pV GEO. W. BOWJIAJV.
>-£W SERIES.
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The Orphan Beggar.
A TKI E STOUV.
\ little boy. an orphan too.
Whose fuiaer eU'ls U th cold were blue,
With pearly drops in either eye,
Ready ' at P'D'' s S! sh.
With timid steps approached the door,
(Some scanty pittance to implore,)
Whose brazen knocker, smooth and bright,
Mocked all the etfoits of the wight ;
His little hands its place supplied,
And open tlew the portal wide.
V clergyman ol modern date,
Les, lamed lor kindness than estate,
Now eyed the boy from top to toe;
And listening to his taleoi wo,
>aul,"take this crust, 'tis mouldy too;
Rut still, 'tis good enough lor you."
The hoy received it with good gsace,
And turned about to quit the place.
..s; t on," said the priest, "an ophan boy
Should not pursue such bad employ.
Answer me this, prav, can you read?"
"Ah! no sir, 'tis a tiutii indeed."
••Not read! why 'ben you cannot pray ?
J'll teach you, alter rrte thus say :
Our Father who in Heaven art"
(•Our Father' touched bis little heart.)
"Is he your Father, then, arid mine I"
"Yes," said the reverend divine;
"God is the father of us all—
Of rich and poor, of great and small."
With feelings undisguised, the boy
Summed uptiie whole in tins reply;
We're brothers—let it not be said
You ever gave me mouldy bread."
WIIBMfipMTTL
Bedford, ;3S>, S
6, W. Bowman, Editor and Proprietor-
The Know Nothing Oalhs.
Extracts from the Address on Know-Nothing
isrn delivered at Lancaster, Pa., on the 24tii of
September, by Col. JOHN \V. FORNEY :
There can be no offence more harrowing than
that of perjury. The vow taken in the sight of
Bod, atul broken in the sight of man, corrodes
in the conscience forever. Perjury is the ap
parition which compels the corrupt witness to
sp-ak the truth, and the whole truth. Perjury
is the keen vengeance which pursues the shrink
tugguilty soul through all the aveuues of life,
and is satiated only w hen that soul escapes to its
God. But who would have believed, beibre this
midnight conspiracy afflicted our country, that
a political party would assume the right to en
lurce its extra-judicial oaths by holding over its
victims the terror of peijury f Who ever heard
belore that a man's hope of redemption was lost
because he would not, or could not fulfil a vow
t ; j proscribe his fellow-beings ? because he would
not drive home the steel whetted to assassinate
the reputation of his uninitiated friend !—be
cause he had fled from the recesses of an under
ground lodge, which had been dedicated to 111-
t Fiance and wrong < And yet it is notorious
that the admitted member ot this order is oath
faouud to obey its decrees on a penalty of "being
denounced us u u i/Jul traitor to his God and to
ins country,"' and that he is next assured by the
high t; lest of the conspiracy that for the viola
tion of Ids oaths "the deep and blighting stain
of perjury will rest upon t hair soul." I have
already specified some of Hie worivSto which lie
is committed from the moment he enters one of
these caves of persecution, and which lie must
ate mpiish, or be "denounced as a traitor to
his God and his country." It is a new thing in
the history of American parties lo see men as
finning obligations to proscribe others, their e
q<ials,and often their neighbors, and consenting
to the imputation ot perjury should they lad or
Biter in tins pious pastime.
Men have taken oaths to destroy their coun
try s oppressors, arid Heaven has approved the
set. fhe august ceremonial which inaugurated
and completed the Declaration of Independence
"asmadein the sight of an approving God, and
it ever such approval was given, it consecrated
the immortal vow. But are our fellow-freemen,
whom we meet in the daily walks of life, op
pressors arid enemies, that we should crawl into
corners to lake oaths against them, failing in
which the sin of perjury is to rest on our souls!
No good angel blesses such irreverence; no vir
>tie is to be saved by it; no right protected, and
no wrong tnade right.
