The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-02 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE AT NIAGARA.

The Dared Advertiser gives the following particle-
lars of the maysteriens death of Mr., Miller, daughter of
the He. John Novell, Ist* United Sates senate, of
Detrolte and the wife of Mellor Miller, of the army, now
in Florida. Ting, lady /Imbed the Eagle Hotel, at Niagara,
hem Wisettester, Va., eta the 28th ult., with her two little
boys, four and six year' old. She disuppeand doting the
light, but sundry letters, her geld wateb, a purse with some
4 de liars in rain, all the ornamental parts of her hair, two
Wrath% wed • very frafolothes, her weddiag ring, the., were
fendon her chamber Welt. Among the note. were the
rallovriog
Nuoen Feu.", Nov. 26.—Evening Hos. J. Norrall,
U. S., Drariet Megrim, any diar father
and mother, this is wham the last letter ynu will receive
limn me. I hide's I left Winchester for Pittabseoh, by
way of Philratelphis ; but somehow I got bete. I don%
know how, for I sever travelled it alone before. Take good
sera of two dear Elle boys. I neended, I think, going to
Detroit; but do all you can for my child's's. My little girl
is is heaven. I hope to join her some My head aches
almost he distraction sow. Grad bye, dear parents, brothers
sad straw. Don't forget to do all you cas for Msjur Miller.
He has always Nem • kind husbased.--As ever, our affec-
tionate daughter, I. G. Mitten
Ta. Advertiser thus proceeds in the further history of the
OW:
Her two Dor e, the oldest of whom is upwards of six years
of age, say that on the night of their arrival at the Falls,
their mother put them to bed and bade them good bye ;
when they awoke on the moroino of Tuesday, the 27th of
November, they as weal went to the bad in which they sup
posed she had slept. etee b.d not, apparently, bees in the
bed. They rang the bell Toe bar keeper came up to the
room. They asked for their mother. He knew nothing of
her disappearance. He observed the letters noticed above,
and gave the alarm.
Upos the Cann being glen of her disappearance, much
excitement lock place ea the village, sod different persons
wad parties set nut in 'each of her. Finally, her new silk
bosun or leried, trust led upon, wu found in the abutment
et the bridge wrach lead. from the main shore to Goat Island
about 200 irat from the shore. Her crape shawl, turn into
three pints, tied together by very bud haw, was tarteced
to the raids*, apparently to let herrall down, Hest to the
ahatmente, and tten to lower hetselt still further towards
the rapid current which sweeps over the V. 11..
This is the left trace which could he discovered of her. as
fir as regards her meditated self distraction.
Mts. Willer, with her children, arrived et Buffalo os
Sunday morning, the 25:b of November, aid went in •
carriage to the Lovejoy House. She then opened 6a 1 re ad
the letter a bleb was headed to her at the depot. Finding
that she had wide& whisk, in going to that house, she ap-
prised the landlord of it, expressing herself perfectly satis-
fied with her accommodations, but said she bad • friend, or
acme triende, at the Eachange, and desire a to go there.
Upon the suggestion of the landlord, she 'mote a snort note
to some one at the Eactange, and rem toed where the
was foe brczkfast. In • few minutes, • man came from the
Eschew, sad inquired for the lady who had ant ior ! im. '
She was notified of his arnval. She mid that she would see
him in the public pul we. Asoroiegly, she came down,
saw this person a moment, and after tereektret ordered •
carriage to take her end her children to the Exchange,
where she remained till the next morning, which w.,s the
morning ou wMeh, at nine o'clock, she proceeded in the
ears to the Falls of Niagara.
