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TfIURS IX9 Y MO RjYWG, OCT. 9.1893.
* By the ship Chancellor, rapt. Bradley, 4 days
•from New-York, we have received the papers of
that city up to the 2d inst. inclusive. By these
papers English dates are furnished to the Ist Sep
tember.
The following is the result of the election in
this County:
For representatives to the Stale legislature,
<5. W. Owens, Senator —M. Myers, T. Barnard,
and John Millen, representatives —elected with
out opposition.
For Member# of Congress,
JAMES M. WAYNE, 344
GEORGE R. GILMER, 209
T. U. P- CHARLTON, 207
RICHARD H. WILDE, 206
DANIEL BRAILSFORD, 205
WILEY THOMPSON, 149
THOMAS F. FOSTER 145
JAMES MERRIWEATHER, 135
CHARLES E. HAYNES, 131
JOHN A. CUTHBERT, 103
WILLIAM TRIPLETT; 53
CHARLES WILLIAMSON, 35
WILSON LUMPKIN, 28
The annual election which has just closed in
this state, has not for many reasons, been so
■warmly contested, as those which have for a
long time preceded it. The unanimity which
prevails in regard to the presidential question,
has had a tendency to allay in a great
the violence of party feeling on other subjects.
The materials of the two great parties which
‘have so long agitated the state, still exist; proba
bly in their former relative strength. But the
singular circumstances of the times, which have
arrayed them both under the same flag; and tho
bitterly hostile to each other, yet obliged them to
tight in the same ranks, side by side, for the same
objects, has in some instances, so confused the
ideas of the belligerents, as nearly to obliterate
the ancient landmarks at many points, and to
raise a doubt in the minds of some, as to the par
ty to which they belong. Yet this state ofthing3
it cannot reasonably be expected, will much
longer continue. As soon as the presidential
question is decided, public opinion and public
feeling, will resume their former channels. The
party now in power, will endeavor to perpetuate
that power, by efforts to fill every post under their
patronage with their own partizans and friends-
And to do this, many of the present faithful ser
vants of the public must be removed from office.
Our whole judiciary, jjudges, solicitors, &c. are
to be elected this year. The present incumbents
■were elected in 1825, under the dominance of the
other party; and as they are highly esteemed by
the people, nothing could produce a greater ex- j
citeinent, than the expulsion of them from office, 1
for the puposc of making room for some political
dependaut.
At the present moment it is uncertain which
‘'party will have the mastery in the next legisla
ture. And whatever may be the state of feeling
abroad among the people at large, there is no
• doubt of the fact, that the dividing lines between
• the two parties will become sufficiently obvious
when the interests of party come to be contras
ted with the interests of the people in the repre
sentative halls at Milledgeville.
Fire! —A fire broke out on Monday morning last,
about 4 o’clock, in the large brick building on the
corner of Jefferson st. and the Bay, known as the
Washington Hall, and occupied by J. C. Fittzpa
4rick, as a public hotel; and notwithstanding the
great activity of the firemen, the building was en
tirely consumed before the flames could be got
under.
A negro man belonging to Mrs. Woolhopter,
was killed by the falling of a portion of the wall,
.and three others badly injured. Engine No. 5
was also crushed by the same accident.
The fire is supposed to have commenced in one
of the lower store rooms, in the Northeast corner
©f the building ; which was unoccupied.
The property was owned by the State Bank of
Georgia, and was insured at the Charleston Ma
rine and Fire Insurance Company.
The Hon. Martin Van Bueren has been nomi
nated as Governor, and Judge Throop as Lieut.
Governor, of the state of New-York, by a con
vention of the friends of Gen, Jackson, held at
Herkimer.
Miched Esperance Hersant, eleve vice consul
attached to the Consulate General of France, wffio
has been appointed to take charge of the Consu
late of France ft r the port of New-York and its
dependencies, has been recognised in that capa
city by the President of the Lnited States.
Scarcity of four. —We are credibly informed
that there were not for sale on Tuosday last in this
‘town, ten barrels of four. To what the scarcity
is attributable we know not. Several cargoes ar
rived yesterday. — Pror. Journal.
