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SAVANNAH. DAILY MORNING NEWS JULY 8, 1850.
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BY JOHN M. COOPER.
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EXTRAORDINARY_CONFESSION
PROF. JOHN W. WEBSTER
OF THE
Murder of Doctor George Parkman II
Thrilling Acccount of the Murder by the Murderer!
• ' Boston, July 1, 1850.
At the meeting of tlio Council this morning, the
cose of Prof. Webster was referred to a conpnitt, e.
Before the committee, at 12 o’clock, appeared the
Rev. Dr. Putnam, the spiritual adviser or the con
demned, with u petition tor commutation of punish
ment, together With a confession thut he killed Doct
or Parkman. „ , .
The reverend gentleman prefaced the statement by
a few remarks relative to the manner in which the
confessions were made to him. He stated that he
had no previous acquaintanceship with Prof. Webster
before being called to act in the capacity of his spirit-
uni adviser. In the first few weeks of his visits he
sought no acknowledgement of the prisoner. At
length on the 23d of May, he visited him in hie cell,
and demanded of him, for his own well-being, that
he should tell the truth in regard to the matter, and
ho acceded to the request, by making the statement
which was now submitted for the consideration oi
the Council
It was in substance bb follows.
The Confession.—On Friday, 20th November, I
sent the note to Dr. Parkman, which it appears,.was
carried by the boy, Maxwell. I handed it to Little
field unsealed.- It was to ask Dr. Parkman to call at
my rooms, on'Friday, thc22d, alter my lecture. Ho
had beoome, of date, very importunate for his Pay.
He had threatened mo with a suit; to put an officer
in my house, and to drive me from my professorship,
if I did not pay him. The purport of my note was
simply to ask the conference. 1 did not tell him, in
it, what l could do, or what I had to say about the
payment. 1 wished to gain, for those tew days, a re
lease from his solicitations, to which I was liable
every day, on occasions, and in a manner very disa
greeable and alarming, and also to avert for so long
a time, at least, the fulfillment of recent threats of
severe measures. I did not expect to be able to pay
him when Friday should arrive. My purpose was,
if he should accede to the proposed interview, to state
to him my embarrassments and utter inability to pay
him at present-to apologize for those things iu my
conduct which had offended him—to throw myself
upon his mercy—to beg for future time and indul
gence, for the sake of my family, if not for myself,
and to make as good promises to him as I could have
any hope of keeping.
I did not hear from him on that day nor the next,
(Wednesdey,) but I found on Thursday he had been
abroad in pursuit of me without finding me. I ima
gined he bad forgotten the appointment, or else did
not mean to wait for me. I feared he would come in
upon mo at my lecture hour, or while I was prepar
ing my experiments for it; therefore 1 called at his
house on that morning, (Friday) between eight or
nine o’clock, to remind him of my wish to see him at
the College at half past one—my lecture closing at 1.
I did not stop to talk with him, for I expected the
conversation would be a long one, and had my lec
ture to prepare for, for it was necessary for me to
have my time, and. also, to keep my mind free from
other exciting matters. Dr. Parkman agreed to call
on mo as I proposed. He came, accordingly, be
tween half-past one and two o’clock, entering at the
lecture room door. I was engaged in removing Borne
glasses from my lecture room table into the room in
the rear, called the upper laboratory. He came rap
idly down the step, and followed me into the labora
tory. Ho immediately addressed me with grtmt ener-
gy “Are you ready for me, sir ? Havetyou got the
. money V f
I replied “No, Dr. Parkman,” hnd waa then begin-
ning to state my condition and appeal to him, but he
would not listen to me,and interrupted me with much
vehemence. He called me a scoundrel and liar, and
went on heaping on me the most bitter taunts and
opprobious epithets. While he wae speaking he drew
anandful of papers from his pocket and took from a-
mong them my two notes, and also an old letter from
Dr. Hosack, written many years ago, congratulating
him on his success in getting me appointed professor
of chemistry. “You see,” he Baid, “I got you into
your office, and now I will get you out ot it" He put
back into his pocket all the papers except the letter
and the notes. I cannot tellhow long the torrent of
threats and invectives continued, and I cannot recall
to memory but a small portion of what he said; at
first, I kept interposing, trying to pacify him, so that
I might obtain the object for which I sought the inter
view, but 1 could not stop him, and Soon my own
temper was up; 1 forgot every thing, and felt nothing
but the sting of his words.
