Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-30 00:00:00

ALLEGED OUTRAGE AT SEA.

THE COMPLAINT OF MISS JANE HAGGARD
AGAINST CAPTAIN GEORGE CONWAY, OF THE
PACKET SfilE) SWITZERLAND; FOR RAPE.

UNITED STATES COMMISS/ONEIt'S COURT.-JULY 17.

BEFORE JOSEPH BRIDGRAM, SSQ.

TILE UNITED *STATES v. GEORGE CONWAY, CAPTA
CF THE SHIP SW.TZERLAND.—Tho defendant in this cs se
is a thick built man, some 47 years of age, and is
charged with violating Jane Haggard, a passenger on bo• tri
the ship Switzerland, on her voyage from Liverpool to IS ew
York, in April last.
The prosecutrix is a fine looking girl of good sta' u-se
and consideraNe pretensions to the term handsome. She;
is apparently 24 or 25 ye.rs of age, but she acknowlei ;ged
to only 21. She gave her testimony in a somewhat x,ll-
- manner ; the unpleasant circumstances in w lea
she was placed and the painful and delicate natur a of
her testimony would, however, sufficiently account fo rthe
embarrassment She was accompanied by her sister, Sirs.
Davis, who resides in this country. Dr. Otto Potton,
cf Mr. Peachy, the passenger who died, was enx' crasly
watching the proceedings.
The case for the prosecutrix was conducted by
Joachimssen, United States Assistant District Att emery.
Mr. Charles Edwards represented the British Goven nsaerst,
of which the prosecutrix is a subject.
Messrs. Beebe, Dean, and Donohue appeared f .ler the
defence. _ _

Jane Haggard, examined by Mr. Joachimssen, A saistant
United Staes lis,rict Attorney. deposed—l am & single
-woman ; I lire in Kendall, in the State of New Y zela, and
came from England ; I arrived here on the 23rd I Lay ; ar-
rived at Quarantine on the 22nd ; I left England on the
7th April=; went on bard the Ocean Monarch on the Bth,
and was transferred to the Switzerland on the 43th at
Liverpool docks; the Switzerland is an American . wessel ;
George Conway was captain ; I was a steerage p. rasenger ;
on the mtarno.n of the 15th April Conway a.sl sea me to
come into his cabin ; I was then on the deck o Hite ship
talking wirh William Henry Peachy, a cabin r at..asenger ;
I had at the time a violent cold and had lost my -vdiee ; he
said that l had an awful cold, and told me to 'come with
him into the cabin and be would give me so east ling for
my cold ; I left Mr. Peachy, and followed hi_ea (Captain
Conway) into the cabin ; he told me to sit whioh
I refused; the cabin boy entered the cabin ap,t, the time,
-and the captain swore at him, and he again immediately
left ; Captain Conway took a teaspoon-. and went
to his medicine chest and brought out F ontething in
-a teaspoon which I took, and he a gain told me
to sit down, which I refused ; I don't know what I took-
'he then pushed me on a seat and sat down by me, and
told me he wanted to talk with me; I said I wished to
leave the eabin, and he told me he wanted a wife, and
when he arrived in New York he would marry me ; I told
him that I felt myself insulted at such conversation from a
perfect stranger; he said if I was a stranger I should not
be long; I again attempted to go, and he pushed me as far
as the door of his room, which was close by - I felt
alarmed, as I saw no person in the cabin, and I called out
as loud as I could, though my woice was nearly lost ; I
called out for Mr. Peachy several times, and no one came

