Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-04-08

Committee on Credentials was appoint
ed, and the Convention took a recess
for half an hour.
Dlckcus-SomethIng about his Family
History.
TAvisrocx HotsE, TAvIsrocx SQUARE,
LONDON, W. E., May 90, ls5S.--Ml DEAR
ARTHUR: You have not only my full
permission to show this, but beg you
TO show it to any one who wishes to do
me right, or to any one who may haVe
been mislcd into doing me wrong.
Faithfully yours, Q. D.
TAvIsrocx HOUSE,, TAvIsrocx SQUARE,
LONDON, W. E., Tuesday, May %, 1858.
TO ARTHUR Smith, Esq: Mrs. Dickens
and | have lived ~unhappily together for
many years. Hardly any n who has
known us intimately can fail to have
known that we are, in all respects of
character and temperament, wonderful
" uusuited to each other. ] suppose
that no two people, not vicious in them
selves, ever were joiued together who
had q greater difficulty in understanding
one another, or who had less in common.
An attached woman servant (morc
friend to. both Of US than q ~servant),
who lived with Us sixteen years, and is
now married, and who was and still is
in Mrs. Dickens's confidence and mine,
who had the closest familiar experience
Of this unhappinsss in London, in the
country, in. France, in Italy, wherever
we have been, year after year, month
after month. week after week, day after
day, will bear testimony to this.
Nothing has, on many occasions, stood
between US and q separation but Mrs.
Dickens's sister, Georgine Hagarth.
From the age of fifteen she has devoted
herself to our house aud our children.
She has been thoir playmate, nurse, in
structress, friend, protcctress, adviser,
companion. In the manly consideration
toward Mrs. Dickens which owe to my
wife, l will only remark of her that the
popularity Of her character has thrown
all the children on some n else. do
not KNOW cannot by any stretch OF
fancy imagine-what would have be-
come Of them but for this aunt, who has
grown up with them, to whom they are
devoted and who has sacrificed the best
part of her youth and life to them.
She has demonstrated, reasoned, suf-
fered and toiled, and came again to pre-
vent q separation between Mrs. Dickens
and ME. Mrs. Dickens has often ex-
pressed to her her sense Of her nffec-
.ionate care and devotion in the house
never moro strongly than within the
last twelve months.
For some years past Mrs. Dickens has
been in the habit of representing to me
that il would be better for her to 60
away and live apart that her always
increasing enlargement was due to a
mental disorder under which she some
times labors; more, that she felt herself
unfit for the life she had to lead as my
wife, and that she would be better far
away. have uniformly replied that she
must bear our misfortune, and fight tho
fight out to the end that the children
we're the first consideration and that
feared they must bind us together in
appearance"
At length, within these three weeks,
it was suggested to me by Forster that,
even for their sakes, 1t would surely be
better to reconstruct and rsarrauge their
unhappy home. | empowered him to
treat with Mrs. Dickens, as the friend oil
both OF US for one and twenty years.
Mrs. Dickens wished to add, on her part,
Mark Lemon, and did so. On Saturday
last Lemon wrote to Forster that Mrs.
Dickens I" gratefully and thankfully ac-
cepted" the terms | proposed TO her.
or the pecuniary part of them ! will
only say that l believe they are as geu-
erous as if Mrs. Dickens. were q lady OF
distinction, and l n man Of fortune.
The remaining parts Of them are easily
described-my eldest boy to live with
Mrs. Dickens and to take care Of her
my eldest girl to keep my house, both
my girls and all my children, but tho
eldest son, to live with me in the con-
tinued companionship Of their Aunt
Georgiue, for whom they have all the
teuderest affection that | have ever seen
among young people, and who has a
higher claim las have often declared,
for many years. upon my affection, re-
spect and gratitude than anybody in this
world.
I hope that no one who may become
acquainted with what | write here, can
possibly be so cruel and unjust as to pu,
any misconstruction on our separation
so far. Ny elder children all under
stand it perfectly, and oil accept it as
inevitable.
There is not q shadow Of doubt or
concsalment among US. Ny eldest son
and I are one as to it NIL
Two wicked persons, who should have
spoken very differently Of me, 10 con-
sideratiou Of earnest respect and graft
tude, have las I am told, and, indeed,
to my personal knowledge) coupled with
this separation the name Of n young
lady for whom I have a great attach
ment and regard. will not repeat her
name-I honor It too much. Upon my
soul and honor, there is not on this
earth q more virtuous aud ~spotless crea.
ture than that young lady. knov her
to be innocent and pure, aud rs good AS
my W dear daughters.
Further, I am quite sure that Mrs,
Dickens, having received this assurance
from me, must o believe it in the
respect | know her to have for me, and
in the perfect confidence | know her in
her better moments to repose In my
truthfulness.
On this head, again, there is not a
shadow Of doubt or c%oncealment be-
tween my children INT me. All is open
and plain among us, rs though we were
brothers and sisters. They are perfect.
ly certain that I would not deceive them
and the confidence among Vi is without
n fear. Q. d.
Col. D. E. BuEL and party passed
through here on Friday morning. last en-