A Living Son Of Aaron Burr

It is kiiown to but eomparafcively faw persons that a soa of Colono] Attron liurr izen of Miami couuty. Í did nót credit the faot uu til led into the presenco iiMtoi-'s Sun, whose head s already streaked with hairs. The old gentleman, who beara lus mother'a and livos mi ;i farm won by thó sweatoi ., is 0110 of our most ; imishes, y.-i v.'i-y relnctanÜy, incontestable proofa of iiis descent con■ tters ttova Bun L hiá matibter prior and sübsequent to hot son's li;-tli. I !atharin , at that time (1800) :I weil-known Washington bell.', who feil beneath the lilandish:t' the i'i-!'resident. She vms :ia l wit, and after her ruin Sied to Philadelphja. !'n;n the gy oapital eroateii muoh talk, and aftor that he was ili-:ti( tu alt !u! world suvo her titled destróyer and hi r bou. tSx, gaw his father but twioo - ■ fter his acouittal before the Supreme Court of the United States at liichmond, when he v;is bied fortreason; the geoond and last time in the latter patt of l'- in New York. On the latter occasion he was recognized as the son of the conspirator. "Si;',1' s:ü;l theold man, "although tho bloodof Aiinni Bun runs through my veins, I detost it. He conspired agaiost tho bost governraent on the face of God's i il, and I aiu tin; ofiqsring of - u traitor! I iried to' redeen) my birth by ñghting for my country in the Florida war; but 1 oe ranklel in my h'art, and liftle does tho govrnnnrnt think that it p ivs a pension to the son of I ü UT." Wlien I asked him wlutlier I might publisb these factfi, he said : "Yes. It will do me no harin ; but ilo nut mention my plaoe of retirement. Stigmatize my father as you ploase ; but speak kisdly of my ;ontle and cmng mother. 1 ani aearly threescore and i. a," he continued; with moistened eyea. "I want to gd where the ,st:iiu of ancestry will never ■ me." He waits calmly for death, and, I believe, has exacted a promiae from liis grandeon to bury the letters of his father Wltü lililí. -