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Address to the Oltlzem of Rogue
River Valley.
I'e!!uttl-CitixeruM you have accused
' tto of falsehood and slander, and somo of
you have threatened personal violence, be
cause I have protested against the war as
being unnecessary and aggressive ; and as
1 am deniod the freedom of speech and of
your press for self-defense; patriotism,
equally with aclfrespect, demands that 1
' should speak to you from my retirement ;
for although the occurrence has transpired
. in a remote corner of our vast Republic,
yet in its bearings it affects the interests
and elicits the attention of the nation.
Permit me then, fellow-citizens, briefly lo
Mate the caso as It stands between us.
For eight months the scourge and wasto
of war has beon carried on In our vicinity,
nd until quite lately there seelnod little
disposition and less prospect for a speedy
close, either by treaty or conquest. On the
other band, I have not fuilcd from Its first
inception and at every stage of its progress,
both In public and in private, to declaim
against it as a cruel injustice to the people
against whom it is waged, and its prosecu
tion as a reckless and unnecessary wasto of
the resources of our common country.
You have through your press and in
. public assembly attempted to justify your
selves, not by explaining the facta or refu
ting the proof upon which opposition is
based, but by impugning motives and as
porsing character ; and so far as the author
ilies and the public at large can see to the
contrary, you are unanimous, and they
might therefore infer that you are correct.
lou have sought to destroy the testimony
by asserting that it is nothing but the "pro
duction of a low and depraved intellect."
Since you have made the matter to rest
upon the credibility of the witness, I am
necessitated to speak in vindication of solf,
and however reluctant I may feel to dwell
on so small a poiut, yet it is the only one
you havo given me occasion lo sustain, and
1 dare not by silence allow you to triumph
In a matter in which the deepest interests of
humanity and our national honor are alike
involved.
I shall not go abroad for certificates of
character, but shall appeal to yourselves as
the witnesses of my "course" and the
bearers of my "assertions." I shall simply
state the causes which operated as motives,
and the occasions on which they found ex
pression. Having come to this country in acceptance
of the Governmental offerof land for occu
pancy, I honestly believed that the original
owners had received a fair compensation,
and that the treaty stipulation guarantying
protection and forbidding private war,
would be promptly fulfilled. And as I nev
er looked wilh pleasure at the master brute
monopolizing the crib and forcing his weak
er mate to starve by his side, so when I
saw that wo had possessed ourselves of the
fertile valleys and crreks and most of the
pleasant homes of the Indian, and had ex
posed him to violence and outrage of the
zovil disposed and vicious, I could not but
ffeel the injustice we were doing. And
when so many of you frequently recited in
tny hearing cases of aggravated cruelty and
.wrong, and nt the same time I read almost
weekly in the Yreka Herald merciless ap
peal to the basor passions, exciting lo still
more destructive violence upon a people
who had do hold upon public sympathy or
governmental protection, I felt aroused to
plead for justice. And, moreover, when I
beheld iu one of your publio restaurants,
exposed to viow wilh the usual glitter of
wine and whisky, tho voluptuous painting
of an undressed, a naked woman, reclining
upon a couch, and in the stores and in the
streets comely Indian girls arrayed in silks
and finery, and read in the "Sentinel,"
weekly paradod before the people under
the caption, "A Great Biasing to Man
kind" Dr. L. J. Czapkay's Prophilacticum,
or self-disinfecting agent, which (the Or.
, says) "every young man ought to have,"
and when I realized the appalling apathy
l)iat DCuer politician nor press nor priest
offered t&xiC 'his licentiousness,
-end that virtue eem?d driven from our
midst, and saoral prince find public honor
earned wasting away cV vatsrgU in "M
root of all evil," my soul was atirred from
its depths, and before high Heaven J piec
ed myself to be true to my God, my con
science, and my country. Much rather
would I that all this was bid in oblivion, and
covered with impenetrable darkness, but as
yoa have persisted in defease ef wrong, and
publicly aspersed tny motive in ite resist
ance, I am necessitated to unfold the secret
cause of that course which yon have (as I
conceive) unjustly charged as being "the
production of a low and depraved intellect''
Termit me, fellow-citizens, to invite you
lo a calm review of some of the more prom
inent features of the past. ' In process of
time, the evils to which I have above al
luded produced their legitimate results.
