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VOL. V.
THE KTOUY OF A POllTltAlT.
n is oiuy an every-day laco.
T 1 ' ' - i
"Lvcry-day faces havo;' histories.
mo two young girls stood before tho
portrait the v. had just drawn but front
amidst tho inbhibh and confusion of an
unseen chamber. ;
It was a dull, cfrav afternoon." and
they had wandered over tho largo old
..... . o.
JUouse. to wluch thev had eomo for a
fortnight's visit, Beekin' to while away
the lonesomo hours.
"How I would like to know some
thing about her said Famiy tho eld
est. "I wonder if aunt Buriress could
tell mo?"
"AYhat is that, Jane?
Tho door opened unheard in their
conversation and an elderly lady stootl
coking in on tho threshold.
"Oh, Mrs. Burgos:-!, wo were looking
at tins picture, lanny is curious to
know its history. I told her, most
Ikely, tho original had been dead and
buried a hundred years.
"Not so long, my dear," Raid Mrs.
.burgess, shaking her head, a utile
:ullv. "Don't 3011 see her dress 1
modern? I knew her myself in my
young-days ; I used to visit her; but
she was lLicbel Ivichards then, a poor
girl, and not Mrs. Rachel Vincent, as
sdie afterwards became."
"Oh. I am sure there is a storv about
it," said Fanny, eagerly ; "do, please
tell us Mrs. Burgess !" "
"It is hardly a cheerful one, my
dear, but open tho window, thost
rooms have b' en fchut up so long, and
I will try and retrace it."
Jar.e thing open tho window, letting
in a shower of rain drops which had
gathered on the sash, and a current of
sweet Juno air, laden with scents of
apple blossoms and lilacs.
"Mr Vincent, who owned the house,
ana tuee lamis, stretching lar as you
see on every side, was my undo my
uncle by courtesy he was my aunt's
husband.
"NYhcu I first saw Bachel Bichards,
who smiles ko' sorrowfully upon us
from that portrait hc was a young
lady of twenty, ten whele years my
senior.
She had no father or mother, was
a poor orphan, and had been brought
ii! bv inv aunt out of
chanty
havinjr
vr r
r nearly a servant's place in the
family.
She was very prettr; -thU picture
here does not do hor justice, though it
would have been hard to catch the
light and play of those line features ;
it miht have been happier for her in
the end, if she hadn't been eo hand
Home ; it loohs U) but I can't say.
My uncle and aunt had only one
child, a son ; how very, very fond they
were of him ! ther made an idol of him,
which we shouldn't do of human be
ings. Of cour.-e he disappointed them.
Ke was three years older than llaehel,
and brought up with her.
Arthur went away to finish his ed
ucation, and w:i gone two years. The
last year was spent in traveling with
bin tutor. He came back a very accom
plished gentleman, and his fond pa
rents doated upon him more than ever.
His coming home fell just in the be
ginning of my visit ; I was here with
an old sister; my aunt had begged of
my mother permission for us to come
and stay throught the whole summer.
After liis greeting from his parents
was over, he v. cnt out into the serv
ant's hall. Rachel was there ; she was
too proud to come with the rest to
greet him. I was there, too, having
just ran out. I saw her draw bach,
and her face Hush, as, after speaking
to the others, he eamo towards her;
poor thing, sho felt her position, she
was very proud; it must have been in
tuitive in her, brought up as ehc Had
been.
Yhv. Rachel, how you have
changed,' he said, holding her hand.
'I shouldn't have known tou any
where;' and his eyes spoke a very warm
admiration, tempered with respect.
I noticed it, child a.s I was, and
wondered why the color went out of
her face, and her look fell.
lou can guess what com e3 next.
Arthur was a very , honorable . young
man; he had no thoughts of deceiving
her; he came very soon to -the point. ,
He must have loved her very dearly to
biiiig suclt gri'f to .his parents. '1
think they had rather he would have
died his mother, at least tenderly
as she loved him. But the discovery
did not come for a long time. Rachel
had another lover. I believe in heart
she loved him best, but he was poor.
He was a poor clerk at the chief shop
in the Tillage the village was much
larger than it is now; 'you don't know
hov.r the placs has dwindled since those
days and his mother was a poor wid
ow, entirely dependent upon him for
support.. If she had engaged herself
to Robert Leavitt it might have been a
weary waiting; to nave married him at
once wpuld have been to step into
poverty. ' -
"But, Mr3. Burgess," ' interposed
Fanny, "why do you suppose she had
a preference for Mr. Leavitt? Mr, 'Vin
cent was more accomplished and agree
able, wasn't he?" . . : : rt ' - f. ' ;
"I will tell you, my dear, some
thing that I saw, a meeting between
themr It was a June twili?ht, and I
had wandered out alone in the garden.