But I will ask whether the profane oath I
■ "Ve quoted, and the equally profane assutnp
'lJ° of punishing the violation of such an oath
•diould not call down the thunders of indignant
protest from every christian pulpit in the land?
Instead ot turning thoughts upon the imaginary
uangersof a distant prelate, whose power to af
fect our happy institutions would be as ineffect
ual as the attempt ol the naked King of the Mos
quito coast to capture Gibraltar; instead of incit
a political party in its work of denunciation
i disfranchisement—as has been the case wilh
,J ° man .V ol the professing tbllowers of the
Ui'tkand lowly Saviour—l humbly refer them
'' Hie spectacle of vast multitudes of men wal
'j-ving jn the most reckless oaths, glorying in
fue most abandoned persecutions, and arrogant
> assuming the right to punish rebellion to their
fan .aril, by hurling the anathema of perjury,
as it delegated vicegerents of God on earth.
Purely no American citizen, however deep
> prejudiced against an opposing creed, can lor
a moment be misled by the {ilea that this mid
night order, with all it's professions, has advanc
es hue religion. The litual and platform of the
-••er both declare their belief in "a Supreme
, n ? as an essential preliminary. But there
14 -fv'at reason to fear that the managers want
nobody else to worship God save themselves,
' and that their idea of a Deity is ot one who ex
pects to be propitiated by acts of deceit and
shame. A party which excludes a Catholic and
admits a Mormon, which does not hesitate to
follow the lead of man V whose deeds and words
are at war with every idea of religion such a
paity cannot long delude any portion of intel
ligent citizens with empty professions of piety.
Nay, if there be perjury anywhere, those w ho
violate an obligation like the fallowing, in the
Pennsylvania Hi I i of Rights, will have some
trouble to purge themselves :
"That all men have a natural anil indefeasible
right to worship God Almighty according to the
dictates of their own conscience: that no man
can, of right, he compelled to attend, erect or
support any place of worship, or to maintain any
1 ministry, against his consent; that no human
authority can, in anv case whatever, control or
interfere with the rights of conscience, and that
no preference he given to any religious establish
j menfs or modes of warship.
"That no person who acknowledges the be
; ing of a God and a future state of rewards and
punishments shall, on account of his religious
sentiments, he disqualified to hold any office or
{ place of trust or profit under this Common
l wealth."
I beg yon to contrast this with the oath of the
[ midnight order. We are told it is perjury in a
■ know-nothing to violate that oath. And here
is an obligation more solemn, more binding,
more essential to society, which in some of its
parts is set at nought by thousands of know-no
; ilungs—and. this, too, without complaint or con
j demnation from those ministers of the Gospel
i who belong to the order, and who themselves
practice the evil they should condemn in others.
It has been said that, while the adopted citi
zen takes an oath to support lite know-nothing
takes an oath to violate, theWmertcan Consti
tution. And the fruit of this reckl-ssness is lull
of terrible significance. A direct result of the
secret obligations of tjie order may be found in
the bloody tumults of Louisville, an<A in the ex
cesses of the know-nothings in other large ci
ties. To such an extent has public indignation
been excited against the profane and familiar
tvsnrt to extra-judicial oaths, and the invariable
appeal to force and fraud at the ballot-boxes,
that in |iortions of the Union the order has de
liberately discarded alike its secrecy and its ob
ligations. This has been the case in Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana and South Corolina. The
very fact that the oath of the order tends to
bring into contempt the higher obligations im
posed by the Constitution and the laws proves
it is not binding upon those who are deluded
into an assumption of it. But it is no less clear
that in many places, this oath, imposed with ali
the forms of midnight secrecy, has had a disas
trous effect upon those who have accepted it.—
So tar from contributing to the strength of the
order, it has been one of the principal causes of
its rapid decay. Resorted to for the purpose of
consummating the schemes of men who could not
obtain advancement from other parties, but who
were able to pack majorities in these secret so
cieties, it becomes a galling yoke to the more
respectable members, and, as may be well con
ceived, has ended by driving out the best and
leaving the lodges in the control of the worst.