1 was excited to the highest degree of passion, and
while he was speaking and gesticulating in the most
violent and menacing msnncr, thrusting the letter
and his fist into my face, in my fury I seized whatev
er thing was handiest, (it was a stick of wood,) and
dealt him an instantaneous blow with all the force
that passion could give it. I did not know, or think,
, or care, where I should hit him, nor how hard, nor
* what the effect would be. It was on the side of his
Head, and there was nothing to break the force of the
blow. He fell instantly upon the pavement. There
was no second bloW ; ne did not move. I stooped
down over him, and he seemed to be lifeless. Blood
flowed from his mouth, and I go;a sponge and wiped
it away. I got Borne ammonia and applied it to his
nose, but without effect Perhaps I spent 10 minutes
in attempts to rescuscitavc him, but I found he was
absolutely dead. In my horror and consternation, I
ran instinctively to the doors and bolted them, the
doors oUhe lecture room and of the laboratory below.
And then what was I to do ! It never occurred to
me to go out and declare what had been done, and ob
tain assistance. I saw nothing but the alternative of
a successful movement and concealment oi the body
on the one hand, and of infamy and destruction on
the other.
The first thing I did as soon as I could do
anything, was to draw the body into the private
room adjoining, were I took oft' the clothes, and be
gan puffing them into the fire, which was burning in
t lie upper laboratory. They were all consumed
there that afternoon, with papers, pocket book, and
whatever they contained. I did not examine the
pockets, nor remove anything, except the watch. 1
saw that, or the chain of it, hanging out I took it
and threw it over the bridge ns I went to Cambridge.
Mv next move was to get the body into tho sink,
which stands in the small private room ; by setting
the body partially erect against the corner, and by
getting up into the sink myself, 1 succeeded in draw
ing it up there. It was entirely dismembered. It
was quickly done, as a work of terrible and desperate
necessity.
The only Instrument used was the knife found by
the officers, in the tea chest, which I kept for cutting
corks. I made no use of the Turkish knife, as it was
called at the trial. That had long been kept on my
mantelpiece in Cambridge, as a curious ornament.
My daughters frequently cleaned it; hence the marks
oi oil and whiting found on it. I had lately brought
it into Boston to get the silver sheath repaired.
While dismemboriug the body, a strenm of Cocliit-
uate water was running through tho sink, carry
ing off the blood in "a pipe that passed down
through the lower laboratory. There must have
been a leak in the pipe, for tho ceiling below wus
stained immediately around it. There waa a fire
burning in the furnace of the lower laboratory. Lit
tlefield was mistaken in thinking there had never
been a fire there. He lind probably never kindled
one, but I had done it myself several times. X had
done(t that day for the purpose of muking oxygon gas.
The head and viscera were put into that lumaee
that day, tmd the fuel heaped on. I did not examine
at night to see to what degree they were consumed.
Some of the extremities were put in there, I believe,
<-n dint day: (he pelvis and some of the limbs perhaps,
were all put under the lid of the lecture room table, in
what is called tho well—a deep sink lined with lead; a
slrcum.of Oochituate was turned iuto it, and kept
i milling through it ull Friday night; the thorax was
wot in to a smaller well in the lower laboratory, which
i filled with water and put in a quantity of potash,
which 1 found tbrre. This disposition of the remains
dr its not changed till after the visit of the officers on
dnudny. When the body had been thusall disposed
d away al! traces of vvhathad been done. I
k the stick with which the fatal blow had been
'sick proved to be a piece ol the stump of a large
vine—sav two inches in diameter and two feet
e of several pieces which I had car-
ibrhtgO Jong bef'o'e, for the ptirpor-
flee: vi err tom cloraita) fluids in c
ig nosoroeo mm the penes.
t vf.rr pjrvrfj weed. vv<
Another long stick had been used as intended, and
exhibited to Hie students. That one had not been
used. I put it into the lire. I took up the two notes
cither from the table or the floor, I think the table,
close by where Dr. P. had fallen, I seized an old me
tallic pen lying on the table, dashed it across tho
face and through the signatures, and put thorn in iny
pocket. 1 do not know why I did this rather than
put them in the fire, for I had not considered for a
moment what effect either mode of disposing,!)!' them
would have on tho mortgage,or my indebtedness to Dr.
P. and. the other persons interested, and 1 hadnotyot
given a single thought to the question as to what ac
count i should give of the object or result of my m -
terview with Dr. Parkman. I never saw tho sledge
lisinmor spoken of by Littlefield i never knew of its
existence, at least I have no recollection ot it I left
the college to go home, as late as 6 o’clock. I collec
ted myseff as well as I could, thut I might meet my
family and others with composure. On Suturduy, i
visited my rooms at the College, but made no change
in the disposition ofthe remains, and luid no plans as
to my future course.
