New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-07-16
The Blonnt and peIlvlere Sc.

From the New York Times Of the 9th we extract
the following:
The anticipated hearing of the charge made against
Capt. DeRiYere did not come OFF before Judge Ogden
OF the Supreme Court, sitting at Bergen j.. as the
counsel of DeRiviere did not apply for an immediate
examination. Col. Blount was in Court, but none of
the other parties were. The reason assigned for the
nonappearance of DeRiYiefe was stated to be his a
prehensOn Of discharge and immediate Te.arrest to
be carried back to Louisiana to answer criminal
charge growing out Of this same affair." Judge Ogden
noticed the statements in the papers in relation to
the arrest of DeRivere, for alleged ofense in
HOh0ken, ard his detention in hotel rather than in
the county jail as the commitment of the Justice re-
quired. The alleged conduct of the officer in thus
treating the prisoner was animadVerted upon, and
determination eYinGed to adhere strictly to the law
when the facts came to the knowledge of the Court.
Officer McD0nOugh, who had DeIsiviere n custody
has since been relieved of the charge as 1t is said
De Rvere deposited cash for the 81 900 bail required
and officer McDOnoagh went his surety. 1t is re.
ported that there was some laundering in the pro-
curement of the requistion for De Riyere and that
being thus at liberty, he rode into the country yes
terday afternoon, to see Miss Blount whose residence
is kept secret. He returned in the evening and
walked about Hoboken.
Mrs. Blount sent recently to her husband for her
trunks, but did not obtain them, and she now pub
fishes the following statement, in response to the
account heretofore made in favor Of her husbands
course
HoBoKEN, N, J., July s, 1868.
SirESIy name and that Of my daughter have been
so often before the public during the past few weeks
not only in scraps OF socdled news but in editorial
articles of greater less length based of course by
whomsoever written, on the one-sided statements Of
my husband, Col. Blount, up to this time uacontra
dicted by me, and upon papers which he is pleased
to term documentary evidence, trumped up and
shown or caused to be shown by him to the gentle
men of the press that shall be compelled to give to
the public, although reluctantly, my own version Of
this sad affair Persistent silence, on my part under
the circumstances, would naturally be regarded as
negative admission by me OF the correctness of the
false statements which Col. BlOant has thought pro.
per to cause to be printed, rejecting upon me- his
wife, my dear child, and oh, if he could only know
it, on himself.
AS for myself, assure you sir, that ! should not
put myself to the trouble Of writing single line in
my own defense; not that am Indifferent to the
opinion OF my friends, but know their opinion of
me to be based upon too solid q foundation to be
shaken by the attacks OF Col Bount. 1t would be
as ridiculous for to deny to those who have known
me from girlhuOd the truth OF Col. BlOunts state
ments as for you, sir to write grave and labOred
denial of charge Of petit larceny brought against
You by some wrong-headed political opponent, with
out even a shadow upon which to base his senseless
accusation repeat sir, that it is not necessary for
me to justify myself to my friends and my instincts,
my education my tastes, and my associations as an
American lady. all combine to make me shrink from
obtruding purely personal matters the public; but
my love for my dear child, and my sense of what
conceive to be my duty to her, compared to which,
In strength ana intensity all Otnef elements OF my
being are as ma tsrd seed to mountain, impel me
to ask through the columns Of your paper suspen-
sion of public opinion until after my side of the story
has been heard. With your permission, Mr. Editor,
| will, in few days, Gas soon as my health and
strength will permitl prepare for your paper a de-
tailed account of this unfortunate case from the time
Capt De RYiere was first introduced into our family
in Mobile, up to the hour of my writing.
in the meantime, sir may beg to be relieved from
the incessant solicitations for interviews with which
am beset byreporters for the press2 Suchof those
yonng gentlemen have chosen to see, were polite
and respectful; but although well meaning they are
sometimes careless and do irrepaiable njury-unin
teRtonay of course, but none the less effectively
Although the youth Of these gentlemen, and the inn
maturity of theireXperience render them undesirable
cate those involved in this case, l do not indeed
wish to see any one until after my statement shall
have appeared Persons, of whatever mental ealibre
who have read only Col. Blounts statements, must
know, be more or less preindieed against me. | do
not therefore, wish to see any one, under such dis.
advantage After | shall have made my statement,
Col Blount and will be on an equal footing and
then, if any of the responsible editors of the daily
papers-wel known gentlemen, whom it is unneces-
safy for me to mention and whose positions are so
well established that their names are passwords TO
respectable s0cety,-eVen without the usual farmaty
of an Observation-Disclosures to call upon me- and see
for themselves whether or not have what Col
Blount singulary denominates mental disemper,8
shall be most happy TO see them.
With great respect,
ENfLY j. BLoUNT.