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Fatal bridal tour. --Among the unfortunate passengers of the ill-fated steamer Charmer, burnt on the night of the 10th inst., below Donaldsonville, La., were a young married couple about whom no one among the saved persons could give the least information. It is now ascertained that the husband was Dr. H. C. Middleton, of Holmes county, Miss., who was married but three days before to Miss Laura, the daughter of Wm. S. Parrott, Esq., formerly Consul General of the United States to Mexico. The ceremony took place at the residence of W. F. Stansbury, Esq., of Clifton Plantation, and immediately after the young couple started on their bridal tour. They left for Tugela, where they embarked on the steamer Charm, which connected at Vicksburg with the Charmer, bound to New Orleans, on which they were to find so soon an untimely grave. Has the awful line, "in the midst of life we are in death," ever received a more touching and sadder illustration?