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fj&ssu:. F o i> thn V ,n*mcan Mann facturer. TAKE BACK THE BOWL. T,*,rv< *h» S"* ! ta»» hack the bowl! £ .„ rT .'t f*r* -v'Matfcdl'P’'- I v : mi hw^vr'ws soul . '-v awUo'.il.e c l«n^ I know that lift* -nu^t ^nc-forth be \ w^a^van'l / I'm . > «f» cjin Vo * oo ’’3(p n Nor lower* along nay pathway spring. W 1\ he it <m— 'nv ‘■strif" hath h , ‘ p n R'-on 1 th • ’aw »•*! vn’'ir amo TV le-ds of ha-"* an 1 h*a«i "8 ; men Hive o»rer V«n-nM n honest name, AiU am nron ’—ar“, *w-r. now, \ n' l th" rIiv 1 "* or d««p"n -i* Th" harleas tr«a-l—♦he nnen hrow T ie bribeless han l—are left m" sti . TaV haeU the how 1 ! 1 will not steel Pro naeu tne now: • ” Th-hahowol memories of th" oast TV ' a 1 1 no nangsio thosa I fee', Nor shalows on *h" future oa-^t. A . take it bach—V’t nth- rs hr.ng Oblivion o’»r th" hsnnteil sonl— M / inern-'r’ is a hlessel thmj— Awi ! away! take ha-k the bowl. An upright heart—a guiltless brow— 1 soul unbow"!—are left alone; I w ’! not break in ma lness now T ie onU- staff I l"an upon. To’ keenest pangs that grief can send Shall never prompt to deeds accurst; Ta re back the b w : —1 will not bend A towering spirit to the dust. mw six. W 33 T3. EXTRACTS FR )M FOREIGN PAPERS. H rrid Murders in Edinburgh, for the pu'-pm of selling the bodies. —One oi me m isl appalling instinees of In rat i depravity contained in the re cords oi'tim.J has jist been brought to light at Edinburgh. Two wretch es, iiaintd William B-irke and Helen M.Dougal, were tried -before the Hi^h Eourt of Judiciary on Wednes day last, charged with the murder of three different individuals, in cold blood, for the mere purpose of selling the bodies lo the surgeons for dissec tion! fto unnatural and incredible did the case si-em, that we believe it bns scarcely gained credit in England, and it has been declared in some of the new spapers lo he a mere ruse to fa vor the introduction ot a bill tor sup plying the surgeons with subjects in some legal way. The trial.however, c.s. b.ts all the facts of this horrible trade in blood, so as to silence and appal the most incredulous W’m. Burke and Helen M’Dongal, who are both Irish, and who lived to gether in Edinburgh, as man and wife. Were indicted tor the murders of Ma- Paterson or Mitchell, James Wil known by the name of “Daft ry son, Jamie,” and Mary Camobell ^ or Docherty, by strangling them. The last of the three cases was taken first and the following are the tacts prov ed by the witnesses Mary Campbell or Docherty, of im idle ge, and in good health, came to Edinburgh in October last, in search of her son. She saw him. hao her lodgings paid for by him a day or too, and seems that after thus satisfying the yearnings of natural al- fe tion. to have resolved on returning to Glasgow; but, ns she and her son w -re both poor this was to be done by means of begging. On the morning before Hollbw’en she was asking charity in a grocer s shop, in the wes tern suburb of the town. 1 here she was seen by William Burke, an Fish m m, too, who represented lo this un suspecting creature, that his mother w -.s a Docherty—a relation—and on this ground he offered her breakfast, a id afterwards other meats, with a night’s lodging'. She was also sup- *pli ul liberally with whiskey-; and Burke, a woman, Helen M’Dotigal, with whom he lived as his wife, and W.n Hare anti his wife, a young car ter. and other young men and women, soenl the earlier part o! the evening, as a merry-making, with liquor, dance and song; the'stranger guest acting the part of musician, whilst the rest, at Vast Ihose named; were fully a- ware that she was doomed, as they s > >k of her among themselves freely as being—“a shot for the Doctors"— \v i h as they interpret on their oaths means a person intended to lie in mlcced and sold for dissection. Ac cordingly in the latter part of Ihe eve ting, after a real or protended 6 uffle between Burke and Hare, dur- i, K / nhi. h their victim endeavored to aeperate them, the poor deluded n i p* h w s pushed over, and Burke, in V nro* nee of the parties before turned, threw himself upon lier and extinguished life speedily, by throt tling or strangulation. 1'ne doeu was perpetrated in the most deliberate and scientific manner by- Burke, who took from ten to til teen minutes to make sure of his work. Hare sitting coolly by, and the two women, on hearing the first suffocating screech, running out into the passage, either from ail instinctive horror ol blood, or, what is noi less probable, from a design to prevent any one from enter ing till the murder was coin,, eted- vVhen it was so, the body was piiume- diately stripped naked, and being dou bled up was thrufil under some straw vvliich lay on the ground at the loot of an open bed. These laets are sworn to by Hare, who turned king s eviden e, and were fully confiimed by several persons who saw the murdcr- d person weU at Burke's house one evening and a corpse the next. It is s vorn by Alston, a grocer, that he heard a quarelling in Burke s betwixt eleven and twelve; and David Pater son, the keeper of Dr Knox’s Muse um, swears, that onjjoing home about 12, he, at the request of the latter, accompanied Burke lo his house, where, pointing td the straw, he said he had got