Mutual outrages and retaliatory murders
between the races became frequent, and is
the bdrao were well supplied witi aa-
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Vol. II.
munition aud arms, (the price of crime,)
excitement and panio seized the public
mind, and what seemed to me the climax of
wrong, was meditated and finally determin
ed, instead of a civil or legal process for
mutual redress, it was assumed thnl the
Indians were the only sinners, and they
alone should suffur. Kill the savages, ex
terminate the race, became (he one idea,
the ruling sentiment. Accordingly, the
arrangements being made, tho work was to
be begun on Monday at early dawn of Oc
tober 8th, 1859. During the previous
week an earnest appeal had been made to
the Grand Jury to present the state of af
fairs before the Court, which' was then sit
ting, for investigation, but they decided it
was not in their place. On Sabbath, the
7lh, there being a Methodist quarterly
mcoling within two hours' ride of the in
tended scene of massacre, I attended, and
improved a general invitation to speak by
expressing myself somewhat as follows
"My friends, is it onough that we should
be content with mere feelings of present
comfort and hopes of futuro heaven, "to
read our (own) "title clear," then "wipe
our weeping eyes"! Are there not those
in our vicinity, childrrn of the same Fath
er, heirs of the same immortality, entitled
to the same enjoyments as ourselves, but
doomed by our community to deprivation
and death? Have we no sympathy, no
fears, no effort in behalf of these our breth
ren I Could we not in some manner in
voke the civil nower. and rtreient this con
templated wrong t My friends, if we al
low these proceedings retribution will fol
low. As yet, our homes have not been
molested, or our wives- and children de
stroyed ; but commence this wholesale
slaughter, and some of us will become
homeless, and some of our families be
made desolate."
But no one making response, the meeting
concluded as though there waa nothing
unusually wrong.
Three months afierward several gentle
men promised that if a meeting could be
convened, they would attend and advocate
measures of peace. I therefore caused a
notice to be published, but the Sentinel
proclaimed that there was not a man
known in Jacksonville who desired such a
meeting; but on the 2 2d of January, 1856,
by getting handbills and posting them
round town myself, (some of which wero
torn down before my fuce,) a meeting was
gathered in the Robinson House; but to
my sorrow not one of my promised aids
wos present. I alone- was left to declaim
against the measures of war, and in favor
of the practicability and necessity of
peace. Several spoke in opposition. One
said he was for treaty ; he would invite all
the Indians to sign it, and then take the
opportunity to kill the whole. Another
objected to that mode; he would rather
continue the war until all were destroyed
in honorable war. The Rev. Dr. K said
he was going to leave the valley, but ad
vised the destruction of all the "red skins."
So the meeting broke up without anything
being done, except the remonstrance of a
single voice ; but in coming away a gentle
man suggested to me tho writing out in
speech form of tho remarks which had been
presented, and sending to some eastern
paper for publication.
And I am happy, fellow-citizens, to per
ceive that though you were impervious and
turned a deaf ear to a direct appeal, that
you are nevertheless sensitive to its vibra
tions, since its echo has returned to you
emphasized with a thousand sympathies
from abroad.
Thus, gentlemen, you have not only al
lowed me to throw the first stone, but havo
left me alone to strain at the work. And
now, that our fellow-citizens beyond the
mountains are likely to overwhelm us with
shower, may we not hope that some
chord will be struck, that the deep fount
ains of human sympathy may be broken
up, and that the gushing and commingling
streams will flow over the land as a wave
of love and mercy, causing the evils we
witness and lament to ultimate in blessings
and the speedy advancement of that "good
time coming," when "spears shall be beat
en into pruning hooks, and swords into
ploughshares ; when nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, and men shall learn
war no more."
