Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1886, Page 10

THE OMAHA STORY OF BLENNERHASSETT The HistorjojIsland in the Ohio River and its Owners. A TALE OF RUIN AND DISGRACE. The Plott of Aaron Burr--His Ambi- tlous Dreams of Wealth and Empir Cleveland Plain Deaier: Ons beauti- ful May morning seventy-one years ago a strange eraft pushed out trom Pitts- burg and flonted down the silvery current of the Ohio. It was primitive and ca pacious enough for an ark, and as there wae no propelling power, had the ap- pearance of being intended for the high tide of undivided waters. At this season of the year the swollen waters of the Ohio, fed by hundred of streams that dashed impetuously down from the sur- rounding hills, bore whatever was en- trusted to its bosom eight miles an hour, and but for the innumerable bends wonld have been A resistless torrent. This river conveyance was 80x14, The boat itself was similar to the flatboatsof our duy, only it nad a gunwale four or five feet above its sides. In the center of the bout,instead of the rude coveri was used to protect the emigr: their household s from wind and weather ns they flonted down this great river and its tributaries to the sunny val- leys which were still coverod with pri- 1 fgrasts, it had a veritable house wm ¢’ wssentials of home comforts, u kifoin With s briok firo place, & din: ing room and two sleeping apartments. The roof of this domicile was constructed to serve as a.promenade deck, whore its passengors could sit and enjoy all th shifting scenes of the wilderness throv which they were to pass. In that eai day the iron clad hills of Southern Ohio were still covered and crowned with forests, The voyager might pass hundreds of miles in his floating house without hearing the sound of the woodman’s ax or secing the smoke from the cabin of the pioneer. There was no_ longer any dangor of lurking tribes of Indians upon the banks, for the strong arm of the government had marked out the roservation of the red men at the close of the Indian war in the northwest terrivory. The few scattered villages along the frontier were begin- ning to need their hlock houses and strong: palisades less and less as the years went by. This” singular craft had been con- structed for the especial use of an indi- vidual who had more warm friends and moro bitter enemies than any other man in America: ron Burr. Colonel Burr had been for ten years a prominent figure before the public. At thirty six he had won the highest honors at the bar—a seat in the national councils --and even been a competitor for the presuency itse with Washington, Adams, erson and Clinton; and now, a decade later, when he had been for four years vice president of the United States, had taken leave of the senate and left that august body in tears. When thousands wery asking what will Aaron Burr do next? he was quictly sailing down the Ohio and planning what Presi- dent Jeflerson and all the wise council: ors had talked of in case war should ris with Spain—an invasion into therich ter- ritory of Mexico and the Spanish prov- fnces. His dremms were not to extend the jurisdiction of the United States be- ond the newly acquired territory of i felt himself as ho d, where he had as- honor in the gift of , 08 the highest b ambition thwarted— tumin s to the southwest, he saw there the reulization of his mostambitious dreams of wealth and empire. The gold of the inexhaustible mines that had flooded Europe would enrich the ad- venturer who wr bold and daring anough tostrike the first blow and become ihe Cwosar of the new world. The priest- wood was disaffected and only waiting for the drum tap from the right man,who would secure to the church the leges dc L by the Spanish authorities. The pop of medimvalehivalry and the splen- dors of the cast could be revived in this gorgeous realm, ore than this; here, 1,000 miles be- ond the Mis ppi, many of the disaf- ted in the states who yearned for some- thing more Lo their taste than the plain sepublic would see the glittering prize as the son of Esther Edwards saw it and nasten at his bidding this most auspicious {ime to strike the blow that would open the way to honor and to glory. This dream of greatness stood out bo- fore the mind of the disappointed pol- tician in maried contrast to the shadows that hung over him, that terrible duel with Hamilton, the flight and exile from New York and New Jersey, where the clamors were both deep and foud for revenge for Hamilton’s untimely death by the hang- ing of the vice president. The ovations that were given this distinguished politi- sian in the southe cities during that past eventful summer had helped to as- gure him that there would be among his followers in this new enter) u larger number of persons