The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-22
AREMARKABLE WOMAN.
A sketch ,.r Mrs. Gen. Gaines.

| A Sketch Gf Mrs. Gen. Ga1neSs
Mrs. Gaines is the great female cha
racter of New Orleans. George ALFRED
Townsend gives 8 sketch OF her In tn
Chicago Tribune, as follows:
She is q email, plump, bright-eyec
woman, and she has been the heroine
OF q very heroic lawsuit, which she ha'
personally conducted, raising money
for the purpose to the amount OF halt
million, recovering nearly a million
aud with all the probabilities in he1
favor Of getting q million more. But
if she would get what she would receive
under other conditions than those o.
democratic public opinion, she would
possess half the city of New Orleans
in it's most valuable part, and be
weather. woman than Miss Burdetl
Coutts whom Wellington endeavored
to marry out Of covetousness OF bel
fortune.
The home of this woman is In New
York city, but she spends much OF her
time in New Orleans, where she has
strong friends and strong enemies, al
most equal in number. Her suit has
involved many Of her intimate friends
from whom she has borrowed money to
pay lawyers fees and court fees. HeI
second husband, Gen. Gaines, believed
implicitly in the merits Of her case; and
Gave her two hundred thousand dollars
to fight it out. She has been twice
married, and to excellent men both
times, and / was told there that the
brother of her first husband had given
her nearly the whole of his funds
There ia dash, piquance and nimole'
ness about this woman which dlstln-
cuisines her as one Of the queens OF hel
sex. She is said to be about sixty years
of age. but would pass for forty, and
while her education is detective, she ls
natural authoress and lawyer, and can
write a singing brief, where sauce and
Justice are mixed together.
She is just the sort Of woman to be
identified with New Orleans-provln-
cialism and cosmopolitanism mingling
in her as among many Of these old in
habitant.. Her mother had married a
French bigamist, and. discovering the
fact after she reached New Orleans
presumed to marry again, the great
Daniel Clarke, who was one OF the
wealthiest men OF the South. He was
one OF the earliest property holders In
New Orleans, and represented that ter
ritorv in Jefferson's administration,
Clarke was smitten with the beauty OF
the French LADY, and contracted q
secret marriage with her, made secret
in order to anticipate a divorce from
his French predecessor.
But, while he was absent in Wash
ington city, his relatives and connec
tons, who had expected to get hit
money, told him that his wife was un,
faithful, and hired her lawyer to tel
her that her marriage with Clarke wa'
not legal Having a natural affection
for man, the French lady proposed tc
take a third husband. This offended
Clarke. and it seemed to confirm the lief
which had been said against this lady
and meantime his daughter was born
the present Mrs. Gaines-for whom hi
manifested affection, 30 that, while he
let his wife slide, he gave a very con-
siderable sum OF money to a man II
Wilmington, Delaware, to be used and
applied 10 the education of his daugh'
ter, and, at her maturity, to present hei
with the principal. She has been al
the wears OF her maturity fighting the
courts and the lawyers, and half OF New
Orleans.