Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-10-15

this to any one who has been misled into
doing me wrong. We therefore take pleas.
urs in presenting his statement 10 our
readers
MY DEAR--: Mrs. Dickens and / have
lived unheppily together for many years.
Hardly any one who has known us intimate-
ly can fail 10 have known that we are. In
all respects Of character and temperament.
wonderfully unsuited TO each other. SUP.
pose that no two people, not vicious 10
themselves, ever were joined together, who
had greater difficulty Ia understanding one
another, or who had less 10 common. An
attached woman servant, (more friend TO
both Of US than a servani,) who lived with
us sixteen years, and is now married, and
who was, aud still is, In Mrs. Dickens con-
hdence and mine, who had the closest fa-
miliar experience Of this unhppiness In
London, 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 separation, but Mrs. Dick
ems sister, Georgine Hogath. From the
age Of 10 she has devoted herself 20 our
house aud children. She has been their
playmate, nurse, instructress, friead, pro-
manly consideration toward Mrs. Dickens
| which owe to my wife, will merely re-
mark of her that the peculiarly Of Der
character has thrown all the care Of the
children on some one else. do not know
Il cannot by any stretch Of fancy imagine
what woald have become OF them but for
this aunt who has grown up with them, to
whom they are devoted, and who has sacri-
feed the best part Of her youth aud life to
them.
She has demonstrated, reasoned, suffered
and toiled, AMI come again TO prevent
| separation between Mrs. Dickens and me.
Mrs. Dickens has often expressed to her her
| sense of her ahsctiOnate care aud devotion
in the house -Dever more strongly than
within the last twelve months.
For some years past Mrs. Dickens has
been in the habit Of represe nting % me that
| it would be better FIR her to 90 away and
live apart; that her always IL ereasing es-
| tr,ngement made mental disorder under
which she someIimes lahors more, that she
{ II herself uufit for the life she had to lead
as my wife, and that she would be far bet
ter away. | have uniformly replied that
she must bear our misfortune and fight the
| fight out to the end that the children we're
the first consideration, and that I feared
they must bind us together "in appearance
A. leg h, within these three weeks, it
| WIS suggested to me by Foster, that even
for their sakes, IL would surely be better To
| reconstruct aud resrrauge the unhappy
| home. | empowered him to treat with Mrs,
| D ckens as the friend of both Of us for one
aud twenty years Ms Dickens wished to
| add, on her part, MAX l. mon, and did 80.
| Oh Saturday last L"mon wrote to Foster
/, Mrs Dickens gratefully and thankful
| " accepted" the terms proposed t. her.
| OF the pecuniary part OF them, will only
say that believe they are as generous as
| IL Mrs. Dickens were a lady OF distinction
| aud man Of fortune. The remaining
parts of them are easily described-my
eldest boy TO live with Mrs. Dickens and to
| take care o! her my eldest girl To keep
! my house both my girls and all my chill
| dr,n but the eldest son to live with me la
| continued companonshp of their Auut
| G. orgine, for whom they have all the ten
| derest eff ctions that [ have ever seen
among young pc. pie, and who has a higher
! claim las bave often declared, for many
year., up,n my aff'ctiou, respect and grati
tuds than anybody 10 this world.
| hope that no one who may become ac-
| duaiut-d with what | write here, can pos
sitiy be so cruel aud unjust as to put any
miscunsIructi, on cur separation 20 far
Ny elder children all understand it perfect
| ly, aud all accept it as inevitable.
There is not a shadow Of doubt or con-
cealment among us. Ny eldest son and
are one as TO it all.
| Two wicked persons, who should have
| spoken very different of me, in considera
tiou Ct earned resps Il and g'atitlde, have
! (is am tod, aud, indeed, To my personal
knowledge,) coupled with this sepa' alton
the name OF a young lady for whom have
a great attachment aud regard. / will not
repeat the name-I honor 1t too much
| Upon my soul and honor, there Is not on
this earth more virtuous and spotless crea-
ture than that young lady. Know her to
be innocent and pure, aud as good as my
own daughters.
Further, l am qnite sure that Mrs. Dick
ems, having received this assurance from
me, must now believe II, in the respect /
know her to have for me, aud in tho per.
feet confidence know her, in her better
nom ants, to repose Ia my truthfulness.
On this head, again, there is not = shadow
Of doubt or coDcealnient between my chill
dren and me. All Is open and plain among
us, as though We were brothers and sisters
They are perfectly certain that would no
deceive them, and the confidence among III
Is without a fsar.