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From the Montgomery (Ala.) Journal.

 THE CONFESSION OF A PIRATE.

 The public no doubt remembers the sto- " of the daughter of Aaron Burr, who was the wife of Coy. Aston, of South Carolina. On her return from Europe, about the year 1872, she embarked from Charleston, on a visit to New York, on board priyateer built vessel, and was never heard of alfer- wards. Her friends at first thought the vessel had fallen into the hands of pirates, but afterwards concluded 1t had been wrecked and lost. It appears from the statement of a respectable merchant Of Mobile, that man in that city recently confessed to his physician, on his dying bed, that he had been pirate, and helped to destroy the vessel and all the crew and pas- sengers on which Mrs. Aston had embark ed for New York. He declared, says thls gentleman, that after the men were all killed, there was an unwillingness on the part of every pirate to take the life of Mrs. Aston, who had not resisted them or fought them, and therefore they drew lots who should perform the deed-as 1t had to be done. The lot fell on this pirate, who declares 'sASAe S SAN St@N Aio OA,joNt Ol puttil9 lllG td- dy to death, by laying plank over the edge of the ship, and made made Mrs. Aston walk out on the plank until 1t tilted over in- to the water with her. The dying pirate requested his physician to make this story public, but his surviving family will not con- sent that the name of the deceased should be known.

 The above tale was repeated over and over by the merchant before mentioned, in the presence of a number of gentlemen, whose names can be given. He said he received 1t from the physician himself, with no other injunction of secresy than that he should not disclose the name of the physi- clan for the present. On being asked if the physician was man of yeracity and responsibility, he replied that there was none more so in Mobile. The merchant was warned that his story would get into the newspapers, to which he made no ob- jection, but affirmed that he received the information from the physician-who was serious and earnest in relating it.