The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-02-21

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memorable conspiracy NJ AAnos BrR8
made the name Of HkHlxAs BLAxEERnAf
sxrr rs familiar rs stbod6uhold wordto -
people Of this country some forty years ago.
His fame, misfortunes and history, enabaimsd
in the gorgeous eloqusnce Of Writ rs still
familiar 10 many, Butwhilst every daclaue.
atory school boy recites with voice altsrna-
ting from 4 shrill treble to . hoarse growing
bass, the glowing extract from the gifted or
ator's famous speech upon the occasion Of
Burr's Trial, none perhaps ever enquired the
fate Of the noble Irishman after the failure Of
Burr,s great conspiracy. When the treach.
ery, heartlessness and villainy Of Burr had
destroyed poor Blannerhassett almost Eden
like palatial home on the Ohio. and involv-
ed the unsuspecting owner in his degradation
and ruin, few inquired his fate and subse-
quent history. = KS a,- g.
HERMAN BLANNERHAssETT all of our read
ers will perhaps recollect, was the son of an
Irish nobleman who emigrated to this coun-
try in 1877. Possessed of ample means, he
purchased beautiful island ON the Ohio
river, and expended nearly hundred thon-
sand dollars in the erection of an edifice re-
markable for its almost Aladdin beauty of
decorations and proportions. The ornamen.
tai grounds in their beauty, and floral and
horticultural ornaments, rendered Banner
hassetts residence an earthly paradise. Sur
rounded by all the appliances of the most
refined luxury, with a magnificent library,
costly furniture, superb paintings, blessed
by the society of refined wife and intelli-
gent children, his wealth and prosperity ex-
cited the admiration and envy Of all who
glided by his residence upon the waters of
the Ohio. Seduced by the eloquence of Burr,
BLANNERHAssETT, at an unfortunate moment,
became the confidante of BURR; and was
as that persons accomplish, arrested, con-
veyed to Richmond, cast into prison, but dis
charged, after the acquittal of the principal
conspirator. 4a.
The pecuniary embarrassments of BLAN-
NERHAssETT pressing heavily upon him, he
was forced to sell his magnificent palace and
estate, and misfortune logged his footsteps,
until he died in Ireland in 1928, broken heart
ed, and almost a pauper. His wife and only
surviving son returned to New YORK in the
year 1881, in very reduced circumstanc es.
The mother died many years ago, and until
few weeks since, the world had forgotten
the once famous BLANsERHAssErT, and
his family
The following history of the son of ,Blan
nerhassett, taken from a recent perfectly re-
liable source, illustrates with melancholy force
the strange and remarkable revolutions of
the wheel of fo;tune, in elevating the lowly,
and also in crushing the children of the rich
in the mire of the Slough of Despond.
few charitable ladies short time since,
visited the FIVE POINTS in New YORK;
that most horrible of modern Alsatias,-
upon an errand of mercy. Here among the
lowest, the vilest, the most wretched of God s
creatures, in damp, low, unfinished, COM
fortress room, they found delicate, refined
looking old man, destitute of every comfort
of life, without sufficient bread or clothing,
forced to associate with the most ruffianly
and unprincipled of the population of NEW
YORK. He was the only child of the once
wealthy and distinguished BLANNERHAssETT.
The son of the man who had set up mer-
chants, patronized literature and the fine arts,
and been courted and honored by thousands,
who had united with Burr to conquer an en-
pire, was found almost starving in cellar in
the vilest portion of New York One alone
had proved faithful to the last of the Blan-
nerhassetts-one alone chung to the last spar
of shipwrecked, broken, forgotten family
An old negro woman, slave of HERMAN
BLANNERHAssETT, in the days of his prosper.
ity,, who had held young BLANNERHAssErr in
her arms, when his father was the affiuent
gentleman and associate of BURR-was found
by the SAMARITANs who visited her master,
devoting all of her remaining strength to her
feeble and helpless master. Forgotten by
the world, this faithful slave afforded to the
SON of the celebrated Blannerhassett-wha
the world had denied him-bread, and an
humble roof to protect him from the incle-
mency of Northern winter. What moral
does this point of the instability and uncer
tainty of worldly wealth and position-the
only surviving son of Blannerhassett, per.
ishing almost for want of the necessaries of
life in FIVE PoINrs, and supported by the
exertions of faithful negro!
MARTLAND,-The prohibitory liquor bill, with va
rious important amendments, was passed by the
Maryland House of Delegates on Saturday last, by
vote OF az ayes to % nays. This bill provides that
the question of prohbitory law shall be referred
to the people.
hoM1cIpE.-John Patrick Murphy was shot
| while near the Howard engine house, Baltimore
Sunday morning about2 o'clock. He died sundav
evening. man. named Martin Shaw, charged
with firing the shot, has been arrested.
1t may be matter ofinterest to some TO know
that the Perham distributing committee finished
numbering the orders for the 100000 gifts on Sat
urday. They then adjourned to New York le,v.
ing two of their number in (,eorgeto,vr to a..