At the Exchange, she was not seen in c enapany with the
stranger who had gone from that hotel (oche Lovejoy Reuse,
in compliance with her nose. When she went in the rare in
the morning, this man did Lot atconway her, but WAS seeu
neer toe cars, and direct d the conductor to put the lady
rate them. Tree conductor, &gentlemanly man, was strode
with the appearance of the two boys, took them in his arm', I
al d placed them in the car where their mother was. When I
they arrived at the Falls, the SOM. conductor vire kindk
agate took the eteldreo, carried them to the Eagl thee then
returned tot their :Mother. He had but one wheelie It
was raining. Hence the necessity of two tries
On tne Tuesday prior to the arrival of Mrs. Miller at the I
Falls, • stranger came to the Eagle tavern at thet place, and
put up. The book-keeper requested him ogees or twice to
eater his name. He +electoral, took up the pea, clot.
er Henry," threw it down, and raked the book-keeper to
I finish the rue saying that die Sneers were cold. and giving
his same as Henry Blekemer. 04 the 1 huredae after he
11 arrived at the Exchange en Buffalo, ana remained there
' several days. In the ouok of t:..at Louse Le en.trA his
name, with similar r.lucuruce, Ls Henry linkemer, of
Philadelphia.
This man is repreerated to have been from live feet six to
eight inches in height, thin in p non and visage, with dark
eye., dark hair, dark whiskers, mastachioa. and • large
quantity of bar and nude, his chin. He occasionally
wore a hat, sod then • cop. occaeLmally he pas' on spec
tacit*, to which he was evidently unaccustomed HIS deport-
ment was restless, aid his mooons sieves'. He kept • cos-
ecant look out lOT the Eastern cars, and directed the porter
of the Eschen re to notify every time they arr.ved. Hie
whole coudact demonstrated that be was nut • gentiesua in
feeling or MIIIIIISIIII. Whoa he arrived at the Each., re, he
insisted epos a bargain to pay only for the mule of which
he actually patio k, and refused to give anythir g ter • bed
the night he purposed to leave Buffalo f r Ton .wands. In
imaging a buggy and pair of horses at a livery stable, he
complained of the price, and induced the oeser to reduce it.
Late on Monday arterevoe, the 26th N mthr, haveug
essaged the horses and buggy, he set oft, a. he said,
towards Tosawanda--eaying that it was Mayor ant that
le sh aid go two miles below that place the Same night.
The next morning, at trine o'clock, lane before day-
light, he arrived, with a lady, at the Manakin House, m
Buffalo; sad the two left that may in the last :rein of
Eastern ears, at five o'clock the same. morning. The man
wanted tickers ter Cayuga lake, hut on being :old that way
*wets were not given out, h• took them for come other
stoppi n r point.
Mr. Fargo telegraphed to this city to know whether he
should despatch a police-officer m pursuit of the parties.
He was immediately requested to do to. Accordingly an
etNcer proceeded ell along the route to New Yee It, die-
covered the trace of them, and, in the city, could e oily learn
that two persons, corresponding in description, bed (ewes
towards Poilaraphia. 'toe *Seer was then, b. telegraphic
despatch, directed to follow see to Yhiladelpbis, and, it he
could learn note hog there, to return to Buffalo.
The only evidence lending to the conclusion that Mrs.
Miller was the lady brought back in the buggy by the die.
plied stranger, is the fact of his handing bra letter; their
swim each other in Buffalo, leer going to the Estimates, his
leasonai about the cars when she lilt lee tbe F ells, sad the
' also ete tae person, on arriving at the Mansion House, appear-
ing le be that of Km Miller. No ane saw her fete. She
was thickly veiled, and may, though that ia uncertain, have
Worn a black straw hat, which she bad with her.

lo this relating, embeseiag all the asaterial facts now
knows here os tt a suleject. it is pre-per to ado, that at Win-
skeeter the infant daughter of Mts. Miller was distressingly
ill fur several months. Of course she telt called on to devote
her days and nights to the sick bed of the child A yourg
mother, with an ardent attachment, seldom equalled, to her
children, her unremitted attentions, her sleepless vigils, her
lose of rest, made heavy drafts upon her constitution and
mind. In her letters to her mother she evinced an admi-
rable spirit of fortitude, bat 'irrationally intimated that. the
absence of all rest, and her distress of heart, had affected her
health in venom ways.
