Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-28
Captain Henri ArnouId De Riviere.

This individual some time ago so distjn-
guished in this city, on the strength of his
previous French-Zouave-Crimea distinguish
meuts, is now fairly notorious. We publish
ed, few days ago, the particulars of his
arrest on charge of bigamy-he being
taken on board the mailboat on arriving here
from Mobile-all on the strength of dispatch
from a gentleman whose wife and daughter
were the companions of his very suspicious
looking aid anti-military Highland of his
being liberated by Justice Barnett upon fur
nishing bail of $1,000 to appear before that
functionaIy when his accuser should reach
the city and be prepare to confront him.
This was on Friday last Since then, We
have forbOrne making any remark or pub
fishing any of the current rumors in regard
to the affair, in respect to the feeling of the
gentleman who was so foully treated, and in
the belief that he might possibly come up
with De Riviere and arrange matters with
him. amicably or otherwise without resOrting>
to the publicity of the courts. But now De
Riviere has firmly established his turpitude by
iguomnous flight, and the gentleman in per-
suit of him, in his natural anxiety to recover
his wife and daughter, who have disappeared
with the Captain, is no longer diffident of
publicity. This gentleman is Mr.. BlOunt, a
member of the bar, and one of the most res
pectahle citizens of Mobile.
De Rivere's story to Justice Barnett, made
was that he never had been married-that The
woman reported to be his wife was only IA
LOrete, whom he had brought from France and
passed as his wife. We have, however, been
shown the documents, proving that last win
ter. in New York, he was married to res
pectable young lady in one of the Catholic
churches of that city, and that that lady, his
injured and deserted wife, is now residing in
Philadelphia, as anxious as any one to know
what has become of him.
AS to what strange fascination this epau-
letted LOthario exercised, in order to win a
respectable lady and her respectable daugh-
ter to desert home, friends, everything,
in order to be the companions of his guilty
and disgraccful fight from Mobile, and
from this city, we can offer
no surmise. 1t has placed an estimable
gentleman in a most distressing and humi- |
hating position before the public-a posi- |
ton which entities him to the sympathy |
of all who despise villainy, and their aid in
bringing to justice the viper who bit him.
De Riviere was arrested on Friday morning.
That evening he was released on bail. That |
night he took the ladies from the Verandah, |
where they had stopped since his arrest, up
to Carrollton. After that nothing was seen |
of them, nor has anything been heard of them |
since, although the sharpest police in town
has been on the hunt for them. Mr.. Blount |
Hid not arrive till Monday. He is yet here, |
in the hope of obtaining some clue to the |
of his wife and daughter. and in |
the hope of bringing to justice the villain |
who has treated him shametully. We |
should add that the gentleman who signed |
De Riviere's appearance bond for $1,000, is
also very al Z u to gain some tidngs of him
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