Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-11-08
living in this city. His statements. SO far
rs We know, were nowhere called in qtlcs-
| ton At the time they were published:

- rs We know, were nowhere called in qtl
ton at the time they were published:
[From the New York Observer, April II, ls5
MEssRs. EDITORs:-A few days ago
entered my enty-ninth year. For t
last sixty of these years, l have been o
day only confined by sickness. am n
sensible Of decay in either body Or min
spccticles excepted. have not pain,
4 stiff joint in my body. walk us far III
as fast, and my personal feelings are
comfortable rs when in my twentieth yea
thank God. who gave me sound cons
tuition, and the common sense to take c;.
Of it.
think it is the duty of the aged to t.
the generation that is to follow, what the
have seen with their eyes and heard wi,
their cars of the wonders the Lord Ii;
wrought in their days. In his providel
tial arrangements lie brought ne into clos
contact with Paine and Carver. two OF Ill
most open and inyeteratc enemies. Cal
Yer and blew the bellows in the sam
shop; Paine lodged with Carver; henc
our intimacy. My days are numbered. an
but few remain. l owe it to my God an
to the world to tell what have seen, fel
and heard in their company.
The past sixty years have been style,
cmphatically the age Of infdelity. l wa
IN my nineteenth year ut the commence
ment OF that period. and have been in con
tact. and in some cases. in confidential in
timacy with some of the most promincn
actors in the important events embraced ii
that period. One of the most prominent
in his day was Mr.. Thomas Paine. Iii:
public history is before the world; but his
secret history. as they say in st. Cloud. is
probably now known only to myself. Ol
''!c truth Of this remark you VIII Judge in
| the sequel.
i''"in!s Paine was born in 1877, in Nor
i"'. county. old England. He WIS brought
/. 20 the business of stay-nldkns with his
| Gather. who was 4 member OF tile SOciet Y
Of Friends. He was afterwards an excise
man in tie town of Lewes. where he mar
ricd the daughter of tile Collector of the
Custom House. After three years she OBJ
tanned Il divorce from him. for neglect and
cruel treatment. Ladies, this mortal was
the author of THE Rights Of Man, Short
ly after this he BECAME a detauiter, and fled
to America at the commencement of the
Revolution.
In l7S7 Paine went to France. In 1902
he was chosen Il member OF the bloody
Convention. and sat on the trial of Louis
XVI. In the Reign of Terror. and of
Rohespierre, lie was thrown into prison,
and narrowly escaped the guillotine by q
miracle of Providence. While in Franco
he published Letters to Washington,-a
scurrilous libel. which was bought. read
and extollcd by Deists. Jacobins and Inf
dclS. but burned and destroyed by true
Americans. God willing, will give the
account Of his escape from the g,lillotinc,
own lips.
Paine arrived at New York, in the spring
of 1902. On the next day was introduced
to him at the City Hotel. Onthc day after
he starte! for Washington. There he was
received with open arms by Jefferson,
Aaron Burr. and whole phalanx of De-
lists and JacObins from every section of the
A public dinner was gotten up
to welcome the author Of the Age Of Reas-
on, and the man who tried to deface the
fair fame of WASHINGTON. As easily
might Paine darken the sun at midday by
throwing at it handful of mud. But the
dinner! Here was expected a feast of rea-
son and flow of soul. Alas! tell it not in
Gath! Paine entered; his feet covered with
A preparation Of mud and compost; his !
pants having a rent both wide and unseen-
y; his vest, which had once been black.
was now the color Of gold dust, from Il
lhick coating of Scotch snuff. His coat
had ventilator on the elbow of each
sleeve. His fine linen looked as if not
modified by Colgatc's soap since the last 4tl
Of July. He rccled to and fro like drunk
IN man ut his wits end. Thus he entered
the room. The free-thinkers were con-
and thought it was hoax; they,
10 doubt mentally exclaimed, ''IIe is no
company for gentlemen" lie receivedin
'tructions in a few days, and left the pur-
ieus OF the court forever.
Arriving in New York, he was set down
It the City Hotel; but his habits being an
outrage on all the common decences of
life, at the end of the week he was politely
there was no room for him in
hat inn. His trunk was carried from hotel
% tavern. from tavern to bOarding-house,
md still the answer was, 1--WE have no
'oom." Inquiry for accommodation was
made at a dwelling whose inmates were
personified; but it was writ
en- on the door as with diamond, mo
ldmittance for Thomas Paine.' In this
lilemma. VIM. Carver received him into
lis own house. 1t was here our intimacy
and it continued, with a few
seven years thereafter.
GRANT TIORBURN."
The following extract is made from
ubsequent number of the "Reminiscences
# Thomas Paine," by the same hand:
From The New York Observer, May l, lS5l.l
lit was in Carver's house that. by the
of Providence. sat down be-
Nyea two of the most inveterate intideis
iAat ever beheld the light of the sun. They ,
we're both mechanics-Carver blacksmith.
'aine stay-maker. They were both un-
earned men, but were of strong mind; for
he Devil having made human nature his
tudy for six thousand years, will never
mploy fool when he needs a journey {
nan. Carver. his wife, and Paine, having I
cen inhabitants OF the same town in Eng
md. at their fire-side, he being present. a
earned his history from his cradle; and (,
aw him in all his native deformity, and
raced him with my own eyes to his grave.
"Carver kept porter house on small (
cale on the corner of Thames and Temple I
Ireets; at the same time he doctored
orses and mended their shoes. It Nas T