I heard voices,- and came -nearly upon
Rachel and Mr. Leavitt close' by the
arbor. - They were talking -together. -1
ought to have run away; I feel asham
ed to recall it. ' I don't know why '.
didn't. He wasreproaching her with
her changed wrays towards him, and
she at first made him no answer; Then
he talked of Vincent ,: and made quick
sighted by his passion, seem to catch
at tho whole truth. Rachel tried to
deny it ; she said Mr.. Vincent was far
above her, and hadn't any thoughts of
her, but her voice seemed suddenly :to
stop
t W- If if n
ALBANY,
You'll bo sorry.. when it's-too lato
Rftehei-' sand Sir. Leavitt bitterly
I .
You aro throvvinsr from vou a true
2 heartvou'li one day know the worth
jont.. Vincent will never marry you.
you may aepenu upon mat; nos oniy
lhrhng with you, or something
worse.
How daro you talk to mo in this
way? sho retorted, l vo borne with
you long enough to-night. Don't come
near mo again until you can talk to mo
with proper respect. : - , - .
Sho broke away, from him, and I,
to avoid being seen, darted into a by
path in. tho shrubberies. I didn't tell
my sister when I went in; I wanted to
do so; but somhow Komthing witheld
me; I knew I had dono wrong to lis
ten. : i
. "Sho mado up her mind very goon;
sho was married privately to Aiucent.
It all came out just before my visit
closed.
I never shall forget that morning.
Rachel, I, and my sister were in tho
dining room. Kaehel was Hewing.
I bee now distinctly tho white and
red roses which crowded tho vases on
tho mantel; how fresh they were.
Rachel had cathered them: it was one
of tho allotments of her
morn m g
work.
I said Rachel was no wing; my sister
had a book, I was lounging about tho
sofa. '
Suddenly mv aunt came in, Hushed
and angry; she walked up to Rachel,
and shook her violently by tho shoul
der. Hie girl dropped her work, and
looked up into her face, with a start.
'Come, hus-sy she said or hissed,
for the words seemed to coiuo f rom be
tween her teeth, 'out of this house
you go-not another hour.
"Stop, madam.
My cousin's figure moved, suddenly
from behind a screen tit the other end
of the room, whero it sccuim ho had
been writing at a table unobserved by
us all, and his hand went hurriedly ou
the infuriated woman's nrm.
"Mother vou arc talking to m v wife."
ever shall I forget that moment;
the white, ashy face that turned to hi s.
Sho stootl perfectly still, as if struck
by a spell.
Then she threw out her anus, and:
the blood gurgled up to her mouth.!
Her son caught her in time to break,
her fall ou the floor. .
A scene of confusion followed. My
sinter fainted...
I think she loved Vincent; I was too
young to suspect it at the time. I
thought so afterwards, and I belbve
it was my aunt's plan to bring them
together ; but Vincent was of another
mind.
Rachel was very com
Her
calmness was astonishing
attcr the
t
firht shock. I think sho was
'lad a
discovery had taken place.
She knew they would have to make
the bet of it, when their mortiiication
had cooled down.
I went awa' with my sister the nest
morning, and did not seo what fol
lowed. -
Mrs. Burgess paused.
"I think Rachel was very ungrate
ful, "-said Fanny, to marrv Vincent so
privately, when his mother brought
her up. I don't see how his mother
could overlook it.
"She never did. I think the mor
tification and anger hurried her into
the grave. She survived his marriage
only one year; his father was killed
very shortly after by a fall from his
horse; so Rachel was indeed Mrs. Vin
cent." , r :
"How did she bear her new posi
tion ? Did you visit her, Mrs. Jiur
gess?" . .
Xot then; they came to see us; it
was three years after the marriage, or
near.
Mrs. Vincent had just put off her
mourning. . "We were living in C
then. - '
My parents gave them a cordial wel
come, for Vincent's sake, but they had,
of course, their prejudices towards his
wife. '
She was greatly , changed more
beautiful than ever, with all the new
aid.s of dress, and very gay. Oh, hIio
was. unlike the still, silent Rachel
Richards as possible !
I do not think Vincent had found
the happiness he expected in his mar-
age. I have wondered if he had not
discovered already his wife' indiffer
ence to him. .
