IS JEFFJSJRsGNIAN" JtEP U13L1CAN . JEFFERSQNIAN REPUBLICAN Strowattmirg, May 10, 184S TermsCO mailmnce; $2,25, half yearly; tm $2,50 if not paid bcfoic the end of the vear. Dreadful Murders. One of the most shocking murders which ever occurred in New Jersey, was perpetrated on Monday night, the 1st inst. at Change "Wa ter, ten miles from Belvidere, in Warren coun '(y,Hvhen four persons were drilled in cold blood, and a fifth beaten almost to death. The vic tims were, Mr. John B. Parke, an elderly bachelor, who was reputed to be very wealthy. Tt. Joh.v Castner, his brother-in-law, who lived with him and farmed his place; his wife, Mrs. Castner, and their child, a little girl about two years of age. The whole family retired to Test, on Monday creuing, at about the usual lime, with the ex ception -of Mr. Castner, who was last seen-sitting in -his room by the fire. On Tuesday "morning, about sunrise, as a neighbour was passing along the road, to his work, he dis covered something, which he at first took to be xl negro, in a sink hole, about three hundred yards from the house. But tipon alarming the neighbours and making an 'examination, it was found to be the dead liody of Mr. Castner, most horribly mangled and disfigured. The murder era had by some means enticed him from the house, and after killing him, entered by the door which he had left open. He was a pow erfully strong man, and this precaution was no doubt taken to prevent any alarm or resistance which he might have made if he had been at tacked in the house. The doer of the house was found fastened; and upon breaking it open and entering, the dead body of Parko was discovered in a bed in one room, and thoso of Mrs. Castner, and her child, in a bed in another room. They had all been murderedin their sleep, and the little child was lying in her mother's arms, with her tiny hands round her mother's neck. They had all been killed by blows inflicted with the blunt part of a hatchet, on the side of the head, near the temples they had also several stabs in the side of the neck. A boy about nine years old, was found in another bed, also most dangerously wounded in the head, but uncon scious of what had happened, and unable to give any account of the murderers. He had been struck while asleep, and stunned, and did not recover until after the neighbors had gath ered in the house in the morning. All he re collects is that Mr. Castner tfas sitting by the fire when he went to bed; the rest of the fami ly had already retired. The only remaining persons in the house were two boys, who slept in a back room. But as there was nothing in ihuir room to allure the butchers, their Jives wrre spared. T-he object of the murderers was nnquestiori- ahiy to get money. It was well known that P.iike had been to the Belvidere Bank, the day , previous, and drawn several thousand dollars. Besides, he was also known to keep a large amount of money by him in the house. How much the murderers succeeded in securing to themselves, it is impossiblo to tell. A desk, in which money was always kept, was found bro ken open, and its contents gone. It has been variously staled that from three to fire hundred dollars were taken; but is this only surmise. "Upon searching the house, aboui six thousand dollars were found, secreted in different places, ' which had been missed by the murderers. A Coroner's Inquest was held on Tuesday, i by Jacob Arndt, Esb. and a verdict rendered in accordance with the above facts. On Thurs day, they were all buried in the grave yard of the Old Mansfield Church, and it is estimated that over two thousand people congregated to gether on the occasion. Upwards of a week has now' elapsed since the perpetration of the horrid deed, and al though a number of p,ersons have been taken up and examined, yet no clue has been gained which is likely to lead to the discovery of the murderers. But we cannot believe that they will 'remain. long undiscovered. A murder so atrocious, by which the aged, the middle-aged, and the infant, in their sleep, and -without, pity or mercy, were launched into eternity, has not been committed for years. It has struck terror into the bosom of the community, and the countiy for miles around is in a state of ferment. Every effort wili be made to discover the of frn tiers, and we again repeat our conviction, :i! itwill not be long.before the perpetrators ae;Td,und'utajidllbroiighl to pndign punish ment. , ' V Virginia Election. The election for Members of Congress and the State Legislature, 'in the-Old-Dominion, took place on the 24d of April, but the returns come in so slowly, that we have not yet been able to ascertain the exact result. Sufficient however is knowrx'tb enable us to say, that the Whigs have behaved nobly. At the late ses sion of theLegislaturo, the loco focos districted the State in such a gerrymandering manner, that "ftiey supposed t"he Whigs would not be able to elect more than one Congressman. In this, they have been most