On Saturday evening, I read the notice in the Trans
cript, respecting his disappearance. 1 was then deep
ly impressed with the necessity of immediately ta
king sonic ground as to the character of my inter
view with Dr. P. for I saw that it must becomo
known that 1 had had such an interview, as I had ap
pointed it first by an unsealed note on Tuesday, and
on Friday lmd myself called nt his house in open day,
and ratified the arrangement, and had there been seen
and had probubly been overheard by the man servant,
and I knew not by how inHny persons. Dr. P. might
have been seen entering my rooms, or how many per
sons he might have told by the wuy where ho wus go
ing—the interview wouldin all probability be known,
and I must be ready to explain it. The questions ex
ercised me much, but on Sunday my course wus ta-
ken. I would go into Boston and be the first to de
clare myself the person, as yet unknown, with whom
Dr. Turkman had made the appointment. I would
take the ground that I had invited him to the Col
lege to pay him money, and thut I had paid it. Ac
cordingly, I fixed upon the sum by taking tlio small
note and adding interest, which it appeurs I cast erro
neously.
If I had thought of this course earlier, I should
not have deposited Pettee’s check for $30 in the
Charles Iliver Bank on Sunday, but should have sup
pressed it, as goir.g so far to make up the sum which
1 was to have professed to have paid the day before,
and which Pettee knew I had by me at the hour ot
interview; it had not occurred to me that I should
ever show the notes cancelled in proof of it, or I
should have destroyed the large note, and let it be
interred that it was gone with the missing man, and
l should only have kept the small one, which was
all that I could pretend to have paid. My single
thought waa conaenlment and safety ; everything else
was incidental to that. I was in no state to consider
my ulterior pecuniary interest—Money, though I
needed it so much, was of ito account with me in
thatcondition of mind.
If I had designed and premeditated the homicide of
Dr. Parkman, in order to get the possession of the
notes and cancel my debt, I not only should not have
deposited Pettee’s check the next day, but should
have made some show of getting and having the mo
ney the morning before. I should have drawn my
money from the bank and taken occasion to mention
to the cashier that I had a sum to make up on that
day for Dr. Parkman, and the same to Henchman,
when I borrowed the $10; I should have remarked
that I was much short of a sum that I was to pay
Parkman. I borrowed the money of Henchman as
mere pocket money for the day. If I had intended
the homicide of Dr. P., I should not have made the
appointment with him twice, and each time in so
open a manner that othor persons would almost cer
tainly know of it; and I Biiould not have invited him
to my rooms at an hour when the College would be
full oi students and others, and an hour when I was
most likely to receive calls from others, for that was
the hour, just after the lecture, at which persons ha
ving business with me or in my rooms, were • always
directed to call.
I looked into my room on Sunday afternoon. After
the first visit of the officers, I took the pelvis and
some of the limbo from the upper well, und threw
them intojthe v.*ulg and privy. I took the thorax
from the well below, and packed it in the tea chest,
as found. My own impression has been, that, this
was not done till after the second visit of the offi
cers, which was on Tuesday, but Kingley’s testimony
shows that it must have been done sooner. The
perforation of the thorax had been made by the knife.
At the time of removing the viscera, on Wednesday,
I put on kindlings and made a fire in the furnace be
low, having first poked down the ashes. Some of
the limbs, I cannot remember which or how many
were consumed at that time. This was the last I had
to do with the remains. The tin box was designed
to receive the thorax, though I had not concluded
where I should finally put the box. The fish hooks,
tied up as grapples, were to be used for drawing up
the parts in the vault, whenever I should determine
how to dispose of them, and get strings enough. I
had a confused double object in ordering the box, and
making the grapples.
I had, before, intended to get such things to send to
Fayal; the box to hold the plants and other articles
which I wished to protect from the salt water and
sea air, and the hooks to be used therein obtaining
corralline plants from the sea. It was this previous
ly intended use of them that suggested and mixed
itself up with the idea of’the other application. I
doubt, even now, to which use they would have been
applied ; I had not used the hooks at tho time oi the
discovery. The tan put iuto the tea chest was taken
from a barrel of it that had been in the laboratory for
some time.
The bag of tan brought in on Monday was not used,
nor intended to be uoed; it belonged to a quantity ob
tained by me a long time ago, for experiments in tan
ning, and was sent in by the family to got it out of
the way. Its being sent in just at that time was ac
cidental. I waa not aware that I hud put the knife in
the chest. The stick found in the saucer of ink wus
for making coarse diagrams on cloth. The bunch of
filed keys nad been used long ago by me in Fruit sL
and thrown carelessly by into a drawer.
