The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-08-20

January, 1929, u lady belonging to a very
influential family at Gallstin, 30 miles
north of Nashville. She was very hand.
come, brilliant young lady, and attracted
great attention wherever phe went which
exaggerated Houston, who WAS Of q morosc,
jealous disposition. used to see him fro
quently and knew that he had married
purely through political reasons, and soon
saw that bis domestic life was An unhappy
ono.
zone Saturday in April net him at
big barbecue Just west OF the city, where
he and Carroll both made speeches. j saw
that the feeling Of that crowd was oil in
his favor, and told him go, which caused
him to DO IN tho very best OF spirits, aud
while ia that mood We separated. Mon
day morning / called At the Nashville
inn, where he and his wife had been
boarding since Their marriage, but | was
refused sdmittance to his room. | per-
sisted, however, and was nually admitted
by DR.. shelby. ] found Houston lying on
the bed with his face covered up, AMI, in
answer TO my astonishcd inquiries, Dr..
Shelby told me that Mrs. Houston's father
had come down from Gallatin for her the
day before, and that che had left her b II.
band and returned to the home OF her
childhood.
"Said I. General, what's this hear p
"Said he, I'm n ruined mani I'm a
ruined man
81 told him no owed 1t to his friends to
give an explanation for bis conduct, and
asked him why he and his wife had seps.
rated, TO which no replied he hadn't a
word to say against his wife--that she was
q high-mindcd, virtuous lady.
"He then said that he was hlone 10
blame that he had decid, to exile him.
self among tho Cherokee Indians, and
that he wanted mo to carry his resignation
as governor to the secretary of state. Th 4
l emphatically refused to do, ut fir,t hu,
at his earnest solicitation and that Of DR.
Shelby, / finally consented
Tho next morning, Houston, Shelby
and l went aboard y steamboat, Houston
being disguised so that no one recognized
him. We babe him goodbye and he wen
down the Cumberland. He told me after
ward that no got m far as Napoleon, Ar
kansas, without being recognized, and IL
that case, he begged the man TO say moth
ing about meeting him. lie went on 4
Fort Smith whore he Joined q Cberoke
by the name Of JULY, whom:he had beet
familiar with while he was agent for III
| ht hShAultl Tue dItt,
painted his face, and could not be dis,in
gushed from them.
"A few years sftorward, he pssse'
through Nashville with delegation o
Indians on mis- way to Washington, re
cognizad him but here considered he hs,
disgrsced them, snd were digusted wit
= him. While in Nashville, be went will
> his delegation and called OIL Gen jackson
at the hermitage.
G "And how did jackson treat him.
e asked.
IL don't know, bat suppose ho ,rea;e
. him all right, MS they had been gres
0 friends. After reaching Washington.
4 know he whipped a member Of congre'
BY the name of Stansterry for ssyin
o something disrcspectful Of Jackson.
| "Af.er this, We heard nothing more {
Houston until just before the MexicsI
war, when we heard that he had gone L
] San Augustine TO practice law. 70
know this connection with tho Mexics
war, probably ss we'll as do.
= "'IIe married again, believer
, Eyes His wife got q divorce, and b
: married Mobile lady, and she made
i man Of him. They visited Nashville &
q gether, and went with them TO see Jacl
son ut the Hermitage. twelve miles troi
the city. His first wife married again ar
Q is now living near Nashville, unless ell
has died recently. PAsTEn.