Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-05-08


busy tongue obscurely whispered. About
20 lines of the Times would contain the
published record of the commitment of
Eugenie dc Tourville for poisoning her
mistress, Caroline Rushton and alas
spite Of the crippled but earnest efforts
of the eminen. counsel we had retained,
and the eloquent innocence of her ap-
pearance and demeanor, her conviction
and condemnation to death without hope
and mercyl
My brain swan as the measured tones
of the recorder, commanding the almost
immediate and violent destruction Of that
beauteous masterpiece of God, fell upon
my ear and had not Mr.. White, who
saw how greatly l was affected, fairly
dragged me out of court into the open
air, l should have tainted. l scarcely
remember how got home--in coach,
| believe; but face Rushton after that
dreadful scene with kindly meant de-
ception-Re-in my mouth, l could not,
had kings crown been the reward. !
retired to my chamber, and on the plea
of indisposition directed that should on
no account be disturbed. Night had fall
en-. and it was growing somewhat late,
when / was startled out of the painful
reverie in which l was still absorbed BY
the sudden pulling up of furiously driv-
en- coach, followed by laundering sum
mons at the door, similar to that which
aroused me on the evening of Mrs. Rush
toms death. / seized my hat, rushed
down stairs, and opened the door. 1t
was Mr.. White
Well!-well!" i calculated.
"Quick--quick !" he exclaimed in re-
ply. LA Houssaye--be is found-has
sent for us---quick for life---life is in our
speed"
/ was in the vehicle in an instant. In
less than ten minutes we had reached our
destination--a house in Duke ST., Man
chester Square.
He is still alive," replied young
man in answer to Mr.. Whites hurried
inquiry. We rapidly assembled the stairs,
and in the front apartment of the first
floor beheld one of the saddest, mourn
fullest spectacles which the world can Of
fer--a fine, athletic man, still in the
bloom Of natural health and vigor, and
whose pale features, but for the tracings
there of fierce, ungoverned passions,
we're strikingly handsome and intellectu-
al, stretched by his own act upon the bed
of death 1t was La Honssaye! Two
gentlemen we're with him--one sur
geon, and The other evidently a clergy
man, and, as / subsequently found, Q
magistrate, who had been sent for by the
surgeon. A faint smile cleaned over
the face Of the dying man as we entered,
and he motioned feebly to a sheet of pa
per, which, closely written upon, was ly-
ing upon a table placed near the sofa
upon which the unhappy suicide was re-
cliping. Mr.. White snatched, and ca
gerly perused it. / could soc by the
vivid lighting up of his keen gray eye
that it was, in his opinion, satisfactory
and sufficient.
This" said Mr.. White, is your SOL
emn deposition, knowing yourself 10 be
dying?"
"Yes, yes" murmured La noussaye
--"the truth !"
"The declaration Of man." said the
clergyman with some asperity of tone,
"who defyingly and unrepentingly rush.
es into the presence of his Creator, can
be of little value"
ala" !" said the dying man, rousing
himself by a strong effort; ~ repent
yes-yes-I repent ! l believe-do you
hear 2-and repent-believe. Put that
down." he added in tones momentarily
feebler and more husky, as he pointed to
the paper "put that down, or-or per-
haps-Eu-genie-perhaps'-
AS he spoke, the faint light that had
momently kindled bis glazing eye was
suddenly quenched; he remained mo-
ment raised on his elbow, and with his
outstretched finger pointing towards the
paper gazing wildly upon the vacancy.
Then the arm dropped, and be fell back
dead
We escaped as quickly as we could
from this fearful death-room and ! found
that the deposition which Mr.. White
brought away with him gave a fully de-
tailed account, written in the French
language of the circumstances which led
to the death of Mrs. Rushton.
La Houssaye finding that NJ. de Tour
vile had by some mears discovered the
secret of his previous marriage, and that
consequently all hope Of obtaining the