The Sun. — 1859-09-06 (London, England)

WIFE. We have very little to add to yesterday's accom4 of the facts immediately connected with the tragedy of Tuesday night. We learn that officer Mainster on Monday night saw De Marbais sitting on the steps of the assignation-house on Plum-street, crying. He was asked what was the matter. He replied that his wife was in there, and was in the habit of going there. As he appeared to be in liquor, he was advised to go home, and he went off, saying that if matters didn't change before the week was over there'd be a murder.  To gratify the numerous inquiries as to the history of De Marbais, we present the following account, which we believe to be perfectly reliable. De Marbais' father was a Frenchman, his mother an English or American woman. His parents were married in this country, and he was born at Baltimore. His father is dead, but his mother is now living in New York, and was yesterday informed by telcgraph.of the critical condition of her son and of the tragic acts of which it was the result. He wasa druggist by profession, and understood his busness well. About 18 months since he married his wife Blanche, in New York. She was at the time reputed to have been the mistress of a wealthy man in California, who had supported her in luxury and ease for two or three years. De Marbais was aware of her reputation, we learn, when he married' her. Some time after his marriage he went to Philadelphia, where he was placed on trial for forgery, but was honourably acquitted. Disgusted with Philadelphia, he returned t 3 New York with the intention of removing to the West. In New York he meta person who promised to find' him a situation if he would settle in Cincinnati. He accordingly came to Cincinnati about a year ago, and was employed in Scanlan's iinig store. Five or six months ago the person who had found the situation forDe Marbais, being East, learned that De Marbais had been tried there for forgery, and upon his return he informed De Marbais' employers that he should no longer consider himelf responsible for De Marbais' conduct. This remark eventuated in De Marbais' losing his situation, and from that time dated his misfortune. Unable to get employment or the means of subsistence, he would have starved had not his wife by her shame earned their bread. It is said that De Marbais had a regular fisticuff fight with the " drug clerk" in the street, and charged his misfortunes upon him. And it is also said that this clerk followed De Marbais with an unrelenting vindictiveness that kept him effectually out of work. Whether Blanche's beauty had anything to do with this we can't say. Read in the light which this account throws upon them, De Marbais' letters are of a comparatively easy interpretation. The following sentence evidently refers to his trial for forgery—" So goes the people of Cincinnati. If a man does wrong &nee, not like the good Samaritan, help him up again. No, they trample him down, down, and never give him a chance to get a mouthful." A good. deal of romantic talk was set in motion, about this affair yesterday. It was said that he had been exiled from France, &c. Bat our account comes from a source which entitles it to full credit.  De Marbais and his wife lay at the hospital all day yesterday without much change in their condition. They were kept asleep with morphine. Towards evening they grew worse, and at 11 o'clock 4here was but little hope of their recovery.