Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-08-31


9th inst. They have certainly chosen favor
able time for the execution of the work. The
river has seldom ii ever, been SO low AT this
season of the year.
We understand that but one keel boat has ar
rived from the emporium of the Vest for
nearly two weeks past. Whether the Com
snissioners have chartered all the Pittsbury
keel boats toad thcmin labors, or whether
they are all out ofrepair, we pretend not TO
say. One thing is certain, there is no scarcity
of boaimen they can be hired at that place TO
so TO louisville for % cents a day: but they
cannot be obtained for less than fifty cents a
day, this side the same place. 1t has been as
serted by the editor Of the Pittsburg Gazette.
that the navigation of the Ohio is rather
better above this ''village" than il is below il.
Our citizens are therefore unable TO account for
the non arrival ofboats from above I'VE hone.
10 satisfy their curiosity, we will, "philosoph
cally" trace the effect TO the cause. Keel
boats are almost daily leaving this place, they
have, within the last two weeks, received from
one commissionhouse 05 tons of freight.
NoRFoLK, August 27.-Itwill he perceived
by the Inspectors reports, that the cases of
malisnant fever continue to terminate fatally.
Nest il not all Of these are old cases though
wearc sorry tosay there have been several new
ones within the last weck--say three or four ::
all Of which, however, are confined TO theim
mediate vicinity Of Wocdside's lane. Every
othcrpa ofthe town continues healthy and
we have no hesitation in saying, (which we
sarely should not say il we had any reason TO
think otherwise,) that there exists no possible
necessity for sublectlng vessels from this port
TO quarantine III other ports. In Richmond
we learn irom the Enquirer the Board of
Health have no IDEA of enforcing quarantine
MURDER,
Il is stated IN an advertisement which we
publish to-day, that the dead BODY of a man
served mp ~ n blanket, was found floating in
t'asQnoiaaE river, near Joshua Sawyers land
ing, tla Camden County n. ca upon which
q murder had been comm tied, evidently hy
Il man named Joseph YeHoiciy. The circunl
stances of this affair ale not little re,narkabe
and serve as another instanceof providential
agency in the deyelopement of this worst of
crimes, even though it he concealed biz all the
art and ingenuity which fear ofpunishmentc can
lend to the guilty perpetrator.
About the first Of this month, Jcseph Vel
iowly, alias Captain Yclowly, TOR he has been
a ster)departed from this place in a ca
nal boat for Plymouth, n. G.. taking with him
a man mot known by name to any one in this
place, that we can learn) as n passenger The
boat was detained short time at River
bridge, where it was ascegtained and report
ed 10 one ofthe hands on board of her. that
tins passenger had very large sum Of money
about him. On the 4ih the boat reached Saw
ycr's landing, where there was piI:. ofstones.
4 few of which they took on board, as tbev
stated, for ballast, although admonished by
MI Sawyer, not TO take them, as he wanted
them Tor particular purpose-Among the
stones thus taken by Yellowly, was one hav-
ing some pecullarity about il, WHICH rendered
IL remarkable, and easy to be identified by
any one who had ever seen il.
few days after Yellowly had touched Mt
the landing. the discovery was made of the
floating corpse. Itappeared TO have been stab
oed IN the throat with a large Knife, directly
across the jugular vein and upon a further
examination il was found that The neck had
been broken. From a considerable rip in the
sewing Of the blanket, it was snpposed that
some heavy weight had been sewed I'D with
the body to sink it, and that, the sewing hav-
Ing given way, the weight fell out and permit
Ted the body TO rise TO the surface Of the water.
4 ms suggestion was soon confirmed by a
circumstance which at the same time disclosed
me author of the bloody deed for, on open
ing the blanket, stone dropped out-and,
strange TO say the identical stone we lust
described as so remarkable in its appearance.
which Yellowly and his people had taken,
among others, from Sawyer's landing Had il
been common one, winch might have been
picked up any where else Ms wellas at Sawyer's
landing, it is probable that suspic on as to the
murderer would have been silent and further
enquiry deemed unayaiIing being sns-
cephble Of Immediate identity, the inference
from the circumstance of its removal, in con
IeruoII with the murder, became infallible-
Iaae xpor "a q. IN ID
stones which were sewcd up I'm the blanket
with the body, should have dropped through
lhe rip, and been lost, save this particular one
winch seems TO have been specially reserved
ny thesameinscrutable agency which caused il
10 he detached from its depository at the land
ing, to bear witness to this horrid deed Thus
can Providence make even the stones 20 cry
out against the guilty murderer!
:. 1t was further proved, that the day after
fellowly passed the landing, there was one
person less in the boat with him than was seen
on board the preceding day and that the mis-
sing person was he who was said TO be pas.
senger and who was reported to have a large
sum Of money about him. No particular.
whatever respecting this person have transpi.
req nor have we heard what became of the
canal boat and the hands Itappcars howeyei
mat fellewly, for the apprehension Of whom
20. raul was Issued, ieS He'd.
" Is proper 20 remark Of this man, tha
nose who have had any transactions viii
nm N this place, believed him to be uprigh
~ ms conduct and incapable of crime SC
'0ocious. SO favorable indeed is the repor
we nave had of him, that although we hav,
'eii w possession Of the above particulars fol
re than a week, we declined PUBLISHING
~ until We could DO so upon official au
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