Nay, take a member of this order, one who is
known to have accepted its obligations, and sud
denly demand of' him whether he is attached to
it, arid observe with how much confusion and
shame he will attempt to deny, or indirectly ad
mit the fact. That ministers of God, should,
in the ostensible desire of promoting the spread
of the doctrines of Christianity, embark - with
those who are committed to those obligations ;
that they should cheerfully assume companion
ship with men besotted in intellect anil led cap
tive by vice and fraud; and that they should sit
silent and see not only their Catholic fallow
beings, but their own neighbors, even those
concurring with them in religions belief, who
do not belong to the order, stricken down or
marked out as it were, for execution, almost
passes comprehension. It cannot be doubted
that the manner in which ihese obligations
have been inisted upon, and the violence with
which the demands of the pledged midnight
majority have been consummated, has contribu
ted to change many ofthese lodges into Pande
moniums upon earth : controlled, not by intel
lect and virtue, but by men who have become
skilled in the practices at first so bitterly de
nounced by their leaders and now almost entire
ly abandoned by the old parties. Oaths em
ployed to sanction and strengthen practices
like these are null and void in the sight of
Heaven as soon as they are taken ; arid the fre
quency with which they are repudiated by those
who have reluctantly assumed them shows con
clusively that the idea of their binding efficacy
—is being rapidly dissipated.
From tlie Chicago Press, Nov. S.
Horrible Tragedy in Chicago-
Last evening, about seven o'clock, two dis
charges of a pistol were heard in West Randolph
street, between Peoria and Sangamon streets,
and Alderman Elithorpe, who was near by,
rushing to the spot, found Eclgar E. Ingersoll,
tender of the Randolph street bridge, with a
pistol shot in his breast, and his wife also shot
in the bteast, staggering away, while the instru
ment of death was still in the murderer's grasp.
Mrs. Ingersoll was taken to the house of Mr.
Shaw, corner of Randolph and Peoria streets,
where Doctors Freer, Brownell and Hollister
were called to her assistance, and at last ac
counts she was still alive, with a possibility of
recovery. She was shot in the left breast, be
tween the third and fourth ribs.
Ingersoll was conveyed to the AVest Division
Police Station, in the Market House, and at
tended by the sarr.e physicians, but he never
spoke, and died about 8 o'clock. He was shot
in about the same place that his wife was. The
pistol was one of Allen's revolvers.
In Ins pocket were found $33 in gold, and a
letter, of which the fallowing is a literal copy.
It shows that his action was premeditated.—
It was written in pencil, on both sides of a
small piece of paper, and is intended for a broth
er residing in this city, who has a caniage shop
on Canal street :
CHICAGO, Nov. 4, 1855.
DEAR BROTHER CHARLES:—I would like
: very much to see you but time will not permit
1 will ask one favor of you and the last. I beg
of you to see that Lizzie and myself are hurried
and together. I wish vou to take Ida Amelia
i Ingersoll in your care and give her my gold
watch that she may have it as a present from
her father. I am very sorry to think lam a
| bout to commit this oli'el deed But my feelings
are more than I can express. Lite is swete but
1 li§d sooner part with it than be sepperated
| tiom one that I love so dear no one can know
i my feelings their beyond rnv reach to explain
I shall fetcli this to a close by Bidding you a
diew Give my love to father and mother and
j Brothers
Your Brother. EDGAR E. INGERSOLL.
Upon his person was (bund two'cheap publi
cations, with the fallowing titles, which appear
: to have been recently purchased and read.—
; From these t lie miserable man ma)' have re
ceived the idea of Ins desperate crime, or by
them wrought opto its commission :
j Miss Jaue Clark, the Buried Alive: Or, Con
fessions ola buicide. Published by H. .M.
