The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-30
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1867.

tees that may have existed in less exalted quarters.
And if woman, heavens best gift to man, enters
into the political slambles and operates for mercenarv
purposes what may be expected of the stronger sex
than utter proisacy and tendency to corrupt prac
tees?
The exposure of what relates to Mrs Lineolns
course, and Of those who pampered her desire to live
sumptuousv, and dress in purple and fine linen, be-
gets the question, how shall the arbiters of power be
able to comprehend the motives and of action
of persons who apply to them for this that act Of
official favor: In this sense the facts that have
to light in the of Mrs Lincoln, taken in connec
ton with a toerable calculation and estimate Of what
of a like character had practical existence in court
circles excite intense apprehenSions touching the de-
manifestations of official life. If Radcaism was thus
corrupt in its green leaf what woner is it that to its
grown tree the people have at last applied the
its root have cut it down and cast it into inextinsusf
abe fires?
DEATH OF A CENrENAR1AS.--The death of Nine
Sophie Despau nee Carrere Biloxi at the advanced
age of 10 years has added another feature of inter
est to what the United States Supreme Court has de-
cdcd to be the most remarkable suit ever brought TO
trial in this country. Nine Despau born in 1851
when Louisiana was held by France, of an old Proven
cal family, ard her name will long be remembered in
connection with that of her sister, Zumc Carricre
It was while under Mime Despans care that Znmc
when thirteen years Of age, (1796} and already cele
brated in this city for her beauty married to Des
Grange French nobleman. who after subsidized
into barkeeper srup-maker. Some years after
Des Grange proved to have been already led, and
about the time attachment sprung up between
her and Daniel Clark, the congressman, the land
specu!ator, and foremost business of his time
The attachment resulted in marriage, according to
Nine Sophie Despair aud another sister, and according
to ALL in the birth of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines. Mime
Despair, in her evidence in the Gaines case, testified that
she present when the marriage ceremony was per-
formed in Phade phia present with third sister, and
it was upon their evidence that the alleged ceremony
rested for the priest who oifciaed subsequently went
to Ireland, the church was burned down and the
ords destroyed. What added still more the compi
cation Of the that Zme Carriere Des Grange
Clark subsequently united to Dr.. Gardette, and
this during the lifetime of Clark.
As Mrs Gaines Legitimacy depended upon the
idity of Cark's marriage the strain of the whole
turned upon the evidence of Nine Despau. 70 test
her vcracity the evidence Of thirty-vc forty
witnesses taken who had known her while resi1-
ing in this city in Biloxi, Havana, Florida and Span
ish America But the answers were in her favor, aud
in the Interpretation given of the bcwering facts Of
this case by the last decision of the Supreme Court
her statements taken correct; and estate
valued at SIS 900 900 adiudcaed to her
niece Mrs. Gaines; adudicated fifty years after the
making of the will, thirty after the commencement
of the suit, after six appeals to the Supreme Court
and when the original suit had been divided into five
hundred separate actions gAiust subsequent possessors
Of CArk's estate.
Mime Dcspau though living for more than century,
and though involved three fourhs of that period in
the troubles of her sister, did after all live to
termination of the suit and save 900 worth of the
contested estate yielded by Mr. SIidel during the war;
OF the contested property has yet been recovered
by its lifelong claimant. n. y Times.