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I' VOUVA«.V. Hold- New-Y ork, Oct. 2 LATEST FROM ENGLAND. By the Robert Fulton, capt ri,i,e the editor? of the Mercantile Ad vertiser have received Liverpool papers to the litli, and London paper* to the e- veninR of the 4th of September, with Lloyd’s Lists to the same date. The Colton Market wm extremely dull at Liverpoel, ut the price quoted on the first of the month. All the last letters that we have seen, express an apprehension that the harvest is much injured by blight and mildew ; and bread stuffs were consequently ad vancing. By the last advices received at Lon don, it appears probable that a reconci liation has taken place between Russia and Turkey, the latter power it is said, having acceded to all the terms of the ul timatum proposed. The Andromache frigate had arrived in England from Lima with one million of dollars, and having on board as passen gers, Lady Cochrane, and the family of the ex-viceroy. The intelligence is not so late from Peru and Chili as has been received here direct. The King remained at Dublin. Ar rangements to receive him on his return, were making nt Portsmouth, where he was expected about the 12th September. The Stanmer packet from Lisbon, had arrived in England, having on board the Austrian, Russian and Prussian ministers to Portugal. It is stated that they all three li lt Lisbon in consequence of the violence committed on the resi'h arc of Baron Stunner, the Austrian charge d’ affaires, «lio«e windows were broken in const quern «• of his refusing to illuminate at the rejoicing at the time the news was received of the King’s having sworn to support the constitution. 'I he Cortes has offered to punish the offenders if they could be pointed out. The Baron was unable to do this, and wrote to his court fur instructions. He received or der* to obtain some further satisfaction, or to quit Lisbon. Why he was accom panied by the Russian and Prussian min isfers, is not explained, unless, being the agents of the three powers which con stitute the heads of the Holy Alliance, they had made common cause. Liverpool, Sept. 5. Our Cotton Market continues dull, but we expect an improvement in the de mand ere long. The accounts of the injury sustained by the new crop, if con firmed, will have their effect on our mar ket presently. nave hurst their fetters? Grrc.ee will then ofler you the advantages which you would seek in vain (Vein tier ignorant and fero cious op| iaM: rs. The ties of fraternity ami kindness will forever unite the Grecians and the American*—and our mutual inter ests are such a* to strengthi n forever an al liance founded on liberty and virtue. Kalamata, .May Its,(June 8) itiit. (Signed)—The rVlessenian Seiiateo/Ka- lamata. Peter Mavromicha- les, Commander iu Chief. Such is the Proclamation issued from that portion of the Morea, which has ever been the least subjected to the Turkish Govern ment. Tile little town of Kalamatr, stand ing at the head of the micivnt Mrssenian Gulf, and not far from the ruins of Messene, is separated only by a brook tYoin the pro vince of Mama. Of the assembly convened at Kalamata, under the name of the Mcssen- ian Senate, we have no satisfactory informa tion ; the publication ofu Proclamation like tills, and the mission of an authorised am bassador to Paris, with hi* possession of the confidence of the most respectable Greeks in that city, seem to authorize us to attach some importance to the character ol the body in question. It may lie inferred, we think from the Proclamation and the letter from which we have given an extract, that the Greeks despair of assistance from the great Continental Powers in their neighbor hood. We arc at a loss to undeistand that part of the Proclamation, in which America is said “to have sent her children to the schools of Greere, where they had been kindly received.” Nothing oicurs to us. to which this can refer, unless it he the circum stance that tile American Missionaries to Pa lestine stopped at Scio, for the sake of ac quiring the language of the Greeks and were instructed by one of the ProfcssoRv iu the Academy there. f FROM THt BOSTON OAILV ADVERTISER, OST. 16.] Proclamation of the Mrssenian Senate, The following proclamation addressed by 4he Messaninn Senate at Kalamata, to the citizens of the United States, has been sent in the original Modern Greek and in French translation, to a gentleman in this town, with a request to have it published and circulated in this country. The letter in which the proclamation was forwarded contains the following remarks. “ Humanity is expecting its revival from the New World. But, however your exam ple may suffice to others, we in our present •traits, need also your aid. How glorious will it be to your country to co-operate in the work of liberation of the Greeks, in which the other powers have remained in sensible to the voice of justice, piety and hu inanity ! The glory alone of such a deed would he an ample reward. But the Greeks have never shown themselves ungrateful, or wanting in the duty of acknowledgment.