Aaron Burr

Tluirhm Weed'tSton n. y. Correspondent. When l knew Huir beat ha was well advaaoed ia yewt. He " ooe of t !_ worst men that ever livrd. He liad BOaeruplea whatever about betnyiDg :i woinan, and hfl obOW t10 luvliest in lita land Kir bis vielims. About the time of his duel ba Ind disgraccful iotricnea with a dozen or 20 ladiea at once in New rk, Albany, New Haven, Providcaee, Bortón, Baltimore, Kichmond, and Hinallcr towns between. Soujc of theaa wcre kept up fot yetre, t.ut i of tlu.' ladiea had ipëedy raeoewora. I npcak of them as ¦ ladies" - lliey were wives of brilliant lawyers or mere,hants, or the young daugliters of tashionable o!d Famifiea, Thera ma an agoay of few auion. tlicsi; when the duel was fought, lost tbc guilty gallant sbonld fall and thcir terrible secret bc betraycd, and this lear deepened to eoBateHiation whea ba died ut la-t. Manv of the oldcst families in New Vork, l'euiisylvania and New Kngland treniblcd tlien. Aod well they migbt. It had been rumoied around that Burr had rever destroyed any letters fiijm Ihüos. And tbis thowa, bMter than anything cl-c, his laek of any moral Mme whatever - for he refused 10 proteot those whoin he hnd rrievouely injurtd, when thej onuU have been proteo tod withoutareomeot'aihou;ht. fie used to Loast that he had never destroyed one letter. And with deriliah method be bad foldad thetu all carofully and tiled them rcgularly in packages- each lady's letters by themaelre. When Burr died at last Mathew L l'avi-, aboat his unly friend, Wbo bccame bis administrator, .ent f. ir me. I went over. 'l'hcre was notbiog (o aduiinister but the oipressiona of tendorncss wbich the aooumlrel had cajoled froni reapeotaWe wmiien and (led away. 'J'here was t lic will wliich he niadw theday bifbre hiadvel witb rlamilton. In that n shiiI td liis daughtefi Tkepdoii r 1 1 v legitímate ehild. ihen al sea": "In a blue trunk in the atlic you will Bnd aomethinir to ainuae, more to nstraot, and still more to regret." That bine tnink whi.-li he t li iis i-oolly bcqucalhed to his onlv rluld, aod that cliild a loTclj daughtcï, contuiocd the earefully tteaured love littrrs, froui a duzon wonien at a time, prool's of lui fat lier' a depravity ! Doei art ibal ahow that liurr wa without any moral solide whatever? Theodonia va swallowed up by tbc wafSa, and niver UW the blue trunk. We openad the blue trunk, whieh lavi bad ] .alt Iv examinad, and I jfhall never forMl niy MtonisbmCDt and disKUM at what I nff, It was ncarly f uil of letters IV woinen, liled in packages. We lookêd at the individual lettert, Most ui' them had originallv been Mgoed with initials only, or ol't. lier without any name, or with mie pet name ; but liurr, witb a DMÜgoity whmw motive I cannot even yet andamtand, bad written out each name in tul). He Reemed resolved tint. others aboilld sbare his infamy. Some of the MtnM bolooged to the inost honored families in the land - to liavc rrvealed them would Imvc been to caiiC terrible angniab, and in teveraj eaaeii probably the breaking ap of families. I used to gO uver aod look at them when 1 had a spare hoor, 'l'hev were Btriotly ruarded by DaTÏS. lle was ¦ qooei man, but he had a hij;h mane of personal honor. Why, Mordeeai M. Noáh ofiered Dsriat2U,00U tor that blue trunk and it content but, of course, the offer was gpurned and the insult resented. Matthew Dsvis, too, had his eccentrioilies, and ono of his ciioir notiooa in regard to these Captwcd lovo letters was that they thould all be returncd to the writers ! That aeeoied to me to infliet needles pain, and 1 argued with liim about it, but he raid the writers would Ubetter tatttfied if tbry had a ehaneo to deatroy tbeni thenjselves. Some of them were old ladies then, uiothcrsand grandmothers, but Davia andortook the grim ta.-k of returniog all the packages oflottcrs by the hands of trusty friends. A good many he gave back hiinself. He gave uie one of these delicate packages to deliver when I was going to l'rovidtncc ono day, but 1 told hiin T would sec him hangcd lirst. But 1 know that (jen. Scott did accept one of these packages from .Matthew Davis and returned it with his own hand to a lady high in society in Rtchmood. He told me so. lalways wondered wbether .she thanked him or not, but I forgot to ask him. l.ut think of the moral nature of a man capable of deliberately leaving all those letters, to bis own daughter as a legaey ! Burr was quite a sniall man. Very .craceful in iiiovcinent and courtcous in demeaoor. A small hand and foot. Not spirited or daahing at all, but his manner was full of repost-, and his voice was soft and musical. He would strike one at first as being slightly etreminate, but he was not so ; lic was a bold, strong, capable man. In conversation, tilt the last It) years of his lile, be was brilliant. But, to return to the subject of his toward womon. When be was in Kogland hc wai greatly a-J8Ísled and befriendcd by a learucd professor of Oxford university, whofie name I must not mentioo. In returu for this Itiend.-hip Burr ruincd his wile. Six years uftmivards Burr obtained a position for this professor in a New York college, for obvious reasons, and when they canie over to this city Burr also seduecd their daugliter, a lovely girl of 17, whose eonfidence he had won when she was a 1 1 1 tic girl, during liis. visit in Knuland. In due time the profeaaot died, and Burr becamc a pcnniless outcast. Then this tiiother and daughter, iostead of hating and spuruing him, took him and supported him during his last by kceping a boarding house dowt town. This was on the wcll-known Keent place on Brtadway, iuxt below Wall street. llerc his food and his very medicine were paid lur by the two woiucn on whoui hc liad infiicteil mortal iijury 15 years bclbrc. lie liad no (eme of shaine or gralitude. He was almost uoiver.-ally hated during his last years, and was really an object of pit y. I remember being on an Albany steatnboat on" ni.irht, and seeing arrouehing form out on deck I went uut, and therc was Burr in the cold. I asked him why hc did not go in. lle said he was Dol eold, but wc went in togethcr. Thcrc was (ov. Louis Mor 'an, whotn I saluted. I noticed that the} 'lidn't speak, ao I aeated myself between ihem. l'inally Burr rose and moved off. "Don't you know Col. Burr?" I askeii him. ' Ï08," hc said, "I know the d - d reptile !"