That she could have placed herself in the power of a
streamer, left her pour little orphan children several
hunched miles from any of their retail; as, helpless, thrown
upon the mercy of persons to whom they were unknown,
—that she could have done so, blighting the hopes and
albedo.% humiliating the pride, vanishing the repute.
tion, lacerating the feelings, of her fam ly and cones:tens,
is still note beyond the possibility of belief.
II she left ilie Falls with the peregi described, he must
have bees a mere agent. All her tastes, all her habits,
all her previous sentiments, must have cawed her to merit
from seek an association.

FATAL VISIT TO TIl ICE.—Two BROTHERS
I DZUW/1111D.—An accident as the to. occurred near Ciren.
I costar on Saturday, by with& two of the eons of Mr. Thomas
draper, lest their lives. On the sheet of water in the
park belonging to Rail Bathurst, the 'onager portion of the
inhabitants of the to en are in the habit of skating and
sliding, after sufficient frost to make the ice bear. On Satur-
day last there had been two day.' severe frost, and it was
thought that the ice was of sufficient eons:steney to bear the
weight of skaters. Accordingly. many people restated thi-
ther to recreate themselves. All west on well till about
four o'clock in the afternoon, when Dosiel Bovrly, aged
about 12 years, was paas,r.g the middle of the pond, where
the lee, it Is prentmed fr at the high wind had not bees so
frozen as elsewhere, as it broke, and the you'h task
Into the water. An elder brother, named Thome., aged 14,
who had a few days previously returned home from school
at Walton. near Bath, seeing his brother fall into the water,
ce rushed in after him, and iu • fruition effort to
save brother he also sunk. Perceiving his danger, he
endeavoured to catch at the edge of the ice meant him, but
lit broke in his grasp. A ladder and some ropes were speedily
procured, but the spar of the ladder to which the rope was
bedewed broke, and after several ineffectual efforts to seize
the rope, which be could not hold, it is conjectured, from the
benumbed rate of his hand., the poor youth uttered a cryof
agony and sunk to a watery grave. It is suppoted that the my
was occasioned by the seizure of cramp. Drags were speedily
procured. but some time elapsed before the bodies could be
menrod. In the meantime MOM +. Th. e. Warner and Crippe
laorgamm, had arrived, and had tamed the necessary sppLi.
' amess—hot water and a fire—to be provided at the nearest
'home, that of Mr. Bolton, at the Lodge Wee. Is about
three quarters of an hour the bodies were recovered, sad im-
mediately taken to the how* above named, where they were
rubbed, and every ma'am which human art could suggest
was used, but all was of no avail. A tly was then obtained,
and the !stylise were taken to the residence of the grand.
father, Mr. Richard Solely. draper, in the Market Place,
there to await the coroner's Inquest The inhabitants of the
tzetzmseed deep and heartfelt sympathy for the grief
ly felt by the numerous in .miters of • highly-
' respected family. Mr Thomas B iwly, the father of the
',deceased, was at the time in London, Mr. was expected to
return that night. We bear that the eldest brother, Richard,
who had also returned from school fir the Christmas boll.
days, WAS kept b,ck by ford., or he would bays rushed into
the water, in an attempt to save his brothers, and probably
have shared their fate.
ACCIDENT FROM BREAKING A BOTTLE.—On Christ-
mas day, as 8 'fillet', Raj , of Hill House, Leaden, Cul
I:hirer, was ia the act of drawieg a net from a bottle, the
week broke, wad his left hand was so much lacerated, that
pe became quit* ralbau fed from lose .1 Wood. Mr. Morris,
jurgeun, succeeded in ropping the 'il cal, but Mr. Tillett
Sas been since confined to hi. bed. Tue wound is going on
favourably, although the complete restoration of hia hand
cannot he expected fur a etmaiderzliln time.—lparicA
Ezionsa.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1850.