I never examined them, and do not know whether
they would fit any of the locks of the college or not.
If there were other keys fitting doors with whieii I
had nothing to do. I supposed they must have been
all duplicates, or keys ot former locks left there by
the mechanics or janitor. 1 know nothing about them
and should never be likely to notice them amongst
the multitude of articles, large and small, of all kinds,
collected in my rooms. The janitor had furnished
me with a key to the dissecting room, for the admis
sion of medical friends visiting the college, but I had
never used it. •
The nitric acid on the stairs was not used to re
move spots of blood, but was droppad by accident.
When the officers called for me on Friday, the 30th, I
was in doubt whether I was underarrest, or whether
a more strict search of my rooms was to be had, tho
latter hypothesis being hurdly less appalling than the
former. When 1 louud that we went over Crngies’
Bridge, I thought the arrest most probable. When
I found that the carriage was stopping at the jail, I was
sure of my fate. Before leaving the carriage 1 took a
dose of strychnine from iny pocket and swallowed it.
1 hud prupured it in the shape of a pill before 1 left my
laborat jry t ii the 23d. 1 thought I could notbear to
survive detection. I thought it was a large dose.
The state of my nervous system, probably, defeated
the action partiuliy. The effects of the poison were
terrible beyond description. It was in operation at
the College, and before I went there, but most severe
ly afterwords.
I wrote but one of the anonymous letters produeod
at the trial—the one mailed at East Cambridge. The
little bundles referred to in the letter destined by the
jailor contained only a bottle of nitric acid, for do
mestic use. J hud seen it stated in a newspaper that
I had purchased a quauitty of oxulie acid, which it
was presumed was to bo used iu removing blood
stains. 1 wish the parcel to be kept untouched, that
it may be shown, it there should be occasion, what it
really was that I bud purchased. I have drawn up
in separate papers ,ati explanation ot the use 1 inten
ded to make of the blood sent for on Thursday, the
22d fast, und ofthe conversation with Littlefield about
the dissecting vault.
1 think that Pettee, in his testimony at tlic. trial put
too strongly my words about having settled with Dr
P. Whatever 1 did say of tho kind, wus in the hope
I entertained that I should be able to pacify Dr. P.
mid make some arrangement with him, and was said
in order to quiet Pettee, who was becoming restiv
under the solicitations of Dr. P.
After Dr. Webster had stated most of the facts re
corded above on tho 23d Mny, this question, with all
the earnestness, solemnity, and authority of tone
that Dr. Putman was muster of, was addressed him :
“ Dr. Webster, fa all probability yonr days are
numbered ; you cannot, you dare not speak falsely tc
me now; you must not die with a lie fa your mouth
so, prove to yourself that your repentance for the
sins of your past life is sincore—tell mo the truth,
then—a confidence to be kept sacred during your
lifetime, and as much longer as my regard for the
happiness of yonr family shall seem to me to require,
ODU the interest ot troth and justice to permit-
Search to the bottom 61 yonr heart lor the History
yonr motives. and fall mb, before Cod, did it never
occur to you, before the decease ol Dr. Pal kinan,
that his death, if you could bring it to pnss, would he
of great advantage to you, or nt least that persouul in
jury to him might possibly be the result of your ex
pected conference with him J As a dying man, I
charge you to answer me truly and exactly, or else
bo silent—had you not such a thought?
‘•No, never,” said lie, witli energy and feeling “as I
live, and as Clod is my witness, never I I was ho
more capable of such a thought than one of my
innocent children. I never had the remotest idea of
injuring Dr. 1>. until the moment the blow was struck.
Dr P. was extremely severo and sharp—the most
provoking of men—and I mil irritable and passion
ate. A quick-handed and brief violence of thmper
has been a besetting sin of my life. 1 was an only
child—much indulged—and I have never acquired
the control over my passions that I ought to have oc-
quired early, and the consequence is all this.
“But you notified Dr. Parkman to meet, you at a
certain hour, und told him you would puy him, when
you had not the money.
“No,” he replied. “1 did not toll him I would pay
him, and there is no evidence that I told him so. Ex-
cent my own words, spoken alter his disappearance,
and After I had determined to take the ground that I
paid him, those words were ot the miserable tissue
of falsehoods to which 1 had been committed from
the moment I had began io conceal the homicide. I
uever had a thought of injuring Parkman.
This was accompanied by the statement in which
Professor Webster attempts to explain as to seeing
Littlefield, sending for the blood, and of inquiring
about gusses from the vault. After reading the state
ment Dr. Putnam proceeded to argue as its truthful
ness, saying that it was made when the writ ot error
was still pending. Also, that Professor Webster s es
tate was worth several thousand dollars, nud that he
was not iu such a strait as to commit such a crime de
liberately. _ , . .