My sister, poor girl, could not re
press an emotion of envy. I began to
see it then. I think Vincent saw it, too,
and that he had already began to rc-
X)ent nis nasty matcn.
bull, as I have said, Rachel was
beautiful and very charming. She had
acquired a "great many accomplish
ments since her marriage; her hus
band had spared no cost in her teach
ing, and her manners somehow re
minded one of what we read of the
grace and ease of tho courts. I don't
know how sho came by them. They
were with us a week, and then went on
a short tour they were making.
rThey urged lis to visit them the fol
lowing autumn, but my. sister declined.
It was fully three years before I saw
them again. " I went to them on a vis
it to my aunt. She; too, had married
into the Vincent family, but was then
a WldOW. ';- . -.V
: Rachel was now a matured woman.
It was about the time this portrait was
taken; you see how sorrowful it looks.
I think her life had not proved all
she expected; she had began to tiro of
its hoilowness and splendor. ;
She was too gay and charming to be
natural. I began to think, young as T
was that much of bier gaiety lay upon
tho surface. Perhaps an accident
which took place one day-helped me
in the discover'. We rode out in the
green, country --lanes.- and stopped our
horses before a cottage to get a drink
of water. ;
: It wa3 one of tho loveliest land
OllEGON, ElilJDAY, NOYBMB Ell 20, -18C9.
scapes I ever looked upon -hills, vales;
ami groves, and a silver river thread
ing close between tho green baulks.
The farmer h wife or such I thought
her cama out with a gla;s and tutchcr
of sparJamg. water in her hands. Yc
quenched our thirst. ' - ,
Mrs. ineent; whoso eyes had been
fixed intentl y.on tho little child toddling
at her feet, bent forward suddenly tvi
sho turned away to make some remark
on the iK auty of tho scenery, and clott
ed by asking the fitranger's immo. ?
"Leavitt, ma'am," ud tho woman.
looking rather surprised at tho .question,-
'Leavitt."
I turned struck by a curiosity, to
glance at the woman as she disappear
ed. I saw a fair graceful figuio, a coun
tenance le:ts ctnkiugly beautiful than
Rachel s but fme and winning in its
expression. -'This, then, I know at
once, was Robert Leavitt's wife, Rach
el's old lover. Jleiift 1 reconciled him
self to his disappointment. I stole a
look at her. I saw her hand tremb'e
as it held a cluster of water lillies on
her hip, and her faeo growing whits;
under her veil. No 0110 clso noticed
her emotion. There were two other
ladies with us, and soon she w as chat
ting away gayly as usual; but wo never
came that way again.
I think Rachcd and her husband did
not live very happily together. He had
something of hu mother's imoerious
temper, ami I think, a I have raid
beforo, that ho began early to doubt
he wisdom of Lis choice.
"Tho next few vears were very im
portant ones in our home. My sifter
marrh'd, my father died, and our little
household xi completely broken up.
L heard nlsmt that time suddenly of a
separation between Mr. and Mrs. Vin-
reut, and that tho former had sued for
a uivoreo. ui course evtrvlxKiv took
the gentleman's side. He had friends
aud means the wife had not a rela
tive in the world. Ho
fOt
ins cane,
ow, I do not know; but I suppose bv
some quibble of the lav.. 1 cannot
hmk Ra"hel wan criminal. Sho did
not go away from lu re : if she had
lone so, people would have said she
Wits with her alleged lover. Captain
Lessiugtou ; but. on the contrary, she
tired a room in tho village and took in
sewing to support herself. Sho hr.d a
rave lu art. -Most women would have
suraiiK irons su n a course, out him
chose to live scandal down, and took'hl eaw. Her dark hair now thicklv
the only wav slie could to uphold her,
innocence, hae Itad xrt n generous in;ly back, and lier even wore a Joo
nor days ox prosjienty ; no ono lata a
word or act of pride aidant her, and!
i-o there wcro very few to rejoice in j
her downfall, fche h;ub taken her old -
name of Jucnel ltauaidH again, ljiui ijo:.
wonder if she did not widt she could Very plainly Rachel's doclinln
go back to tlmuo dear old day. lsaprs-
. .r.i . i ...... 1 . .f.v i?
er with all their
petty moruflcaiiumiav ni.i-r iivr i!iu t;au swell.
and frrmfs than tho gloomy ytars of
himself of her f in, and, though she
had erred,- he must havo known Unit
he, too, was in fault. They met some
times in tho village 'streets,' tho pale
ticamstres.4 ou foot, the rich country
gentleman in hi carriage
These were bitter meetings, but 1
think the husband lore tho keenest
pain. , You look surprised. ' I know
that Rachel was poor, and poverty and
labor are no light things when one lias
no object but the common bread they
must eat to strive for ; still, you for
get that, even iu the beginning, the
chains of her married life were woven
out of a very different' material from
wreaths of roses, and that, when harsh
words came, as no doubt they soon
did, tho bondago might well grow ihr
tolerable.
