed
themselves and after suffering eight days
from alternate acute pain, and heavy un-
conqucrablc drowsincss, she expired in her
nephcw's arms This sudden and fatal i'll
ness of his relative appeared to re-awakcn
all Frederick Eyerctt's tenderness and af-
fcction for her. He was inccssant in his
close attendance in the sick chamber.
On the morning of the day that Mrs
fitzhuGh died, her ordinary medical attcn-
dant, Mr. Smith, terrified and pcrplcxcd
by the urgency of the symptoms exhibited
by his patient, called in the aid of local
~ eminent physician, DIR. Archer, who at
once changed treatment till then pursued,
and ordered powerful emetics to be admin
lstcred, without, however, as VIC have seen,
producing any saving or sensible effect
From the symptoms of the patient, DIR. Ar
cher stated that, in his opinion, poison had
been administered to the deceased lady,
though what precise kind he.was somewhat
at loss to conjecture. The consent octhc
relatives being obtained the body was open
ed on tho following morning-and it was
found that the deceased lady had persisted
by acetate of morphine; thus verifying the
sngacious guess of DIR. Archer. & minnie