Dollar Weekly Mirror

A MATRIMONIAL WRECK.—We find the following story of domestic trouble in a late number of the New York Sun:

"One of Brooklyn's most settled families has, within the past ten months, passed through a fiery and trying ordeal, the parallel of which is rarely found off the stage. The eldest daughter, a sweet girl of eighteen, educated highly, trained religiously, and accomplished most creditably, met at Newport with a middle-aged gentleman, of pleasing exterior, modest demeanor, and with apparently well-filled pockets. After a few weeks' acquaintance, they became engaged, the old folks were pleased, the young lady was entranced—but one point of difference existed which marred their most round and perfect happiness—he professed a most decided preference for the faith of the Episcopalians, while she was a Quaker of the strictest sort. They were married—they traveled. Hardly had they reached the European shore when the husband developed a most singular and unpromising degree of moroseness, and at times of severity.

For some time it was borne in silent submission, but at last it became intolerable, and having escaped from her abuser, the wife took passage in the Adriatic, and arrived at her father's home on Monday, unexpected, unheralded, and unhappy. Her story, as gathered from her own lips, is most heart-rending. She tells of privations, of beatings and degradations that make the blood of the hearer boil with indignation. Steps will be taken for the procurement of a divorce, and the victim who has, within one year, been a maiden free, a wedded wife and a happy mother, will resume her position at home with those best friends of life—a loving father and a tender mother."