As for Vincent, ho had what hij
wife had not -recollection of family
honor, and the consciousness, too,
that he had acted. hastily, both in his
marriage itself, and in its late repudi
ation." "What became of her?" asked Fan
ny. ' 'Did they come together again ?"
"No, a stranger thing ? canio about.
After more than twelve years of this
life,' when; Rachel's , dark ; locks wcro
thickly woven - with silver and tho
bloom of, j'outh had quite passed
away, Leavitt, then a widower,: camo
and renewed hia suit to her 1"
"Why, ;Mrs. Rurgeast. how could
ho?"-.
"It wag very natural,, my dear,
though such romantic cventi seldom
come around. Mr. Vincent was dead,
and Mr. Leavitt, knowing her as well
as he onco did, never could havo be
lieved the aspersions on her character.
Her life, too, by that timo, , had lived
them down." - ...
"But sho refused to marry Mr. Lea
vitt?",:? ;..,. -Tr. ' - :: "
;",Yes, and no doubt he felt it keenly
enough, but his own marriage had fol
lowed afterwards; and ho had had an
ample timo to loso the freshness of hi
mortification and anger. , ; She had suf
fered enough to atono for her error, lie
knew that." i ; , :
"How vvondet ful it was they should
come together at last. ; I don t thinl
she deserved so much happiness." f ,
."God knows best, my dear. She
had some excuses for her faults. She
never had any mother, poor thing, to
remember and as I have told you
her lot with my aunt, could . not have
been, a very happy ? one. ...If Mr. , - Vin
cent had been moro patient, more to!
erant with her faults, though sho never
couhbhayo loved him, she might have
mado a better wife." ;
"Did you see her after her second
marriage, Mrs. JJurgess. t .
"Yes, once ; that was not long after
my brothor-m-Iaw had purchased this
property, and just after my husband's
death. ...
My health waa much broken, ' and
weann ami nonor.. . t.trtea nom iter, aau saw uur :utitautg rrrm' for bint and fwr lie iake cf justiec. -bout Fara;mg:o:i to beware how they
Mr. Vincent was not happy. He jin the door .where the had received And t , even theu, I bore iheio aeeu-ltrvai mv wile and childien, aa I hear
had won hw case, but how eould ho. our tuankftd mhens. cumulated outrage- without lifting a hand j they have had them under arrest by r-
be ? I think there waa a lingerfng Cophl her lortrait have Itoen taken t(J iVcliu iuy broiher. and j-Utcr' blood. ! dcr ef the drunken Rowen. and I will say
tendcrueKj ia hw heart toward hu nt toat moment to a-tnd side by side Loviniry darin-wife aLd little children! to lh,h Hill and Jue MeGVuau to walk
t . I 9 i - I T r. . t . . f . . . 1 1 s
wtie, it iter ait.- lie count not convince hh t-u wouki ?5ee tue iruit in
- r m i ia t t m - ai .. . a i r . - t w i ' ' w -
my sister-in-law persuaded me to come
here to try tho benefit .of tho fresh
country air.
"YYo drove out often together, and
oueo we came upon one of tho:;o fresh,
green Janes where tho incident I have
described took place,
s sThat, said my sbter-in-law, an I
looked out at the cottage, 'is tho resi
dence of Mr. Leavitt. Quito a roman
tic history is connected with his second
marriago oh, I forgot !'
Sho stopped in confusion.
.'Tho lato Mr. Vincent was your cous
in?' 'But how said 1, wondcringly, 'did
Mr. Leavitt purchase this farm? I
understood ho was a poor clerk. I
supposed he remained in that position
u ways i
of his firnt marriage and left him tbii
place, lvj was a hard, avaneiuusman.
L believe, and had never taken any no
tice of hi i relatives in his lifetime.'
If Rachel had only waited I thought.
I felt curious to see her ; but did not
know how to gratify my interest. An
odd chance helped me. I choso this
direction for our drives often. This
was not singular, for, as I have' told
you, tho landscapes about there were
very beautiful. One day an accident
happened to-our carriage in this very
spotono of the wheels gave way; the
fa:4cning, I think, had got loosened,
ami wu were compelled to alight.
