the others with him, existed no more.  When Wyatt told me his real name, I was surprised at beholding him.  He told me that he had set fire twice to Vicksburg, and once to Natchez, and that, during the conflagration, he murdered three men.  He told me he killed Tucker in 1839.  I talked with Mr. Morrill before several officers of the prison, in regard to what Wyatt said about cutting the entrails out of Tucker, and the confession which Mr. Morrill now has from Wyatt will show the main circumstances of this murder, perhaps not giving Tucker’s name, but he speaks about the flat-boat murder, between Natchez and New Orleans, and I claim it, in justice to me, that the reverend gentleman should produce the confession Wyatt made, when he speaks of “speculation on the Mississippi.”

I also call on Mr. Morrill, in justice to myself and the public, to answer the following questions. 1st.  Did not Wyatt confess in his presence the murder of individuals besides Tucker, on the Mississippi? 2d.  Did he not say he cut the entrails out to prevent their rising? 3d.  Did he not say he was tried at St. Louis under another name, (I think it was North,) and did I not turn to Mr. Morrill, and say, I knew some men had been tried at St. Louis, but knew none of the parties; and did not Wyatt then say that he was tried for murder at St. Louis, that he was convicted on his first trial, but acquitted on a new trial, and that an innocent man was hung? 4th.  Did I not tell Mr. Morrill, that Wyatt informed me that he had been a convict in the Ohio Penitentiary; and does not Mr. Morrill recollect that upon my third visit to Wyatt’s cell, I said to Wyatt, that it was reported he had been in the Ohio Penitentiary, at which Wyatt frowned, and I changed the tenor of my question by stating, that Gordon said he (Wyatt) had been there, and that Wyatt laughed, and said it was such d——­d lies which occasioned Gordon’s death; and did not Mr. Morrill say to me, he knew many of Wyatt’s misfortunes, which he kept secret from the agent of the prison; and will Mr. Merrill deny that when we went into the office, after my last visit, that the clerk again repeated that Wyatt had been in the Ohio Prison, and did not I then decide with the clerk, the probability of such being the fact, and did not Mr. Morrill still insist that it was a false report?

In conclusion I will say, that whatever may be the reverend gentleman’s intentions towards me, and in his own behalf the motives for which I am not able to penetrate; yet, although he brands my statements as false, and although the cell was but four by seven feet in size, I leave it to the community to decide, whether two men, who can speak the “flash language,” in which one word can convey sentences, may not hold a conversation not easily understood by a third person, ignorant of its meaning—­and can Mr. Morrill assert what meaning was conveyed by such language between Wyatt and myself? if so, he is the first man I ever knew that could interpret a language or tongue he never studied.  At least one-fourth of the conversation between Wyatt and myself before Mr. Morrill, was of this kind.  I do not think Mr. Morrill understood all he heard, yet the greater part of what I published in my letters was spoken in plain English, and Mr. Morrill, at the time, gave vent to his feelings over the dreadful disclosures.