Light House , St. Johns. —We are informed that
the Government decline building the light house
at St. Johns until a title to the land can bo obtain
ed ; but the proposed site being on land the title
to which is litigated, and which will take some
time to determine, there can be no hopes of the
light’s being established.
The horrid and barbarous practice of punish
ment on the wheel, has not yet been altogether
abolished in Germany.
The prison at Tilsit has lately been destroyed
by fire. Many of the prisoners were destroyed
also. Os the prisoners rescued, those under sen
tence of death seemed the most devoutly thankful
tG Proridonce for their escape.
“Morgan Indictments.— The indictment which
was found against Win. Hotchkiss, for a misde
meanor, d^c.‘By the Grand Jury of this county,
at the May term f the General Sessions of the
Peace, has been quashed by the Court held here
last week, for an error as to the date of the offence
in the principal count of the indictment. A nolle
prosequi was subsequently entered by the Dis
trict Attorney as to the remaining counts.
A'iagara Courier. :
Torture at Lisbon. —A gmtleman wh© has just
arrived from Lisbon, visited the prison previously
to his departure, when one of the prisoners in
formed him that he had not been able to get any
sleep for three nights, on account of the dreadful
screams heard at different periods of the nfoht,
supposed to proceed from prisoners under torture,
w order to induce them to ooufe*j-
%
Weio English Settlement.—A new colony is
about to be established bv the British Govern
ment, on Swan River, in the Island of New Hol
land. In point of climate, soil, A.c the site ofthe
new establishment is said to hold out great in
ducements to European settlers.
By the coasters from the east end of Long-
Island, say 6 the New-York Commercial Adverti
ser of Friday, we learn that the Buenos Ayr-ean j
squadron, commanded by Com.'Fournier, having
obtained provisions, water, 4*c- sailed from Fort
Pond Bay, about ten days since, on a cruise.—
Capt. Clarke, commander of the brig Gov. Dirago,
and his surgeon, quitted the squadron previous to
their sailing.
Murder. —From a variety of circumstances, the
public have strong reasons to believe that George
Swearingen, Sheriff of Washington co. Mary
land, murdered his wife, near Cresaptown, Alle
gany co. on Monday the Bth inst. A coroner’s in
quest was held over the body (it having been dis
interred for that purpose) of the deceased, which
was in session from Thursday the 11th inst until
Wednesday night following, when a verdict was
rendered which is as follows —•“ That after a care
ful and full examination of witnesses, they the
(jurymen) are of opinion, that Mary C. Swearin
gen came to her death by the hands of her hus
band, George Swearingen.”
Swearingen has fled, and it is supposed has gone
to Virginia. The sheriff of Allegany county,
with some other gentlemen, has gone in pursuit
of him.— Cumberland , Va. Advocate of Sept. 20.
Greenfield, Sept. 23.
Accident. —On Saturday last, as Mr. David
Wait, 2d, of this town, was in the act of driving
his team into the Ferry boat a few rods below
where Connecticut river ’Bridge stood, between
this place and Montague, the rope with which the
boat was fastened broke, and the boat suddenly
left the shore, whilst the horses only had entered,
and they being attached to the load, the boat fill
ed and sank about six rods from the shore. The
horses, four in number, were all drowned. The
wagon was freighted with 91 firkins of butter,
700 lbs. cheese, and 800 lbs. tallow. The butter
and tallow were principally saved ; the cheese
mostly lost. The horses were valuable for the
purpose for which they were used, and it is a
heavy loss to Mr. Wait, who is an enterprising
and industiious young man. A fair estimate of
the whole loss is about SSOO. We are happy to
state that no lives were lost — Herald.
St. Louis, (Missouri,) Sept. 9.
JVeic Arrangement of the Army. —We undei
; stand that orders were received at Jefferson Bar
racks, during the past week, from Head Quarters,
for the immediate detachment of eight compa
nies of the sth Regiment to occupy the following
posts, viz : Two companies to be stationed at Fort
Brady, Sault de St. Mary, four companies at Fort
Howard, Green Bay, and two at Fort Dearborn,
Chicago.