Forttnmtely, wo were at that mo
ment walking our horses, and they did
not mko fright. A light spring show
er v.xi.i beginning to full, ami our con
dition was not very agreeable.
Mrs. Leavitt t-nmo out of her eot
tiga, r.nd with grateful hospitality in
vited mo to enter. She did not tseem
to remember me ; perhaps timo and
rorrov.' Itul changed mv face, or. most
likely, she did not desire to renew ourfUieni of the lVirai
old ac f unin tin ce.
It was a homely farmhouse , but I
couni not out noiieo tne ex
'.fStlihti,
or-
d r and symmetry which itcrvaded its
humble appuiiitra lit ;. A of
white and red roses ou tho table, evi
dently fresh ctillcd frota the little gar
den lm ath the windows, brought up
the strange morning of tlie discovery
of her lr..t marriago with startling dLs
tinctneHi. '
I looked, at her as she sat entertain
ing her gu d, with very much of her
threaded wit Is gray, was parted smooth-
o:
sere content, snen as i uaa never
teen in them in the old dsys. A slight,
pretty girl, evidently a step-daughter,
came iu ; her fact, too, wore a cheer-
rycars
vvere neue-r, xaucit truer, nappier, iisan
- il 1. - f.r ... l i ,
jl loouci UAvlz at her when wo hrul
the leoti she was only learning when:
tho paiatr made it."
"And she never had any regrets for
her old fortunes ?" said Jane. '"Well, i
I am glad t he was hapjy at last. Nowl
I copte to look clearer at this jjaintin r,!
I think it h not an everyday face ; the
even have a world of tltought. Poor
Rachel ; how much the must have suf
fered! but how fortunate to be able to
retrieve her mistake at last."
"Ye," kuM Mrs. Burgess, "it 'was
a good fortune, which fails to very few
in this world. We generally have to
bear the penalties of so great a mis
take as this through the rest of our
lives."
The torn broko suddenly from tho
clouds, still dripping with rain, and
shone m the chamber. mmTing a
mournful glory around tho portrait.
lite tlartc eves seemed to kindle, tho
sorrowful lips to curve into a smile un
der its rayn. -Tho littlo group gazed
upon it with deep interest, the same
thought stirring silently in the hearts
of each "Every human life has a his
tory." '
- - " ii m "i " r -i . . !
Awrrn Sma-rr. 'Idcrk " said a tall
Kentuckiau to a hotel olhcial, "this
young woman and iae have eloped.
Have vou any' marrying facilities
around hero?"
The cleric replied in the .affirmative-.
and tho two wero spliced in. less , than
an hour. , The' bridegroom was evi
dently not yeif Katisfied, and lingered
around the hotel book. .
"Clerk," said ho, confidentially, at
length, "hadn't ye better change, the
register, and give us i ono room, now
we're married V" ' '
"It's already done " replied tho
clerk, "you'ro marked for tho same
room." , - ' . .
''Well, clerk," replied tho Kentuck
ian, quickly, "won't you just show mo
up, then, for I'm mful xleqy !" ;
On ' DanssiNO.- -A friend in South
Carolina' writes of a littlo favorite, Helen,
who lately being much interested in her
doll s wardrobe, wished her to tell some
stones about dressing. "l lutena my
littlo doll fihall'bo a nico young lady like
vou."-sho said, Which meant among other
things that dolly was to bo prettily dress
ed. Tho teacher prececdcdf to tell the
story of mother Ev6s costume. , and of
its being unnecessary for her to wear any
clothing until after the fall by sin. ; Hel
en looked in ; utter astonishment at tho
new. dies she was- arranging for dolly, as
the teacher, gave, tue narrative, ana at
last dropping tho tiny garment she held,
at tho thought that it might have been
no Use had A-dam not disobeyed, she said
'I'm real glad ho sinned, ain't you, Miss
Sarah T -
v.;; i .. . , . '
A hat manufacturer claims for himself
thq title of. "Universal Sympathizer" be
cause, ho says, ho has felt for every one.
NO; Iff
'Front tho ft. Lou l Time.
I1II.IS:US:SAD.
An Authentb Letter from Him Own
Ctfclemctt of Affairs fwan.tto Beginning
; , of tha fur to the; Present Tin:?. , -
Mkmpijis, Tknm.,' Oct. 17, 1800.
