But the hour approached when the mask he had worn so long would be thrown aside and his unhallowed desires be avowed.

The soldier was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson, and within four months after, New Orleans fell.

Then the persecutions of the unprincipled villain commenced.

A Northern man, he did not at the commencement of the war avow his sympathies to be with the people of his section, but, pretending friendship for the South, remained in our midst until Butler and his infamous cohorts had gained possession of the city, when he proclaimed himself a Unionist, and gaining the favor of that disgrace to the name of man, was soon able to intimidate the cowardly or beggar the brave.

One of his first attempts was to compel this lady to yield to his hellish passions.