Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-06-05

AID arrested GfaVes al ulS on uouse~ tlS
bad lust painted himself for hattie, being
about TO take revenge on some Indians
who had stolen several negroes IRON him.
S:ratagem was used 10 convey HIM TO Ar
kansas, as the Cherokee nation OF Indians
were determined TO prevent bis being trl-
ed by The civil courts OF the United States.
Graves is said to be full>klooded white
man. but has been raised among the To-
dams from bis earliest infancy, and is to.
tally ignorant OF bis parentage or the place
of his nativity. Altho' he is white man
by birth. he is said to possess 10 their full.
est extent, all the habits and principles OF
the Indian or savage. [Phit, Adv.
The Milledgevills Recorder gives an
account of an act Of the most brutal
atrocity, having been committed in
Georgia, as contained in letter to the
editor of that paper. The circumstan.
ces are as follow:
1t appears there had been fishing
party during the day, composed, per-
haps, of relations. of which party John
~ Wilian,s, the person who commit.
ted the shocking deed, was one. On
their return in the evening, accompan-
led by bis brother.in law and wife, he
appeared to be in an ill-humor with
his wife, and deceDded even to a.
buse, but BY the interpretation of those
present, he desisted, and the storm
that appeared lowering, passed over
without leaving any vestiges indicative
of it's recurrence but alas! it was a
fatal security into which be lulled their
suspicious! When about to depart, he
babe the sister Of his wife, in an i'm.
pressiue manner, TO bid her fdreareN I;
but not suspecting the import of this
prophetic observation, they proceeded
homewards. Ere they had been alb.
sent fifteen minutes, he commenced the
execution Of his demoniacal designs,
by upbraiding her with incontinency
and by stabbing her. She Immediately
fed, hut in consequence other debility,
oecasioned by giving birth to an limo.
cent then not ten days old, he easily
overlook her, and with a severe blow
brought her senseless to the ground.
Commanding the assistance of Il negro
girl who was close at hand, he recon
Quoted her to the house, and placed her
on the bed, when animation was soon
restored; then, with unexampied fero-
city he caught up the infant, and with
unrelentless fury, cast it violently into
the yard; returning to the bedside with
his knife drawn, he recommended his
abuse of his wife, and attempted to ey-
tort confessions by repeatedly stabbing
her. renewing his enquiries, with
helish satisfaction, at each successive
stab. The negro girl profting by his
position, seized him and east him with
out the door, giving to Mrs. Williams
time to escape, which she embraced
with AZ much alacrity as her situation
would admit of, and had fed perhaps
fifty yards, when this monster retoos
her, and DIRE .ging her by the hair some
distance, despatched her by cutting her
throat from ear to ear in the most hor-
rid manner. BY this time the alarm
had reached the nearest neighbor, who
FASTENED to the scene Of misery. He
had by this time exchanged his knife
for razor, and kneellng in the atti-
tude of prayer near the body OF his
murdered wife, was attempting to des-
patch himself; he had completed part
of his design but finding the task more
arduous than that of numbering his
wife, he only succeeded, as is believed,
in making an incision in the windpipe.
and it is tho't will recover. to answer
before an earthly tribunal for this I'M
natural deed. Four helpless children
bewail the loss of their mother, This
is another fatal example Of that infuri-
ate passion which embitters eonnubial
bliss;
"7r57es Hgit as air,
6re to the jealous, confTmattoas strong
AsProofs Of Holy Hrt."
N. D. An inquest has pronounced it
q malicious murder, and he now stands
for trial at our next Superior Court.
Eight miles West OF Clinton, .Nay Isl
From The Noruich Conn. Mirror.
VIOLENT TEMPEST.
About two O'Clock on Sunday last. we
witnessed an unusually violent tempest,
accompanied with lightning, thunder, and
rain-in which the most awful grandeur OF
him who rideth in the "hirlwind. and d.
recteth the storm. are seldom manifested.
In this and the neigAboring towns, Sc.
veral barns and sheds were unrooted, and
many fences and trees laid PROSTATE.
But these should not be mentioned. before
we,speak Of the awful calamity which has
befaUen our friends and neighbors in
Moniville.
AS singular coincident, we would re.
- ,h,t No sooner had their Rev. Pas.