The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-05 00:00:00

THE SU N

bodies were covered with earth. All that I have related
as having taken place here I saw. Having heard that
the trial was to take place, I went over to the room
where the prisoners were confined to see them.
They appeared dejected. The faces of most of them
were covered-with their blankets, as they sat in two
rows with their hands resting upon their knees.
From the room I went with them to the place which it
was said to have been their judgment-seat, but which
proved to be their place of execution. I have little
doubt that the innocent suffered in this case as well
as the guilty. But I will make no comments; every
one has a right to his opinion.
The war party, early the next day, with few ex-
ceptions, left and took up their quarters on the other
side of the river, intending to move off over the
Rocky Mountains. At the time this tragedy was
being performed, Mrs. Witnmer represents the Indians
who have been encamped in the village as being
in a dreadful state of alarm. She states that
they ran to her, and begged her to save them, as they
feared that they were all to meet with the same fate.
That evening they were gathered around their fires,
crying like so many children ; but before the sun
shone upon this valley they had departed, and now
not one of them is to be seen here, neither has there
been since this sad catastrophe. . .
Since the above was written, a man has just come
in, who gave information of a person, by the name of
Jack Doyle, having been murdered, about six miles
from here, on Weaver's Creek. He was one of a
party of fifteen that was engaged in the dry diggings
near the Creek, who strolled out from the camp,
without arms, after breakfast, and when dinner-time
came, he not making his appearance, some of his com-
rades went out in search of him, and found his body
in the creek, his skull stove in, and his person much
mutilated. There was a stone lying on the shore,
not far off, covered with blood and hair,
with which the murder had been committed, and
around which, from the appearance of the sand,
there had been a severe scuffle. Captain Shan-
non,
who keeps his store at tbis place, took
his horse and went out to examine the body, and re-
ports that it was done by the Indians, whose tracks
betrayed them. This night a large party of about
40 or 50 men have gone out in search of Indians,
and it matters not whether they murdered Doyle
or not, death will be the doom of every one who
comes within reach of their rifles or their knives.
The war of extermination has commenced, and
thousands of these miserable wretches, who are very
little above the monkey
that
tribe, will not satisfy the
whites for the loss of one of their number. havethese
studied the physiognomy of the natives of t
mountains, and say with truth and sincerity a I
never saw worse countenances than they possess.
Even those who have most befriended them have
always acknowledged that they were all thieves.
The race about here have been denominated Dig-
gers, as some say from their digging in the earth
for grub-worms, which they eat with much gusto.
Others say, it is from their custom in case of sickness,
of digging pits in the earth, close to the edges of
some river, in which they put hot stones; then, after
throwing water on the stones, cause themselves to be
shut up until they are in a violent perspiration, when
they plunge into the river. People here are of opinion
that it is the cause of so many being afflicted with
a cough. Certain it is that a great many suffer from
bronchitis, or pulmonary complaints.—New York
Tribune.

JAMAICA MARKETS.
(From De Cordon's Mercantile Intelligeneer.)
The general depression of every interest throughout
the island has marked the business of the fortnight pre-
ceeding the August holidays with increased dullness.
There has been very little activity, and the immense
supplies which shippers have so madly sent on, are assist-
ing to keep the market in a state of miserable stagnation.
The arrivals of butter within the last few weeks have
ben ridiculously superfluous, so much so, indeed, that
we fear much of it will hsve either to be sent back again
or thrown into the sea. Our means are so reduced at
this moment, that unless importations are regulated on
the most prudent scale they must result in los. We
have endeavoured for some time past to impress this
tact on the minds of merchants abroad, but with little
effect. We, however, reiterate the caution, because we
conceive it to be our duty to do so, and the result will
show, as experience has already shown, that we do not
advise without reason.

Brandy is abundant at our last quotations.
Corn—Sales of New Orleans yellow have been made
at 3s per bushel.
Flour—The stock is not heavy, but the price has not
gone over 32s per barrel, at which figure a cargo from
Georgetown, consisting of 700' barrels and 150 half
barrels has been sold.

Freights are very dull, the little produce that there
was being all shipped.
Logwood was in active demand at 44s per ton, to fill
up the first August vessels, as sugar, coffee, &c., were
not to be had.

Meal—The price continues at 15s per barrel in small
quantities. The stock is large. For 200 barrels George-
own, just arrived, 14s were offered and refused.
Pimento is worth 21d to 3d per lb.
Race—Bengal is in lair supply, and limited sales have
been made at 143 to 14s 6d per 1001b5; Carulina is held
at 193 per 100163.
Rum is very dull, and has been sold at 2s per gallon,
proof 21. A lot of a very favourite brand has been taken
at 23 4d per gallon, and 3d per bead.
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Sugar—There is none at market. The article is very
&eable at 16: to 20,:.