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to my assistance; I was clinging to the door-post not to
enter his cabin; he then took my hands from the door-
post, and said, "By God, you shall go in ;" he held my
hands; he prevented my leaving the cabin, so that I could
not leave it ; he lifted me into the room ; his room was
open ; the medicine chest wee just inside his room ; he
got me inside his room, and then locked the door and took
the key out ; Mr. Peachy, Mr. Shaw, and the doctor of
the ship wore the only cabin passengers; all these
three were on deck ; there was a steward, and I
do not know where he was at the time ; I thought
he was in the cabin ; when he locked me in his moth
I said, "Dro you intend to ruin me ?" if you do. go and
throw me overboatd ; any young woman had better die
than be ruined in that way ; I prefer death ; " he made no
reply ; I said, Do you doubt my respect that you would
treat me so ;" he said, "No, not for a moment, and the
day I arrive in New York I will marry you;" I replied,
"111 y only request is to leave the cabin; I therefore
request that you will open your door immediately and let
the go ;" he gave no heed to it ' • I shook the door, and tried
to mike a noise to attract their attention—any one that
would hear me ; he said, " Damn my eyes, you want to let
everyone know that you are here ;" he then attacked me,
and I resisted him as long as I could, and I became weak
and paralysed, but not senseless ; he then pushed me on
hie bed, and it was then he treated me so improperly ! he
aecomplis‘ted his purpose; I was very weak and exhausted;
he kept me in his room for about an hour ; I remonstra.ed
with him and told him I would expose him ; he replied to
me that I need not be alarmed; that he would marry me
as soon as he arrived ; I made no reply ; he then opened
his door, and Mr. Peachy was sitting alone almost close to
hie door, and I said, ".111r. Peachy, the captain has locked
me in his room and treated me very improperly, and has
also prom'sed to marry me on the day of his arrival;" the
captain was present ; Mr. Peachy then sai "I am very
sorry to find the captain has treated you so very impro-
perly ; I also heard him promise you marriage ;" Mr.
Peachy is dead ; he died at sea on the 13th of May ; his
health was ailing for three days before ; I do not know
who doctored htm ; the captain gave him medicine ; he
died within twelve hours.

Ex-Judge Dean objected to the testimony. Tfe supposed
they did not mean to charge the captain with poisoning
Peachy.
Mr. Charles Edward?, who appeared for the British
government, contended that it was admissable; he agreed
with the counsel en the other side that the captain was not
now charged with poisoning Mr. Peachy, but it was evident
he would have been a very important witness for the pro-
secution.
Mr. Dean said that they would produce letters from this
witness to contradict her evidence, and give testimony to
prove that she had been intimate with other men before.
{Here the witness become faint, and cried " Oh !"]
The testimony was taken, subject to the objection.
Witness continued: I heard a conversation between the
captain and Peachy in reference to myself; when I told
Mr. Peachy that the captain promied to marry me, the
captain said, " Yee, and I will do so ; do you think a man
of my years would seduce a girl under promise of marriage
without doing it?" Mr. Peachy replied, " I hope not ?"
I then said, "Mr. Peachy, you must be a witness of the
manner of the seduction, and also of the promise
of marriage ;" Mr. Peachy said, "Do not cry.
I will see you righted as far as I can ;"

the captain was then in the nom with me ;' I was
no acquainted whit Mr. Peachy ; we had convened ;
found he had been in a city where I had friends ; I am
:twenty-one years of age ; I never was from home before ;
I was coming to join my sister and brother-in-law ; I saw
-the captain prepare the medicine for Mr. Peachy and
bring it into his room, but did not see Peachy take it ; I
saw the captain come across from the pantry with a white
mug in his hand ; I heard the captain say, " Peachy is a
damned fool, but by God I will give him something that
will do him good ; I'll settle him ;" the captain was first
told of Peachy's death at half-past four o'clock in the
seeming; the cabin boy said to the captain, " Mr. Peachy
is dead, I have just found him ;" the _captain replied, I
expected it ; I thought as much ;" I did not see Peachy
dead.—From the time you went into the captain's room as
you describe, would thea-aptain allow you to go back to the
steerage? He kept me in his room the night he seduced
me; locked me in, and said as he had made me sick he
should,give up his room to, me for the night ; I said. "you
will not keep me here if I can get out of the cabin ;"
he replied, " then you shall not go ;" he then went
out and locked me in; he kept me there four days ; the
cabin boy brought me my meals ; when the captain came
from his nicale he came and uelcked the doer, and the
cabin boy braught me mine; I Lover asked the cabin boy
to help me to get out, because the captain was.always
there ; I tried to get Lack to the steerage on the fourth
day, but col id not; I was met in the doorway by the
captain ; he asked me where I was going; I told him
down in the steereage, which I ought never to have left.
When the captain misused your person did you consent
to it ? No, sir, it was against my will. Did you have any
connection with any other man on board the ship? No,
"air; I never had anything to do with any other men before
.1 came on board that ship. When Peachy died was any
proposition made to open his body and examine his
-stomach? (Ohjfcted to.) Yes, sir, the doctor said, "Do
you think I had tot better make vost morton, examina-
tion, as Mr. Peachy has no friers on board ; it will be
-satisfactory to his friends, and his uncle might think it
strange if noth,rg was done ;" the Captain replied, "No,
Ido not wish that it should be done." Ido not know how
many state chambers there are on board ; I staid in the
rap amt's reom ell the time except once or twice I walked
through the st ate cabin ; the cabal is on the main deck ; you
get in fa m the main deck; I think it was half past aor 6
when I first went into the cabin ; it was not quite dark; I
do not know how many passengers there were; they were
rated at 300; the mate's room ac'joined the captain's;
there were two berths in the captain's room; each on a
side opp site one another.