— And as they formerly crowned the friendly citirs with the crowns of gold, and honored them with the precedence at tile assemblies and games, so they will again honor and crown their friends and allies.” This letter is subscribed by P. Epitrs, “deputy of the Grecian Generals,” and by A.Koray, A. Bogorides, and N. Pikkolo.— The tetter is in the hand writing of Koray— and is written from Paris. The proclamati on is as follows: Citizens of the 17. States of America ! In taking the Resolution to live and die for liberty, we feel ourselves drawn towards you by a natural sympathy. It is among you, that liberty has found her abode, ami she is worshiped Ivy you as by our fathers.— In invoking her name we invoke yours—feel ing that in imitating you we imitate our own ancestors, and that we shall show ourselves worthy of them, in proportion as we resem ble von. Though separated from you, Americans, by mighty oceans, we are drawn near to you by your virtues. We feel you to be nearer to us than the nations on our frontiers, and we regard yon as friends, fellow-citizens and brethren,.because you are just, benevolent and generous. Just, fur youarefiec-—be nevolent and generous, for your laws are the laws of the gospel. Yonr freedom does not rest on the slavery of other nations, nor your happiness on their oppressions and woes. On the contrary, free and prosperous your selves, you wish that all men should paVtake these blessings, and enjoy the rights which naturp intended for all. It is yon, who first asserted these rights, and you who have first again recognized them, in restoring to the oppressed Africans the character of men.— It is your example which lias led Europe, to ahn!i<h the shameful and cruel traffic in hu man flesh—from you, that she learns tti lessons of justice and 1 lie duty of refoiming her absurd and sanguinary customs. This glory, Americans, is exclusive^ yours, and exalts you above all (he nations renowned for good government and freedom. It is now for you to perfect your glory, i aiding us to purge Greece from the barbnri ans, who for four centuries have polluted it Purely, it is worthy of you to discharge the duty of all civilized nations, in expelling ig norance and barbarity from the native soil of lhr arts and of freedom. You will not imitate the culpable indifference, or rather the long continued ingratitude of some l.u rnpean nations. No—the country of Penn of Franklin, and of Washington, cannot re fuse her aid to the descendants of Phocion -'Tirasybulus, Aratai and Philopamen.— You have already evinced your confidence in them, by sending yeur children to their Schools. Vou know with what joy they have hfen received, and the steady kindness and attention of which they have been the objects. If they have done this in bondage what will not be their friendship and attach -msnt to you, when by your aid they shall IRELAND. BLOODY ENGAGEMENT. From the Limerick Ghronlcls of Aug. IB. On Wednesday night upwards of two hundred misguided wrelchr*, mostly armed, many of them mounted on horse back, and the entire dressed in white shirts, surrounded the house of Mr. Julin Ives, a lithe-proctor, at Inchi- rourke, near Ashkcuton. After drag ging him out of the house on the high way, they proceeded to administer oaths, prohibiting him from ever interfering in tithe-l>usines9 ; and, while thus em ployed, a party of Mr. Going’s Police, consisting of seventeen sub-constables, under the command of Thomas Doolun, Esq. chief peace officer, approached the house, having received private informa lion in Ralhkeale that such proceedings would take place during the night. On being challenged by Mr. Doolan, and commanded to surrender, they drew up in regular line for battle, and immedi ately commenced firing on the police, by an order from their leader, in that dis charge one of the police named Thomas Maning was shot dead. Mr. Doolan instantly ordered his party to fire in re turn, which was quickly obeyed, and n regular volley obliged the assailants to break line, and disperse in all directions A charge was then made by the police who succeeded in taking three prison ers, in full costume : two were also found dead, similarly attired. A pursuit after the fugitives took place, and many skir mishes occurred, in which upwards of sixty shots were fired by the police. From every information that can be collected, great numbers have been wounded, and we are told, several dead bodies are concealed in the neighbor hood. Those found by the police, in the first instance, were taken to Ralhkenle where they were interred on Thursday without coffins, in a large hole dug by their companions, in a piece of waste ground, near the guardhouse. The two prisoners were compelled, by Mr. Go ing, to perform all the offices at the hu rial ; after digging the hole, they were obliged to bear the bodies and place them beneath, and afterwards to shake quick lime plentifully over them. Another of the gang died last night in a hut on the mountain, where he had been removed from the scene of action ; his name was Moran, and was brother to one of th prisoners in custody ; he was shot thro the abdomen. Many more would hav been ebot by the police, but after the first volley the fellows all dismounted and took shelter behind ther horses.