We also understand, that two companies of tJ.e
2nd Regiment hv boon ordered to Fort Niagara ;
i two companies to Fort Gratiot, Mac kin a; and
that 8 other companies of the same Regiment arc
to be distributed in Maine.
Four companies of the Ist Regiment have been
ordered to Fort Snelling ; Four to Fort Craw
ford, Prairi-des-Chiens ; and lw T o to Fort Winne
! bago.
i We have no means of ascertaining the causes
1 which have led to this new disposition of the Ar
-1 my, and occupation of abandoned posts. We are
inclined to the belief, which we have heard ex
j pressed in other quarters, that it is intended to
prevent the execution of any attempts to smug
s gle English manufactured goods into the United
S States, by way of Canada, after the provisions of
: the Tariff law of the last session have taken ef
fect. The opinion derives plausibility from the
intelligence brought by the last arrival from Liv- :
erpool.
[By the Chancellor .]
New-York, Oct. 2
The LT. S. sloop Os War Peacock, was lau no fe
ed at our Navy Yard on Tuesday, under an ap
propriate salute. It will be recollected that this
vessel is intended to be employed by government
on a voyage of discovery. —A*. Y. Gazette.
j A fire broke out at two o’clock yesterday morn
ing in the house No. JSI Grand-street, which was
almost entirely destroyed. The lower part was
■ occuped by Mr. O'Hagan, as a hatter's shop. The
roof of No. 153 was burnt, and that of 155 slightly
injured. The bells in the lower part of the city
did not ring.— lb.
From St. Bartholomews. —By the schooner
Leonora, Parrish, at Baltimore, from St. Bar
tholomewss, the editors of the Commercial
Chronicle have received from their attentive
Correspondent, a Price Current, Shipping List,
and other items of intelligence, to the 6th inst.
and a St. Kitts paper of the 23th ult.— lb:
Their correspondent informs, that they have
advices of the probability of Sweden’s opening
the Island of St. Barts to such privateers as may
have legal commissions, to enter, for the purpose
of repairing, fyc. a privilege which at present is
not permitted them. The markets were on the
rise, and ranged as per quotation.
“ A most attrocious act of piracy, says a letter
from their correspondent of the 3d inst. has been
lately committed on a brig from Liverpool, which
was captured, and the crew and passenger,
(among whom was a lady and some children) all
supposed to have been murdered. The brig, I
understand, is at St. Eustatia, and has commen
ced discharging her cargo.”
i From the New York Courier of •he Ist October.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
By (he arrival yesterday of the packet
ship Florida, capt. Tinkham, from Liver
pool, whence she sailed Ist September, we
have received our regular files of London
! papers from 25th to 31st August; Liverpool
from 26th August to Ist Sept and Glasgow
j and Greenock from 22d to 30th August—
! with Lloyd’s and Shipping Lists to 30h,
all inclusive. Our papers contain no poli
. ticai hr-,**.-* of interest foonn anv quarter ex*
j cept the Russian army.
FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.
The Russians have been repulsed from
Chumla, alter nine days hard fightings with
a loss ol 40,0 )0 men in killed ami wounded.
The London Standard, (a Ministerial pa
per) says that this account has received gen
eral credit, and that it is confidently assert
ed, that the English -government has re
ceived advices of the event The Turks
had 10,000 cavalry in the field Chumla,
then, is not yet taken, and Varna is still ic
the hands of the Turk. It seems that the
Sultan has neither been playing the fool
nor the braggart for the last three months;
for, instead of 60,000 infantry, he has
200,000, and instead of 10,000 cavalry, he
has 30,000. Fhe Turkish accounts state
that in thecamp of Chumla alone there are
500 pieces of cannon, well served. The
foundry ofKophana has not been idle
Information has reached Paris that the
Russians have also been twice repulsed
from Varna. The Russian bulletins say
nothing of these events— they are onlv
framed fur the purpose of celebrating the
triumphs of she Czar, not of recording his
defeats, if we believe the Russian, there
reason why we should disbelieve the
I urk. The character of the latter for
rcrautij is Hilty equal to that of the former
With these remarks we introduce the
TURKISH BULLETIN.