Crose-exlmined by Judge Dean : We left Liverpool on
the 14,h April ; it was the day after we sailed the carain
had connection, the night I was taken into the captain's
room. I eat on the captain's trunk. I did not sleep any
all night ; I did not go a I+. Tha next night I was ex-
hans ed, and slept on Vie captain's bed ; I was obliged to.
With him ? He slept with me, rather. Did he
sleep with 3 o❑ every night from that time till the vessel
aarived in New York ? He did, sir. Did lon get
very much in love with him ? No, sir; I don't know
if he got in love with me. Did you tell him you were
is) loge with him ? No, sir. Did you toll him pm

wanted to marry him? Yes, air, I was in such a situ-
ation I needed it ' • I told him I wanted to marry him be-
causethewas in the fsmily way ; I don't know that I am in
the family way now ; I was when I left the vessel.
How did you find it out so soon? Well, I don't know,
I thought I was; the only reason I wanted the captain to
marry me was because I was in the family way. Do
you now want the captain to merry y, it? No, sir.
Why'? (Objected to and ruled out.) Are you
now in the family way ? I don't know. Have
you had a miscarriage since you left the ship ? I
teFeve so, the doctor said so. Have you got in the
family way since you left the ship? No, sir, I have not
said so since I left the ship. Have you written to the
captain since that miscarriage to say that you were in the
family way ? (Objected to ; the Commissioner ruled that
if there was a letter it should be p• educed. Letter
-produced.) Witness : I believe that is my handwriting,
but I cannot swear. If I have written that letter I was
deranged. I cannot be responsible for any letter which
I have written to hm, because sometimes I have been
deranged. I was deranged at my sister's hence. I
cannot say how long I was deranged. The witness here
presented the letter, and said: I will not swear that I
wrote the letter, if? I did, I was not in my senses.
(Piece of yellow paper produced.) I cannot swear that
is my handwriting. It was as follows :—" You will be
sure to keep my address, it is thi., aril I will go to the
Post-office, and fetch it —Miss Haggard, E. Davis, Esq ,
Sandy Creek, Orleans County, N.Y "

