Year: 1859

An extraordinary case is before court at Brooklyn, N Y., involving the good name and happiness of an interesting family. A lady came to Brooklyn five years ago, who represented herself to be widow from Mobile. She had a mulatto boy with ter whom she represented as the child ot f---o~:tn enrvans Shn 'uaa young and beau titul and was wooed and won by New York merchant, with whom she has lived happily and given birth to two beautiful children. Recently the peace of the happy family has been broken by the appearance of colored man from St. Louis, who claims that the woman is his divorced wife, and has sued for the recovery of the mulatto boy as his child. The lady denies the state ment, and declares 1t to be a plot to destroy her peace but the colored man insists that he shall bring abundant testimony from St. Louis to sustain his account of the matter. He says that he procured the divorce from her because of her infdelity to him, and that until recently he supposed she had fled to Europe. While the suit is pending, the lady and her present husband are in great anxiety and distress

 A singular matrimonial episode has re- gently occurred in New Orleans. About year ago, Mir. F., young heir to a large estate, had engaged to marry beautiful girl in humber circumstances The we'd ding was appointed and the guests assem- bled but the bridegroom did not come, hay ing been forciblv locked up by his cruel father In day or two the father shipped his son off to Mexico, trusting to absence and distance to cure him of his youthful folly. But on his return, eight months after, the young man still cherished his attach ment to the poor girl, and being now of age, his father made no further opposition. The wedding was again fixed and the guests assembled, but this time 1t was the bride who was mySteriously absent. Her friends as well as the bridegroom were in the greatest alarm, and search was made every where, but without avail, and she was sup posed to have been the victim of some ter rible calamity. Three months after, the mourning mother was invited to a particu lar house in the city, and was there receiv- ed by her lost daughter who introduced her husband, an old neighbor, and mutual ex- plantations and forgiveness occurred. It appears that the girl was never quite sure of her love for her rich lover, and thought he was too easily imprisoned and carried off the first time; during his absence her poorer lover had industriously pressed his suit, and she determined to repay her old lover in kind for her first disappointment Hence her flight and secret marriage ton Post

 SUIcrDEs-The New York Times of the 10th inst, contained notices of twenty-six suicides, which 1t thus classifes:

 Of the twenty-six cases of suicid that we record this morning, eleven were accom- pHshed by hanging, six by the use of the razor or knife, six by poisoning, and three by drowning. The alleged cause in six cases was insanity; in two, rum; one vic tim, by letter found in his pocket, charg ed his reputable wife with his ruin one, lately widowed, was living with lewd woman, and his pure wife's ghost haunted him; one was tired of humbugs, and hoped they would spare his remains the humbug of funeral one was hard up for money; one died of the islander an unfriendly neigh Dor uttered; two, wealthy men, were shat-s tered by excessive anxiety about their busi- ness; and one, lady of good character chose to sink rather than navigate longer sea so shut in with clouds and fogs. Onlyl three were women most of the men were unmarried.