Constantinople , July 26—The hopes
which the Porte had conceived that its po
sition on the northern side of the Balkan
would form a bulwark against the Russian
armies, has been nearly justified by a series
of successful engagements fought since the
beginning of .July. It appeared' that the
Russian commanders had not collected im
posing forces upon any particular point, but
lust much time in partial attacks, which
having been frequently repelled by the
Turks, inspired the latter with great addi
tional courage, and confirmed the Porte in
the system of operations w hich it had adopt
ed.
The first Bulletin, from the Turkish
head-quarters arrived here on the 12th. It
announced an attack made by the Turks on
the position of Hadschid Oglou Razard
chik, between Chuumla and Varnai and
their defeat, after a loss of 1,500 men The
day after, says the bulletin, the attack was
renewed, and repulsed as before, chiefly
through the courageous defence of the regu
lar troops The Russians lost, in this se
cond action many men, and six pieces of
cannon.
The same day a very sharp encounter
took place between a Russian corps of a
hout 15,000 men with, 20 pieces of can
non, and the Turks stationed at Moldavia,
opposite VV iddin on the left bank of the
Danube. The Russians, after an obsti
nate at; ion of of five hours, were repulsed;
and lost on that occasion 2,600 men in kill
ed, wounded, and a great number taken
prisoners. They were even pursued to a
considerable distance in the VVallachia ter
ritory by a column which debouched from
Kialifat.
On the 10th, a Russian corps of 4,000
cavalry, and from 4 to 5,000 infantry was
defeated by Alisch Pacha at Taschilopet
and lost about 600 horsemen, who were
killed and seme prisoners, among whom
was a staff officer
From the 10th to the l6fh, there were
several conflicts less favorable to the Turk’.
Here there is a chasm in the communica
tion made by the Porto, Which leads at
once to some skirmishes which occurred in
the environs of Varna, and a short distance
! from Choumla.
| On the ]sth, 16th,and 17th,the Russians
tiir.dfe cvrr*i HYtaeka on the Turkish posi
tions near Varna. They had succeeded
iin approaching that town, hut the arrival
ofthe Captain Pacha with considerable
reinforcements,compelled them to fall back.
On this occasion they are said to have bad
a Colonel taken prisoner, on whom impor
tant papers were found.
Yesterday several couriers arrived from
the head-quarters of Houssein Pacha at
Choumla, and from the Captatn Pacha at
Varna. These despatches announce vic
tories. The following is their substance ;
“ The R issians had approached within
a league and a half of Varna, and had at
tacked the Captain Pacha on tha 20th,with
[ considerable forces ; but were repulsed,
after an obstinate conflict of twelve hour3,,
after experiencing severe losses Meha
; mad P acha was even preparing to attack
them the next day in their positions, but i
they had quitted during the night, and fal
len back a whole league.
During this event the division of the
Russian fleet had attempted to effect a lan
ding at Varna, hut had been repulsed by
the Turkish batieries, the fire of which had
damaged several transports. An attack
made the same day by the Russians on the
position of Chou nla, had not a more fa
vourable result. . They were beaten off
aftei losing 2,000 killed and many prison
ers. Such is the substance ofthe Turkish
Bulletins.
On tlie Danube the Russians have been
more successful General Roth having in
vested Silis-riaon the 21st July.
Letteis from Vienna, received in Paris,
announce ihat the Russian troops were
preparing to blockade Chumla As that
blockade must last at least two months, we
may consider the campaign as terminated
the/Russians will not get to Constantinople
this year.— Gaz. de l'raacc.
The Emperor of /Russia has gone to
Odessa on a visit to his w ife, and to meet
(sc :s said) the ministers of the other Pow
ers.
Baltimore Sept. 27.
