The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-03 00:00:00

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ing the night, but t•uwiry hFr gold ;patch,
purse II ith some 4 dollars in coin, all the ornamental
parts of her hair, two trunks, and a very few clothes,
her wedding ring, &c., were found on her chamber
table. Anion the notes were the following:—
NIAGARA ALLS, Nov. 26.—Evening. Hoa. J.
Norvell, U. S., District Attorney, Detroit. Well, my
dear father and mother, this is perhaps the last letter
you will receive from me. I believe I left Win-
chester for Pittsburgh, by way of Philadelphia;
but somehow I got here, I don't know how, for
I never travelled it alone before. Take good
care of two dear little boys. I intended, I think,
going to Detroit ; but do all you can for my chil-
dren. My little girl is in heaven. I hope to join her
soon. My head aches almost to distraction now.
Good bye, dear parents, brothers and sisters. Don't
forget to do all you can for Major Miller. He has
always been a kind husband.—As ever, your affec-
tionate daughter, I. G. MILLER.
The Advertiser thus proceeds in the further history
of the case :
Her_ two boys, 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 morning of
Tuesday, the 27th of November, they as usual went
to the bed in which they supposed she had slept. She
had not apparently been in the bed. They rang the
bell. The 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.
Upon the alarm being given of her disappearance,
much excitement took place in the village, and
ferent persons and parties set outlik search of*:
her-new ailicliorineror-hood, trampled upon,
weii'fouild in the abutment of the bridge which leads
from the main shore to Goat Island, about 200 feet
from the shore. Her crape shawl, torn into three
pieces, tied together by very hard knots, was fastened
to the bridge, apparently to let herself down, first to
the abutments, and then to lower herself still further
towards the rapid current which sweeps over the
Falls.

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This is the last trace which could be discovered of
her, as far as regards her meditated self destruction.
kn. Miller, with her children, arrived at Buffalo
on Sunday morning, the 25th of November, and went
in a carriage to the Lovejoy House. She then opened
and read the letter which was handed to her at the
depot. Finding that she had made a mistake in going
to that house, she apprised the landlord of it, express-
ing herself perfectly satisfied with her accommoda-
tions, but said she had a friend, or some friends, at the
Exchange, and desired to go there. Upon the sug-
gestion of the landlord, she wrote a short note to
some one at the Exchange, and remained where she
was for breakfast. In a few minutes a man came
from the Exchange, and inquired for the lady who
had sent for him. She was notified of his arrival.
She said that she would see him in the public parlour.
Accordingly she came down, saw this person a mo-
ment, and after breakfast ordered a carriage to take
her and her children to the Exchange, where she
remained till the next morning, which was the morn-
ing on which, at nine o'clock, she proceeded in the
cars to the Falls of Niagara.
At the Exchange she was not seen in company with
the stranger who had gone from that hotel to the
Lovejoy House, in compliance with her note. When
she Rent in the cars in the morning, this man did not
accompany her, but was seen near the cars, and
directed the conductor to put the lady into them.
The conductor, a gentlemanly man, was struck with
the appearance of the two boys, took them in his
arms, and placed them in the car where their mother
was. When they arrived at the Falls, the same con-
ductor very kindly again took the children, carried
them to the Eagle, and then returned for their mother.
He had but one umbrella. It was raining. Hence
the necessity of two trips.
On the Tuesday prior to the arrival of Mrs. Miller
at the Falls, a stranger came to the Eagle tavern at
that place, and put up. The book-keeper requested
him once or twice to enter his name. He reluctantly
took up the pen, wrote " Henry," threw it down, and
asked the book- keeper to finish the rest, saying that
his fingers were cold, and giving his name as Henry
Blakemer. On the Thursday after he arrived at the
Exchange in Buffalo, and remained there several
days. In the book of that house le entered his name,
with similar reluctance, as Henrytlikkemer, of Phi-
ladelphia.
This man is represented to have beenlkm five feet
six to eight inches in height, thin in person and
visage, with dark eyes, dark hair, dark whiskers,
mustachios, and a large quantity of hair on and under
his chin. He occasionally wore a hat, and then a
cap. Occasionally he put on spectacles, to which he
was evidently unaccustomed. His deportment was
restless, and his motions nervous. He kept a con-
stant look out for the eastern cars, and directed the
porter of the Exchange to notify every time they
arrived. His whole conduct demonstrated that he
was not a gentleman in feeling or manners. he arrived at the Exchange, he insisted Upon hen
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bargain to pay only for the meals of which he actually
partook, and refused to give anything for a bed the
night he purposed to leave Buffalo 'for Tonawanda.
In engaging a buggy and pair of horses at a livery
stable, he complained of the price, and induced the
owner to reduce it.

