The St. Landry whig., 1844-11-07
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The following aNiGle, copied from the Louis.
Vile Register, was a~avritten by a gentleman
says that paper, 'ofptigh responsibility" who
had an opportunity oIiseconing acquainted with
the facts related in h1aiommunicatiJA /:
'sWho was BlenneIhasset2 and pihat has be-
come of himl Having lately seenprp the New
York and Philadelphia papers sevefai fictitious
notices of this celebrated personage &c, is the apol-
ogy which the writer Sof this article offers for
giving what he below to be the true history of
this mans career and final exit from the troubles
Of this w~orld-which willhe much easier to do
than to write a highly colored picture Of things
which never existed axcept in the fancy of some
novel readeI. The authority for the facts herein
disclosed b5iSthe writer, is believedt to be authen.
tic, and of ;he highest character. In the first
place, whosKas Blcmerhasseta lii answer to
this q%uestioI our Information is, that it was an
assumed maine byj3n individual whose true name
was LcwisEarr, Who was born in Ireland, as
has alway%bean lated. His family were highly
espectablsssfe,alJhn elder brother filed the sta.
in the Eas' ri I'll sign which place young Lewis
went as a., 'Iln3i s%n.in. engineer department,
where he iILllna ned about tive years, in which
time he was en- Jagged in several scrapes and IN.
trigucs, which finally compelled him to resign
his commission and seek q place Of refuge in
the city of Kingston, in the Island of jamaica,
where he readlaw and commenced the practice,
and also engaged in merchandising, by which
means, and a secret connection with the blitca-
ncers and pirates who lowered round the West
India Islands aud the coast Of Mexico, he amass.
ed a splendid fortune, which he spent with equal
p~rolusion. While employed in this business, he
frequently visited Mexico, and became acquaint-
cd with many of the leading men who were pre-.
pairing the way for q revolution, which Carr
forcsaw must break out in a short time and be.
ing q bold, unprincipledt foreigner, he, was per-
%petually engaged la difficulties Of one kind or
another, until, shortly before lie came to The Uni.
ted States, an intrigue with the wife Of one Of
the wealthy citizens of Kingston n Sic TINT place
too hot for him, and he sold ont his property and
came to the United States. lie X lded at New
Orleans, and went thence to lLsSaisville, KY,
whore, or in the section, he purcI ascd some pro
pcrty, and finally located himseliGbn the celebfa,
ted island in the Ohio river, ncnr Marietta
: This move took place about t~he'ryear 1903 Oh
1904. When he reached New Orleans he as
sumed the name'of Blennerhasset. The beau
: tifIl and accomplished lady who accompanies
andliyed with him was not his wife. She wa
: young, and had many fascinating accomplish
2 ments, which made her more worthy Of Blenner
hasset thnn he was of her. Col. Burr first saw
= Blenneriasset early in the year 1905, and in
! stead Of Burr seducing him, there eau be nj
d doubt That Colonel Burr received from him sncl
t., an account of Mexico, its wealth and disposition
for revolution, as seduced him into the ~prolectd
invading it and the question as TO whom shotll
be the great man was one reserved by Levi
: Carr (Benncrhassct) until future events shoul
devclope themselves, as Carr always declared [
his friends that he intended Col. Burr as til
chiefof the mill airy which was to advance hir
* TO the supreme command in MEXICO.
The movements Of Col. Burr and Blenncrhas
set in the United Stases during the years $50
and IS, arc already known, and o%fcoursc, nee
al not he detailed in this statement,
~ After their projected invasion of Mexico ha
a. failed, and Blcnncrhasset had broken up at til
NJ Island, he returned to New Orleans, where i
in left the lady who had been his companion, al
he embarked for the Island Of New Providence
:" one ofthc Bahamas in the West Indies, and lie
tied at Nassau, its capital, and
g the practice of law. In a short time he obtail
c. &c a lucrative practice, and married d lady
one of the most respectable families in tn
j., place, and was soon after disturbed by a Wis
from his Blennerhasset Island companion, wi
he gave him much trouble before he could get h,
es 10 retire in peace which she did and soon ali,
~ returned to the United States, and is now b
"a licved to be a resident of the Southern State
When settled in Nassau, he resumed his trl
name of Lewis Carr, and soon acquired q han
lsh some living but his restless spirit and iRtFiguil
per disposition kept him constantly involved in diff
20 c%ulties, and his treatment Of his wife was cru
in the extreme yet, by taking sides with 4
h. government, he was elected TO the assembly