As "fitir nliy" U one of (ho icsveh
of
Amerieaa character, and u it i consiiler
cJ right niil proj er to'givo even the dtuil
"hit due," I hoj.e you will nt refun; u,
giye to the putiit, through .yjur iiely
read paper, li.tm. IliMcrhraud's ovm utafo
iscnt of his history sirsco tho bcintiiug
of the htto terrible vrur ; to the el that
taie minded io umy judge whether there
were not souio goe-1 itasuns uud fctrung
j-rovucalioiis ier the depcritc . dctfd-rf
charsetl nain.Ht L:e.
V'hc the war hc'Uii T Visa h:s !;?!'' n
quiet, j-caecahlc lilV, trying tu f rvvilc fer
my family in an honest though hnmhle
flAiera of lifj. In thy condition ofafLir.
in my part of Mhewuri. I had made wj
luy inm i to keep cut of the trouhlca and
take no part in the war. In IK
my
brother, 1 rank lldderhrand
the fttatc (juard under Jeff.
i tnjUjiv-ion.
On Frank's icturn to ce uur mother and
family, he was captured hy a mob he.idel
hy young McHIvsmc. Ry MeKivane's
oraer, 1 rank was kulad afnr Uix capture ;
Ms head was mashed, hi holy mandvd
ad cut to pieces m nu-U u
manner that the 'most
1
1
would hare hhihed to have 1 cm guibv
of the deed,
into a miner,
to rut.
Tho nest
I lis body wan theu thrown
d hole 50 feet cten. and ht;!
outrage
committed on
my
kiuurc'i nn'i laiony v.ai u.c lunrucr or my
hrutlier, ore WaAhiogton. st;d a Cana
dian named Ru.it.iche Landosky, 'who was
cugaged to he married Ut my abler Marv.
j litse l;H murJers were trnetrated h
mcu iu IJiiion unifirui, and who wtra so -.-1
Two
weeks
afier iUvv tragedies my thttr Mary died
ol troulle and a broken heart.
Two w eek- later theic men came to tay
mother's 1. u c and loaded several wagons
with ocr p.'eptrry, drove of all cur cattle,
anu ft.-t
dwellin-
ire tu J.cr lou;y,
tct
KIOLC
ia lha settlement.
ly poor,
r, troe i hearted
mother, s-eeinir the!
hou-e
btirmrg, sent
usy httle brother
Henry to
lhoo hearties wretches and
aked for the f:m!ly Rih'e as a relic t Aelwhih' they kept firing at me. - I was
kept when all e!-e wh gone. Notdrtam-J'd:e:t ar.iu'-ed Jo tee my old aunt Wil
ing ed harm to the little tender boy, whatH-aiJi dod-htg the tails a they cats ia
can express her horror and agony when j through ih.; trail. They fiic i the house,
the-se deaiuus shct my little Irothtr, not !-, z I bad Gn;le l my supper, I aban
12 year old, ihrou-u the botfcls, and a! done J my burning fertititutsoo. As I
ficud then pu: lit foot on hi head ami
eut hi throat.
Thus were these atrochus deeds of blood
and cruelty and rtbt try committed on my
kiudre i and family. Let auy man put th.2
fltl!Vtih'.n tO Kttl tt !ilirr f.ur-): i ii r ....
j wouM not havs srou-ed him to de.-perate
jre'.aliatiaa, at the lime when the law
no iJtt..6r nf , o;rcr la avc!, a mf
9 i
I .1 . I ?. t .1 T
uei.i'r u.u.i auywj.uz ti-e ea cariu. l;
forced my heart to bear on in silence.
Though eruhcd like a worm, 1 refused
to t ng the foot that crushed me.
Buring all thee outrages 1 had resolv
ed to not go iu the Southern army, nor
to meddle iu the trouble iu any way. I
remuved from Rig River to Flat Wocdi,
distant -5 milts, ho injr that no harm
would befall me cr my vtife and children,
if 1 would gwt out of the immediate neigh
borhood of thasM who had murdered and
outraged my lamuy. -
Rut to my surprise, about the middle
of May, just when my crop was looking
well, aud hopo v.oS fctrong that I would
be left iu peace, about tun rise one morn
ing my house was surrounded by McRl-
vaue and his crew of bomo l0 or -10 men,
all well armed.
I remembered the fate of my brothers
and friends, slaughtered iu cjhl blood.
like sheep, after their capture, aud 1
knew there was no hope of mercy er jus
tice. Irons such uciuodsj no help except
in the courage and strength that God had
given mo.
Ihe die with me wa3 cast. I had
sought peace and quiet, but tho blood-
liouuds iiau trailed me. 1 was at Lay.
