The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-05-12
MAKING, ALIuNG by SUICIDE.

There is a genius up IN Ohlo VINO mas
cute way of making expenses. From a
Louisville paper We learn that short
time since he went to Dayton and regis
tered his name as A. v. Lamartine. lie
represented himself as combining the aris-
tocratic pretensions of countries-in 9TH
err words that he was a relation of the
French poet and an F. I. V. Shortly
after retiring to his room he sent note,
requesting the landlord to send for a
minister, as he was very unwell and did
not expect to recover.
A clergyman and doctor were immedi-
ately sent for, and when they entered the
room found on the table an empty vial,
labeled 2 or. laudanum, and the follow
ing note, which is fully up to the general
standard of suicide literature.
PHILLIPS HOUSE. April, Is 1859.
TO Tie Unfeeling World: Call me not
a selfmumerer, for it is you that has
driven me to this extremity. The pub
lie is my murderer, for it has denied me
business and without that l should be
cast upon the world-a beggar. God for
bid
Quite out Of funds. and no business,
what am | to do? TO beg No, am
too spirited. To defraudmy fellow man ?
No, my conscience will not permit me-
Death, then, is a welcome expedient.
Yes let me die and be forgotten. Like
poor Byron, Il do not regret what /
have done so much as what might have
dore." l have been an easy going mel
ancholy man-engrossed with books and
not with money" loving not man the
less, but nature more u
Virginia is my nativity-Cleveland my
adopted home. AS my name indicates,
| an of French extraction. My family
was good, and l, tenderly raised. ] am
an orphan--few relations.
Bury me here, and should | ever have
tomb, let this be my epitaph:
Ear from home, in land of Stran-
gers, he died--preferring death to dishon-
or !"
Broken hearted Herbert, gallant and
immortal Rusk; pathetic McClung, (who
sung" o. death ! come soon !")---I
leave this cold, selfish ball of corruption
and depravity, to join you. | have had
this in mind for some time.
| have many warm friends, to whom |
tender last and final adieu! have rec
from the best Of men, to
whom | am grateful.
AS to death | am not afraid to die. /
never was calmer than | am now. d
could write much more hut | will stop.
One word, however-the last | shall ever
write" Agnes !"
ALBERT VICToR LAMARTINE.
The unhappy man was nursed, condol-
ed with, and prayed over till he recover
ed and repented Il then the sympathising
friends who had been instrumental in res
cuing him from self destruction kindly con-
Iributed $25 to pay his expenses to st.
Louis, end he left on the Indianapolis
train, with free pass, just before the ar
rival of the conductor Of the Sandusky
train, who informed his benevolent
friends, that he had only few days be-
fore almost committed suicide at that
place, under almost precisely the same
circumstances, and that forty dollars had
been raised for him by sympathising
friends there
The poor fellow is now probably lying
at the point of death at some other place
WAR UNAvoIDABLE.-The editors of
the New York Commercial advertiser
have been permitted to make the follow
ing extract from private letter, written
by an American gentleman now on the
continent Of Europe, to his friend in the
city of New York, the writer being in a
position to observe correctly the current
of affairs:
"In spite of the congress to be assem-
bled, there will be no peace. Neither
France nor Austria wants peace. The
peace party of Europe is confined to the
Derby ministry in England, to the anti
Austrian Regency in Berlin, and to the
Stock Exchange. The Derby ministry
is now powerless, Russia will remain neu-
trail until Austria is attacked at home,
and Prussia aims at nothing but the hui
initiation of Austria.
War is necessary even in financial
point of view. 1t is the only means of
avoiding national bankruptcy, the only
decent excuse for not paying the interest
on the public debt in Austria, or making
a new loan in France. The war, how
ever, may be confined to Austria and
France. In no case will the Emperor of
France provoke coalition"
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A THOUGHTFUL FUGITlvE.--Wm. M.
TYLER, one of the prisoners who recantlv