Witness continued : My brOther-in-lew's name is Evert
Davis ; I sent that ; I do not know what I sent with it; I was
derail ged elt lest week; I was deranged by spells ; I can't say
how keg; I arrived at my sister's on the 24th June; I left
New York immediately after I left the vessel; I was
deranged two or three hours at a time ; Dr. Nicholse n, of
Sandy Creek, attended me nearly all the time since I went
to my sister's. What did ho attend you for ? Ile said it
was derangement from extreme anguish of mind ; I have
got ever it ; I have not been deranged since last Sunday ; I
was not deranged oe the 4 h oe July, or the day before
the..;. I was not deranged on the second of June ; I hardly
know when I had the miecarriage I have been sick so
many times ; the doctor knows ; I think it was a Sunday,
but I don't know ; I think it was May 23, no, I mean
June 2;--s, I lefr. my brother's, I think, on the 23rd of June,
to come to New York to make this camplaint ; I have had
no lovers at my brother's. Was there not a young doctor
at your brother's who made love to you ? No, sir, when I
was deranged I thought there was; I was always writing
to the captain when I was deranged; my sister told me
so ; the captain gave me four sovereigns and a half when I
was leaving ; I told him I did not want his assistance, but
he wished me to go rapidly to my sister's; the captain
sent the doctor and the cabin boy ashore with.me, and
put me in the cars ; he paid 10 dollara for my ticket ;
the captain has written two letters to me ; Mr.
Joachimesen has them (another letter produced) ; to my
knowledge I don't know that I ever wrote that letter; there
are two letters that if I could see I would know ; in one of
them I said I would expose him in Liverpool in order that
another should not fall a victim to him Is the signature
to this last letter yours ? I believe so; I cannot swear
positively.; I did not write the letter in my senses. Look
at this let, er and sea if its in your handwriting ? I believe
it is ; but if I did it, it was in a state of derangement; I
wrote only two letters to the captain that I can remember;
one on the 24th of May, the oth r, I believe, on the 29th ;
I put them myself in the post office at Sandy Creek ; I
don't remember posting other letters to him at Sandy
Creek, but I cannot say positively ; my sister was not
absent any time while I was there ; the doctor said I
ought not to be responsible for any letter I wrote to George
Conway. Did any tall, smart looking yeurg man out
there want to marry 3ou ? Ne, Sir. Did the young man
say he would die if you did not marry him ? Ido not
know, Sir; I have been a perfect maniac; I have not
been deranged since last Sunday ; I have been rational
sometimes ; my health is feeble an I have lost flash since ;
when I am warm and excited I lock better ; I am not
aware that my sister and brother-in-law were opposed to
my marrying the captain because he was an old man ; I
don't know enythirg about any young man out there tel-
ling MO that the American women are not as good looking
as the English.
Mr. Dean proposed to read the letters.
Mr Edwards and Mr. Joachims en objected..
Mr. Dean offered them for the purpose of showing that
she was sane at the time she wrote them, and to contradict
other portions cf her testimony.
The Commissioners considered the letters sufficiently
identified and admitted them.

Counsel for the prosecution would consider the letters
read.

October he says be would give all the world to possess
me now I hope you will write me by return of post and
tell me if you wish me to stay for you if you do not write
and tell me by the 9:h of June I shall consider silence an
answer then I shall certainly receive the attention of the
young Doctor but as my sister and brother and him wants
to mike me hate you 1 will just show them that I will not
