Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1835-07-23
MADAME PARTHENE JOHNSON.

AS any iurtner news respecting Inc re.
cent elopement of this lady, for whose
charms and superior grace. the warm
and genial regions Of the earth have vim.
dicated and accomplished" so much in the
estimation Of Col. johnson and the Editor
Of the Bangor Republican, must be highly
interesting to the party. we lose no time
IN laying before them the following inter-
esting piece Of information upon the sub
ject. II is from letter Of the Columbus
correspondent Of tho Cincinnati Gazette,
and dated
COLUMBUS, July 6, 1885.
Columbus was quite in an uproar on
Wednesday last. and exhibited specimen
of practical an,algamation. in high life
Madame Cornelia Parthena, the reputed
wife Of col Richard NJ. johnson, the con-
vention candidate for the second office in
the gift Of the American people. and one
other Of her ot0n color, of the African line,
were the heroines Of the farce; together
with two young Indians, fresh from the
Choctaw agency. The four had set out
together on marrying match. or match
es. The Indians left the colonel's resi-
dence three days previous TO the wife Of
Tecumseh and the neice Of the colonel's
first wife. The ladies' had their horses sad
died under pretence Of riding some FIVE or
Elk miles to procure a supply of s,rawbcr
rles, with which to rcgale the palate Of
the 81 Hero OF the Thames" They joined
the young Indians, who had conveyed
their trunks with them, for the purpose of
facilitating the elopement /; and the whole
company were making good their retreat
TO Canada, when they were oy ertaken -
One or two representatives Of the Johnson
family arrived in his city, and offered
reward Of FIVE hundred dollars for the ap-
prehension Of Madam Parthene, Cor John
SOM and her adopted niece. They were
pursued by the Sheriff of Franklin county
the kentuckians before mentioned, and
others; captured at Medina-examined
before a magistrate, and the Indians per-
'ntted TO continued their journey. The
ladies were brought back TO Columbus,
and deposited for safe keeping ia room
of one Of the hotels. under the care of the
nephew Of col Johnson, who secured the
door by locking it, while he went below
to wash. The bolts and bars could not
confine the sable appendage Of the family
of renowned hero and military chief.
tain" They both leaped from the window
OF the second hotel, unhurt, and made
their way to the woods, about daylight
They were pursued, Madame Parihene
retaken, and placed in Columbus Jail for
safe keeping but the neice escaped the
hunters. A writ ofhabeas corpus was pro.
cured for the release Of the colonel's lady
from her gloomy residence, by some Of
our citizens MIR. Johnson's nephew get
ting wind Of this, gave an extra aisw
ance" fee Of one hundred and fifty dollars
to the stage company. to convey the fair
lady and her suit to Cincinnati, by cypress
in fifteen hours. II was done. with an in.
junction to the first driver to be in Jeffer
son. fourteen miles west, in one hour or be
discharged. am told that the distance
was performed in four minutes less than
the hour,
When passing through Columbus. on
their way north. the party stopped at the
same hotel to which they had been return.
ed, on their homeward passage. A piano
forte being open in the parour, the accom-,
plished Madame johnson amused herself
by performing fewEhoice and select pie
ces OF music aud evinced by her CONVEX
satioD, that she was. by education, supe
rior to tho ordinary slaves Of the South
They were termed "parlour servants" BY
their pursuers