Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-09-26

counts respecting the cata. sickness which at
present RACES at Nachez. They compare the
confusion which prevailed TO such as would
he expected in city developed in flames
every avenue was thronged with fugitves,
with Il portion of their property, escaping as
for their lives Many valuable citizens have
fallen the names of some of them will be
found in the obituary list
| Some of the printing Offices, the clerks and
officers of the courts, the post office, the board
of health, &c. are scattered through the coun-
| try. The fevers which ragged in the wears
| 1917 and 10 commenced at Il much later time
in the year, and were not Git is said) near so
fatal as The present.
| EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.
".Vatche=, .4ug 90, 1928.
| eve have wretched times in Natchez-
eight TO ten dying daily"
Watches, flag. 25, 1928.
| Atpresent there is nothing but death and
destruction around us the deaths and attacks
are much more numerous than when you left
here, and it has already become very alarm
| ing" Washington, august &c. 1898.
Natche1 is nearly deserted there have been
from SIX 10 ten deaths per day since the alarm
was gwen, and there has been scarcely an in
stance of one recovering who was violently
attacked"
Record Of Mortality. in this town on
Friday morning last, Mr. Gideon Goodspeed,
a respectable aud industrious mechanic At
the house of Isham Arthur, in this county, ON
Tuesday, Mr.. Alexander Hamilton, quarter
blood Chociaw, and one of the head men of
the nation. will offer a short eulogum to
his memory. " He was gentleman, scho-
| lar, and an advanced mason" For six or Sc
ven years past our citizens have known Mr..
William Winston as faithful and attentive
maui carrier he died of yellow fever al Wash
lngton, on Sunday last. The following ave
among the deaths in Natchez since the com
menccment of the epidemic DIR. Wm Wat
.kins-he was one of the members of the board
OF health, and babe fair for usefulness. James
,. Morrow, Esq. formerly representative
rom Adams county. Master Edward Tur-
ner, son ofthe Hon. Judge Turner. Mr.. Em-
erson knew him not; report speaks of him
as an honest man-such was the Almighty ;
nobiest work. Mr.. john H. K Newman, a
young and valuable member OF society Mr..
Seth Cocks, formerly Of Jefferson county {; he
was an industrious man aud died regretted In
Greenrlile, day before yesterday, of yellow
fever, Mir Alfred Cocks, son OF the late Seth
Cocks, aged about 10 years.
II was said yesterday, and is repeated again
to-day, that Francis Baker, Esq. Editor of the
aiisslssippian, aud Col. Peter L. SCHUYLER are
dead. hope 1t is not so.
| Col. HUMPHREYS, Agent for the Floridas, ar
rived in the vicinity of ST. Augustine on the
e9th ult. with about 500 Indians of the ives
tern tribes, The Southern Indians who are
on their way, will also assemble, il is said a,
The same place, in few days. The Chiefs
are reported 10 be disposed To accept the pro-
positions made TO them by the U. S. Com
mIssloners. Savannah Georgian
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 90.-This morning
between two and three O'clock, an unhap-
+ py man, styling himself J. III Riouh De .Bon,-
bray, Public Accuser from 500 to 1919 al the
sovereign Cont OF Cacn in France, put AN end
To his existence, in a singular manner.
MIR. De Mombray's mind had been for some
years past haunted by many imaginary foes
lie was the special object ofvengeancc with the
rreuch government, whose dispIeasiIre he
lancled he had incurred by his political opin-
IONS, ana by eXpusinS the abuses OF men in au-
thorily The emissaries of France, seemed tn
have little 10 do bat to work his destruction
I Ihey had poisoned all the wells in his neigh
borhooh. and when Mr.. De Mombray wanted
drink of water, he was obliged To gu from
MS mouse IN Ninth street near Lombard as faI
perhaps as the Northern Liberties. Some
times he took boat, and from The middle oil
the Delaware obtainrd the necessary supply
of pure water. 1t was equally difficult for him
| to obtain wholesome loaf OF bread In vain
was ii that Mr.. De Nombray published adyer-
| tisenent alter advertisement Offering large
| rewards ior the discovery and prosecution Ia
| conviction OF those persons who were plotting
against his life. In vain was il that he appeal
ed Tor assistance 10 MS brother masons among
whom he had been for ten years past mas
ter. The number of his enemies Increased ra-
Their than diminished s. some ofour new spaprr
editors fell under suspicion for refusing 10 pub
lIsh his adv ertisements though he was con
yInced that the reluctance of others To insert
them arose from dread that they also would
be poisoned, if they exposed the designs Of
The French emssaries. He dwelt alone, not
daring 10 trust another person ia the house
win nm, and under ntiuuai dread of attacks
on his HE Ii was This state ofniud W hich made
nm look upon almost every man as his rnr-
my, which, probably, led him This morning To
put An end 10 his terrestrial suierings. He set
IRE to magazine OF powder, and blew out the
front aud gable end of the house in which he
| aweh. Thls morning the remains of the I'M
happy MIR. De Mombray were taken from a
mong the ruins
He was man of elegant appearance and
refined manners. PM. f,o-.
n letter 10 The EdaorS from a friend. daied al
Port Ro6g@S, he 8M inst saHs:
take great pleasure IN stating 10 YOU. that
the health of Com. Porter is very
fast improving his fever has 10 great mpa-
sure left him, ard we all hope to see him, in a
few days, again paying his visit to the vessels
OF the squadron IN person" Nat. Int.
| THE Presidency At II meeting of unvards