Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-12-28

We looked at the individual letters
Most of them had originally been signed
with initials only, or oftener without
J any name, Or with some pet name but
Burr, with a malignity whose motive 4
cannot even yet understand, had writ
ten out each name in full. He seemed
resolved that others should share his in
fanny. Some of the names belonged to
| the most honored families in the land
to have revealed them wOnld have been
| to cause terrible anguish, and in several
cases probably the breaking up of FAM
j Hes. used togo over and look at them
| when had q spare hour. So grg sig.
! They were strictly yns.,'ledby Davis,
He was iqtleer man, but he hada high
sense OF personal homer. Why, Morlecai
VI. Noah offered Davis $40, 600 for that
Blue trunk and it's contents, but OF
course the offer was spurned and the in-
suit resented. Matthew Davis, too, had
his eccentricities, and one Of his queer
notions in regard to these captured love
letters was that they should all be ,re-
| turned to the writers! That seemed to
me TO niliet needless pain, and Isargued
! with him about it, but he said the
writer's would be better satisfied if
\ they had chance to destroy them,
themselves. Some of them were old
ladies then, mothers and grandmothers,
but Davis undertook the grim task of
returning all the packages Of letters by
/ the hands OF trusty friends. A good
4 many he gave back himself. He gave.
mo one of those delicate packages to de-
liver when l was going to Providence,
one day, but told him | would see HIM
hanged first. But 4 know that Gen.
Scott did accept one OF those packages
! from Matthew Davis and returned it
with his own hand to a lady highiin So
ciety in Richmond. He told ame, SO. l
| always wondered whether she thanked
him OF not, but ! forgot to ask him. But
think Of the moral nature of man ca
pable of deliberately leaving all those
letters to his own daughter as u legacy
BUR- was quite u small man. Very
graceful in movement and courteous in
demeanor. a small hand and foot. Not
| spirited and dashing at all, but his man,
| her was full of repOse, and his voice was
soft and musical. lie would strike one
attirst as being slightly etteminate, but
he was not SO; he was II bold, strong,
! capable man. instrumentation, to the
last ten years of his life, Aefwas brilliant.
But, to rcturn to the subject of his
| wickcdness toward women. When ho
was in England he was greatly assisted
and beiriended by u learned professor of
Oxford University, whose name must
not mention. In return for this friend
ship Burr ruined his wife, Six years
afterwards Balrabtained u position for
this professor i'll q New York college, for
obvious reasons, and when they came
over to this city Burr also seduced their
daughter, u lovely girl Of seventeen,
whose confidence he had won when she
was a little girl, during his visit in En-
gland. In due time the professor died,
and Burr became u penniless outcast.
Then this mother and daughter, instead
Of hating him and spurning him, took
him and supported him during his last
ten years by keeping q boarding house
down town. This was on the well-knowr
Reese place on Broadway, just below
Wall street Here his food and very
medicine were paid for by the two wo-
men on whom he had inflicted mortal
injury fifteen years before. He had no
sense OF shame or OF gratitude. Tic was
almost universally hated during his last
gears, and was really an object of pity.
] remember being on an Albany steam
boat one night, and seeing crouching
form out on deck, | went out, and there
was Burr in the cold. | asked him why
he did not go in. He said he was not
very cold, but we went in together.
There was Gov. Lewis Morgan, whom |
sautea. ! noticed that they didn't
speak, 50 seated myself between them.
Finally Burr rose and moved Oft. "Don't
you know Col. Burr :" | asked him.
eyes," he said, II know the id rep
tile"
/ A young man named Charles Sisson,
who inheritpf a fortnne of x1h{) (Itl0 fynn,