Fellow-citizens, my interests and my
home are in your pleasant valley. I ap
preciate your friendship, and mean to de
serve your esteem, but I know that this can
be only secured in the advocacy of "right
eousness, which exaltetb a nation"; and I
doubt net that when the causes of danger
and excitement, which have induced some
of you to err and others passively to acqui
esce, shall subside, we shall approximate
in our views, and be more firmly united to
"do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly
with God." And be assured, gentlemen,
do one more deeply regrets than myself the
unfavorable position in which circumstances
have made yon to appear, and if the senti
ment of justice has prompted me to plead
for (he Indian, and to vindicate the course I
have taken, that sentiment is no lets potent
" u hinf-
of toSmlm I flor addrea., and whiter. !
OREGON CITY,
er of influouca or position I possess shall
bo strenuously used for the prompt rolicf of
these embarrassment under which you suf-
fer. I am deeply sensible that the causes
from which past and present wrongs have
arisen aro deep, and bread, and high, and
for the existence as well as for tho removal
of which others as well as the people of
Oregon are responsible. It has been for
eign to my feelings to mar tho pecuniary
interests or to throw an evil sbnde over the
character of any. I have tried to modify
rather than exaggerate, but justice required
the facts, and I have intended to present
nothing more. And siuce the indemnity
will not be paid until the facts are analized
which have occasioned the difference be
tween the two Gonerals and the two Gov
ernors, you have nothing to hope for from
secrecy, or blaming me for exposure-. All
would havo been examined, even if I hud
not lived.
I wish also to correct a mistake which
some have entortniupd, viz : that 1 have
acted under the directidn of Gen. Wool or
Gen. Palmer. The truth is, I have rcceiv
ed no communication whatever, directly or
indirectly, from one or the othor, except
what I have read in the newspapers ; nei
ther have I from any other publio officer,
except a call at my house by Capt. Smith,
of Fert Lane, in company with Dr. Am
brose. The life- of the former was threat
ened, and from the extensive and deep feel
ing of disapprobation expressed against
him, I had reason to believe he was in im
minent danger, and simply because as a
gentloman and soldier he declared his re
solve to defend the defenseless who had fled
lo the Fort for protection. On Christmas
I was impressed to write him a letter ef
sympathy. On the last of January he made
tho call as above, and stated that ho had
duly received the letter, but its contents
being so novel and different from tho gen
eral current, and not having previously
heard the name ef the wiitor, he concluded
it was from an enemy and designed to mis
lead ; but having heard of the effort for
peace made in the Robinson House on tho
22d, he was satisfied of its gonuineness,
and had come in person to make the ac
knowledgment In that interview there
was no plan proposed or agreement made ;
in fact it was tho first and last and only in
terchange of thought with publio func
tionaries, except volunteers and editors to
the present time. My action has been the
spontaneous prompting of tho moment,
and its operation iutcndod directly upon
the party addressed, but opposition has
hightened meal and enlarged the sphere.
You have connected my name with cir
cumstances upon which our countrymen
from the ceatro to the circumference of the
land will look. I cannot hide if I would ;
so, my fcllow-citizcns, I am resolved to
stand with all of you who will "do good,
love truth, be just and fair to all, exalt the
right, though every ism fall. '
And believe me your friend and well
wisher, JOHN BEESON.
Oregon City, June 23, 1850.
Destruction of the Rork lMana Bridge and
steamer tDlt Afloat
We have received the following cortimu-
nication from Mr. Henry G. Carson, an
officer of the steamer John B. CarsOn, giv
ing some interesting particulars of this ac
cident :
Tho steamer Efiie Alton, Captain J. S.
Hurd, left St. Louis on the 2d of May, bound
for St. Paul, with a large trip of froight and
passengers, w hich she continued to add to
until she reached Reck Island. She ar
rived thire on the night of the 4th, and
took on board thirty or forty head of cattle,
besides other freight, and also many pas
sengers, mere were about ten ooais
lying there, waiting for the wind to fall be
fore trying to go through the bridge.