something, by vvliich Pat erson understood a dead body, lor the Doctor. This was in the presence of two men aud two women, and, being so immediately after the murder, it is a c ire u mat ante of very great im portance. It authorizes many painful inferences. Paterson sent tor Burke next morning; and between twelve and two he saw liurke and Hare with Dr. Knox, and Dr. Jones, oue of his assistants. It was then arranged that the body should be delivered in the evening. It was that of Campbell, or Docherty-, whit h bad been doubled u,. & compressed into an old tea chest, the porter, John M’Culloch, who cai rn; it u from West port, for five shil lings, having assisted in the stuffing and packing. The body was roceived on Saturday evening, and 51. part of the price, then paid; but no examination too* piace on reception, such as ought to be done in every case where the medical man is desirous of satisfying ms own mind that there are no indica tions ot violent death on the bodies re ceived by him. On Sunday morning, me box still roped in the same state in which it had been received, was opened in the presence of an officer of police, when the body was found ••apparently fresh and never interred the appealance indicating strangula lion or suffocation- from pressure Tills is sworn to by Paterson, who al so gives evidence to both Hare and Burke -having frequently brought sub jects that had not been interred for dis section.” The following* are the horrid de tails given by llare:—Was in a pub lie House along with Burke on Ilal iowe outlay. Nobody else was with them. Burke told witness lo go down to his house lo see the “shot’ ne had got, that he was going to take lo the doctor's; that there was an old woman there that lie had got otf the street: and he had left some whiskey to drink; and wished witness to see how they were coining on. Witne uudeistsod uy a shot, tiiat Burke was going io muder her. Was in Mrs Conway’s oelwixt eight and nine o clock. Besides Conway and his wite there were Burke aud Brogan, and another chap he did not know. Wune .s aud wife, the old woman and ad iJougal were left in Couvvay’s, wnerc they had some drink. Was there till rather late; and then went lo Burke a, leaving the' old woman in Comvuy s. Burke came m after the oid woman. Tney had some more whiskey; and they all "got pretty hearty . Were dancing and singing in his own house, who struck him, and they had a fight together. The wo men were trying to seperate them. Witness was pushed Mown on the bed twice. The old woman was at the fire- She rose and wished B-urke to sit down; for he had used her decently while iu the house, and she did not wish lo see him ill-used. She ran twice out of the house crying either murder or police—could not say which—M’Duugal • fetched her back both times. When witness and Burke were tightiug, witness pushed, the old woman over a little stool, aud she was so drunk sbe could not get further than lo sit. She still called to Burke to quit fighting. He did quit at lust and witness lay still in the bed. Burke then got on the top of the old woman who was on the floor and laid himself down upon her with ins breast at her head. She cried, but not loud; but he held in her breath; and she only moaned a little after, lie put oue hand on her nose and mouth, aud the other under her chin. He continued this tor ten or tifteii minutes. He said* nothing while doing this. He then got up from the woman, who did not move after. Burke put his hand across her mouth again tor two or three minutes, when she appeared quite dead. M it ness was setting on the chair all this time. Burke then stripped off the clothes and put them under the bed, and doubled thtf body up ami put the straw on the top of it, and covered it up. When M’Dougal and Hare s wife Heard the first screech of the old woman, they leaped out of bed and ran into the pass. ge. They did not come in again till the body was cover ed up under the straw.—None of them tried to save the woman. When the women came in Burke went out, and returned in about ten minutes. The women asked no questions. They went to bed again. Never asked for the old woman when they came back. Burke brought the doctor’s mau with him (Paterson.) Burke asked, him to look at the body, but he would not do it, and told him to get a box and put it in. Hare confessed that he had frequently known bodies taken to the surgeon’s which had never been buried, and in which cases, probably, the persons had been murdered. Hare,s wife admitted.that she had witnessed many “tricks” of the same kind; and Hare himself, when under going the searching cross-examination of Mr. Cockburn, durst not deny that with affected kindness, fed her, wash-1 October, 1828. "Were ydu aSsikSiatetl d her rags, took tier out to a ineny-I with Hare during all that time,” making, danced and sang with her, Yes. We began with selling to and promised that not only that night Dr.