egregiously disap pointed. The Whig spirit was aroused, and they turned out in their strength. Contrary to all expectation, or hope, we havo carried six out of the fifteen Members. That stern patri ot, John M. Botts, has been defeated. His district was largely loco, having been framed for the express purpose of defeating htm. Yet notwithstanding this, he came within'a dozen votes of being again chosen. The traitor Wise is re-elected, but by a very meagre majority. R. M. T. Hunter, another deserter, is defeated, and a good Whig fills his place. For M'em: hers of the Legislature, the Whigs have also gained largely. Last year the majority against them was thirty-four, this year it will be no more than six or eight. Another such effort, and Virginia will be redeemed. Foreign News. The new Steam Ship Hibernia, arrived for the first lime at Boston, on Thursday last, after a rough passage of fifteen days, from Liver pool, with upwards of 100 passengers. The news is ten days later, but contains very little of general interest. The most important, is the loss of the steam ship Solway, which sailed from Southampton, England, on the 1st of April, bound for the West Indies. She was wrecked on a reef, off the Island of Sisarga. The accident occurred at midnight, on the 7th, after she had been a week at sea. It is supposed that many of the passengers vient down with the vessel, as there was no time left to launch the boat which was kept on the paddle wheel. Those who Were saved in the long boat, escaped with no clothes except those they stood in, and many were al most in a state of nakedness. Immediately on the vessel striking, she pitched considerably foremost, and as soon as the cold water reached the boilers they collapsed and blew up. This is the third steamer which has been lost by the Royal Mail Steam Ship Company, in a few months The Medina, was wrecked off the Turks Head in January, and the Isis, more re cently off Bermuda. The British arms continue to be triumphant in India; but the conduct of their general is said to be any thing but creditable either to himself or his country. A Flying Machine has been invented in Lon don; which has set the imaginations of the peo ple all aloof. It was shortly to make its first trial at imitating the birds. The Hon. Edward Everett, has declined the mission to China, and will continue in England. The value of Real Estate in England has greatly dep'rociated within the past year, and many the of most extensive land holders, have reduced their rents, much to the satisfaction of their tenants. A butcher at Smyrna, has been sentenced to the galleys, for selling joints and quarters of large dogs for mutton. i Borough Election. At an Election held in this place, on the 8th inst. fur Borough Officers, the following per sona were duly elected. Burgess. Samuel Stokes. ' , , Common Council.. William Clemknts, Charles Musch, " r' Depue S. Miller, " Thomas J. Albright, : 1 Joh.v Melick. High Constable: William fJ. White. Town Clerk. Richard S. Staples. Battalion. On Wednesday next the Monroe county Volunteer Battalion will parade for drill and-in-spectibn, in this place, when we expect to see our military friends, arrayed in all the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. Connecticut. The Hon. Ctvauncey F. Cleaveland, Was re elected Governor of Connecticut, by the Leg islature, on Thursday last. The rest of the Slate Officers chosen, were also loco focos. The vote stood for Cleaveland (loco) 125, Baldwin (whig) 77. This is the iho third year since there was a choice of Governor In die people of that state. Eton. Lewis Cas'lia'Slnum appointed Regent of the Michigan University. Cirard College. We notice that the City, Councils of Phila 'de'lphiahave appropriated $55,000 to" be. em ployed during the present year in further con structing this magnificent edifice. When com pleted it will be the pride and ornament of the Couhtiy. . Car Don "County. Gov. Porter has appointed William J. B. Andrews, of Schuylkill, Charles W. Wiggins, of Northumberland, and John H. Brodhead, of Pike, as Commissioners for the purpose of se lecting the most suitable place to locate the seat of Justice in Carbon county. Mauch Chunk, Weissport, and Lchighton, aroilLcan didates for the honor. The first is the nearest to the centre of the new county, and may therefore be selected, but the last is by far the handsomest place, and the best locality for a county town. Delaware canaS. The repairs on this Canal have all been completed, and the boats are again running as briskly as ever. It is supposed that a larger business will be done upon it this season than 'during any previous one. The Commissioners appointed by the Legis lature, to make preparatory arrangements for the sale of ihe Delaware Division, met at Phil adelphia, week before last, and determined that the books for subscription of stock, should be opened at the Exchange in the city of Phila delphia, on the 21st of June. It is the general impression