Rulison. Queen City Publisher's House,
11 .">i Main street,
j The Wonderful Adventures and Horrible Dis
closures ola Louisville Policeman. Written
by Himself.
'1 tie little Ida Amelia referred to in the let
ter is an infant of about a year and a half old.
She is indeed brought to a sad orphanage.
It appears that the principal actois'in this
tiagedv have been on terms of disagreement far
some time. She had commenced a suit for a
divorce, Messrs. Rae & Bro., Masonic Temple,
being her counsel. Ingersoll had just returned
from Cincinnati, w heie he had found liei broth
er, Charles I. Morrison, and brought him here
to endeavor to effect a reconciliation between
them. Last evening he called for her, and they
: went out for a walk, and on their return, and
just before reaching bet residence, he fired.—
What their conversation was no one knows, but
: it is probable she persisted in her determination
to live apart from him.
Frorti'the Chicago Press, Nov. 0.
Further Particulars of the Loss of the
PROPELLER DELAWARE.
Part of the crew of the propeller Delaware
came to this place yesterday on the steamer
Arctic, to accompany the body of the late mas
ter of the wrecked vessel, Captain D. H. Dix
j on, on its way to its friends near French Creek,
not lur from Buffalo. From the saved who are
here, we learn the fallowing additional partic
ulars :
The propeller left Port Washington about e
leveil o'clock on Sunday night, and soon alter
that time the fury of the storm commenced.—
Wiiiie laboring iu the sea, she sprung a leak,
| and the water gained on the pumps so last that
they were obliged to head her for the shore.—
The water extinguished her fires, and she then
drifted with her gib set, until she struck, about
six miles south ol Sheboygan.
Monday morning, soon after daylight, Joseph
Greenbalgh, Ist engineer, Heory Inman, wheel
man, arid S. Minegar, fireman, launched the
propeller's life-boat lrem the upper deck, and
placed the only woman on board in it, with her
! child. She was a passenger; and another pas
| seriger (probably her husband) got into the boat
j with her. John Jones and two others, names
unknown—all three deck hands—also got into
the boat, making nine in all, and started for the
: shore. The boat had proceeded but a few
yards frnm the vessel before it capsized, and ail
i w ere drowned except Greenhalgh, Inman and
Minegar a male passenger.
The others determined to remain on the ves
sel, except W. C. Hill, cook, who got into the
j yaw l, which was stove, and drifted with it to
j the shore in safety. .No one else would venture
| in it with him.
Captain Dixon perished Monday afternoon
front cold arid fatigue. 1 le was lashed lo the stern,
j and alter he was dead as the waves would have
| dashed him to pieces against the vessal, and the
survivors could scarcely hold themselves on to
the wreck, the mate took the captain's money
i from his pockets and cut the hotly adrift. It
was recovered on the shore. The mate deliv
i ered the money into the hands of the Sheriff of
ithe county.
James Brettnan, porter, fell from the rigging
. of the propeller on Monday, and was drowned.
Five passengers were drowned whose names
were unknown. The following is the most
complete list of lost and saved which we can
: make out:
LO^T—Captain D. H. Dixon : John Jones,
i deck hand : James Brennan, porter; two deck
hands, names unknown ; five passengers, names
unknown.
j SAVED.— Mr. Austin, Ist mate; Mr. Will
iams, "Jd male; Henry Shiner, Ist engineer;
Joseph Greenhalgh,2d do,; H. N. Allen, wheel
man ; Henry Inman, do,; P. Shea, steward ;
W. C. Hill, cook ; M. O. Brien, fireman ; S.
i Minegar, do; J. Fett, deck hand ; Conn Minur,
watchman ; one deck hand, name unknown.
During the dav (Monday) the government
life boat at Sheboygan was manned by twosail
| ors and seven citizens of the place, and came
down to the rescue. They were compelled to
j make ten trips before they could get off the last
survivors. The last trip was made about four
; o'clock Tuesday morning, the gallant men who
i manned the boat having repeated their efforts
at intervals all Monday night. They would go
out, and if the boat filled they would return,
; bail it out, get rested and warmed, and "try it
again." Such noble heroism should not pass
unrewarded, and we doubt not the gallant men
| will be well remembered.