On Monday, the 5th, the Grace Darling
and the Vienna kept trying to effect the
passage, but as night approached they had
to give it up. Tuesday morning, the Glh,
the wind having fallen during the night, the
steamer John B.Carson started out to make
the effort to go through. We were follow
ed by the Effio Afton, who walked past us
like a thing of life, and got into the gap
ahead of us. I could not but admire the
beautiful boat as she glided past us. Lit
tle did I think that in a few minutes she
would be a charred wreck. As she enter
ed the dangerous pass, and her bow had got
past the short pier, on her starboard, I
could see that her stern was caught by one
of the eddying whirlpools caused by the
long pier on which the bridge revolves, be
ing built partially across the current
which caused her starboard side to strike
the stone pier with great force. Then she
sheered toward the other pier, which also
struck. She partially straightened op, and
for a moment it seemed she might yet be
saved. But from the shock the starboard
bad received, its bridge-tree having been
pressed id on the buckets, it conld not be
started again in time to prevent her from
s-ingm the starboard. Then I was
tructtoB ef th. noble boat wae
Pit
O.T., JUNE 28, 1850.
J inovitublo ; she struck on the head of the
sharp pier abreast of tho wheels, her
head swinging under the bridge, and
the same moment the forwurd part of the
cabin went over witUaternUlocrai.il, winch
I we expected lo see swept off instantly, with
every soul on board, or else to see the boat
capsize. Capt. itrtckic, or me curson, di
rected his pilot to run her bow up to tho
after guards of the Afton, which ho did at
the moment of the crash, and fastened to
her. The Afton iustsntly careened to the
larboard, being the upper side, with the im
Dctuous current runuiuir over her, and
w
pressing her still doepcr in the water. A
she lay at an anglo of about forty-five deg.,
she was liable at any momeut to turn over.
It seorned dangerous for any one to go on
board to their rcscuo ; but tho officers of
the Carson slopped not to count the chances,
but went to the assistance of the awe-struck
passengers. It would bo impossible to des
cribe tho consternation that prevailed on
her, when the slumbering passonzors fell
the terrible crash, and were so rudely thrown
out of their berths. Men, women and child
ren came hurrying out in their night-clothes,
aud endeavored to crawl on the bridge, or
to get on the Carson. The deckers step
ped off the afterguards onto her, which was
their only mode of escape. In a very short
time, by the coolness and intrepidity of the
officers of both boats, the passengers were
got off the doomed wreck, and placed in a
place of safety. It was then discovered
that, by the upsetting of the stoves, tho boat
had caught fire. Twioe it was subdued.
I went on board of her and saw that the
fire wall around the furnace had fallen
down, and that the wreck of the cabin was
being crushed into tho coals and taking
fire;
At this time there were many half naked
passengers standing on the open lattice bot
tom of the bridge with the angry waters
rushing beneath them, making the head
dizzy to look down upon, and in danger
every moment of falling through. Install
taneotlsly the Afton burst into one sheet of
flumo. Some porson gave tho additional
alarm of powder, aud those whose retreat
was cutoff from shore wero in A most criti
cal situation, as the red hot flume began lo
encircle the Carson. In the common de
struction the passengers became clamorous
for tho Captain to leave, but Capt. Brickie
said he would save every soul before he
left, which he did at iminent rink of losing
his own boat. It scorned for a time that
the passengers had only escaped death on
one boat, lo meet it in a more terrible form
on the one that had come to their rescue.
Just as the last man jumped on her decks
from the burning bridge, the mate succeed
ed in cutting our linos, and we backed out
of reach of the dangerous element. By
this time the boat liad swung under the
bridge straight with the current, and was
held there by her wheolsngninst the bridge;
the flames passing up through it in an im
mense volume, iu about ten minutes the
boiler either exploded or fell in the hold
with a loud noise, then I perceived the
bridge to make a side lurch, and in the
twinkling of an eye, the mighty fabric gave
another heave and fell over sideways a
deafening noise, and was carried down by
the angry flood. And tlion the once
noble and beautiful Effie. Afton, with mag
nificent grandeur iu her fiery shroud, being
revenged in her death as did Sampson by
the destruction bf the cause bf her ruin.
