The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-06-26

lin. They went ap stairs to their
DOM, where lay their infant child;
md there he told her that he was q
'uined man, and must fly, that instant
:or his life. She fell senseless to the
door. Leaving her there, he rushed
from the room, hurried down stairs,
sent some one to her assistance, and
then returned to the breakfast room.
he told his guests that General Wash.
logton was coming, and he must make
haste to prepare for bis reception. He
the horse of the messenger
who had brought tho letter, and gal.
loped away.
Colonel Hamilton has left Us an in.
terestipg account Of Mrs. Arnold's de.
meanor after her husbands departure.
he says she remained frantic all day,
and accueed every ono who approached
her Of an intention to murder her child.
She continued, he says, to rave until
she was utterly exhausted. But Col
onel Burr, in his old age, was sccus.
toned to give very different account
Of the matter. He had known Mrs.
Arnold from her Infancy, and he de.
clared that she knew all about her hue.
bands treason from the beginning,
and he used to relate scene which he
said he witnessed at the house Of Mrs.
Provost, whom he afterwards married,
which somewhat confirms his opinion.
Mrs. Arnold, 1t will be remembered,
was sent home to her father, escorted
by party Of horse, and remained for
a nj ght at the house of Mrs. Provost,
where Colonel Burr was. Mrs. Arnold,
he said, burst into the room dressed in
a riding habit, and was about to speak
to the lady Of the house when, seeing
him in the dim light Of the apartment,
aud not recognizing him, she asked
anxiously:
CAN I safe? Is this a gentleman
friend ?"
Upon discovering who he was, she
told them how she had deceived Gen.
sral Washington, Colonel Hamilton,
aud the other American officers by her
frantic outcries and she declared that
she not only knew of the treason, but
that it was she who had induced her
husband to commit it.
This was Colonel Burr's story, to
which the reader may attach the credit
which he thinks it deserves. Arnold
himself does not say that she was ig-
norant of his intentions to surrender
the fortress. In the we'll known letter
which he sent back to General Wash
ington flom the Vulture, he says:
"From the known humanity of your
Excellency, 1 am induced to ask your
protection of Mrs. Arnold from every
insult and injury that a mistaken
vengeance of my country may expose
her to. It ought to fall only on one
she is as good and innocent as an
angel, and as incapable Of doing
wrong"
The authorities of Pennsylvania be-
lieved with MI. Burr, that she was q
traitor. Her: papers we're seized, and
although nothing was found in them
to criminate her, she was not per-
mitted to remain at her fathers
house, which she said she desired to
do.
Her father offered to give security
that, during the war, she would write
no letters to her husband, and send to
the government, unopened, any letters
she might receive from him. His Of
fer was refused, and they ordered her
to depart, and not to return during the
war. Being then obliged to join her
husband in New York, she soon re-
covered her spirits, aud shone in socie-
ty, to use the language of the time, as
"a star of the first magnitude. In
England, too, whittier she accompanied
her husband, she attracted much at
tention for her beauty, and was much
Aattered in Tory circles. The British
government gave Arnold, in compensa-
tiou for his American losses, something
less than $4,000, and settled upon his
family a pension of 81 900 a year,
which was to be continued as long as
the husband or wife survived. Their
family increased in England. Arnold,
finding himself pinched upon an income
Of 81 300 per annum, went upon .
trading voyage to Halifax; with what
success is not known. It was thoug ght
by some that he was glad to leave Eog-
land for awhile to escape the contempt
in which no was held, even by those
who had employed him.
Mrs, Arnold lived to 1904, when
she died, aged forty.three years. That
infant son whom she held in her arms.
as described above, entered the British
army in 1898, rose to the rank Of Lieu.
tenant. General, and was still living as
late as 1850: One of her grand child.
rem is clergyman in the Church of
England-it is said very worthy gen.
tlemau-who has conversed with Amer.
ican visitors about his grandfather in .
rational and becoming manner. Two
Of her sons settled IN CsuadA, where
they acquired competent estates, and
were living in 1929.
COLORADO.
A correspondent Of the St. Peter
n,:b.,no pr;t;no from RI Paao cnlfntv.