Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-09-11

are a Christian" Here he was subse.
quently visited by Bishop Moore, who
was gratifed to hear the dying mans re-
pentance, and administered to him the
communion according to the custom of
the Protestant Episcopal church Ham,
ilton's wound was beyond human aid ;
Hosack found on post-mortem examina-
ton that the bullet had fractured the
third rib and then passed through the
liver and diaphragm and lodged in the
second lumbar vertebar. Hamilton lin.
gered in great agony until two o'clock
In the afternoon, when he expired. Thus
Aaron Burr obtained " satisfaction"
Hamilton's city residence was closed
for the season, or the funeral would
probably have been held there. The re-
mains however, were removed from Bay-
ards to the house of John B. Church,
No. 20 Robinson street. Church was so
dear friend that he had been named
as one of the executors of his will. and
no doubt craved this last privilege of
hospitality to the dead Robinson street,
as most of our readers know, has been
merged into the extension Of Park Place.
Here the funeral took place on the fol-
lowing Saturday. Mr.. Coleman editor
of the Evening Post, in referring TO the
sad event, says: " In the death of Gen
eral Hamilton | have lost my ablest ad
wiser and dearest friend" and on the
day of the funeral the office was closed
and no paper issued. The obseouies
were under the control of the society Of
the Cincinnati. At ten o'clock Colonel
Morton and his corps appeared in the
Park with six pieces of artillery. Two
OF these were stationary, aud fred min,
ute guns during the procession, of which
the Others formed an imposing feature
The Cincinnati and the clergy met in
the college near by, and thus, in detail,
grand funeral column was formed,
which marched from Greenwich street
up to the Park, then down Beekman
street and up Pearl to Whitehall street,
after which it swept through Broadway
until it reached Trinity Church. Here
Governor Morris delivered an appropri
ate eulogy, and the remains were buried
and three volleys were FREQ over the
grave. The monument placed here is
still one of the most Interesting features
in Trinity church-yard. Fifty-three
years after his burial the remains of his
widow were laid by his side.
The death of Hamilton at once de-
stroyed Burr's political prospects. He
reached Philadelphia within a week af.
ter the duel, and thence travelled in the
South, but returned to Washington on
the opening of Congress, and resumed
his seat as president of the Senate, that
being his last term. The next feature
in bis life was called Burr's Conspiracy
for which he was arrested and indicted
the charge being treason. His plan was
probably the creation of new govern
ment in the Southwest. The trial took
place in Richmond, and here Washing
ton Irving saw him prisoner in the pen.
| itentiary, and the interview was no doubt
naturally painful. Burr" says Irving,
seemed in lower spirits than formerly,
but he was composed and collected as
usual" After his acquittal Burr went tc
Europe, where he suffered many priva.
tions. He had hope of interesting Ma.
poleon in some of his projects, but failed
to obtain even an audience. He was at
this time much impoverished and on ar
rival at London was for short time the
guest of Jeremy Bentham. In 1872
| Just before war was declared against
Great Britain, he returned to this city
where he resumed the law, but never got
into successful practice. His chief sup
port was derived from his pension as a
colonel in the Revolutionary army, in
which service he won his highest honors.
The Jumel case revives the fact that one
of his last exploits was marriage with
an eccentric madame" who soon shook
him off. and never, indeed, even bore his
name.
Burr at this time lost caste, but some
of his political friends clung to him, and
he had number of influential relatives
who treated him with kindness. Among
these was his cousin, Judge Ogden Ed
wards. in whose house on Staten Island
he passed his last days. He died on the
14th of September, 1886. in his eighty
first year. One of Burr's biographers
has said that his last word was "mad-
ame," but Mr.. Alfred Edwards, son of
the Judge who was present when Burr
expired, says that he was unable to speak
but seemed desirous of communicating
something of Importance which was bur-
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