The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-16 00:00:00

The Murder and Suicide at Ipswich.

The inquest on the bodies of James Gooding and
Elizabeth Gooding was resumed yesterday morning,
when the widow of the deceased man was examined.
She stated that she and her late husband had been
married 24 years; that he had been a good hus-
band, a kind father, and a feeling man. His health
had always been very bad, and he had been very
much depressed in mind since the loss of his three
children some time ago, within a week or two of
one another. His state of mind had been gradually
getting worse, and at times she had not dared to
leave him alone. He had not been able to work for
some time past, except that on Tuesday he earned
about Is. On Wednesday he was very ill, took no-
thing to eat, but walked from one room to another all
day long. They retired to bed at eight on Wednes-
day night, and her husband passed a very restless
night. She got up about eight on Thursday morn-
ing, and went down stairs to light a fire. She had
occasion a few minutes after to go to the bedroom
again, and noticed that her husband looked very wild.
She went down again, and about 10 minutes after,
as her husband did not bring down the child to be
dressed, as he had told her little boy he would, she
again went up, and found both father and child
lying dead on the floor. She was perfectly convinced
her husband was of unsound mind when he committed
the act, as he was dotingly fond of the child, and had
he been in his right mind could never have harmed
it. The poor woman was in a very distressed state
of mind, reproaching herself for having left her hus-
band even for the short space of time she did. The
jury returned a verdict " That the deceased James
Gooding took the life of his child, Elizabeth Good-
ing, whilst of unsound mind, and immediately after-
wards, being in the same state of mind, destroyed
himself,'

A NORTHERN VIRAGO,

A Mrs. Patterson Allan has been examined at
Richmond on the charge of holding a treasonable
correspondence with the enemy. About the guilt
of the accused there is little question, though the
examination was not concluded at the latest dates
we have from the Confederate capital. The letter
which led to Mrs. Allan's arrest is dated Richmond,
Jane 8, signed "Santa Trinita," and addressed

"Caro Signore," under cover to the Rev. Morgan
Dix. It states that the Rev. M.D. Hoge was about
to run the Charleston blockade on his return from
London, " where his apparent business was to col-
lect Testaments and Bibles, but where his real
object was to write for English journals,
and exert his influence for the Southern cause."
After disposing of Dr. Hoge, the in-
former proceeds to name several ministers
and other persons of both sexes in the
North, whom, she says:—" Should all be sent to the
South." She also recommends that Mr. Vallandig-
ham should be imprisoned, saying, "Put the wretch
in Fort Warren." She asserts that Gen. Stoneman
had within his grasp the plantations of several of
the most prominent rebels, * * besides the
farms of hundreds engaged in the Southern service."
Then, maddened by the reflection that Stoneman
did not burn and destroy all these homesteads, she
exclaims, "Oh, for the hour when the avenging
angel shall appear with torch in one hand and the
avenging s word of justice in the other, and consecrate
to death and destruction this land and these people,
rewarding them with a fate they so richly deserve !
When, when will that tima arrive ?" Mrs. Allan fur-
ther writes, "It is a truth, the rebel soldiers live on
rate, and anything else they can get. Corn and
wheat, green and from the field, are common articles
of diet. If the Northern army cannot vanquish
such a miserable set of starved and naked wretches,
then may the Yankee nation become a by-word
with all nations on earth ?" But this Mrs. Allan
is not clever enough to avoid bearing unconscious
testimony to the worth of her enemies. She writes,
"In the North, treason stalks forth in the broad
daylight. Here everything is subsorvient to the
cause. . . . Many a man wearing the Feberal uni-
form is a traitor, and where the men are true their
wives are false. It is this which has so often proved
ruinous to the Union cause. Here every mind,
heart, and arm are bent to serve the cause of the
South. Money, property, crops, everything is sacri-
ficed for the main idea. Thus the South has been
able to maintain its position so far.—lndex,