that the Canal will be sold. Relief Notes; On the 29ih of April, the State Treasurer, in compliance with the late Act of Assembly, had another .batch of Relief Notes, amounting to fifty thousand dollars, canceled and destioy ed. By this means one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of these issues have already been withdrawn from circulation. Squally To see a young gentleman take a letter from the Post Office from a female frjend with the word "single" written on one corner. One of the Pittsburg factory girls, aged only 14, having beon insulted by the insolent and ovorbearingconduct of one of the taskmasters, actually undertook to give him a drubbing with a stout stick, on the 20th ult. Tho fellow was scared and took to his heels. That was a strike, in the true sense of the word. The coffee tree dies out in fifteen years, and its height is only eight feet ; hence it is plant ed in the intermediate spaces between the young nutmeg trees. Cashmere shawl dresses are all the rage now in London. They are costly. We suspect the women might as well ask for mere cash, as for cashmere one being about as valuable as the other. The factory girls of Pittsburg have been successful in their "strike," having knocked their employers into a disposition to pay them what they ask. A disastrous fire occurred at Wilmington, N. C, on Sunday last. It commenced between JO and 1 1 o'clock in the morning, during church service, and destroyed in its ravages property lo the amount of $300,000. About two hundred buildings were reduced to ashes. There was an insurance on the property for $100,000. Mr. Fletcher Webster has already received his outfit of $6000, to enable him to proceed to' China as Secretary of Legation. He passed through Philadelphia last weok. It is yet un certain whother Mr. Everett, now in London, intends to accept tho appointment 6f Minister to China or not. A New York paper says that they have over a thousand lawyers fn that city, and is desirous of knowing if some of them are not wanted out West 1 A mother Milled by a Son. It is atafed in the Baltimore Republican, that a man named Steele, a resident of Orange county, N. C. lately had some difficulty with his brother, and had raised his gun with the intention of shooting him, when his mother ran between them at the moment of firing, and received the contents of the. gun,- which caused her death immediately. A Poetical Idea. tn alluding to the early nppearrtnfce of hum ming birds, Prentice of the Louisville Journal snys : Our impression is that, in years past, we have never noticed, befote June or July, the appearance of these winged blossoms of the atmosphere.9' Beatli of a brave Old Tar. Tho Courier notices ihoclcathof an old sai lor, named Henry Moreland, a Virginian by birth, and about 65 years old. Moreland during the last war fought side by side with the gal lant Perry was in the, Commodore's nhip du ring tho memorable battle on Lake Erie; and one of the crew headed by Com. Perry, that boarded'iho " Lawrence," commanded by Com. Elliot, during i)ih mid-si of-ihe'fight, after Per ry ' vessel had been destroyed by the enemy. devolution isa Sorciia Aaiserifin. It will be utterly impossible for any memory to keep an account of the revolutions and counter-revolutions which occur in South Amer ica. Wars and tumors of wats follow each other faster than any chronicle can be made. Every arrival brings something of war and ru mors of war. The last we have is from Peru where there have been outbreaks and insurrec tions. . Gen. Vidal's troops in December sup pressed a movement headed by a Col. llercel les, and shot him, and his principal aid. In suppressing another, the insurgents caught Vi dal's general (Nieto) and proclaimed for Vi vanco, the rebel, in which they were joined by Vidal's troops, who rebelled-. The U. S. sch. Shark was at Callao. Singular Case o I?!nonrasjia. A singular case of monomania is mentioned in the Cleveland Herald. A stranger, a week or two since since, was taken up in the street and confined in the jail, as he appeared to be completely insane, believed in final destruction on the 23d of .April, and said he would seek refuge in the lake from the fire. By kind and judicious treatment hi reason waa restored, and lii first inquiry was for the day of the month. When April 26th was named, he exclaimed " Tis past Miller's doctrine is false,' and the relieved man has since appeared perfectly &ane on all subjects. The account he then gave of himself presents a most singular case of aber ration of mind. He was a farmer in Adams township, Franklin county, Pa., has a wtfo and three children, and owns a good farm. His name is John B. Ridgeley. Last September, he says, he went to Philadelphia with a drove of 'cattle, and attended Miller meetings three times When he reached home his mind was considcrably agitated on the subject 'of the Second Advent. His family and Irends advi- sed him ndt to trouble himself'aboui it, but the subject