The following extract of a letter from an
intelligent American nowat Rio de Janeiro
will be read with interest It is dated
* Rio de Jan; iro Ang 6. —The packet
from Buenos Ayres arrived yesterday, and
brings the Commissioners. Their orders
are to make peace if Brazil will consent to
abandon all pretensions to the Banda Ori
ental, and not otherwise—There is no
‘fmxfr Ability of the government’s assenting
to these terms, until some heavy disaster
may occur to it. The general opinion is
that there will not be a peace for several
months. 1 he Buenos Ayrean Government
have again a large naval force— report savs
21 vessels of ail kinds—and Admiral Brown
has promised to raise the blockade in six
weeks. As yet, Mr. Tudor has not done
‘any thing. Instead of the fulfilment of Mr
Rebellows assurances he gets nothing butfair
promises aud courteous evasions. Mr. Gor
don, the British Minister, sailed lor England
yesterday, in the Heron sloooofwar. He
is appointed to Madrid, and Lord Ponson
is expected from B. Ayres, to take his offi
ciai station near this Government. He ex
pressed himself ns much relieved by dosing
his functions, and that he was not able to
settle any question at issue with this Gov
I ernmeut. The French Government have
a large naval torce here sent out with great
flourishing, in order to settle the question
of captures by the blockading squadron.
So loud were the threats, and so determin;
ed was (hat Government said to be to use
force, if reason failed, to obtain justice for
the subjects ofFrance, that it was believed
at first by all here I Government and peo
plej : and under that impression the basis of
*n arrangement on the subject was agreed
to. After a few conferences with the
French diplomatists, this Government, with
a tact peculiar to these people, ascertained
ihat the French Admiral had no authority
to use force in any event They began first
to shuffle, and finally have involved the mat
ter in such difficulty as to annul the ar
ranged basis There is no way to treat
with effect with this Government but that
resorted to in questions with the Dey of
Algiers.”
-Extract of a letter received at the Norfolk Beacon
News Room, dated
Lagu:ra, 24th Aug 1828
“ Since I handed you the act of the dif
ferent Cabildos of Bogota, Valencia, and
Caraccas, proclaiming Gen. Bolivar Su
preme Chief of Columbia, the same act has
j been followed up, by the various smaller
! cities and towns as lar as any information
| has reached this place. This act therefore
: may be considered as emanatiug generally
from all parts ot Colombia.
But a few weeks had el.ipsed alter this
! movement, when Gen. Bolivar issued a
• proclamation ordering the army of the south
i to march to the confines of Peru ; that he
t should follow soon after, and that his arri
val would be “ the signal lor combat.”—
The movements of Peru for some months,
have been such as to indicate a spirit of hos
tility to the Bolivian Code left there by
Gen. Bolivar, and to those men left there
I in command in civil and military capacities.
General Sucre ilie hero of Ayacbuco) left
Supreme Chief of Bolivia, in a review of
troops, was fired on and wounded, and it is
said it has caused him to lose one of his
arms ; he made a capitulation, and has re
quested Colombia to send him a vessel of
war to return to Guayaquil, on his way to
Bogota. It is these disturbances that have
occasioned the movements of the Southern
troops of this Government and the procla
mation of Gen. Bolivar. Ido not think
this measure meets with the views of the
best informed of this part of Colombia, be-
lieving the internal dissensions of this coun
try require all the time, talents and money
that it has to right its own situation. This
department is so far removed from the scene
that its effects do not reach it, and the fact
of declaring General Bolivar Supreme
Chief publi* ‘y is the only circumstance
that has produced any particular sensation,
resulting I think satisfactorily,
i The Ocana Convention is absolutely dis
solved. Two members from the city of
Caraccas are ordered out of the country,
Mr. Iribaren and Mr. Martin Tovar.—
The first may be expected here to-day from
Caiaccas to embark, the latter has not ar
rived at home, and report says he has al
ready left the country without returning
home from tha Convention. This peremp
tory measure has been adopted by Gen.
