Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-02-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
TErE IEoMrcrDy: ux WASHING

TON.
!. Miss Harris, who, IL will be remembered.
sho. dead Treasury cicrs; named Bur
roughs, OH Monday last, IS receiving large
share Of III. sympathy OF the WashingtoG
public. She Is vcfy warmly defended for
The course she t0ps., and ha, tiecA visited III
her imprsOlUepi 10y many prominnnt
ladies and gentleman. among them Mrs.
Cornelius Neauril. Senator Hale, and the
Representatives from Iowa, the native State
of Miss Harris. The reporter OF the wash
ington ChiV"tcjG has also visited her, and
in the issue uI that iorrnal Yesterday, tells
what he saw and heard. lie found her i'll Il
cell of the ordinary kind appropriated to
criminals OF high grade. 1t Mas barely
furnished, and though there was fire in it,
it bore a general alr OF chcericssncss. Miss
Harris APPEARED ho iu severe mental
trouble, and the marks OF ii were already
visible after but II icws shuurs' confinement,
but it also evidenced that she had long sui-
iered under the pain OF what she conceived
to be grievous wrong, until her phy ysylsquc
was impaired, ana her mental nature that
of the mouomauiac. She seemed Older than
she said she was; WAS OF Father slight but
good figure, with II wcll-iurnIrd head, fine
hair. cut short aHu Worn IN curs, which the
sunlight taught he eye to look upon as
black, and dark hazel eyes; she was graceful
in manner, and ihtel1iccut in look and
speech, though she has had but few educa-
tiunul advantages. Her language was, how
ever, concise and good. The reporter, 10y
earnest expressions of sympathy, obtained
from her story g,Y,n %ith touching
arllessncss, and interrupted with many sobs.
1t is, in substance. as follows
My name is Mary Harris; ;im the diurgE-
]
ter Uf William Harris, Of BrilnGt0n Iowa;
nv parents are IRISH, and are quite poor; am
nineteen years old; about seven years ago
first became acquainted with MIR. Burroughs;
was then in store IN Bur!ngton; Mr.. B.
was residing the:o: he came frequently to
see me ut my fathers house, from an carly
period in our acquaintance until he left Bur
/ lngt on; was very fond of him, and for
! long time frequently sat in his Ia; in the
/ presence OF my parents; lac always manifest
cd great interest in me us grew Older,
and his alterations beia.ac more oI the char.
acter of II sui,or, my parents opposed them,
and continually told me that lns family was
too high tor Iue that he would never marry
me- and that | should not keep company
with him. disrcgUrded them, persisted IN
seeing him, and became mnre'and more at
tached TO him. When hc lefC Burlington |
did not ask to write to me, but lic had not
been long gone when | received letter
| from him, which | answered, and Il cores
pondence interrupted by my retraining writ
ing. But he would perseyore in renewing
| it until wuuld be persuaded to write 10
him. Before he left Burlington he asked
me to marry Inn | refused because :eit
| that was too Young to dlsohey my parents
in such matter. He always protested his
determination to make me his wife. About
two years ago he wrote me that he was
| raising men Iar the war, and expected to
get a commission, and then he was deter
mined to marry me. Not long after re-
ceiyed a letter from Miss Dcviin, who keeps
a store on Clark street, Chicago, requesting
me to come there, saying tnat she was II
friend uf Mr.. burroughs, and l could see
him there. About twenty months ago l
went to that city. Meantime Mr.. Burroughs,
who had raised II company ut troops, inlur-
ell his ankle, could not 80 to the tield, und
resigned his commission. l saw him tIe-
quently, and received notes from him re-
gularly, until within week OF his mar
rage. In August or September | received
u note which Miss Deylin said was from
Burroughs, asking me to meet him in one ol
the MOI oiorious houses OF Chicago. Although
| did not know who Mas the writer, at hei
suggestion l answered it, and u friend ii
the post office watching TO see who came
; tor it, gave Il description o: him, much re
sembling that q! Burroughs. | then deter
mined to go to the house appointed will
Aliss Deylin. The people there said th'
gentleman We inquired Tor was not in, bu
that he had waited there before asking tha
no one should answer the dooI-Dell but him
self. II.G
The description she gave of the mai
mada me sure tia. II Mas Burroughs, oe