in high positions, men of culture, who would gladly and joy- fully follow the fortunes of Aunron Burr. The prospect of war with Spain was I but why need that make nee in hi-a)|:m,~? Secondly, ho hoped that, in case thers should be no war between the United States and , Lo ascertain the senti- ments of thg people of the west upon the subjoct of 3 separation from the castern states. Should both these plans be abortive he ined the idea of purchasing a la; nd of Baron Bastrop, situated of Louisiana on the Duachitau river. Here he might at loast wstablish a colony of choice spirits where he could have about him a society re- tl;lo for its refinement in social and o. The boat whieh bore this great man— for vice presidents were very few the halted at the mouth of the thriving little town of Marietta, at the mouth of the Muskinghum, town had been Iargely settled by patriots of the revolu- tion, men whose valor and devotion to the cause of liberty had won them a worthy place in the history of the nation. Amongst many of the military chief- (ains dueling wis rogarded the only rable way to settle a difficulty be- en The enormity of Burj of Hamilton }mll(u'nl Jaxgely veserved for a later day. [t was the political power that feared the fasei- nation ot hiy pre cloqence of his tongue, that ostracised Aaron Burr and made him eventually remembered as the Cataling of the west, At Marietfa as soon us it was nois abroad that the ex-vice president landed, the most promiuent persons came out to the dis tinguished guest and offer him hospit ties. Burr had called, ho said, to pay hi respects to a fow friends, and to see the | I ations near Campus Mar- tins, fil Teports. of Whico had been carned to the brief stay at Marictta, he was told again the romantie story of the lordly owner of Blenunerhassett’s island, which” was only a few miles below the town. That same afternoon his floating house was moored at the lovely spot which has since been called the American Alhambra. -~ All that and eulture could accomplish in erime, outsido friends, wa east, | thine During his | eight years had made this loy most beautiful and pretentious domain west of the Alleghenies; the private resl- dence had been fashioned n}l:»r an country style, with carved wing, those of the Ursuline convent on Euclid avenue, and it said to e had the appearance of the Moorish palaces of Andalusia to the voyager down the The extensive grounds around the house were decked with tasteful shrubbery and interspersed with showy flowers.” Art and nature had eombined to fashion the most delightful walks and drives; orchards of peach, apricots, quince and 1 trees extended along the exterior, while in the middle space wouand labyrin- walks skirted with flowering shrubs. Beyond the beantiful grounds were many acres of farming fand alrendy in a high state of cultivation. When .\l.’ul:mwu]llvnnz rhasset saw strangers in her grounds she sent to offer them the hospitalities of the mansion, Burr re- turned his card by the servant, declining the invitation, and stated that curicsity alone rrompml him to land upon this fayored spot. When the lady found that she was honored by so distinguished an individual as the ex-vice president she wuas un- asually importunate. Burr wnhm-vmhui retuetance finally yielded and remained several hours. Mr. Blennerhassett was from home. Could the madame have foreseon but a moiety of the unlmrpm 83 and misery that was to come to all within her little” Eden from this fascinating tempter, she would undoubtedly have preferred that the waters of the Ohio should haye swept her island home out of existence before it beeame the rendezvous of men suspected of trenson. To understand the ruin of this beauti- fuly home one must know something of the antecedents of those who made it what it was. Its owner, Hurmar Blennorhassett, was from afamily not noble, but amongst the most iilustrious of the Irish gentry. He had been educated at Trinity college, Dublin, aud was oalled to_the bar at King's Inns in 1700. He dochned entering upon his pro- fession until after he had made a tour upon the continent. Wherever he went the spirit of discon- tent was abroad. England had lost he American colonies, ‘i ance “‘had bee raked with the whirlwind of revotution,” and Ircland was ,‘INL pussing through one of her periodical a: i “Strange and unforseen events o crowding the annals of the world; the establisned axioms of general polity began to lose their weight nmong nations, and governments, wildly wandering from the fundamental principles of their own constitutions, appeared carelessly travel- ing the road to ruin.” ‘he young scholar saw all this and yearned rather for the flowery paths of literature, than the rugged way that led through bustle and