The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1862-01-08

~et~t - ii~SSo2' ClIdotstuItl ana by the
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Her neghbors, Messrs. H. NJ Summers and Thomas
Mcclellan; her physician DR. Fenner; her agent Mr. Todd
and great many others we're summoned to testify to
her good conduct, and her humane treatment of her
servants but the court was perfectly satisfied of the fact
before half of them had been examined and gave her an
honorable acquittal As a matter of course undersuch
/ circumstances, she gould not have ran away to New
York and forfeited her bonds She received her dis
charge on the 28th of February and remained in New
! Orleans for three months afterwards
The secret history of that charge was this The slave
children the natural sons of man who had tried
IN VAN to purchase hem and he originated and sus-
tanned thus unghteous prosecution for the sole purpose
OF inducing the writer to sell them which the very base
ness OF this conspiracy resolved her not to do Imme-
datey after her arrest this person set to work insidi
onsy and ndustrously to roll the tide Of prejudice
against her and the press, taking up the hue and crv
IRON the common street wmor as it did more recently
and quite as absurdy regarding the vague suspicion Of
her having poisoned Mr. Stephens and absconded with
the whole of his fortune reGchoed the avalanche Of
SANDER and vitUperaOn. Without waiting for the ref-
taton she so triumphantly made when it came to an
investigation OF facts, the papers bazoned to the world
monstrouS story of crime that was copied all over the
Union as pleasant Sunday reading
The connection was Of course choice food for the
New ork Tribune which hashed it uD and cooked it
over in us own unctous style point an abolition argu-
meht, and one morning whole page of that worthy
journal was filed with the dongS of Mrs Iiney twisted
l Il IL ~
t; 49, S'e 'I'oIal conIoIlIohs gwen 1t by the
r, loror i5 '5t Cie9cely cy, ana ACCOMPANIED
from its nra.sIros. 'oo"'on ooc'Flhe
MA ,,,;tt,lI ~ 2,tI ''o''.'.
oQt of Fa o. SI "ls''Ig' SoG,'' came on '''e
+o ",' , iooJ FROM Ihe IoHoWhS report OF
In -, s'.I oGG'' proven 10 oe u WIN be seen
u'eu ol tNe "rSV nasty
FlpsT Dpsrn7 1''l,,I, r,I,nr ~o'oIis M
i''Sl Di'IEtI OouFF-Jud8e Robertson.-ln this
,r crno i,y % ro ,e g'+g o. tS r A. ankey charged
wv" " S"o l'ulG save polS VINO was tHed at
H. ~ 'eo.i' ""s compete exposition OF
,,t;. &c 7ttlohs ""t 1tle prosecution proved
gu i'"''e' 'oe was "o"ofaoy acquitted by the
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NJ s'''s 1't''@ H'' HIhhieF was conducting his bust
I ,'I ~ 5F Guy 0 Ne" YORK ana this cruel notoney
"a -" NY "l.' crazy. ne neglected ms business
%' 9Cl''e 'ne .Icun oI reckless dissipation Alter
e s "iis wa "Eq"Ctd ne wrote Tor her come to him
sue t'n"'g'aGe3 so'u er i0rtuFe aud as soon as she
Coiu he 't olHef necessary arrangements, she went
m on ana joined him IN Ne" orh N the month OF JGn".
G ,,l io"uu n'ln wreck Ia business, BODY and mind
"oSe He" SI"PeI' ne Siii, ~ the desPondency OF
y" sl'I. nave r"Heu nae. All that VIE could
w. "u 'lote' sue eAefleu HefSe 10 90, but mental de-
ii"G ~ uH1etEeu hlN mat ne could not with
'i ilSe.' from 'ne temporary iorSetlunesS that DIS
Sil"uoI' oIou3Ht' ana an tas time hs wife patiently
r;,I SsI.'"5 N van! 10 WIN MN back to ambition
" ilu 'v' money ne again started III BUSINESS and the