Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-22

: EXCITEMENT IN MONTPELIER, NT.-During
the past week articles have appeared in two
or three of the Boston papers, stating that a
Professor B. Melchior" had been forced bT
a mob to leave Montpelier, Vt, under the
penalty of being shot if he remained or at
tempted to return after he had left. The
reasons given for this alleged treatment OF
him were that he had contracted a secret
agreement of marriage with wealthy young
lady, and that the /" discarded gay lovers
OF Montpelier took this method to wreak
their vengeance upon him The story bore
such an air of improbability on the face Of it
that we wonder how any one could have be-
lieyed it. Mr. Hiram Atkins has sent let
ter to the Courier-one of the papers which
published MelchIor's story-giving the facts
of the casea follows;
"In the Courier Of last Saturday appeared
an article from a person styling himself Prot.
B. Melchior OF Montpelier, Yt., which is a It's
sue Of falsehoods. That man came to Montpe-
ler POOR and destitute, pretending TO be q loyal
refugee from the South. The rector Of Christi
Church presented his case to the charitable;
was induced to aid him 10 scholars in French
and drawing through the .fTgus and Patriot;
the Masonic fraternity interested them7elves in
his behalf ; a furnished room was given him
his board paid, and the most strenuous efforts
made to get him pupils, that he might earn his
own livelihood eventually.
Among these pupils was bright, interesting
Miss Of fourteen to fifteen years, belonging to
one Of our best families, anu she 1t IS Who is the
young lady he claims to have been married to.
The facts are that he grossly irsulted, and at
tempted her ruin, while giving her a lesson in
drawing on Monday Of last week, locking his
door ere he tried to thus f0ully wrong guieless
girl Of tender years For this he was WaIted on
by two OF his best frienis-men who bad done I
all possible to befriend him-and told, that hav-
ing proved himself O SEQ IElrel, lie must leave /
town, which he did
All his talk about contract Of marriage. Sc
eret marriage discarded lover destruction
Of my things, intense excitement 'meraced |
to be shot mot permitted to see my wife, nor
her parents, Ior any friends, nor even collect |
my dues etc. is all as false as the heart Of the
scJunirel who wrote it.
He had no things, the very clothes he were |
having been gwen him here there was no e1-
element; he may thank fortune that he did not
see the parents Of the Mss lie attempted TO
wrong. else he had not been alive he has net
a friend here it is not probable the men who
waited on him we're discarded lovers, both hay-
ing been married about as many years as the
Miss had lived and he had no dues, being IN
debt to every man who would trust hlm Prof
B. Melchior' is an imposter, a sponge, auI
villain who Is going about the country imposing
upon the unWary and the charitable. Words
are unable to describe the dcprayity Of the man,
and the public should be on their guard against
his wies, as be evidently intends to get his liy-
ing by some other means than honest labor
More than that, he vii, ASSASSIN Ike, stab BIS
best friends in their vitlls, being an ungrateful
wretch. There was 10 mob in his case, 10 ex-
citement no violence, ami no injury done to his
person property, he had none