When tho bridge full, the whistles of the
Several boats gave one loud note of joy,
which was taken up by the passengers and
spectators on shore, ioy not for the loss of
the Afton or the biidgc, but that the mighty
Mississippi was once more free ; that the
Unjust embargo was removed, and that
now they could pass on with assurance of
the safety of their lives and property. The
burning hull and bridge passed on down
below Davenport and lodged on the bar,
burned to the water's edge and sunk a to
tal loss.
. There were several interesting incidents
connected with the loss of the boats, one or
two of which I must montion. During the
height of the excitement as 1 passed over
the bridge to go on the Afton, I saw her
chamber-maid sitting on a cross tie of the
bridge, in her night clothes, with a man's
black slouched hat on her head, and hug
ging to her bosom the large Bible belonging
to the boat ; tbe Divine Book being the
only article she saved. There was an old
lady on board in the cabin, about eighty
years old, with the fine intelligence shining
in her eye, and she was being aisled offin
total forgctfulncss of her own danger and
loss. She kept exclaiming, "The poor
captain the poor captain ;" end most de
servedly was Captain Hurd a source of
commiseration, who had (be fruits of years
of toil swept away as if by magic His it
a toilsome occupation, and it is hard to lose
a hard-earned fortune so suddenly. At the
trying moment he moved about calm and
collected, saving the passengers and their
baggage, showing he was worthy of his
noble boat, and deserving of better luck .
All his officers exerted themselves to save
tbe lives of those entrusted to their care.
It is but justice to say that all the steam
boats that were in tbe neighborhood of the
disaster hurried to the spot to render any
assistance in their power. St. Loui Rtp.
Tbe draw of tbe bridge only was destroy
ed lost to the company about ten or twelve
thousand dollars. The boat and cargo
were valued at 150,000.
side of Truth iu every issue.-
No. 11
LATE FROM NICARAGUA,
Total Defeat of tho Costa Ricans!
Their Uctrent to San Jose.
their loss laoo to aooo 1 1
The TraaMt ltoute again Upon.
The steamship Sierra Nevada arrived at
San Francisco bringing news from Xionra
gua to May 23d, more than a month later
than last published.
Retbeat of tub Costa Ricans. It ap
apeare that after the battle of Rivas, an
account of which we received by the lost
steamer, by the way of New York, the Costa
Rican army retreated to thoir own country,
One of tho correspondents of El Kica.
raijutntt says :
"from our scouts from below we are
constantly hearing of the dreadful ravages
caused by disease in the ranks of the Costa
Kican army on their return to .Sin Jose.
Attacked by cholera in its most virulent
and deadly form previous to thoir evacua
tion of Rivas, they have left their dead un
buried, through their haste, in every town
they have passed in the province of Guan
acoste, and from tfhich the inhabitants
have fled in abject fear of the approaching
pest. 1 hey lull in liivas soma twenty-live
and in San Juan over thirty sick to our ten
dor mercies, who are now under medical
treatment in Granada.
LOSS OF THfitCosTA Ricans. It will be
perceived, says El Nicaragueme, that the
enemy have evacuated the State and are
now in Costa Rica. The most reliable re
ports estimate the loss of Gen. Mora at
1200 men, in those who wero killed in bat
tle, wounded and since died, and taken off
by disease.
SctlLESSlNGER SuNTENCEO TO BR SlIOT.
Schlcssinger, whose cowardly conduct nt
Santa Rosa has been so severely censured,
was tried by Court Martial at Granadu, and
sentenced to be shot. He subsequently es
caped.
Movements of General Walker.
General Walker, says El Xitaragueiue,
with the larger part of his army,' left this
city for Virgin Bay, on Tuesday evening,
and arrived at that place at daybreak next
day just six hours after the enemy loft San
Juan del Sur. He found nt Rivas a large
number of the enomy sick and wounded,
togcthor with a letter from Gen. Jose Maria
Canas, commander of the Costa Rican for
ces entrusting these inon to the generosity
of General Walker, nnd proposing, at some
future time to exchange A merican prisoners
for them. 1 hey were taken care of by the
General. General Walkor returned to
Granada on Thursday, and after remain
ing in this city two days again departed for
Virgin, where tho hondquartersof the army
will be temporarily fixed. It will be a
matter of congratulation to our friends in
the United States to learn that the Transit
Route across from San Juan del Norto to
San Juan del Sur has beon reopened, and
will becontinuodso hereafter. The almost
entire strength of tho American foroeis now
stationed on the line of tho Transit.