— The roads in the neighborhood of As keaton present a most horrid appear ance ; streams of blood in various parts and the different gaps, across which the wounded were borne away, are all be smeared with blood. There were fif teen horses brought into Rnthkenle, by the police, upon which those wretche* were mounted, but had deserted ; many of them wpre dreadfully wounded, considerable number of spits, old scythes and some fire-arms, were brought into Bnthkcale by the police. Mr. Doola missed fire twice at the leader of the gang, his pistol having got wet. He very close to him at the time, and would certainly have shot him deaJ, had the pistol gone off. Before the police came near Ives’s house, there were regul sentinel* placed at different points, to give the main body notice of any alarm. When they were challenged, the,answer was, “We arc Christians,” After the volley fired by the police, the captain or leader of the gang, who was attired in a most conspicuous manner, with a white dress, a cocked hat and feathers, endea vored to rally his troops, but without effect. solicit n suspension of hostilities in con sequence of the total rout ot his army. There can he no doubt, that the account given in the English papers ot the lall of Lima, was correct. It was the natu ral consequence of the victory achieved by the army of Gen. San Marlin, and the low ebb to which this event had reduced (he affairs of the royalists. Ministerial Extraordinary Gazette of Chili. News from the Liberating Army ot Peru. Santiago, H'edntsdoy, July f, IBJt. A dispatch of Seuor Governor ol Y alpa- raiso to the Minister of State of Home Affairs. It is half past four o’clock, and the brig Catalina has just arrived. 1 he in formation received by this vessel is as follows : Senor Governor—The British brig Catharine, Robert Ramsay, master, is now coming in ; she is from Moyendo, in 10 days, her cargo is the same which she took in ut Valparaiso. She brings dispatches for the Commodore, contain ing the intelligence that Lord Cochrane had taken Moyendo on the 18th of June. She carries three nnchofs, three cables, and crew composed of 14 men. (Signed) EGBERT VAN REUBEN. District of Valparaiso, July 1st, 1821. I have the honor to communicate this to you for your information, and govern ment, as well as that of the Supreme Di rector, God have you in his holy keeping, iiC, alparaiso. July the 1st, 1821. (Signed) LUIS DF.LA CRUZ. Jt.VOTfirR STATEMENT. By the arrival yesterday ot the schr brig, Catalina, the intelligence of Ge^ neral Kicafort’s rout had been confirmed. he news just communicated is as fol lows : General Ricafort was completely ben ten near l’asco by General Arnales after very obstinate action, in which Rica fort lost a leg & had a thigh broken by a cannon ball, his horse falling dead under him. The major part of his division la ken prisoners, the number of the dead and wounded great, and only a few sol diers of horse officers got safe to Lima is Excellency Gen. San Martin had oncluded an armistice with the Viceroy of Lima for 20 days, it having for object to come to an agreement touching cer .iin proposed arrangements, the result of hich hail not as yet been satisfactorily known. The invitation to the armistice emanated from the Viceroy, in conse quence of the destruction of General Ricalort’s division. I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency, these particulars, in as much ns they have a relation to your Excellen cy, and that of'.he Supreme Director. God preserve you many years, &c. Valparaiso, July 2, 1821. (Signed) LUIS DE LA CRUZ. To the Minister of State, Dr. D. Joachin de Eckevarria. [The above account is objected to in n northern print, on the ground that the ntelligence from Jamaica, of the defeat of San Martin is later. Of the two ac counts, however, we are inclined to give credence to that which comes direct, and in an official shape, rather than to one from a suspicious source, and which re cent accounts give us good ground to be lieve totally false.]