Late on Monday afternoon, the 26th November,
having engaged the horses and buggy, he set off, as he
said, towards Tonawanda—saying that it was impor-
tant that he should go two miles below that place the
same night.
The next morning, at three o'clock, long before
daylight, he arrived, with a lady, at the Mansion-
house, in Buffalo; and the two left that city in the
last train of Eastern cars, at five o'clock the same
morning. The man wanted tickets for Cayuga lake,
but on being told that way tickets were not given
out, he took them for some other stopping point.
Mr. Fargo telegraphed to this city to know whether
he should dispatch a police-officer in pursuit of the
parties. lle was inuuediately requested to do so.
Accordingly an officer proceeded all along the route
to New York, discovered the trace of them, and, in
the city, could only learn that two persons, corre-
sponding in description, had gone on towards Phila-
delphia. The officer was then, by telegraphic
dispatch, directed to follow on to Philadelphia, and, if
he could learn nothing there, to return to Buffalo. •
The only evidence leading to the conclusion that
Mrs. Miller was the lady brought hack in the buggy
by the disguised stranger, is the fact of his handing
her a letter; their seeing each other in Buffalo, her
going to the Exchange, his loitering about the cars
when she left for the Falls, and the size of the person,
on arriving at the Mansion-house, appearing to be that
of Mrs. Miller. No one saw her face. She was
thickly veiled, and may, though that is uncertain,
have worn a black straw hat, which she had with her.
To this relation, embracing all the material facts
now known here on the subject, it is proper to add,
that at Winchester the infant daughter of Mrs. Miller
was distressingly ill for several months. Of course
she felt called on to devote her days and nights to the
sick bed of the child. A young mother, with an
ardent attachment, seldom equalled, to her children,
her unremitted attentions, her sleepless vigils, her loss
of rest, made heavy drafts upon her constitution and
mind. In her lett-.13 to her mother she evinced an
admirable spirit of fortitude, but occasionally intimated
that the absence of all rest, and her distress of heart,
had affected her health in various ways.
That she could have placed herself in the power of
a stranger, left her poor little orphan children several
hundred miles from any of their relations, helpless,
thrown upon the mercy of persons to whom they were
unknown—that she could have done so, blightists the
hopes and affections, humiliating the pride, tarnishing
the reputation, lacerating the feelings of her family
and connexions, is still more beyond the possibility of
belief.

If she left the Falls with the person described, he
must have been a mere agent. All her tastes, all her
habits, all her previous sentiments, must have caused
her to revolt from such an association.

DIVIDEND•DA T AT THE BANK.--Notice was
inßank course of England that the
Jourse of payment to the
annuities will
The trans-
fera publicnb issuedu
oaorokyn: ed;iortvreel rddtdiehl aneeYsd sfdayao"tl will
theebixneg t thei
an will be opened on
the undermentioned dates :--Consolidated Three per
Cents, on Wednesday, the 16th inst.; Three-and-a-
yalf per, Cent. Annuities, 1726, on Friday, the 11th
inst.; New Five per Cent. Annuities, ditto; Annuities
for terms of years, on Wednesday, the 16th inst. The
dividends on South Sea Old Annuities will be in course
of payment on the 9th inst., and the transfer books
opened on the 16th. The dividends on East India stock
will be in course of payment on Monday next, the 7th
inst., and the warrants under the 11th sectien, Act 3d and
4th William IV., chap. 85, will be ready to be delivered
on that day.
At the meeting of the Royal Santiago Mining
Company, held yesterday afternoon, it was intimated
that the differences with the Cobre Company bad been
settled by the latter agreeing to pay 5,000/. in adjuq-
ment of all claims. Of this sum a portion had been
already anticipated in expenses incurred for prosecuting
fresh discoveries on the Royal Santiago property, and
the remainder would be added to the existing floating
capital of 21,000/. to carry on general operations. The
late produce of the mines was regarded as encouraging,
but the receipts for the half-year did net warrant the
directors in declaring a dividend. The explanations
given by the chairman were received as satisfactory, and
as it Is as intimated that in all probability a dividend
would be proposed at the next meeting, the roped pre •
seated was unanimously approved.