do as they please about the mater they are very unkind
to me because I wiil not say at once that I will have him
but I will not until I have heard from you that is if you
write to me by.the 9th of June that you can tell me what
mcnth you think you will come in there is no such thing
as my coming to you for they will not let me go out of their
sights but if you want me of course you will come with
pleasure I like you as dear as ever and I think you do me
but however if you can cease to like me I will soon endeavour
to forget you still if your love remains as unchanged as
mine I could love you as Long as thnis Life shall last and
only live to make you happy 1 would be True to you as the
angels are to God and as Death will sooner or Later over-
take us we know not how soon I would comfort you to
the Last moment of your existence and hare your depart-
ing spirit on the wings of Love to its last resting place
there to await the arival of her who will Love you as True
in Death as in Life You are the first and only one I ever
did Lova and God knows I Love you dearly Mine is indeed
a Loveing Heart God knows and it will he indeed a happy
meeting if Ever I meet you again with I hope I shall if
please God but still if I tind you do not care for me I must
not care for you My Brother and sister do not know I am
writeing this but I hope you will not fail to answer by
return of post I do not know that you will he able to read
this scrawl of writing for my Hand shakes I am in haste
when you Come to me yon must scold them for being so
unkind to me because I will not hate you for they do not
know that any thing has been the matter they are only
mad with me bee 'else I will not marry the Doctor hut I
know you will protect and Love me still and then I will
not do as they please these Trials and separations we
meet in this ctu4l World teaches us to look bey, nd these
changing scenes and to place our confidence in that
Imortal being in whose hand are the Issues of Life and.
Death that Almighty God that sais fornicators and Deceit-
ful men shall not live out half their Days on that God
that says I will never forsake the innocent do I put my
Trust I pray for you every night and morning yes to our
God who seeth in secret I never wronged you even in
thought though for more than a week my poor Heart has
ached God Almighty pittyed me and I hope you will pitty
me my dear I Long to Lay my head on your dear Bosom
again and kiss them dear lips and call them mine and in
every way p ,ssible Teach you that a Loving Heart is Rich
tie an undyeing Tresoure that money cannot purchase
when your spirits are weary and sad I will whisper hope &
comfort to your afflicted soul for my dear if you are strong
now think how soon you may be called to pay the Debt of
Nature and I do not consider you will be a Long Lifed
man at all I never thought but that your death would be
sudden for you have a perticnlar short neck therefore it is
well to prepare for what will most certainly overtake us
weather sleeping or wakeing it is awful to think where we
may go if not prepared for Heaven yon can have no idea
what awful feelings prompted me to write my Last Letter
hut when the sigh yields no balm and the tear no relief
then think of met daresay you will Laugh at me and call
me foolish for writeing so now but my dear we ought to
think•of all this for be assured if we do as we ought not we
never prosper in this world for God sais the calamity of
the wicked riseth up suddenly sin mee s its punishment
in this world as well as the next My Papa and Mama is
thinking of coming to America in about a month I under-
stand by a Letter I have just received from them My
dear if you do come to me when you write to me I will
sand you back a proper Directions how to find me if you
have Lost the other and I think I must beg to say no more
and. Remain Yours Truly and affecdona'ely Till Death
JANE HAGGARD •