—Georgian. The general had sent some battalions out ubout 10 days before, to oppose the advance of the Patriots, and the whole, or greater part of them had joined the Falls, ll.i whole rmtlei of both Ibo wes- to October term, ar.d Tuesday list w. s tern and northern canals are laid out and under contract. About 70 miles of na vigable canal will be added the present Patriots, and were returning in arms a- year to the middle section item Monte- gainst the city. Pour nights bpfore 1 zumato Uuca, a distance of 80 miles, left, the whole garrison of Cinco Pontus, A flight of live locks, at the Little Falls, to a man, had absconded, and what ap- is represented superior to any similar peared remarkably droll, was the display work iu America, and in point ol neat that was made nbout two days previous, execution and durability, may challenge with a considerable troop of cavalry, the world. J'he northern canal was corn- well mounted and accoutred, and while pleted the season past troin Lake Lliam- on parade excited great interest io the plain to the Hudson river; the present beholders, who considered them as the I season the excavation will be completed bulwark of the city. When calling them to it* junction with the western canal, toparaJethe following morning, they near Cohoes Falls. On the outskirts ot had every soul taken French leave in the Albany, the point of termination, opera- iglit, and had joined their countrymen lions hare commeuced tiy this time, i arms without the city. The general! [Ba/t. vlmemaa.] ,ul caused all, or the greater part of the European sailors belonging to the l’or- IMPORTA.\ V DECISIO.Y. tuguesc ships in the port to be pressed, October Id, 1 B^.-CrcmtCourt U. States; and had them deiog garrison duty. Lonsdale vs. iirowrn-Infills rase, Judge About the hrst of September, a nigh I Washington decided, alter argument, and dissention had taken place among the I holding the rase for some time under ad- members of the council; when the ge- visement, that a Bill of Exchange drawn in neral finding matters running to so high one State of the Union upon a person or a pitch, had tendered his resignation, persons in another stale of the Union, is a but the Royalists insisted on lus keeping \toreign Udl of Exchange. his office ; aud on the culling of all the rR0M ^ MP08UCAW . troops to arms, which was accordingly Oaths.—It has become so fashionable done, and the troops all drawn up in the I nJ 80 cotnmon a rraC | ice t0 administer great square betore the government I ^ lh#t a great |10rl|0n of , heir sanc . house. I his caused an instant alarm all m gnd importancc ig | ogt in the care |ess over the town, and lhe inha 1 ant> wer ®| a nd indifferent manner in which they are busied in locking up their Negroes and adminigtered . 0 n the tria i of many cau . securing their houses last shut. All ae8i no ma tter how trifling they may be, then appeared hushed for a few hours, the Mme oath lg used> & the gaine imliffer when lowarwds night the council broke I, jg ob8er vable. The taking of an up, having displaced the most obnoxious oa , h „ golemn ftnd a „, fu | act . it „ cal . ot the Europeans, and tilled their places , n the Qmmpotent God, to witness with native members the governor L be truth of the declarations which are kept his place and the troops wereorder- abo(Jt to be made . and it is iatended to ed to their quarters, an• so endec t e I | >reven ^ 4| ie person who swears from ut- revolution ofthat day without bloodshed. L ering what , |e know| to be false . |, There were strong bodies oftroops pat- thig u Ule ob : ecti , hen , et , he mode of rolling every night, and the night betore admm j g t er j n g be more solemn and im- 1 sailed, they were dragging cannon pregs j ve> through the streets as our firemen do We Ca ‘ nnot (ha{ we ar<} (ia , t0 their Engines, but with greater noise , I j be practice of swearing oaths. Honest and on my going ashore the following men wjil te „ (he lrutb> .. lhe whoIe tr()lhi morning, 1 found they had planted sever- and nathlng fcUe b(ll the trulb> .. wilhotl , al heavy pieces of brass ordnance at each , he forrnaUty of .. k ; gsing tho book;” of the bridges, to guard the passing and rogues are indifferent whether they thereof. 1 here were rcin.orcements | are gworu or n0 ( t whilst (he careless of troops hourly expected from Lisbon, and were they once arrived, they might help to keep the spirit of revolt at a dis tance some time longer. But, at any rate, it seems the people are determined SOUTH AMERICA. LATEST FROM LIMA. Nr.w-YoRK, Oct. 1G. We are indebted to the Editor of the American, says the Advertiser, for a copy of the Extraordinary Gazette of Chili, from which we have translated the par ticulars of an engagement betwixt the pa triots and royalists, in which the latter sustained a complete defeat. The en- LVTEST FROM PERNAMBUCO. We have been favored by Capt. Fox with the follow ing interesting particulars of events and transactions in and about Pernambuco, at the latest dales. We prefer his own narration to any mode which we cynld present the intelligenc ourselves.