hurricane” of trying times up the path of political prefer: ment. He chose rather to renounce the here- ditary honors of his family for the se- cluded life of an unpretending repub- lican, So he disposed of his ancest purchased at London an ext rary and a philosophical ap with his young, intelligent and wife, saifed for the new world. The first tew months were spent in New York studying the topography of tho C(nln(l'iv‘ and the character of its inhabitants. It was decided to follow the tide of emigra- tion to the great west, over the Alleghen- 1es. They reached Marietta that fall and were delighted with the tone of the so- ciety of this new settlement, and deter- mined to locate their future home in its vicinity. The following spring a portion of Backus island, in the Ohio river, a couple of miles below Parkersburg, was purchased, and operations at once com- menced to cl enough of its thick growth of timber for the site of the fu- ture residen Stores were bought, and laborers hired, and the_clearing soon assumed definite shapo. In time the fair and blossomed as the rose, and tray ers upon the Ohio spread the romantic story of this almost enchanted island, whose owner had abandoned the “pleas- ures of Castle Conway for a home in the secluded forests of America, Another _I'cnr rolls round, when we again find Burr at the island, this time accompanied by his accomplished daugh- ter, Theodosia Alston, The war with Spain was no lenger among the probabilities. Burr and his confederates were planning their western expedition more vigorously than eve before. The island of Blennerhas: beeame a rendezvous for men engaged in tne enterprise. In an evil hour the happy family had listened to the voice of ambition. The patrimony w: St wearing away, and Blennerha children might be poor, the tempte said. So the great hearted unsuspecting Irish man was led on step by step to em- bark all his ready means in the purchase of provisions, and outfits for this Utopia which loomed, up in th tunce. Rumors of powerful military associa- tions that extended from New York to of Mexico ulate The wvresident’s proel; 1 ach enterprises confirmed existence. The is ing part of the who were here expeeted no interferenc from the Ohio militia; but 1 ing that Virginin troops intended to take pos: gion of thesland next day, tour of the boats were hastily loaded and the th or forty confederates emb: made their way down the river, leaving Mrs. Blennerhussett and her two boys and several sorvants to meet the storm of the morrow, She was to procure the family boat from Marietta and follow afow days. The expedition came while the lady w: , broke,into the wine cellar and drank themselves into vand Then the work of destruction beg: They ranged the house, destroying and disfiguring wherever they went, tearing down costly drape rifle through painted ceilings, breaking in wes and inirrors. Then the rushed about the grounds, destro; ing everytning that me in their wi In the midst of this riot and destruction Madame Blennerhassett returned, Some young men on their way down the river to join the expedition oftered to take the disappointed lady in their boat, an offer which she gladl d, and in a few hours turned her eye: last time upon the scene of long years of almost unalloyed happiness. The a t of Burr, his trial for treason, the verdict of *‘not guilty” after the court had been engaged in the investigation twenty-six days—a verdict which his countrymen refused 1o accept—followed. dight months after the n in Alabama nd six after the comme ment of his al at Richmond, Burr was once more e, but his good name was by no means restored. The indictments against Blen- nerhassett and the others were neve proseeuted. The man whom the countr) had once delighted to honor, the now no- torious Aaron Barr, fled tfor his native land under the name of (. dward and be an exile on foreign ~shores, Blennerhasset renlized how thoroughly he had been sdeceived and drawn on to his ruin. - After his " disel financial ruin ne i g had been used as public vroperty, the gar dens had been destroyed by the freeboot- ers and the floods of the Obio, and a fire wept away the mansion in which his mily had spent many happy ¥ Onee more he started » home in M sippi, hopingto retri i tunes by the culture of cotton, which at that tie commanded an exorbitant price. The war of 1812 dissipated all hopes of success in this diveetion. One failure suceeeded anothe Twenty-tive years aftor he had sought America with buoyant hopes and joyfu! anticipations, blessed with a comptteney beyond his waants, he sailed for Ircland. HIS fondest dis- like | ¢ fortune had been , and most bitter misfortunes was ho.es had perishod, Tost, his healta impai of all his remembered the thought that he branded