Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
UNION AND AMERICAN.
I0AOUIN MILLER.

The new California poet, Joaquin MEL
Ter. as he Is called, who is creating a SEN
salion in English literary circles and re.
ceiying the commentator of the Times,
Athengur1l, Pail Mall Gdsette, and the
Globe, is an 0regohian, and his real
name is @. III ner Miller. His father, Hu-
Illus Miller, settled with his family wife,
four sons and one daughter near the
town of Eugene City, in Lane county,
Oregon, nesrly twenty years ago, when
the subject of this sketch was boy.
Hiner went to California, probably in
1865, aud sptnt short time in the mines
near YIeka, where it was reported
he got into q difficulty and shot
at the sheriff of Siskiyon county. On
returning home he attended school
in Eugene City, till some time in
1860, and was IN the same class as the
writer of this article. He then spent
about year in Ease Oregon and whist
is now Idaho, running pony express
and carrying letters and papers from the
nearest postC flee, q distance of two or
three hundred miles over the mountains,
and through the Indian country, to the
miners. Again he returned home, and
for short time during the early part of
the war of the rebellion, he edited the
Eugene Civ ReUje1U, Democratic pa
per, and as the writer of this was editing
The Republican paper there at the time,
he has a die met recollection of fierce
war of Worls. Soon after this be mar
ried Miss Mionis Myrtle, young lady
who had acquired reputation as writer
of verses. He then went east of Cascade
Mountains with his young wife, and set
tied il the gold mining camp of 'Can-
Won CITY" on Days river, ia the new
county Of Grant, where he put out his
shingle as an attorney 1t-lsw." He was
soon afterward elected county judge of
Grant county by the Democrats, and re-
manned there till the spring of 1870, dur
ing which time he accumulated consider.
able money, aud published in the local
newspaper, from time To time, part Of
the poems which he has since collected
and published in London. Last spring
he came from his wife, leaving her and
two children provided for, and on June
6, 1870, the day of our State election, he
left the Willamette valley for Europe,
and was, believe, the Paris correspon-
dent of lead ng New York psper dur
rig the Frsnco-G German war. His last
production before leaving the shores of the
Pacific was a parting farewell to bis wife,
entitled ''MyrT,n and addressed 20 'NL
NJ. NJ Minnie Myrtle NJ Her. II was
published over his signature on the 18th
of June, few days after Lis departure
Che carried away an advaDce proOf-sht ed,
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though Republican,, was She paper he |
selected as a medium OF most Of his pub |
liCa'ians, as his father, brothers, and !
nearly all of bis warmest personal friends |
were of his school of poll les. To this |
production his wife published q reply in
veIse, soon after bis departure, in which |
she criticised him in severe terms. One
of h brothers, d.. John ID Miller, left |
Oregon to serve in the Union army in |
Virgins aud is nov residing in Eas Oh,
Penn. II 5 ether brother and parents are |
still residing near Eugene city, in |
the beautiful valley of The Villa |
mette, and his only sister, Ella, died in that |
place jCw months ago. 1t was report d |
that be b-Came acquainted with Mis- |
Myrtle by seeing her verses in print, and |
c mmencsd corresponding with her be- /
fore they had seen each other. Then he |
Ciled at Ler home, on Cos bay. The /
first time another gentleman, who was
paying his addresses to Miss Myrtle, hap |
pend to be 10 the house, wheIeupon |
Hiner introduced himself by drawing g
revolver and CRYING his rivsl from The
room They were then married and
went TO Eugene CITY. Perhaps there is
some truth ~ his, because in her reply,
Mrs. d. N N Ieproaches him for cold
ness ard Legect, sitter having driven her
lover from her and separated them for
ever. H. is as impu.sjve and reckless as
Byr,0, bot Is a true and noble friend. In
his farewell lie predicted that he would
have "a name amCrg The princely few"
which may yct be veIifed.-Letter to
the Washington Sunday Chronicle.