New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-05-24
The Daughter OF Aaron burr.


Correspondence Of the Pennsylvania Enquirer.l
An item OF news just now going the rounds relates
that sailor who died recently in Texas, confessed
on his deathbed that he was one OF crew OF mutt.
neers Who some forty years ago. took possession of
| brig on its passage from Charleston to New York,
and caused all the officers and passengers to walk the
plank For forty years the wretched man had carried
about with him the dreadful secret and died at last
| in an agonyof despair.
What gives this story additional interest is the fact
that the vessel referred TO is the one on which Mrs.
| Theodocia Allston the beloved daughter OF Aaron
Burr took passage for New York. for the purpose of
meeting her parent in the darkest days OF bis exist
ence, and which, never having been heard Of was
supposed to have fogndered at sea.
The dying sailor protested TO remember her well !;
said that she was the last who perished and that he
never forgot her look of despair she took the last
step from the fatal plank On reading this account
regarded 1t as fiction but, on conyersing to-day
with officer of the navy, be assures me of its pro-
bable truth, and states that one OF his passages
home some years ago his vessel brought two pirates
in irons who we're subsequently executed at Norfolk
for recent offences, and who, before their execution
| confessed that they had been members of the same
crew, and participated in the murder Of Mrs. Aston
aud her companions.
What chiefly caused my sceptcism on the subject
was the fict that Mr. Parton the recent biographer
OF Burr leaves the fate of the daughter enveoped in
mystery and closes the record OF her noble and beau
tiful life with her embarkation on board the brig
which he declares has never since been heard from
am at a loss now to understand, ii the confession
undoubtedly was, how Mr.. Parton could have failed
among his extensive aud industrious researches, to
discover the fact. Whatever opinion may be enter
tanned OF the father, the memory OF the daughter
must be revered Of the loveiest and most
excellent OF American women, aud the revelation of
her untimey fate only serve to invest that mem.
DRY with more tender and melancholy interest.
STEAM ELECTRO MoTIvRs.-An interesting expert
ment Is now being tried on the Fitchburg Railroad
that OF increasing the tractive power OF an engine
by electro magnetism. The driving wheel of COM
mon locomotive is surrounded just above the rail
BY coil OF insulated copper wire, with powerful
Groves battery attached. The battery is placed on
the tender. The experiments thus far show that the
tfactve power is increased oue-third The engine
was chained to stump the other day and it required
thirty-hse pounds pressure Of steam to make the
wheels slip with the magnetism on but with that off
they slipped with twenty pounds. The principle is.
that the wheels, when magnetized attract the rail-
The experiment, thus far, has been satisfactory and
the promises are, that lighter engines may be made
to do the work OF heavy ones by this means. The
cost OF maintaining the battery is not great
$& Boston Herald
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