Year: 1859

expiration of that time, had taken his
family to Little Rock, Arkansas, where
they resided one year, and that from
thence they had come to the place where
/ found them.


Here there was a pause; in fact,
discovered that the poor woman's voice
faltered the moment she approached the
subject of her arrival at her present re-
sidence. The silence was broken by the
child, who stood rocking the cradle, and
who said, This is bad place, amt it,
Ma? Here the bad men killed Papa
Al this the mother burst into tears. As
she did so, she kindly told the child to
hush.


After the mothers tears had partially
subsided, told her to talk to me with
out restraint; that had visited the set
Element on the other side of the river on
government business, which I expected
to transact, and leave in very few days.
l here was guilty of falsehood. / had
not visited the settlement for govern
ment of course, but to pursue the ini-
quitous course of gambling with the re-
fugees.


The woman implored me to be watch


ful; that l was in the midst of the most


abandoned description of men that could


possibly be conceived of; and that they


would make a victim of me the more


readily, on account of my extreme youth.


told her that they could want nothing


of me, for the simple reason that had


nothing valuable about me. She assured


me that it was not always avarice which


tempted these men to deeds of blood


They had butchered her poor husband


in the very house where we were, within


hearing of herself and children, and


when all were imploring that his life might
be spared. And yet money was the


temptation. She then gave me history


of the cruel murder of her husband,


which was as follows:


DR.. - was educated a physician


in the city of Philadelphia, though a ma
tive of Kentucky. He married his wife
in that city after which he went back
to Kentucky,where he settled down in the
practice of his profession. 1t was moi
many years after he took up his abode
in his native place before he became in


volved, and subsequently being accused
! of committing forgery, he concluded ii
, was best to leave his native State. Hi
t first stopping-place, after leaving Ken
lucky, was Little Rock, Arkansas, where
: he remained until his brother-in-law join
ed him with his family. Becoming un


easy and unhappy there, he finally re


moved to the settlement, where an enc
J was put to his earthly career by the han'
e of assassins.


His wife, when she came to this por
ton Of her husbands career, was agai


deeply affected I; but she soon mustere
composure enough to continue the story
g After my husband came here, he pre-
/ ceeded to build this house, and we a
. moved into it in very short period afte
y the first log was laid. He was chang
l. ed man, and my health had become in
'0 paired by the exposures which it Wa


necessary to encounter, n trayellin
~ through this wilderness. Dr. ws


changed man most painfully was tn
u the case. He was not only moody an
&c sullen in his temperament, and at time
~ unhappy to the last degree, but he di


not seem to take that pleasure which /
III once did in the society of his wife an
& children. Now and then be would drin
10 hard, and become intoxicated, in whit
lis case he abused me most shamfully, ar


l bore all for the sake of the Children
y, Some few days before his death, be e.
of tered into speculation with some b;
It fellows here, to smuggle spirits throug
e. the nation, which they succeeded in
Sc ing, and with great profit. About th
&C. time, or just after, when in calm ar
ng subdued mood, he confessed to me, th
IT. he was not an honest man, that he W
- refugee from justice, and doom
en- man that trap had been laid for hi
at a short time after he was married th
&C he fell into it that he was sworn mel
a Der of band of desperadoes and villain
'id and that he was doomed to be a gull
y wretch as long as he lived. ] thong
he was crazy, but his assurance was in
ne few days verified.


'io Not long after my husband made Il
ne confession to me, he ran a partition aero
ed the cabin-making two rooms. In t
e, other department he put two beds, a.
a whenever any of bis cronies called
ng see him, he would order myself al