The conflict that I had fled from was forced
upon uic. The alternative was l-fo or
death.
I met my pursuets at the door. I shot
down two of them in their tracks, made a
rush for tho woods aud escaped. Imd
iug it impossible to live at cr near home,
I weu t to Arkansas, aud afterward got
my wile and four children.
Tho two men 1 killed iu ray door was
the first blood ever shed by me. Then,
when a price was sot on my head, I de
termined to reveuge the death of my
brothers. I rode poven limes from Ar
kana.4 before I could get to shoot McEl
vauo, the infamous butcher, who had
murdered my brothers nud sought my
life. Then I meant to harm no one eke,
if they would leave mo undisturbed, but
some of the soldiers, piloted by Jiai
Craig, a very, meddlesome spy, undertook
to have mo killed. r -
In self-defense I turned looso on them
and made mauy of those who sought my
lifo bite the dust. 1 I often met them in
tho woods. They all knew rue, aud would
offer to assist me. .They would make an
appointment to bring me provisions to my
hidiog places, and then vvould pilot sol
diers there to try to have mo captured.
I always killed that kind of men. I have
captured many Union soldiers, but I nev
er hurt or treated them , unkindly unless
it was one Who had brutally treated
Southern prisoners, and I know it. 5 ;
T have had hundreds of hair-breadth
escapes for my life; but I know there is
a nierciful Gcd that knows and does all
t h i n gs i i gh t a n a 1 1 - p o w e r f ul h a n d h as
protected me. I havo twenty times been
suddenly vraked, aud fled from my bed,
when a shower, of Yankee balls would
riddlo the bed I had sprang out of. 1
havo had my clothes torn, from my body
11ATL3 OF AUVKlvriSlZUt Vkh Ykar
Oao Column, f 2CD ; HM ColtiKsu, $W Quarter
TriUiHw-nt A&vcrtifrrnentg fer fqtiaro of ten
!i;i(.f r lcf of thU sbxtl type, tint insertion, $3;
tnch aut.jisu-nt itif.rtion',. I.". ' "r. "
A p'jBsirii U ono itch in pnco down tie eofamn
eouitfitig cv.ts, (iiqI,ijf lh.c, Llank?, Ac, at tolid
mathr. fe.Ivrrii.-:K.eftt to bv cpjifhlertxl lc
tlian a tunt, in all fr&ctiosa countod a fall
'!re. AH &'.lyert:wtnerl iDscrk'l for les
pertoj tLbu Uirte tu r;t;:s to to rcgArd&l af transient.
with Yankee bullets, hut two only crer
drev hi oid lr..j)i me.
I mU in tuy that I Saw a Ihpvllican
of June lait, vhieh confaius tn.me charge
against me that frc not true, r It peak
of many cruelties coujuinud ty Jliider
hrand in Callovy county which are ut
terly untrue. 1 never w.is in Calloway
cwuty Ut my tfe. It abo charge too
with cruelty to a little hoy.
faho. I never harmed a w
J hat also
woman or child
iij my lifa, I Wiisu-d only v,lU men Xfhcr
ha-i inade war on me. I waa ulo accused
of taking oek'of Jim MeLmo to tho
amount of S0,0i0. Tho nothbors ll
know th'jt Jim 'Mcha:ic always lived from
hand to' mouth, and never hid uaythio
tu he Mttdea or taken from hiui.
1 vriidi to add ;t fwe rcmat ks to esplaio
my hite t roubles.
After the excitement 'about the war
ana u x rrounies
eclI'i to die out: bad
u.in foe nit i 'Ji-t
4 r
'j;-;c-'i m
heal
over
past
itii
?tvu)'' ot lab j. l came Lack
V Hf. Francois
count v.-
n
and talked to
wsiJT or si.0 "eo
cf nurrniug thj propriety of letaruing tu
my d I hoi.ic. . A II I fcpoke to of ail par-tie.-
fcai J, "ai;i, c'jme hoaie."
I cania hack in good faith. I moved
to my mother' o! I p!;;cc and lived thero
zlx uwa'. ?. I then moved to Hill.-horo
and flayed there until h;t fall. Finding:
ii hard to tyakc a livieir there. I moved
khoeklugpO" thu Mkfeippi'rirer, ncarRadi Tow-
4 M
afta cliupre J v.-cou ail ;at winter. I
t l''cn t''ed hack to lhe'i hreo Rivers, ou
I1''' - .
ram. item
9
;hce
to ra;tc a crop.