Bolivar, it is said for the free *om efspee h
with which they indulged in at Ocana.—
The first of these men is a discontented in
dividual. The latter an old man with a
large family, of the most respectabie con
nexions in Caraccas, and wealthy.
By a request of Bolivar to Gen. Paez, a
hunt a or meeting ofthe citizens of Carac
cas of the best informed has been called
and assembled to take -into consideration
tho statu of Venezuela, and to suggest such
improvements or measures as may, in their
opinion, tend to the benefit of the public,
and relieve the various interests of this de
partment
Our markets are pretty good for Ameri
can provisions in small cargoes and well as
sorted. Flour has fallen about $1 per bar
rel. About 12 to 1600 barrels in first
hands—it is worth now 11 all 50. The
crops cf Maize, Beans Peas, and Rice of
the country are just coining in. Rice 525
a 5 50. Duty free for all kinds of grain till
the 6th October.
We have already published a Circular
from the Secretary of the Treasury, and in
our columns of to-day will be found another
adressed, in August, to the Collectors on
the Canada Line. The late avowals in the
British House of Commons, by speakers
high in name, (if the newspapers have cor
rectly reported what they said ) that British
merchandize would inevitably find its way
to the U. States, our Tariff notwithstand
ing, are somewhat remarkable. We can
not suppose that these speakers wish what
they so confidently predict. To do so,
would be to arraign their characters as mo
ral agents, heretofore free as far as we know
from such reproach. Y r et, their benignant
denunciations ot our Tariff half force upon
us the suspicion that their regrets would not
be very keen, if such a state of things
shou and, perad venture, come to pass. From
the Circular now published, we may infer
that the Administration is not likely to fall
asleep under these predictions of our
friends across the Atlantic, who seem so
so anxious that we should be saved, one
| other, from the enemies of the Tar
iff. For ourselves, w hatever our specula
tive opinions of the policy of this law, we
can hardly wish to see it prostrated by
smuggling from abroad, any more than by
i throwing open our ports at home.— [Nat
\ ltd.
[Circular 1© all the Collectors of the Inland Fron
tier on the Cttnads Line]
Treasury Department ,
Aug. 27th 1828.
ktr: The great extent of the Inland and
water frontier along the Canada line, and
the facilities thereby afforded for the illicit
inttoduction of foreign merchandise, make
it necessary that the greatest attention
should be paid to the due execution of the
revenue laws in that quarter.
This letter is therefore, by direction of
the President, addressed to you with a view
to excite your most active vigilance upon
this subject ; which is the more especially
required since the passage of the act of the
19th ot May last, increasing in several im
portant particulars, the former rate of duties
on imported merchandise.
A further object of it is to say, that
should one oi more additional Inspectors
be, in your opinion, necessary within your
district, in order to ensure a faithful execu
tion of the act above mentioned you will
make report to me accordingly, stating the
points at which you may deem tlicu at* cei> .
sary to he stationed. *
This intimation is not given to oncon
age, in any degree, an increase of S ul, ( , r ’
ainate officers where it can be avoided, ; , n ,j
| above all, where it can he avoided
f increased activity and vigilance on the n, /!
U)f these already employed ; hut only
the important objects ofthe act should r „ lt
he left in danger of frustration through ai,v
real deficiency in the number of ‘public
agents indispensable towards securing
objects.
I remain, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
RICHARD RUSH.
We have been favored with the annej,
ed copies of official letters, settling and es ]
tablishing the ‘mode in which duties ( > n
cotton or woollen cloths are to be estj
mated.— Philadelphia Aurora.
Treasury Department, Comptrollers Office )
September 2Sth, lb2B (
Gentlemen —The rule by which the dy.
liable charges in the case of woollen go o( j s
liable to duty on a minimum value, and i n
the case of cotton cloths in determining
whether they cost less than 35 cents
square yard, having been prescribed i D a
letter of yesterday, to the Collector 0 f
Charleston, I enclose a copy of it as an ar.
swer to your’s of the 20tli inst.