—Bait, rat I.iuac Monroe, Esq. Editor Baltimore Patriot Sir—Herewith you have the report of the schooner Telegraph, direct from Pernambuco, after a middling passage of G days to land, and, a few hasty remarks on the slate of the country while there, and at the time of my leaving it. 1 sailed from thence on Sunday, 1 Gtli September. While onshore that morning, every thing appeared in confusion about the town. Fear and dismay appeared depicted on every countenance from the anticipated effects of that day, arising from the situation of the Patriot army (only nine miles off) and their threats the day before, in which they announced their determination of hearing Mass that day (Sunday) in the city, and to encour age their troops to this exploit, had pro mised them three days of uninterrupted plunder and a chance of outrage on all the European women in the place.— This will remind you of “Booty and Beauty" at New-Orleans. After all, 1 much doubt if the attempt was made.— Every body knows what a heartless set of wretches the Portuguese are in gene- ral,.nnd how much more so a raw coun try rabble, or in other word* the mobili ty of the country ! However, should they have made an attack, it would require by far the greateet part of the Governor’s disposable force to keep the city in awe, and in case of an action, should he once appear in public, there is oo doubt but be with all his principal adherents would be shot instantly. Then, indeed, scene of carnage would ensue, cutting of throats, slabbing, plunder, and rapine in the highest degree. During 28 days stay in the country, I observed the people to have but little confidence in each other; doubts and mistrust appeared to be the ruling pas sions, and even in almost every family there appeared to be a division of poli tical sentiments. One party being much inclined to abide by the Liberal Consli tution framed and adopted by the Cortes and people of Portugal, yet the other and by far the greatest part, are for a free and independent self-government or a government of their own choice.- j Desertion to the enemy by the native manner of administering oaths tends to increase that indifference. Wearo not fond of innovations, but we would beg leave to suggest the following, . . , as a better mode of coming at the truth not to be governed by Europeans, ari4 ^ J than the one now in vogue. Let the submit to be transported to Europe, to I swearing of oaths be abolished, and let take their trial in the courts of t ortugal I j avvg wb ; cb are now ; n existence »• and indeed it must go down very hard I ga j nf j perjuries, be changed into laws a- with men of sensibility, as it did with our j |n8t Lot tbe , lar be pllnM hed own forefathers, not to have the nrivi-1 w ^ b j| (e U ( mog ( severity ; and when a lege of being tried in their own country, I wlloeg3 approaches the bar, let him be and by a jury of their own countrymen. t0 , d to remember tke /„*, „ nd | et him f u |. Soon after my arrival, there was be-lj y un d era t an( i what he has to expect in tween 20 and 30 of the most respectable cage of being coavlcted 0 f f a u e hood. citizens embarked in irons for Lisbon, I VVc make these suggestions, for the there to be tried for their Jives, on ac- purpose 0 f drawing the attention of the count of their republican sentiments. public to an important but much neglect- But to keep the people quiet and pre-1 e( j gu bj ec t t it is our determination to vent a reacue, ther* were large bodies recur t0 , t 8pce i]Uv. We shall attempt of troop, patrolling the streets till the t0 prove, that it is better to enact and eu- prisoner, were fairly shipped. ^ force several laws against liars, than to Governor is most generally disliked, and I depr j ve oaths of their sanctity by admi- indeed despised. He was a general 0 * nisteriog them carelessly, to persons up- some celebrity under Lord Welhng/on, I on w h 0 m the present fashionable mode and the European troops, oae and all, of do , it hag n0 effcc4- are most firmly attached to him ; but he I __ has governed with such an iron sway,I IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, that the natives will never be at rest till j This practice has been condemned by two he is cut off, root and branch. A few very different but equally eminent men.— days before i arrived at Pernambuco, he I Dr. Johnson disapproved of it, k. Mr. Home was shot one evening in the groin while Took* 1 declared that “ it operated as an illu- passing one of the bridges, though n«tf°7 u 8at i s . fact j. ()n t0 ,h « injured.contributed 1 . J7 , . mi ’ if l . | to the rum of innocence as well as the tri- mortally wounded. The man who shot I . of ^ an( , wag bencflrial tB none him jumped over the bridge and waa j ^ jifarshals, Turnkeys, and Attorneys.” drowned, and was found in a day or two after. He was placed in an arm-chair i ^ RAT FERRETED OUT by the side of the principal church, and I „ r . f . .. . . . !. . J si l la j pa j • I We are informed, that owing to the cir was there exhibited for two days in or- cum3lance of | elterg c „ ntain inE money hav der that some person might lay claim to J ; n g bcPn of late frequently missed between the corpse, but there was none to be this place and Raleigh—Mr. Shore, our Post- found that would recognize it, I master, in order to And out the purloiner has