by pub lie opinion with the design of overthrow ing the liberty of the government which had drawn him across the Atlantic in his happiest days. UNDER THE MOON. Sitting here alone, looking over the moon-lit waters of Lake Ponchurtrain to- night, 1 cannot help recalling the poor fellow's pale face and sunken eyes. 1 have tried again and again to shake off the sad impression this memory creates, but without avail. For half an hour 1 have watched those two schooners come slowly into view from ont the purple darkness of the distance and ghost-like go sailing by until now they are mere patches ot haze far off to_ the ‘westward. t may be the wave voices as the water plashes against the piles of the wharf or the fainl thrumming of that guitar in one of the fishermen’s cabins inshore that has 50 vividly reawakened this sad recollect- ion. That night, too, n rippling sea muade derisive music among thn hart timbers, and some one was playing a guitar in the distanco. We had been boys together, had graduated from the university in the same class, and separated only when ho went tudy medicine. This was ng for many years and had been brought about A lettor :mkin;} some advice in a commercial matter and inyiting me to dine with him at the lake. I knew the erime he had committed, though absence_ from the city had pre: vented me from learning the details of the sad affair. I knew also that he had been acquitted upon a well-substantiated plea of insanity, to which his moody temperament, his strong aflections, and bitter antipathies lent an air of prol bility in the minds of those who knew him'as [ did. I did not ask his confession that night. No! I remember, he it was who said he had something 'to tell me, and as the night wus pleasant we could walk out to the end of the whart, where we would be alone. We had ftinished our dinner at Boudro’s, one of those rare gastronomic comvositions the cooks of th 8 knew so well how to prepare, and 1 ci even now smft the Havor of those Bouquet de Aroma cigars, They secmed to be better than those of today. He had been even boisterous in his mirth during the repast, something remarkable for him, and talked so loudly that had I not known he had partaken of but little wine I might have thought his spirits 0 enlivened by the choi s. hen he walked out and s believe this is the very spot. moon was up then about where it is s light 1 noticed that a remark- able change had come over his counte- nance. The gemal smile had disap- peared, and his eyes had lost their merry twinkle. Whether it was the moonlight or my imagination, I could never tell, but his face assumed a bloodless pallor that was most unearthly, and his voice became deep and hus| He looked inquiring] no one was the wharf, water. Before commencing he nervously with his watch charm. see in the moonlight it was an amet! heart. I also noticed that he had unti his crav nd unbuttoned his collar, in order to breath more freely. It was an amber silk cravat, and its ends fluttered restlessly in the wind. “Iam telling you this,'* said he, *‘be- cause I cannot live without teiling 1t to somebody. 1 know I can trast you, and it will relieve me of a burden that is kill- ing me to confess all. Iknow that no judicial action can be taken now, but it will be a satisfaction to know that to one person at least I have told the whole truth, not saving If in the slightest degree. and that!” e knocked the ashes from his cigar and they dropped into the lak “When I returned from F began_the practice of medicine here, you know 1 was very well off. My er's place on Bayou Lafourche which she left me had netted me a handsome sum dur- ing my nd sugar then brought good prices. I was never extravagant, as you know, and n indulged m strong drink. None of our family ever did, "But that has nothing to do with what I want to say. ‘1o tell you the truth, the neaver I approach the ‘subject the more timid I become. Please keep me from wandering away from it. Hold me down to it. Understand? Light another cigar. “Well, I began practice and all my time to my studie peculiar affinity I became the symptology of neryouw drifted that y naturally, and 1 gave to the nerves and bramm every spare moment. I had no thought then what would lead me to. Understand? iondships were fow--perhaps too 1 with a limited acquaintance ome introspective and given his own sentiments and sions too much,” ‘He turned his_big hlac direction of a sai for nearly a minute.” I could seo from the motion of the muscles of his neck that he was endeavoring to swallow. To use an old expression, *‘his heart had come up in his throat " “I met and loved N another long silenc “about to see that nce and devoted By some namored of diseases. [ eyes in the 1 Was silent wlie Latourneau;” He lit