Gen. Walker has appointed Brigadier
General C. C. Hornsby to tho command of
the Meridional Department, compiising
Guanacosle and Rivas.
The following extracts are fidm the cor
respondence of the San Francisco Herald :
"The Walker Party are In quiet possession or
the country again. The Costa Kicans have re
turned home starliug with 1,700 men, and
reaching Han Jane with leas limn 900 men.
Their lolul low from the invasion of Nicaragua,
from killed, wounded aud disease, amount to little
less than tweuty-threa hundred men. Thii you
may rely upon as true.
"There will be no more fighting In Nicaragua
at least for nix months. The enemy for the present
have enough of "chicken-pie."
IIkau-qcarters, VmoiN Br, May 2-1.
Walker himself is in perfect health, but his
younger brother died a short time ago.
Walker has had at ltivaa a mint obstinate fight.
It took place on Uit 11th of lost April. With
lired troops, after marching all nhjlit from Grana
da, he attacked the enemy; who were fortified
at Kivaa, three thousand strong, many armed wilh
Minis rifles, and fought them alt day and until 11
o'clock at night, when ho had to retreat to Grana
da for ammunition. Walker had only four hun
dred Or five hundred men, and was under every
disadvantage, lie returned from Granada tho
next day on the steamer, umded at Virgin Day to
get in behind the enemy and cut them oil' entirely,
but found that they had made a precipitate retreat
to Costa Kica. As well as can be ascertained
President Mora, who was in command, only got
back into Costa Kica with twolve hundred men, all
told, out of three thousand two hundred, two hun
dred of whom were at Kan Juan and Virgin Kay
during the light at Hivus. The enemy had four
pieces of artillery, all of which they lell at Kivaa,
as also many stund of niuakot and Minis rifles.
They threw thtm wilh their dead down the
well.
Itivas is now deserted, and I expect its former
inhabitants will remove lo this place. Granada
has been very unhealthy, but all the rest of the
country very healthy, scarcely a death occurring
eiccpt at Cntuada.
General Ilonuhy is here, and brings favorable
accounts from the Atlantic Stat.
Col. Wheeler says that our new Minister at
Washington, Padre Vijil, has been received, and
that all is right at last with the United mate.
The port of Greylown is not under blockade,
and has not been.
I forgot to mention that the thirty or forty men
who were and ar stationed at Castillo, attacked
ons hundred and fifty Cools Ricans, who were
cutting a road through to the Ban Juan Kiver lo
take the furl there, and completely deieated mem,
taking from them despatch from Lord Palmer-
stun ottering or promising aid to the Costa Kican
against us.
A company of mluers, with all the necessary
material, quarts mills, etc., bav just coma out,
iniendinc to teat th virtues of lb mine ia the
Clients! district, of which nch brilliant report
have bea written by mineralogists who have re
cently vmud them. A series of petty insurrec
tion, get up by disaffected Semi, aided by arm
and money lurnsmeo Dy ine iota mean, aav
been reoentlv Mipprosaed by our troops in th
moasUui district of Cbontaie, sad xtijij.! mad
of iiJ nnjifsdfi.