Tobacco—Sales of 5 bales leaf hare been made at 60s
per 1001bs.

EXCHANGES-ON LONDON.
Colonial Bank-60 dap, 2 per cent. premium.
30 days, 1 per cent. premium.
Jamaica Bank-60 days, 1 per cent. premium.
Merchants Bills-90 days, par.
On New York-4 per cent. premium.
Gold—American, 4 per cent. premium.
„ Spanish, 2 per cent. premium.

Sorrows are the pulses of spiritual life ; after each
beat we pause, only that we may gather strength fur the
uext.—Lliza Cook's Journal.

PREVENTION or DISEASE.—The Gazette of yester-
day contains a series of instructions issued by the Gene-
ral Board of Health to the board of guardians of the
Stepney Union and of the Holborn Union to appoint
medical or other qualified persons to carry out a system
of house-to-house visitation, to provide places for the
ric,ption of the families of necessitous persons attacked
by cholera, and to see to th 9 cleansing of the houses
from which they may have been removed; also, that
notice shall be given by handbills of the places where
medical aid and other assistance may be procured. The
guardians of the poor in Bethnal-green, and in the parish
of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, are, by similar notices.
directed to provide staffs of men, and the necessary ma-
terials for cleansing and lime washing infected houses,
and to secure additional supplies of water for washing
courts and other confined localities in their respective
parishes.
FEMALE SAILOR.--A. letter received in Nantucket

from, our Consul at Paita states that the ship Christo-
pher Mitchell, of that port, touched at Pelts on the 6th
of July, to land a female who shipped at Nantucket as
a green hand, under the name of George Johnson; but
who, upon her sex being known, gave her real name as
Ann Johnson, daughter of George Johnson, living in
Rochester, New York, at 22, Oak-street, a shoemaker
by trade. Her appearance is said to be that of a good
looking boy of 16 or 17 years. She did her duty cheer.
fully, going aloft to take in sail in the hearie,t weather,
and has taken her regular mastheads and helms all the
voyage.—New York Journal of Commerce.
Wit is the lightning of mind, reason the sunshine,
and the reflection the moonlight; for as the bright orb
of the night owes its lustre to the sun, so does rbflection
owe its existence to reason.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

THE YELLOW CREEK TRAGEDY.--A MOTHER
DROWNING HERSELF ARD THREE CHILDREN.—A
correspondent has furnished us with the particulars of
the above melancholy tragedy, which occurred in Ross
township, in this county, on the 13th of June. The af-
fair was adverted to in the New; and talked of in pri-
vate circles, but for the want of more authentic informa-
tion, and for tear of doing injustice to some one, we have
forborne a publics exposi of the strange and unnatural
fact until the present. The name of the lady is Mrs.
Rebecca Mitcham, wife of one Harrison Mitcham. She
left home on the sth of June, and after loitering about
the neighbourhood for a few days, took her children, the
eldest about six, the second four, and the third one year
old, to the banks of Big Yellow Creek, and in the deep-
est place in the stream consigned herself and the three
children to a watery grave. When the bodies were
discovered the youngest child was tied fast to its mother,
with an apron and pocket handkerchief. The second
was tied above the knees to prevent his rescuing himself
by any chance struggle. The head of the eldest showed
some signs of violence, whether done in being thrown
into the stream or previously is not known. The causes
which led this woman to the commission of so horrible
an act are said to be inattention, abuse, cruelty, and
jealousy on the part of the husband. The provocation
must have been great, the anguish intolerable, to have
prompted a mother, with a babe in her arms, followed by
two interesting children, to search for herself and them
a prt mature death and an early eternity.—Steubeetrille
(Ohio) Herald.
The following letter was recently received in
answer to an advertisement for a schoolmistress to the
union-house of one of the most populous parts of Essex.
hTahvei application,ng seeii of
The pacpoeurrsle,m, waswis
huinnsguctcoesEslnugl
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as Schoolmistress in Union School us haveing been out
of Sit:nation Twelve months last may as haveing Been
housekeeper to vetry infirm gentleman 16 years I was
allowed to keep free school for the Rev. John —, for
my own pocket as not haveing great wages I also kept
day school Before that for Children from 10 to 12 years
wage my Father and Met.,er have been deod Twenty
years I have been liveing with my Friends and Takeing
in sowing and other needle work not intending to go
out again However I'm now About to take the first Sit- I
tuation I can as haveing no choice as where I Engage ,
m) Self I have often wished to go to or near london I
shall feel much obliged to you to handswer my note if i
not engaged in a few days as I may not stop here more
then week at most I should like to try thy place for
three months you may depend upon my being quite
Abl to fill that place in hall its Branches I must con- 1,
elude myself your Obd, Servant Mrs. Fanny B
My age is more than thirty lively in Temper and
Active."—Esser Herald.

One servant too much makes all the rest idle.—
Eliza G'oof's Journal.