I shall Exhaust all your patience fo read all this but it is
the greatest pleasure I have writeing t 3 you. Good bye
Gcd bless you my dear
Address my Letters so and I will fetch them myself
Miss Ilsgeard E Davis—EFq—Sandy Creek Orleans
County N Y mind I shall go for one by re:urn of post and
mind you write." _

"June 14, 1857.

"Mv Dear,—Will you on receipt of this letter for God
Almighty's sake write back and tell me what is the name
of God Almighty I can do ? I have almost lost my senses.
Sleep is a stranger to my pillow. I can take nothing. I
am almost in a state of derangement. I cannot live three
months if you do not. My sister's unkindness is awful,
and what will it be when she knows my awful situation ?
Oh, my God ! thou art the only witness to my sufferings.
I shall then be desolate in a foreign country—homeless,
homeless in this wide cold world; and then in my awful
misery must bring another der little angel into the world
desolate, and to learn the cruel and awful fate of its
wronged heart-broken mother, that like me will have
neither father nor mother. I shall be sure to die ; lam
dying daily. My father and mother I shall never dare to
see again. Mr only refuge for the short time I shall want
it will be an almshouse. Oh, my God! my God ! I have
been brought up a lady ; now the poorest, most desolate
wretch that ever walked this earth is richer and happier
than I. Oh, could you but see my poor, wasted form
and pale face you yould hardly know me. They treat me
cruel because I am so desperately unhappy. But, oh,
my God ! they little think the bitter and awful
secret that makes me daily pray to die. God forbid that
they should ever know it. No, I must run away and go
into some house of protection, and there I shall soon die.
Yes, soon my poor persecuted soul will by a merciful God
be taken out of the reach of all cruel and deceitful men.
God says—l will give to every man according to his
doings; wicked and deceitful men shall not live out hill'
their days ; I will cut them off suddenly ; they shall call
on me, but I will not hear them, with the Lord. God
says, I will never forsake the iunocent. No, my God, I
never knew deceit. My poor heart bleeds, but you are
happy. Yes. I believe you are happy. But a little while
and all will be dark to von; you will never prosper as
long as you live, and that, I think, will not be long,
Neither will God let you be happy long. God says—For-
give those who cruelly wrong you, and leave vengeance to
me, I will repay. But yet, I am dreaming of despair. You
promised me you would fetch me in three months when
I left you; that is a month ago. Now let me beg of you,
by all the hopes of heaven, to write by return and tell me
what I am to do. Oh, surely, you will, my dear, my dear,
write and tell me in what month you will be in New York
again ; and then tell me if you will fetch 'or send Bill
for me. Oh, will you. send him to Roetester, and from
there to Holly, and telli him to go to Perry's Hotel, and
tell them to drive to Sandy Creek, to Dr. Nickson's, and
fetch a young lady, and Bill can stay at Holly till I get to
him to come on to you ; but you must send enough to pay
my fare. Do send for me soon if it is possible ; if not,
send me hack a check by return, that I may keep ready
to came when you get to New York again, and tell roe
where I shall find you, and tell me in what month. Oh,
God ! if you could feel as Ido ! Oh, my God forbid you
ever should. You surely will not get me into this trouble,
and then leave me suffering and destitute. I am sick
every day. Oh, my God !if you desert me so lam bound
to die. Death is my only refuge; bat before I die I will
well expose my awful fate, as I told you in my second
letter, as a caution to otherpoor young girls, and I by so
doing shall gain the sympathy of strangers if you are lost
to all feelings of humanity. Oh, Gad ! is it possible you
can leave me so ? No, never ; you cannot. You will
send Bill for me the day you receive this, if it is possible ;
if not, write by return and tell me when you will. My
sister shall never see any letter that comes from you. I
will give you another direction where to write to me, and
I will fetch my letters from there myself.
JANE HAGGARD.
P.S.—Let me beg of you to write by return, my dear
soul. Do, my dear, send me back a check by return.
Adjourned.