The previous petition from Professor Webster,
protesting his innocence and prayinffjfor absolute par
don, be said, was got up by ins family, who were un
wavering in their belief in his innocence, until his
confession was communicated to them about a week
since. He^concluded in asserting his belief that the
confession‘was true.
BATFAKrsyiMEQ
Monday Morning;, July S, 1850.
(3^ The Office of the Daily Morning News is re
moved to the building formerly occupied by the Marina
Bank, No. 115 Bay-street.
Further Intelligence by the Fnciflc.
England. The vote of Censure. The following is
the solution pfoposeil by Lord Stanley, und affirmed
by the House of Lords.
“That while this House fully recognizes the right
end duty of the government to secure to her Majes
ty’s subjects residing in foreign States the lull pro
tection of the laws of those States, it regrets to had,
by the correspondence recently laid upon the table
by her Majesty's command, that various claims
•against the Greek goveruinent,doubtful in point of jus
tice, or exaggerated in amount, have been torced by
coerceive measures directed against the commerce
and people of Greece, and calculated to endanger
the continuance of our friendly relations with other
powers”
The motion having been put, on a division there
appeared for it 169—against it 132—majority against
government 37. Tho statement that the House of
Commons had also passed a vote of censure by 300
majority, was incorrect, as according to all accounts
received the Ministry are sustained by the Commons.
The Cuba Question.—The London and Liverpool
papers are still amusingly ferocious, on the Cuba ex
pedition, which they will have it, was countenanced
in some way, by our people, and Government. Thus
the Courier, of Liverpool, says :
We aro spared the necesssity of further discussion
on the subject of the disgraceful outrage committed
fa Cuba bv unorganized body of American citizens,
the so called expedition having, up to the present
time, ludicrously failed. * * * *
When tliis military ruffian was discharged after
his mock arrest, he was loudly cheered by the pop
ulace.
For the present this michief 1b rrrested. Butthe
question will now have to be ngituted among all the
nations of the world, whether the United States shall
be allowed to continue in a position which enables
the government to attack friendly states by con
niving at the misconduct of its own subjects. Tho
United States, unless the system be changed, must be
excluded from all diplomatic and political connexion.
Terrible Steamboat Disaster—Loss of the Orion,
of Glassgow—Fifty Lives Lost.—The'Liverpool Cour
ier, of 19th, fa a postscript, states that the steamer
Orion, sailing between Liverpool and Glasgow struck
on a rock off Port Patrick, on the evening ofthe 16th,
on her passage to Glasgow, from the effect of which
she immediately suck. It is stated that there were
about latitpassengera on board the ill-fated steamer,
and acoqKang to inform ationfreceived fifty of them
are said Tube drowned, including Professor Bums,
of Glasgow. The Orion when she left Liverpool,
had an unusually large number of passengers on
board, all her cabin berths being engaged, and several
Parties, including some gentleman who had arrived
I'rom America by the Europu, were unable to obtain
berths, and fortunately for themselves were detained
at Liverpool, or went by another route.
Private Dispatch.
We are Indebted to a commercial house for the
following private dispatch, received at Saturday, da
ted—
Charleston, July 6—P. M.
Cotton. The sales to-day have reached 1400 bales.
Prices full. A lot of Good Middling brought 12jc.
I5P The U. 8. Treasurer's statement shows that
$9,819,492 are in various depositories, subject to draft.
Z'fF Judge Sharkey, of Mississippi, is outin favor
of the Missouri Compromise Lino.
rr- The Washington Southern Press, of Wednes
day morning, lias the following announcement rela
tive to the Texas excitement:
It is rumored here that a dispatch was received last
evening, announcing the march of Texan troops to
Santa re.
It is rumored that a special Cabinet meeting on the
subject has been held.
A Govomor of a Southern State,—said to be Gen.
Quitman,—has sent a telegraphic dispatch to thiscity,
stating that he is ready to march with 10,001) men to
the support of Texas.
Tlie European News.
Tho political news brought by the Europa is inter
esting. The British Ministry and the House oi Lords
are fa open rupture. The Ministry will not resign ns
long ns they are sustained by the Commons, and treat
the House of Lords as auseless appendage of the gov
ernment. This conduct is denounced by the Times
and applauded by the Commons.