- 1" I bved end
walked until tlwj
fouri'i ot Jane la. ?, v.hi'ii
I was wajlaid
a rid
fchot
by Jim. Mel
r
J. vans an l two other?, that I -or mv
4
friend.- n"ay yet Cull to aeeount.
t
n. Mei.ane. 31cOina aud others
:'
vlaul my xiwunj-e tu
m
murder mo iu
At r"d ! t t f'i.r
cay.
On
tho
tho
fourth cf June I wan
fchOt
through
thub at my hot.
L went to ty
uncle Willi
am i
whero
they jttfscU d me ix days cfier. They
? hot all day at taa there. I ."e!ec!el Jim
MeLane, vthem I Lneir ouly by reputa
tion, sni ftlt.it him from the house. Bher
iff Rreckaar'.Jirc and ihe Lakoea cf his
P-ir'y KJ earc of their fcealps after
31 c
tr
It v.ai theu threo
t!o
as I Lad c-iteu
no breakfast
;er dinner, I cookc I r.iy foipj er aud ate it
went out I
Cuutitel tn.rty-uve men that
lag ihe Lursac hou&. I saw
were irnar
Oeo.
JiiclKcn, Jo. 31c-
jGahan, an
jgot too ho!
! k 1 Wii
a inn s ooy. . i:e me nouso
,i if . n
t fr eoudvrt, I left it, and
t walked u it hi u six feet of socie of the
;guar J. Th;y teemed Lund,
(they did nut ti!cr to shoot m
cr at least
e.
1 wiU to say to the Radical in and
smoothly and cot let my family " gaffer,
j They helped to kill mjfetroihei s, but they
they
havo not yet uiue i tue.
Jim MeLane was a tool ia tho hands of
that iu famous creature aud coward, Gust.
St. Gtia, of St. Geaevicve, who will soma
day, no matter where he may hide hiai
elf, have to tnswer for many crimes ho
planned, and was too cowardly to execute,
but
Ct others to do for him.
McLaaa
murdered J u !
e Burk, of St. Genevieve,
Poik, over ei'uty-threo
and prcacoer
years f ag. ;:.."."'
I wUh to pay to Gov. McClarg that I
could have easily lafed him while I was
in Fatmington, if 1 had watt ted to do so,
but 1 look upon hiia tts a gentleman, and
that ha is misled by latching to iioi from
bad man, who are Radicals.
All I havo wrhtm is every word true,
I do not want to be killed yet awhilo;
neither do I wish to kill any one if they
will let imj: ahme." My enemies havo
charged mo with being a thief during tho
war. I was not. Ail that I fairly captured
I gave away to the widows and orphans
who had be2n robot d aad ware suSer-
ig. - . . ; '::, - :
1 will refer to t.ny honest man who
kuew me, whether I was not an- honest
man. In the latter part of August tho
Radical Govern mesit of Missouri had four
or five hundred arswed men huntio mo
down, and declared martial law. What a
tempest one poor hunted man cau rise!
It is because of'gn'lty consciences. They
know tho wrongs they 'did, and kuowthat
vengeance should fall upon the guilty. .
I have had two bushel of Radical, bul
lets shot at me, but only two ever drew
blood. The old Indian v.heh he fired
fourteen 'shoU at Gen. ' Washtngtmi, aud
missed him cvery'thot, said that the Great
Spirit had turued-tho bat!s aaJo. God
has turned away the bullets aimed at my
life, and I put my tru-4 in Him, r nd be
lieve the balance of my days' will be spent
more happily. -.' ;i -
I a;a iu as Cue sp "rits and good health
as" I, ever was uy wound is entirely
healed, and I am guo l for mauy years of .
life if my foes allow ma to live ia peace;
and if they do not, on them bo tho eon
seoueuces. .
? Let spies and informers keep at a safe
distauco from me. I do not think I can.
be easily trailed, but it is the pafest for
any person that haV a de?irc to hunt up
Hilderbraud to let that alone. Remem
ber the greenhorn that started out to
hunt grizzly bears in California. -
In order that those who know rae and
my family may know that tho writer of,
this is ;'4Saui" Hilderbrandi and not a
Setitious person," 1 will here gio tho
names of my wife and children. My wife,
Margaret ; child re'a,'-Henry, Rebecca,
Mary, Elizabeth. Nancy, Catharine, Mar
garet Ann, Georgo Wiishiugtou. :
Yours, SAM. HlLT3ERBItANl.
: l: 'r - .
' Tha. London pap;rs ore dbeussing the
question as to whether it. would be prop-,
tr to kill incurable lunatics.