Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-04-12
From ii. Roekrill. ~. C., Recorder
HoRRlp MuRDES

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probably the most melancholy that ever oc-
CURED in this distric,-murder, and hot on
" murder, but Aatricide. John murdoch
was this day committed 10 prison chafgeu
with the heinous crime OF destroying .ne
life of bis brother James. Murdoch. at MS
examination, which took place this alter
noon in the presence of six magistrates, ne
stated that in the township Of Klley, on the
18th Of March, inst. he and the deceased
wen, out to the woods to make slaves; that
a quarrel ensued between them; that alter
some words had passed, he, the prisoner,
supposed the deceased, from quick mo-
ton be made, had aimed a blow at him with
his Ak, whilst the prisoner was in the act OF
STOPPING down his body. He says that un'
der this impression be raised up, at the same
time sezing his axe, with which he instant
" struck the deceased on the breast, which
blow brought him to the ground. that he i'm
mediately repeated the blow, by striking
him on the head, and then left him. A short
time afterwards he returned to the spot and
found the deceased laying in his blood; he
then lifted up the body, and carried it
short distance, and upon laying it down, be
thought he discovered motion in it, which
induced him to suppose there was life re-
naming. On this account, be. struck him
another blow on the small OF the back, to
put him out of his pain, aud then made
hole and buried him.
The body of the deceased was not found
until some days after the horrid deed had
been perpetrated, during which time the
prisoner pretended to be totally ignorant OF
what had become Of him. All enquiries re-
speeding BIN proving fruitless, suspicion
arose, and the prisoner was called on sby
some of the neighboring inhabitants to con-
duct them to the spot where they were last
known to be working together. A dog which
accompanied them was The frs. who disco
vered the remains OF the deceased, near
the place where the deed was committed.
On 26th Of March, Robert 4 Kennedy.
soldier Of the I'd regt. OF u. S. Infantry,
stationed at Sackett's Hsrbor, was shot by
Israel Sammis, grocer in that village. 1t
appeared in evidence before the coroner,
that the deceased went into the store OF
Sammis; tina, soon after scuttle touk place
lasted some minutes, when Sammis disen-
gagged himself, went into an adjoining room
and returned with loaded gun. which be
discharged at the deceased. The jury re-
turned verdict OF witnl murder.
- lCom. .4du.
FOREIGN EXTRACTS. j..
[By the Tuscarora. from Liverpool, arrived
at Philadelphia.
From the London Morning Chronicle.
The Glasgow petition Tor the dismissal of
ministers, with 1905 signatures, is triu.n-
phantly decisive of the state ofpublic opin-
ion in that populous city. There, as in
Edinburgh, the friends of ministers could
not muster hundreds for the thousands that
are against them If this be the case in
two towns so long preeuinent 10 ser
Witty, ii is needless to say that the adherents
of the party in power must be still less nu-
merous in the country at large. No one will
deny that the magistrates Of the closet burgh
could get greater number to declare in
their favor in the very seat of their misrule,
than the ministers can find in Glasgow or
Edinburgh. The inference follows una.
voidabiy, that any body Of men. who should
support these ministers in defiance Of nine
teDths of The country, must speak the sen,i-
ments and represent the feelings Of the na-
ton exactly in tia same degree as the self
elected magistrates of rotten burgh repre-
sent the opinions Of the community they
misgovern.
Two Of his majesty's cabinet ministers
have recently favoured US with their views
on constitutional matters. The duke of We'll
lington in The house Of lords, and lord
Castlereagh in the Commons; and certainly
between them they would bring US to a
fine pass. The one declares himself Dit
ter enemy to al secret meetings, while the
other declares county meetings. farce. This
reminds US of the man with two wives in the
fable, one of whom plucked out bis grey
hairs; and the other the black, and between
them both left him bald. There cannot, We
should think, be closer approximation to
tho ideas calcnlated TO give satisfaction at