The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-08
M ARSH .NEY.
still Another story About that
Dashin2 French Soldier.

the name of Morgan, then connected
with the treasury department, general,
known and addressed as Col. Morgan, o.
Washington, Pennsylvania, and reputeG
to have been the person who conveyed
the information to President Jefferson 0
the reasonable plans of Aaron Burr
upon which the latter was subsequently
arrested and tried before ChiefJ Justice
Marshall, informed him that the late
Richard Rush ascertained to his own sat
isfaction whilst Marshal Ney was resting
under his death sentence by Bourbon
court-martial that he was by birth an
American and had previously been a
restless, reckless and ambitious cavalry
officer in the Army Of Gen. Anthony
Wayne Our informant says he is unable
to recall to his mind all the partlcu airs
of the story related to him by Col. Nor
gan but the substance Of the story was
something like the following: A we'll
known tobacco merchant IN Philadelphia
by the name Of Rodolph or Rudolph, a
native of the Carolinas or Georgia, had a
brother in the cavalry or dragon service
in the campaign of Gen. Wayne against
the Northwestern Indians in or about the
wears 80. '93 or '94 that in consequence
of some difficulty with the general he
Iuuit the service and went to his brother 5
in Philadelphia that upon arriving at
his brothers he learned that his wife had
been unfaithful to him during his abb
sence from her that smarting under the
duplicate trouble ensuing from his diff
Guilty with Gen. Wayne and his wlte's
nfdelity, he had resolved to seek anoth-
er field tor the qualification OF his military
ambition, and sailed from the port OF
Philadelphia in his brothers sailing yes
sci bound ostensibly to the West Indies
for cargo of tobacco; that the vessel,
after a long absence, returned without
him, and his brother thereafter disclaImed
any knowledge of his whereabouts; that
their mother, who came to Philadelphia
occasionally afterwards 10 visit her son.
frequently expressed her onjscture that
he had gone to France to find military
OCCUPATION away from the smoke OF the
natiye hamlet and the anuOyances Incl
dent to a faithless wife that after Ma
poleon had entered upon his high militia
nv career against the European combIna-
tions with his marshals she saw picture
or print of his marshals with Ney's face
among the rest, and fancled that Ney' 5
face was that of her son that she found
her way To impress Minister Rush with
her fancy so that after Ney was arrested
he went to his prison and tried to CON
verse with him that he ascertalned from
him that he could speak English as well
a French. and was familiar with locaiI-
ties in Philadelphia that he seemed TO
be familiar with the family name OF Ko-
dolph or Rudolph, and seemed to be
gratifed with Mr.. Rush's statement that
a venerable mother by that name IN
America and a son. tobacco merchant
/ in PHILADELPHIA, were alive and IN good
health he affected entire ignorance OF
any relationship to them whatever; and
that after the date of Ney's reported exc
cution by platoon of soldiers in Paris.
Mr.. Rush brought home with him an
accurate portrait of him and sent 1t to
Mrs K. at her home in one OF the Caro-
; linas or Georgia, which confirmed her
previous impression that Ney was her
son that he, the said Col. Morgan, had
r frequently talked the subject over with
Mr.. Rush in his lifetime and learned
from his lips that he verify believed Ney
to have been precisely all and what this
story imports the ambitious son OF Mrs.
I Rodolph or Rudolph who went to the
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tobacco 20 or more years before.
Our informant says Col Houston's ac-
count of the escape and return Of Ney to
North Carolina recently published in the
Advertiser. reminded him of the above
story related to him by Col. Morgan OF
PENNSYLVANIA five and twenty years ago,
: and that although he thinks Col Hous-
, tons story needs great deal of corrobo-
,,,aiya II hollow hIp al
+ this late dav, he thinks the story of Col.
Morgan that Ney was native OF one OF
the Caroliuas or Georgia furnishes pre-
5 sumptions in that direction, and renders
r II more credible than if it stood by itself
: alone. If Col. Morgan's relation OF the
information he derived from MIR. Rush Is
) entitled to credit, 1t indicates the place
E which he would naturally have sought as
: refuge from the judgment of that court
martial, if he were able by COLLISION,
r stratagem or other means to NY from
r France and reach any refuge whatever.
t 1t appears to be the general opinion OF
all Marshal Ney's biographers that he
was an eccentric as we'll as heroic char
acter, and that he turned up III the
French army as a sort OF electric prodI-
gv Without any known step ladder or
Military antecedents of any consequence
he flashed out as a hero at once.
:, AS he was capable of planning and
execntino the most complicated move
, nents in the field he was also capable nc
Doubt. of planning and executing the
odroitest plans of escape. Stranger things
have occurred than that he eollqded with
the soldiers to permit him to teign death
,, from their bullets and escape unseathed'
Onr credulity is overtaxed by the fact
; that when he arrived in North Carolina
, and was identified as Marshal Ney the
Intelligence was not then blazoned by the
newspapers all over the land. The late
ness of the publication smacks OF the
; sensational smartly. As the sedalla and
Missouri papers appear to believe Col
, Houston we stop short of pronouncIng II
untrue. We merely say that 1t is story
; which needs a great deai of corroborative
testimony to entitle it to credit. as against
/, all the biographies, and among them one
by Ney's two sons, which concurred IL
the idea that he was executed and buried
r in France.
; Previous to the appearance of Col
: Rouston's story we never heard anything
concerning Marshal Ney, save that re-
! lated of and about hin b. his blogra
; phers. But the story of Col. Houston
: adds information of him to certain de
, gree. and pe.Laps it would not be a VAIN
idea to lock into the matter while the
: Philip Petrie, Lucius Butler and the two
: Younes. alleged to have known Ney II
North Carolina are alive. Perhaps thu
: napers of the late Richard Rush woulc
: throw some light upon the subject if ex