The crew state that thieving and robbing I
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. '23, 1855.
i the dead was practised by the populace on shore.
While on the propeller, the crew had lashed
their clothing to portions of the wreck, and let
them drift ashore. They are appropriated by
some of the inhabitants, and the destitute sea
men were obliged to hunt them and lake them
from the thieves by force. One of the engin
eers got out a search warrant, and recovered
most of the plunder. The cargo was fast com
ing ashore, but upon such a large extent of coast
that it was imjiossible to keep people from steal
ing barrels of beef and flour.
'SAD BGRXNIXG CASE. —An inquest was held
by Coroner Hilton on Sunday, at No. 20b De
lancey street, on tfie body of Resauna Morgan,
child of 10 months, who died from the effects
ol burns received two weeks before. The mo
ther ot the deceased said, on her examination :
"I left my little daughter, Rosjna, sitting on a
little chair, before tin* stove ; my little son was
silting by her side; he is about three years of
age: J went down stairs, and was gone about
ten minutes; on my return, I heard deceased
scream, and, entering the room, I found her
clothes on fire; there, was a piece of paper on
fire on the floor; from what I could learn, my
little sou had lighted the paper at the stove, and
it burning his fingers, he dropped it in front of
ins sister, setting her clothes on fire. She was
badly burned, and lingered up to 11 o'clock Sat
urday night, whea tile poor little tiling died."
.V. F. Times.
A.y A woman is either worth nothing, or a
great deal. II good for nothing, she is not
worth getting jealous lor ; if she he a true wom
an, she will give no cause far jealousy. A
man is a brute to be jealous ot such a woman
—a fool lo be jealous of a worthless one, but a
doubie faol to cut his throat lor either of them.
Extraordinary Railroad Disaster.
A Train Blown off the. II ir lem 'Truck by a Hur
ricane Two . 'den Killed and Seventeen In
jured.
Yesterday morning, about half past G o'clock,
the Express train from Albany met, in the vi
cinity of Chatham Four Corners, with one of
the most extraordinary disasters, it has ever
been our lot to record. It appears the train
had left Albany at 4,30 A. M., and arrived at
Chatham Four Corners at 5,28, with three pas
senger catsartd a baggage car. After stopping
at Copake—a station about thirty miles below
Chatham Four Corners—lite train arrived at
the place known as the Taconacor lower range
of Berkshire mountains, the boundary line be
tween Massachusetts and New \ ork. Tins
part of the road is very much exposed to a high
wind, owing to a narrow valley between two
which, when the wind is oast, con
centrates it, 3iid the most fearful gales are ex
perieiued on this pait of the road when the
wind at other places is even moderate.
During the whole of Monday night the wind
was very high and a heavy rain was falling, and
as the train was passing a fearful gust came up
from the valley, and the doors of the baggage
car were blown in, and in a moment the car
was hurdled oil" the track, and rolled down an
embankment some forty feet deep. The coup
ling which attached it to the engine snapped
in a moment, but the passenger cars wore jolted
off the track, and were blown by the wind af-
ter the baggage car.
The scene that followed was fearful. The
cars rolled over three times, and came to the
bottom of the embankment with a heavy crash.
At this time of the morning it was pitch dark ;
the rain v. as fall ling heavily, and the groans
and shrieks of the mutilated passengers were
heard with dreadful distinctness above even the
noise of the tempest.
The conductor, Mr. R. J. White, who was
in the middle car, extricated himself from the
ruins as soon as possible, and succeeded in des
patching the engine to ftlillertown, the next
station below, where aid was procured, and the
wounded and the dying cared for. Fortunate
ly there were hut thirty passengers in the train:
and of these, strange to say, some twelve were
uninjured.