I will merely add, with a view of
answering your letter more fully, that wheu
the dutiable charges aro added!! in the ce<e
of cotton cloths, to determine whether such
cost, with the usual 19 or 20 per cent,
(as the case may) be less than 35 eents
the square yard, and the cost with the du.
tiable charges, are not also to he added to
the minimum of 35 cents the square yard
as would seem to be contended for by the
Custom House, and the duty he computed
on the aggregrate amount thus produced,
but the duty is to to be exacted on the 35
cents simply.—Respectfully,
ROBERT ANDERSON,
Comptroller.
Sir ;—ln reply to the question sub
mitted in your letter of the fifteenth ult.
I have to s‘ate that, in all case* in which
the duties on woollen books are to be enac
ted, on a minimum value, the dutia
ble charges as in other cases, are to be
added to the invoice value, and this aggre
gate amount must determine the minimum
on which the duty is to the computed.
The same principle is to govern in de
terminig whether cotton cloths 35 rents,
per square yard, but in the latter case the
usual 10 o; 20 per cent, (as the case may
be) is also to he added to the invoice value
and if this aggregate amount be less than
35 cents the square yard, the duty is to be
estimated as if the goods had cost 35 the
square yard ; but if such aggregate amount
be more than that sum per square yard then
the duty as estimated on that amount what
rver it may be.—Rpspectfully,
• JOS. ANDERSON,
Comptroller.
Capture of Fugitive Convicts.—Wo
published, a few days ago the escape of two
abandoned villains from Sing Sing; we have
now the satisfaction of stating that they ate
both taken, and were yesterday sufelv lodg
ed in their old quarters, with the comforta
ble appendages of double irons. It ap
pears that Hays, on Sunday, received some
intelligence concerning them, and accom
panied by his son and Mr. Homans, lie
proceeded to a house in Anthony-street,
and in the garret discovered W illiams, arm
ed with a large butcher’s knife, which was
sharp and very pointed The villain pat
himself in an attitudue of defence, but
flays took advantage of a false position,
rushed upon his victim and in an instant
succeeded in disarming him, receiving in
the scuffle oulv a slight cut upon his right
hand thumb. The other was arrested un
der rather novel circumstances. A re
spectably attired and rather genteel looking
person went to the store of Mr. Brown,
jeweller and watchmaker, in Franklin
square, and purchased a watch and some
articles of jewelry, to the amount of $175
ordering the bill to be made out in the name
of Mr Armstrong, and with the goods
to be sent immediately to the boa-ding
house, Mrs. Buckley’s Pearl-st.
would pay for the same. Mr. Bra;.‘l |) |
stead of sending one, took the preu
of giving the purchased articles in\
care of two of his young men, ants ‘iiey
forthwith departed on their embassy in the
course of which they perceived they were
followed by Mr Armstrong.
As soon as they reached Mrs. Buckley’s
an enquiry was made but no such person
resided there. “Yes he does” said one
of the young men pointing to Armstrong,
“ and that’s the gentleman on the other
side of the street.” Hearing this, he came
over, made some excuses about his inten*
tion of residing there, and promised to go
for the money. But the young men very
properly refused to let him go, and collared
him, threatening if the money was not paid
down, they would instantly take him totbo
Police. Our readers will by this time
perceive that Mr. Armstrong intention w s
to have the goods sent by ODe person, arid
at a fitting opportunity to have knock'd
him down and obtained possession. T- he
young men not being able to procure their
money marched Mr. A to the police,
where he was recognized as the notorious
Clapp , who had escaped from Sing Sing*
He was immediately taken care of and af
terwards dealt with as we have above sta
ted.- N. Y. Journal of Commerce of tht
1 6th *Stpt .
Trial for Murder . —A trial tool*
at the supreme judicial court,held at Spring*
field Massachusetts, last week, which exci
ted a deep interest in the county of Hap*
den. A year ago, on the ?9*h of September,
a mail named Hubert Bush, residing h J
Westfield,killed his wife under the following
circumstances : The parties had been mar
ried seven or eight years, aud had several
children They had, however, been seps*
rated for some timp before the fataJ trsr^