Let the scale turn as it will, the Bra- been induced to make some experiments up- zils will be in an unsettled state for some <>" the honesty of certain of the offices in the .. A | .l. I line—the last of which has been atlended time to come ; and should the Patriots I wiJh the most com p lfte success. The office gam their point in 1 ernambuco, the re- J a t Louisburg, N. C. managed by a young volution w ill spread all over the conn- mi , n 0 f ( be name of Harwell, (a person of try, from Maranbam to the River Plate, very respectable standing, a man of proper- The brig Nymph, of Philadelphia, cap- ty, and a merchant) is proved to he the place tain Wm. Philips, a very fast sailing ves-1 of those mishaps. Mr. Shore has been as sel, had arrived in a short passage from P' r a » Louisburgh in P™. and has made n a 1 ” , 4 - important discoveries, which he will make Bahia, bringing reports that a revolution kn ' own to the public „ p arlicu | ar ma nner, was on the point of breaking out in tnat r through the. medium of our next. Ilaswell place. He will in all probability arrive S(lon after the developement, precipitately in a very few days in Philadelphia, and quitted Louisburg—but has been traced ns by him you may expect to hear whether far as Fayetteville—-Mr.fFox,one of the mail the much expected grand entry took I contractors, entertained strong hopes of o- place or not in Pernambuco, with other verta k ,n 5 bun. 1 etersburg Intel. particulars, as capt. Philips, besides be- RalrioMN. C.) October 26. mg fluent in tbe Portuguese language, is MML ROBBERY.—Thomas Haswell, a man of very extensive information. I Deputy or assistant Post-Master, mid mcr- This, 6ir, is all 1 have to observe, and chant of Louisburg, was committed to the you will make what use of it you deem Jail of this city on Monday last, on a charge proper. 1 am with respect, yours, &c. J of robbing the United States’ Mail. It ap- RICHARD F. FOX. gagement took place near l’asro, and im mediately led to an armistice with the ...... ._ _ J Viceroy of Lima, who was induced to I troops of the city, had taiken place daily pears several packages, of letters have mis carried between Petersburg and Raleigh within a few months, and by a plan concert ed by Mr. Shore, Post-Master at Petersburg, and Mr. Smith, P M. at this place, each of PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. j the intermediate Post-Offices were tested. The rapid advances now making bv 11 would, perhaps, he improper to go into a the great state of New-York to complete H**" 1 of all the circumstances until after the iu • ^ * a. : i« i r A I trial, which will probably take place lhe 12th the important & useful internal improve- l f ^ mon , h- l Mr . H ; swe |,' was arn , sted ment which must lor ages to come secure in Fayetteville, by Lark Fox. Esq. Mail Con- to her citizens the greatest advantages, tractor, assisted by John McRae, Esq. Post- are an example worthy the imitation of j Master at Fayetteville, who may truly be her sisters of tbe Union. A notice of said to be a terror to Mail Robbers, as he the works now under prosecution in that! ' la » arrested lour or five in the course of a state enables us to present the following I years statement for the information of our rea-. ders, who will be surprised to learn, that I Amherst, (N. H.) Oct. 13. upward* of nine thousand men have been I TRIAL FOR MURDER, employed the greater part of the season,! On Tuesday last, Daniel Davis Far- and are now stretching along the lines 1 mer was arraigned at the bar of the Su- of the western and northern canals, viz : I perior Court sitting in this town, for his about 5000 between Utica and Sche- trial on an indictment of the Grand In- nectady ; 3500 beyond the Seneca river quest of this county, found against him and 1500 od the northern canal. Tbe at the term of the Court nt Hopkin- line of the western canal is principally ton in April last, for the murder of widow excavated from twenty miles west of the Anna Ayer, of Goffstown—to which in- Genesee river to the City of Schenecta- dictment the prisoner then plead not guil- dy. Besides working parties on the line I ty, and put himself upon the country for towards Albany, by the routes of Cohoes trial. His trial was at that lime put over assigned by the court fur lus unsigr.