The following is as perfect a list of the injur
ed as we could obtain.
DEAD.
Francis W. Rathbone, paper manufacturer of
White Mills, Chatham Four Corners. The
truck had fallen upon him, and was dead when
found.
Harvey Gavlord, brakeman, residing in Cha
tham Four Corners. He was fearfully cut in
t!ie head, and three of his ribs broken in such a
manner that his entriTs protruded. He surviv
ed some hours, and died during the day in great
agony.
INJURED.
Joseph C. Shelly, baggage master, of White
Plains, hurt in the back by the fall of the coup
ling.
.Mrs. Van Vechten, of Pittsfield. This lady
had four cuts on the head, yet with great bravp
ry, she disregarded herself and attended to
the other wounded until she fainted from loss of
blood.
R. J. White, conductor, of New York, cut in
the leg : not serious.
Mr. Perkins, of Tioga county, hurt in the
head.
Mrs. Soutes, hurt in the back.
Mr. Storv of Chatham Four Corners, and
Mr. Marshall, of the same place, hurt in the
head.
Mrs. Coburn, of Chatham, severely injured
in the head.
Mr. and Mrs. Coburn, her son and his wife,
slightly.
Judson Barnes, of Chathem, brakeman, hurt
in the head.
Mr. Duncan, of Chatham, brakeman, not se
rious.
James Hart,?, conductor,slightly wounded.
English Billy, a news-boy of New York, cut
in the head.
Three gentlemen, names unknown, one go
ing to Millerton, another to Croton Falls, and
the other to Packman's Station, all slightly in
jured.
A lady going to Croton Falls was also injur
ed.
The wounded were taken to Millerton sta
tion and there kept until word was sent to their
relatives.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.
From Norfolk.
The streets of our usually quiet city presen
ted quite an excited appearance on Wednesday
evening. The different bells were pealing forth
a strain of alarm, and from many throats came
the hoarse cry of'"Fire ! Fire!" The citizens
and various fire companies were out iu force to
witness the spectacle, and to aid in extinguish
ing the flames, which were bursting through the
roof and windows of a brick tenement, unoccu
pied, on Princes Anne road. The fire though
in itself of but little importance, yet was the
occasion of much thought to a reflecting mind,
by the circumstances connected with it. It
will be remembered tHat this is the first night
fire which has occurred in Norfolk since tlm
burning of Barny's row : the latter was at the
ushering in of the epidemic, the former at its
exit.
What unparalleled events have transpired
since then! What a mournful interim! The
heart bleeds at the thought for now we have
time to think. During the interim it was all
work ; but now as our absent ones return, and
we are asked, "How is my friend ?" the answer
has to be returned, "dead I"
We feel mote keenly our losses—losses that
time alone can repair, and many of them in the
healing of which time will he powerless, and
in thinking of the time through which we have
just passed, we are reminded of the noble spir
its that have been tried bv an ordval that leaves
no dross. Spirits we are justly proud of at home
and abroad—some of them—aye ! many of them
have Lid on the altar of humanity all they
had to give—their lives. Such men as Woodis
and Furgnson can never be forgotten ; eulogies
cannot be heaped too profusely upon them, and
t fie re are others whose names will live forever
beside theirs, in characters of living light, nev
er to b" washed out, however profusely the
rains of time may fall.
It will be remembered that among the first
who came to the relief of our sick and dying,
was Miss Andrews, of Syracuse, New York :
her's was the first letter received from those
who have been alleviating the suflerings of our
sick bv kind attention. Some called her wild
and insane. The proud reputation which she
has won, the noble self-sacrificing devotion she
has manifested, winning for her the reputation,
shows whether she was insane or not. The at
tempt ot the Syracuse journals to claim her as a
native resident of that place, is evidence that
by them, at least, she is not so considered. But
I must not go on thus. Those who have been
proven and found worthy are not unknown, and
I need not reiterate the praises that have keen
s'o often expressed before. Some may say T
have made—to use a homely expression—a
mountain of a molehill. I have but written a
portion of the thoughts suggested by the fire al
luded to.