In other parts of Europe things move pretty much
as usual. The attempt to shoot Louis Napoleon
excites no surprise. Frenchmen are used to such
tilings, and are not sufficiently good mnrksmen to
njnke the practice dangerous. The saliary of the
President of France is to be increased, and it is very
likely tho attempted assassination was gotten up with
a view to secure tho adoption of that measure. It re
quires money to corrupt the people, and French Re
publicanism is in the market.
The King of Denmark is going to abdicate, which,
it is thought, will settle the Schleswig-Holstien trou
bles.
The Pope continues to grow unpopular. Nearly
all the Roman youth have emigrated, been imprison
ed, or are under suspicion. The finances are in a de
plorable condition.
Poland threatens another insurrection, and numer
ous arrests have taken place.
Liverpool, June 21.
Savannah Pitch Pine, at auction,20d per foot; New
Orleans Pine Staves, three-inch, $95 per 1000; Fine,
$13 to $17; Hogsheads, £13 to £15; N. Y. stout oak
■Hogsheads, £14 13s. The market freely .supplied
with staves, but not the most saleable description, be
ing deficient in quality and substance. Good, stout
New Orleans Hogshead Staves, forty-two inches long,
are wanted.
Our Government and Spain.—Positive Demand
for the Prisoners, (fc.—A special dispatch from Wash-
ington to tho Philadelphia North American, dated on
Friday, says:
“ Authentic advices of the latest dates from Cube
aro not of a satisfactory character. Gen. Campbell
had not received an official copy of Mr. Clayton’s in- (
structione of the 1st of June, but was in possession of
a copy sent by telegraph to Mobile, which was imper
fect. Upon this unofficial copy and others fa the
no wspapers,he had made a requsst for the release of the
Contoy prisoners, which has not been acceded to.
“ Unless an arrival should, within a few days, bring
news of a change of purpose on the part of the Cap
tain General, after the receipt and presentation by
General Campbell of his official dispatches, the Pres
ident will make a positive demand for th'eir libera
tion. The Vixen is now being fitted out for that pur
pose, and Commodore Morris, or Commodore War-
renton, will be sent out to assume tho command of
the squadron, •
“ The President will not permit New Mexico to be
overrun or taken possession of by Texas until Con
gress has decided that the territory does not belong
to the United States.
“ Measures will be instituted, and doubtless indict
ments found against the Cuban expeditiontsis fa
New York, as against those of New Orleans.
Df.florable Affair.—A Bride Shot! A couple
named Anthony Putnam and Catharine Soumeyer,
were mnrried in Cincinnati, on Tuesday, and while
returning to the residence oi the father of tho bride,
a duelling pistol was fired at the party by a young
man named Richard Overbeck. The Commercial
says:
Some sixty shot entered the bride’s face, neck and
bosom! Some shot passing her took effect in the
face of Joseph Linenkugel. Both were much injured,
but the young bride is in an awful situation, und it
was feared she would die. It was impossible to ex
tract the shot, as they were deeply imbedded in the
flesh, and so near the jugular vein. Some, it was
found, bud penetrated near the brain.—The young
husband, when our reporter saw the couple, was
wiping the blood from his wife’s woundB, as it oozed
out. The wife was in great agony: a crowd of Borne
three hundred persons were standing rouud. The
fellow who discharged the pistols had fled to Ken
tucky. Dr. Cooper attended tho unfortunate people.
There were little hopes of tho recovery of the wife.
What a sad affair.
EFTo make room for Dr. Webster’s confes
sion, which will lie read with interest, wo are obliged
to omit much other matter prepared for this day’s
paper, among the rest, our synopsis of the proceed
ings of Congress. The doings of that body for tho
past few days, however, possess but little interest, as
the time hus been mostly consumed fa the discussion
of the compromise in the Senate, and tho Galphfa
resolutions fa the House.
On Monday, in answer to the Senate Resolutions, a
message was received from the President, stating that -
all the orders and correspondents relative to New
Mexico and Texas have heretofore been communi
cated; and that the Executive had not yet received an
official notice of Col. Monroe’s proclamation calling
a Convention.
On Tuesday nothing of interest transpired in either
house.
On Wednesday, Mr. Cass’ Resolutions to prohibit
military officers from exercising civil functions, was
taken up in the Senate, when Mr. Houston spoke in
opposition to Col. Monroe’s course fa New Mexico
and the President’s pdftiy, which had always been
hostile to Texas. He spoke in favor ofthe adjustment
of the difficult questions before the country, and de
precated the President’s interference as calculated to
embarrass it. He adverted to the Nashville Conven
tion and the solo and self appointed delegate from
Texas to it, and entered his solemn protest against its
proceedings.
