Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-08-20

of virtue. The daughter of Zulime ha
crowned her lifetime struggle with success
and part of that success is the vindication O
her mothers fame, as well as the assertion
Of her own despoiled right.
More than that, her theory is the theor,
OF the highest courts in the land.
We go back to New Orleans After tn,
marriage, says Madame Despau, her siste
and herself hurried home on the receipt o
intelligence that the French wife of d.
Oranges had made her appearance, ant
claimed her rights.
Other witnesses afterward testified tina
they remembered some scandal Of this sort
And then, it Is said, De Oranges was regu
larly prosecuted. The evidence of his bigam,
was fully established. He was convicted
and imprisoned. Zulime had been waitinj
impatiently for this No acknowledgment
of her marriage had yet been published b,
Clark, and though they lived In the mos
intimate relations, she did not occupy hi
house. But with the judicial proof Of ID,
Oranges bigamy she anticipated her justifl
cation before the world, and her accession
to her proper rank In society as the wife o
such husband as Clark.
Foul accident! Just at this moment, wher
so much of happiness depended, De Grangel
escaped from his prison. Treachery inside
the walls had assisted him. The Spanisl
Governor himself was charged with conniy
ance. He was hurried down the Mississippi
placed upon ship living in the Pass, jus
ready to sail, and fled to France, never tc
return.
Zulme was not acknowledged. She was
never known to the world as the wife ol
Daniel Clark, during his lifetime
Afterward, this prosecution and conviction
fuapttnpad hx, fba No.
Gaines. They produced In court the record
of an ecclesiastical court proceeding, in
which certain jerome De Oranges was
charged with bigamy, but where the evidence
failed to show his guilt, and he was dis
charged. This, they said, is the trial of DE
Oranges. IL proves innocence. 1t proves
there could have been no legal marriage be-
tween Zulime and Daniel Clark, for she was
already the lawful wife of a living man. 1t
proves that the claimant of this property,
the child of Daniel Clark and Zulime, was
not a lawful child and not an heir to her
fathers estate.
All admitted that De Oranges fed from
the country. But Judge Catron intimated
that persecution by powerful and wealthy
enemies drove him away.
The decisions of the Court, however, are
written. They leave it to be inferred that
thSiS MuS pIOoCCutlbu Ill tuc CIVIL
courts, and though the record of 1t was never
found, upon the most diligent search in
every depository of records in New Orleans,
still this was not conclusive against its posi-
BILE existence, for the official papers of the
French and Spanish governments had been
widely scattered and lost, upon the transfer
of the territory to the United States.
The confidential agent of Daniel Clark,
in the control OF several of his large estates,
was NJ Bois. ontaine, a refugee from st. Do
mingo, and apparently gentleman of cul-
ture and honor His relations with Mr..
Clark were intimate. In his house in New
Orleans, in July, 1905, Myra, the daughter
Of Zulime and Daniel CLARK, the Myra Clark
Gaines of the great lawsuit, was born. She
was placed, Immediately after her BIRTH in
the family of Col. $. B. Davis, the brother
in.law OF M. Boistontaine, and spent her
childhood in his household.
In these years, it would appear, she never
knew her mother. 1t was long, long after,
and under very changed circumstances, when
the infant had grown to be a mature woman,
before the mother and daughter met in re-
cognition. Her father she did not know as
such. Perhaps in the dim memories of her
childhood there is still associated the an
pearance of a tall and handsome man, who
smiled upon her, kissed her, and filled her
arms with pretty presents. But beyond this
fading photograph on these delicate recolec-
tions Of her earliest years, Myra never knew
her father.
iiis election TO Congress- in 1906, took
Clark to Washington. He parted from his
wife, and sailed for Philadelphia. Letters
reached her, bringing news of his arrival.
Then communication ceased. Zulime wait
ed patiently, but no word came from him.
IIf. tf,av huu nit tt.,,, Ia tl.t A
business partners of Clark, through whom
his correspondence passed, suppressed the
letters to his wife, and destroyed those
which she gave them to forward to him.
AT any rate, the relationship between the
two ceased forever. Husband and wife, or
lover and mistress: bound in law and puri-
ty, or led by license and passion their asso-
citation dissolved, and was never renewed.
They barely saw each other again, years
after; and when they did, Zulimc was the
wife-truly and formally wedded--of anoth-
er man
Her sisters say she was hurt" by the re-
fusal of Clark to acknowledge her as his
wife. She may have felt that her relation
to him was pure and proper one. Licen-
tious New Orleans might lightly regard the
marriage tie, or little care for its absence,
but she WAS truly wife.
not, Or his letters failed to reached her. She
may have written-doubtless she did. He
may have received them-perhaps he did,
and tossed them idly by.
AT last there came report on the wings
OF gossping tongues that he was paying his
court to a beautiful lady of the North. They
were engaged to he married!
Stung to the quick, Zulime resolved upon
bold step. She followed to Philadelphia.
She hurried to Mr.. Coke, and demanded to
know the truth of these stories. She thun-
dered in his ear the fact that she was marri-
ed to Daniel Clark. She was his wife. Who
was this woman who had won away her
husband9 Where was the false husband
who had been unfaithful to her?
Mr.. Coke smiled.
Mr.. Coke asked for the proof OF her mar
riage Alas, she could find none. She
searched for records, but they were lost or
destroyed. The priest had disappeared. He
had gone to Ireland. The witnesses were
out of reach, and possibly beyond all know
ledge.
Mr. Coke said, Why be SO foolish as to
persist in so absurd claim! Why insist
upon this idea, which you can bring no tes-
timony to support? What figure Can you
make in assertion Of yourself as wife, if
Daniel Clark, the great merchant, the pow
eriu politician, is against you?
She saw a lawyer. He was probably
confident as well as friend of Mr. Coke. He
produced a letter from Mr. Clark announcing
his engagement to Miss c., of Baltimore.
One against many, Zulime succumbed.
Her daughter Myra would have fought and
trumphed.
There is story that Zulime, sad with her
lost and aching heart, stung with jealousy
and bitterness, went to Baltimore, and fol-
lowed her husband in his carriaget to party
at the home of the young lady with whose
name his had been connected. From her
hackney coach, outside, faint with fatigue
and exhaustion, but filled with the fury of
her scorned love, her eyes blinded by tears,
her nerves quiyering with excitement, she
looked at the illuminated mansion, saw the
flashing of lights, heard the swell of the mu-
sic, the measured tread of dancers, and at
last, bitter, bitter sight, the well-known form
of the man she loved came out upon the We
randa, aud paced slowly along, with fair
girl hanging upon his arm.
1t was true then. She went back to Phil
adelphia.
A few weeks afterward she married Mr.
Gardctte. This marriage took place in Au-
gust, 1908.
Iulime was Frenchwoman.
Daniel Clark died on the 10th Of August,