To witness : Did you ever sit on the dock beside Mr.
Peachy, with his arms around your neck ? No, the cap
tain did not wish to Fee him speak to me ; the captain told
Mr. P. one day to kiss me; that was a few days before
he died, and the captain did not care ; Mr. Peachy never
sat with me on the quarter-deck with his hands up my
clothes. Did the second mate catch you and him by the
house on the quarter-deck in that position ? No, sir. How
did you get your night clothes in the captain's room ? I
had none for the first six days ; I had no opportunity of
going into the steerage ; after I had an opportuniiy I went
down with tho hope of staying there, but I could not, the
steerage passengers were so violent ; I don't know the
names of any of them ; they were principally Irish ; I
went on board the 9th ; the vessel railed the 14th During
the time did you become acquainted with any one ? No,
sir ; I cola not get,. acquainted with those dirty Irish—
(laughtee)—l made no acquaintance among the passengers.
Mr. Joachimssen : Except Me Peachy. Witneas
Except Mr. Peachy ; I had sleeken to him several times
about a bad cold I had ; I had been in the steerage all the
time up to the 15th except when I went on deck to get the
air ; the doctor had spoken to me about my cold ; he is
alive for aught I know; he did not give me medicine for
my col ; ha gave me medicine several times on the
voyage ; the captain told him ; the captain also gave me
medicine ; I don't know what it was ; the fleet time I saw
the captain was when I went up to ask the pilot if I would
have time to write a letter to my parents; the pilot said
we would be there two days ; I had been talking to
Mr. Peachy half-an-hour or three-quarters when the
captain came up ; he said to me, " You have an awful
cold ;" my conversati m with Peachy was about my family
in England and in this country ; the day this occurred
between me and the captain I came on deck about three
o'clock ; the pilot was on board the day this happened ;
I cannot saw how long it was after I get into the
captain's room before he had connection with me ; the
captain was violent ; he tried to pull me by the bed ; I
caught the handle of the door and made a noise; he took
hold of my left arm, and I could scarcely raise my hand
to my head fur a week atseewards ; I was clinging to the
handle of the door with the right hand while he had me by
the left ; it was a round white knob ; I held on as long
as I could, until I became powerless ; he pulled me on to
his bed ; I tried to take hold of everything as I passed; I
tried to take hold of the chronometers ; they were fastened
to the wall ; I passed them on the way to the bed ; I cannot
Fay how long it was after he got me to the bed that he had
connection with me ; I was weak and powerless ; he did
it only once that night; he wanted to undress me, but I
would not let him; I had no supper that night ; I believe
the vessel was out of sight of land ; I believe every one
on board knew that this happened ; I don't know whether
the second mate knew I slept with the captain. Did the
mate or second mate cell the captain every four hours ?
He was, but they didn't come into the room. The first
eight you were in the captain's room, did not the second
mate come into the room to call the captain, and find you
in bed with the captain. both undressed ? No, sir. Did
you on that night go to the steerage, and bring in your
night-clothes on your arm to the captain's room. No, sir.
'She cross-examination was suspended here.
The following are two of the letters which had been
produced. The handwriting is a pretty fair specimen of
the class to which the peoseentrix belongs, but the ortho-
graphy is not in accordance with Johnson, Walker, or the
more modern Webster : MISS SMITH IN LIVENPOOL.-..A fall-length and correct Likeness of
"Sandy Creek Orleans County N Y June 257 miss -min is jast added to Allsop's Crystal Palace Wax,sork Eshi-
" To Cepen Conway bitten, Lime strew, Liverpool, modelled from a drawing taken daring
" Dearest Sir My sister have been from Home for a few er trial at Edinburgh, and positively the only one taken.—Adst.
Days for her Health and while she was away I was taken THE NEGRO AND HIS WRONG3.—A. negro belonging to
very sick and I Miskarried My Brother in Lew sent for a Langan Harbor, iu Chicago, in the State of Mississippi,
Doctor and no cue -but the Doctor knows it and he says he arose in the night and killed his wife by chopping off her
will never say anything about it :nd he also told me that heal, after which he hurg himself to a tree near the house.
I should never have any child artiive and he did not think The reason for this horrid deed was, that his wife, a
I should ever have many at all but I hope I shall some day beautiful quadroon, was obliged to submit to ihe sensual
I feel rather sick now but lam Looking better than I have caprices of her master.--New York Express,
all the time therefore lam all right they will not let me go Hop INTELLIGENCE —A. small portion of the plantation
out of the house by myselffor there is a Gentleman he is a in the vicinity of Canterbury has improved a little since
doctor but not the one that attended me in my sickness last week. The burr is coming out more freely, and looks
who is very fond of me he has fallen deeply in Love with healthy, but the greater p trt is still in a very precarious
me he would die he says if he-thought I should fever have state, the burr being small and unkindly. Lice are still ve.y
him he is a tall smart looking man and has a good Business nurnerons,and fireatast is very prevalent in nearly the whole
and he wants me to be married on October the Gila he is a of the grounds, and much honeydew, causing the general
great friend of my Brother in Laws and my Brother and appearance to be little or no better than last week. About
sister is very mad with ma because I think any thing about Maidstone the hops have oat made m ooh progress during
you they say you are an Old Man you cannot expoct the week ; although the burr has made its appearunce the
to have a young wife now for you will not live many bine does not present a healthy look. The nights have
years besides they say there is too much difference in our been cold, and many pieces seem to have suff red from
ages for you are more than Twenty years older than me the continued dry weather. A few heavy s'-lo sere would
my sister and Brother thinks I am goirg to be married be likely to improve the prospects, but there will certainly
to him and so does the young Gentleman he says the not be above half a crop in this neighbourhood. From
American Women are not so Good Looking as the Erglish Sussex the accounts generally state that the grounds ere
and not half so kind and he says he cannot live without me looking extremely bad, and in most places are getting
and he is sure I shall give up all thought of yon you are worse. The Worces`er reports jay that the very rcugh
too much older than I am but however if you write to me i winds which have been blowing for the last three days
at once and tell me you do not wish me 'o give my Cum- from the eouthewest have done considerable damage in
pang hup to the young Doctor atd that you intend to , the hop plaretations; and the bine, which is throwing out
come and fetch me as you promised to do in 3 months I , its blossom, i'as been much torn and bruised, and many
will not have anything to say to him at all that will make poles heavily laden with the plant have been blown dawn.
them awful mad if you was to come and have me for The duty has sl,',.Atly declined is estimation,--South
they and him to thinks and hopes I shall have him in Eastern Gazette.