continued to prey on his mind, and "he last ho recollects was attending d meeting in the latter part of OciOber, except some slight impressions of wandering through the snow on sring through the snow on yorid this he has no recol- J. . , .. . . . nod of his restoration to the mountains. Beyi lection until the peril roason. He complained of considerable sore ness of the head;-but otherwise appeared well. He presumes his family and frietids tievfr think him dead. They have been written to. Anctlier earthquake at Gtiadaloupe. From letters received a.t New York from New Orleans by the way of Havana, we learn that there has been another Earthquake at Guadeloupe, which occurred on the .14th Gf Ar.,.k 'tiL . ,,r ..;!,; x.w.. . ..u "V catastrophe of the 8h of February had left it nothing to ravegc. At Antigua a considerable mountain has been rent asunder by an immense fissure, a mile and a half in length, 75 feel in depth, and 35 feef in breadth. It will be im-, possible to preserve the sugar crops in these ill-fated islands, as the mills cannot be repaired in" time. Dreadful Accident. Explosion of the boiler of the Steamer Harry of I the West. A correspondent, Writing from Louisville, under date of April 23d, gives the particulars of the loss of the steamer Harry of the West, on her way from New Orleans to St. Louis on tho 19th. Having shipped foriy cords of wood at a point forty miles below Memphis, on the Mississippi river, she was about leaving the bank, when two flues of the second larboard boiler collapsed. One of the firemen, who stood directly in front of the boiler, was blown overboard and lost. Another was found dead on the fore-castle deck. Several of the hands, including the two cooks, are missing, besides some Qf the deck passengers. One cabin pas singer is also missing. Another had his, jaw broken in two places. Andther was badly bruised, and injured internally by steam. A deck passenger, with twelve hundred dollars in gold in a belt round his person, jumped over board and was drowned alongsido the boat, leaving his wife .rind child on board. I saw four other men floating down stream, holding on to drift wood. A skiff from a flat boat put off after them ; but whether ihey were saved or not 1 cannot say. Nor was it known, nor do I think ft ever will be known, how many, all told, are lost. The mate had his leg broken in two places.- Another man, also, had his leg broken. Five or six of the hands attached to the boat were badly scalded some of them very severely. The steamer Gray Eagle was wooding, at the time of the accident; about three and a half miles above the Harry of the West. She im mediately came down to our assistance, iook the Harry of the West in tow, and drew her to Memphis. Unfortunate Occurrence. On Saturday night last, Mr. Cotman, a tavern-keeper, in .Second street, Kcnsingtonj was awakened by some thieves in the lower part of his house, and finding the stairway door fast ened on him, ho seized a loaded gun and raised a window in the direction they were escaping, but upon discharging the gun, it burst, and shockingly mangled hi own handl Tho thieves escaped. Sat. Cour. Sui'ied Treasure. Snmo workmen engaged in building a wall in iho yard of Mr. Benj. Wilcox, corner of Eleventh and Walnut hireeis on Tuesday morning, found a canvass bag containing up wards of one hundred and fifty Spanish dollars, all antecedent u the date 1752, buried about four feet under ground. Mr. W. desired that the treasure should 'he' divided among the workmen. lb. Death before Surrender. A letter from Aux Cayes, tlayti. dated March 29, to the editor of the Bomoii Courier, states that Col. Tattro, the officer in command of the arsenal at the place, after nearly all hls men had deserted to the patriot army bv which it was invested, seated himself in the ihemau. azine among the powder and applied tlItl match ! The explosion was tremendous. Tli0 arsenal was nearly in the centre of the t0Wr, and nearly all the doors and windows whin,, 600 yards were thrown open, and some stones weighing 200 pounds were thrown 500 feel. The arsenal and fifteen other buildings were burnt, but the wind luckily blowing toward the water, the flames were stopped. As Tou ro had threatened to blow up the arsenal sere ral days before he committed the act, most .jf the inhabitants had deserted the town. A Savage Comparison. Two savages of the Marquesas Inlands Imo been carried to France probably on peciila tion. One is a man, six feet high, and aiie as a young deer; the other, a woman, younj., graceful, and possessed of the scantiest ward robe. Both are tattooed, all over their hodie, in the highest style of the art. Th-; story rim that on the voyage one of their fellow passen sengers asked them which thpy liked health French or the English ? " The English," an swered the man, smacking his lips ; they an the fattest." ' And a deal more tender," chimed in the woman, with a grin that exhibited tu rows ofpointed teeth, as sharp as a crocodile's. A Second Focakoatas. At the last session of Congress the following interesting communication was received from th-j War Deuartrnent and refeired to the annrooriat.. Committee who reported a bill, which was rias.s- ed, granting a pension of ciht dollars a month to Miilv the Indian woman, mentioned iji the letter. Washington, April 13. 