The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-12

An El0pe1nenf--E ometlatnr ont OF the
Usual Order or ThGsgs fn this Latf.
tl1de.
We find the following in the Maiisonvilie
lKy.) Times of April 23d
On Tuesday night last, the 18th instant,
Mr.. w. Gatlin, living ten miles south of
this place, becoming enamored Of the wife
Of Mr. Valentine Bailey, q neighbor Of his,
eloped with her, and his whereabouts are
now unknown. Mr.. Bailey and his truant
wife had been living together for the last
seven or eight years upon the most AMIGA
bic terms--neyer word passing between
them that was calculated in the slightest
degree to rufie their feelings or mar the
harmony of the domestic hearth.
Below we give, just as We received them,
a letter from Gatlin to his wife, which is
decidedly the coolest and most impudent
production We have read lately, and one
from Mrs. Bailey to her husband, which is
the most amusing. Here they are:
L.w.GATLIN TO HIS WIFE.
d. F. Gatlin: Madam,-I take the OPP
portunity of Writing you A few lines to let
you know my notions. am started to
leave the country: my reason for leaving
is short and soon told. am going With
one that / love better than anybody else in
the World, and believe she loves me better
than she does anybody else. | have loved
her for twelve or thirteen years, and for the
last FIVE or six years have got to bee such
A fool about her that every boldly could
see it, and I don't love you as / ought to,
and is not satisfied to live with you. |
want you and Billey and Amanda to raise
Billey and Lee up rite. Every thing that
l have left their is for you to Pay what |
ow, and keep the rest for the children. You
had better get Billey Goad to live with you
as long as you can. Any trade you can
make with him will bee rite, for | want the
children to have all thar is left after my
diets is paid. You will Please Put A credit
of fifty dollars on the note that mandy
holds Against Josef Cavanah and Bill Gle
ments. Bill Hardwick Payed me fifty dol
lars on the note to-day, and tell mandy to
get the money from little hen and Pay to
bill Clemens the Public money that |
drawed, and let him go and Pay it Asa
turday, for that is all the Diet that | owe
any Body Except Amanda, and you will
find all of the Papers and Notes in the big
drawer, and all of them fixed rite except
thu. fifty dollars that Hardwick Paid me to-
day, and it is not Credited, but you must.
I want you to have your Pay, mandy, out
of my truck. I will send you A Bill of it
this Summer. Billey Goad, you had better
stay thar and make all you can, and take
cere of billey and Lee, which hope that
you will. L. w. GATLIN.
DosHE BAILEY TO HER HUSBAND.
Tfne,-You need not think that Cousin
Luit persuaded me for to go with him, for
he did not. He says he has loved me ever
since he was child, and have loved him
ever since 1856, and feel like wanted
to live with him the balance of my days,
SO help me God. Tine, you have never
mistreated me. | would the Lord nose,
but did not love you like l wish to, and
| am agoing to stay with him the balance
of my days, SO help me God, and he
says he will stay with me as long rs there
is breath Of life in his body, SO help him
God, and I have all confidence in him to
believe what he tells me, and if al the
people in the world was to come after me,
I would not come back, and | want it UNI
derstood, too; | am onest woman, and
want all of you to understand it; and
cousin Luit sails am the onestest woman
he ever seen-he has been with me enuff
to know that am. have given up every
thing but part Of my close, and | tuck your
nag, but | think / ort to have her, if
had thought l was not worthy of her
would not of taken her. want you to UNI
derstand that was not forst in this, for
am going with him because love him bet
ter than anybody in the world. I no you
will oil think he persuaded me, but he did
not. You need not grieve after me, for !
would not want to live with noboddy if |
was you that did not love me better than
all others. l never have been satisfied
since have been living with you, because
loved cousin Luit before [ ever saw you,
and he says the reason he did not wait for
ME till was grown is because he waited
on Whey and Sary awhile, and the old
folks got to cutting up about it, and told
him if he was in his place he would not go
there any more; and he said he turned in
and married France, but still loved me, and
was sorry he did marry. l don't want to
live with nobody that I don't love, for |
can't treat them as | wish to. am going
to leave Haddock in the Lords care and
yours, to treat him kind and good If you
please he is your child, and know it.
DOsHE F. BAILEY.