——the body of a woman who but for several nights to come, she died a natu.al death in Hure’s house, should remain in comfort under her We got ten pounds for it. After this roof. At the very lime she was doing we began'the murders, and all the rest all this she knew that tl»e deed of of the bodies we sold to him were blood was planned, and that before an- murdered.” other day had arrived, her lodger “In what place were these murders would have expired under the clutch generally committed?” “They were of the ruffian with whom she was | mostly committed in Hare’s house, leagued. The hour of murder came. The deed was not • done in darkness or in a corner. One or other of the men did not, as might have been an ticipated, draw the poor vagrant a- sidfc, and put her to death unseen. No; which was very convenient for the purpose, as it consisted of a roo m and a kitchen. Daft Jamie wns murdered there. The story told of his murder, is incorrect. Hare be gan- the struggle with him, and they Burke leaped upon her in the middle fell- and rolled together on the floor; of his own apartment, and while | then I he had been concerned in other mur- words of gratitude for his deadly hos pitality yet lingered on her lips. Hare,*the wretch who betrayed him, sat calmly on a chair, watching the straggles of the victim under his ferocious grip; pnd the women, though they retired into the adjoining passage when the work of blood commenced, jjrent to Hare’s assistance, and tve finished him, though with much difficulty. 1 committed one murder in the country by myself. It was in last harvest. All the rest were done in conjunction with Hare.” “By what means were these fear* ful atrocities perpetrated?” “By suffocation. We made the person® (led n6 further, but spent the time drunk, and then suffocated them bjr they remained there iu moralizing holding the nostrils and mouth, and over their own probable fate. When getting on the body.- Sometimes F life was extinct, the rags torn off, and held the mouth and nosfe, while Har& the corpse bidden in a corner, they went upon the.body. Hare has per- went to bed. and the whole lour slept jured himself by what lie said at tho soundly till the morning. We’need trial about the murder of Docherty. go no further with the story. It is some He did not sit by while I did it, as ho satisfaction to outraged humanity that says. He was on the body assistin vengeance was not slow to overtake me with all his might, while 1 hel them. the nostrils and mouth with one hand, Confession of Burke.—The infor* | choked her under the throat with the mat ion frqm whieli the following arti- ders besides that of Docherty; tha* a murder had been committed in hfc own house in the month of October last'; that he himself was a murderer, and his hands steeped in blood and slaughter; and took refuge in “declin ing lo answer” the questions put to him; which the Court, of course, ap prised him he was entitled to do, in regard to the questions that went to criminate himself.—Daft Jamie was murdered in this miscreant’s house. The facts having been proved at great lengih, so as to put an end to all doubt as to the guilt of Burke, and the trial having lasted all the night, as well as all day, the jui*y was charged by the Lord Justice Clerk at U o'clock on Thursday morning. At half past 8 the jury retired, and after an absence of 50 minutes, re turned a verdict finding Wm. Burrke guilty of the charge, and in regard to Helen M’Dougal, found the charge not proved. A more frightful instance of human turpitude never, herhaps, was detect ed among a Christian people; and the mint! rendered credulous by the mag nitude of the crimes already divulged bi oods in horror over those scenes of iniquity which a veil, interposed'by tne nice distinctions of the penal law, still shrouds in mystery. The crimi nals were indicted for no less than three seperate acts of murder; but the conjunction of the crimes enumer ated m tile indictment- was hold to be prejudicial, and the culprits were tried only oil one charge, with the un derstanding that the others were to be discussed seriatim. That, of course, is now unnecessary, as the law has already marked out its *- lull: Burke and the wretched wo man wno was tried along with him were not married, as is generally un derstood. How long they have ex isted oy the dagilious traffic of mur dering; and selling the remains of their Icilow creatures is unknown; but it is certain, that the l'pi mer, and Hare, one of the socii criminis, by whose evidence he has been partly convicted, have been jointly engaged in deeds of blood for at least a year. Some times one was the principal, and sometimes tho other; and it would a,i- u% _ pear that their houses alternately sitting 8 «rved as shambles for their systemat ic butcheries. The unfortunate wanderer whose muder has brought to light these hor rible villainies, was a country woman oi her murderers. Burke encounter ed tier accidentally in the street— dodged her lo a simp, where she so- lu-iicd-O’uddrcssed her,, and professed to discover that she bore the same name, and was probably a relation of his mother. Thus making the name of the wretched parent who gave him birth, the lure lor his victim. The mendicant, deceived by his specious falsities, accepted of his proffered hospitality, and accompanied him home. His reputed wife, accus turned to such visitants, received her cle is drawn up we have received from a qjost respectable quarter, and its perfect correctness in all respect may be confidently idied on. In truth, it is as nearly as possible a strict report, rather than the