The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-04
DEATH CHAMBER OF BURR.


to the north, or rather northwest, shore
Of Staten Island, and landed at the vii
lage Immediately opposite Bergen
Point, called Port Richmond, 50 named
because it is the water landing TO old
Richmond Court House, at the center
Of the island. There is not more an
mated spot in the water scenery Of
New York Bay than this, 1t shows
both the Bay Of New York and Newark
Bay, the latter receiving the commerce
Of Newark city and of the Hackensack
marshes, and of the jersey inlets as far
down as the Raritan River. They all
pass out between Port Richmond and
Bergen Point through the Kill Won
Kull, which is only half a mile wide A
sick man could sit all day long at his
window by this water watching tugs,
propeIlers, pleasure-steamers sloops
and schooners, oyster crafts, RATS and
barge lows, garbage fleets, yachts, and
excursion arks filed with music and
dancing 90 past like professions in
mirror.
1t was 10 Port Richmond that Col
Burr ex-senator and Vice President Of
the United States, ex-Auorney General
Of New York, eX-candidate for Govern
or OF New York and for Minister to
France, and once almost President Of
the United States, was brought one day
in early June upon litter 10 die, The
hotel, now called the Continental,
stands nearly as it dit at that moment,
right in your face as you turn from the
water at Port Richmond, and only
few hundred feet dstant-a yeloWish
brown hotel with a gambrel roof and
six tall, spare, thick wooden columns
rising 10 the caves and inciOsing in their
plazza three stories. Ascending the
steps 10 this piazza, broad door and
hall are right opposite the middle Of il,
and broad flight Of naked steps rises
to the second floor and similar hall
there, and the room TO the LETT a, YOU
look up from the ground, is tie room
where Aaron Burr died Under it is
the bar-room NOM. The chamber is a
square room. with lule carved hit. Of
carpentering about the chimney side,
and it is Of respectable ,ize-qJite
bedroom parlor Mr. Burr was borne
to it on a litter from the steamboat, an
old. helpless invalid, prosecuted by bod
lily decay and creditors, and the fear Of
dying in the street.
He had lost the confidence Of man,
woman and child Politics had spewed
him out thirty years before Family
circles had tried him too often Women
had found that he would not only kiss,
but tell, Clients found that he would
sell their conf ence 10 the other side.
The religious world remembered that
the greatest logician and theologian
since Paul, had been this outcasts
grandfather The educated class knew
that the founder OF Princeton College
had been Aaron Burr's father, Law
yers knew that his sisters husband had
founded the first law school in the New
World. Once his daughter had led the
fashion and beauty of Washington So
ciety, and married one Of the richest
planters Of the South
He was about to die in sight Of his
birthplace at Newark and of his orphan
NUNS NJ I.lAIDcth, NNcIc MS ldlUcI anu
grandfather had ministered and
whence he had entered the revolution
airy army. These two towns Of New
jersey are in plain sight, and Elizabeth
is only about mile distant. Fifty
years before being brought to Staten
Island to die, young Burr, while on
Washington's staff, had proposed to
the General to head an expedition
against Staten Island, every lane and
corner of which he knew, having made
its hills his rambling-ground from the
fat, mosquito-ridden plains of Eliza
beth. 1t was perhaps his playmate's
sop, Judge Edwards, resident of
Staten Island, who was almost lis only
only visitor at the inn. That island of
Tories was now about to receive tho
last mould and living shadow of Aaron
Burr,
THE LAST WITNESS.
A fa,r ,,,,p,auts aftar oVapnin iun thiq