The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-30
- tco,respondenee Of The St. kei,is Republican

correspondence 50. feIt4Otfcdn
AN EL0PEMENT AND A FIGHT ABOUT 1T.
NEW ORLEANS, June ls.-A young man of this
city, civil engineer by profession, ran away with
Mobile belle few days ago, and thereby got
himself into scrape which came causing
bloodshed yesterday evening. 1t appears that the
young mans family, although of the highest re-
spectability is far behind that of the young lady in
the item of this worlds goods, and hence her male
relatives regarded the intimacy of the loving pair
(Which has been of long standing) with great dis
favor. Her two brothers informed Mr. p. that he
must discontinue his visits, and warned him that
any overt act which should compromise their sister
could be atoned for only with his life.
This threat was probably nstigated by lurking
suspicion of contemplated elopement Mr.. P. is
precisely one OF those young men who are rendered
more determined and obstinate by resistance, and
who become more sanguine of success exactly in
proportion to the number and amount of obstacles
thrust in their way. He laughed and snapped his
fingers at the ire-eating intimations of his propo
sed brothers-in-law, and induced his well-beloved
to pack up her things in a bundle and meet him on
board the mail boat for New Orleans which de-
parts at p. NJ, precisely.
She managed the affair cunnngly. and they were
well on their way to New Orleans by the time she
was missed at home. The boat which leaves
Mobile at p. NJ, arrives usually at the Lake end
of the Pontchartrain Railroad next morning at day
break, and no pursuit therefore could be made
with any hopes of overlooking the runaways
under forty-eight hours from the time they had
started.
But they had left out of their calculations one
very important consideration The lady was not
eighteen years old and therefore could not get, in
New Orleans, license to marry without the con-
sent of her parent guardian. This momentous
fact was not asceraned until every other prepare
tion for hasty wedding had been made, and it gave
her blood -mnded brothers time to appear upon
the scene.
They came, and Immediately commenced an in
spection OF the hotel registers but there they
at fault, for candidate for matrimony had
plenty of relatives and friends here and had taken
his bride elect to the residence of one of the
latter.
Yesterday evening, however, he happened un-
luckily to meet the vengeiul brothers in bar
room, "a place where be had no business to be, J
and they Immediately drew their pistols and COM
menced firing upon him. Fortunately, bold fell
low who standing by seized and disarmed one
of them after he had fired the first shot, and Mr..
p, who was uninjured, had the other by the throat
in an instant, and began to beat tattoo against
| the counter with his head, exclaiming: "You id
| puppy. mot very complimentary to the family
with which he proposed alliance,) eff you were
not my brother-in-law, I'd wiring your worthless
neck for your
The young men, greatly dscomftted and chop
fallen, left the barroom without their pistols, and
| learned from confdan.e of the bridegroom that
the latter left in company with the lady of his love
at an early hour this morning on the Jackson rail
road for some town in the interior of Mississippi
| where they have probably become man and wife by
this time. Whether the brothers have concluded
to let the matter drop, or are still determined tc
| push it to bloody issue, do not know.