sub stance, of what passed at an inter view with Burke; in the course of which the unhappy man appears to have opened bis mind without reserve, and lo have given a distinct and ex plicit answer to every question which was put to him relative to his con nexion with the late murder. After some conversation of a relig ious nature, in the course of which Burke stated, that, while in Ireland, his mind was under the influence of religious impressions, and that he was accustomed to read his. Catechism and his Prayer-book, and attend to his duties, he was asked, “Ilow comes it then, that you who, by your own account, were orifce under tho influ ence of religious impressions, ever formed the idea of sutih dreadful atro cities, of such cold-blooded, syste malic murders, as you admit you have been engaged in; how came such a conception to enter your mind?” To this Burke replied, that lie did not exactly know; but that, becoming ad dicted to drink, living in open adulte ry, and associating continually with the most abandoned characters, he gradually became hardened'and des perate; gave up attending chapel or any place of religious worship; shun tied the face oi a priest; and, being constantly familiar with every spe rms oi W'lckeuness, he at length grew incliilerent as to what he did, aud was re t .ciy to commit any crime tie was then asked how long he had been ei.gaged in tins murderous traffic To winch he answered, "From Christ mas to tho murder of the wo- muu Docherty iu October last.”— “How many persons have you mur- dertfU, or been concerned in murder ing during that time? Mere they thirty in ail?” “Not so many; not so nlduy i assure you.” “How many?” lie answered the questiou; hut the answer was for a reason periectly sat isiactory, not communicated to us and reserved' for a ditferent quarter. Had you any accomplices?” “None hut Hare. We alwuys took care, wiie'n we were going to commit a murder, that no one else should be present—that uo one could swear he saw the deed done. The women might suspect what we were about, but we always put them out of the way when we were going to do it. They never saw us. commit any of the murders. Oue of the murders was done in Broggan’s house, while he was out, hut before he returned the thing ivas flnished and the body put into a box. Broggau evidently suspected something, for he appeared much agi tated, and entreated us ’to take away that ftox,’•which we accordingly did. But ho was not in any way concerned in it.” “You have already told me that you were engaged in these atrocities f rom Christmas, 1827, till the end of oilier. M e sometimes used a pillow, but did not in this case ” 1 Now, Burke, answer me this ques.. tion—M'ere you tutored and instruct ed, or did you receive hints from any one as to the mood of committing murder?”, “No, except from Hare. Me often spoke about it, and we a* greed that suffocation was the best . way. Hare said so, and 1 agreed with him. We generally did it by suffoca-- tion. [Our informant omitted to in terrogate him about the surgical in struments stated to have been found in his house; but this omission will be suppl.ed.] Did you receive any encourage-, ment to commit or persevere in com-% mining these atrocities?” “Yes; wo wore frequently told by Patterson that he would take as many bodies ng we could get for him. When we got one he always told us to get more. There was oommonly another person with him, of the name of Falconer. They generally pressed us to'get more bodies for them.” To whom were the bodies so murdered sold” “To Dr.-~-,‘ ' We took the bodies to his rooms in——. and then went to his house to receive, the money for them. Sometimes he paid us himsMf. sometimes we were paid by his assistants. No question®' were ever asked as to the mode ity which we had coma by the bodies. Wc had nothing to do but leave a body at the rooms, and go and get tbe money.” “Did you ever, upon any occasion, sell a body or bodies to any: other lecturer in this place?” “Ne ver. We knew no other.” “You have been a resurrectionist (as it is called) I understand.” “No. Neither' Hare nor myself ever got a body from a churchyard. AH we sold were murdered, save the first one*, which was that of the woman who died a natural death in Hare’s house. We began with that; our crimeslijea commenced. The vict ims we select ed were generally elderly persons. They could be more easily disposed of than persons in the vigor of health.’.’ Burke, when asked if he had compunctious visiting of nature, no* remorse, no stiiigs of conscience, re plied, that for a long time after ha had murdered his first victim ha; found it utterly impossible to banisb for a siugle hour the fecollec[ion of tha fatal struggle, the scream of distress and despair, the agonizing grooms, and all the realities of the dreadful deed* At night the bloody tragedy, accent* panied by- frightful visions of superna tural beings, tormented him' in hi® dreams; but he ultimately became so callous, that a murder added but little to his mental anguish. Such are the disclosures which thi® wretched man has made, under cir cumstances which can scarcely fail to give them weight with the pub lic. ’ ’ i LAWS OF THE . CHEROKEE NATION, j or the icars 1826, 1827 182b,/<j* .salt at this Offiee.