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resided In New York, is a topic which line
for the lart few day attracted some atten
tion. Besides' the letter by a trench gen
tleman, which we republished day or two
since, from tho Courier det Etatt 6rni'v
another on the same subject, has just ap
peared In tho Rational InteUiijtnctr, writ'
ten by Rev. C. 9. Stewart, Chaplain in the
(J. S. Nary. Mr. Stewart was Intimately
acquainted tith Louis Napoleon during the
whole period the latter was in this country
having spent with him not hours only, but
days, and On oneoccasion days in succession
in the freedom of nnreslrained conversation;
Mr. Stewart describes him as winning and
agreoable, and occasionally playful, but
perpetually haunted by the idea that Provi
dence had some great destiny iti store tot
him. We copy a part of Mr. Stewart's let
ter :
He was most fondly attached to hit
mothor. When speaking of her the into'
nations of his Voice and hie whole manner
were ofton as tie n lie and feminine al thoseJ
of a woman. It had been his purpose to
spondayenrin making the tour of the
United States lhat he might have a belter
knowledge of our institutions and observe
for himself tho practical system. With this
expedution he consulted me and othera a
to the arrahgerrtout of the route of travel j
se as to visit the different sections of the
Union It the most desirable Season. Bui
his plant were suddenly changed by the in
telligence of the serious illness ef Queen
Hortense, or, as then styled, the Dutchess
of St. Louis at her castle In Switzerland;
I was dining with hiiri the day the letter
conveying this information was received.
Recognizing the writinon tho envelope
as it was handed to him at the table, he
hastily broke the seal, and had scarce glanc
ed over half a page before he exclaimed i
"My mother is ill ; I must sen her. In
stead of a tour of (he States, I shall take
the next packet for England. I will apply
for passports for the continent at every
embassy in London, and If Unsuccessful!
...Ill mm .ton. W u.tlliAii tl.jkn.
will juitnc llljf J fcw uui nimvui tuvtu.
This he did, and reached Arentberg in
time to console by his presence the dying
hours of the e.x-Quccn, and to recoive id
hie bosom Iter last sigh-
After such opportunities of knowledge)
much of the tnitld and henrt and general
character of Louis Napoleon, It was with
great surprise that I for the first time read)
In a distant part bf the world, when he had
become an Knipoi"r, representations In tho
public journals ofhit life in New York (aud
In Now Orleans too, though he never was
there,) which would induce a belief that ho
had been when here, littlo better than a vag
abond low In his associations, intemperat
n his indulgences; Iu both eating and
drinking he was, so fur as I observed, ab
stemious rather than Mf-indulgout. I re
peatedly breakfasted, (liued and supped irt
his company, and never knew him to par.
take of anything stronger than the light
wiue of France and Germany, and of these)
n great hlodcratiutit I have been with
him early and late, unexpectedly as well aa
by appointment, and nover anw reason for
the slightest suspicion of any irregularity
in his habits. It has been said, notwith
standing; that his character was so notorious
that he was not received in society, and
made no respectable ncqunintaiiues. Iff
during his brief stay in the city, at a period
of tbe year when general entertainments
are not usual, he was not met in the self-
constituted beau month of the metropolis
it was his own choice. Within the week of
his arrival cards and invitations were left
for him at his hotel. As a reason for de
clining to accept the last, bo told me ho had
no wish to appear iu what is called sociotyi
but added !
"There arc, however; individuals resi
dent in New York, whose acquaintance t
should be happy to make. Mr. Washing
ton Irving ia one. I have read his Worksj
and admire him both as a writer and a mua j
and would take great pleasure in meeting
him. Chancellor Kent is andther. I have
Studied his Commentaries, think highly Of
them, nnd regard him as the first of yonf
jurists. I would he happy to Know nun
personally."
lie did make the acquaintance both of
Mr. Irving end the Chauccllor, add enjoy
ed the hospitality of one at Sunnyside, and
of the other al his residence in tbwn. lie
saw tome of tho best French sbcioty ef the
city ; and familiar with the historic names
of New Y'ork, availed himwlfof the proflbr-.-ed
civilities of such families as the Haraij-
fltnfn.io tt.A T MtfinrrutnriH ftnrt '
others in like positions. It is not true, '
therefore, that he wae hot received in so
ciety and had no acquaintances of respecta
bility. He visited ia some of oar first fam
ilies in social positions, and was entertained
by some of onr most distinguished citizens.
It is said that he was without means, aed
lived on loans which he never repaid. This
is simj. 'j absurd.