another cig: As he tried to go on his lip trem- bied and he clinched his hands as if in great pain. “My God, how I loved her! will not talk of that. Understand? worshiped her, and I thonght she loved me. ‘T'hen he came between ns. He set ||H) his paltry sentiment as against my adoration. The fool! Don’t Ic i Follow me, please, ' ing, flattering gallant of the salons, thought to take from me the one thing that was dearer than an con of lives—to win her. He brought it on himself, arose and paced up and down the arf for a few minutes and then took his former place, apparently somewhat quicted by the excercise. Ilc wenton, less excitedly now I felt that it was impossible that hoth of us could live in this world together. You know how small it is, In Berlin you jostle the man you thought in Amer- ica, in Paris you get into the same omni- bus with the “individual you imagined in Rio o Railroads and steamships rod the world's eircumfe: mero hand’s span. We' crowded, T thought over the matter aeenly and long. T thotight of nothing ) To get rid of him, that was what would huve to be done.”’ A tremor passed r him. *“‘But how? twas it. The days of seeret murders long sine passed, Chemistry and other seienc have made the chances of escape from detection difficult, very diflicult. One night 1 made up my mind. Ah! that night! She hadneyer appeared so lovely. Weo were walking in the garden undir the orange t How the scent of those ange buds comoes back! It was then she told me had already asked her to be his wife. It her father's wish she should marry him, and her father's wish was law. She would not say she loved him. ~ ‘“That, she whispered, ‘no one would ever know, ay or no." “Ileft her vesolved. If I could not get her, at least he never should. “Then T set myselfto work formulating But we mhnlnl 5. s = . ¢ glaneed inquiringly at mcto sce the effect of his worfl Yes, I gave to it nights and days; the result you see here,” strikiug his st, “a man who has aceomvlished his pur- pose and is nqw free, free us yourself I must confess it, I feared the punish- ment of the law.. The dread of an igno- minicus death at the hands of an exceu- DAILY BEE: SATURDAY JUNE 5. 1886. tioner was a nightmare to me. To avoid this all my intellect was concentrated. The thought came to me as a flash illum- inates the darkness, I eommenced with zenl only & desperate man ean know, the study of insamty, its pathol- ogy. 1 digested Virehow, Pinel d Es quirol. Dr. Heinrich Schules’ Hands buchder Gersteskrankheiten 1 devoured- and Von Zeimssen's works were my daily pabulum. With Bucknill and Tuke I en tered the psyehologieal depths and Mandsley made my way clear. [read in Pritchard that one of the first symptoms of this disease was an_indifference to social consideration, apathy and neglect of the persona ther duties, dislike and suspicion of friends. This was my starting point. “1 will not now wearv you with a sci- ie description of my course. I knew i s a)good defense in law and 1 ot myself studionsly about it to become insane, that 1 might cheat the law. I wanted to leave no room for any doubt. I wanted hundreds of witnesses who would be willing to come forward to tes- tify, when T might commit the deod, that my reason was and had been gone for some time, ‘Do not turn away from me like that. The demon jealousy it was that led me on. If [did'not regret 1 would not now be talking.here to you. Understand? ‘I commenced cautiously, changed my habits of life, gave up “my club, took apartments in a hotel the better to be observed, becume absent-minded, talked to myself. [ soon saw that my friends observed the change and I chuckled. 1 left my office for days mysteriously, and as mysteriously, without explanation, I walked the streets alone late at night, and gradually became more violent in my temper. I disturbed an audience at the theater by loudly interrupt- ing the actors and was jocted. My friends began to talk. 1 smiled at them when alone. What stupid wdiots! They recommended medical advice and that gentle old Dr. Har visited me. Poor man, heisa child in my hands, questions T answered evasively, and ¢ him suflicient evidence to set his d to shaking ominously. He pulse. He did not _know I had ted its speed violent exercise a moment before his visit, He said my system was out of order and my b needed rest. For four months I pur: my systematic course, growing slowly and slowly more violent.” I overheard a conversation between some old friends in which it was suggoested that it would soon become their duty to confine me in Th: tied me. T'had rearched the proper point. Then [ armed myself and waited. In the open street at noonday, was the time. Madmen do do not seek to conceal their deeds, sol took the open, bold course. Under- stand ¥ His eyes were tlashing now, and his fingers worked convulsively, “I met him at the postofiice. With aloud laugh. I pointed towards him and called him my brother from Hindostan. The crowded looked surprised and laughed. I told them he wild animal; to keep away. He looked astomshed, dumbfounded. T expressed great fear of him, and them—" He had risen, and was ing out into the moonlight. The wa washed and plashed, trickled ana dripped on timbers below. The guitar was tinkling inshore. “Then I fired—1 fired! Understand? “My_ God in all my months of re- hearsal, my course of cruel study, 1 had not once thought of it. When I'saw body on the sidewalk it came to me like a stroke of lightning. All this did not give her to me! This had never entered my brain. He was gone, and 80 was my love. She would never look upon me My brain recled, and I awoke in the jail, and they were holding the in- in the vard below. The you know of Everybody said 1 insane—the 'doctors, the pavers, everybody. T was acquitted and v friends escoried me to an asylum. 1 cheated ‘the 'law, but not my con- 'nce, Understind? 1n a few months discharged ‘s a cured man. So the physician said, Rest, they said, was whut was needed, and that restored my reason. Poor fools. *You are the first to whom & have told this, the very fi What can Ido—what can L do to wif back the love—her lov I s0 cruelly dashed to the earthy That what T wanted'to ask you, only that.” He P ed to and fro nervously, clasping his hand to hig head as if in pain. 1 turned from him with a shudde seemed in that mobnlight to be a from the nether 'regions. His face, glaring eyes, long, slender fingers, and sepulchral voice. T told him that he need never hope for love again. He would never That sentiment was too holy, too divine, for such souls. Repentance and religion alone were left to him. He turned his gri shaking his head s{«-llo \\: it eyes upon me and, dly muttered: “Yes; T know i * will never brighten my wys again. Weak, weak fool that T wis.”” He took a capsule from his vest pocket and swallowed it & am going to travel,” sa want to \\'llhmvyl 4 lecrions on! ys remem- ber me kindly. Think of me as a poor boy that loved too well, won't you? 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This will pay parties to look at, as it is one of the best of in- Agre ol mMariol. vestinents, There is also small fruit 1 acre lots in Patterson's Park, . a ily; shade 110t on Farnam near 23d st., $4,000. <sovkhiorsmalitumiy;hsbide ete. 165 feet on Farnum, m Capitol add, heap 2 story house on 17th st.. $1,000 cash,bal- cheap. 2lot on [arney st., $5,000 each. 5 ucres just west of ‘Tuttle's sub-division, §230 per acre. This is one of the cheap- est aere lots about the city. well, cistern, barn; terms very 11ot in Millard Place, §3,000. £3,000. 1 lot in Millard Place, §2,000. Cottage on Wheaton street, ecllar, well, 1lot on Burt street, §200 cash, balance to suit, $1,250. Lots in Lincoln Place, Walnut Hill, South Omaha, and, in fact, vacant lots in all parts of the city.Terms to suit; small monthly payments or any way that purchaser muy wish. tages on Park ave, ) improvements; a b brick with all mod- rzaing for both Omaha eto., ance to suit. house in View, 8 rooms, closet, pant with good well, #75 cash, balance $10 per month. Thisis a nice chance for for a varty to get a good howe, on 19th street, it has coul house, ete., balance §35 pef House 9 rooms, block 7, city of Omaha; |A_one-story easy, Cottage, 6 rooms, picket fence, good repair; $300 cash, I, cis ot 61x140, sl month. Price 3,100, Lot in Arlington Place, 50x128, terms casy, $900. ) Splendid residenc avenue, lot 100x 4,500, balance 25 per month. we huve | 110t 90 fi. front, block 8, South Omaha, rms casy, $300. ,000. Will sell separate. 1 cottage north of Judge Dundy’s, lot 75- x150, §6, We make a specialty of selling houses and lots with small cash payments, balance smail monthly payments. Don't pay rent toothers, when you ean apply it on a house for yourself. We also have farm landsin all parts of the state, tosell or trade, Alsostocks of merchandise of all kinds to sell or trade. Money to Loan on Real Estate or Chattels. Park , only 12 rooms, on 150, terms easy, BARKE & BARKALOW, Real Estate and Loan Agents Room 21 Paxton Building, Cor. 15th and Farnam st. Very desirable lots on monthly payments of from $10 to $60 in the following additions, EVGSt Omahta,hB'Ie‘u‘kalow Place. Quaha View ace, re ) : ngi‘{g%wfg)lgce. s Sharen Place and Walnut Hill Also some choice houses and lots on Farnam st, Burt st.,, Leaven- wo'rt st, Phil Sheridan and Cuming st., We have bargains in propertyin all parts of the city;easy payiaecuts, Low rates of interest. FARM LANDS FOR SALE, '* Rents Collected, Taxes Paid. Omaha View,