Iu the House, Mr. Holmes made an ineffectual ef
fort to introduce a resolution instructing the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations to inquire into and re
port upon the expediency of placing at tho disposal
ofthe President, so much of the naval force of the U.
States, as may be necessary to enforce the just claims
of the citizens ofthe United States against Hayti.
Renewed Demand for the Conte u Pri...
rial telegraphic dispatch to tho Nant,'* — A «ne.
ted Washington, July 1st*C
war steamer Vixen sailed from it,i to<1 States
for Havana, with Commodore MWrisJl° rt
Agent ot tho Government to make denZS S^al
American prisoners captured hv for tlio
off Coteras and Contoy. It iYZ
Com. Morris shall supersede Com* Park" 1 ^ ‘hat
In-d If.rnlds/ya’ ft C1m ®
Southerner has furnished his boat with hiawb »»t
number of plank to support. oSe taL* s "« 6 ta>t
people. In each plank is inserted lnon ®fr
rigging and the& boards olsafetyZ °> rr S
about the boat so as to be ready at a motnent’s'^Z' 1
Increase and Movements of the a
Large Boun ties for Privates.~The Searotnn, .
has given official notice that, ngrec®y to th° f ' Var
sions of an act to increase tho rank and file Of e ,? rovi '
my, and to encourago enlistment, apnrovJ , ar '
17th, 1850. the companies of light artillery wi ,,
creased to sixty-fou r privates each. He rise W
that the several companies of the army servi <Urecta
military posts in Texas, New Mexico, Calif, 46
Oregon, as well as those stationed at Forts %‘t? 1 " 1
and Gaines, on the Upper Mississippi, at Forts K ™ 8
and Laramie, on the route to Oregon and
be established on the Dcs Moines, Canadian and*!/ 01
per Arkansas rivers, will each be increased to Up ‘
ty.four privates. Portions of the infantry comnT,,?'
in Texas and New Mexico, and at the Canadian^',?
Arkansas posts, where there may be no remdsT
“a d valr C y e ’
The Secretary further directs that the bountv
authorised by tho 3d section as an equivalent for th
transportation and subsistence of a recruit from fa 6
principal recruiting depot will apply to enlistmrata
made at or fa the vicinity of the posts at which the
companies are to be increased to seventy-four nri
vates, and will be allowed und paid at the followin '
rates, to wit; 8
For enlistments made at or near any of the on*
or stations in the 8th department, a bountv of Ss
in the 9th department, of $52; in the ?Sffi d,2
ment, $117; m the 11th department, $142 ■ atnrnZ
Fort SnelUng, $23; at or Mar Fort Gaines, *27^
or near the poet on the Ddr Moines, $23 • at nr
Fort Kearney, $34 ; at or near Fort Laramie' $48
or near the posts on tho Upper Arkansas, $37- a tnr
near the post on the Canadian river, $28. '
The above bounty tobe paid fa unequal instalment,
at the end of each year’s service, in the foUowiav
proportion:—One-tenth at the end of the first year's
service; one-eight at the second vear; one-Bixth at
the third; one fourth at the fourth'; and the remain
der at the expiration of the enlistment.
The telegraphic report to the effect that 600 troops
have been sent to New Mexico to protect the people
of that territory against the alleged aggression of Tex.
as, is without foundation, having grown out of the
above movements. The correspondent of the Phila
delphia North American says:
Two hundred man have been detailed to escort
the parties composing Mr. Bartlett's commission from
Son Antonio to El Paso; and five hundred, destined
to increase the companies in New Mexico, have
been directed to porceed thither via Fort Leavenworth,
the object being to protect emiganta on their rout,
and the inhabitants from the prebatory attacks and
inenrsions of hostile Indiana. The movement is not
fa any regard to the boundary question.
JTp" The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Bulletin says, the case of the schooner
Jden. Taylor from Chngres, which was boarded by
armed soldiers whi^e cruizing off Cape Antonio, was
brought to tbc attention of the President on Tues
day, that Mr. Clayton has had directions to enquire
into the matter without delay, in order thatthe facts
may bo laid before Congress fa anticipatiota of the
callthat will he made upon the Departiuent.
PASSENGERS. .
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Rouk, 2 Misses Baynard, Messrs Gouidsmith, Luke,
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Baynard, Braddock, Adams, J S Glenn, Pomroy, «nd
7 on deck. ■
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win, lady and son, Mrs Fox, Miss Curtis, *C A Magill
and lady, Miss Dixon, Miss Harrison, Mr Harmon,
Mr Green, Mr Fanning, Col C Dubignon, Col R Nor-
riss, J Gimmer, Mr Burt, Mr Solomon and lady, Mr
Baker, CC Bimey, and 3 on deck.