18-lti. .Sir I have the honor to report that, in mv : recent visit to the Creek nation ol Indians, 1 found i a Creek woman named Milly, a daughter of the j celebrated Prophet Fiancis, the Creek chief who j celebrated rrupnci yiancis, me oreesc c:et who exec uted by order of General Jackson ! Seminole war ot 1817-18; and, believing t:ui the j circumstaiices 0f hcr history presented a case ci very peculiar interest, I made it a point to obtain from herself a statement of hcr conduct in 181$, when as public history has already recorded, shu saved the Hie of an American citizen who was a prisoner in the power of some of hcr tribe-. Uem in the vicinity of the Indian girl, near the moutu of the Verdigris river, and being acquainted with a portion of hei history, I rode several indes to hear her story from herself. She began by saying that an elder sister aal were paying on ne oan. oi me river a p. alachicola, when they heard a war-cry, w.ucu they understood to signify that a prisoner lud ,1(Jpn f,.n T- mfrPfHatP!v tvnnt in thnfW. 'hey tion of the cry, and found a white man, entirely naked; tied to a tree, and two young Indian war riors, with their lilies,. dancing around him, pre paratory to putting him to death, as was their rijjht, according to custom, they having taken him a prisoner. She explained to me that in such casea the life of a pristiricr is in the hands of the cap tors that even the chiefs have no authority m the case Milly was then but fifteen or sixteen years of age. " The prisoner was a young man," said Milly, " and seemed very nitlch frightened, and looked wildly around to see if any body would help him." " I thought it was a pity," she said, " that a young man like him should be put to death; and 1 spoke to my father, and told him it was a pity to ki.l him that he had no head to go to war with,'' (meaning that the young man must have acted upon the advice of others, and not upon his own suggestion in going to war.) ' My father told me," continued Milly " that he could not save him, and advised hie to speak to the Indians, and I did so ; but one of them was very much enraged, saying he had lost two sisters in the war and would put the prisoner to death: 1 told him," said Milly, " that it would not bring his sistero back to kill the young man ; and so, talking to him for some time, I finally persuaded him ; and he said if the young man Would agree to have his head shaved, and dress like an Indian, and live among them, they would save his life." She then proposed the conditions to the whits man, which were joyfully accepted ; and tho In dians changed the contemplated death scene-into a frolic, They shaved the young man's hoad, ex cepting the scalp-lock, which was ornamented wita feathers; and, after painting him, and providing him an Indian dress he was set at liberty, awd adopted as one of the tribe. Some time afterward the young man proposed marriage ; but Hilly said she did not save hts h.fo for that, and declined his proposals. I asked Milly how she how lived. She told ma that she was very poor, and had to work very hard : that her father was put to death in the war, and her mother and sister were dead. Her hus band was also dead. Of eight children she had but three living, two of whom were young girls, and one a boy, too young yet to help her. Hut sho said that if she could recover her property from the Scminoles she could live very well. She is now about forty years of age ; and after having seen her, and being entirely satisfied of til truth of her story, I am induced to recommend that her case be laid before Congress. Milly has now no husband or brother, or any near connec tion, to provide for her, and is in need with a fine promising son indeed, but too young to be oi service to the mother; and, owing to pledge made to the Seminoles, it is probable she wiU i. t be able to recover possession of some negr y- erty, now held by the Seminoles, belonging ti ; 1 have the honor to be, very respectfully. Your obedient servaivN E. A. HITCHCOCK, Lieutenant Colonel 3d Infantry, &c Hon. J, C. Spencer, Secretary of War. Trouble in Mexico. Capt. James Barber, of the American schoorcr Vigilant, writes from Vera Cruz to his brother at Norfolk, Va. stating that his vessel had been re tained by tho Mexicans at Vera Cruz into which, though blockaded, ho had attempted to enter, m consequence of his vessel having sprung a leak He was taken prisoner and with his cargo sent f Laguna. He says, he has abandoned the Vigiljit to tho Government and intends to demand re:ira 35.Q0O dais, for damages and detention. L ' adds. ;
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