Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-25

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blIo~ieg bssrast - this intesesti1 )
Sass w1lsl hes jse been decided BY Z Z
Supreme oburt =
Daniel CLARK, Who VS. one Of the
early settlers in the colony Of Louisiana,
Was : very remarkable person. His -
gacity, prudence aud business tact, soon
placed him 1t the head Of it monetary
world, while his beauty Of person, popu.
lar character, and agreeable manners u.
forded him . similar position in the So
cial circle. In 1902 be beAanAas4sainE'
cd in Philadelphia with > lady Of extra
ordinary personal beauty, named ~.
lime Carriere. She was born in the old
French colony of Biloxi, and her parents
were emigrants from the land OF poetry
and romsnce-Psovence-the favorite
home Of the Troubsdours. When Clark
first met her, she had been living IN wed.
lock with . swindler named Jerome DE
Grange, who, having dazzled her with
gllttering coronet, married her, and
then disclosed the astounding facts that
he was confectioner and bigamist
Zalims appealed for protection to Clark,
who, being warm-hearted and chivsi-
rous, At once espoused her cause, and Of
ter becoming convinced that De Grange
had another wife living, sspoused her.
self. The marriage was kept secret, and
in 1906, Myra now Mr.. Gaines, VA
born. Being naturally DESTROYS Of hsv'
ing her connection with Clark publicly
acknowledged one, Zulime went to New
Orleans to obtain legal proofs of heI
first husbands rsscaIity. While she
was gone, Clark, who had grown into %
influential politician, became enamored
Of Miss Cation, > grand daughter Of
Charles Carroll, with whom he contract.
cd an engagement, though when reports
were brought to Miss Cation alleging bel
lovers marriage to Zulime, she ct once
insisted upon release from the engage
ment, and she subsequently became the
Marchioness of Wellesley.
10 the meantime, Zuime had returned
to Philadelphia, and songht to obtain
proofs of her marriage with Clark, who
had, with singular treachery, destroyed
all that he could discover. Finding her.
self helpless, in strange country, and
with child dependent upon her, she
was wholly At a loss what to do, and, in
her destitution, driven almost to despair
she accepted the hand of DR.. Gardctte,
who, with kindness and generosity, uni
ted his fortune with hers. Clark, In
the meantime, had become penitent, but
on fastening to find his former love, as
certained that she was the wife of anoth-
err Zulime lived tor long time after
that, attained the age of seventy years,
and died at New Orleans but few years
since.
Clark, whose business talent was pro-
verbal, amasscd an immense fortune in
Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky and Ma
ryland, which he bequeathed by will, in
1913, to his mother, Mary Clark, naming
Beverly Chew and Richard ReIf, bank
crs of New Orleans, as executors.
Charges have been preferred against the
executors of bad faith and mismanage-
mcnt, but however that may be, Myra-
then Mrs. Whitney-having discovered
at maturity that her mother had been
the wife OF the deceased millionaire with
an impulse OF honorable affection for
which she cannot be too highly praised,
determined to assert her right, as the le-
climate child, and the consequent heir
ess, to the entire property.
That she met with opposition and
with obstacles IF all .orts, may we'll be
imagined, but she battled for her moth.
er's honor, and evinced the most COM
mcndab!e spirit and perseverance,, in
spite Of most fearful odds. Her husband
died. but she married, and in so doing
enlisted powerful auxiliary in the per-
son Of Gen. Gaines, who believed in her
legitimacy, and aided her with all his
might.
1t would be wearisome merely 10 in
dex the various legal struggles, the at.
tempted social ostracisms, the treacher-
cries, the sorrows, the hopes and fears
experienced by Mrs. Gaines in this
work of her lifetime. She sued in nu-
mcrous courts, and with varied success g,
until her fortune was gone, her friends
convinced Of the uselessness of further
trial, and all but her own indomitable
spirit fed. She still struggled on, and
AS a last resort brought the case in its
amplitude and its labvrinths OF legal
technicalities TO the Supreme Court OF
tue land. There, after a long and patient
hearing, she has obtained her victory.
The Court has unanimously decided
that Myra c. Gaines is the only legiti.
mate child of Daniel Clark, and that, as
such, she is entitled to all the property
left by him.
Nor are the years and energies Of the
courageous woman too far spent to pre-
vent the enjoyment of her vast wealth.
Mrs. Gsines, though now in her fifty-fifth
year, is represented as being an agreea-
bic specimen of what old people delight
in calling "ladies of the old school," She
is in good heal.h,a possesses an abuud
ant flow Of animal spirits, which have
buoyed her up for over thirty years un.
der circumstances Of An unusually trying
nature.
strategic Plans Of the Administrations
We are informed upon high authority
which il connected With no marty. hnf