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Postell, Mrs Bender, Mrs Averfield and Son, Mrs.
Quiuby, Mrs Shaffer, Mrs Boy and Servt, Mrs iBXoy,
C D'Lyon, AJIall, P Jacobs, M Gallie, E. Baitey.S P
Whitehead ,W Stratton, G L Palmer, JMcMa;r,W
Cumfaing, P J Punch, S E Habersham, P McKinley,
W C Freeman, D Webb, B F Grinnell, E B Crews *
child, J M Cockrane, T Taylor,S Brown and 11) aoca
Bobbery and Attempted Murder—Two men were
arrested on Sunday at New York, whilst in the net of
robbing Mr. Claude II. Laurent, in his room, at his
boardinghouse, wheretheydiad culled on pretence of
having private business with him. They demanded
his money, which, on being, refused, they knocked him
down, and bad drawn a knife, apparently to murder
him, when the officer providentially came to his
rescue. He hudinnbclt$275in gold, and a certificate
of deposit of $3,406 in one ofthe city banks, which
the robbers were endeavoring to obtain. They had
secured $4 from ilia pockets, nud were using a knilb to
cut the belt.
Very Important Discovery.—The London Chrono-
Thermalist for June, announces the discovery of a
substitute lor the sulphate of quinine, which is re
presented as veing even a heller medicine, and can
he bought for one-tenth the price. 11 we remember
rightly, the French Acudnny bus offered a liberal re
ward for such a'discovery.
Profits of Steaming It is said that tile steamer Sena
tor, running between San Francisco and Pacramento
city, lias cleared for her owners $60,000in one month.
Price oi passage $25: state room $10, meals $2 each ;
time down ten hours. The Senator was originally
one of tile Long Island Sound bljats, and run one
season betweou Boston and Eastport, anil is owned by
Mr. Cunningham of Philadelphia. Stic is certainly
doing a first rate business now. a
The cholera is prevailing in the cities of Cin
cinnati and Nash Villa, 'lltere were 15 dentils in 'the
fatter city on the25th tilt.
Table Rock.
It appears that there is some truth in the report of
the fall of a portion of this Rock. A letter from the
editor of the Buffalo Express to the New York Ex
press, gives the following particulars :
Clifton House, Niagara Falls.
June 29th—9 P.M.
About half past one o'clock this afternoon, the
large ma6s of rock known os Table Rock, gave way
and went tumbling into the river below. The mass
carried away was about six rods in width and twelve
in length, and fortunately no one was injured. Not
ten minutes betore the occurrence a pnrty of some
twenty or thirty were standing on t)te rock but hap
pily had just left. A gentleman was sitting in his car-
riage on tlie rock when it commenced giving way ;
he leaped from the carriage and was saved ; the car
riage went down with the mass of rock.
A portion of tho surface of the rock has shelled off
and fallen, which is, however, a very different thing
from the falling of tho Rock itself, tho foundations of
which are as deeply and firmly fixed as those of the
eternal hills.
Professor Webster’s Confession.
In another column will be found the confession of
Prof. Webster, the murderer of Dr. Parkman.
The Baltimore Sun, from which we extract the
confession, contains also Professor W’s petition for
pardon, which had been laid before the Governor
und Council, but which was withdrawn by the advice
of his friends. In this paper ho most solemnly de-
flares his iuiiocenceoithe death of Dr. Parkman, ofthe
truth ot which declaration he says "the Searcher of all
hearts is a witness'."’ He attempts some explanation
ol his conduct on the trial, and of the testimony
ugainst him, and charges “a foul conspiracy,” in
which he endeavors to implicate Littlefield, ns
being induced by the hope of reward to testify false
ly against him.
Fdr our own part, we never, from the time when
the testimony was first given to the public, entertain
ed a doubt of the guilt of Dr. Webster, mid though
we would gladly do so, we cuunot noxv divest our
self of tile belief thut the murder was premeditated
Laic from Havana.
The British steamer, at Mobile, brings dates from
Havana to the27tii ult. The Contoy prisoners still
remain iu close confinement. It was thought they
would shortly be released. The Cnpt. General was
in iavor of giving them up, but Armero, General of
the marine, was fa l'ayor qf extreme^ measures, fa
which he was sustained by the populace, who W-te
very indignant tit the letter of our Consul to Mr.
Clayton, in which the former spoke so dispar
agingly of the Havana rabble. The subject has pro
duced a division of parties fa Havana which came
near causing a violent coliiaion. AbmeRo and Alcoy,
are very hostile to each other, and tilings are evident
ly upproaching a crisis.
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