Among the new cases of faver T am pained to
notice Crawford Johnson. This young man de
serves much credit. Some time since he return
ed to Norfolk, against the express desires of his
employers, Rylyy K. Erbech, tobacco dealers of
Norfolk but his mother was here, and every
paper he read, bore the names of dear friends
in the list of the dead. Those constant recita
tions of distress were too much for him, and he
returned to contribute his mite to their relief.
Last evening was quite an era among us : our
wharves, until now deserted, presenting a lively
aspeci. Six steamers came up at S o'clock to
day. They weteas follows:—The Roanoke,
from New York : Pennsylvania, from Philadel
phia: North Carolinan, from Baltimore; Curtis
Peck, from Richmond ; Coffee, from Hampton ;
and Star, rtf Norfolk. They ail brought quite a
number of our people. The Roanoke brought
150.
The Howard Association, I learn from one of
its members, u ill close operations at their store
on Tuesday, on account ol the oppression res
ting upon them. Many of those who return
come without money, so that their burthen is
greatly increased, and they are unable to bear
up against the tide. The destitution ol our poor
is past description. What they are to do du
ring the winter, now almost upon us, I cannot
tell. Awful indeed will be their situation.—
Never before did any people present so destitute
a condition to the charitable of other places, and
I trust they never will." It requires that one
should be among us to fully realize our posi
tion.
There have been no deaths for two days past.
Health has fully returned.
I had hoped to be able to give no information
but of a pleasing character lor some time to
come, but it was not to be so. I heve mention
ed one new case of fever, and said to mv feliow
citizens abroad, "Come back but lam com
pelled to-day, (3d of November,) to reverse it,
and say, "Stay where you are." Some excite
ment has been created by the re-appearance of
the dreaded disease. The wpnther for the past
two or threedevs has been wet and warm : this
morning a warm sun came out, but it has be
come cloudy again. The bad state of the
weather has resulted in the development of five
new cases since I wrote the first part of my let
ter. Two of them are Germans.
I did not expect to write to-day, but the in
formation was important.
Steady cold weather alone can subdue tbe
disease which has so strongly infected our at
mosphere. NORFOLK.
Tliree Biea Drowned.
As the steamboat John Potter, Capt. Simp
son, was coming up from Amboy, about 7 o'-
clock, last evening, when off Governor's island,
a boat full of men was observed about two hun
dred yards ahead, crossing her track. The en-
TER.YIS, $2 PER YEAR.
gine was stopped, the whistle blown, and the
helrn put hard aport, so that the steamer swung
almost around, but the men in the boat still
rowed across the bows of the Potter, and at
length came in contact with her, upsetting the
l>oat and throw ing its occupants into the water.
Much alarm prevailed among the passengers of
the Potter, but Capt. Simpson immediately man
ned and launched the life-boat from the hurri
cand deck, and put off in search of some ol the
unfortunate men who had drifted off with the
tide, while those on board the steamer rescued
four persons and took them on board. After
some time the life-boat returned with two oth
ers who had been picked up at a considerable
distance from the scene of the accident. The
boat contained nine men; seven of them liggers
from the ship S. H., Talbot, and two Whitehall
boatmen. The riggers say the boatmen were
1 drunk, and persisted in running against the
' steamer. The names of the persons saved are :
Daniel \V*. Hall, master rigger; George Calli
gan, John Craig, Chas. .Mercer, Wrn. McNeil)-,
Patrick Shanes, drowned Leo Pope, one of the
riggers, was drowned, as it is supposed were
the two boatmen : although it is hardly possible
j that some of these may have been picked up by
some vessel. The occurrence is purely attrib
utable to the recklessness of the boatmen.—V.
: T. Tribune, Bth.
Execution of John lUciarroo.
