Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-03-29
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not so familiar TO our readers as TO obviate
the necessity ofrepetition. They are thus
clearly stated ia the N. Y. Times:
Daniel Clark, who was of the early set
tiers in the colony of Louisiana, was a very
remarkable person. Hissagacity, prudence
and business tact soon placed him at the
head of the monetary world, while his beau
ty Of person, popular character, and agreea-
bic manners afford him similar position
in the social circle. In 1902 he became
acquainted in Philadelphia with lady of
extraordinary personal beauty, named Zu-
lime Caniere. She was born in the old
French colony Of Biloxi, and her parents
we're emigrants from the land ofpoetry and
romance-Provence-- favorite home Of
the Troubadours. When Clark first met
her she had been living in wedlock with a
swindler named Jerome De Grange, who
having dazzled her with a glittering coro-
net, married her, and then disclosed the as
founding facts that he was confectioner
and bigamist.
Zulime appealed for protection to Clark,
who being warm hearted and chiyalrous, at
once espoused her cause, and after becoming
convinced that De Grange had another wife
living, espoused her himself. The marriage
was kept secret, and in 1906 Myra, now
Mrs. Gaines, was born. Being naturally
desirous ofhaving her connection with Clark
publicly acknowledged one, Zulime went
to New Orleans TO obtain legal proofs of
her first husbands rascality. While she
was gone, Clark, who had grown into an
influential politician, became enamored Of
M;es NooGo, N S,.onJ Jnuc,bkar of Chaplao
Carroll, with whom he contracted an en-
gagement, though when reports we're brought
to Miss Canton alleging her lovers marriage
to Zulime, she at once insisted on a release
from the engagement, and she subsequently,
became the Marchoness of Wellesley.
In the meantime Zulime had returned to
Philadelphia, and sought to obtain proofs
of her marriage with Clark, who bad, with
singular treaohery, destroyed all that he
could discover. Finding herself helples, in
a strange country, and with child depend
ent upon she was wholly at loss what
to do, and, in her destitutioD, driven almost
Gardette, who, with kindness and geueFosi-
ty, united his fortune with hers. CLARK in
the meantime, had become penitent, but, on
Fastening to find his formor love, ascertain
ed that she was the wife of another. He
took the child Myra, placed her under the
care of friend, and had her most liberal
ly educated. Zulime lived for long time
after that, attained the age of fseventy-eight
years, and died at New Orleans but few
years since.
Clark, whose business talent was proverb-
ial, amassed an immense fortune in louisiana,
Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland, which he
bequeathed by will, in 1918, to his mother,
Mary Clark, naming Beverly Chew and
Richard Kelf, Bankers of New Orleans, as
executors. Charges have been preferred
, against the executors of bad faith and mis-
! ! man8 cement, but however they may be,
Myra, then Mrs. Whitney-having discov-
q cred at maturity that her mother had been
p the wife Of the deceased millionaire with
e an impulse Of honorable affection for which
n \ she cannot be too highly praised, determin-
It ed to assert her right, as the legitimate
child and consequent heiress, to the entire
d property.
That she met with opposition and with
: obstacles of all sorts may well be imagined,
L but she battled for her mothers honor, and
It evinced the most commendable spirit and
perseverance, in spite of most fearful odds.
Her husbond died, but she remarked, and
in so doing enlisted powerful auxiliary in
o the person of Gen. Gaines, who believed
e in her legitimacy, and aided her with all
: his might II would be wearisome merely
! to index the various legal struggles, the at
y tempted social ostracisms, the treacheries,
i the sorrows, the hopes and fears experienced
h by Mrs. Gaines in this work of her lifetime.
: She sued in numerous Courts, and with va
ried success, until her fortune was gone, her
e n friends convinced of the uselessness of fur
y ther trial, and all but her own indomnitable
'f spirit fed. She still struggled on; and, as
e last resort, brought the case in its ampli-
. tude AID its labyrinths Of legal TECHNICAL
II ties to the Supreme Court of the laud.-
IS There, after long and patient hearing,
she has obtained her victory. The Court
If has unanimously decided that Myra Clark
"a ! Gaines is the only legitimate child ofDan-
$; iel Clark, and that, as such, she is entitled
ID to all the property left by him. Nor are
to the years and energies of this courageous
woman too far spent to prevent her enjoy
o ment of her vast wealth. Mrs. Gaines
he he though now in her fifty fifty year, is repre-
he sented as being an agreeable specimen oi
We what old people delight in calling "ladies
lis of the old school," She is in good health
and possesses an abundant flow af animal
NO NO spirits, which have buoyed her up for owe
M thirty years under circumstances of unusual
ew ly trying nature.
ng Mr.. Justice Wayne, in closing the deci
NV nrS sion of the Court, seemed to have placed
particular and significant emphasis on the
We words, that the Supreme Court would SEQ
'or that the provisions Of the decision were car
TO ried into effect-a statement of more thar
I'd nd ordinary importance when We reflect tina
nd possibly the state of Louisiana may decline Il
yer take cognizance Of, or be bound by, de
De De cree emanating from no less tribunal thai
II" the supreme Court the ''late United State
,ce lof America"
IN WHITE LABOR AT THE SoUTH.-h Is o.
tSe ten asserted that none but the colored rae
,er, can endure the heat Of the South. To thi
md it is replied:
me "There is not one single rood of th
III ;s Southern States beneath a tropical sum-
, to Every acre of our Slave States lies with
"a the temperate zone. The isOthermal lii