Washington telegraph., 1850-07-10

10 see tne rum mace.
The drunkard's home! the rock grt strand
Where honor shpwrecke ed lies,
The den where Murder dies hand
Where Virtue, poisoned dies;
Wnere Vice spreads round its filthy slime,
Where falsehood forms her lair,
The haunt of Infamy and crime,
OF Madness and Despair!
The drunkard's home! ye gen'rous youth,
Yet from intemperance free,
Atte nd the warning voice Of truth,
And from the poison flee:
Touch not the cup of liquid fire,
Beware o: habits chain,
Quench the first spark of wild desire,
And spurn the damning bane.
A STRANGE SToRY-SkeIeton fottna
an NeU York-ROneance Of OIden
Times.-The New York Sunday Atlas
of the I'd inst, gives us the following:
A year ''agone'-we quote the phra-
seoiogv of one of the ''old masters =
Major Jonas Bartlett of tine New York
Dragons, took possession of the venera-
BILE mansion which stands at the corner
of Broadway and Battery Place, and
which had been, for five anterior years,
the residence of Mayor and exMayor
Mickle. The property, canonized as it
was, by events connected with the war
of the Revolution. was then the property
of Mr. Joseph Palmer, bu; it has since
passed into the hands of MIR. James Ray
nond, the proprietor of the Broadway
Theatre, and one of the wealthiest men
in the Union. MIR. Raymond liked the
property and the spot on which it stands;
and, so he purchased it for 6fly-four thou
sand dollars, and leased 1t to Major Jo-
mas Bartlett, of the New York Dragons,
whe now occupies it, and will, very
speedily make it one of the most mag
llifcent hotelsin the city.
So much by the way of exordium;
now for the two first acts and the pro-
logue of the drama. Since the first of
April last, Major Bartlett has been busiy
engaged i'll. changing the condition and
character of La MAJ Sonde Ia ReUoiu-
tl0n-in cornmon parlance, the Wash
qngt0n-and. whilst thus engaged, the
day before yesterday, excavated from be-
meath a subterranean vault, the bones of
a human being. TIE excavators were
at once paralyzed; and the most intense
excitement pervaded the locality, till the
following eciairciSSenzent was made by
the venerable lean de LIE Cruir, one of
the oldest inhabitants of our city, who is
now i'll the nlnety-seventh year OF his age.
Monster Jean LIE Cruir says that he
we'll recol!ects the time when the "hu-
man form divine" to which these bones
IoIon,,al laNoc;tol thou
laid when found They belong to the
MurchionesS des Maizeam1. a celebrated
French beauty, who, in the latter days
of Louis XIV, was the pride and boast Of
the court of Versailles. In consequence
of latsoA with the young DUke de Ber-
RE- she was obliged to fly from Paris; and,
Eeachlng Londou, placed herself under
the guardianship of Major General Bur
goyne, and accompanied ham to America.
Not long after her arrival in the then col
ony of New York, she attracted the at
rention of an eminent officer of the
American army, the bearer of flag OF
truce TO tue British camp, who seduced
her from her fealty to her lord, and led
captive her affections. In consequence
of this unhappy state of affairs, one OF
the aids of General Burgoyne was sent
to New York, with directions to chal-
lenge the seducer to mortal combat. The
challenge was accepted; and the parties
met and fought On the esplanade of
rampant that then stood where the man.
sion of MIR. Stephen Wilmer now stands.
AT the first fire, the British officer fell
mortally wounded.
The result of the affair had such all
effect on the sensitive mind of the beau
tifu. MarchionesS deS Mdieeau1, that
she committed suicide by swallowing
large dose of Prussic acid. What is now
the Washington or La MaaS0n de ld
RerOlutlOn, was then the headquarters
of Major General Putnam; and, TO avoid
the indignation of that heroic and gal
liant soldier, who, it was well known.
would vent righteous Indignation. If he
were apprised of the tragical fate OF the
MarchiOneSS deS Maaoeamc. he was
made 10 believe that she had made
clandestine escape to the army OF Genef'
al 0urgoyne. when, in fact, her remains
We're deposited beneath secreat vault,
under what is now the "Washington" =
now owned by Mr. Raymond, and occu-
pied by MAJOR Bartlett. One OF the
bones of the ilI-fated Marchioness is now
before Us; it is the bone that united the
elbow with the shoulder; and, as we con-
template it, we are reminded of the Ian
guage of the immortal poet. when he ex-
claimed,
"To what base uses we must come at
last
The entire skeleton, it is expected, will
De recovered, and may be seen for tew
days at the "Washington."
"Do you believe in the free expression
OF opinion?" "Yes, sir, universal tolera-