John McCarron, convicted of the murder of
| James O'Brien, in the village of Boonville, on
the 17th day of Julv, 1553, was executed in
the jail yard in the village of Rome, this inoio-
The arrangements for the execution were all
j carefully made in proper order. Sheriff Crock
| er and assistants gave the utmost attention to
j every minute. They felt a humane anxiety
that the melancholy affair should he conducted
I with as entire freedom as possible from the dis
j agreeable features which are almost insepara
ble from capital executions.
McCarron's wife, four children, two brothers,
' and Father Beecham, the Catholic clergy mm in
Rome, were with him during a considerable
portion of the morning, and all remained until
within a few minutes of ttie execution. But
the awful solemnity of the occasion seemed only
to he felt by bis triends, it was not by him
j self.
About 12 o'clock the death-warrant was
j feelingly read by District Attorney Utley ;
McCarron listened to it with a stupid, silly
; smile, or perhaps a leer peculiar to him.—
While every spectator was more or less moved,
! his nerves were steady and his spirits apparent
• ly undarkened by the immediate., prospest of an
; ignominious death. During the reading, his
wife was crying in agony : just as the read
| ing was commencing, she sprang forward to
denounce the District Attorney tor his part in
: securing the conviction of her husband, but
she was stopped by Rev. Mr. Beecham. Af
ter the reading of the death warrant, McCar
ron's shook hands with Mr. Utley and was led
to execution.
On being stationed under the rope, a pray
er was read bv Rev. Mr. Beecham, while Mc-
Carron silently moved his lips, as if repeat
j ing it. That done, lie was asked if he had
: anything to say. He answered that he had.
He tlien began to talk of the murder in a dis
i connected manner. He had previously con
fessed the crime, but neither confessed nor de
, nied it now. He said he had been brought
i there through villainy—talked of having been
i led to drink—of the murdered O'Brien having
slandered his wife, See. lie would perhaps
have said much more than he did, but was in
terrupted by the priest, who besought him to
! think of Jesus.
The black cap was then drawn over his face.
The signal was given in a moment after, and
1 the drop fell. His neck was broken. There
was no muscular contraction until he had hung
1 for a few moments. There were then only a
few twitches of the arms. After hanging twen
ty-five minutes, he was taken down, laid in a
cotfin, ami his l>ody delivered into the hands of
his friends. We understand it is to be interred
in this city.
The crowd about the court house numbered
1 three or lour hundred. The behavior was res
' peclful.
:
BREACH OF PROMISE CV-ES I.\ VIRGINIA.—
Two suits for breach of promise are reported by
the Richmond II hig. The first was in Chester
field county. An elderly gentleman named
; Phaup, rich in this world's goods, and experi-
I enced in the charms of wedded-life, made iiim
| self agreeable to a widow lailv named Yaden,
; whose years were nearly three-score. It is inti
; mated, indeed, that he was stimulated by the
j rosy god, but with that w.e have no concern ;
; certain it is, from all accounts, that he wooed
and won her. His drearn, however, was of brief
duration : for when he awoke to a sense of his
' situation, he declared that before he would be
sacrificed on the altar of Hymen, lie would
: swing high upon the gallows, like Haman. Mrs.
; V., however, was not so easily trifled with.—
! She brought a suit for breach of promise against
' the gay deceiver, laying Ihe damages at ten
: thousand dollars—a rather high price for bain;
to soothe the wounded heart that had braved
the storm of so many winters. However, the
case was tried, argued by eminent counsel, and
: decided in favor of the defendant. Of course
he is delighted, and the lady inconsolable.
In the other cas<-, which was tried a week or
two since at Charlestown, Jefferson county, the
, result was different. Miss Hezzini Beall had
sued Mr. Jesse Miller lor breach of marriage
promise. After three days spent iu the trial,
the papers were given to the jury, who return
; ed alter an hour and a half's deliberation, with
a verdict for the plaintiff of $3.(100. The case
elicited much interest, and was conducted with
! gr> at ability by the coiuitti on both sides.
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