- meut. But on the opening of the court it being found that a very material mt- ness on the part ol the prisoner w«s ab sent, and at a distance not possible Ibr him to be present to give his evidence on that day, the court postponed the trial to the next day, to tbe disappointment of a vast concourse of people wito had as sembled to hear it. On Wednesday morning, the court wai opened ut 8 o’clock, in the meeting house, which was immediately filled with persons of all classes, ages, and sexes Y This being the first trial for life, ever 1 occuring in this county, and the extraor dinary atrocious circumstances of the murder, had drawn many people and from a great distance to attend it—and it was computed by some that front 2 to 3000 persons were present through the day. The prisoner was put to the bar aud the trial commenced. The principal witness, as to positive facts against the prisoner, was Anna Ayer, the daughter of the deceased, mur dered woman, aged 14 years the first day of April last. She testified that Farmer came to their house on the night of the 4th April last, about 9 o’clock, and after staying and talking with her mother some time, and drinking rum with her, which he had brought with him, he asked her to go out at the door with him—that they botli went out, and were gone out about 9 or 10 minutes, when .they both came in together—that F. had a club in hi* hand w hen he last came in, but not when he first came in. The club was as large a* a chuirpost, which he stood up against the fire place, and than sat down and talked with her mother. This conver sation however, was not related by the girl, nor is any thing known of what took place while they were out doors. She testifies that F. staid some time after they came in—that she saw him put on a pair of blue and white striped mittens that he rose up from the chair, took the club and said to her mother, “ I am go ing to kill you, and then you may kill me,” and instantly struck her with the club on her head, and knocked her down upon the floor—upon which the girl screamed that he was killing her mother,, and was making for the door, when he also struck her with the club, and felled her to the floor ; after which she knew nothing of what transpired until her com ing too—when the first thing she recol lects was, seeing coals of fire about the floor—Farmei not gone ; laid still ; saw him throw the fire about—saw a pock et-handkerchief and some clothes about the floor were on fire—she was lying on the floor not far from the bed and her mother also on the floor, very near the bed—both iu a different place from that where they were knocked down. Far mer staid but a few minutes after she came too—heard him go out. After ha was gone about long enough to have tra velled half a mile, she crawled to the door and fastened it with a nail, which she drove in with an axe that stood be hind the door, which Farmer did not see. She then put out llie fire, with a pot of beer—says there was water in the pail and in a tub over night which was emptied out. The first motion she saw in her mother was her moving towards tbe bed on her hands and feet; mother got her hands on the bed, and she helped her on. Saw no more of F. that night, nor heard any person trying to get in- found the door in the morning as she had fastened it with the nail. When F, came in, she and her mother were sew ing—F. appeared good natured nnd so ciable. Said he meant to go offifhe could not settle with her. Drank rum three times with her mother—never brought any before—Had but a pint. Although the girl knew nothing (being insensible from the first blow) how tha many wounds which were inflicted on the head of her mother and on her own head came, (both which were most bar barously cut, bruised nnd mangled, and to a degree that renders it wonderful that either of them should have survived)—- yet her testimony is positive as to the facts against the prisoner thus far, and rs fully corroborated and his guilt estab lished by the most unequivocal circum stantial evidence. Other witnesses tes tified, that on going to the house of the deceased, the morning after the attack, they found her on the bed—moved the clothes from her—she had a deep wound on the right side of her head, 3 or 4 in ches long, and one inch wide through the skull bone, which was raised from the membrane nearly an inch, and broken uff about 3 inches in width. Her head was cut in every direction on the bade of it, and appeared as if there had been ten wounds. Attending physicians be lieved the wounds to be necessarily mor tal—and that they were the cause of the death of the woman. It was testified that on approaching the house, a stoue was found near the door, with blood and hair on it; and appearan ces of a person having been dragged out—the hair on the stone comparing with the girl’s hair—the door sill, cas ing, and floor were bloody. The floor had coals strewed on it, and was burned in several places—in one so as to be a- ble to see through into the cellar. That there was found in the house a blut> and white mitten, which was somewhat scorched with embers, and had blood in two or three places on it—which mitten was afterwards tried on the hand of the prisoner and it was found to fit him. It was also proved that he confessed the mitten to be Iris. That also a small iron lire.-shovel was found on the floor, bent and bloody—and a pair of tongs, broke, with hair on the broken part—and a club of maple wood, in four pieces, 2 1-2 feet long, 1 1-2 inch thick. This is the sub stance of the evidence es given by the. witnesses on the part of the prosecution. V