The Sun. — 1865-09-04 (London, England)

NEGRO WEDDING. zette7writ—ingA frcoomrresnpountodnenftfooafd the July 15, says :—" Some of our party, who remained last night at Beaufort, have been giving amusing accounts of a negro wedding. It seems that the good superintendent's pretty remark—if he had only known we were coming ho would have.had two or three weddings for us—was no idle boast. Scarcely a Sunday passes without a marriage, and the young volunteers who imagine their monthly pay a good start,' for a family, are especially given to matriMarna-Ventures. • :Mauy-of....the_Sea Islanders, while in slavery, came well up to the description of Brigham Young, whom Artemus Ward pronounced ''the most married man" he ever saw. But polygamy is a practice not permitted by the beneficent government to the poor negroes now—only white people, and they in distant localities, can be indulged in so dangerous a luxury—and herewith arises one of General Saxton's chief embarrassments. It would often happen that in the course of being transferred from one plantation to another, a negro would have successively three or four, or even half-a-dozen wives. Now that he is restricted to one, which should it be ? Moralists and theorists would answer the first.' General Saxton, with the instinct of a sound political economist, says the one that has the most children.' As for the rest, they must hunt up other husbands. The negroes really seem to appreciate the dignity and solemnity of the marriage institution ; and they have a great anxiety to enter its bonds fashionably. At the Beaufort wedding last night the bride wore a calico dress, whose colours were as glowing as her own was swarthy ; her hands were covered with white cotton gloves; and for her head, neck, and shoulders, a true history will be for ever at a loss to tell how they were clad, for over her head was cast in flowing folds of portentous thickness a gauzy sheet, supposed to represent a white veil. It shrouded the features in unnatural pallor ; it suggested no hint of neck, and but the remotest suspicion of shoulders ; and it was only gathered into terminal folds somewhere in the region of what should have been the waist. From beneath this effectual concealment, the bride made haste to give her responses. The poor girl had been cheated out of her marriage a week before, by some unexpected order to the regimentwhich claimedthe services of her soldier-intended, and she was determined to have " de ting trou with die time." When the minister asked if he would have this woman to be his wife, she hastily exclaimed, " Oh yes, massa, I'll be his wife ;" and when the irrevocable words 'ye said, the huge veil disappeared with wondrous rapi',re the ardour of the kiss. But they got, on their ':-Re,ate, the signatures of a couple of witnesses ' born in the land would be proud to  dity beak.. marriage ecruwhich the highest possess. 1 recently before the A tragical incident occurre,.. woman had Tribunal of Leibnitz, in Germany. A you, -,tmed summoned the son of a miller of the neighbourhocm,_. Rupp before the justices to compel him to assist her in sup_ porting a child she had by him, and when in presence of the court the young man first spat in the face of his former mistress, and then drew a pistol from his pocket and disceanivaedextphreebssaeldl ohnilsy riengrhetel. atarninot. charged it at her. The female .saw his movement, and by having succeeded in his attempted crime. He also declared Ihur;pw ags herselfthen that before coming to the Tribunal he had drunk largely to obtain sufficient nerve for the act.  triple suicide has created a painful sensation in the Rue Beautreillis and its neighbourhood. Two days back the police found the corpses of three young girls who had terminated their existence with charcoal in one of the old houses of that street. It appeared that the family to which they belonged had a monomania for suicide ; that the father,in consequence of commercial misfortunes, had thrown himself from the top of the Tour St. Jacques; that the son had enlisted as a soldier, and then blown out his brains; lastly, that Eugenie, ono of the three girls, had made several attempts to commit suicide, and had been confined at Charenton. It was only a fortnight ago that her mother, thinking her entirely cured, withdrew her from that asylum and took her home. Eugenie, being left alone with her two sisters, took the opportunity of converting them to' her own ideas of life and death ; the consequence of which was that they went out., bought charcoal, and then re-entered their room. The mother on returning home fowl her three daughters dead, in a knee jug posture, anc all attired in their b6st dres:ie§: